The following is the purport of the intelligence received by Captain Furse, who left Boston the 1st of June, 1776, and arrived at Bristol after a passage of thirty days:... The Alfred, Columbus, and a brig, part of Commodore Hopkins's Fleet, arrived from New London at Newport the 29th of April. Both those harbours are now fortified. At Philadelphia a vast supply of arms, ammunition, and stores of every kind, have been received lately; not less than 300 tons of powder, and full 10,000 stand of arms, were imported in one month.
