On Monday last, the Perseus, Captain Elphinstone, with eleven Sail of Transports, having on board Troops and Provisions, arrived in Port, after a passage of eleven Weeks from Portsmouth. The Perseus took two Rebel Privateers and a trading Vessel with a valuable Cargo, off the Coast, and brought them safe into Port.
On Friday 65 Sail of Vessels, under Convoy of the Diamond and Ambuscade, with the second Division of the Hessians, and 1000 Waldeckers, under the command of the Generals Kniphausen and Schmidtz, and a Number of Recruits for the British Troops, in all about 8000 effective Men, arrived off Sandy-Hook. They sailed from Plymouth Sound the 27th of last July. In the Fleet were several Victualers, and Vessels laden with Draught Horses for the Train, and Baggage of the Army.
The Unicorn Frigate, one of the swiftest sailing Ships in the Fleet parted Company off Nantucket Shoals, in chase of an American Vessel.
The Falcon and Active Frigates, and other Ships, came in from the Southward, in the Course of last week.
