Lately was launched at this port the fourth Continental Frigate, called the Effingham, in honor of the patriotic Earl of that name, who nobly refused to draw his sword in support of British tyranny and usurpation.1
Tuesday se'ennight [December 24] arrived here the Continental brig Andrew Doria, Capt. Robeson [Isaiah Robinson] from St. Eustatia and Martinico, laden with gun-powder, arms, and some woollen goods. On her passage she took two prizes — One a sloop of ten guns,2 fitted out by the Antelope man of war at Jamaica, and commanded by Lieut. [William] Jones, of the Boreas frigate, who engaged Capt. Robeson near three glasses, in which he had two men killed and one wounded, and the sloop seven men and her commander wounded; the number killed unknown, as they were thrown overboard during the engagement. The other prize a brig mounting six carriage guns and six swivels, commanded by one Nicholson, bound from Jamaica to London; her cargo unknown. 3 Capt. Robeson took fifty seamen out of the above vessels.
