On Tuesday last Capt. ---- from Fyal and Lisbon arrived here. He left Fyal the middle of October, at which time two English men of war were cruising off there and had taken and made prizes of seven sail of whalers. He left Lisbon the nineteenth of November, and informs, that the night before he sailed, there arrived a packet from England, and it being reported that she had orders for seizing all American ships in that port, the Captain made sail early in the morning, to escape their clutches. ー By the above, we have reason to believe Lord North despatched orders to seize our property long before he asked leave to bring in a bill for that purpose.

The ship Rose, from this port for Ireland, is cast away in the English channel; the vessel and cargo lost.

The English men of war have taken the brig Greyhound, Capt. [William] Stevens, ¹ from this port for the West-Indies, and the ship Peggy, Capt. Davidson [Samuel Davison], ² also from this port for Europe, both of which they sent into St. Kitts.

By the New-York post, which arrived this afternoon, we learn that the Mercury man of war, with General Clinton on board, and the two transports sailed from New-York last Sunday afternoon [February 11], at 4 o'clock, and the next day they left the Hook.