The Ship [Illeg.], Captain Watson arrived at New York from Bermuda [?] and brings an Account of an American Privateer called the Republic, of 14 Guns, being overset on John o'Groat’s Rock, near the Orkneys, and every Soul perishing.—Also of the Speedwell Privateer of this Port, falling in with an English frigate, and upon receiving the first Broadside, a shot took her between wind and water, and she immediately foundered, and all her Crew (the Mate, excepted) perished from the accident. The Speedwell had been formerly in the Jamaica station, mounted 14 carriage guns, and had near 90 men on board.

Thursday a prize ship from Scotland bound to the West Indies,¹ with dry goods, &c. arrived in a safe port; she was sent in by a Continental privateer,² Capt. Chew, belonging to the State of Connecticut.