Within about a fortnight past, Capt. [John] Grimes, in one of our gallies, has grappled up 3 cables and anchors between this town and Connanicut, having been left by the ministerial pirates, when they were driven out of this harbour. Two of the cables are 16 inches, and the other 9; the largest anchor weighed 24 c. 2 qrs and 11 lb. marked with the Scarborough's name on the stock.

Capt. Robert Campbell, lately arrived here passenger from Curacoa, informs that he was taken the 24th of November last,¹ by the Viper sloop of war, on his passage from St. Croix to New York, and carried into Antigua the 21st of December, where his vessel and cargo were condemned, as mentioned in the papers, some time, past. Capt. Campbell says he left Antigua about the eighth of April, and that there had been about forty American vessels carried into that island before he came away. Colony of Rhode Island, Providence, ss.

At the Court erected to try and condemn all Vessels that shall be found infesting the Sea Coast of America, and all Vessels belonging to any of the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, and brought into said Colony, to be holden at Providence, in the County of Providence, in said Colony, on the Fourth Day of July, A.D. 1776, at the Hour of Ten in the Forenoon, will be tried the Justice of the Capture of the Ship called the True Blue, of the Burthen of about 200 Tons, late commanded by James Stable, laden with Rum, Sugar, Coffee, Cotton, Pimenta, &c. taken upon the High Seas and brought into the Port of Providence aforesaid,² and said to belong to some of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, and to have been employed for the Purpose of supplying the British Fleets and Armies, now acting against the United American Collonies: And therefore the said Ship, her Appurtenances, Cargo and Guns, are libelled in the Court aforesaid, and will be tried at the Time and Place appointed ー This Public Notice is given pursuant to the Law of said Colony; that the Owner or Owners of the said Ship, her Appurtenances and Cargo, or any Person or Persons concerned therein, may appear at said Court, and show Cause, if any they have, why the said Ship, her Appurtenances, Cargo and Guns, should not be condemned.

John Foster, Judge of said Court.