Wednesday morning [August 30] a tender chased two small sloops into Stonington harbor, who had a number of people on board bound to Block-Island. they had but just time to get on shore before the tender came in, and after making a tack came close along side of Captain Denison's Wharf, and discharged a full broad side into the stores and houses and sailing out again, in a little time returned with the Rose man of war and another tender, And soon as the Rose could get her broadside to bare on the town she began a very heavy fire, also the tenders, who were under sail, and continued firing the whole day, with very little intermission; during the time a flag was sent off from the shore, desiring Capt. Wallace, commander of the Rose, to let them know what he meant by firing on the town? His answer was, that he did it in his own defence. We have one man mortally wounded, and the houses, stores, &c. very much shattered. Yesterday morning [August 31] they sailed out and anchored at the north-side of the west-end of Fisher's Island, where they remain at this publication. There were five or six people killed on board the tenders, by the inhabitants who assembled and were under arms the whole day. They have carried off a schooner loaded with molasses, belonging to Patuxet, in Providence, from the West-Indies, and the two small sloops that landed the people.
