A Letter from Jamaica says, that the Seamen taken in the Provincial Merchantmen, are suffered to enter into the Navy, but those taken in their Privateers, are confined till Orders are received from England for the Disposal of them.
The Anne transport, Capt. Dennistoun, from Clyde, with 120 of the light infantry from Frazer's Highlanders, was on the 8th of June taken by three American privateers, and carried into Marblehead, without firing a gun, notwithstanding she had six carriage guns on board. The commanding officer of the Highlanders was Hamilton Maxwell. ー Glasgow Journal.