Two Days after Capt. Morrison's Engagement with the Rebel Privateer, as mentioned in our last,1 he fell in with his Majesty's Ship the Thames, Capt. Holloway,2 who learning the distressed Situation of the Minerva's Crew, humanely sent his Surgeon and the Surgeon's Mate to the Assistance of the languishing Sufferers.
Mr. Morrison and his friends beg Leave, in a public Manner, to express the grateful Sense they entertain of Capt. Holloway's generous Assistance.
The Minerva was bound for Halifax and Quebec; she sailed from St. Kitts the 2d ult. with the homeward-bound West-India Fleet, under Convoy of his Majesty's Ship Yarmouth,3 from which she parted the 5th; but being greatly damaged in the above mentioned Action. Capt. Morrison stood for the Delaware, and on the 27th, off Cape May, he was attacked by two Rebel Row-Gallies, whom he obliged to sheer off, after which he proceeded to this Port.
In the Beginning of the Engagement with the Rebel Privateer, Mr. Smith, Mate of the Minerva, was badly wounded, notwithstanding which, he refused to quit the Deck, and behaved, during the Action, with the greatest Gallantry and Resolution.
Wednesday last was sent in here by his Majesty's Ship Experiment, Sir James Wallace, Commander, the Wexford Privateer, of 16 Six Pounders, and 113 Men, Fletcher, Master, from Newbury Port.4 Before she fell in with the Experiment, she had taken the Sally, Capt. Innes, from Glasgow for this Port, after an obstinate Engagement of seven Glasses, in which the Rebels had two Men killed and six wounded, among the latter is the Captain.5 Both the Sally's Mates, and all her Seamen, only two of whom are wounded, were re-taken in the Privateer; which, to avoid being captured, when chased by the Experiment, threw all her Guns overboard, and cut down her Gunwales.
An Account of the Arrival and sailing of some Vessels from Boston Harbour since the 22d of April last.
April 22d, Arrived, Capt. Nicholson, in a Brig from Cape-Nichola.
24th, Sailed, the Privateer Brig Speedwell, of 10 Guns.6
27th, Arrived, a Schooner from North-Carolina.
29th, Arrived, the Ship Lovely-Lass, a Prize, from
London, with Dry Goods, no Guns.7
May 2d, Arrived, the Privateer Ship Cumberland, of 20 Guns, with a Prize Ship of 14 Guns, from Shields with Coals.8 Also arrived, the Continental Brig Resistance, of 14 Guns, from a Cruize,9 and a Cartel Schooner from Halifax.10
3d, Sailed, the Ship Lonsdale,11 and a Sloop for South-Carolina. Arrived, a Schooner Privateer of 8 Guns, and 4 Cohorns.
4th, Arrived, a large Ship from Demarara, also an American built Ship of 300 Tons, from Nantz, with a Figure-Head, white Stern, and large Quarter Badges;12 and a Brig from Shields. A French Brig from Haverdegrace, called the St. Helena. A Brig came too at Nantasket, and afterwards stood to the Eastward.
5th, Arrived, a French Ship of 44 Guns, with a Lion Head;13 the Brig Peggy from Surinham; the Le Brune Indiaman, of 22 Guns, with an Indian Woman Head, Neck, Breast and Legs naked.14
6th, Arrived, the Tyrancide Brig of 14 Guns; a Billet Head.—15 The Le Brune saluted the Town and Men of War, hoisted a Suit of French Colours, and a red English Ensign at her Mizen Peek, with the Union downwards.
7th, The French 44 dressed in a Suit of French Colours.— Arrived, the Le Amphitrite of 6 Guns, from Bourdeaux;16 and sailed, a small Schooner Privateer of 6 Guns and 2 Swivels.
8th, Arrived, a small Sloop from Bilboa.
9th, Sailed, a Philadelphia built Brig, with a Woman Head, her Stern white; another large Brig for Cadiz; a French Ship, and a black Schooner Privateer of 10 Guns.—Arrived the Snow Swift, a Prize.17
10th, Arrived, a Brig from Santa Croix; and sailed, the Ship Marquis Le Fayatte (formerly the Lady Gage) under French Colours.18
11th, Sailed, the Angelica Continental Brig, of 18 Guns, with the figure of Gen. Gates for her Head, and a Rattle-Snake wound up on her Stern.19
12th, Arrived a French Schooner from Hispaniola.
13th, Arrived, a French Ship from Nantz, in 5 Weeks; a Privateer Sloop of 10 Guns, with a Woman Head; the Ship Dean of 24 Guns, on one Deck, with a Figure Head;20 and a Schooner.
14th, Arrived the Sloop Dolphin, from Cadiz, Henry Atkins, Master.
15th, Arrived, the Sloop Hancock, Capt. Allen, from Surinham, with a Pendant at the Mast Head.
A few Days since a Vessel from Cork for this Port, was taken by Captain Anderson, in an armed Boat, and carried into Tom's-River, New Jersey.21
Prizes sent in since our last.
Schooner General Scott, John Cook, Master, taken the 25th of May off the Capes of Virginia, bound to Nantz, with Tobacco, sent in by his Majesty's Ship the Ariel, the Hon. Charles Phipps, Commander.22
Sloop Black Joke, Chereck, Master from Cape Francois for Virginia with Rum, Sugar, &c. by his Majesty's Ship Galatea, Thomas Jordan, Esq; Commander.23
A Sloop from Baltimore for Martinico, with Tobacco, by the Letter of Marque Sloop General Howe.24
Schooner Eagle, James Ross, Master, from Surinham for Boston, with Molasses; and the Sloop Adventure, [Philip] Chamberlain, Master, from James's River, in Virginia, for St. Eustatia with 51 Hogsheads and 4 Barrels Tobacco; the former taken the 22d of May, and the latter the 24th of the same Month, by the Privateer Brig Favourite Betsey, Capt. Squires,25 of this Port, who a few Days before took and sent into Bermuda, a Sloop from South-Carolina, loaded with Rice.
Brig Harkeman with Horses for Santa Croix, from New-Haven; Sloop Nancy, with Tobacco, from Virginia for France; a French Brig called the Hope, with Salt; and a retaken Snow from Montserrat, by the Otter's Tender, commanded by Lieut. Stanly.26
