The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-19 00:00:00

AMERICAN tAMR'S-.
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titrristr, AGlter ARMITTED TO 'LAND.
NEV 'LoN-poN-, OCT. 26.—A tag cif trace AA--
rived here yesterday 'morning., from the British;
• sloop 'cif war Morgianna, with a letter front Gil -
bert E,.q. to General Cushing, Com-
-mantling Officer of 'this .Military District. It has
heen.l4tiow.n for 'some that that 'Mr. Robinson has
been appointed-Ag-eot for Prisoners .cif War by the
*British Government.; anti we ptestithe he has been
' inforined by the Commanding .Officer, that the
tiovernineot of the United States will not receive
Lim in that capacity. Four ships and a brig are
ilow% -off this port.
Sunday litst two British Officers,. Lieutenant
Daniel Carpenter, formerly Conic antler of the
cutter Algerinei and Lieutenant Loeser, late of
Abe-brig Jasseur, were arrested at Saybrook, and
brought. to this place. - By their representation
they .were a part of the 24 hostages sent from
'Pitsfield to'teakaster, and ini-ve been exchanged.
No siftisteneeshaving been for some weeks fur-
,nished.lllem, rind no prospect appearing of their
, . being sent borne, they tletermined, if possible, to
get on board some British ship: With this view
they left Lancaster, and came to Saybrook ;
seh'eres4fter two unsuccessful attempts to get off
in Isoetts.,,; being first baffled by the weather and
• then by thy 'tide, they were OR the third day sus-
petted to be spies, and arrested, The Marshal has
taken proper steps to ascertain their true chi,
, racier. •
tt,
are-ne wffelitliVreteirli rina line oFitaAin soe andr
efficient breast workS finished, almost circumva-
latii,g the south line of this town. All of which
has been effected in a very short time, by the vo-
luntary labour of the citizens of this place.
RICH CAPTURES FROM THE BRITISH.
NEW YORK OCT. 31.—The privateer brig
Portsmouth, Shaw, arrived at Portsmouth on
Wednesday, the 19th Octobur, bringing in 260
bales and cases of British goods, said to be valued
at 260,000 dollars, winch she took out of the
James, Messenger, bound froth London to Que-
bec, and laden with dry goods, ruin, gin, brandy,
and SO casks of gunpowder, besides clothes, &c.
for the army in Canada. The James sailed with
a fleet of 44 sail, from .Plymouth,. under prOtec-
tiou of a:trigate, and pitrted in a gale about the 4th
Octoier Off the Banks of Newfoundland. The
"James 'was thrown on her beam-ends, and nearly
the wh,,le convoy was dispersed. The fleet con-
veyed 8000*troops. Capt. Messenger haS stated,
that the cargo on boald the James was invoiced at
100,0001. sterling, of which the Portsmouth took
out -35,000/. worth; as, per inwice.
,The sale of
the goods at Durham, on Thursday, captured by
the Portsaiouth, on her former cruise, amounted
to upWards of 190,000 dollars ;.,.'.ocl allowing the
goods she-has now brought in, to average as much
at the sale. as those at Durham, (and there is no
doubt they wilt more, as they are better adapted
,to the season) they will amount to more than
362,0,00 dollars ; thus netOng to the owners, and
all concerned 'in that vessel, upwards of 512,000
dollars in the short space' of 33 days.
The privateer schooner Grampus, late Murphy,
belonging to Baltimore, consigned to John White
and Co: arrived in this port yesterday, from a
five nionths'-cruise off the Western Islands, dur-
lug which she made six prizes, manned four of
theism, and ordered them in. On the 4th Sep-
tember fell in with the British sloop of war Ariel,
- disguised, and after a severe engagement-, in
‘shich she received several shot between wind and
water, succeeded in beating her off. Capt.Murpby,
during the engagement, received a grape-shot,
which carried away part pi his right jaw and
tongue; And a musket-ball at the same instant in
his right thigh, but reluctantly permit ted hintself
to be carried below. He survived three clays af-
terwards., ,H. Young and J. Abbott were also
killed in the engagement. The Grampus put into
Lanzarote, and was,there informed the United
, States Peacock on the 2d September had been
there for water, and finding none, had sailed the
next day for Fuertebentura. At Lanzarote they.
landed 12 prisoners, who informed that during her
• cruise the Peacock had sunk two British sloops.
BCSTOOT, OCT. 30.—The British ship Neptune
(late Captain Attcol) prize to the Amelia of Bal-
tilt-tore, arrived at New-York on the 13th ult.-
- Shisiiiled from. Greenock, Aug. 20, and was cap-
tured, Sept. 4, in lat. 46, long. 40—is 450 tons,
mounts eight carronadef; and had 18 men 4 her
cargo consisted.,of 222 tons of seacoal, 140 pack-
ages of goods, 34 hogsheads of claret, 10 pipes of
wine, 15 ditto gin, 60 barrels of pork, &c. The
Neptune was not taken till after an action of =5O
minutes. None hurt on either side.
The Amelia captured five others, two of which
sheuttumed, sunk two, and ordered in the fifth.
The private armed brig Dash, Bacon, of Port-
land, from a cruise of thirty days, is arrived:—
She nets captured the British schooner Regent,
from Nora Scotia. for the West Indies, laden with
fish, and manned.her ; and brig Jane, from Bar-
hadoes for St. -John ; the cargo consisted of runt,
of which 138 puncheons were taken out, and the
vessel given up.

APPROXIMATION TO REBELLION.
NEWHAVEN, CONNECTICUT, OCT. 24--His
Excellency the Governor on. ThurSdaylast'sent
Message to both Houses, cppminiicating a-letter
from the Governor of the Commonwealth of Mas-
sachusetts, and also fronf'the rresident of the
Senate, and Speaker-of the House of Represen-
tatives of that Stfite, inviting then' State to send
Delegates to'a CoilV4tion of the New England
States, to he held atlicilford, in December next.
On the motion of Mr: Denison, the Message and
tfic Documents accompanying the same, were re-.
(erred to the Joint COMMitte, to-whom was re-:
feri-ed the Speech of the Governor at the opening.
of the Session, and the- subject of tlic defence of
The State.

BERmuDA, Nov. fl.—Admiral Cockburn is pre-.
paring here for sea, in the Albion, 74, with every
dispatch. • Rumour says, he goes first to the Che-
sapeake, thel against Savannah,' with the battalion
of Marines lett by him in the Chesapeake, and the
remainder of the Bourdeaux troops. The Portia
sloop arrived "here on the 3d inst. We understand
she is the avant courier' of, a naval and military,
force, which left 'Portsmouth and Plynionth in