Last Tuesday [March, 12] as a freight boat was coming from Updike's Newtown to this place, the ministerial fleet lying up the Bay,. took out a quantity of butter iind poultry, and the week before they ー took out of the same boat about 20 barrels of cider: Last Wednesday some men from the miuisterial fleet landed on the Bonnet at North-Kingstown, where they killed 3 cows, big with calf, two of which they carried off, but a few men appearing, they were obliged to leave the other behind.
Last week a ship of three hundred tons, loaded with coals, potatoes; porter, raisins, dry goods, and 33 live hogs, was taken near the Vineyard, by a schooner and several whale boats, who lightened her of about half her cargo, and then carried her into Bedford: She had about 20 hands and was bound to Boston, but had been to New-York
On Friday, as Messrs. Hubbard and Reed, of this town, millers, were coming dmvn the river in a boat, with a quantity of corn for the use of the inhabitants here, they were taken by the ministerial fleet, notwithstanding the truce with this town.
In the late storm, a large sloop laden with naval stores, &c. from Virginia for New-York, which had been taken by the Asia, and:ordered to Boston, was cast away at the Vineyard.
