Meantime the stanch privateer _Madison_, Captain Elwell, of Gloucester, had happened along where the brig was lying-to, waiting for the return of the _Indian_, and the brig was captured. She proved to be the transport _Number 50_, a vessel of 290 tons, loaded with army supplies, including 100 barrels of powder, 880 uniforms for the 104th British Regiment, bales of fine cloth for officers’ wear, camp equipage, etc., in all valued at $50,000. Within a few days the _Madison_, although armed with but one long gun, captured a ship armed with twelve guns, and sent her into port, and later still, the brig _Eliza_, of six guns. The _Teaser_, of New York, Captain Dobson, had the luck to fall in with the American ship _Margaret_, that had been captured by the British, She was sent to Portland, where she and her cargo of “salt, earthenware, and ironmongery” were valued at $50,000. In short, the privateers were making light work of the coasters that flocked between the ports of the British possessions at the north. But the most interesting cruise of all that were made in the early days of the war was that of Commodore Joshua Barney in the Baltimore clipper-schooner _Rossie_, of fourteen guns and 120 men. The reader will remember Barney. He was made a lieutenant in the American navy on July 2, 1776, although then but seventeen years old. He was in the _Andrea Doria_ when she whipped the _Racehorse_, and he commanded the Pennsylvania cruiser _Hyder Ali_ when she met the _General Monk_, of vastly superior force, and whipped her so badly that the British historians never recover sufficiently from the shock the story gives them to explain their conflicting statements about the battle.