The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-01-28

having fallen in With frigate which passet
her without regarding her signals and wen,
Off
II was undoubtedly a British friga.e, for i,
could not have been the Constitution. as she
sailed from here the 18th; therefore al the
stories OF her having sunk the Maidstone
prove to be entirely false, and that they tend
TO show that there must have been some
misunderstanding on the part of the prison
ers lately landed from the squadron in the
sound, when the British officers related the
circumstance, or it must have been wilfui
intention on the part of the British officers
themselves TO hoax the Yankees fas they
style 1T for the purpose of elating them,
thereby To make the modification the grea-
ter. OH learning it was not true-if this was
the case, hope they have been dsappoint-
ed.
There had been no later accounts from
England than the 5th Nov. and no,hng new
from Halifax.
NEw 7YoRX, J4n. 10.
IL. SOUND NEWS.
Inc sloop Geo Washington, { oft, of n. Lon
don, with load of salt, was taken IN Thurs
day morning last by the Nimrod, off N on
don, and carried and anchored near the Ma
Jastic, ~, lying off that harbor. Ransom
was offered and refused. But on Saturday
night Last, capt. Briggs, in commissioned
captured the sloop, with men on board, cut
her cable, and brought her into port. She
was lying between the ship and brig, and two
boats put of after her, but light breeze
springing up, and the prisoners not appear
ing very anxious To overtake her, captain b..
brought her off in safety, with her prisoners,
without injury to any person Oh either side.
Col
The privateer Rover of guns, lone Q
FOUNDER on pivot new vessel and well
| equipped, is in the Sound See the following
letter Of her proceedings:
from our eStondent.
LYME, Jan. I6.
Yesterday the British Privateer schooner
Rover, Capt. IN flanagan, from Nova Scott.
came off the mouth of Connecticut Rivev, x
sent barge with leutcnant and FIVE mac
after number of vessels bound eastwatd
The barge captured the s!oDp Betsey. capt
Gibbs, OF Wareham, and tie schooner Ans,
capt. Rider, of Chatham, and was seen to
tax the vessels from Saybrook Sixteen
men from that place volunteered their SER
wees manned twoiorg boats, pursued and
recaptutet' both vessels, and brought them
o"tn 70 oayorcok. In capturing them, one
mar belonging " Saybrook. by the name OF
Charles Do!ph, a stone-cutter, was killed, x
boy slightly wounded. On the part o5 e
enemy, tn lieutenant who comm snled the
barge, by the name Of Syphprus Cow]es, was
killed. The prisoners were marched this
day 20 New London, and delivered to the
proper aulho ity. The privateer is now up
sound; We SIS s bound eastly srtl, ought 70
be on their guard against falling in with her.
H.
Ertraet efe letter from Cart Corey, dated
Scyt-aok, Jli.;s-I5
Yesterday afternoon we discovered from
this place an enemys schr in chase Of a
Sloop, which she come up with and took, and
STOOD oil towards Long Island, soon after we
discovered barge in chase of soop and
sch. the wind being ght they were soon cap
tured. Iproposed an enterprise to retake
them, and mustered two boats crews and
| went IN pursuit of them. They had by this
| tinie got about half way over to L. Island !:
We however came up with them. and after
! exchanging few shot succeeded in taking
| them both. and brought them in here about
Q clock this morning. We had one man
Killed ~ our boat and another wounded in the
eye. We killed the first Lieutenant of the
| privateer, and took S prisoners which we
have sent to New-London. The sloop was
| the Hetsey, Gibbs, of Wareham for Provi-
dence, the other sch. Ann, Rider, of and
| from Chatham, from New-Haven
| The prisoners told me that tn privateer
was the Rover, (formerly the American pri-
vatcer sch. Armistice) 10 days from Liver
pool, n b Carrying LIB carronedes and
long tom The sloop Maria, from New
| York for Providence is here The sloop He
len, -. sailed from here ON Saturday for
| Providence"
! The British privatcer Rover, which has
been cruiziTig in the Sound for several DAYS,
was seen from KlIiugworth on Monday, stan
ding to the Eastward, with a sloop in compa-
ny, supposed 10 be her prize.
From heAt6any Register Of 10Th inat.
| Gu Friday, Saturday and Sunday Iast, sew