We hear from Lewistown, that on Sunday the 22d instant, at two o'clock in the morning, an English tender belonging to the Roebuck,1 mounting eight carriage guns and four swivels, with twenty-one men on board, ran ashore at Cape Henlopen; it being in the night, she was not discovered by the guards until day, before which time the crew had set her on fire and left her (the guns can only be saved). When the crew was first discovered, they were paraded on the beach, and surrendered themselves prisoners of war on firing one musket.
The next morning (being the 23d) a schooner called the Reed, and formerly belonging to Wilmington, mounting eight carriage guns and four swivels, James Donavan, Master, from St. Christophers bound to Philadelphia, with sugar and limes, consigned to Tench Cox, Merchant, also ran on shore at the Cape: The crew, consisting of eleven white-men and one Negro, surrendered themselves prisoners. The sugar, together with the rigging and sails, are saved.
The prisoners, being the crews of both vessels, amounting to thirty-three in number, are sent under guard to Dover, on their way to General Smallwood's head quarters at Wilmington2....
