On the 24th last Month between Twenty and Thirty Leagues West of Cape Finisterre, I fell in with and took an American Brigantine, Privatier, cal'd the Dalton, Eliazer Johnson Commander, Mounting Twenty Carrage and Twenty Swivel Guns, and one hundred and Twenty Men, Equiped for a Cruize of Six Months, she belonged to Newbury in the Massachusets Bay, left that place on the 16th of Novr last, and had not taken a Prize, I cannot find by her Logg Book, Papers, Prisoners or other information that she sail'd in Company, or that she had seen any American Vessels since out. The Prize parted Company on the night of the 4th instant about 30 Leagues to the Westward of Scilly but as I have a careful Officer in her I make no doubt but she will soon arrive here,

P.S. since I wrote the above the Prize is arrived here. —