Letters from Barbadoes, dated the 5th of June, mention that six American Whale Fishing Ships were taken off that Island by a, Man of War, who carried off five of them to Antigua, where they are since safe arrived; we have received no Intelligence of the other.

The St. James, Captain Wilson, from Jamaica, for Bristol, one of the Ships that was reported to have been taken by the Provincials, was spoke with clear of the Gulph the 17th of May.¹