Advices from Cambridge of the 11th instant [December] are, That all the stores taken out of the ordnance ship had been brought safe to the Camp ¹... That Captain Coit, in an armed schooner of the United Colonies, lately chased a transport within a mile of the light-house, in Boston bay, when the crew cut all her rigging and took to their boat; upon which Coit boarded her, but finding he could not carry her off, he set her on fire and got on board his schooner; by this time a forty gun ship, which was stationed near the light-house, had got so near him as to make the grape shot whistle about his ears, but she stopping to extinguish the fire, Coit hoisted all sail and made off; she chased him about four hours, but finding it in vain, at length put about and stood back ー ²