The Hope and Galbraith, armed schooners, which have been stationed up the Bay of Funday, have been very successful in their cruizes there, hav ing .taken a number of small craft from New-England, with part of the car goes of the prizes their privateers had carried in there, and which they were sending to the other provinces, the Massachusetts being over stocked with prize goods; we here have had a glut of them, insomuch that we have sent several ships laden, entirely with them, to England, there being no vent for them here. Our cruizers have been remarkable successful in taking of prizes; but in no instance mote than in taking the Hancock, and retaking the Fox. Manly, and some of the prisoners, have been sent to New—York; several of those on board the Hancock have been suffered to enter into the navy, as they were forced to go on board at Boston, whither they were carried in, in the English prizes, taken by the Americans. As the prize—money for great part has been paid here, money was pretty plenty, and trinkets and cloathing sold well, and we seemed alive; indeed, being the only dock—yard belonging to the crown, we daily have visitors from the fleet, for stores or repairs. We had some disturbances on the back of the province, but, like a fire made of straw, it blazed, and then went out. Just as I am writing this letter, two prizes are coming into the harbour, large ships, and are said to be taken by the Milford frigate, which has been the most successful ship in the whole fleet.
