Friday se'nnight [February 21] a party of our troops landed on RhodeIsland, and brought off a quantity of hay and oats. Captain Tyler, in the Spitfire galley, attended the landing, and gallantly sustained the enemy's fire from a battery of six guns for several hours, which was briskly returned, but with what effect we have not yet learnt. When the troops had com pleated the service assigned them, the Spitfire drew off; she was considerably damaged in her hull and rigging, and had 7 men wounded, one of them mortally.