His Majesty's sloop Ajax, the 1st inst, about nine leagues from hence, fell in with an American privateer of 14 guns, schooner rigged, which she fought five glasses; and after shooting away her enemy's ensign staff she made of. The Ajax received so much damage during the action, in which almost all her crew were either killed or wounded, that she was disabled from pursuing her antagonist. The seamen belonging to the Ajax took up the American ensign, which has since been brought on shore here. It is a red field with an hydra painted thereon.
1. London Chronicle, August 23 to August 26, 1777.
