Last Thursday se'nnight, Captains Coffin and Grennell, with a boy, made their escape from Staten-Island in a canoe, and got safe to Bergen Point, and from thence came to this place last Saturday: The former was taken going from New-York to Nantucket some months since, and the latter, on the 28th of August, in lat. 33, 30, long. 66, 20, in a brig from the Western Islands for Nantucket, by a new English 20 gun ship. called the Galatea, John Jones,¹ Esq; commander, sheathed with copper, and a most extraordinary sailer, being part of a convoy for some ships from London bound to New-York, some of which are arrived at Sandy-Hook.