State of New Hampshire.

A LIBEL is filed before me in Behalf of the Owners of the armed Schooner The Friends Adventure,¹ KINSMAN PEVERLY, Commander—and the Captors, against the Schooner Betsy and Cargo, Hugh Hunter late Master—taken on the High Seas by said armed Schooner—which Vessel and Cargo it is alledged in said Libel, were at the time of the Capture thereof, the Property of some Subject or Subjects of the King of Great Britain other than the Inhabitants of Bermudas, and Providence or the Bahama-Islands, and was then and before employed in carrying supplies to the Enemies of the United States of America——The Truth of which Libel, as also of the Libel of the same Owners and Captors against the Schooner Hero & Cargo,² which was to have been tryed the 29th Day of June next,—is to be tried on Monday the 6th Day of July next, at 10 o'Clock Forenoon, at the Court House in Portsmouth, at which time and place; any persons may appear and shew Cause, if any they have, why said Vessels and their Cargoes should not be condemned.

Portsmouth, June 15, 1778.