Last Thursday se'nnight [July 13] an armed barge belonging to the Asia man of war, in the harbour of New-York, came under the stern of the Connecticut armed sloop lying at a wharf, with an intention as was thought to seize the Captain, but he having intimation thereof, levelled a swivel upon the barge, and declared he would sink her unless the crew Immediately surrendered; which they were forced to do, and were sent prisoners to Gen. [David] Wooster's camp, and the barge hauled up on the wharf; orders afterwards arrived from the General for the barge to be returned, she was broke to pieces in the launching, and when in the water in possession of one or two of the people belonging to her was set on fire by some person unknown and consumed.