Certain intelligence is this minute arrived, tha[t] the armed vessels Schuyler and Montgomery, retook yesterday and brought into Fire Island Inlet, four prizes, viz. two brigs from Brazil, loaded with oil; a schooner belonging to Cape Ann, loaded with molasses and sugar; a sloop, with flour and lumber, from Rhode Island. One of the prisoners infoqned that General Howe is arrived at the Hook, in the Greyhound; that the fleet sailed from Halifax the 9th inst. being 130 sail. and may be soon expected at the Hook....Yesterday there were eleven sail at the Hook.