Williamsburg, December 27.
By a St. Kitt's paper, we learn, that the governour of St. Eustatia lately gave an entertainment for capt. [Isaiah] Robinson, commander of the continental vessel of war the Andrew Doria, to which all the American merchants and provincial agents were invited; also, that one of our privateers had taken a brig belonging to Dominica, and carried her into that Dutch free port.
Col. [Edward] Carrington, of the artillery, just arrived from Hampton, brings us the agreeable intelligence of a most valuable cargo being gone up to Baltimore from Cape Francois, which comes in a brig that was sent out by Congress, and has on board 800 stand of arms, 15 tuns of gunpowder, a quantity of sulphur, and a very large assortment of blanketing and coarse clothes for the soldiery. A number of French passengers came in the vessel, one of them an officer of rank. The captain of her says, that the French show the utmost civility and give every encouragement to the Americans, and have cruizers out to protect their trade; also, that a declaration of war was every moment expected from the French court, And that gunpowder, woollens, and almost every other kind of goods, were in great plenty at the Cape, and to be bought on good terms.