Frankfurt,
25 February. In letters from Trieste, dated 14 February, was mentioned that the
British commodore Hamilton captured after a short resistance a Greece polacre,
coming back from a piracy cruise at Hydra. Hamilton send the prize towards
Malta. Metaxa, regent of Syra, recently departed with a hired Hydriotic
goelette, to undertake action against the pirates. He was however forced to
seek refugee in a monastery.
