Williamsburg, December 22.
Last night col. [Patrick] Henry received an express from Hampton, with the agreeable intelligence that capt. [James] Barron, in a small pilot boat which he had fitted out, has taken and brought in there two vessels with Salt to the amount of 4600 bushels; that he had likewise taken a vessel going to the Eastern Shore for provisions for the ministerial gentry that have lately been expelled from Norfolk, which had on board 15 blacks commanded by capt. Collett; and, when the express left Hampton, was in pursuit of another craft, supposed to be a tender. The Liverpool frigate, gone up to Norfolk, mounts 28 guns, and the brig with her is a storeship, laden with arms and ammunition. Between them, they have 400 men on board, none of them soldiers except the usual complement of marines. This late acquisition of strength has much elated lord Dunmore and his party, we hear: and Norfolk, Hampton, and all the river settlements, are threatened with fire and sword.