LONDON
The Royal Subject, Capt. Andrew Sym, belonging to Glasgow,1 has taken and carried into New York the sloop Greyhound, with 86 hogsheads of tobacco, and some lumber;2 and likewise another sloop, with rice, indigo, and 27 hogsheads of tobacco.3 This makes seven prizes taken and carried into New York in the course of a few months by Capt. Sym. . . .
A letter was received at Liverpool last Thursday, informing, that the Dolphin, Capt. Penrice,4 belonging to Whitehaven, was taken off Cuba, on her passage from Halifax, by an American sloop privateer, of six guns and 30 men, and sent for America. While Capt. Penrice was on board the privateer, they were re-taken by the Le Blond,5 (a ship belonging to the British Navy, formerly one of Thurot’s squadron, defeated off the Isle of Man by Capt. Elliot.)6 The day after the Le Blond and privateer being in company, fell in with a French frigate of 24 guns, which they attacked, and after an obstinate engagement took, and carried safe into Halifax.7 The frigate was bound for Boston. . . .
The Kitty Fisher, of Liverpool,8 is taken on the Coast of Africa, by the Marlborough Rebel privateer.9
It is yesterday reported, that a French frigate, of 30 guns, and 220 men, was taken off the coast of Scotland by a 20 gun ship, cruizing there for the protection of the Scotch trade.10
The Levant frigate, of 28 guns,11 sent in the 21st of June to Gibraltar, an American brig, called the Robert, laden with salt from Cadiz to North America. She had been out from Cadiz only eight days.12
