Captain Reveness, who arrived at Southampton in fourteen Days from Oporto, says, Captain Squires, of the Ceres, who is arrived at Oporto from Bilboa, gives an Account of sixteen Sail of American armed Vessels being at Bilboa; one of which had taken five English Vessels on her Passage thither. The Day Captain Reveness sailed an Express arrived there from his Majesty's Consul at the Groyne, setting forth that there were then in the Harbour of Ferro! four American Privateers, supplying themselves for a Cruize. The same Day the Post from Lisbon brought Advice, that a Schooner of eighteen Guns, sailing extraordinary fast, had taken several Vessels near the Rock; the Colours are a red Field, with thirteen Stripes, where our Union is pla:ced, denoting the United Rebellious Colonies.
The Isabella, Greenleas, from Borowstonness to Minorca; Carolina, Rutherford, from Newcastle to Gibraltar, and a Brig from Liverpoole to Antigua, are taken by the Americans off the Coast of Portugal.