The New Hampshire Gazette

Extract of a letter from Capt. Moses Tryon, dated on board the United States ship Connecticut, 20 leagues E. N. E. from Deseada, Jan. 10, 1800, to a gentleman in Middletown, Connecticut.

"I have been able to reduce it nearly to a certainty, that the Connecticut is the fastest sailing ship in these seas. I have had a fair trial with several British men of war; likewise, with the Insurgent, Captain Murray, and the Adams, Capt. Morris. both of which I have fairly beaten by the wind, and I think I can say she sails equally well from the wind. On the whole I am not afraid to have a fair look at any thing that floats on the ocean. I have had the good fortune to fall in with the French privateer brig, the Conqueror of Italy, mounting 12 guns and 62 men, (having manned 6 prizes in the course of her cruise) which I captured on the 29th ult. on her return to Point Petre; she has done more injury to our commerce than any other privateer out of Guadeloupe; having by accounts, taken two hundred American vessels: she has run upwards of four years, and had bid defiance to all British frigates."