[Newport] October 8.
This Morng we heard that Capt Wallace with his Fleet fired on the To of Bristol last Night. An inhuman Wretch! The Surprize & hasty flight [of the Rev. W. Burt of Bristol] from the savage canonade of Wallace undoubtedly occasion his Death2
1. Dexter, ed., Diary of Ezra Stiles, I, 623.
2. See Letter from Bristol, Rhode Island, to New York Correspondent, October 12, 1775.
