Two or three hours has given a free circulation to a great number of falsities; one is, that the Lexington was off St. Bees Head, distant only two leagues on Saturday afternoon; that they attempted going into Douglas, Isle of Mann, that night: and on Saturday night they determined to run into Dublin, and cut out the Esther cutter and the Wasp sloop of war; with several other idle and improbable stories, which on the authority of several captains, who were so unfortunate as to fall into their hands, we can safely contradict: and on whose veracity we are bold to assure the public that these privateers never came to the eastward of the Isle of Mann.

On the same authority we can also add, that Wickes, declared his intention of not going out of his course for any prizes, (he was then endeavouring to run down the channel) but such as fell in his track, he must be obliged to take, if he could, in obedience to the orders of the Congress, which was, "to sink, burn, and destroy the ships or vessels of the enemy." — As a proof of this, we are told, that vessels were frequently seen, and passed without molestation.

The people in general speak in the warmest terms of the humane treatment they met with from the commander of the Reprisal and Lexington, both of whom endeavoured to make the situation of their prisoners as easy as their unhappy circumstances would admit.

Two letters from seamen in the privateers, to their friends in Ireland, were brought here by the Crawford, but contain nothing material.

We are credibly informed that Johnson, (the commander of the Lexington) is the same person who was last year taken in the Yankee privateer, and carried into London. — He is also grandson to the late Sir John Stuart, who made a vow that he could never sleep in his shirt till Jemmy got upon the throne, in consequence of which, — he died naked.