There are a number of privateers in these seas. Under is a list of what have been here and at Martinique the last fifteen days, and there are more fitting out. The Congress Agents have blank commissions out, which they fill up and are very liberal of. Prizes are carried into the French Ports and openly sold. The Mary, belonging to your town, with her Slaves, was sold in the Bay I am now in. She was taken by Puissance, owned by a Mr. Bigora [Pierre Begozzat], a Merchant in Martinique.