The Alfred, and Raleigh American privateers, the former of 32 guns, and the latter of 30, having not been heard of for some months past, it was supposed they were gone to intercept some of the homeward bound East Indiamen before their arrival at the Island of St. Helena, where in future they mean to wait for a convoy; but the late news received from France on Friday last, which gives an account of a French East Indiaman having touched at the above Island, and brought the disagreeable news, that two American privateers had attacked the Duke of Grafton East Indiamen,¹ homeward-bound, which was lying there for convoy, leaves no room to doubt but that the Raleigh and Alfred privateers, were those who cut the above ship out. Accounts received by yesterday's Holland Mail say, that she sailed from the Cape of Good Hope the 27th of October. We do not find these reports authenticated at the India House.