The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-07 00:00:00

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." Th'e WindsOr Castle packet hring3 intelligenceOht cna
Of our brigs sif war had been chased into Gibraltar b." two
AMerican frigates',.;.—Yesterday (I'riday) arrivetliiF Majesty's
sloop Icarus, Capt. De ox, who left this auclioHle on Tues-
day last, in consequence of informat:ou'received Iron; the brig
Lion, from Boutdeaux, of •an American schooner heing off'
tliC Start. The Icarus hail not the 'gmid fortune to fall
With the privateer, but saw tvo suspicious frigates oil' the
Lizard yesterday. They were first observed. a.hoat noon,
under easy sail, standing to the south; at one they tacked and
stood for the Icarus, who made the private 0/04 to them,
enforced with guns, which`was not ansWer'ed, tho Ugh kept
flying till.dark; the strangers being then within tl!ree miles
of the Icarus, and coming up fast, an sail was made ; the
frigates did not shew a disposition to chase,- but closed, ap-
parently,tv speak. A little after dark, the Icarus observed a
large suspicious schooner to leeward, which tacked, as did the
Icarus, and made all sail in chase; the schooner proved to be
the Prince de Neufchatel, prize to Sir GE.RGE. Cowries
squadron. Shortly after speaking the schooner, observed
frigate bearing down, heard her hail the schooner; shewed
the night signal, which was, after a long time, answered im-
properly, with her firing:a shot over the Icarus."—(Plyinont/s
Telegraph) .

Uy accounts that have, been received from Ja-
maica, brought by
,a Captain express, who
rived yesterday front a port of Scotland, it appears
•that, the homeward,boondJamalea fleet, according;
ti) the appoiniment of the convoy, was to have
sct sail from that Island on the 'id November.—
The Princess Mary packet had not arrived'at Ja-
maica, but was hourly-exvcted. - The ship
J. H.. Craig, Ivta Master, And the Brixton, bad
arrived out, being a part of the Cork ticet. •
The subsequent is au extract from a letter by,
the Rhin frigate :

MA DtIRA, 1 .-•••=111C Swiftsure,with convoy, passed
Madeira on tile 9th inst. all well, and wjth a fair

Extract of Letter from a passenger on 'hoard
the Sir Edward Hamilton, one of the Wes! India
-convoy, whieTi remained at Falmouth for su long
a period •

.cen, • Jan. sailed from. Val:flout]) ,on the 25t
ult. with a fair wind,•which continued with.us till the evening*
of the following day, when it shittcd to the S. W. front which
quarter, on the 27th, we experienced a very heavy gale, daring
which several ships parted from the fleet. The Commodore
mentions ahvat 60 that are missing ; he had with him about
tso

Extract of- a Letter from the ship F'ortitodc,
boitud to Jamaica, also -oae of the \Vest • India
fleet, which sailed from Falmouth : •
" /It sea, Jan. s.—After leavite,:: Falmouth, we had for a
weep a contrary wind, which had. nearly forced us "again to
seek port, hot we have had for these three 4a a aye run,.
arta hope our passage may yet he good. About 50 sail of the
fleet with the Tortoise store-ship art missiNg. The ships
L'Aigle, Knapten, James aid,Simou Taylor, Marshal:Wel-
lington, and Sir G. Webster, e close with us. .

• According to reports. in the gossipping circles
at Madrid, FERDINAND VII. is (iiiioSed to- enter
once more into the married state.. The Spani;ii
Arnba-sador at St. PetersbUrgh, it is
.said, recom-
mended a Russian Princess, on the ground of the
increased national security' which Spain nikht de-
rive fronfslich a connection ; but the Holy Coun-
sellors of FERDINAND objected to- that proposal,
from an apprehension that the Bride might im-
port the Greek schism into the Country. It was
then suggested that a choice Might more properly
be madt of one of the two Princesses of Portu-
gal for the King, and the other for DON CAat.os,
his Br( t 1 er. This seems, has been adopt-
ed, and Either BERNARDO DE42 has been dis-
patched to the trazils upon the matrimonial mis-
sion. •

Mr. CRoKEa fats addressed the Electors of
the County of .D.Jvii,.as ai Candid ate for the '-
rough of Downpatriek, in the event of
,itx4 being
vacant by the nomination of Mr. 11,1vrraoRNE to
the Excise Board.

'Yesterday Sir NEat: O'DONNEL and Mr. JoiEPit
0' rib:lN EL; Attorney, appeared
_in the Court of
King's Bench, to receive judgment on an infor-
mation, that they, at the late Eleciiim for the
Connty of Mayo, did assault the Right Hon. Da-
Nis Baowxl, and others. ,In the course of the
proceedings,-the JUSTIcE said, that, torso
serious an offende, the Court would reqUire soine
time .to deliberate upon an adequate punishment.
In the interim, the parties were committed to
Nen,gate, and are to be brought up to receive the
sentence o the Court on Wednesday neNt.—
(Dttbli:i Correspondent, Feb: 4.)
Yesterday a CAhinet Council was. held the
Foreign Office, which continued sitting until half
past four ; after it broke up, Mr. CURVOISER,
King's Messenger, was sent of front the Foreign
Office, with dispatches for his Royal Highness
the PIIINCE-REGENT,, at Brighton.

A New York Paper of the 27th of December
contains a long letter from the celebrated Mr.
Itmcnowt, a Statesman no less distinguished by
his staunch nationality' and republicanism, than
by his persevering opposition to Mr. MAntsoN's
government, The Convention of the New Eng-
land States at Harford, and the strong probabili-
ty that their proceedings would terminatein a dis-
solution of the Union, have called forward Mr.
RANDOLPH as a vehement advocate against a mea-
sure which this Gentleman considers so menacing
to liberty. • .
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A letter dated• Dee. 29, states, that only a few
days before,- Mr. MONROE, in a conversation with-
the Minister nf.a Foreign Cotirt, resident in Ame-
rica, had declared,-That- it was not the policy of
the American Government to encourage com-
meree. Mr. KANTZOW, the Swedish Minister, it
is said, was the person to wh'om.he made this tie 7
claration.---Great anxiety, and no slight apPre-
bensions prevail at Washingtoni'and other places,
respecting the Convention of the New England'
States, which has met at 1-.lat:iford, but their pro-
ceedings arc kept a polonnd se6ret.
Accounts from dated 9th December,
by the Sandwich, arrived at Guernsey, in 394a0,
state, that a vessel hid just arrived which had
fallen in with the "British Expedition de§tined
against the Southern States of America, apparent-
ly a large fleet.
.13y the Dutch MA, we have letters irottiArch-
angel and St..Petersburgh, the latter. to the Llth
ult. None of the Russian troops had arrived in
the 'capital. The exchange continued at 111„
The 2tl battalion of the'7lb FuzileerS marched
yesterday &ow Witchesta td sort ttutoberlaild