"The Enterprize frigate, commanded by Sir Thomas Rich, Bart. on this station, hardly goes out on a cruise but she returns with a prize, and most of them of great value. Not long since she brought in a French ship1 on suspicion of being bound to America. Sir Thomas had the art to sift the secret out of the crew, and she has been condemned as a legal prize in our Court of Admiralty here. We have three other frigates also cruizing about here."
New-York Gazette, 6 Apr. 1778.
1. Pompée, Louis Le Grand, master.
