The Virginia Gazette

BALTIMORE, May 1. By a Gentleman arrived here yesterday from Philadelphia, by the way of Hamburg, we are informed, that the Roebuck man of war, of 44 guns, in chasing two inward bound vessels from the West Indies, up Delaware bay, ran ashore on the shoals called the Hen and Chickens, where she soon fell on her beam ends, when an express was immediately dispatched to Philadelphia, with information thereof, on which a brig of sixteen 18 pounders, one ditto of fourteen 12 pounders, the Hornet sloop of 10 guns, and thirteen row-gallies, well armed and manned, were immediately sent down the river to take proper care of her; and we hope in our next to congratulate our readers on her being moored at Philadelphia.