| Description | Flushing, Long Island, recounts the distress he has experienced and the circumstances relative thereto, since his letter written in March, his attitude and movements on the demand made by the American commodore Hopkins, on behalf of the Continental Congress, of all the King's powder and stores at New Providence, aid given to the enemy by the people, his imprisonment and conveyance to the American continent, encounter and engagement between His Majesty's ship "Glasgow" and the rebel fleet, spirited behaviour of Captain Howe, the writer exchanged for Lord Stirling, behaviour of the inhabitants of the Bahama Islands |