The ship Nancy and Betsey, Captain Norman M'Cloud, from Quebec, is arrived at this port with a cargo of wheat; she mounts six carriage guns, six pounders and eighteen men, and informs us, that between the 31st of December, and 1st of January, in this road, in the night, he was attacked by an American schooner privateer, of eight carriage guns, some swivels, and full of men. Captain M'Cloud had the presence of mind to deceive the privateer's people, while firing at and calling to him to surrender, till he got one gun ready, charged to the muzzle with one round, and the rest grape shot, which he fired at the privateer, and supposes must have made some havock amongst them, as they immediately turned tale [sic] and left her. The privateer is supposed to be lurking about the Island, as about the 6th instant she spoke with a Portuguease brig, bound into this place. Capt. M'Cloud had only one man wounded.
