The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-15 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

• BARBADOES, -OCT. 21.—Rear-Admiral Sir At. Ex..
COCHRANE, in His Majesty's. Ship -Northurnterlund,
of 74 guns, Captain N. D. COCHRANE, and His Ma-
jesty's Ship Canada, of 74 guns, Captain H. HAR-
VEY,. arrived, in Carlisle Bay this morning, from
Trinidad and St. Vincent.
Nov.- I.—GENERAL MIRANDA.—The hazardous
proje& of revolutionizing the Southern Continent of
Spanish America, in which this enterprising Officer
has recently been engaged, seems, now, or at least,
for the present, to., have terminated in a vain and;
fruitless endeavour. His withdrawing from Coro,
and his total evacuation of the Main, and taking up
a position on the small Island of Aruba, have al-
ready been known : we are now, by General.Mt-
RANDA'S arrival here yesterday, in his Majesty's Ship
Seine, led to conclude that he has' found the further
prosecution of his project, under the very inauspi-
cious circumstances in which he has been placed by
the want of a more ppen and efficient support from
the British Government, too arduous for accomplish-
ment, and, hopeless of success, . has therefore alto-
gether abandoned it. How far this idea may be
coma, we have not . yet the means of 'ascertaining;
nor can we decide whether the reports of his having
assurancesfrom our Commanders of the most ample
co-operation in the future-prosecution of his scheme,
in the event of a rupture of the pending Negotiation
for Peace, be well founded or not. MIRANDA lett
Anil" in the Seine, on the 26th of September, ar-
rived at Grenali-on the xi St ult. and sailed the next
day for this Island, and had an immediate interview,
with the Admiral on his arrival hete yesterday.
His fordes have gone to Trinidad.
Nov. 4.—By accounts from Leeward, it appears,
that- war against Sweden, by France, had been pub-
licly declared at Guadaloupe nearly two mouths ago,
in which time several Swedish Vessels have been
carried in there; so that the neutrality of that flag no
longer exists.
Nov. 6.—We regret to find that the EneMy's
vessels, seen on the 30th ult. by the Seine Frigate
to the northward of this Island, have safely got into
Martinique, notwithstanding the Canada and Latona
had-been sent off there, in consequence of -previous
intelligence of an Enemy's Frigate and Corvette be-
ing in these seas. The Latona returned here on
Thursday, and sailed the same evening with the
Jamaica trade ; and the same day the Canada carne
in, but sailed again last night, in company Keith the
Galatea. By her we learn. the EneMy's ingress to
Martinique, which intelligence the Canada .Obtained
from an American from thence, which she spoke,
and was informed they got into Fort Royal on the
31st,. consisting
,of a Frigate and two Brigs, all with
troops. , The Frigate was dismantled on the 4th
instant, and the two, Brigs were then lying in the
Carenage. It was reported at Martinique, that
tlkose Vessels. had sailed from France (the port not
mentioned) in company with three other. Frigates,
bound to Ihe'West Indies, which had beedc:iptured
by one of our home divisions a few day after they
put to sea.

Nov. 7.—The Seine Frigate, which brought Ge-
neral MIRANDA here, sailed.the 5-th instant, in com-
pany with the Merlin Sloop of War, and four Mer-
chantmen, for England. The Commoiore pre-
vionsly ,:ollecfj, the t:'3dc sr the
and it is'-'suppdsed, will' take h►s departure from
Tortola between the 15th and 20th of this month.
The Ships fron) Surinam sailed for the rendezvous
on the 26th ult. and those frOm Demerara .on
the 28th., We are sadly infeted'by the Enemy's
Privateers cruising to windward ; one of thetu is
now in sight.

A Mesienger arrived at the Foreign Office on Sa-
turday afternoon, with Dispatches from the Court
of Sweden. Another Messenger was ordered imme-
diately to be in readiness to depart for the Continent.
We have _received New York, Charleston, 'and
Boston 'Papers to the Loth ult. froth which we learn,
that strong apprehensions were 'entertained at those
places of the dissolution of the American Union.—
The reports about Col. BURR, who appears to lead the
party hostile to the existing Government, area so va-
rious and contradidory, that we can coiled but little
from them respe&ing his objeEts. It is stated, that he
has assembled a numerous body of followers at Mari-
etta and Gallipolis, on the Ohio, and has constructed
several large boats for their transport down that river;
but whither, or for what purpose, is not mentioned.
These movements had,. however, excited strong sen-
sation at Washington, and orders had been given for
all the disposable regular force of tite'Uttion to repair
immediately to New Orleans. The influence of,Mr.
BURR'" is represented to have extended over the
whole of the Western Country ; and a Convention
between him and the Spaniards is strongly suspeded
to have taken place. •

Dut..—The New-York Gazette of the Bth ult.
states, that on the 27th of Oftober, a duel took place
at GpSport, where the British Ship of War Chiches-
ter- is refitting, between Messrs. OTTLEY and Corr-
NELL, First and Second Lieutenants of that Vessel,
when, at the first lire, Lieutenant OTTLEY was shot
through the head, F. nd expired on the spot. Mr,-
CONNtLL and the Seconds absconded.

This account is obviously erroneous, and we shall
itjoice should it prove wholly untrue. The Chiches-
ter is employed as a Store-ship, under the command
of Lieutenant SToPFORD, and her establishment
does not comprise Officers of the class mentioned-by
the American JournaliSt. .

The hue General Knox, who took so distinguish-
ed a share in the American Revolution, was killed
by swallowing a sharp piece of, a chicken bone,
'which perforated his bowels, and occasioned a mor-
, thication.
A duel was fought on Saturday morning early, in
a field not far from the eight-mile stone on the Ux-
bridge road, between two Gentlemen unknown,
One of whbm was dressed in a naval unform, and
the other in a looSe coat and a hunting cap. The
parties bad travelled to the place of ,a6tion in Lon-
don.chaises, one ,of which took up in Gloucester-
place, and the other in the City The combatants
exchanged three shots, when the person dressed in
the loose coat appeared to have been wounded, and
he was led to the chaise by two of his conVanions,
and the post-boy drove off towards Uxbridge. The
parties first alighted at Wormwood Scrubs to set-
tle their disputes ; but they were, it seemed, ap-
prehensive of some sort of molestation, and they
i travelled on.