We sailed for New-York on the 27th of November on a cruize. We put into Martha's Vinyard, and sent our boat on shore with a flag of truce. The rebels let the boat come within gun-shot, and then fired upon them and wounded one man in the boat; to revenge this insult, we landed our marines and a party of sailors under the fire from the ship; the rebels posted themselves on a hill, and fired very briskly from behind the rocks and bushes; however, we drove their. off the island. We had in the action one man killed, and one wounded; the rebels lost four killed and many wounded. We got some plunder, such as oxen and poultry; then burnt their houses and barns, &c. From thence we sailed to RhodeIsland, where Sir Peter Parker commands, who sent us up Providence River to block up Admiral Hopkins and his fleet. We lay opposite a Point called WarwickNeck. On the morning of the New Year, our ship riding at her anchor in bending to the tide run on shore; the rebels seeing our situation, opened a battery of five 24 pounders; at the same time we were attacked by a privateer of twelve guns; they continued a brisk fire for three hours, till night came on. We lay in a most dismal situation on our beam-ends, and could not bring more than two guns to bear upon the rebels; however, they did not kill one man, but drove seven shot through our bottom, three of which are five feet under water, which has done us much damage, besides cutting our rigging and topmast. We had the good luck to have the ship off in the morning, after lying 25 hours on shore. We came down the river yesterday to heave the ship down.