Star. — London, England, 1807-09-29 00:00:00

KthitagToN; JAMAICA, lifl.r A La Renard Stop of war,' r is Ravi. Cal°. IWnr t is, failed on Monday morning for Hraoftwaasf .r the porpofe of taking under her convoy the homeward hound trade from that place. The Fahalinn frigate, of 3 8 guns, with five twang ports tinder her convoy, having on brvard yoo men ~ 1 the ad battalion of the 'nth Regiment of Foot, under the command of Licatenant Col:mei Graves, arrived at Curacoa en 'heat} , h sit. ---- • .. FROM AW AMFAICAN PAPER. The Lateue fligate, of 38 guns, Capt. Wood , failed hoar that inand far Batbedoes on the 27th, THS LABOUAGF v. wasaiscrote As 2n # BRITISH and the Ethalioa„ I r Halifax, on the following WAR, AND A ()T A TINS 1141. N GRRAT lIRITAiII • morning. MAD afar ATTAINID HES reassert . 14•111 TINS SU The Morne Fortune brig, and Firefly &limner, PERIORITT !! This langnage may be fun i n a letter addreffed arrived there nn the 111 ;ottani, with an American Ichonner, which had been captured by a French pri• from the Executive department to Mr. Munroe, vateer feholner, and afterward* retaken by the foemer dated Sept. 12, ta9s . - See Munroes View r f the reirel. condue of the Esecto ive. Mr. Munroe, like his po• The detachment of Royal Marines, which had iffiest friends, who now direft ahe Natirmal Intelli. been Rationed at Coracoa for its defence , were t o genets, was in favour of war, and recommended our leave it foe this ifland in the Veteran, of 64 guns, in engaaing In h againtt Great Britain, or at lull urged a few days after the departure of the Hebe. The ar o itrnents in favour of it. Wallington diretled the Secretary of the State to tranfports were ago to proceed hither. A m art {heck of an earthquake was felt in this reply How prepoflerous is that policy which requires . - city and its vicinity about a quarter before o ne o ' cloc k 64 on Thurfday morning. us to abandon and deflroy the very objea, for the pre. firvation of which honilities ate to be commenced ! AUGUST 8 —Arrived the Mermaid, Sinclair. She It may not be emirs (he adds) to enlarge on the con- failed from Monte Video on the a4 , h of Aptil, and fequences of our engaging in the war againa Great pmfacd her voyage for this port .until the 3d ult. Britain. when, about 90 leagues to the windward of Barba -48 1. Seeing the has the command of the fee (and doe { h tleferied a brig , under Engli(h colours, in chafe of her, which coming up foon after, was appearances indicatefirong/y that the will maintain that command) —(excellent judgment Prefident Want hailed, bat no anfwer being received, and Captain ington polfeffed, as events fhew)—our commerce Sinclair fuppaling her to be an enemy, he fired his flern chafers, when the brig inflantle hauled down might in one year be annihilated, and thoufands of our ((amen be (hut up or dying in jails and prifon the Enpfh, and Wiled the Frei flag. An affirm immediately commenced, which honed zo minutes, {hips. In additinn to her fleets now in cnmminion, when the enemy attempted to board, but was re ptivateer, would (warm, as foon as ohjelts fo alluring ulled with the lots of leveral men, and two were le f t audfo alai:chili al American commerce thould prefent. p on board the Mermaid. She immediately came up 44 If sae look back to the two left years of our re again under a heavy fire of great guns and Em ai l volutionary war, a Judgment may be formed on this arms, when Capt. Sinclair and his Mate being fe point. A biking deka in her naval arrangements veldt , wounded (the former very badly in two places) in preceding years, left our ports open for the entry and having 3 men killed and 3 wounded the Mer of commerce, far the equipment of privateers , a nd maid was compelled to furrender, when fhe was taken the introduaion of prizes. A different arrangement poffeffion of by the enemy and ordered for Guada in the latter part of the war totally changed the loupe, previoufly, however, plundering her of every fcene. The (mall privateers were hurled up as una article that could pnffibly be taken away. Off Del ble to cope with armed merchantmen, and the larger ceada, on the 7th ult. fhe was fallen in with by the privateers were taken. Our (hipping fell at the fame Belleine, of 74 guns, Capt. Hargnnd, by whom (he time a facrifice to the vigilant operations of the Bri , was recaptured and fent for Antigua, where fhe ar tifh navy• rived on the following day. The Prize Mailer who 41 At the prefenemomena( ;795) her naval power was put on board the Mermaid faid, that on board is extended beyond al! former examplef ; while that lean not ;sweated. the Qineral Ernouf there were from 18 to 20 men cf h.r enemies is at . wounded, and that ten miffing were fuppofed to have al adly Our landed as,well as commercial interefis been 'kilted in attempting to board her. The priva would Puffer beyond all calculation. Agriculture, r carried 14 guns, 9 and 6 pounders, with 126 above the fupply of our own wants , wo u ld ha (of- s tee r men, and belongs to Guadeloupe. The: Mermaid wended, or its produce perill, in our hand:. The value mounts 18 guns, t 2 and 9 potinders, but had only of nat. lands and every Ipecies of dorneflic property , 2z, men on board, eight of whom were killed or w tad fink o 301 y The forces of revenue failing, public ere wounded before fhe furrender ed. dit would be defiroyed, and sou of citizens We hear that the land t'iTrelawnYr Maroon Town, is now laying cut in lots by a forveyor ; 3co acres invr Ived in ruin. The people at ° large would be plunged for the garrifon, and the rema:raing 1200 acres in from the fummit of profperkty into an abyfs of ruin, too fudden and too fcvere to be patiently bornea To lots of too acres each; the latter will foon be put up to !public anatinn, under Etnhority of an a& of the increafe their calamities, direfii taxi: mull be levied to ftionner the war; and it would be happy for us if we Legiflature (3611 Gen. 111 cap. 33), and will form floe proviiion settlements, being to near to a ready c' tad c ntemplate only forgive war, in which all might money market. unite" am h. Americans! was the opinion cf your re- AuGusr Ig.—The Trotrats frigate:of 3 6 guns , Captain 'I AY Loa, and la Mc t irMli E by ig, of t 6 guns, vt re.l Walhingtnn, as to a &Hot war. It appears t. oIA to be prophetic, to applicable is it 19 Our pre- Capt. Dcuoaas, failed Cr-oil Port Royal, the former sr' t 4.3 re on Saturday, and the latter on Sunday, on a cruize. , the ~ l' . ' ..., are carenmnances changed ?We are Almall French felucca, called the Ifabella, has ei , -!.r r- ••C have awe to lore, bat are fake as defeatrielL been fcized by an O ffi cer of his Majerl y's Ctilloms, &eat ii,itAin is Avenger, and der rannies we.A . oaths for having on board a number of Finch paffenners e:, pn. • • from the Aland of Cuba, contrary to Certain regnla • lions of his Excellency the Commander in Chief. Al that time, we bad a hog in Wallington at the hes.d or our navies and armies. Mr. Jefferfon's While - Capt. B rfwell of the thin Minerva, which rr here on Sunday fe'nnight, lay at Cape greateß admirers a ill not contend that his arikory a rr ived in Africa, war was waged between the A Stan talents are equal to thole of the &rof OBS revolutile • tee and Fantec nations ; and on the t6th of Jnne, How perfectly cast formable are the ideas th e three days previous to the failing of the Minerva, expreffed by Wanti gran, to the puhlica ians in the ‘Pspertory, and to I" cificns , in the Centime( pp* a the former came down the country in immenfe num nilar oecafion ! ! A DisperLF pp WAS4II.GT 14. hers, having in their progrefa burnt the towns of fu Upper and lA' wer C.romantine and Aga, doting 014.1 SFAIc. was Er. waieh great fierighter was blade on bralt fides, and a Cornmod.rre %sena 1 faid to hare 4010 Car- peat ro*• rof the Fantecs ',riven into the lea anti l Hurarnatas, that his orders iiipm his opal Outran. drowned. Having arrived at Annomabrre, the Ant tnent were to receive no dierterf, slid that there were .ABESCS pad;t.gr /4 1 an --e--oa. attack upon the fort there,' not any men in Isis thie F p, ao 'veered Ate deicrip. is which' , h . •weeer, Governor White was feverely Aim, ; though it afterwarcla appgarca that mare than wounded, tone her with feveral others of their fcanty t2o Britilh Icemen were on boaod her at the time,' ga - sifon: Inflmation of thjs unexpeited attack muff of whom had been teeendy M iris Majeityrs ter- hash been inturnanicated to Counter Totraine, vice. An r fficer (grinner) 9.4111 wa , killed, had been at Cape Coati, he immediately fent a reinforcement enticed to detest from the chichefler; and two icemen of troops. The Minerva alfu proceeded at the fame who fell, but whole names do rent appear in the time of Fort Annamaboe, and came to an anchor American account', were def . :tiers ro m the Halifax. cl.le in (bore, to cover the landing of the reinfarce J his WR'un. alias Julia Ratr ad, who !rat taken ment, which was fortunately effeeed without the lots out of the Chelepe . ak, had been matter failmakei in of a tingle man. The fire fir ns Fort Annomaboe the Halifax, and, as a Britilb (earners, had received an d the Minerva. during and after the landing, cr.m. twenty guineas bounty on entering on board that (kip pittely (wept Ihreoall, within the reach reiheir guns, when in title harbour. William Ward, Daniel Mar of the invaders, *men& numbers of whom were tin, killed and John Strewn, aisle' Story, alto taken from '2.11 Chelapeak, were &fetters from the Melampus, • Captain . Bo& ell, having a party of Governor and have nate declared that there were more than White's troops put under his command. afterwards one hundred Bri iffi feavnen in kroetican frigate, landed, and sniffed is driving the enemy from the the . deferters from his Majefly's (hips on this nation, and town andci ' inty of Annomaboe ; and Rates, that from Bririth merchant veffels, who were not taken the beach w Y lsflrewed with their dead bodies. Vail amt by Captain Husarintays, (pecan& his officers numbers of the Alliantee nation were, it is frippnfed, could not identify them. on their way to Mk in the war againli the Fantees, The American papers mention only three men whom they had avowed their determination, if pot kilted And 13 wounded: the truth is, that far men fible. to exterminate. The (hip Three Williams, were killed, and tatiesty-air w.runded; and it is ob. Captain M•Clune, Saving on the coaß at the time, :vim for what real.'n the numbers were thus mills- wit, inenniequence of the difpute between the above fed. The men whnfe names are omitted were proved obli ged tribes, to proceed to Logas, not being able to have been definers from the B: ;tint navy; and to purchale any Dawes. one of them, the d o t per iguana), lately from the An open boat arrived on, Sunday, the '9th ult. at pietistic:. Port Antonio, which landed Lieut. William Gray. 'ete fags being well accenained, the candid and four feamen belonging to the Ferret brig of 18 reader, in America or any other part of the world, runs, from whom we learn the following particulars: may be left In draw his o w n conclufion—whetber r fhe brig Lycker, Chrinian Wallmouth, or John poMmodare Ration has *Red confifiently 11,ith the Gambler Mailer, was , on nr about the , 4th ult. orders of his Goaerameat 1 or whether, forgetting . taken by the Ferret off Cape Nicholas Mole, and his dignified fitialinAg be his ft."Pe.o PA'eadte anta faieu t. :G ray and (even men pot on board the prize, prevaricate? io which were left on board five men, who called "" 201 A 3 "' h fl f f ou r ti ck . pionex 0 perm s iii4 d EN . 4 etu e yes pa epacrs,rumen and a boy.— The following clay, at about half pall ten o'clock, T 2.0 Atorricarromiesittass bees tharrittleedlgreraliat= • alt Arittlk.frailwa, Witteerferters who weresskes in the P. Id. as Lieut. gray was &Aliening fail in a (quail, :peas ,fi t r r k.r t hou:Arno. ' rhea they wilB de car, tt reenteadity kW of .th e Immo beitag alofr, one if the pa Fenger. NWon ' rote! boost* berlaahted; it theeefereanhavesatt H¢: came up to hi m , an d prefeoting a piltol to him, +w ent; framewto take ewe at tlbetraftlyes. aid by j4ining their Vero oared lint below; upon which lie pared pall him, scum t y s podar . d yeAS, to ay Ati es Irrl4RlCiil sadvaiatelyi L it • _ ' , s , ‘ Nnacke for the oft of the Fertees fumes that Wiesr Thls day were petfled. Oft REFT,V,.rrIONS the SIN FlillinSS rf Cif lir CY to ANI V 1.11,11 on force uf tkemolt pr. vale t Fyamilte ^f it. Aid on foot- of the retie Powerful fil , i , ivta by which it it Vntaioragod; -in a iieintort Fititohed at AM sallit Chaerb, Sutithansptiati we %I day, Au's& adk, *Sol. dy itleftdlil) Tel ANT.. KA. ("unite a Parotos, and. rite Fame of Otte} entire. Osfised. printed for F C. tindY: RioinFtdd, thitilltiit..Faiora Church yard; anti J. li a tplieed4Wiely. - - = OM g• - . 4 • •- . .• • • • • bb have been ter-ward on elect ;but inifead of es mg them, was met by three of the feamen be ;Atm to the captured brig, that bad before c om • d of being fick, and the (emelt of the Ferret Wag below, he was again ordered to fabmit and fol . low them ; being defence!efs, and finding the teat of the pafrengers all armed, he was compelled to fub mit ; and as the four men that were aloft came down they were fecund by the paffengers and feamen of the captured brig, and kept confined till the fallow ing morning, when about ten o'clack they were put in a four oared boat, at the &lame of about So miles from the land, with two pieces of raw beef, flame bitcuits and water, to make the beft of their way elbore. 'ALMOUTH, APOUAT On Friday at ten o'clock, his Exec licitly Si! Eves Coovi, and fuite, wilt General Caassoco as arrived here from Montego Bay. The entrance of the Com mander in chief was agoounced by a falute of 21 guns from the fort. BARIBADQM AUGUST S. Captain Cerra', of the Mail boat from Antigua, gives the difagreeable intelligence of a fevere gale of wind among the Man& to Leeward, on the asth ult. which was particularly fatal to the (hipping at St. Ritt's t five veld: lying in Baffeterre Road, and two at. Sandy Point, were entirely 101 l ; as were two at Montferrat. The Phcanix French cartel, laft from Guadaloupe, but difpatched by V;cro; liuqass from Cayenne, arrived here on Thurfday. The Ake of her voyage was to obtain an ex, (change of part of a detachment of m ilitar y belon g . ling to the latter colony, captured fante time (ince, and brought to this depot. she firti called at Guada loupe, to procure prifoners with whom to complete the exchange here. but could not obtain any, it being General ERNOWS determination not to liberate any prifoners from Guadaloupe. until a complete adjullment !hall be made of the differences between the two Gqvernments refpe.ling exchanger. The new Atremblv met on the 4th, and the Prefi dent opened the Sefton in a fpecch, from which the following is an extra& Gentlemen of the Council. Mr. Speaker. and Gentlemen of the Airtight'', I with I had it in my power to-inform you of the faeces of the Allied Army upon the Continent of Europe, or (tithe profpeet of a fpeedy and honourable peace. events which we aloft all be anxious to hear; for, whilft- the ports of the Continent arc Out againft oar ftaple commodity. and all the articles necetrary for its manufac ture bear a moll exorbitant pries, we mull inevitably labour un der great difficulties, but we mutt Cuba* tit them Wtth fortitude and rclignation. Should there be added •o thefe evils a war with America—a war particularly difireiSng to the Colonies. and more sfpccially to the poor white inhabitants and naves—it will 'whops ns to pay the ltrldteit tetcntion to the prticludtionof the neceiraries of life, as the fureft means of relieving the wants of thole of our fdlow creatures who are placed immediately under our tare. and whom we Are called upon by every motive of humanity, as well at. fclf ioscreft, to peened and preferve. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, Si. PTEMBER 19. MICISAELMAS DAY —No Mainers done at the Stock Exchange. PRICE OF SrocKs VA . .; YERJAY. 3 Per Cent. Red fhnt I India Bonds. par as.dif. 3 per Cent. Conf 6ail 3 Facile* Bills, par 2'. ilir. s I.er Cent. Navy On I Lottery Tickets ad t ys. Imp. 3 per Cent. 6zi Conf. for ace. ba i General Sir AaTHE,' Waarmarry and Liestenant Colonel CAMPSELL and fuite arrived t in town this day. They were landed yellerday at Yarnionth from on board the PIIOIIIIITIMS Hoop of war, from Copenhagen. When the General left Copenhagen, all the Danifh men of war had been Tigged, and were got out of the harbour. We may therefore exp.& their arrival in a few days. The LARK packet, which arrived at Yarmouth on Friday, brings intelligence that when fire paired 41fi. near, five fail of Dough men of war were completely rigged, and had joined our fleet. The arrival of part of our army from La Plata may be daily expeded. General Wnsyst.ocxx has been moll indefatigable in his exertions to quit a country which has been fo inaufpicious to him. He has appeared anxious to anticipate his Ilipulations with Lianas, and to retire before the limited pe• rind. The following is an extra° of a letter received by the •ellel artived at Portfmouth on Friday : " MONTE VIDEO. JULY 26. " The %twit? merchant Blip from London, which is the only arrival front England dna the 9th of May, came in the alit in dent The (bra MANI of traufperts, with troops for the Cape of , Good Hope, will fail to marrow, under convoy of his Majefty's (kips DIADtli, Admiral STIRLING, RAISONIKAILS, and CAMIL. The lint dividon for England will fail immediately after, under convoy of his Majcily's flap TUIIIII and others ; therefore, you may espcet them to arrive in Ocauber. A mild which Is arrived from Rio Janeiro (poke the &many gun brig, with the MALA NAL and Hum at it a ell tnneports, and Coiling wood istrakaat 14, is lat. 3s, based to this River, uncle:enwrap." AMERICAN STATES. We have received letters and papers from America to the rft A letter from an Officer belonging to the fleet off Halifax, (late. that, On the 3til ult. 'BURIN RAT roan, ene of the defcrters taken cut of the chefa peak, and who went by the name of W,Lsns while on board the latter (hip, was executed on board the Halifax. The trial, of which we are womifed a copy, was highly interelling. He was clearly proved to be a B►itifh feamap and a deferrer, and it was air() proved that there were many others on board the Chefapeak. Inked, tome of the Americans frankly own the fait. .On this fubjea Purse of,the American journalsnow cps* out with a franknefs apd brawny highly cre. ditable to their e.harailer, and which ferves to Mew that pinch of the acrimony that appears in other jour** fbould ,be arm ibed to Arenc,h in,fluance, or mere patty fpirit. See the extraas ip a preceding column. We gull give other extralts to-morrow. THE ARMY. The joy was great and general, on that fine an d favourite leader General Monis taking the chief com. mand of the Army in Sicily. Sir Jolla Smear is likewife going out to this Army. There are not two men more popular with the foldiers. It is erpefted that naive operations will foon take place in that quarter. We are forry to learn that the health of Genet Fox his not, within there few days, been lb good as it was during the Tom, though a tedious 0ne.... The General and l is foxily are at Itycle, In the lie of Wight. None of the General Staff hive mew home with the General. The arrivals from the tderlfwesuean ate—. The Hem General Ran. Loth rent. lieutenant Gene& A. Vllleuee, Malts Regiment% The Hon. Idrlgsdler General Meade. .t-r--r—r""'""ra• - r* -- ‘" -Itereson. Colonel Weyste, 4asseso4 s rat many slims. jt wars *spotted that, along with General Fos, the `Commander in chief, the beads of the Stag were coming home, Major Gam* Oakes, Ike quarter Maker General; Brigadier General Campbell, Adjutant OWN: 1.4E1d Colonel bunbary, Deputy Adjutant Cowell sad Dr. Priablbe, Deputy lofpei:Lor of liefpltala kat not one of them ate here. The Ws of fuch men as Generals OAILEP and CAMPBELL would he foretell felt in that quarter, 4 reinforcement of two regiments, 4 which the ?In, (or Scotch rozileers) Colonel ADAM, was one, were lately fent to Egypt.this was abfolutely me ceffary. The ad battalion 78th, (or Rofsthire High landers,) which the gallant I..ient. Colonel M'Lsoa led ; was not only cur, but abfolutely annihilated — there is hardly a remnant left.of this fpirited young corps. The ill battalion 42d, (rr 13.0yal Highlanders) with come other corps, goes from Gibraltar to Sicily. If Lord Howl - Lir had gone to Egypt, he would have taken the 42d with him. General Fox's regiment, the loth Foot, had left Gibtaltar for Sicily, having beep releafed by the CU Foot, taco dropg. • Soon after our difaflers in Egypt, that very able officer, General Suestaaouxc, was fent thither from the army in Sicily. pifpatches acre yetterday received from Coma hagen, and from St. Peterfburgh. Difpatches were aVo received from Vice A.dtnirat Decals, at Jamaica, announcing the capture of (e -yelet of the enemy's privateers, in theWel Indies. Initruetions, we undergend, have been fent out to India, to impofe an additional duty of ro per cent. on Neutral %tetras tradirg to all parts of that country within Britifh jurifdiaiun. - The number of letters received yeflerday at 14 General Pull Office, wals greater than bp ever been known. The mere pofiege solopmettio 40001. The Lrurn Mayne had yellerday a Inrginterviillt with Lord Mus.ottaira, at the Admiralty relative to the River Tencibles volunteering their (ervices lr Copenhagen. • Sunday morning, about( rgo df the River Pen,. eibles (Volunteers) embevited en briar& a verel at Horfelvdown, attended by &bend of mu/ie, to fail to Copenhagen, to siEtt in !winging to Anglend the Dana!' fleet. On Wsdnefday lan, Morteen !vivifies of the Weft' York Mi'iria s trho had' volunteered to the s;d Regis menr, now lying in Shressibury, Starched into that town. Sir RICH&ID STRAe KAN well Wen town Wine& re ly, for the usopofe of rafuming itis carnii!and is the Channel I The Hortarrainvi h list , n o dvttriotg f io r e il thiew, a .ofe t ne e imp4 ,..on baioa,tirdivii b ledbl a gt r uchf d *ent . t ' 4 o (tir4tiotec l o4o : t, 44 h sv inh a44hau.d,t 1111 trit IcotrAillinialteee co RAIG untered tth, ibe "Pak Scilly. . , When the disis of tha , affair between the .1.P1N",„ and Chefapeak reached Antigua, 9 istlfaccliale. l 7 vo'e a dollar and a half per barrel'.., . ; ' In the harbour of Flufhing there is,' 4411 004 (even line of haul: fisip , c mpletely ready fus fes, and only in want of men In navigate t hem. Saturday the rema , n. of R ar Admiral J. Roma• sow were interred in St. Cle , i,ent's church. fhe body' was f...ll.Aved by two fon. of the deceafed, and fit Naval Captains. On the t7th tilt. Lucia* BOIIItAITI arrived at Rome from auffinella, in , •rder to attend the fent"l of one cf his Cons, who hat died about a week befote- The Italian and German J tarsals mention I him as the Senator Lucius. Lord Lavisorate. title being mind by the de • ceafe of that Nobleman in the Well Indies, bis Ma. Jerry, by the Articles of Union, will of courk create * new Peer of Ireland. Saturday fennight the annual Sailing . Match for the encouragement of the Mermen, given by Gaoaoa Hearty Ross, Efq. Member for South ampton. (=Armed, as wield, a mit concoutfe frqm the country, who formed parties on the water to witnefs the exertions of (kill and dexterity of the conteflors. The fiat prise was obtaintd with diffi culty by T. Lawns', of the Role in June ; and the weather proving ferene, and the little wind fsvour• able, the company departed highly gratified. Tufaver, Omar G•ansm.—A y , ung lady, of the name of BAMFIELD, made her hilt appearance lag night in the charafter of Rofina, in the Operatics! Afterpiece fo intitled. She is an intereuing figure, apparently not more than twenty you r .f age, but little Tierra in theatrical bufinets, though tolerably , confident as a debutante. Her voice is mellow and flexible, but not, it lisould teem, of gety ptenlire c M " i ni fs P lttrot h , inwahserfarveocioirnadblperrteocrernivAt n a n s rogl ' a m' lfo . in the play of Cynkline, which preceded.