We learn by Mr. Seton of Long-Island, who arrived here in the Cartel from Boston last Monday, that the cargo which he brought with him from Cadiz in the brig Two Friends, by licence from his Excellency, consisted of salt, port wine, claret, Florence wine, rota, tent, heres or sherry wine of five different qualities, mountain, Cordials (in 3000 bottles) balsam peru, jesuits bark, gum elemi, licorice root, balsam capivi, jalap, gum amoniac, &c. That the sherry sold from 45 to 50 1. lawful per quarter cask, the salt at 5 dollars per bushel; and the jesuits bark at 41. lawful or 31. sterling per pound, and the whole produced upwards of 50,000 1. lawful or 70,000 1. New-York currency.
The above mentioned brig and cargo were taken on the 10th of August last by the Gloucester privateer, John Coulston commander,1 mounting 18 carriage guns and 10 swivels with 130 men, in lat. 39 50 long. 59, and was sent as a prize to Cape Anne, where the cargo was sold.
