Several small vessels, which had been most unrighteously taken by the ships of war on this station, were last Monday [September 11] stripped of every rag of sails, all their rigging except the shrouds, all their small stores, cables and anchors, turned adrift, and drove ashore on Goat Island &c. These vessels, we understand, belonged to poor, laborious people, the whole support of whose families depended on what they made by freighting wood, &c. ー

Last Monday the Swan sloop sailed to convoy several vessels to Boston, which had been taken in and off this port, viz. a sloop from Connecticut, bound to the West-Indies, with horses, &c. a schooner from the West-Indies, taken out of Stonington; and a large sloop from Jamaica, which had been to New-York sailed from thence under pretence of going to England, and pretended to put in here for a mast;¹ and another sloop, with salt and some sugar, from the West-Indies.

Last Thursday [September 14] sailed, the ship Francis, Capt. Buckley, and snow Flora, Capt. Forrester, for London; the ship Jacob, Capt. Cornell, and ship Cleopatra, Capt. Fitch, for Whaling; but were all obliged to return into this harbour. ー The above vessels were convoyed, as far as they went, by the Rose, Capt. [James] Wallace, who kept out till Friday night, when he brought in a large sloop loaded with flour, &c. from Philadelphia, which he took near Block Island.²