Ship Queen, sixteen guns and forty men, from Liverpool, with a cargo invoiced at from £70,000 to £100,000, sterling, captured by the Gen. Armstrong, of New York, but unfortunately wrecked off Nantucket. She was, perhaps, the most valuable prize yet made. This ship was bound to Surinam, and was bravely defended, the Captain, his first officer, and nine of his crew being killed before she was surrendered. The Gen. Armstrong was not much injured in the contest.

Schooner laden with dry goods, etc., from Jamaica for the Spanish Main, valuable, sent into Savannah by the Liberty, of Baltimore. The prize carried two guns and had thirty men; the privateer had only one gun and forty men.

Brig Lucy and Alida, a very valuable prize to the Revenge, of Norfolk, and sent into that port. The brig was first taken by the Gen. Armstrong, of New York, retaken by the British letter-of-marque ship Brenton, of Liverpool, and then fallen in with by the Revenge, by whom she was sent into port. She has a full cargo of dry-goods.

The schooner sent into Savannah by the Liberty is said to be worth $60,000.

Three vessels captured and destroyed by the privateer Jack's Favorite.

Schooner Swift, of Plymouth (England), from St. Michael's, taken by the Rolla, of Baltimore, and burnt. In a severe gale of wind, Captain Dewley was compelled to throw overboard all his guns but one, but the crew, sixty in number, determined to continue the cruise. Near Madeira, from the 12th to the 15th of December, without the loss of one man, the Rolla captured, manned, and ordered for the first port, the fol

Ship Neptune, ten guns, from London for Rio Janeiro, with a very rich cargo of brandy, wine and drygoods, sent into New London by the Decatur, privateer. The Neptune was a large ship, coppered, and of the first class. Her cargo was 500 pipes of brandy and wine, twenty bales of dry-goods, and ten cases of watches. The Decatur had taken two other vessels and sent them to France. Ship from Quebec for London, laden with timber, comprising the whole frame of a ship of seventyfour guns, sent into Kennebeck by the America. The timber was doubtless duly seasoned, and was just in time. Ship twenty guns, laden with mahogany and logwood, sent into New Orleans by the privateer Spy, of that port.

Schooner Prince of Wales, captured by the Growler, and released after taking out a few pipes of Madeira wine, etc.

Ship Aurora, twelve guns, with a valuable cargo of dry-goods, worth $300,000, sent into Newport by the privateer Holkar, of New York.

Two vessels captured by the Mars, privateer, and sent into England as cartels. The Mars arrived at New London after a cruise of one hundred days, during which time she took eleven prizes, some of them valuable. She only fired seven shots during her cruise. She had on board one hundred thousand dollars in cash, taken out of the different vessels, whose arrival was daily looked for at that time.

Brig Pelican, from London for Gibraltar, with a cargo of iron and fish, sent into Charleston by the Mars, of New London.

Sloop

laden with hides, sent into Newbern, N. C., by a privateer of that port.

Brig Emu, ten guns, twenty-five men, from Portsmouth for Botany Bay, with forty-nine women-convicts, the brig was sent into New York by the Holkar, of that port. The convicts and prisoners were landed on the Island of St. Vincents (one of the Cape de Verds), with a stock of provisions sufficient to last them four months. On this Island there is no want of water.

The brig Ann, 10 guns, from Liverpool for New Providence, richly laden with dry-goods and crates, worth $100,000, sent into Marblehead by the Growler.

The privateer Hunter, of Salem, captured an English transport carrying ten guns, laden with military stores, but unfortunately this vessel was recaptured, and sent into Halifax.

The Paul Jones privateer captured on the 15th of April, the British ship Lord Sidmouth, having on board a valuable cargo, besides $80,000 in specie, which was removed to the privateer.

About the 1st of June the privateer Decatur, Captain Nichols, of Newburyport, was captured by the British frigate Surprise.

A SEVERE COMBAT.

While Captain John Murphy, in the privateer Globe, of Baltimore, was cruising off the coast of Portugal, he fell in with an Algerine sloop-of-war, when a severe engagement ensued between them. Although the action. was continued for a period of three hours, at half-gunshot distance, it is strange to relate that the Globe lost not a man, and had but two wounded. The shot of the Algerine almost invariably passed over her adversary, the Globe having received no less than eightytwo shot through her sails. How much the sloop-of-war

suffered was not ascertained, but from all appearances, she must have been terribly hulled and cut to pieces.

The Globe hauled off to repair damages, and the Algerine seemed unwilling to renew the conflict, so that both parties probably esteemed it a drawn battle, and accordingly separated.

CHAPTER IV.

DESPERATE BATTLE BETWEEN THE PRIVATEER GENERAL ARMSTRONG, CAPTAIN CHAMPLIN, AND A BRITISH FRIGATE-A CRUISE IN THE PRIVATEER-BRIG YANKEE-BRIG ANN, A PRIZE TO THE SNAP-DRAGON SEVERAL PRIZES BY THE SAUCY JACK, OF CHARLESTON-HOW PRIVATEERS MANAGE TO TAKE MERCHANT VESSELS OUT OF A FLEET A COUP-DE-MAIN-EXPLOSION OF A PRIVATEER-PRIVATEER WASP CAPTURED, AFTER A RUNNING FIGHT OF NINE HOURS-A VALUABLE PRIZE BY THE PRIVATEER SNAP-DRAGON-BRAVE DEFENCE OF THE SCHOONER LOTTERY-A GALLANT ACTION BY THE PRIVATEER DOLPHIN, CAPTAIN STAFFORD, OFF CAPE ST. VINCENT, WITH AN ENGLISH SHIP AND A BRIG HE CAPTURES THEM BOTH-PATRIOTISM OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE-INTERESTING CRUISE OF THE FAMOUS CAPTAIN BOYLE, ON THE COAST OF BRAZIL AND AMONG THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS.

FROM A CHARLESTON PAPER OF APRIL 5TH.

"UNEQUALLED BRAVERY.-Arrived at this port, yesterday, the privateer-schooner Gen. Armstrong, Guy R. Champlin, Esq., commander, of New York, from a cruise. The following is an extract from her log-book :

"March 11th, 1813.-These twenty-four hours commence with moderate breezes and cloudy weather. At half-past 5 A.M., tacked to the southward and eastward. At 7 discovered a sail bearing S.S.E. At half-past 7 discovered her to be at anchor under the land. At 8, she got under way, half-past 8, she got sail on her, and stood to the northward; she fired three guns at us and hoisted English colors. We were then in five fathoms water, and about five leagues to the eastward of the mouth of Surinam river. At ten minutes past 9, we fired the centre gun and hoisted American colors. At forty-five minutes after, she tacked and stood as near us as the wind would permit, keeping up a brisk fire on us from her main-deck guns. At a quarter-past 10, we