The New Hampshire Gazette

CHARLESTON, June 24.

On Saturday last was brought into this port the ship Boyd, Capt. Frew, of Port Glasgow, which was bound to London from the Bay of Honduras. We understand he was captured off the Bahamas by two whale-boats which were fitted out of this port, and sailed on a cruise, under the authority of a copy of the commission of the French privateer La Montague. The ship's crew when she was taken, consisted of nine men, besides the captain and mate, seven of whom entered voluntarily on board of the whale-boats, and a prize master and seven men were left in charge of the ship and four remaining prisoners.

The whale-boats then left the ship, and shortly afterwards they fell in with a sail, which they determined to make a prize of, if she proved an enemy; and after obtaining the promise of the prisoners not to make any attempt to retake the ship, on the assurance of their being set at liberty with their ship, if the other vessel should prove a good prize, six of the men set out in a boat to board the vessel which they had fallen in with, leaving the prize master in the ship; but after discovering her to be an American, they returned to the ship. During their absence, however, the prisoners secured the prize-master and took possession of the ship, and as the men came up from the boat, disarmed them, and put them in confinement, three excepted, who cut the rope which fastened the boat, and drifted off.

These three men were afterwards picked up at sea by the ship Hope, Capt. Fowler, from Kingston, which arrived here on Saturday last. Capt. Frew and his men kept possession of the ship, for some time, until the prize-master and his party, seized on a favorable moment and retook her, after killing the mate, and wounding the captain in a desperate manner.

On her arrival, she was taken possession of by order of the governor, being deemed an illegal prize.