The Zachary Bayley, from Jamaica for London; and the Creighton, from Antigua, with rum for the army, were taken by the Yankee privateer, Captain Johnson, carrying nine four pounders, 16 swivels, and 43 men. The prizes were sent to New England, and the masters together with a midshipman of the Experiment man of war, who was a passenger, and eleven seamen, were taken on board the privateer. On the third of July they seized the privateer, without bloodshed, and have brought her to Dover. They were chased by two sloops, whom they imagined to be American privateers, but durst not engage them because of the number of prisoners they had on board.

Captain Johnson (the American commander of the privateer) complained of the illiberal treatment he received, by being insulted frequently while at sea, calling him by the most opprobrious names, and threatening him with the cruellest and most savage punishments, and also for suffering many people to come on board after the privateer arrived in the river, to insult him in the grossest terms, though he was then a prisoner; and when his brother came to see him, after a three years absence, they were not permitted to talk together one minute in private.

The prisoners on board the Yankee privateer, having petitioned not to be close confined, but that they might be put to some employment, upon, which it was agreed that they should be placed on board the guardships. The vessel was afterwards ordered to be sold, and the money to be given to the captors.