One Mr. [Robert] Achison, midshipman of the Syren, with three sailors, were drove over Ocracock Bar in distress, who were taken prisoners and brought to Newbern; the midshipman and one sailor are sent to Halifax as prisoners, the other two discharged in this town. It appears the Syren had taken a vessel of ours on the coast, and those men were conducting the prize to Boston, when they were forced over the bar.