A Few days past Messrs. Hubbard and Read, two millers, who were taken by the Swan, Captain [James] Ayscough, as they were coming down the river last winter in a small boat, came to town from the Eastward, having made their escape from the Swan at Liverpool, near Halifax; they say the men of war's people were at three quarters of an allowance.

Capt. Cottereil, who was taken going from this Colony to Philadelphia last winter, lately made his escape from Halifax, and returned home last week; he confirms the account given under the Hartford head, and adds that, just before he got off, a ship arrived from England with advice, that there were great disturbances there on account of the foreign troops, and that those troops were stopped for the present.