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The Diana, Captain Maybury, with Rum from St. Vincent's for this Port, and two other Vessels, were lately taken by an American Sloop of 10 Carriage Guns: The Prizes were sent for Boston, and 15 of their Crews put on board a French Ship, who landed them at Havre. The Captain of the Sloop is an Irishman, who had lost his Property, and his Vessel made a Prize of by an English Man of War, when trading in full Security; and on his Return to America, he procured the Command of this Sloop in order to cruize against the Nation that had stripped him of his All, and he had no Resource left but Retaliation.