"On the third of August at eight A.M., the _Atlas_ discovered two sail, for which she bore away. At eleven o'clock the action was commenced with a broadside and musketry. She continued engaged with both ships till noon, when the smaller one struck her colors. The _Atlas_ then directed the whole of her fire against the large ship, when the small one, although her colors were down, renewed her fire on the _Atlas_, which had to recommence firing on her; in a few minutes every man was driven from her decks. Twenty minutes past twelve the large ship struck. Possession was immediately taken of both of them. One proved to be the ship _Pursuit_, Captain Chivers, of four hundred and fifty tons, sixteen guns, and thirty-five men. The other was the ship _Planter_, Captain Frith, of two hundred and eighty tons, twelve guns, and fifteen men." They proved to be richly laden, and with both of them in her wake the _Atlas_ started for home; she had lost but two men killed and five wounded. The _Pursuit_ arrived safe in port on the same day as the privateer, but the _Planter_ was recaptured off the cape of the Delaware. The privateer _Decatur_ under command of Captain Divon, after a long and severe fight, captured a schooner of the English service that mounted fifteen guns--over twice as many as the _Decatur_ carried. The _Saratoga_ of New York, Captain Aderton, took the _Morgania_, a British packet of eighteen guns, off Surinam, and in the action both vessels were nearly dismantled. The _Comet_, of Baltimore, had a running fight with three English merchant-men and a Portuguese sloop of war; she beat off the latter, who officiously interfered, and compelled all three of the Englishmen to strike their colors. The _Young Eagle_ took two British ships at once--one quite as large and as powerful as she was. The _Montgomery_, Captain Upton of Boston, mounting twelve guns, fought yard arm to yard arm with a fine sloop of war belonging to the English navy, mounting twenty guns. The _Surinam_, for that was her name, gave up the fight, and, much crippled, put in at Barbadoes. They were rare good fighters--these privateers. But perhaps one of the strangest adventures was that of the _Young Teazer_--what a saucy, impudent name for a vessel; but, according to account, it suited her to a nicety. Captain Dobson of New York was part owner and commander, and while cruising off Halifax he was chased by a large armed ship, the _Sir John Sherbroke_. As she kept gaining steadily, Dobson headed his own vessel straight for Halifax harbor; he passed the lighthouse, and as he did so hoisted up English colors over the American in order to lead his pursuer to suppose he was an English prize. As if in disgust at having wasted so much time, the _Sir John Sherbroke_ hove about and put to sea, and as soon as she was at a safe distance, Dobson hauled down his misleading colors and did likewise, successfully escaping.