The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-22 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

A Report of an alarming nature respecting Has
MAJEVI 1, was circulated this day, but at too late
au hour to enable us to ascertain the truth of it,
previous to the hour when it became absolutely
necessary to put our Paper to press.

EXPECTED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE SPANISH
AND INDEPENDANT SQUADRONS.

POUTSMOUTH, JULY 21.---Arrived his Majesty's
ship Brazen, horn l3arbadoes, in 31 days, having
sailed on the lltb last month ; she brings an
account that the lndependant Squadron, com-
manded by Admiral BatoN, and a Spanish Squa-
dron of equal force, were in sight of each other
when the Brazen sailed, and that an engagement
was fully expected to tie place on the following
day.

Also arrived. his Majesty's ship Rifleman, from
Jamaica.; sailed lit of Juue, and from the lilt-

vannah 14th same - month, and has on board
800,000 dollars, for merchants. By the &finnan
we have the following information :—His Majes-
ty's ship Cherub was expected from the coast of
Africa; she had sent into Jamaica a Sanish brig
and schoonerNrom tie • Havanna'', detained by
her on the coast, on suspicion of piracy. His
Majesty's shin Semiraniis, Capt. Sir JAMES YEO,
arrived from the coast of Africa on the 28th May,
and was to sail for England on the 4th• June ; she'
had lost her bowsprit and a topmast in a squall.
HisiMajesty's ships Primrose and Beaver had sailed
from the Havannah, for Jamaica. His Majesty's•
ship Pique sailed from Jamaica Ist June, ail. St.
Jago de Cuba and St. Domingo. His Majesty's
ship Esk.had sailed, with a convoy, for Santa
Martha. His Majesty's ship Tyrian had also
sailed for Vera Cruz. His Majesty's ship Larne
was daily .expeCted at Jamaica, front Vera Cruz,
with-a large quantity of specie. A Spanish con- •
Yoy sailed 13th June, for Cadiz,

The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were
due this morning, hare not arrived.

As The New 7'imes , perseveres in styling the
detected machinations against the French Go-
vernment a " pretended Conspiracy," which we
consider as an attack upon. the good sense-and
fidelity of our Correspondents at Paris, we shall
persevere in noticing its obstinate incredu►ity, or
to speak more favourably, its: besotted zeal for
the Ultras,- who cannot be contented without
hazarding the happiness of France in a vain pur-
suit of an impossible restoration of its former
state. The New Times says—" the whole is en-
tangled in a labyrinth of mystery, of which the
clue seems to be in the possession of the Minister
of Police." Why then, admitting -this labyrinth,
of which it has not the clue, has it the hardihood
to persist in positively stating the whole to be a
pretended Conspiracy ?" Such conduct is in-
consistent and absurd, and consequently discre
Hirable to its own character.

We received this morning Jamaica Papers to
he 31st Maya The following are Extracts
KINGSTON, MAY 30.--By La ,VelUa 1,4 t iehrtl that u report

had been received, previous to her sailing from the Havanna,
of a brig of war having•heen IVFecicvd on the Colorados about
three weeks ago, and that his IVlajeity's sloop Shearwater had
proceeded from the Havanna, for the purpose of taking on
board her. crew.

The Descnbrador quitted Sierra Leone on the 514th- ult. in
;company with the Semiramis frigate, of 44 guns; Captain Sir
James Lucas-Yeo, K.C.B. and parted with her a week after
sailing. •She was to touch at Barbadoes and Martinique, and
atrerwa;cl;lo 7'.l—a!a.;. this. ;...:;and. In the Mona Passage
,the Drscubrador was chased for'upwards of two hours by the
squadron under Commodore Brion, consisting of 13 vessels.
On Thursday morning, oir Cow-Bay, she spoke a ship from
Greenock bound.to Honduras, out 37 days, but did' not learn
her name.

• Ths .Descubrador carries 14 guns and 40 men, and was
I:tquird from the Havanna to the Coast of Africa,. oda coast:
ink voyage, when she was detained on the 17th of Januaiy
last, off Porto Novii, by the Cherub, of 22 guns, Capt. Wells,
on a charge of piracy, in having plundered a Portuguese
schooner a few days previous.
The. Harmony sailed from. Baltimore on the sth inst. in
company with the brig Jane, for Barbadoes, and separated
two days after. On the 9th a seaman unfortunately fell over-
heard from the Harmony, and was drowned. On the 11th,
'lat. 32, 39, long. 71, 30, Captain Gibson was hoarded by a
privateer under Spanish colours, and treated civilly.
The Spanish schooner La Conchs mounts one gun, and car-
ries 35 men.. She wavoriginally from the Havanna to the
Coast of Africa, but • was taken off Prince's Island, on the
47th December. last, by the Cherub, on a charge of piracy,
having plundered a Portuguese schooner, and an English
ship called the Diana. When captured she had on board 500
slaves, who we re landed at Sierra Leone, which place she
left on the Ist hist. in company with the Cherub, Captain
Wells intended to cruise about a month off the Coast, and
would afterwards proceed to this island.

In lat. 16. long. CO. La Concia spoke the ship Berwick,
from Barbadoes bound to London. On Friday- night last
week, off Crab Island, 'she boarded a Danish schooner belong-
ing to St. Thomas's, and learnt that she had been plundered-
a few days before by a schooner under French colours. On
the 2.341 instant, on passing St. John's, Porto-Rico, she saw a
Spanish frigate, a brig, and a schooner, at anchor, apparently
very fine vessels. In the Mona Passage, on the e4th, she fell
in with Commodore Brion, having his flag flying un board a
fine English-built ship, of 706 tons, called the Victoria, two
brigs and a schooner in company.. An Otlicer from the Vic-
toria boarded La Concia, and stated that the Commodore was
in search of Aury's squadron, and, upon joining, intended to
attack a Spanish squadron, lately arrived from Cadiz, con-
sisting of 25 sail, and lying at the Fi►e Islands, near St. Bar-
tholomew's: the combined squadrons .of. Brion and Aury
would be equal in number to' the Royalists. Brion had
detained the Serapo, Buenos-Ayrean privateer; in conse-
quence of• her Coinn►ander having committed several acts of
piracy. J3rion's squadron had, previously to proceeding in
the direction of the Mona Passage; called off- Antigua; where
he bad sent a boat on shore to request that permission might
be given to the squadron to enter and refit, but it was re-
fused. Two vessels were along with the squadron; which hut
on board cargoes of mulesi• to defray the expellees of refit-
ment, &c.

The schooner Brutus, an Independent cruiser, a few weeks
since, captured near the Mona Passage a Spanish brig with
43,000 dollars ou board, besides a cargo of •colunial produce,
which she sent for Margatitta.
The brig President, under the Republican Colours of
Buenos Ayres, has captured a large brig, oft• the Isle of Pines,
from the United State! fur -La Vera Crux, with a cargo-in-
sured at 120,000 dollars. Her crew were lauded et Trini-
dada de Cuba.

21A e 25dat,s froth flint pOrtilatitin4

to Liverpool, arrived at Charlston on the 24th alt. in 4"'S - eat
On the 9th ult. near the inner edge of the Gulph Stres"9'..oo
was boarded by a Carthagenian brig, and treated polite'''. ani
the 11th, was boarded by a Buenos-Aryan schooner'
treated in a Most shameful manner, plundered of sbiP
cabin stores, and Thomas Williams, a black man, was

tied away. Aar
We learn by the sloop Dolphin, that Mons. Ati
drop had effected a landing at the early part of this niant";,
Samana, an island to the N. X. of Santo-Domingo ;
encamping some troops, he had proceeded to Palanque .16;
a few leagues to leeward of the city, where be bad !Stabil"
his bead-quarters. In consequence of this intelliketice:(
the regulars and militia at the capital had been Put
arms, for the purpose, as was said, of mart:bingo 141'"'"

to dislodge the enemy.
FAl,stotrni? MAY is out painful duty!e ,
most melancholy occurrence, which happened nn .4ator°l7
last off Rio-Bueno. Captain Hawkins, of the ship LigWos
lying in this harbour, was returning from Rio-Nora
iu
shallop, when, hauling round the point to windward °I Kip
Bueno Bueno with a await breeze, one of the men got erital4l"o
the sail, and was carried overboard. Captain Hav4o:
humanely attempting to save hint, slipped into the slat 7:ci
before the boat could be brought to, both were unfortulli,
drowned. Neither of the bodies hare yet been h'und'toi.
Hawkins was a Lieutenant in the Nary; and highly risP-

We have often had occasion to approve ef.t:
conduct of The British Press, as an Oprsill,
Paper, and we have sometimes expressed our It's
probation with pleasure. We consider it
Constitutional Paper, that is not, like 11 Milt et
ing Chronicle, determined to condemn every *et
Government, right or wrong, and which is in
rsi
daily habit of venting its venomous spleeet.or ctP.eo6,
scurrility, against every member of Administr°ll4
and sometimes even directing its disloyal ribs bc,
against the acting Sovereign of the CoulltrYinel
cause, like HENRY the Fifth, when lie Was c's
to the arduous duties of his important 00ceio'
did not raise those to power who styled th
selves his " early friends," and who ''rare
fit companions for the hours of ease and rev`
O*
But all the feverish spleen of the discar— I'
Fri
vented through the medium. of a Jaeo--
could produce no other effect than %jog
conteinpt, except, indeed, the • self-aPPrs of
consciousness of having thrown off 1 Sgija.
men who, with " all" their boasted
Joe
lents," were totally incompetent to lb% fir
nagement of a great Empire, and too alac"ibe
posed to bring forward innovations which tern
overwhelm it in ruin. We hope that OPP°4..lld
.Papers will always exist in this country'
are necessary, nay essential to the welfare aloe
State. They keep a vigilant watch over Minis a;
1101
.which in a great degree prevents tliern (Nall bvi
rug measures that might be i.stjurious to rile
a, t°
.welfare, and Irons tolerating abuses disgra'"leto
the Government and oppressive to the Pee' to
Such Opposition Papers are adissirablertijen
the Constitution; and are real friends to the 4 int
try. But such-The Morning Chronicle nevero6°'
tot,
is never likely to be, while it pursues its
system, which consists of invariable eeligustr .iee"
the tneasures of Government, and the n's te:
:decent personalities against its AdMin ratett'io
the•highest Member of the State. &It
to The British Press. - We consider that ill. ro'
dle
en
an Opposition Paper as should always -- et
tection and encouragement Irons the F „pa.-. 00,
large, because it does not indiscriminate!' e
ji h 1
demi the Acts of Ministers, and disgrace --11.
low invectives and personalities against tbi tole
We are led into these remarks by la
ILO 9r .AS
" •
which appears this day in the Paper dreg
to. With that liberal spirit which first yta
our attention, and excited our respect B°4l ftOtba-
mendation, in advertiug to the account °aces,
flourishing state of the National rilisegro,
which we lately submitted to one ue
~lli,
The British Press readily acknowledges cti
improvement in, oar Revenue, consrtitleritc6,eoo.e
the increased activity in every branch of nu of
gets '
mercial System." When will The
dddb',
Chronicle wake so just and so liberal"
ledgment of the merit of our Rulers •? Ihe 1
„ •
Press proceeds to admit that we are --11 cee
by
Pr
pity returning to that state of com Pars
hY the
perity which was so long interrtiPted use
, w)
:laustion of a war expenditure, and by the
er-sva',
queue shock arising from the cessation °f '
Inman,
Ott 6e. •
monopoly." This is the language Of g°.ef reasa°,
loyalty, and sober reflection. But the chi this
which induced us tG notice The Br"*--
,hh Pr die
clay, relates to what it says resi,ectog (lta
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Combinations that have taken place silltcPc port'
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manufacturers, &c. at Manchester i'n.l incresoet:g:
who have refused to work without el foyer
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wages, and The British Press seems to
e'is;
cause of the Mutineers at the expellee of th
ofp_
players. Conspiracies and mutiny are tbre e.dietla;.•;
icure
means .that can be ath prO ipted to veotoit'll
granting that any evil exists, and ro--tl,oPr'
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