The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-23 00:00:00

JAMAICA PAPERS.

1 KINGSTON, JUNE 7.---4ntelligence brought by the
Ship General Walterslol4 from Porto Cavallo, con-
firms the capture of two of MIRANDA'S Schooners,
which are stated to have been carried into Porto
Catallo, where the people belonging to them were.
landed, and examined before a Notary Public.
'Five of them were sent to the City of • Caraccas,
and the ;remainder , were imprisoned at another
place ; 'and it was supposed that several of them
Would either he executed or put to the torture.
We ' also learn by the same .conveyance, that a
'Brig 0122 guns, two large well-armed 'Schooners,
and three Pilot-boats, each carrying one gun, had
been sent out to cruize, with the hopes of falling
'in with the other Vessels attached to the Ex-
4:edition.

We understand that on the Peruvian colours
which MIRANDA carried with him, the following
words were imprinted in large charaders :—Viva el
Rey 'de Espana, y muera el mat Govierno—" Long
live the King of Spain, but let his mischievous
iernment perish."

The ' Fiskar d Frigate, of 38 guns, Capt. Boi:Tiii4,
arrived from a ciuize on Thursday evening; 'and on
the following day arrived- the. Fortune 'Frigate; of 'J'ti
guns, Capt. VANSITTART, with.a French Privateer,
of guns and 120 men, 'her :prize ;., andthe
armed. American Schooner Ruth, from •Port-au-
Prince to Port Royal, with dispatches tb Admiral
EtAckas, imit detained by the'Fortane off the Coast
of St. Dbmingo. The dispatches are from 'Captain
LEwxs,,of the: Ship Emperor (the brother of Capt:
'LEWIS, of the Leander, MIRANDA's V esgel) , 'whey
has requested to be infortned:if any official commua-:
nication ollthaAt4DA's _proCeedings have 'been 're-
ceived here, as it was understood at Port-au-Prince
'that, he had' been suceessful 'at the Caraccas, and.
was on his 'march to 'possess hiniself of Laguira ;
and if that intelligence should proveto be =red.,
Capt.-LEwis states, that he .is in readiness. to.em-
. bark
;his with a considerable.numberof Mulattoes to go
toassistance.

The Mediator Frigate, of 36 guns, from St. An-
`dreas, and La Renard Slonp'of War, of 18 'guns,
captain COGLAi, from a maze\ arrived on Tuesday.
The latter Veisel brought in with her the .Frendh
Imperial' Brig La Diligente, carrying 14. Bing sixes
and two brass 32-pounders.,.and 124 men, .and com-
manded by Monsieur CHEVEIARD. Sheleft L'Orient
about six months aguin order to join the Squadron
under Commodore L'HEittrri:‘, -of Le Regulus; of
74 guns, and bad proceeded in search of him to
Cayenne, and from thence to Guadaloupe, fram
which Island she had sailed on her return to France,
with dispatches', when La Renard fell in with.her
:between the West end, of Porta-Rico and Zachoa,
on the 25th ult.,and after a chace of three days and
three nights, as far as hit. i 24. 30. N. long. 65. W.
succeeded in capturing her on the 28th without any
resistance.' The Brig has a considerable-quantityof
~.naval stores on board. Her Cpmmander (after
having been -a few minutes on board La 'Rettard),
is stated to have expressed much mortifix:ation that
lie should have surrendered to a Vessel apparently
inferior in appointment to his own.
We learn, by a neutral, lately arrived, that one
of MIRANDA'S Vessels had -a warm rencontre with
the forte sent to cruize for him, and after having
received conSiderable inlury, she escaped with some
difficulty. The Captain -is stated to have been
kilkd during the engagement, and two Officers,
from the fear of falling into the hands of the Spa-
niards jumped into the sea and- perished. ,
We understmd by a neutral Which arrived on
Wednesday, that MiztarinA's two smaller Vessels.
have:been Captdred by some Guarda-ccistas, and ear—
riedinto -a Port on the Main.

The Hunter Brig, of 13 guns; 'Captain IiCGLE-
FIELD, arrived at Halifax from this Island about the
7th of April, and the Success. Frigate, of 32 guns,
Captain Avscouom, on the 20th. The Brig Eliza,
HARRIS, which sailed from this Port for Halifax,
Under convoy of the Hunter, foundered five days
:after leaving the island.
The Aretitusa Frigates Captain g R TSB AWE., returned
to Port Royal yesterday, having been ashore on the
Collorados) where she remained thirteen hours, and
was Obliged to throw all her guns overboard. She
brought in with her a Sanish Schooner from Car-
. thagena, bound to the Flavantithi with cocoa and
bark, her prize, and has detained the Brig Frientic,
MEDCALF, from Honduras to Philadelphia., with rum
and log Wood.

From the deVastatinn committed by theheavp and
incessant rains in the high and low lands of Liguanea,
andthe adjacent parishes, both Eastward and West-
ward, and by the torrents which have poured through
'this city, and swept over the wharves, during the
' course of this week, we fear that accounts of much
more serious mischief will be•received. We under-.
stand that the River Mimi, in the Parish of Claren-
don, came down last Week with great violence, by
.which circumstance, Dr. JAMES" JOHNSON, a very
tespeetable.praditioner of that Parish, was unfortu-
nately drowned; and we are sorry ,to add that it has
been "mentioned that the Rev. WILLIAM R. BAR-
NITT; Reetor of St. Dorothy,' in attempting, in the
early part of this week) to cross a place called Cut,-
throat Gully; a short distance from Spanish Town,
in a sulky, was overturned, and perished, with his
servant and horse. In the vicinity of this city
several, negroes have lost their lives. On Tuesday a
negro-man, the property of Mr. STAMP, in endea-
vonring to save a log of mahogany, which was car-
Tied away by the current of water down the Gully,
near Putney Lodge, was thrown on his back and
swept into the sea. The body of a small boy was
taken up on Wednesday from beneath the sand at
the lower part of King-street. The road of com 7
munication between the Parishes of St. Andrew
and Port Royal, as well as the Hope Road by the
Long Mountain, have both been rendered impassable
.for travelling on horseback.

FRENCH SQUADRON.
Arrived the Schooner, Experiment, from Barba-
does, by which we learn, that two American's, one
called the Independence, the other's name not re-
colleeted, had brought accounts there a few days
before her sailing, of their having fallen in with a
French Squadron, consisting of three Line-of-battle
Ships and four Frigates, ,cruizing about 30 leagues to
windward of that Island., Admiral COCHRANE was
then at Atttipa, with the Canada'and Northumber-
land, 0f74 (Tuns.

By the Ship Frederick, arrived at Barbadoes frock
"Africa, fprther particulars are received of the French
• `-i-uadroti 'which lately annoyed the trading Ships

on that Coast. They are stated to consist or the
-Regulus, of 84 guns, Cybele and President, of 40
each, Surveillance Brig, and a Schooner. The Fa-
rpurite Sloop of War, which they captured, has
been commissioned, and is cruizing.with them.
Many of the Guineamen made a gallant resist-
ance, but the Fsederkk was. the only one 'fortunate
enough to succeed in repelling their superior,: force.
She twice' sustained' their attack on the Bth of,Fe-
bruary, being at one time engaged with the flrig
and Schooner for near two hours ; and. after beat-
ing them off, had again to combat one 'of: the
-Frigates and the Sloop of War, .frosn which she
escaped by night coming on, and anehored in three
'fathoms water.