Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A foreign paper advises, that an English trading vessel, called the Queen of Naples, from that port to London, with a valuable cargo, was attacked on the morning of the 1st of September, off the coast of Valencia, in Spain, by two Algerine or Tunisian xebecks, full of men: but the English running out fourteen concealed guns ready charged, gave the Moors so warm a reception, that they hung out the white flag, and pretending to have mistaken them for Americans, endeavoured to apologize for so daring an insult to a friendly nation. The English Captain, with a generosity that did him honour, declined any farther contest, though he could have sunk them in a few minutes, in consideration of their distressed state, and the loss of above forty of their crews, killed in the very short engagement. The English escaped unhurt, except a few splinters shivered from the mainmast by a chain shot.