[London] Saturday, Feb. 15.
The Experiment man of war has carried into Plymouth an American brig, which she took near Rhode-island, bound from St. Martin's to Philadelphia.1
The Experiment man of war arrived from Rhode-island, was a new ship when she sailed from England to America; she is built on a new plan, for though a 50 gun ship, she is just like a frigate, having no Roundhouse on the quarter-deck, and being to prove the utility of the scheme, was called the Experiment.
Postscript.
Capt. Wright, of the Success, arrived at Barcelona from Portsmouth, on the 16th December sailed from Falmouth under convoy of the Worcester man of war; on the 18th ditto parted company in a hard gale; on the 23d ditto fell in with an American private[e ]r mounting 14 guns on one deck, who brought her too, and ordered the Captain to keep under their lee till the sea would admit of their boarding her; in the evening the weather came thick, with squalls and rain. Capt. Wright embraced this opportunity of escaping, which he effected by altering his course. On the 25th of December he saw the same privateer with a large ship, a brig, and a schooner, in company; but by again altering his course, was fortunate enough to escape.
