The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-23 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

.PLY(YTOUTH, MARCH 21.—Arrived this (110:1:11;,,-;
tht..:.la6kdary Schooner, of i 0 guns, late in Hi' :Mr-
jcs:y'sService ; she sailed hence with Vice-Admit-ill
SirJ, T. DUCKWORTH, for the Mediterranean, hot
separated in a gale of wind, and was captured by tl.e
Enemy, and afterwards fitted (AI by them as a
Cruizer, and was fallen in with and captuired by the
Minerva and Amazon Frigates.

Accounts are received that the Alexander Priva-
teer, of this Pon, mounting i o guns, has foundered
at sea, and all the Crew perished.
Sailed the Sea Horse• Frigate for the Mediterrai cal
'with Dispatches.
Kent, of 74 guns, is come into Harbour to
refit,

-Arrived the Monarch, of 74 guns from the Chan-
nel Fleet.

PQRTSbrOtITIT, MARCH 22.—Arrived yesterday
the Halcyon. Sloop, Capt. PEMtSE, from the Medi-
tert:Thean.

' Sailed yesterday the Mercury Frigate, and the
Speedy Sloop, with a .convoy far Nesmfoundland,
Quebec, and Bermuda ; and elm Devasffttiarz Bomb
for the Downs. To-day sailed the Topaze Frigate
and William Store-ship for the Westward ; also the
Lord Duncan, ritarmy, for St. Domingo; Cale-
donia, Bokko, for the West Indies, with two or three
other Sail.

The „Sgfeguard Gun-vessel has detained the rap-
pnburgh Galliot Fredriks Senior, from :Warrens,
s:vith.Salt, for a market.

hundred thousand of the dollars brought
from Vera Cruz by the Resistance Frigate, have been
put board the • EleCira Sloop, Capt. TRoLtozz,
for the Mediterranean. The .Sea Horse Frigate,
Capt. STUART, is to take as many as she convenient-
ly can, for the same service. These Ships take the
•
Mediterranean Convoy.
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FALMOUTH, MARCH i'o.—Arrived the American
Ship Highland Mary, Capt. FRAZER, of Fredericks,
_burg-h,
,47 days from Norfolk ; left in the ChesaL
peak His Majesty's Ships Bellone, Triumph, and
Mermaid, watching two French Line-of-battle Ships
and one, Frigate of 44 guns ; a French Frigate was
also lying at Philadelphia. Also arrived His Majes-
ty's Wig Insolent, frolic Plymouth.
Sailed His Majesty's Schooner Pickle, of 8 guns,
having tinder her convoy the Bush and Dragon Vic-
tuallers, and the IVimro Cotter, to joist the Chan-
nel sleet; also. the West India Ship Fortune, for
Cork, to join Convoy for the West

It is thirty-seven dayS since the Siiip Highland
Mary irlade the Western Islands, having experience 4
nothing but stronz, northerly gales of wind.
PAZSUICIRS PEA Hi4l-11-AND MA/4.x —Capt. Hamilton
of the Army, and Capt. Claridge of the Navy.

Cowls, M.Aacit £2.—Arrived the Ramburgh
Ship Leopold the Second, It. .43. KROHN, from Bil•
boa, with wool.

Sailed the Nymph, H4ll/tINIToN). and the Hope„,
MitnELsoN, for London, with iron.

-On Friday last the Swan Revenue Cutter, Capt,
PE ants, of 14 guns, belonging to this Port, was
taken off Switnagc by three lirench Luggers ; part
of the crew eseapad in the Cutter's boats, and are
arrived here.

SHEERNESS, MAncit 2 1 .—Camedoim from pink-
stakes and anchored at the Nore, the Minotaur),
of 74 guns, Capt. MANSFIELD.

Sailed the Leveret Sloop of War, Vaterms and
Muzntless Prams. for the Downs.

MARCH the' Bustler Guti,brig for the
Downs.

The Ringdoye SloOp of War, and the Linnet Gun,
'brig are fitting for
.sea with all possible dispatch..

DEAL, MARCII q2.—Sailgd from the Downs last
night the Fury Bomb, with the Lord Hawkestury,
Castle, 'Surrey, and Witlpo4e-Eitst-incliarnen,
and a large Fleet of Transports, Coasters and Colliers,
under.convoy, for Portsmouth Rellette and Skylari
Sloops of War on a Cruize.
Remain in the Downs the Trusty, Isis, Princess of
Orange, and the Namur Men of War ; Ciyd: Vestal, and
Sotebay Frigates ; Rail!eur and Challenger Sloops &f war;
Adive Cu:ter ; • Harmony
Zebra and Explosion Pornbs
Vittualler, and several Gun-brigs.

The Fame East•lnctainan was captured on the
24th 'Of September last, •by the PieVinontese French
Frigate, of 46" guns on her passage from Bomir,,
to Bengal. Thel'ame supported a severe contest lc;
.some time against the very superior force of the
board atell'erncrYeW,Asutrlreeringdtelrei
dC;aptthaeiny JwAelslreEStoa
taken
his
on?T
the Frigate, and were afterwards put on board an
.Arab Ship, with the exception of the Surgeon and
Boatswain.
• Killed in the ARion—Peter Patten.
lnunded- W. 1. W eare, Chief Officer; C. Thomas Mid-
shipmiln ;W. .Merchant, Thompson, T. serjeant,
and A. Armstead, Seamen,—all

The Cossack Frig;ft,„ at Qhatham, kto be fitted
for iaupOiate service, as is the Vittbry, of t to (!uns.
The-Acitleicy is to sail with the Newfoqudlaud
Convoy in a few days from. Portsmouth.

The-„Pigmy. arig, of la guns, was wrecked neat
Oescmck of the. Light, off the entrance of itovbefOrt
arbour on the night of the 2d.. inst.. during a tre-
mendous gale of wind. She went to pieces, but
Lieut. HIGOINSON, his officers and crew, were
saved, and are prisoners in

.4 ;MR10.4287 PE I? .5.

toSiOii; aria Charleton Papers, to tlte
sth ult. have arrived; Tli6 conspiracy of Colonel
BURR; Which has heed the St bjeet of. a Message
froth the PresicleUt to the Smite; continues to •figi:
tate America.
These Papers contain a lefter trdrii Cincinnati;
dated. the end of Deceinber, stating the Militia to
be posted along the Ohio, from Pittsburgh to the
mouth of the Kentucky River, with orders to board
. every boat' that descends, The boats that BURR
built at Marietta have been seized by order of the
Government.; they-are represedted.'at of a singular
.construCtion, and capable of carrying 200 men each.
it was believed that the principal part of these boats
had passed to their destination before the orders ar-
rived to seize them ; and some thousand stand of
small arms, as well as several brass field-pieces,
bad passed down the River several--weeks before
the. date of the letter. BURR was known to. have
purchased provisions -to the amount of one hun-
dred thousand dollars ; and it way -apprehended,
that in case of a rupture with the Spaniards.;Gene-•
WILKINSON, with the Army, would go over to
the'Enemy.
On the 22d ult. the House received a Message
frorh the. President relative to this supposed con:.
spiraey ; it was -referred to a Select Committee.
The President, states, that hefirsthad information
Qf Brnuel designs in September last; and sent a
itrusty Messenger to the State of Ohio. Supposed
.evidenee of BURR'S guilty-intentions increasing, the
11 ess.oger communicated with the. Governor of
Ohio, and- hence arose the proceedings of the Le-
gislature of State. The President received let-
ters .from General,Wit..xiNsoN, in which he says
that he had, from communications from Bvaa,
partly oraland*pirtly in cypher, the fullest evidence
of his intentions : that he had several objeEts in
vie* ; -such as a- separation of the Union by the.
Allegany Mountains,--. and an attack on Mexitso, the

seitlement of Baron BAsTnor's lands to serve as a.

,cover. Finding he could _not. alitenate the afrec;
_Cons of the Western States to the Union, be de-
termined to seize on New Orleans, the Bank there,
and then go to Mexico. No proof-appeared of
any foreign interest being concerned in, the con-
spiracy ;. but, from BURR'S boastings, it `might be
hiferre'd that England was engaged in it. The
President then proceeds to state, that he considers.
'the enterprize as nearly crushed ; and mentions
the propriety of bringing Dr. BOLLMAk and others,
who are taken, before the Supreme Court of the
United States, in the distria of Columbia, the week
after next.

Almost all the proof against BURR comes from.
General WILKIN 40N. OGDEN and ALEXANDER are
With arrested, and are to be sent here by'the schooner
Brothers and Sisters. A great reward is.offered for
the apprehension of BURR, and for information re-
lative to the. conspiracy. The attack .on 'Orleans, by
.13yr:it-and his Associates, was to have taken place
on the 20th of January.
On the 22d of December Colonel Bona sailed
from-Nashville with two boati, and was to bejoihed
by .a number of others at the mouth of Cumber-
land River.

'On the 13th'of January a daring attempt was
made to set the town of Norfolk on tire ; but it
Was. timely discovered, and a patrole Of the inha-
bitants was immediately appointed to prevent4ia.
lar designs.
'ln mucky the last harvest has proved misera-
bly deficient i there was no hay in the country,
and every prospeel prevailed of a severe
-winter.
In the HouSe of Representatives, on the 16th of
January, it was resolved that the President be re-
quested' to furnish any information in hispopessiiin
relativei to the illegal. combinations ofindividuals
against the' safety of the State, or of any military
expedition planned by them against any nation with
which 'the United States are at peace ; :excepting
such information as might not suit the public wel-
fare to be disclosed. There were for the motion
• 11)07-• against 'it 14. To the original motion, was
then added a request to know what measures Go-
vernment had taken to defeat the attempts in ques-
. ton., which was carried by a majority of 67 to 52.
The Augusta Paper, of the 27th of December,
reports; that Colonel BURR had been arrested at
Marietta; and ,that the Governor-at Mexico had
refused to ratify the Treaty of Genetal Wit.kissox.
Mr. RANDOLPH, in his 'speech calling
.upop the
President to communicate the information respea-
ing the proceedings in the Western Country, ob-
served, that either the conspiracy had been defeated.
or it had succeeded to its utmost ; but he did not
despair of seeing it checked,,even if it bad gained
its greatest extent. He made some severe com-
ments on the condua of Spain towards the United
States, who, while she was treating with them
with one hand, was preparing to stab them with
the other. He -asked why the Spanish Minister
bad not been seat home ; said that New Orleans
was the object of the expedition, and that if the
,conspirators should • arrive at Baton Rouge, before
the American. troops, New Orleans must fall. He
bad, he said, expeEted and foretold the danger of
losing • the Delta 'of the Mississippi ; he knew not
who the modern Catiline would. be ; but he was
convinced there would be one. On conchiding, be
earnestly iatreated the House to be more prompt in
. their decisions. • •
A letter from Fincastle (Botetonrth, Virginia), to
a Gentleman in Richmond-, states, that a perialp of
;..respeaabi;lity, ,who came direbly from Kentucky,
"-had brought intelligence of an. insurrenion
iad taken place on the 15th NeWernber last, at St.
"I=,nuie; that the Spanish flag had been hoisted,. and
•
Itine tenths' of the people 'had flocked to it ; that
luturhad been again seized; and tour officers were
in'ttursnit of General ADAIR, as a`witness against
The'General had left Frankfort two days be-
feirt for St.' Louis..'
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Another letter from Washington, dated the 22d of
January, mentions that a great reward has been of- ,
fereel for tha apprehension. of BURR, whose attack '
npon New Orleans was to have taken place on the
20th.of that rn:)nth.
'TheArneriean.Cangress has passed a Bill for the
Abolition of -the Slave Trade, by a rnajorrty 'of 24,—.
the number's being,
,ayes 73,. --noes-49. - • "
A letter frOm New Orleans, dated the atiffilDe-
cemb.c.r, represents all:business as having beerilifa "
stand for 20 days Fast, inconsequence of the alert*
of Bean's intended expedition down the River
ti e Planters are afraid to send down their produce,

and the dealers are disinclined to buy nierchaadize.