Philadelphia, March 28.
We hear a tender, with ten or twelve swivels, fitted out by the Phoenix) is cruizing between Sandy-Hook and our capes, that she has taken two sloops and a brig off Egg-harbour; that they landed on Abscomb beach, where they plundered a house, inhabited by one Steelman whom they robbed and stripped of every thing, even to the clothes on the children's back. By express from Lewistown we learn, that on Monday evening [March 25] a sloop of war and her tender came into our Capes. 1
1. The 44-gun frigate Roebuck and the Maria tender.