The Wheeling Repository

Capt. Emery, arrived at Salem from Leghorn and Alicant, informs that the ship Cyrus, of Boston, was taken within three miles of the anchoring ground of Alicant, by a French privateer; the prize master, after using every method to persuade the Cyrus's crew to swear the property was English, to no effect, intoxicated his men, who followed the ship's crew about the decks with axes threatening to cut them down. The captain's papers were all taken from him and he was not permitted to go out of his vessel or write to his friends. The schr. Washington, of Newburyport, was taken by the same privateer.