Admiralty-Office, December 30, 1776.
By Letters received from Vice Admiral Young, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships at the Leeward Islands, dated the 30th of September, and from Vice Admiral Gayton, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships at Jamaica, dated the 4th of November last, it appears, that the Cruizers of the former had taken 12 Vessels belonging to His Majesty's Rebellious Colonies since the 24th of July, and that the Cruizers of the latter had, since the 8th of October, taken 8 Vessels belonging to the said Colonies, making in the Whole 56 Vessels taken by the Cruizers from Jamaica.