Three Men of War are ordered to cruize within a League of the Mouth of the River Garonne, to watch the Motions of the American Ships, and to seize all that they meet with, even if they are under French Colours.
The last Letters from Nevis and other Parts of the Leeward Islands, mention that those Islands are so pestered with American Privateers, that scarce a Ship can go from one Island to the other without great Danger of being taken.
A Letter from Plymouth, of the 4th Instant, says, that five American Vessels are brought in there, and chiefly loaded with Rice and Tobacco, and were carried in by the Crews, who confined the Captains, and then made for England.