Christianstaed (St. Croix) Dec. 4.
On Sunday last [December 1] put in here the ship Lasoye Planter, commanded by Capt. Smith, who on the second of November sailed from New-York bound for Cork, in his Britannic Majesty's service, and on the 12th fell in with the brig Freedom, Capt. [John] Clouston, in the Continental service,1 who made a prize of said ship, and on the 21st the carpenter, boatswain, and three of the people retook the ship, and brought her into this port the first instant.