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.4 ;MR10.428 7 PE I? .5. toSiOii; aria Charleton Papers, to tlte sth ult. have arrived; Tli6 conspiracy of Colonel BURR; Which has heed the St bjeet of. a Message froth the PresicleUt to the Smite; continues to •figi: tate America. These Papers contain a lefter trdrii Cincinnati; dated. the end of Deceinber, stating the Militia to be posted along the Ohio, from Pittsburgh to the mouth of the Kentucky River, with orders to board . every boat' that descends, The boats that BURR built at Marietta have been seized by order of the Government.; they-are represedted.'at of a singular .construCtion, and capable of carrying 200 men each. it was believed that the principal part of these boats had passed to their destination before the orders ar rived to seize them ; and some thousand stand of small arms, as well as several brass field-pieces, bad passed down the River several--weeks before the. date of the letter. BURR was known to. have purchased provisions -to the amount of one hun dred thousand dollars ; and it way - apprehended, that in case of a rupture with the Spaniards.;Gene-• WILKINSON, with the Army, would go over to the'Enemy. On the 22d ult. the House received a Message frorh the . President relative to this supposed con:. spiraey ; it was -referred to a Select Committee. The President, states, that hefirsthad information Qf Brnuel designs in September last; and sent a itrusty Messenger to the State of Ohio. Supposed .evidenee of BURR'S guilty-intentions increasing, the 11 ess.oger communicated with the. Governor of Ohio, and - hence arose the proceedings of the Le gislature of State. The President received let ters .from General,Wit..xiNsoN, in which he says that he had, from communications from Bvaa, partly oraland*pirtly in cypher, the fullest evidence of his intentions : that he had several objeEts in vie* ; - such as a- separation of the Union by the. Allegany Mountains,--. and an attack on Mexitso, the seitlement of Baron BAsTnor's lands to serve as a. , cover. Finding he could _not. ali t enate the afrec; _Cons of the Western States to the Union, be de termined to seize on New Orleans, the Bank there, and then go to Mexico. No proof -appeared of any foreign interest being concerned in, the con spiracy ;. but, from BURR'S boastings, it ` m i g h t b e hiferre'd that England was engaged in it. The President then proceeds to state, that he considers. 'the enterprize as nearly crushed ; and mentions the propriety of bringing Dr. BOLLMAk and others, who are taken, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the distria of Columbia, the week after next. Almost all the proof ag ai ns t BURR comes from. General WILKIN 40N. OGDEN and ALEXANDER are With arrested, and are to be sent here by'the schooner Brothers and Sisters. A great reward is.offered for the apprehension of BURR, and for information re lative to the . conspiracy. The attack . on 'Orleans, by .13yr:it - and his Associates, was to have taken place on the 20th of January. On the 22d of December Colonel Bona sailed from - Nashville with two boati, and was to bejoihed by .a number of others at the mouth of Cumber land River. 'On the 13th'of January a daring attempt was made to set the town o f Norfolk on tire ; but it Was. timely discovered, and a patrole Of the inha bitants was immediately appointed to prevent4ia. lar desig ns. 'ln mucky the last harvest has proved misera bly deficient i there was no hay in the country, and every prospeel prevailed of a severe -winter. In the HouSe of Representatives, on the 16th of January, it was resolved that the President be re quested' to furnish any information in hispopessiiin relative i to the illegal . combinations ofindividuals against the' safety of the State, or of any military expedition planned by them against any nation with which 'the United States are at peace ; : excepting such information as might not suit the public wel fare to be disclosed. There were for the motion • 11)0 7 -• against 'it 14. To the original motion, was then added a request to know what measures Go vernment had taken to defeat the attempts in ques . ton . , which was carried by a majority of 67 to 52. The Augusta Paper, of the 27th of December, reports; that Colonel BURR had been arrested at Marietta; and ,that the Governor-at Mexico had refused to ratify the Treaty of Genetal Wit.kissox. Mr. RANDOLPH, in his 'speech calling .upop the President to communicate the information respea ing the proceedings in the Western Country, ob served, that either the conspiracy had been defeated. or it had succeeded to its utmost ; but he did not despair of seeing it checked,,even if it bad gained its greatest extent. He made some severe com ments on the condua of Spain towards the United States, who, while she was treating with them with one hand, was preparing to stab them with the other. He -asked why the Spanish Minister bad not been seat home ; said that New Orleans was the object of the expedition, and that if the ,conspirators should • arrive at Baton Rouge, before the American. troops, New Orleans must fall. He bad, he said, expeEted and foretold the danger of losing • the Delta 'of the Mississippi ; he knew not who the modern Catiline would. be ; but he was convinced there would be one. On conchiding, be earnestly iatreated the House to be more prompt in . their decisions. • • A letter from Fincastle (Botetonrth, Virginia), to a Gentleman in Richmond - , states, that a perialp of ;..respeaabi;lity, ,who came direbly from Kentucky, " - had brought intelligence of an. insurrenion iad taken place on the 15th NeWernber last, at St. " I = , nuie; that the Spanish flag had been hoisted,. and • Itine tenths' of the people 'had flocked to it ; that luturhad been again seized; and tour officers were in'ttursnit of General ADAIR, as a`witness against The'General had left Frankfort two days be feirt for St.' Louis..' - . • Another letter from Washington, dated the 22d of January, mentions that a great reward has been of- , fereel for tha apprehension. of BURR, whose attack ' npon New Orleans was to have taken place on the 20th.of that rn:)nth. 'TheArneriean.Cangress has passed a Bill for the Abolition of -the Slave Trade, by a rnajorrty 'of 24 , —. the number's being, , ayes 73,. - -noes-49. - • " A letter frOm New Orleans, dated the atiffilDe cemb.c.r, represents all:business as having beerilifa " stand for 20 days Fast, inconsequence of the alert* of Bean's intended expedition down the River ti e Planters are afraid to send down their produce, and the dealers are disinclined to buy nierchaadize. *A' 1) I j: • Man As, 2 , —His Majesty's brie . , Sea ; flower, Lieutenant Owiit; is arrived from a - ernize. On Monday evening arrived the ship La .It , rloc, Capt. BONTr-ST.t; lait fraiii Prince Of Wales's nand. The Aitulle made the coast on Monday morning, a little to the north Of Ptilicat, when she fell in ‘k-i; and was chased by, a French ship privateer, mount ing 14 guns, which Continued the chase betvicen the Armacron shoal and the'coast, and i; nut,marry within sight of Madras ; when. perceiving the su perior sailing of the Poinni.; the Priirateei tdbk in sail, and stood to the N.B. During the chase, the Priyater, which is sup posed to be La Gloire, fired repeatedly - at the Far trine, bnt without doing her any damage, except car- _lying away one of her back stays. - OCT. Monday last arrived the Honetra ble Company's ship Sarah Christiana, Captain MARMON, from Calcutta, which she left on the 12th pit.' I , AiszNeEßs. For Madras—Majot A. Campbell and Cornet E. T. and W. T. Erskine. For Europe—Mrs. M. Kelso, Mrs. Bedell ; Misses M. A. Kelso, Maria Craig, and lane Fraser ; Lieutenant-Colonel Kelso, Major W. Bedeil, and Master W. Bedell, Capt. , Oak; loth Native Regiment, Captain john' Weston, Lieu tenants Williams and Fitchett, and W. Wolley, Esq. Asl sistant.surgeon. - On Monday anchored in the Roads, the Frenoi Privateer L'Emilien, prize to the Culloden: His Majesty's ship Culloden anchored in the Roads at the sometime with her Prize ; she is the same ves sel which recently - chased the Fortune, off Pulicat, and afterwards had proceeded to the Northward, where she ran on shore, near Masulipatatrt. In con sequence of this accident, she threw several of her guns overboard. L'Emilien is ship-rigged, and ap pears to.have mounted 14 guns; she is,a very hand some vessel. Letters from Penang mention, that the ship Wel lesley, Capt. CAMPBELL, has taken a large Spanish ship,. laden with marine stores, bound to Batavia, .and had arrived with her Prize at Soosoo. PniNce OF WALES'S IsLANP, MAY 31.—The Honourable Company's extra ship Northumberland, RAINCOCK, on Thursday evening anchored in the outer harbour, from England, last from the. Cape, whence she sailed on the 27th March, in company with the Honourable Company's extra ship .Eu phrates, Capt. HEUEERT, for this Island, and from• which ship she parted in a heavy gale of wind, in the night of the sth ult, in lat. 3g. 4g. S. long. 23. lg. E. . • AUG. 16.—The ship Yaruna, Capt. E. C. DEN NISON, anchored in the harbour on Tuesday last, from the Cape, last from Malacca, whence she. sad ed the 6th instant. By the Parana, we learn, that on the Ist instant, an Arab ship had arrived at Malacca, fourteen days from Batavia, bringing intelligence of a very serious iusurre&ion having taken . place amongst the Java nese, at Cheribon ; that the Dutch Government 'had detached a large force from Batavia, consisting of Javanese and French troops, to the asiistance of the garrison, and that the former, above 1000 . men, had gone over to. the Insurgents. _ _ . - An Armenian passenger in the Arab. Ship men tions, that the day before they left Batavia a. Danish Ship had arrived therefrom the Mauritius, bringing accounts of a French Fleet having sailed from thence, with nine thousand troops on board, sup posed for Ceylon. :Yesterday anchored in the harbour, from Madras, whence they sailed, the ad inst. the Hon. Company's Ship dlinwick Castle, Capt. E. C. PRESCOTT ; Essea Capt. G. BQNHAM ; and David Solt , Captain J. LOCKE, bound to China. On Thursday evenidg, a little past snn-set,tlie Hop. Company's Ship ,41Li on, C apta i n BEl,Ami N Iticuutpsott, anchored in the harbour from Cal cutta, whence she sailed on the 22d ult.—By the above conveyance came Colonel N. M'ALLIsTER, Commander in Chief of this Island, returned to re sume the duties of his station. Atmt7sr g.—Last Thursday evening a Bri_cr mounting 14 carriage guns, and six swivels, untqi white colours, entered the harbour from the South ward. The Master Attendant's Boat, as usual, proceeded on board, and returned with three Java nese, who reported, that the vessel was named the Ajar, and formerly commanded by Captain NIONEENBERG, belonged to the Dutch' East India Company at Samarang ; had sailed from thence about eight months since for Ternate, to cruize off the Islands, touching at Macasser in their way. It was about two months ere they reached Macasser, where they remained one month ; that the Captain, Officers, and European part of the crew, twelve in number, had treated them very ill, with constant abuse, ,punishmept, and almost starvation ; that un able to bear this treatment, they unanimously re solved to destroy them,.and carry the vessel to a British Port ; accordingly, four days after leaving Macasser, when at anchor on a bank; about mid night, the Dutchmen all asleep, they murdered every one, and threw them overboard; they then searched the vessel for - all the Papers, which were thrown overboard and sunk, apprehensive of their leading to a discovery, should they fall 'in with any Dutch vessel ; that they then made sail for this Island, . with intent to deliver up the vessel to Government about six weeks after they reached what they sup posed Lingin, when the boat with four men went ashore for provisions, but did nut return ; that they sailed thence about six weeks since. Shortly after anchoring, Captain COCHRANE proceeded on board, and took possession. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ~ MALACC,'.A, DATED JUNE I, 1806. , . " The small-pox rages througho u t MalaCca with a violence hitherto unknoWn. Not a single in stance occurred of a recovery when the infection had been caught in a natural mode. From the humane.and indefatigable exertions of the Garrison Surgeon, Dr. LIWTIE, many hundred : lives have been saved, and he has succeeded' in convincing the natives of the efficacy of vaccine inoculation." Lieut. HoLim, of the. South Gloucester Militia, underto 9 k last week, for a wager of 100 guineas, to pick up 100 stone's, placed one yard distance from each other, and bring them all to a basket at the starting point, within th e space ' of forty.five • • minutes. •He performed -it on . the Prince's Cricket Ground at Brighton, in forty-four Minutes and fifty. eight .seconds: -Considerable sums were betted on the occasion. - • coYsP,TRACI - in' a ( ' isr„iNrj. r;4%.17,47c.c1. O , ,TTEIt tandM ttis•G;;TOZZ, IN .TANtiICA SAN. 7. " On the isn't of Det6iiber 1, received a Lettet from St. Thomas id the East, aquatinting me that the'f4legrees On two estates, and on almost IN the estates ill Manchimseal, had formed themselves into soeieties;'. that they had Mustered si•ith wooded swords and wooden guns, and had appointed their •Otfieers; from Generals td Serjeants and -Cor porals, and their reasons for so doing, as they gave eut, were to cut thatch, and make houses .fia one anot her ; that they had • bound themselves by oaths to stand by one alicither. I conceived the matter to be of that importance, that I imme diately communicated it to the Governor, who de, sired that I would niimediately go up, and he desired Miljor-Gen6ral DIMMSIOND; Regulars, to go up with me, to examine into the matter. We ac cordingly went up, and found the information to be true, and that the Negroes of five estates had entered into those societies; that they had been exercised With their wooden muskets and sticks; drawn into ranks, and marched up and down ; that the drivers and head people among them were concerned, and were the principal Officers; and consisted chiefly of Crepe NegrdeS. " Upon their a taminatioii§ 1110 prevaricated ex- ceedingly ; but acknowledged that they had been for hear three tudnths making these agreements to cRt . thatch, and make houses for one another, and to as- Alit poor Negroes—had several meetings and suppers, arid had proposed to draw blood from one another, to stand to their agreements—and had sticks to ex ercise with, and cockades to their hats, in which they stuck cane arrows, to look like the feathers in sol diers' hats; but there was not a single one who had gone out to cut leaf, or thatch, or had assisted ano ther to creel n house, or Make grounds for another. Ten of these Negroes had been_committed to jail; dirthed them to be tried, to see if any thing could be got from thew ; and they will be tried at Morant Bay this week. Although they had not broke out, I am convinced ie my own mind that their associa tions had mischief ie view ; for though it is usual tbr a Negro to hire anoti:er to help to build a house for him, it has always been among the same estates, and not to go four or five miles to get the Negroes there to build houses on. another proprietor's estate; and yesterday I received a letter from' the Governor, which had been sent express to me, but missed me, and seas returned to him; inclosimr a letter from the Commander of the St. George's Regiment of Militia, dated 30th Decemberlast, which states receiving in formation of a conspiracy of a dangerous nature on a cofl4e-mountain ,belonging to Lord BALCAItHAS he had apprehended the ring -leaders; that he had received information that the 28th of December was fixed on by the Negroes in that parish for ris ing, but the taking up of the ringleader, at Lord BALCAR . RAS . S, had put a damp upori it, and had sent the Governor some affidavit, relative to the subjear, viz. the information given to the Overseer on Lord Balcarras's Place, that of the examination of said Negro, and of, one on a neighbouring estate. The Overseer says, that on the night of the at6th December; a Negro unsaid property, in a private manner, informeShim, that the whole of the Ne groes on said property had bound themselves to meet at another Negroe's house, named Warner, .on the Sunday following; and that another Negro, named Tom, with six. others, were to go to the Overseer, and to tell him to leave the property softly, and that if he did not do so, they would go to the woods, and upon the Overseer's asking him what were their rea sons for going to the v:.. .e; a he did not leave the. place, he replied, that he 1:•ad done nothing to him; t hart he Overseers eat ried him before the Attornesefor the said property, Isere he repeated what he had told the Overseer, why then recollected the said Negro who, gave him the :1 tagence, bad mentioned the name of another Negro, named M-rk Howard, and know ing him to be a weakly '.eegro, sent for him, and asking :,irn what he knew of the matter, when he corroborated what the .otherhad - said • and adding, that. he had been sworn as one of the Negroes.— This Negro, whose name is Cuffee, who gave the Overseer this intelligence, being examined before •some Magistrates, said, that on the 21st December he, with several others, being seven in number, 'belonging to Balcarras Estate, met at the . house,of another Negro named 'Warner, when they were sworn by Tom, by drinking a mixture of rum, grave dirt, and 'water, to do w.hat Tom proposed.—That Tom then proposed that the seven sworn shoUld meet •at Warner's boese on the 28th December, from thence that they should proceed to the Over-. seor's house, on Balcarras Estate, and desire the Over seer to quit the property, or that he (Tom) should know how to deal with him,. That this Negro (Culfee) tot wishing any injury should befall the ..Overseer, had, in the first itistance given him this intelligence, and said, that notwithstanding what lie had discovered to the Magistrates, he had considered ,himself bodnd by his oath to meet Tom, and the other Negroes he . had named on the 28th of De cember, at the time and place appointed. • -" The next examination was of a Negro, named Frank, belonging to a place called Orange Vale, who says Ilatchus, a head Negro belonging to Cedar Valley Estate, came to Orange Vale on Christmas Day, and told Romulus and his wife that they were to fight Bocra, and that a Coromantee named Atte, 'belonging to Spring Giirden Estate, was to rise with the Negroes there, and to proceed to Kildare Estate, through Buff Bay, to form a jeeEtion at Balcarras with the Negroes of Cedar Valley, and all the other estates which were to join them. This Negro fur ther says, that a Negro named Guzman, belong ing. to Spring Garden estate, and a head driver there, was to be the leader of the Spring Garden Negroes ; that a Negro, named Romulus, longing' to Orange Vale, was to be, the leader of the Negroes on that property; that the Elese head driver at Buff Bay estate was to be the leader of the Negroes there; that John Scobie, at White River, was to be a leader of the Negroes there ; that Hercules, at Fairfield, was to be the leader of the Negroes these; that he does not know who was to be the leader at Kildare estate ; that . there was to be a leader at Dowan's estate, but he does not know his name, but he knows they were all concerned; and intended to rise on the first warning. That they were to begin at Balcarras Plantation. That if Bocra do trot believe him, they wilisee, that if the people he mentions are not taken up and secured; the Negroes will still rise and be upon them. That, they consider hip) 25 a Bocra .1 e r , ?• ..;.. ? •.; C s" • ! • ' !1;'"' grO; and (.ICI riot Ernst rpm but he liStener3 tc - ) this, and that tlieir . iliteiltirins are tO'kill Boera, 4nd, take the.Coulifi - s , to.thernsilVes: Mat he ktid.:Vi the •Ile'V..NegroeS in that part .of the 0 . pii . * 7 ,try equat4'Caficerned' that I hemoment the Negroes were to fire a gun;, the Ma'rbonsNyould .. all rise fOr them, and take . th e country That his leve filr Mr: t'LtliKiti the cyerseer; at Oiange in:ade hiii . sav6, the eduntry; and .the : Boeras 111 , 6. Thant the T. , :ttCh 7 Word betweeriifie Maroons and Negroes was . „tiozi , ;: and the Maroons were to say Ghe Boy andifthe three head .Men Were,Eot secured i it was' all over,' but if they were secured; MatVcdi were then no I:vOttli.,Tbat the Maroons. W e re t o supp ly the Negroes with afros and powder.' The letter front the Colonel of the at. George's , Reghnent further Me n, tions, that in consequence of the last examination hd had ordered the whole regiment, under arnis,.nd on . the ti7th DeCember he Ead ordered a comeany of the; said regiment to 'mount gnard at Anotto Bay; in consequence of th e information he had 'received, that ti. magazine (here had been hrOke open, and threo• thousand ball•cartridges stokii. The Gi). vernor yesterday inf orme d me on t h e re ce ipt of thiS letter, he hattordered.to that parish two companies of regulars. I cannot say whether all these people who have beeu impeached have been apprehended, but I conceive the most of them have but it at.-- pears to rue tha't there has been. a regular schen.e formed, and only frustrated by the discovery mate by the Negro at Lord 'BALCARRAS'S estate and tho Ugh Are know of nothing further from the othr-r parishes; Ihave very little doubt but that tl)ere are Lin - filar schemes going on in other parishes. DUBLIN, MARCH lg. . Yesterday; in obedience to a summons from the LORD MAYOR, a Post Aihenlhl); was held at the hihition-room, in William -street, " To take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the IFn perial Parliament to support our happy Constitution in Church and State." In the Comthons House, Mr. GmFAnn entered .into a full investigation of the chains of tl►e Ro rwm Catholics; and their objeas, as appeared in their debates lately published in all the Newspapers. ; On which he ani►uadverted at length ; and concluded with moving, "That 'a Petition 'be_ presented to both Houses of Parliament, praying them to refine the Claims of the Roman_ Catholic's, and thereby preserve the Constitution in Church'and State, He was seconded by Mr. COPE. • Mr. FARRELL, Mr. HUTTON, Mr. SEMPLE, and Mr. STEPHENS, opposed Mr. GIFFARD'S Motion ; while Mr. , COPE and Mr. Miikui.EY strongly sup ported it. Air. SEMPLE moved the question of adjournment ; upon, which a ballot was demanded, when there ap peared—For the adjournment I3—Against adjcutn meat, and for going into the business of the day, 39. The question of adjournment being thus lost, the House were proceeding in the debate on Mr. GIFFARD'S Motion, when a Message was brought from the Board of Aldermen, desiring the con currence of the Sh er iff s an d Commons in forming a committee to meet a Cominitee of the Al dermen, Viz. Alderman AI4X AN DEB, Alderman EXSHAW, Alderman Kt RKPATe icK., and Alder man KING, with the aid of the Recorder, to draw up and prepare a Petition to Parliament, praying them to resist the claims of the Roman Catho lics, and to preserve the Constitution in Church and State ; . which Petition so prepared, should be presented in case the Roman Catholics persisted in their demands. This Message, containing in substance the Re3olution then under, debate in their House, was initnediately acceded to, and Mr. GI,FFA RD, Mr. M`AUL ET', Mr. .COPE,,apd Major Sttut, were named a Committee to meet the Al dermen and Recorder on this business. In a short time they produced a Petition, little vgrying from that of 1805, which passed with two dissenting voices. On Monday morning last, a 'meeting took' place near Cavan, between rt— C--L--,•Esq. a respect able professional Qentleman of this City, and a Mr. D--7-N, of Cavan in consequence of some difference the preee:litg night ; when, aller changing a shot each, the seconds interposed to hdjust the business,: but to no purpose ; they again both took their ground, and at the next fire Mr. D. shot (Ara part of Mr. C.'s nose, part of his left cheek, and his eye-lash. Dr. DIVINE, of Cavan, was immediately sent for, and instantly attended— he had Mr. C. conveyed to town after dressing his wounds. When our account came away, be was pronouneed out of danger.• Mother Goose has done so much for Covent-Gar den Theatre, that the Managers, it is said, mean -to enliven the Easter Holidays with some Pantomimi cal Goslings of the same wonder-working breed. . SMITHFIELD MARKET, -ARCH 27. This day's market ,afforded a large supply of priMe Beasts, and the shoW of Cattle in general was very good ; Beef, Veal, and Pork are something dearer than our last report ; Mutton sold at last price, and the trade was pretty brisk.—The sales In the Hay market were somewhat lively; Hay, Straw, and Clover obtained better prices than Friday's market. The following prices and numbers is an accurate statement To sink the MEd per stone of Sib. Beef Ss. od. to Ss. 6d. --Alotton 4s. 6d. td S s. 7s. 6d. to S. od. to os. od.--Pork 6s. od. to 7s. od. Beasts. 3 I7J. —Sheep and Lambs, two.—Calves, 43c• SMITHFIELD HAY •MARKET. Hay 21. l' ' S. to I. is s .--Cl over 3 1. 3s, to 61. os.—Straw 31. os. to 31. 7s. CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH 2g.—The arrivals. of Wheat' to-day are but inconsiderable, and that of good quality goes off briskly, and fully maintains our last prices, but inferior is not :so ready. sale ; the supply of Barley is eery short, and has adVanc(l;4. 2s. and 3s. per quarter; Malt is dearer ; White and Grey Pease are dull sale, and -cheaper; Beans a each kind go off rather heavily; there are not many Oats arrived, and gobd samples are rather higher Rape Seed likewise . ; Flour nearly-at last prices. Wheat 48a a 64% - a Boa ott Beans -43 s a 494, 01 Fine ditto -84 i a 87s od Tick beans ' 3s, 4 41s 0.1 Ry e .. .. 42 s a . 47, 0 ,1 ( JAIS aas a 275 a ZU:.• c'l Harley . . • 37 2 4.3 i 6:t Po , ..And ditto 3is a 3;. rd Malt - . - 72$ a 783 od Rape Secd• 2Si. 321 Cis. od White Pene 74s a 82. s ott Fire Flour 653 a 70. i t.,cl Grey.' ditto Os a 483 od Seconds ii.v. a 65; c 4