"On the 12th ult. a few leagues to the westward of Cape Ferrol, we fell in with an American privateer, called the Boston Hero, of 18 guns and 120 men, who ordered all the crew into a pilot-boat we spoke with, that landed us at the Groyne. His sending us all on shore, made me suspect he meant to dispose of the cargo at some of the Spanish ports: I therefore wrote to Cadiz, as the wind was fair for that port when they took us, giving a description of the vessel to Mr. Williams, who by return of post informed me of her arrival there. I immediately set out for this place, and on my arrival entered a protest against her being sold, or her cargo, and doubt not of her being restored to me. I find the above is the usual way the American privateers now do; they get rid of the English crew, then put in hands of their own, forge papers, and pretend they come from America."