We hear the ship Portsmouth, of 20 Guns,¹ returned to Portsmouth last Thursday from a Cruise, during which she took two Prizes,² and carried them into Bilboa; and on her Return she took two more, one of which was a 20 Gun Ship³ with 40 Men, bound from London for New-York, laden with Woolens, &c. to the amount of 8,000 1. Sterl. prime Cost, which last Prize she parted with only four Days before her Arrival. The other, a Brig laden with Provision⁴ is arrived in a safe Port.

Friday last a Privateer Sloop of 10 Guns;⁵ commanded by Capt. Connolly⁶ of Manchester, returned to Salem from a Cruize. About a Month ago he fell in with and engaged a Ship of 20 Guns, with 40 Men, during which the Ship blew up, and all the Hands but Nine were lost. She was bound from London for ~nti~ua, witha very valuable Cargo, estimated (as the Hands say who were taken off the Wreck after she blew up) at upwards of 80,000 1. They say also, there was a Lady of an immense Fortune on board, who likewise perished, but we have not learnt her Name.

We hear a Prize Ship of 290 Tons,⁷ mounting 14 Carriage and 12 Swivel Guns, and navigated with 45 Men, taken by the Cumberland Privateer belonging to this Place,⁸ is safe arrived at an Eastern Port,⁹ with the following Cargo, viz. 30 Pipes Port Wine, 4 Hogsheads ditto, 4 & a half Hogsheads Lisbon ditto, 166 Pipes Madeira ditto, 78 Hogsheads ditto, 68 Quarter Casks ditto, 300 Boxes Claret, 13 Chests Green Tea, 40 Tons Pig Iron, a Quantity of Gin, Brandy, &c. &c. &c.