The Sun.
London, England, 1806-06-03 00:00:00

AME.PICAN PAPIRS,

: NEW=YORti SATURDAY., APRIL CG.-4The British
Ship Leander, of 50 guns, the Cambrian, of 44, and
the Driver Sloop .a War, were off SandyOok yes-
terday. We are informed that th'v brought to and
boarded every Vessel that has left thIS Port 'lately,
and. have pressed several seamen from them. At a
late hour last evening we were informed that 'the
Nimrod, Captain -MANNING, from Cur:lcoa for this
Port, was captured off. the' Hook yesterday by the
British Frigate Cainbrian, and sent for Halifax ; also
the Ship .41trora, from Havannah, and 'the Brig
Ceres, from Martinique, and Sent for Halifax.
PHILADULibHIA, Arttio en.—Extract of a Letter '
from. New=York; dated Saturday evening ,last :
" The body of the man murdered on board the
Sloop from Delaware has been exposed all this day
at Burling's Slip to
.thousands of spettatorS: It is
to be lodged to-morrow iii the Tontine Coffue-house
or the.city Hall for public view, and on Monday to
be buried, attended by the Corporation, &c. The
Minds of the inhabitanti were Wrought up to . a
pitch of natral madness. Two -Schooners armed,
and full of Volunteers-, have sailed, and two others
are ready for sailing, to regake-the Vessels captured
by the blockading Squadrtiii: The Purser of the
Leander came to town yesterday, and purchased three
boat-loads :of all kinds of provisions ; two of the
boats were stopped on the Wharf; the thirkhaving
sailed early this morning, was overtaken near the
Hook by a PilOt-boat' dispatched for the purpose,
and brought back. Thu provisions are now in light
carts, : parading through the streets v, wit drums,
fifes, &c. and are intended to be left at the Poor-
House. An ExprosS was '-gen'tolF this morning to
Washington."
NEw-Pons, SUNDA+, Ari IL .27!—" 1 haVe only
time to add, that two or three Vessels, with armen
each, have;been dispatChed through the Sound, to
re-take the American Vessels which have been seAt
to Halifax.,,

P. S. " Just as this Paper was put to press-ten cart.
/odds of provisions, which had been procured in thi4
city for the British Squadron now blockading onr
Harbour, and Which had been arrested on the way
to the Ships; and brougliz back to town, w'Zire'con-
veyed to the Aluis-house, zupidst the loud huzzas of
the; multitude,".

At a Meeting of the Federal Republicans, at the
Tontine. Cotiee-liOuse,,,,NeW-York, on the .6th, to
take into consideration the de:i!.:lcJes-s state Of the
Harbour ;among other Resolutions it was yesoire4,

1. " That tht-: repeated Outrages comMitted bsr"
foreign. Ships of Warat.the mouthsitit our HarbOurs
merit the resentment and indignation of every friend
to his Country. _ _

" That an Administration which consents to
pay money to avoid foreign insolence, or to
the violation or national rights, whiie it sells and
dismantles its Naval Force, instead of increasing and
preserving
_it, for,t he defence_ of our Ports and Com-
merce, •prostrates the national honour,, endangers
the public safety, and invites both injustice and in-
sult.

•3. " That the suffering of :foreign armed Ships
to station themselves off our Harbour, and there
to stop, 'search, and capture our Vessels, to impress,
wound, and murder our Citizens, is a gross and cri-
minal neglect of -the highest cluties'ot Government ;
and that an Administration which patiently permits
the same, is not entitled to the confidence of a brave
and free People, .; •
4. " That solong as the British Ships of War
which haVe assumed a station at the entrance of this
Port are 'suffered to:remain there, it is earnestly re-
commended' that 'no supplies, provisions, or' suc-
cours of any kind, should be afforded them from our
Markets, nor any' intercourse held with . them in any
shape whatever; and that our Pilot-boats should ab-
stain from visiting theM. •
5. " That the murder of Jonrr PIERCE, one of
our fellow-oitizens, by a shot from a British Ship of
War, at the entrance of our Harbour, and within
half a mile Of the shore, while he was engaged in
the peaceable navigation of a coasting Vessel, _laden
with provisions for our market, was an aet that ex.-
cites our detestation and abhorrence, and calls upon
our Government for the adoption of prompt and, vi-
gorous measures to prevent a repetition of such •
Wanton • and inhuman condu&, and so flagrant a •
'Violation of our national sovereignty.
6.." -That this Meeting approves the condua
of those persons WhO intercepted the supplies which
were sent from this City to :those Vessels who now
blockade 'MY- Barbour, and who have., murdered our
fellow-citizen, JouN PIERCE, • •
7. " That we will attend the funeral of the des
ceased--and that it be recomtnended to the Ships in
the Harbourlo display the customary signs of mourn-
ing.'

• CITY OF NEW YORK.—Jcssr, Pisson, Masterof
the Sloop Richard, a'Coasting Vessel of Brandy-wine,
being (Idly sworn, deposed and says, tha,' as he v.- ri
approaching Sandy Hook, and was about a quartet
of a mile from the Beach, and two miles south from

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the Light-house, in "his VeSsel, yesterd# Oen-.
ing aboutfive o'clock, two shots were fired,. at dif-.
ferent,times, from a -laroßritiSty Ship of Wa,r.with
two tier of guns; supposedto be the-Leander that
one of the said shot struck. about 40 yitds :t-head of
the said: Vessel, and the other went nearly. over,her.:.
upon which thp Deponent 'rounded io his Vessel
and, about five minutes after, another:Shot was fired
from the said Ship,: and struck 'the taffel-rail and
quarter,rall, and killed. immediately •a man at the
helm, named 3onN PIERt;F:, brother of the. Depo-
nent, and who 'was a-hand on board of 114 Vessel-:
that the Deponept cannot accurately determine the
distance of thelaid Sloop from the Leander; :buthut he
conjectures it to be aboven mile : that the Deponent
then continued hiS coarse, .and entered;_the Hook
Without any farther molestation.

JESSE PIERCE.

Sworn the 2§th April, before
lls W[rr CLlN•roti.

ZEKT AH PRATT, Master of..the prig Sally,. of
this Port;-deposed--.-That as.he was approaching the
said Part troth St. Thorrius's, yesterday evening, and
twenty rods distant from the within-men
.tinned ;Sloop, he observed .the faas..stated. in , the
within-mentioned‘.Aitdavit of Captain PIERCE.; and
that, (15 the beStThf Jiis knowledge,and belief, they
are .true, except the killing of the man, of which
this Deponent has no. persomrl knowledge that
there-were at: that -time three Ships
.of War in the
oiling:; and,that the ore mentioned in the within
Affidavit was a tWo-decker, and' thelargest ; that
all the said Vessels of War fired at the Deponent's
Vessel, at least twenty shot in the whole ; but that
be proceeded on without 'cominaP to that a Sloop
of Warn fired at.the Deponent's Vessel when he was
about a gdarter of a Mile from the shore, and after
the within-Mentioned death is said_ to .have oc-
curred that about twenty Sail of. Vessels were
coming into' port at the same time; and that Up-
wards of one-hundred -shot were fired at the said
Vesgels by the isaid Ships of War.
HEZEKIAH PRATT:

Swotn 26th April, iSo6, before '
DE WITT CLINTON.
Indiament for 'Alurder.—The Grand Jury, at the
suggestion of a Republican Member, found a Bill,
on Saturday last, against HENRY WHITBY, Cap-
tain of the Leona for the murder of Jonx
PIERCE. .

PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 29.
kFrom thb Aurora.),

lIEVOL±IN SPANISH AMERICA.--Captaill WEBB,
of• the Brig Eliza, from Maricaibo, informs, that just
before he 'sailed orders had been received from the
Governor of Carfacas to•have the Militia immediate-
ly organized, and <the city put in the best state of
defence, as a very alarming revolt had taken place
in. the interior. , . -

,- • WAR WITH-GREAT BRITAIN.
" The blockade of the pat of New York, at the
present moment, occasions, serious refleEtions ; are
the. British Vessels (dung under the orders of the New

Ministry?
." Certainly'', there has been time for the old orders
to .be superseded
. If they are acting under the orders.of the New.
Alministration, which a: few days will 'aseertain, it
• -
will fUlly confirm ideas which we have before ex-
pressed,. that too much: of the, old leaven of the Old
Miftigry lexiats' in.the,present.,Cabinet for Britain
to follow' throughout her Whole interest—that
nothing:good can. proceed from the system—:and
that if :any_ man who, is good, goes into power, he
becomes necessarily depratied y that system. •
" 'Should it be proved that. the 'orders of the.
pride of .his Vountry Confinued, NicuoLsoies:
motion has not its due effea ; only one plain path
and . FII Tii wT ALTEkNATIVE WE HOPE

EVERY. AMERICAN WILL PREPARE. HIS MIND.---
Peace is the decided interest of the United. States :
before. War is entered 'ou every step should be

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An Embargo on" all Provision Vessels to the
11*Eist Indies for
.three months, we thinle,would bring
the British to their senses. • That followed .up, on
neg.t. Meeting of:Congress,. by 6 a fotal prdhibition
-of: all Trade with Britain,' or. importation from Bri-.
tain--and, if forced into a War, a confiscation of all
British propertyof every kind within the,United States,
propckd on the first agitation of,the'presen,t ques7
• tiOn' in Congress---would, we are convinced, soon re-
store peace between 11---tine of Battle. Ships,- those
-who advocate them ktiovift.,,well, are
suseless against
tlitt- -British .i.\;avy-the private- armed Ships of our'
would 'annoy. the trade of Britain more
etfeaually than too Seventy-four Gun-vesselS. But
Britain never was at any one time more dependent
on the United States 'for t'he consumption of her
manufa6tures than at the present moinent-7-cut off
.from Europe, an interruption here would stagnate
throughoqt her population-7Howevey the British
4gents may atfe& the-contrary, we are misinformed
airMy the iklantffaaurers' of Britain are not
alarmed.

" One circumstance we wish the-present Minister,
to impress on. the British Cabinet of St. James, that
the majority in the Congress will never .support
hostilities for, the caprice of our -Merchants or any
body of men—will never defend a.trade contrary to
the Law of NatiOns—but• that they are determined,
and that,they will be supported by the great Mast of
.the people 91 the United States—in a war tin their
'independence as a Nation, which has been so wan-
tonly attacked."

MAILS. -
.ARRIED,ri Lislion, t Waterford Duz-11-litiburBh,
t Dublin,. i ‘Vaterford.

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L '0 N D 0 -N,

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1896.

WE have rccived Anicrican- Papers to. the 30th-::
April. . The French Party are indefatigable in their
efforts to produce a ..ruptUre between Great 'Britain
and America ; and 'a cncnmstance haS recently oc-
curred which afforded them an opportunity of mak-
ing a successful appeal to the passions of the lower or-
ders of the people. It appears that His Majesty's Ship
Leander whidli was eruizino- at the latter end of April
off Sandy Hook, having in vain endeavoured to bring
to, an American, Sfoop..that was entering the Har-
bour,,fired lfshot into her, and killed a man. As
soon as the circumstance was known in New-York,
it• produced a very considerable ferment, which
was increased by every possible artifice. The-
body, of the: man Who' was killed was ex,posed
to public view for two days; the Corporation, and
the .whole of the Anti-British Party,. attended the
funeral, which was conduaed with every solerfinitY
that was calCUlated to Make an- impression upon the
mindS of the people. The consequence. was, that
all intercourse with the British Ships was interdiaed,
the provisions' which had been purchased for their
use were seized and "given to the poor; and, to com-
plete the whole, .11' Bill of Indiament for murder
was found.by the Grand Jury of New• York against
the Captain of the Leander:
Th9se ioteinperate meausres will not, we trust,
impede the. efforts of the British and, Arnerican. Go-
vernments 4 o adjust-the. differences which at present
•
subsist, and to re-establish that amiable intercourse
which is so essential to the • interests, of the two
Countries. We have extracted from these Papers
all the fats which relate to this eitraordinary trans-