Sept. 5, I received the Mail, and sailed from Lisbon, with the wind to the northward. I received as passengers, Mr. Scot, Mr. Fisher, and Mr Smith, and, as distressed subjects, Capt. Thomas Moor, his Mate, and five of his people, being the Master and part of the crew of the Mary and James, of Falmouth, bound from London to Salerno, Naples, and Messina, but last from Falmouth, having sailed from thence the 20th of August, with a cargo worth between 20,000 l. and 30,000 l. and was taken the 1st inst. on the coast of Portugal, 14 leagues N.W. from Cape St. Vincent, (in sight of Mount Chigo) by an American privateer of eight carriage guns, and a number of swivels, commanded by Simon Forester, an Irishman, well known at Lisbon and Falmouth. The privateer was sloop rigged, and called the Rover; it being little wind, and rowing with twelve oars, she soon came up with Capt. Moor. She had taken before six sail on the coast, whose people she landed at Faro. The 22d of August a Guineaman, from Bristol, John Baker, Master, engaged her, but blew up in the action, and only three men saved out of 28. They stripped Capt. Moor and his people of every thing, and even threatened their lives, and sent the prize directly for America; the next day, being about eight leagues from Cape Spichell, they gave Capt. Moor his boat, in which he reached Setuval that night. The Captain of the privateer would not tell what place he belonged to,² but said there were 150 sail of them fitted out of different ports of America. The people told Capt. Moor they belonged to Salem, and that several more had sailed from thence for the coast of Spain and Portugal.