The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a letter from Hull, November 14.

"On Tuesday night last an alarm was spread here, that two or three large French privateers had got into the Humber, and intended to land a number of men about midnight, to destroy that town. The Nottinghamshire militia quartered there, immediately beat to arms, and all the sailors, with almost every other person in the town able to carry arms, flocked to the garrison and to the guns at the south end, waiting with the greatest impatience for the arrival of Messieurs, whom they vowed should meet with a warm reception; the whole body remained under arms the whole night, when behold the next morning these terrible privateers were discovered to be nothing more than two or three provision vessels from some part of Lincolnshire: But it is with the greatest pleasure we hear, that this consternation has been attended with so happy an effect, as to bring some of the most opulent and spirited inhabitants of that very loyal town, to a determined resolution to fit out immediately by subscription, twenty privateers, most of which, we make no doubt, will be cruising against the perfidious enemies of Great Britain before the first day of January next."