On Thursday last [June 15], as one of the packets which had been piratically seized and detained by Captain [James] Wallace, was cruizing as a tender, in the Naraganset-Bay, in quest of plunder, as usual, she spoke with an armed sloop, fitted out by the colony for the protection of its trade, whose commander not answering in a tone sufficiently submissive, was fired upon by the tender; the compliment was returned with such effect as to put the Pirates into some confusion, and they endeavoured to make off, but were prevented by an armed packet boat, in the service of the colony, that had by this time come up; the pirates finding they could not escape, ran the vessel ashore on Connanicut, and went off with much precipitation. The firing on both sides continued some minutes, though none of our people was hurt, and but one of the pirates wounded. On board the packet retaken were found eight swivels, seventeen stands of arms, a number of pistols, cutlasses, cartouch-boxes, &c.
