His Majesty's ship Belleisle has taken and sent into this port, the brig Mercury, Askew Hillcot, Master, from the River Mississippi, reported to be bound for London with a valuable cargo, consisting of indigo, beaver skins, and dear skins.

This ship brings an account, that just as they sailed from the Mississippi, a disturbance had happened between the English and Spanish Settlers there, and that the Spaniards had taken all the English shipping on that river, and had placed a soldier in each of the Settlers' houses. It seems that the Spaniards claim all the lands on both sides of the mouth of the river, and that the English rent the plantations of the Spaniards that settle there, as our plantations are many miles up the river.