Last Saturday arrived here the brig Charming Peggy, Captain Joseph Jauncey, in 21 days from Curacoa, having 12 carriage and 12 swivel guns, and thirty-five men; she has brought in about 15 tons of powder, and a considerable quantity of dry-goods. ー On Thursday Captain Jauncey spoke with Captain [James] Munro, in a sloop belonging to Providence, from Hispaniola, who on his passage had retaken two sloops; which had been taken by the Acteon frigate, and ordered for Jamaica; these sloops were from Cape Fear, bound to Hispaniola, to which place Capt. Monro sent them. On Friday Capt. Jauncey was chased by two sloops, with which he exchanged a few shots, and the next morning, just as it was light, with a fair wind, he passed within about three miles of a man of war, which lay at anchor under the east side of Block Island, who, as soon as they discovered the brig; made all the sail they could after her, and followed her within a few miles of our harbour. Those vessels being seen at some distance off, from the heights about this town; the Columbus, Capt. Whipple, the Andrew Doria, Capt. Biddle, and the Providence, Capt. [John Paul] Jones, put out as fast as possible, but as soon as they got within about two leagues of the ship, supposed to be the Cerberus, she made all the sail she could from them, and stood up the western Sound; they chased her till towards night, when the weather coming up thick, they lost sight of her and returned.
