Last Thursday [June 15] one of the Providence packets, which had been arbitrarily seized by, and detained as a tender to, the men of war in this harbour, was sent up the Bay, 'tis supposed, to take a vessel which 'twas reported had gone up the back side of Connanicut; but unluckily she met with two arm'd vessels which fired upon her so warmly that she was obliged to tum tailto, but not being able to get off, the people stuck her ashore on the north end of Connanicut, and left her; she was immediately got off, and carried away, most probably to be delivered to her proper owner. This happened just before sunset.
Last Friday evening when the men of war in our harbour were shifting their watches, a number of musket-balls were fired into the town, one of which entered a closet window of a house on Gravelly-point, just to the northward of the Long wharf, went through the closet-door, and made a considerable dent in a door in the opposite corner of the room adjoining the closet; by which one or two persons narrowly escaped being killed or wounded.
Last Saturday, it being reported that 2 American vessels of force, were lying in Narragansett Bay, Capt. [James] Wallace of the ship Rose, Capt. [James] Ayscough, of the Swan, and a Tender, came to sail, and first beat out within about 2 miles of the Light house, when they bore away, and ran up the river as far as Connanicut point, and took a peep down Narraganset Bay; but not discovering any vessels, they returned to their station in this harbour; while they were on this short, and unsuccessful cruise, a number of people boarded and carried off, 5 vessels, which men of war had taken, and left riding in the road.