The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-03 00:00:00

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NEW-YoIIK, MAY 24.—Capt's NVZ,IT3II, or. the
Brit is,t Ship of War Leander, we are ittiormen., :vas
, arrested, on hi;.; arrival at Halifax, by Capt. Bcags-
voet?, CotineandingOtlie& of that station, in conse-
quence of hisexceptiOnable conduct while oft Sandy
Hook.-;---A Letter from a Gentlethan or the first .re-
speetabiiity at Trinidad,.to a Gentleman of thiS City,
mentions„ that th 6 Jason Frigate, eot-omanded by a'
Sun of Admiral a
cocktANE, had just gone doWn to,
pay' MittA\No:i a. visit, who \l'a to 'he at anchor
off Barcelona, in cOn4pany With tour Aetned Ships
and. two Brigs,- Under English colours. -
MAY 26.-A Letter from Newport, May 17; says,
" Arrived at this' Port on Sunday last, -in five days,
from Charleston, South Carolina, the Sloop Roha,,
Capt.WHITTREDGE. On the 7th inst. the Rolla was
fired upon, and boarded in.the latitude of 3,5. 9. lon-
gitude 75-41. by an Officer belonging to the British'
Frigate CleoLiatra, Capt. WHITE, 44 guns, who, after
treating Capt.WHIT-riir.noli. with every mark of con-
tempt and extreme insolence, demanded a, sight of his
papers; and not content with vietving them, made
• k,
him produce his letters, and, without ceremony,
broke open those addressed as follows,. viz. Mtsrs.
Bowen and Ennis, merchants, Newport ; Messrs.
Gardner and Dean, merchants, Newport ; Hon.
Samuel Toby, Berkley, Massachusetts ; Mr. Gco.
D. Wolfe, Bristol, Rhode Island. After having pe-
rOed them, the evening being far advanced, he im-
pressed the cook, named Nathan Wanche, an In-
dian (an apprentice to Michael Winslow, of:Roches-
ter, Massachtisetrs), and then:suffered 'Capt. NV. to,
proceed. In this manner is the American Flag
violated in its rightS, and plundered of its Citizens."
IVItitANDA'S Expedition continues to occupy the at-
stention of the Public throughout Almeria ' •
MAY 23.-7 Several letters received, in town from
Curacoa concur, in stating, that MIRANDA', ah:)nt
the 12th of April, landed at Aruba, a swan Dutc'h
Islandin 'sight. of Curacoa,
,where he eXercised' and
recruited -his'. forces prep.waio to hi-s descent on
thn Spanish M iin. - fie-. sailed from thence about
the 20th of April. The news is correct.
Capt. Wy N two'', of the Sperry Baker,informs,
that Gen. MIRANDA had etfecte I a landing at Carac-
cas; and that the Spanish Government' had request-
ed 33sh1411Gefi:Uii) Gen. FERRAND, who sent word,-lie ,
Mould furnish 500 trooPs; provided a. convoy, was
sent to preteca them.

•
Ciptain HINTON, arrived this morning in twenty
days from Trinidad, informs us, that the English had
taken CaraccaS, on the• Spanish Main. This was
prObatily the Exileditkin under -MIRANDA, and re-
ported as British,from the circumstance of that Gene-
ral being joined by six British Frigates; with 6000
troops, as we learn, by an arrival
Capt. H. farther infOrms us, it was reported at Tri-
nidad, that,the Cork-Fleet, bound to the West Indies,
had been captured by the French.

THE,INItMORIAL OF S. G., OGDEN', OF THE CITY OF

NEW YOAK, MERCHANT.

[ React in Congress, .April, zB:6.
ReTeelfully S(teweth-7-That,your /kikniorialiSt is
under a -criminal prosecution for au offence against
the laws of ,the Uriited.States, of which, if he is
guilty, he has been led into the error by the cotidnet
of Officers of the Executive Gov'erninent, who now
intend, bringing npo:t him the penalties of the
laWs, to sacrifice his charaCter, fortune and liberty,
in expiation of their own err )rs, or to deprecate the
vengeance of forein_Governments, by offering hien
as a to their. resentments.
Your Memorialist is the owner of an armed Ship
Called the Leancleri which lately sailed. from the port
of New-York, :under the command • or direction of
General: FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA, to whom your
Memorialist chartered the, said,Ship. Your ivletuf)-
rialist, in hts mercantile-capacity, was an active agent
in fitting and providing her for the voyage on. which
she sailed and for his agency in this respect, he
now stands indkted. But your Memorialist did not
know that there was any law of the United States
which forbade him to at as he has done, in relatiOn
to the said Ship, nor could .he believe that his acts
were criminal, when he was certain that the projects
of Gen. AIRANDA, as connected with the expedi-
tion of an armainent from the United . States, had
not only been "fully communicated to die President
and the. Secretary of State, but had' received their
applause and encouragement—when he knew also,
that the Executive Officers of the GovernMent of.
_the United States, 'at cite City of New-York,' had afull
kno.vlLdge, of the extraor4inary equipments of.
j
the Leander, and when he foUnd that no Measures
were taken ,to caution ytiur Memorialise,- or check,
these preparations.
If the ads of your MemorialiA have been illegal,
he cannot doubt but. that the laws may be put in
force against • him. They may be instruments in
the hands of. that Executive who hjs rendered him
obnoxious, to the punishment they denotince. Yet
as there must be, in a free Government seine shelter
in every cits. from injustice and oppression, your
Memorialist turns' with !confident hopes, lc) the as-
sembled Representatives of a free People, and trusts,
that if it shall appear them that. one of their fel-
low-citizens has been seduced into an error by the
encouragement of the Executive; ,that Executive
will-
not be sutfered to prostitute its power,' by bringing'
on him punishment, when the guilt, if any there be,
rests upon themselves.

Your MemoraliSt has not only to coMplain of the'
injustice of caus,ink hi:n to be' prosecuted as a cri-
minal, but to represent to you the illegal manner,
of conduCting that .prosecution, .by \‘,llich the most
.sacred rights of a citizen have been violated, anct
the first principles' of justice tramp!ed 'under
foot,
,by a Magistrate of the United States. That ,
the, case of your Memorialist may be fully before
your „honourable body, !he will proceed to give a
candid history of all the faEts which have relation to
the offence of which he is accused.
_ _

Your Memoriaiist was unacquainted with General
NIIIANDA till anout the 23d day of D ember ,last,
when he returned from Washington.. He then ap-
plied to your Memorialist, as the owner of the Ship
Leander, which he proposed to engage to transport
him, with s,otne men, ammunition, and implements
of war, to a Port in the Spanish territory in South
America; at the. same time inviting your Memo'rial-
ist to provide a variety of those Articles Which his
projea required; ano, in order to induce your
morialist to embark in the enterprize, and to con-
vince. him that it had the approbation Of the Cinvern-
rneut of the llaited Statei, the folio mere

disclosed to your Methorialist, and were corroborated
by the representation ,of Col. Wm. S.. SMITH, Sur-
veyor of the Port of New-Yin-la, and .by the diaeu-
ment herein-after mentioned
. General MIRANDA is a native
.of the Province of
.i C.iraccas, in South America, Where he spent the
earlier part Of his lift% The inhabitants of that country
•
were represented as groaning under their dependence
on'a thaspotie Government, and anxious to throw off
the yoke, Many of General, MIRANDA'S coun-
trymen Were also stated to have been long desirous
of freeing themselves from their bondage, looking
to him/as their expeaed deliverer, and ready to re*
ceive and unite with hint wlfenever he should bring
to them a hope of success. It ws further suggested,
that Gen. MIRANDA had long entertained a design of
emancipating his native country, which was disclosed
to Mr. JEFFERSON, and the design approved by him,
so long ago as when Mr. SIiFFERSON was Minister
at the Court of France from the United*States. That
Gen. MIRANDA had been for some years soliciting
and expecting aid in his enterprise from Great Bri-
tain ; but, that at length finding his expe;3ations of
assistance from that quarter fallacious, he had left
that country, and embarked fin- this, not with an
intention to relinquish hlF.,,ciesign, but with the hope
of tinditig here the meaai.t'' of success; that he had
arrlved in New-York in the beginning el November
last, bringing with him a very interesting and un-
portant Letter to a Gentleman of the first come-
, qeence in New-York, which fully developed his
designs, and stated that he had embarked i-;e- the
United States, on the execution of the great plan
whiCh he had thr so rcany year's meditated for the
liberation of. his country. That in utter despair of
the British Government taking any decisive step, he
had'at last determined to try ohat, could be eileeied
Iby such' resnurces as ,Atlld-riCa could furnish, end .
r might be Wilting to afford boo, either as an enter-
; prize sanctioned by public aotherity., or undertaken
by individual adveniurers.
Your Merninialig ova', well aoanred that this letter
I was, about the latter. end of a,onretoher, eoormeni-
Cated to the Secretary of Seats, and to the President
• .
of the United States ;. that a;;er laid been some
days in the hands Df theSeeretary of State, the re-
ceipt of it was acknowledged by' him ; and that
about the last of .the same month Gen. MIRANDA
proceeded to Washington, tO communicate person-
ally his plan to the Government.' That immediately
after his arrival at Washington, General
visited the Secretary of State ; that in his feast inter-
view he inforMed the Secretary. that he desired ,to '
make an important and confidential comenuniCation
to the Government as soon "as the President should
permit it to be receivede that at a subsequent inter-
view the Secretary of. State,inlermed him, that hav-
ing consulted the President on the subject of their
former.conferenne, he was authorised to receive his
mm counication ; -that Gen. MinaNDA than opened
to the-Secretary of State his oltieei In coming to
the United States, exposed the condition of the pro-
vince of Caraccas, the general di .scvatent of its
and the ease with which it might become
independent, concluding by a request for the coun-
tenance and succour of the Government. That at
a subsequent interview, the Secretary of State in-
formed Gen. MIRANDA, that he had cot munleated to
the President what had passed in their preceding
•canference ; that the President's sentiments could
not be doubted, but that Government could aahrd
neither succour nor aid to. the enterprise in, which
be was engaged. That upon this Gen. MIRANDA re-
marked, that Without the counteeance of Govern-
thent, individuals anight be unwilling to
.assist
him ; that the Secretary replied, that the United
States was a free Country; where every one might
do What the laws did not forbid. That General
Miaasna' then observed, that the bill dependinglor
prohibiting the,exportation of arms and ainmunie
titan might impede his measure's ; and the Secretary
answered, that the bill might not become a law ;
that General. MmAsnA inthrined the Secretary, that
he had conferred with certain peiotona, in New Yerk
respeCting his views, and if Governmentsshould pri-
vately make him a small advance of money, be
might, with the assistance of those- persons, find
the supplies he wanted ;- to which the Secretary
replied, that the merchants would advance money
whenever they became satisfied that they had an in- •
terest in doing
.so ; and inquired what supplies he
might want, and who were the persons witn whom
he had conferred ? General MIRANDA answered,
that he‘wanted a few Officers and Privates, tegether
with -a quantity of arms and ammunition, and that
he had • conferred with Commodore LEWIS and
Colonel SMITH, who had named your Memo-
tG General MIRANDA, as the proprietor
of Vessels suitable to his views. Whereupon the
Secretary expressed himself favourably concerning
the fitness of these persons named by General MI-
RANDA, adding, in reference to your Memorialist,
that it would be better than the St`. Domingo trade,
in which your Memorialist had been some tithe en- •
gaged; and that Colonel SMITH •was more.qualified
for military service than for the Custom-house; in
consequence of which last observation, General MI-
RANDA then said, that. Colonel Smirn would go with
him, if he could ',have
,leave of absence; but the
Secretary replied, that such permiSsions were un- '
usual, and could. not be, granted, in this instance;
and that the'conference ended with an intimation
on the part of the SecretarY of State, that whatever '
might be done, should be discreetly done; and, with
,the understanding on the part of General MIRANDA,
that though the Government, would not aid his en-
terprite, it met its approbation and encouragement,
and -that it would not be opposed ; that t.ieneral
'MIRANDA remained at Washington fourteen days,
and 'had several interviews 'with the President 'and
Secretary ; in which time be wrote to Col.:I/Vial-lam
SMITH two letters, of which copies follow :
'.MY DEAR FRIEND, Washington Dec. xi, 035.
I have received your Letters of the ist and bth ut this
month, and our Coininoduic's,of the Stir. The business you
and he mention is on the tapii at tins present moment, and
will be concluded, I hope, in the course of this week. Not
a moment i 5 lost, and appearances I, nk very favourable.
Hove a little patience, anil you shall hear soon the result. I
hope yore-will act on your side with as itiJcli activity, &c.
My best compliments to the worthy Admiral, and to Major
A. They bothsshall hear smut Inc as soon. anv thing is '
decided; write to me here at Stelk's Hotel, and that will be
sufficient, it the direction is Mr. Whin. Your's, -M. A.
DEAR FRIEND, Washington, Dec. 14, 'egos. •
I saw, yesterday, for the second time, both the Gentlemen,
amid, atter talking fully c 4 the subject, Libink I brought the
business to a conclusion. ' Yet flsr.Al., upon hearing my de
termination of quitting this City, to-mornw, tor New-York,
appeared surprised, and persa.desi me not tD Izave_it
tore Tuesday next. the 171 n, when he cap-Med me ro dine •
with hun , and to have a fittte.more conver,,:aion; I suppose.
thought chat a stay three days longer