Reports that give the values of some of the “richly laden” ships are by no means lacking. The privateer _Paul Jones_, Captain Hazard, of New York, before August 1st had captured fourteen British vessels in the West Indies, and early in August took the _Hassan_, bound from Gibraltar to Havana, “with wines and dry-goods, valued at $200,000.” The _Hassan_ carried fourteen guns, but only twenty men. She held out for half an hour. About the same time Captain Thomas Boyle, of the Baltimore clipper _Comet_, captured the _Hopewell_, from Surinam for London. She was valued at $150,000. To this prize Captain Boyle added “the first-class British ship _Henry_, four hundred tons burden, coppered to the bends, mounting four twelve-pounders, and six six-pounders, bound from St. Croix for London,” with seven hundred hogsheads of sugar, and thirteen pipes of old Madeira wine; this vessel and cargo produced a clear profit to the captors of more than $100,000. A little later, the _Saratoga_, of New York, Captain Riker, captured the _Quebec_, from Jamaica, and she was valued at $300,000. She was armed with sixteen guns, and carried a crew of fifty-two. And then there was the ship _Richmond_, of fourteen guns, and twenty-five men before the mast, “eight hundred tons burden, deeply laden with West India produce, worth $200,000,” that was taken by the privateer _Thomas_, and sent into Portsmouth. While the privateers were out for the property they could capture, their deeds were by no means untempered with generosity. The _Benjamin Franklin_, Captain Ingersoll, of New York, took the _Industry_, valued at $2,000, and brought her in. But on learning that she was the sole property of a widow, the owner of the privateer delivered her over to her captain.