The Sun.
London, England, 1808-05-02 00:00:00

ru' !NbJ4 P4PEAs.

" p4R3ADoEs, Alm= Grace the Duke
of ig4ecti,!tsTEß,_ on his way to Jamaica, arrived in
Carlisle Bay .yesterday afternoon, in the Guerrier
Prig: Ate; Capt..SKEN 11, thirty-four days from Ports-
`moutN and twenty from .Madeira. The Guerrier,
an coming off Charles Fort, fired a salute to an.L
nounce the noble passenger on board (his-Gracahe-
ing also Governor-General of Jamaka); and soon
'after the Frigate came to, the salute was returned
•bj the Fort, - •- .
The Guerrier, previous to her arrival at- Ma-
deira, felLin Ad captured,- after a. short chase;' the
French Privateer Brig Malvina, of 16 guns and 62
men, from France; bound to Guadaloupe, which had
captured, and bad in company with her, theidiana,
Engt Ship of 430 tons, •from Gibraltar 'bound to
Loo , 'which at the same time was retaken• by
the.Gderrier, and.sent with the Privateer' to Eng-
. land. 4 The Tatiana was one of a convoy under two
Frigates, homeward-boimd, but -!raving separated
from theni, fell in with the enemy, and got captured.
22.-1 t appears by accounts from Mari-
galante, that the arrival of :the Admiral with part of
the SqUadron, soon after its.'caPture, was most 'op-
portune, as there was a manifest preparation at Gua-
daloupe for its re-capture, which might have been
attended with the most fatal consequences. •

" Yesterday, on the arrival. Of the Julia Brig

from Dominica, by which accounts were received
of a telegraphic communication having been made
from the•signal post to Sir ALEXANDER COCHRANE,

lying in 'Prince Rupert's, that four SUSPiCICA4B
ships: were "Seen standing into Fort Roy►al Bay,
an Oilli.01) was 'adopted with much avidity,
that ihe wßoelietbrt "Squadron had got into Marti.'
nique, but accounts three days subsequent (the 20th)
from one of our cruizers 'otf that: Island, assure that
no strange vessels have lately got in there.
The Duke of MANcitesTEft proceeded this
morning frOtn. hence, - in the Guerrier Frigate, for
his Government of Jamaica." -'

DUTCH COMMERCE.

' The following private letters have been received
from 'Holland

ROTTERDAM, APAIII. 24, 1808,—Circumstances
are now'More dangerons' thin' ever." A Capi.ain,
who
,has only been snspeeted visiting,b,ngland„
has been.arrested, and marched to the State Prison
at 'the Hague, with the whole of his •pasSenger4.---
The same has happened to another' Captain and
passengers, who have arrived :at ,Noordivyck, .The
Superintendants.ol. the Sea-pilots at the Brille have
all shared the same fate, on suspicion of havingneg-
letted their duty. The strictest search is making
for the exporters of our goods and importers of Ma-
nufaCtures. 'Other Captains implicated take care to
conceal themselves. As to --, who is ar-
rived, it is not likely he will escape arr•2ste Orders
havejust:been issued to send back all Vessels with
passengers, even. without making any cotnmuniea-
tion of their arrival,, or report to Government. For
God's sake, do advise your friends not to embark for
our side they will, by so doing, place themselves
in itunittiant 'danger. You cannot possibly imagine
ibur wretched, situation, nor can you have the least
of the miseries we endure."
" A ti3:i 1, .—Captain V. has not been liberated, ,
nor V. nor their passengers. •A fresh arrival has
' taken place ; and although the Captain 'and crow
are only suspeeted of coming from England, they
have been thrown into prison: The cargo is this
moment landed, rand sent to the King's warehouses..
'We now expe6.l new arrests, particularly in
Ftlezlancl,'Where butter and oats have been ei4)ort-
ed: . The Captains who are implicated in these •
transaaions will do well not to make their appear-
ance if they wisb to escape the severest punishment.
From all this you must be' convinced that nothing
can be done in the way of trade. Upwards of 200 p
letters, .which are. supposed to have lately found their
way from England, are in the hands of.Govera7
and all mercantile men are afraid-of beinv
involved in their cOninutnication: lam surprisede
that people.nn.,your side of the water will persist in
attempting to trade with us, when we are even un-
able to keep open an innocent correspondence. For
once and all, I advise all passengers not to undertake
a voyage to Holland, ,tor we are positively con-
vinced that no favour can or will be shewn, but
. that even corporal punishment must be the cance-
e nee 0"

This morning an account was received at the East
India House; that the undermentioned outward.
bound Ships %Vero off the Cape de Verdi Nandi on
the 7th 6f March last, viz. Elphinstone, Winchel-
sea, Wgimer castle, Plewnir, Esser.

tA Cabinet -Council sat on Saturday, in Downing-
itreet, at which were present most of the C:ibinet
`Ministers. Mr. CANNOIG gave 'audience to the
Swedish and Portugnese Ambassadors at the break-
ing up of the Council.
•We have received the Antigua Papers to the t 7th
March inclusive. One of the preceding numbers
tommenicates the following distressing accident
While the Circe' Frigate lay in Falmouth Harbotir
one of the boats upset, when Lieut. Flowas, a sea-
man,, and a woman were drowned. Fourteen other
persons, officers, seamen, and women, had the grind
fortune to,escape, the accident happening near the.
Ship: At break of day, next morning, a centinel
discovered two sharks devouring the bodieq rd_ the
unfortunate Lieutenant and seamen, when the boats
immediately put, off, and with difficulty rescued
their remains, in a state of mutilation, from the
voracious fish. Those of the unfortunate wolnat
were searched for in vain. The bodies of Liente.
nant How tis and the seamen have been decently
interred.