A vessel arrived here yesterday from New Providence, and relates, that that island was invaded by the provincials, under the command of Commodore Hopkins, in a ship of thirty-six guns, and eight other vessels, having landed 1000 men at the east rnd of the island, and marched up to the castle, which surrendered without much resistance, there having been but five cannon fired on them; they took from thence Governor Montford Brown, his secretary, and the King's surveyor, two brass mortars of thirty-two inches, eighteen or twenty smaller, eighty pieces of cannon from eighteen to thirtysix pounders, and all the powder they could get, which was about eighteen barrels, the rest having been sent away privately in the night, before they surrendered, by an armed schooner in the King's service. The invaders were near three weeks at [New] Providence; they used no kind of violence to the inhabitants, nor took any private property without paying for it; they as sured Brown they would very soon provide another Governor for a compan ion, from which it is conjectured that they intend their next visit to Bermuda.
