The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-10 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, Au•c. 5.

IN our last we mentioned, that the post c6ming
from the . West Co-Unary Was yobibed early on Sun-
dlv.morning, three miles., west &tn Linlithgow.
"When the information reached this City, Mr. Kerr,
Seer'etary to the. General Post,,Office, Mr. Beve-
ridge, the Solicitor, and Mr. Ronaldson, Surveyor,
immediately set about- the most efFedual means to
di,cov,r the, depr,:dators, and itr this they were
heartily seconded ley the Magistrates of the City,
and the Sheriff of the ICounty. Messengers were
sent otf in varions:direttions, ant;l the most adiv,e
search, was' made. On- Mondav intelligence was
received,, of two su,picion persons having arrived
ire" town in. the course 'of Sunday evening. On
.Tuesday additional oireumstauces Confirmed the
grotibd, of suspicior, and in the course of the fore-
, the person, were trated to Rnse-street, New_
Town, where they were apprehended in separate
house;. in-Which they had taken refuge upon learn_
ing, they were pursued; ~-One c f tthem had nearly
escaped the search, having concealed himself in a
bed covered with dirty linen, &c.. In the course
of the afternoon, they were both examined by the
Sheriff, when one of them made a full disCovery of
the. whole transaaion. •

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When they were- ?pp-ellen' ;tied, a aol. note, and
several small notes, in the whole amounting . to
about 601. were found in their possession. One is
named Robert Brown, who was burn in Penny.
cuick ; the other, lames rlgrk, alias Stewart. It
is said they are byth 'deserters from the
.Foot Guards.
. Yesterday two Clerks of the Post-Office,. aecom„
partied by two Shera's Officers, went in chaises,
along wiih BroWn,'to a hill surrobnded with wood
in the neighbourhood of Linlithgow,: where he
shewed them the lettth, &o. „hid in a hole in the
earth, and covered with a large stone. We are
sorry, however, to add, that all the hills ‘vhich hap-
pened to he. in the letters were burnt by thejlepre-
dators, to prevent dettion.

CONSPIRACY OF THE NEGROES- IN

AMERICA.

Wv. some weeks since announced the discovery
ofan extensive Conspiracy of ail Blacks, in the
nthern Provinces- of America, for the murder of
their Mie,ters, .and the overthrow of the EXisting
Government of the,Country." The Slaves of N. Ca ro.
lina were,most forward in the plot, and their rising
was to haire been the general signal for' revolt
throughout the neighbouring States,- :The 'Toth of
June. was the day appointed for the Negroes in the
distrias of MurfruSborough, Bertie, Winton, Wind.
&c. to assemble; and commence a general Mas—
sacre of the Whites. .The plot was,discovered. by
a letter found in the possession of a Negro Wo.
man, dire&ing certain Negroes, therein -named, to
be ready with, their arms at the time appointed.
Ten of these people were tried at Winton on the
z+th ofJune. By the evidence, it appeared that they
were to assemble at Coekraros Ferry, on the .loth;
and to seize the arms, &c. deposited at Mr. Fires ;
after murdering all there, they were to proceed to-
neeman Chapple,. in Bertie, where an Association
Meeting of the Baptists was expected to draw to-
gether a large colletliOn of people; all the White
Males and Old Females were to ••be murdered, as
also any Blacks who would not join them :—the
_young White Females . were to be reserved for
Wives, .and the young Female Slaves were to. be
retained as domestics for them, This part of the
army was to be commanded by a Mulatto named
Frank,' who was executed at. Winton, on the i 2th
of June.. A fellow named K;ng Brovm, '.vas the
leader of another division, and has been executed,
with, eight others, at Windsor.

Upwards of zoo Slaves are in custody in Bertie
County, and great numbers in Martin, &c.--The
Militia have beerLealledl out, and every White
in the-Country has been under arms Many nights.
Artlalifax,. the inhabitants patrole the streets
_r)ightly.--By the evidence of a Black, named Tony,
4%,t place was to have been set on- fire on the night'
of the 14th of June, and all the Whites massacred
during the conflagration. The arrest- of this fel-
low, and some others,.has been the means of avert-
ing
.the calamity,
To the date of the last accnurts, mtich alarm
prevailed, but sack precautions had been taken.as
removed all danger.

DERBY'' Au9usT 5.

ABOUT seven o'clock in the evening of °Mon.
day se'ii-night Mr: Joseph Patrick, officer of
Excise, of 'Long Eaton, in this County, oh his
vial/ to Stamford, in' a 'single hor,e,ehaise,. was.
stopped by an highwayman about a mile on the
turnpike from Empingham, tvlto, pieserned
pistol, and robbed him of a silver watch, anti 20s.
in money,.—Soon after, the same man went into
2 turnip.close, by the 'road side, where Was
whom Mr. Allen, of Empingharwhomlle very taco_
laically accosted with "I.1:-..nd ur cut."--Pereeiv.,
ing a well-dressed man, Mr. Allen supposed he
was joking; and replied he. didn't 'understand
him : " Do you know what I mean now' says
the highwayman, at the same time ':presenting
a pistol at him, " Come; come,- hand us out, I
say* On which Mr. Allen gave 'him the little
money he had about him, and the man rode off
towards Edithweston. He afterwards robbed, 9
servant.man, of Mr. SeatOn, of Hambleton, of
a few shillings. The robber is A pale, thin youpg
'man, was dressed in a blue 'coat, light.:Coldured
waistcoat, half-boots, and was mounted on a
brown horse, with a i)tir of saddle-bags under.
him.

THIRD DAY of DRAWING. , 10,700, .flie
Firsr-drawn Ticket this' morning, entitled to Ten
Thousand and Nineteen. Pounds', was sold and re-
gistered by Holussuy and Co. 26, Cornhill.—On
Thursday next, the First-drawn will
,be to
20,0001.