We hear that two small Vessels having been lately seized by the Men of War at Newport, and fitted out as Cruizers, for the Purpose of robbing and plundering the Sea Coast, in order to supply their Fellow-Ruffians at Boston with fresh Provisions, the Inhabitants of Dartmouth dispatched an armed Sloop to take them, which was accomplished; one of them struck without making any Resistance, the other was taken after a short Contest, wherein one of our People and three of the Enemy were wounded. ー The Prisoners (except the Wounded) about 17 in Number, were sent to Taunton.
Captain William Chace, from Baltimore-Town, in Maryland, advises, that an Account of the late Engagement with the King's Troops was received there by Land in six Days, when the Inhabitants immediately took Possession of the Provincial Magazine, with 1500 Small Arms, and secured all the Military Stores that could be found in private Hands . . .
Capt. Chace likewise informs, that the Governor of Virginia had fled on board a Man of War, to avoid the Resentment of the People on Account of the Part he took in a late Seizure of Powder at Williamsburg, and that it was thought he would go to Boston.
