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Secret Intelligence. The two Privateers fitted out here, has not met with such good success as they expe~ted, they cannot get Men to man them as yet ー One that carries Six 4 Pounders is to have 40 Men, and the other that carries Four, 4 Pounders is to have 30 or 35 Men NB. Since I wrote the fore part of the above, two Brigs and three Sloops, are comeing down the Sound, with the remaining part of Washington's Army about 300 Men. It is a great pity that some method cannot be taken to stop the communication down the Sound to the Town; as it would certainly prevent the Rebels from receiving supplies but by Land.