Last Sunday the Hazard sloop of war sailed from Leith roads, forthecoast of Norway, in quest of some American privateers, which, it is said, are hovering upon those seas, with an intention, it is supposed, to intercept the ships in the Baltic trade. She is to be joined by some other ships of force.

The Thames, Capt. Ward, one of the March fleet that sailed under convoy from Portsmouth, on his passage had an engagement with an American privateer, and took her, and has carried her into Nevis; but the Thames not being a letter of marque, the Admiral claims the prize.