I can only Inform you at present that the Enemy have Left Bedford but are Still Hovering Round the Shore they have Burnt ten Dwelling Houses all the Stores & all the vessels but one in Bedford Sir Henry Clinton Left them at New London & Returned to New york in a Frigate Major General Gray Commands the Party which Consists of one Regt of Light Infantry & one of Granadiers of Six hundred men Each And two Brigades Consisting of Eight Regiments viz. the 15: 42, 33d: 64: 17: 37 46th & 44th a Searjent has Deserted from them with an orderly Book which gives this Information. Lord Howe with a Fleet of Seventeen Sail of the Line is Standing off & on before Newport Harbor—from the Declaration of the Inhabitants of Newport of a Number of prisoners Exchanged & from the Declarations of Gentlemen who have been on the Island as well as the Similar Declarations of a Number of Deserters the Enemy had between a Thousand & fifteen hundred killed & wounded in the Action of the 29th a Woman who Lived in the Hospital & is said to be a Woman of veracity Says She Saw the Returns of the Surgeon which Amounted to a Thousand & Sixty one1 it is agreed on all hands that Three hundred & twenty were killed & mortally wounded on the field. I beg your Excellency to Transmit a Copy of this Letter to Congress & believe me to be with the most profound Respect your Excellenceys most obedt Servt