Last Thursday morning [August 3] the ships Rose and Swan sailed from this harbour, and carried with them a brig, belonging to Mr. William Tweedy, of this town, loaded with molasses, a sloop belonging to Connecticut, loaded with molasses, and a sloop freighted with sugar and molasses for New-York; these vessels, we hear, were sent to Boston; a brig and sloop belonging to Col. Joseph Wanton, of this town, and a sloop belonging to Messrs. Charles Wickham, Robert Stoddard and Benjamin Hicks, of this town, with similar cargoes, were left behind, and released. The above vessels all arrived here, from the West-Indies, within about a week before. (Impartiality.)
A gentleman from the American camp says ー Last Wednesday [August 2], some rifle-men, on Charlestown side, shot an officer of note in the ministerial service, supposed to be Major Small or Bruce, and killed 3 men on board a ship in Charlestown ferry, at the distance of full half a mile; that General [Thomas] Gage had lately sent 2 armed schooners to Machias, or to some place near it, with cash to buy live stock, and gave orders to take the flock by force if the inhabitants would not sell it, which they did refuse, when the schooners people attempted to take off the stock; upon which the inhabitants rose, made all the men prisoners, seized on the schooners and cash, and shared about 5 £.sterling a man.
Last Monday [July 31] as two gentlemen from Philadelphia, with 5 others, were going from this town to Providence, in a two mast boat, they were fired upon by the Rose man of war and several barges, near Prudence; they run the boat ashore and endeavoured to make their escape, but the people in the barges landed and took 5 of them, among whom were the Philadelphia gentlemen, who had a number of letters from different persons to the Westward, which letters Capt. [James] Wallace, of the Rose, got into his possession, and gave out that they contained some mighty secrets relative to the designs of the Congress: The gentlemen and the letters, we hear, have been sent to Boston.
