. . . we had a fire Brig, and Sloop, fitting at Providence, and soon was ready: we went down the river with them, in the night, waiting for a favourable time to chain them together. The time shortly came, when we undertook to chain them, but a sudden breeze of wind sprung up, before we could chain, and the sloop-fire-vessel, got so near the ship, she was obliged to run ashore, near East Greenwich, and we sat her on fire rather than she should fall into the hands of the enemy: The Brig and Sloop Providence, returned to Providence.