Last Tuesday, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the two Captains Barrons1 fell in with a tender,2 off the old fort below Hampton, carrying some fresh provisions from Captain Squire to Commodore Parker. After about ten minutes engaging, the tender's people called out for quarters, and the same evening were conducted safe into Hampton. She was commanded by a certain Dunbar of Gloucester county, who bears a very indifferent character, and acted as a pilot for the enemy. He, with five sailors, and five negroes, are now lodged in the publick jail.—Captains Barrons sent the fresh provisions, a mutton and half, with their compliments to Commodore Parker.
Commodore Parker in the Phœnix, with three frigates3 and a topsail schooner, 4 now lie in Hampton road; and Captain Squire, in the Otter sloop, lies off Cherry stone's, upon the Eastern Shore.
