London, April 6.
A letter from Jamaica mentions, that several merchants of that island had made application to Admiral Gayton, for leave to fit out some privateers to cruize against the Americans; and the letter adds, so great a desire had the seamen there to enrich themselves, in hopes of taking many prizes, that a .brigantine, a schooner, and two sloops, all armed vessels fitted out at Port Royal by the Admiral, were manned m less than ten days by volunteers from the merchant ships.
It is said that yesterday an express came 'to government from,Portsmouth, with an account of the arrival there of. the King's Fisher sloop, Capt. Montagu, from Virginia. She was sent express from Lord Dunmore. 1--' '
1. An erroneous report. The Kingsfisher, Captain Alexander Graeme was "Alongside the Wharf at Halifax," from March 30 to April 28, 1776, PRO, Admiralty 51/506.
