The Friendship, Jones, from Grenada to London, is taken by the Provincials, and carried into Providence.

Capt. Smith, of the Unity, who arrived at Liverpool last Friday from Bilboa in Spain, and left that place the 24th ult. says, that two American schooner privateers of 8 guns each sailed from thence the day before; the commanders names were Lee and Fletcher; one of them has taken five prizes, and the other was fitted out at Bilboa, to whom the Spaniards shewed every favour and indulgence possible; one of the five prizes was a transport of 16 guns, called the Nancy, bound from London to some part of America, which they took by stratagem, the Captain pretending his vessel to be a packet with dispatches for our Court, and invited the Captain and his officers to come on board, whom he immediately put in irons. Several vessels besides Captain Smith were at Bilboa, wanting freight, which they could not take on account of the privateers, the Captains having declared they would not touch vessels in ballast.