The Virginia Gazette

By Mr. Thomas Dixon, who arrived from Bermuda, we learn that he was taken in the Eagle, capt. Johnson, belonging to Baltimore, with 5000 wt. of gunpowder, salt, and dry goods, by the Galatea's tender, one Burns commander, who is a native of Maryland. After remaining on board the tender some time, he was turned over to the Nautilus, cruising off Bermuda, where, after remaining best part of a day, without being offered any kind of sustenance, he was put on shore, to shift for himself. Every thing was taken from the prisoners but the clothes on their backs, and the captain of the Eagle was forced to go mate with William Goodrich (who lately made his escape from Baltimore jail) to New York.

While he was on board the Nautilus, he heard the officers mention the certainty of a French and Spanish war; and, while in Bermuda, the common topic of conversation was, that a vessel from France, bound to Philadelphia, had been taken in the straits by an English cruizer, who, in throwing over her despatches, one of the letters lodged in the chains, which contained assurances from the French court of her having 15,000 troops at the service of America, if they should be wanted, and of 20 sail of the line being on the point of departure for our assistance.----He also brings an account of the Buckskin privateer, capt. Handy, belonging to Baltimore, being taken and burnt by the Galatea; the captain and people now prisoners on board that frigate.