PHILADELPHIA.
The following is a list of prizes taken by the French fleet, under the command of his excellency count d'Estaing:
The ship Peggy, from Barbados to New York, belonging to Liverpool, fourteen guns, fifty-seven men;1 a ship from Rhode island, bound to New York, belonging to ditto, fourteen guns, forty-three men;2 a ship from the West Indies, four guns; a snow from New York, bound to Lord Howe's fleet, with thirteen half tons of gunpowder, driven by a violent squall near Long Island shore, and taken by the boats of the fleet;3 a snow from Barbados, six guns; a sloop from St. Kitts, six guns; a sloop from Antigua; a brig from Barbados; a sloop from the West Indies; a sloop from Antigua; a brig from the West Indies, a sloop from ditto, six guns;4 all bound to New York or headquarters; the sloop York, a tender, commanded by a lieutenant, twelve guns, fifty-three men;5 a brig, tender to the Roebuck, twelve guns, fifty-four men; a schooner, tender to ditto, four carriage guns, twelve swivels, and two cohorns.6 Retaken with the ship Peggy, a brigantine belonging to M. Marmajon.7
