The following Gentlemen are appointed, and commissioned, by the major part of the [Massachusetts] Council, Judges of Admiralty for this colony, agreeable to an Act lately passed by the Gen. Assembly, viz.
Nathan Cushing, Esq; for the Southern district, containing the counties of Plymouth, Barnstable, Bristol, Nantucket, and Duke's County.
Timothy Pickering, jun. Esq; for the Middle district containing the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex.
James Sullivan, Esq; for the Eastern district, containing the counties of York, Cumberland and Lincoln.
We hear that a brig from Portugal, bound to New York, which had been taken by the enemy, and ordered to Boston, was retaken, a few days ago, by one of the continental cruisers, and carried into Plymouth. She was laden with salt, and had on board, when retaken, a midshipman and 6 or 8 seamen belonging to the enemy.
The toast of the day is, The American General and Admiral.
