The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA. August 12.

The following is the Substance of a Letter wrote by a Person at Snow Hill, dated the 31st of last Month, viz. That he had just parted with three Men who he said had been taken in a Schooner in Chesapeake Bay, at the Mouth of York River, on their Way from Norfolk to some River in Maryland: That in the Schooner were Goods to the Value of Six Thousand Guineas, that the Vessel that took them was a Sloop of 8 Carriage, and 12 Swivel Guns, and 75 Men, from Cape Francois, commanded by Don Pedro Ordonez: That the Captain informed them, a few Days before he Sloop attacked a Letter of Marque Brig of Philadelphia, off the Capes of Delaware, but was obliged to leave her, with the Loss of her first Captain, a Frenchman, who had French Commission, tho' the Chief of the Crew were Spaniards, as is the abovenamed Captain: That afterwards they took Capt. Bird, from Wilmington to Sinepuxent, whose Vessel they scuttled, and endeavoured to sink her, but he ran ashore on Assateague Beach: He says they gave a small Schooner they took in the Bay to the Prisoners, who got into Sinepuxent Inlet: That there was on board the Privateer an Englishman, born on the Eastern Shore in Maryland, who was well acquainted with the Bays and Shores, and had agreed with the Enemy to plunder and destroy the Plantations, &c: And that accordingly they had landed 25 Men in order to carry off some Negroes from a Vessel just arrived; but the Captain having Notice of their Design, got his Men together, and stood on his Defence; upon which the Privateer's Men went on board again.

One of our Pilots, who was on board the Boat they gave the Prisoners, informs, that this Sloop had also taken two other Vessels off of Carolina, a Sloop and a Schooner.

And a Gentleman who arrived here on Monday last from Wilmington, in North Carolina, says, that, on the 3d Instant, off the Capes of Virginia, he was chased by a Privateer Schooner, and went into Hampton Road, where he met with Captain Stiles, in a Bermudian Schooner, from Turks Island with Salt, who had likewise been chased by the same Vessel; which Vessel, it is said, has a Sloop in Company with her, thought to be the one abovementioned; who, this Gentleman heard, had found Goods to the Value of Nine thousand Pound Sterling, on board the Schooner in Chesapeake Bay; and that Part of her Crew had landed, in order to carry off some Negroes, but were disappointed.

Captain Tucker, from South Carolina, was chased by a Schooner off the Capes of Virginia.