Lately retaken and brought into Great Egg-harbour, by the privateer schooner Cornet, Capt. Yelverston Taylor,1 the schooner Carolina Packet, Capt. Walter Belt, from St. Ubes,2 with 1600 bushels of coarse salt. Also the sloop Lucy, Capt. Thomas Grandle, from South-Carolina, with 112 tierces and 30 half tierces of rice, one tierce and half ditto indigo.
The sloop Lark, Capt. John Laing, bound from St. Kitts to Philadelphia, was lately taken and sent into a safe port. Her cargo consists of 77 hogsheads of rum, one ditto dry goods, 18 kegs of nails, 3 tierces and 1 case joiners and carpenters tools, door locks, hinges, &c. The schooner Phoenix, Captain Robert Gilbert, from Bermuda for New-York, with 10,000 oranges and lemons, and a considerable quantity of onions. And a schooner from Antigua, with rum, brandy, &c.
Retaken and brought into Little Egg-harbour, by two New England privateers, in company with Capt. John Rice, a brig and sloop loaded with tobacco.
