LONDON.
The Elizabeth, Jack, from Clyde to Halifax, is taken by the Americans. . . .1
The True Briton, Denning, from Newfoundland for Barbadoes, is retaken by the Seaford man of war, and sent into Barbadoes. The Seaford went in quest of the Fair Play privateer, which took her.2
The Active, Powell, of Liverpoole, has taken fourteen prizes, and sent them all into St. Augustine.3
Captain Ogilvie, of the Betsey, arrived at Cowes, from Florida, in his passage spoke with a Swedish ship, which had been boarded and examined by two American privateers, one of thirty, and the other of twenty guns, off Cape Ortugal.
Government are going to lay floating batteries in the several Harbours of this Island that are defenceless; they have already purchased several ships for that purpose, one of which, of 300 tons, is now fitting out at Limehouse, and is to mount eighteen nine pounders.4
Letters from Guernsey, received on Saturday, say, That nine sail of prizes, taken by some privateers belonging to that place, have within a few days been brought in there; one is a ship from London with Dr. Franklin’s Commission on board; another is the Hero, bound to France, with 650 hogsheads of tobacco,5 and another is the Cabot, from Tobago to North America. . . .
