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. . . we have three men of War and one packet that are constantly aRobing and plundering allmost all the Vessels that comes in Especially those that belong to providence none Escape that they can get in their power and they have So Strong a party in their favour in the town of Newport that nothing can be said or done in the coloney but they have immediate intelligence of it our [Governor Joseph] Wanton appears Very open in opposition to the american measures and has Cpt [James] Wallace often at his house to dine &c; there is severall of the true friends to the cuntry amoveing out of Newport I Expect the toreys will have the Rule there Soon.