[Extract]

N^o. 59.

My Lord,

...M. Florida blanca has acquainted me, that the Vessel, which was said to have been taken at Bilbao,¹ and which I mentioned in mine, N^o. 56.² had not been allowed to be kept by the Privateer who took it, but had been released upon my Application.

I enclose to your Lordship a List of Prizes taken by Sir Thomas Rich, and Captain Mann, and carried into Gibraltar on the 13^th. Ins^t....³

The Rebel Privateers, Raleigh, of thirty two Guns, commanded by Thomas Tomp son, and, the Alfred, of twenty two Guns, commanded by J. Henman,⁴ have sent a Prize into Coruña, the Brig Sally, Edward Marshall, Master, of Bristol, bound from Dartmouth to Newfoundland with Salt.... I have the Honour to be {&c.]