The Virginia Gazette

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 16.

An affair has lately happened here which causes much stir, on account of the violence of the act. The Captain of the Kingston English privateer, lying in the Texel, having missed several of his men, could by no means learn any account of them, till at length a Jew girl informed him they had been employed to inveigle sailors to a music house, where they were seized by a set of fellows, well known by the name of silver coppers, who gagged, and bound, and then sent them on board a ship outward bound, for Batavia. The Captain, on this information, ran his privateer alongside the Dutchman, and demanded his people, whom they stiffly denied knowing anything of; he insisted, however, on searching the ship, which he did, after some resistance, where he found them in the hold, with twenty others, chained down to the timbers. A proper representation of this affair has been made to Sir Joseph Yorke. One Englishman and two Dutchmen were desperately wounded in the scuffle.