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limasTot...S*6lAM*. AUGUST S.
Arrived the Mermaid, Sinclair. She sailed from
Monte Video on the 21th of April, and pursued her
voyage for this port until the 3.1 ult. when about
on leagues to the windward of Barbadoes, she de-
scried a brig under English colours, in chase of her,
which coming up soon after, was hailed ; but no an-
swer s being received, and Captain Sinclair supposing
her to be an enemy, he fired his stern chasers, when
the brig instantly hauled down the English, and
hoisted the French flag. An aition immediately
commenced, which lasted 20 minutes, when the ene-
my attempted to board, but was repulsed with the
loss of several men, and two were left on board the
Mermaid. She immediately came up again under a
heavy fire of great guns and small arms, when Cap-
tain Sinclair and lan Mate being severely wounded,
(the former very badly in two places), and having
three men killed and three wounded, the Mermaid
was compelled to surrender. when she was taken
possession of by the enemy, and ordered for
Guadaloupe ; previously, however, plundering
her of every article that could possibly be taken
away. Off Deseada, on the 7th ultimo, she
WAS fallen in with by the BeliMile. of 7& guns.
Captain Harwood, by whom she was recap-
tured and sent for Antigua, where she arrived on
the following day. The Prize-Master. who was
put on board the Mermaid, said, that on board the
General Lewes.); there were from eighteen to twenty
men wounded, and that ten missing were supposed
to have been killed in attetnpting to board her The
privateer carried fourteen guns, 9 and 6-pounders,
with 126 men, and belongs to Guadaloupe. The
Mermaid mounted IS guns, 12 and 9 pounders, but
had only 22 men on board, eight of whom were
killed or wounded before she surrendered.
We hear that the land of Trelawny, Maroons
Town, is now laying out in lots by a surveyor ;
three hundred acres for the Kirrison, and the remain-
ing one thousand two hundred acres in lots of 100
acres each ; the latter will soon be put up to public
auaien, tinder authority of an Aft of the Leg.sla-
tore. (3Gth Geo. 111. cap. 33), and will torin one
provision settlements, being so near to a seedy-
money market.

On Sunday se'ntlight, as S• wort ttss au, a
batgeman, was seeking mushr.,oms, in a brook ad-
jo:ning an old cut of a river, near Old Eye. he saw
floating on the water. a hat. and on his nearer ap-
pr.ach, discovered immersed, and io an ere& volition,
the body of a man. He procured assistance. and soon
dragged it t• the land, from whence it was removed
to the Thatched Houtz. in South-street. Lewes,

where the rerueins of theunfortunatepan were re-

cognized, and proved to be those of Mr. Govi.Ly,
a farmer of Hart Reid, who, between eight and nine

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o'clock on Saturday night, let the Wheat Stseafi, in
Malting-street, Lewes. on horseback, to go home, but
contrary to the advice of the landlord a•id others, as
he was much inebriated. At his departure he took

the right coarse, and haw he could have pursued one
so contrary as that which led to his fatal catastrophe
must have been, it is difficult to ascertain. On the
brink of the river, nigh to where the body was found,
there appeared evident marks of a horse's plunging
as it to avoid the water. The animal, a black mare,

and apparently in foal, was nn Sunday morning 0b..,
served grazing near Southeram, by a persn, who,
from three fresh wounds, which her off flank exhi-
bited. concluded she belonged to a smuggler. and
bad thus suffered. through the illegal praCtices of her
master; but the wounds, it is believed. were irdtided
by the deceased. as in hi; pockets were found three
case knives, and a butcher's knife, sheathed,bat much
stained with blood. The knives were all new, and
most likely purchased on Saturday, fur domestic pur-
poses, though cruelly applied by the man, under
the influeryle of intoxication, and probably to impel

the poor animal forward, through 'l:liar:ilk passes, to
his own destruaion. 111 s watch and about twelve
guineas, in cash and notes. found in his breeches
pockets, are taken proper care of. He has left a
widow and two or three children to bewail his loss.
On Saturday night, a centinel posted near the
Anchor Wisatf, is the Dock-yard, Chatham, was
alarm °d by the sound of footsteps approaching his
post ; he challenged, hut received no answer ; he
repeated the cliallenpe, but heard no sound but of
the fsotsteps slowly approaching. The alarm was
passed from centinel to centinel, until it reached the
guard-room, from whence a sirjeatt, with some
men, instantly went to the spec where the alarm
originated, and the challenge was again repeated,
but with as little attention being paid to it as before.
When every chance had been given which any well-
disposed person could wish tar to induce him to
come forwat d. the serjeant thought that longer de-
lay would be a dereliction or duty, and therefore
gave an order to fire, which was immediately com-
plied with. and was as instantly followed by a deep
groan. A rapid movement to the spot from whence
the noise proceeded, soon made them acquainted
with the cause of it, and proved that the shot had
done some execution ; but they were surprised. and
much disappointed, to find, instead of a lurking
robber, or secret incendiary, that a poor harmless
cow, will had strayed from her pasture in the dark-
ness of the night, became its vidirn. The luckless
animal had its leg so sever 4y shattered by the ball,
that there was a necessity for killing her in the
I morning.
Monday night, on Mr. Sus tv's return to, Wive-
thumb, Devonshire. from the neighbourhood of
Bridgewater, where he 114 d been with Mr. Ton-
coon. performing an operation for the catered on a
gentleman's eyes, as he was stepping out of the
curricle. the frame of the cal riage gave way, near
thst part where the step is fastened, and the body of
the carriage came against the horses' hocks, which
occasioned their taking fright, and attar kicking
every part of the frame-work to pieces, they set off
at full speed with the bar, pole, and part of the frag-
ments adhering to them; after forcing a turnpike-
gate that was fastened, their career was at length
stopped by a paled gate, about a mile in the coun-
try, over which they attempted to leap, but eaten-
gled the pole-iron on its spikes, which held them in
security until assistance came. The servant. who
held the reins as long as any part of the frame was
left on the azle. was at length thrown an, and his
head coming against a well, he met with a severe
c.norussion of the twain. and it is feared will lims ono
of his eyes, which is much wousdcd.

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