Star.
London, England, 1808-09-07 00:00:00

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at GuthDia,
Sept. 12. Chasies Wasik of ZUscibiro, Lases.,
at eleven, at the Quoaars Head, MAW&
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bledibars, Lanonhlre, eornaeslors sod eoparbsere,,st eloy
at the Queen's Head, Risekburo.
Sept. 15. Clariatopber Cobb, of Ringwood, Hants, hosier, *
throe, as the White Hart, Ringwood.

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BARBADOF.S. WLY is.
His Majesty's schooner Subtle arrived yesterday
eveningg• from off St. Martin's, where, with die Wan.
deret- sloop of war, and Balahou and Elizabeth schos .
ners, she had been engaged in an attempt to c•.ury
that island by a coup de main, but which they were
frustrated in, owing chtefly to some false information
of the enemy's strength, whom, however, they drove
from three batteries in a very gallant manner; but on
attacking a fourth, had to sustain a sharp conflict
' with more than treble their number. About 180 sea•
mkt and marines from this little squadron were the.
whole engaged in the enterprise, headed by Lieute..
nant Spearing, of the Subtle, who unfortunately fell'
in storming the last battery, in which attempt about
20 or 30 men were also killed and wounded. The
enemy's force at this post was nearly 500 men, against
whom it was impossible to make an effectual stand or
a safe retreat—a surrender, therefore, became the
only alternative, and the whole party consequently
were made prisoners. We understand, however,
that a flag soon after passed between the squadron
and the shore, by which 'an immediate exchange was
agreed upon.
Such are the particulars of this unfortunate afair
that have come to our knowledge.

On Sunday arrived here, the—French cartel schoo-
ner la Fine, nine days from Martinique, with 53 pri-
soners for exchange ; and Phoenix cartel sloop from
Cayenne in six days, with twelve prisoners. The
former vessel affords no news, nor do we hear of any
late captures carried into Martinique ; but by the
latter some circumstances have transpired of the
highest importance. Without affecting to be well
informed of their nature and tendency, we shall
only for the present observe, that were we even in
possession of every particular that has been developed
by a most fortuitous discovery, we should not at
present, for most obvious reasons, enter into any de-
tail.

By this cartel, however, we learn the capture of the
brig George, M,Kibbon, from Belfast, bound to Ja-
maica, and carried into Cayenne by the Imperial brig
Serpent, of 24 guns, aid 150 men, which fell in with
her 60 miles to the eastward of this island, and was
20 days towing her up to Cayenne. The cargo of
the George, consisting of nearly 1200 barrels of pro.
visions, and some dry goods, actually relieved the
colony from a state of starvation, there not being, at
the time of her arrival there, a single barrel at mar-
ket. The Serpent was from Bourdeaux ; and several
other armed brigs are also expected there from thence.
A letter of marque ship, with flour, has lately given
them a seasonable supply. Upon the arrival of le
Rapid at Cayenne, a vessel was instantly dispatched
to the river Plate, in consequence of the Advices
brought by her.
JULY 23.—The French sloop Phcenix, from Cayenne,
which arrived here on Sunday last as a cartel, havieg
excited suspicions as to the re;,l object of her voyage,
has, upon examination, been discovered to Have been
charged with dispatches from Victor Hugues to the
Captain General Ernouf, of Guadaloupe, transmitting
duplicates of those sent by Bonaparte from Bayonne,
in the lately captured schooner le Rapid, but which
were thrown overboard during her attempt to escape
frdm the Belette. On board the Plicenix, these du-
plicates were found concealed in a bread barrel ; and
are not merely dispatches from Bonaparte, but embrace
a large mass of edicts, proclamations, and instruc-
tions from the fallen Monarch of Spain and his ex-
tinguished satellite the Prince of the Peace, to the
provinces of Caraccas, St. Martha, Carthagena, Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and the River Plate ; and, in short,
to the Viceroys, Governors, and Councils, throughout
the whole of Spanish South America, announcing on
the one party the abdication of the throne—and the
elevation to it, on the other, of Joseph Bonaparte, to
whom they are enjoined to pay vassalage and obe-
dience, and deliver up all those extensive and valuable
provinces ; to which the Emperor Napoleon gua-
rantees a flourishing commerce and extensive trade,
under the protection of the great nation which he
controuls.
The discovery of these dispatches is now only im-
portant as far as they tend to confirm what had long
evidently appeared to be the intentions of Bonaparte
towards Spain. Happily, by -subsequent events, all
his projects seem likely to be completely frustrated,
for the germ of liberty which burst forth with the
counter-revolution, at the head of the Empire, alike
pervades her distant colonies, and among them, all
:raternilization with the,French is already broken.—
A state of hostility, in fact, has even commenced;
a vessel from Martinique, sent to the Spanis)i Main
for supplies, having been made prize of, and all the
crew sent to prison ; another French vessel there on
the same errand, was attacked, but escaped by preci-
pitately putting to sea. All intercourse between them
is now completely at an end, and Spain may be fairly
said to have shaken off the yoke of France.
Bonaparte, confident, however, in his triumph over
Spain, that the South American Colonies might not
be ignorant of the new Monarch which he had projec-
ted for them, dispatched other vessels besides le Ra-
pid, to this country, with the mandates of the deposed
King for their yielding to the sway of brother Joseph.
One of these vessels-(an armed brig), has eluded all,
oar cruizers, and arrived at Guadaloupe on the 14th
instant.; she was also direct from Bayonne, and left it
about the same time with Le Rapid.
We spoke only in distant allusion to these events in
our last, la F:ne cartel, from Martinique, being here
at the time ; she has-since sailed, and we are induced
now to be more explicit, Sir A. Cochrane, upon in•
vestigating the several documents discovered on board
! the Phoenix (by being charged with which she so pal-
-1 pably violated the sacred rights of the cartel flag),
had the vessel seized, and she has since been libelled
in the Admiralty Court ; and M. Bouron, who was in
charge of the dispatches, and the Captain of the yes-,
eel, have been sent prisoners to England in the Subt}c
' schooner, by which the Admiral also transmitted the
discovered papers, entrusted to Lieutenant Senhouse,
who sailed in the Subtle on Wednesday last,