On Friday the 27_th ult. Arrived here the ship M'Kenzie, Alexander Potterfield, master; he formerly commanded the Glasgow Packet, a transport in his Majesty's service, which was taken by the rebels in Spencer's Inlet, near Charlestown, the 21^st of July, 1776;¹ and was kept prisoner at the place last mentioned, until the 16^th of October last, when he was exchanged; after which he resided nine weeks in St. Augustine, and then went on board his Majesty's ship Lizard, Thomas M'Kenzie, Esq; Commander, who, on a cruize in company with the Carrysfort, Capt. Fanshaw, and Porteus, Capt. Elphinstone,² took and sent into Augustine, five prizes: They also burnt one brig and sunk another. Upon Mr. Potterfield's return to St. Augustine, he had authentic intelligence, by prisoners who had escaped from Charlestown, that in the late conflagration which happened in that place, 700 houses, 15,000 bushels of salt, and merchandize to the amount of 100,000l. sterling were consumed. The fire was observed by the crew of the Carrysfort, then in the offing; and a partial account of it has already been published in this paper.³ Of the ship Alquin Queen (now the M'Kenzie) together with her cargo,⁴ one of the prizes captured by the Lizard, and condemned in a Court of Vice Admiralty at St. Augustine, the gallant Captain M'Kenzie, with the unanimous consent of his officers and men, made a present to said Potterfield, in consideration of his loss and sufferings among the rebels.... 

By Capt. Pearse from Kingston, in Jamaica, we learn that Rebel Prizes are daily carried into that Island, by his Majesty's Ships, and among them are the following, viz. Sloops Revenge, Catharine, and Boston; Brig Sally, and Schooners, Unity and Oxford.⁵