The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-18 00:00:00

AMERICA,.

Ppwr.smou7n, New HAMPSHIRE, JULY 6.-,—On
Teesddy.. iftertioon, &Image wa.., done at Fort
Constitution, by the accident:ll exploiien of aboiit
3no of gunpowder. It appi'ar4 that a quantity
of t:iirtridges, ph ,pared fur the purpo of firing a
saki::.., been' laced,; y‘ittiont being secui,ed Itt
tiny tliftmg, upon ti4e platform, close to two elitists
filled \xith cartridges, and:tbat the- cartWges having
caught fire, comMuni-caied it tO ihr chcsts. Were-
-0-,t to s,y, that it is alri-.iadV 'ascertained that eight
ilersimc (then and b9v) have Lve:ll i\-4-ti,kl; that Sc.-
vela! are tOsink.;; and- that many n ore are danger-
ously wounded, some of whon=, 'l,2l:iieated, can-
net long siitvive their y:otioCis.
'ftle hid icy of ine deld attd wiiumlyd are mangled
in the roost shocking manner ;-and the force of the
exptosion was s'ach, tha sc-me of the sufferers were
tot nlimb from limb, my.; ear:ied to a great distance
from the spot, in rare u, dite6inos7, One of the
boTte, .vhich was esterday; in the
liter, was ft,tolly.s.i*ped of every article of clOth-
ing, except one smatl piece of a -shirt, close to the
elbow: Piecesiot hom.in di'scover-
e

;.I,.scatter,2cl in different s‘dots: a t Lig:, in one place,,
a 1.. N aid loth in attotle';l‘, and a in a third.—
ln short, we di; not reccile(t ver-t'o have witnessed
a more distressing or appalling sight. Some pieces
of women's petticoats have like.,..kise been found;
and, as we are informed, sone or wore are missing,
we:think they shared the'sae fife with the
To give some idea of the. force which. attended the
explosion, we have only to inf,:rm.onr readers, that
a ilg.and•loot aauall pe:,etrited tin Thigh a double
door in the Captain's house, atil 411;id4 its way'to
the inner part of the room : -ainiost every window
in the fort. wfifstove in; and,-m- the hOuse occu-
pied by the Commandant, the doors were taken
from the hinges, the windows broiwn, the shelves
in the closets torn down, the ceiling, much injured ;
in short, the building is almost in ruins. If the ex-
Iloilo]) had taken place four or five minutes sootier,
it is next to an -imposslbility• but that
.100 persons
more would have been killed ; fortunately the Sound
of a tiddltt at some distance, c,rised almost every one
to flock towards the spw 11.010 wirence it prOceeded.
%---(ACw York Gazette, July 12.)

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Prom the New York Evening Post, .1.41 y 14. I
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NASHVILLE, JULY 2..--0:1 Siil)kicly, the 20th
inst..the following catastrophe happened in the house
of Mr. James Ford,, on the Elbe river, in this State.
A man, .f the name of. Crouch, was suspeded of
having stolen a horse, and was pursued and appre-
hended
at the house of Ford, by Mr. Reynolds and
Mr. Raredon. Two brothers, of the name of Bow-
ling, who were related to Crouch, beard of his con-
finement, and resolved to rescue him. Tirdy went
to Ford's house, and after attempting, unsuccess• .
fully, to cut the cord which CrouclLwas bound with
~
one of the Bowlings presented his rifle to the brea st
of Reynolds; he, in self-def4co, did the sam'
and they, fired nearly at the same timqt Bowling
was ,kided, and Reynolds wounded in the arm
The other Bowhng then pres-t!nted lispieco at
the
same instant at!litaledon, who also -raised his rif
Le to
Bowling's broast ; they tired together., and WO , fell
dead... The fellow' Who was ili cus.ody ran 2
,way,
and was pursued by Reynolds, who .was 111 t 4 ' Ole, to
fire at bin with suco:is, being incapable, (.1-1 ,ading
his rifle, from the disability induced by the' wound
in his arm,

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[PRICE SlXPENCE'itiLriltlifiT.

JAIIMICA P4PERS.

:The General Assembly is prorogtied to. The
August.—(B/op/eniefit to the Gazette, July 8.)
American' schooner, Elea'; r,. Goie, froin
Bpitimore, on Wednesday se'rthight, v s boarded
by the Pet brig of 16 guns, 3nd informed: that the
squadron had landed 600 "searneti- and marines at
St. Domingo, for the pUrpose of co-opcfating with
the patriots.--(Commercial Chi•onicle,.July 1.).
A lice sed trader arrived t ester day from St. Juan
de Porto Rico, the Master.of which says, that on the
29th ult. a ship, a schooner, and gnn-boats, having
50k) men on board, with- a supply of provisions
warlike stores, sailed from that- port tbr the assis-
tance of the Spanish army before St. Domingo.—
(Ro.val Gazette, July 5.)
The United States brig Tiren, sailed from Balti-
more on the sth ultimo, for France and England,
with Mr. Manby'Gelston, of sthis pLee. on board,
entrusted with oLliatches from the American Go-

The Undaunted frigate, of 33 gone„'" •ptain Mal.
ing, ahelwreci pct, i3ort Ropl, On Sunda.). The Hon.
Cochr,:ine (brother to Achn;rill Sir A.
Cochratle, K. B.) and two Sp-imisti Gentlenien,
charged with.ituportant dispatches froin the British
aii4 Spanish Governments for the Viceroy of Mexico,
came passengers in . .
We I.l7.derstand the object of.l\lr. Johnston's mis-
siOn-was.to procure specie for his .ALlesty'S
FL-lent in the West Indies. ,

B.—Tbe fpllo.wing vessels were
bt•ougilt into P0rt78:63.pl on SutAday, viz. the Ame•
rican serionner.dith

`sound to Porto-Rico,,with witu.:.and oil, deiained un
the 27tii ult. off St. Thomas's, by the Sappieu
of Id guns ; the Hoyt tan. witgotterSt: Joseph under
SpuDishcolu'urs, frOn; Azoa,,boUnd to Cur.ccoa,
lignurn-vita, decanted on 1116 21St ult. in 0.-.:oa Bay
by the Tweed sloop of v%ar and .elvwl. brig , and the
schoOner Fame, Ford, and- sloop

under Swedish oolour, tio.n St. Barthokynew's,
bouor. to Aux-Cayes, naval ,to:'es, detkiiiied on

the oil' Beata ty the ,aria and Scucliiie
brigs. The three latter vessels left toe ..1vou• on the

(~.):Finsrant, off Aux-Cayes, all well. Thd Sutellite
was,cruizing'off Beata, anti thd Tweed had proceed-

ed on Cie
.cstli. ult. for. the city of S into-Domingo,
with a supply of tvati.T.for'the squadron.
The Hibernia s)iied from on the (id) of
May, and (in the"9th sPoke a KinsJle fishinA-boat,
the people on board which informed thet that
they had fallen, in with the ship Belfast, Garni;-,:icl;,
from this port, bound to Belfast, with 1.. e loss of all
her mists, bowsprit, and anchors. 0 ► the II th

-she felt in wish
,a Frigate and the Pickle schooner,
with a fleet ofirrtrchantmen ender r.e:r protecqion.

On Ihe't 2C, she spoke ‘ll of war, of

S 411 s._Capt. Worth, on a cruizc.

On 'he 20ill

eaindin Ai`bowell' tell in. with the ship CIL; tham
Vustie, Iron-) Wlnteliaw•!.'n noond to AlartiniqUe ; and

on the 2Gth spoke the tranc:,crt- hr 4.; ilarrilgtan,
from Mad;:ira bound tct- St. Michael's, torcattle for,
the use of the troops at the former Island. On the
22d ult. the Hibernia .cvas boarded by Le Grin
brig, of 16 guns, and shortly afer,.otl Ait'avela, by
thu• Sale/Lite brig," of guns, which iti!(irned her
that the exoedition had not yet' teached Santo-Do-
mingo, but that they were momentsriiiy.exp,..6ted. A
few hours afterwards sit saw a number of" vessels

beating op off Jacmel, betwen Pulnt-Abacoa and
Aitavela, suppw:d to be ihe expedition.
The Lamprey touched at Martinique on the vith
ult. and proceeded the 'same day for this port. A

numbei of AmeriCan, vessels were lying there, and
the Isiatid was Ahlti-idantly. supplied with Athericaa

produce.
On the 3191 M.:ly, the
,Undaunted fell in with
the ship Mary, 'Wills,. from Liverpool, bound to
Demerzir.

The Ethaliion 'frigate, of 31 guns, Capt.T. Coch-
rane, arrived c n Monday from Martin;que, after a
passage „of six clays. . Previous to her sailing, the
brig Charles, Iron) Liverpool and Madeira, arrived
at Port. Royal ;'; the Master of which reported that
he hiid shot before passed the two French fri-
gates!, which, had escaped from Guadaloupe, and, he
Thiqi s and Monde 'frigates in chaCe of, and coming
up Last w ith them. The Thetis was about tour
atilt :s diA.Ant from them, and the _Blonde had alreAy
ope ned leer fire_
.the Ithodian .b4,' of to guns, Capt. Moubray,
ro a,rrived at Port Royal'o-) Wednesda3 from Fat-
ty from whet-lei° she, sailed ott the 19111 April.
.)n the 30th she fell in with the Comet sloop of
war, of 10 guns, Capt. Muddle, with IS sail of
merchant vessels, from Portsmouth, bou,l to New-
foundland, under convoy. On-the 23d ult, in the
Mona Passage; she spoke the Curieux bri.4,‘ of .18
guns, Captain Hodge,drom Batbadoo, bound to
Bermuda.
The Helder frtate,. of 30..g0n5, Captain Serreß,
the Bramble schooner, of 10 plus, Lieut„nant
Fleming, and the Government sloop Port-Royal,
sailed on' Tuesday, to join the squadron off Santo
Domingo.
The Pert brig, of 16 guns, Capt. Hall,- arrived
the same day from a cruize.
On Sunday
_last, St. Jago de Cuba bearing N.W.
aslant it league's, the Nat and Ann fell in with
a Frencfr privateer,. ittf one gun,. 'a long 18-poun-
deri the crew of w hick stated her to be from.S%mto
Domingo, plundered the vessel of a quantity of,
provisions, and threatened to burn her, it the Cap.
rain did not ransom her by .paying 800 dollars,
which he complied with, and was then suffered to
proceed.
The Emerald sailed from Greenock on the 13th
:,1 May, and on .the 2 t sst,- iu Tai . 'rß. 57. N. 'long.
14. 30. W. she spoke.the ship Ann, Friar, from the
Black River, bound to London, all well.
The Pike-schooner, of eight guns, Lieutenant
OtChaid, arrived on Thursday iron a cruize off the
city of Santo Domingo, with the British schoor.;.l

from._ St. Bartholotnew'g, bound to
JAL:in:lli with provisions, which she detained on the
c)tii ult. The Pike left the squadron on .the 22d,•
at which time they were .waiting.fbr the arrival of
the expedition to proceed against the city. Several
shells had been thrown into Fort Jerome, which did'
great damage. The Lark sloop of war and the Fox,
With another brig, arrived with troops on the, 2 1 §t,
the Pike spoke three other vessels belonging to
tht! expedition on the following day.
The following vessels, detained by the squadron
sir Santo Domingo, were brought into Port Royal
on Thursday
Swedish schboner Eliza, from St. ifartholonvw's,
with provisious, detained :mthe 24th May.
Swedish sloop Jo Chero, from ditto, with ditto,
ckt2:itial on the 4th ult.
.1-11itish schooner Phenix, Bronswinke), from Cn-
rac-ca, said to be bound. to Cuba, laden with provi-
vtis, detained on the 6th ult. •
• Swedish schooner Fandango, Larres, from. St.
--41;2.i•tholoniew's, with provisions, detained on the
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flritish sloop Favourite, Winter, fro:n a St.
Thomas's, with 'provisions, detained on the 14th ult.
iiritish schooner Kitty, from St. Thomas's, with
ii-ovistons, detained the tpth alt.

MALLS.
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'LONDON, •
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, mg..

When thiS Paper was put to Press no accounts
lead been received by Government of the surrender
Fliashitig. We are not, however, inclined to call
doubt that most important event. .We firmly
believe, on, the contrary, that Flushing became ours
on the day stated in the letter from Middleburgh ;
though we think-it highly probable that many'nf the
circumstances were fitted to the event, by the. writer
pf that letter. Indeed, tow' should it be other-
The writer could not have seen the terms
proposed by the French Goiernor, and therefore it is
evident that in furnishing to the.public those interest-.
i.ig details which appeared in a Second Edition of a

P.Ter of yesterday, the intention was to assume
cre,iit for piiority of intelligence, well knowing
that when all the real and true circumstances had.
been officially announced,• there would be such uni-
yeral joy, and so much well-founded. exultation, as
would prevent the examination of those fabulous de-
tails h w-hich the public has been aniqsed.
When the official accounts arrive, we shall' then
learn whether there had been -a first proposal to
surrender, and -whether a desire to: include Irish
Bebels in the Capitulation bad caused our Com-
io iejeEt that proposal. Should it appear
tilat the hr. poll Governor had attempted to negotiate
for Rebels, the- atteMpt, we are confident, must
ivc tailed.

The Earl of CHATHAM will pint have felt with the
11..rorniizg chronicle of this d s;', that tntin, termuse.
they are R,bris, are thereby absoh;ettfroni' their 21.-
1 el: ce: . Was it our Soverein, then, who forced
Iris subjects into that 'Rebellion which atone drove
them Into the ranks of his enettny ; and does that Re-
belliQn cotislitute them subje&s of another Realm 2
Qa mo,t points, we might'sv on all points, we
are cons4antly cliffering from .ithe :principles of
that Oppo3i-tion Chronicle, ansd 'we • glory in
Clat difference; but we Dever coold have expet-
ed that the 3Vriters pf -that.:Pap.,7 would have
theruselycs approached so.nearly to the verge of Re,
bcihon, and we should never have loi*ed for such
gross ignorance of -thatfirst' Law of tl tis land, that

by no aa, whatever can the King's but ‘jeds th.eow
ofFtheir allegiance. Surely the hateful coime of he-
hellion could not be an absolution for that s 'cry trim e.
The .Morning Chronicle, in its anxiety to Name, ,is
&Wed to the writing of absutdity and novsense,

That unfortunate Paper is still writhing under the,
7.1.1),.23 of its dwn.folly and in every hue that is now
pc-meiv:-... the • embarrassment which it
114c1 ettgencieredfor itself, by its foul aspeilsion of the
chrtraaer of Sir ARTHVg. WEI,LESLEY. Unhappy
11.11.er we cannot but feel for thy present most
ault ward and cruel situation.

AVhat must have been the feelings of these wri-
te,,,
:y hen they did not dare not to, praise that he-
r, is Cwntnander, whoni, while the Tower-gurfs were
filing, they had most basely attempted to vilify ;
and what must be their feelings now, when the ir-
reistibhifote of,erents has obliged them to ow*n.that
0:1; I NyATUATED MilliSters, in their WASTE of the
•
Resoures of the Country, " have given to
the English an opportunity Werneasure themselves
". against BUONAPARTE'S veterans, and have thereby
taught thenl'how, the more effeEtually; to defend
!‘ their own Country ! ! !"

Dispatches, we Linde' stand, have been received at
the %Adii~irsitp, respeoling the dispoaition of the
riench tvval force in the Schchit, which. we an-
itoitticl 'yesterday. It is said , that the- French
sent a message to Sir 11C111ARD
.
tivtIACH:AN; declaring that he F; d the crews under
coin 4l:tki.;.; sled thp last drop of their blood
-,,g our fleet, if the pass.le Eip,=:. Sebeidt be
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