Star.
London, England, 1808-04-25 00:00:00

JAMAICA MAILB,

The Francis Freeling packet, Captain BELL, left
3amaica on the 4th of March ; from whence she
has arrived at Falmouth, after a passage of seven
weeks. Admiral Sir ALEXANDER COCHRANE'S squa-
dron, consisting of his Majesty's ships BeLLEtss,r,,
of 74 guns, Captain MAUDE ; the RAMILIES, of
74, Captain Plc/ail:slmi YORK, 74, Capt. BARtoN ;
CAPTAIN, 74, Captain WOOLLEY ; DEFENCE, 74, Cap-
tain EKINS ; INTREPID, 64, Captain WORSLEY, and
a frigate, were off Martinique on the 20th February,
all well. Among the late captures in the West In-
dies, are two Spanish schooners by the MUROS frigates
which had also detained an American, with 1000
barrels of flour. The MELEAGER frigate, Captain
BRoucarroN, has taken the Danish sloop Bela ; a
small French privateer, and the Spanish schooner
Antelope, of six guns, and sixty-three men, laden
with wine, brandy, silks, and dry goods, besides
47,000 dollars, from Cadiz to Vera Cruz.
The GARLAND frigate has captured a Spanish
schooner from Cuba to Porto Rico, with sundries, and
recaptured the British schooner Hope. The TOPAZE
frigate has carried into Port Royal the American
ship Eliza, Buanows, with wine, salt, &c. from Cadiz.
The FAVOURITE sloop of war had detained the Ame-
rican ship Rittenhouse, which having been previously
taken by a French privateer, had been condemned,
and afterwards permitted to sail for America. The
DEDALus frigate had captured a Swedish brig of 18
guns and 57 men, from Port au-Prince to America,
after having fired 100 shot at her. A convoy was ap-
pointed to sail from Jamaica for England on the 20th
of April. Several of the scattered ships of the convoy
which left Portsmouth on the 18th of December, had
arrived at Jamaica. The Spanish 74, San Lorenzo,
was lying at the Havannah, with topmasts struck.
No accounts of the Rochefort squadron are re-
ceived by the Jamaica or American packets.—The
letters from Jamaica will aot be delivered till to-
morrow.

MAILS nom *lnv YORK AND HALIFAX, •
The Prinee Adolphus Paid> whirl arrived at
Falmouth on Thursday last, Was Xtventy-eight days
from Halifax: theft seemed nts likellhond of the
embargo being taken off ; though the distress it hat
produced is so great, that no less than seventy-five
houses are said to have stopped part:lent in New
York alone. The wretchedness consequently spread
afriorig all the Commercial orders, and particularly
among the lord ranks, may he easily conceived.
One gctid effect is produced in the British 'service
froin this stagnation : it has redeemed a great nuni'
ber of our seamen; who have been dischafged front
the American shipping. But an effect still more im-
portant is, that some of the Northern States have dis-
cussed the question> whether, in the event of it war
with England, they are bound to adhere to the Union,
or may declare iti favour of England ! Will Mr. ler-
PERSON then, With all his partiality for France, dare to
declare in her favour, at the risk of dissolving the
Union over which he so feebly presides ?

Mr. lion, whose arrival at Lymingtott we announ•
ced in our last, reached town on Saturday afternoon.
The result of this gendernan's mission has been, It is
understood, the adjustment of the difference respecting
the Chesapeake, but nothing farther. The embargo
is continued, but it is stated that Mr. MADISON, in an
interview with Mr. Rom immediately previotts to the
latter leaving Washington, declared that that mea-
sure was not dictated by any sentiment of hostility to-
wards Great Britain, but was a general measure of
precaution, in consequence of the present state of the
world, by the barbarous species of war now resorted
to in Europe.
American papers have been received. The Wash-
ington Federafut asserts that th negotiation must fail.
The Aurora, a violent party paper, and some other
journals assert, that the reparation offered by Great
Britain, for the attack on the Chesapeake frigate, Would
not be received upon the condition said to be required,
namely, the repeal of the President's Edict forbidding
the entry of British ships of war into the waters of
the United States, or any supplies being afforded theta'
or any communication held with them.
On the other hand, the Congress, it is said, was
about to pass a resolution* to enable the President to
suspend the operation of the Embargo Att, after their
rising, which was expected to be in the course of this
month—a proof of returning sentiments of amity.
The Federafut states that the sentence oti
are BARRON will not be made known till after the
departure of the British Mission►
Mr. Mouton is about to publish the whole of his
correspondence with his Government during his redr
dente in London, as Minister to this country.
Notwithstanding the severe penalties attached to
the violation of the Embargo decree, a number of
vessels had sailed in the night from the American
ports, with flour and necessaries, for the West-India
Islands; where the vessels were sold and the crews
dispersed, to avoid the operations of the act ; and, in
consequence of these supplies, flour had very little
advanced in Jamaica and our other islands.

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