This forenoon the Bomb Brig & 2 or 3 Tenders sailed up the Bay to attack the 2 Rh Isld Privateers. Between XII & I they were seen engaged & firing at one another near Hope Island. We hear that a ship from Madeira with 150 Pipes of Wine, was taken by the Continental Privateers going into Boston: also that Capt Coit in a Continental Privateer out of Plymouth had taken 2 prizes Vessels from Halifax loaded with Live stock &c bound into Boston. It is said that our Gen. Assembly now sittg at Providence has declared the Chair vacant, & have nominated D. Gov. Cooke for Governor & Mr Greene D. Governor. [Gov. Joseph Wanton rejected by Rh. Isld Assembly as Enemy to his Country.]²