Star.
London, England, 1807-09-29 00:00:00

KthitagToN; JAMAICA, lifl.r A
La Renard Stop of war,' r is Ravi. Cal°. IWnr-
t is, failed on Monday morning for Hraoftwaasf .r the
porpofe of taking under her convoy the homeward
hound trade from that place.
The Fahalinn frigate, of 38 guns, with five twang
ports tinder her convoy, having on brvard yoo men
~1 the ad battalion of the 'nth Regiment of Foot,
under the command of Licatenant Col:mei Graves,
arrived at Curacoa en 'heat}, h sit.
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FROM AW AMFAICAN PAPER. The Lateue fligate, of 38 guns, Capt. Wood,
failed hoar that inand far Batbedoes on the 27th,
THS LABOUAGF v. wasaiscrote As 2n # BRITISH
and the Ethalioa„ I r Halifax, on the following
WAR, AND A ()T
A TINS 1141. N GRRAT lIRITAiII
• morning.
MAD afar ATTAINID HES reassert. 14•111 TINS SU
The Morne Fortune brig, and Firefly &limner,
PERIORITT !!
This langnage may be fun in a letter addreffed arrived there nn the 111 ;ottani, with an American
Ichonner, which had been captured by a French pri•
from the Executive department to Mr. Munroe,
vateer feholner, and afterward* retaken by the foemer
dated Sept. 12, ta9s.- See Munroes View r f the
reirel.
condue of the Esecto ive. Mr. Munroe, like his po•
The detachment of Royal Marines, which had
iffiest friends, who now direft ahe Natirmal Intelli.
been Rationed at Coracoa for its defence, were to
genets, was in favour of war, and recommended our
leave it foe this ifland in the Veteran, of 64 guns, in
engaaing In h againtt Great Britain, or at lull urged
a few days after the departure of the Hebe. The
aroitrnents in favour of it.
Wallington diretled the Secretary of the State to tranfports were ago to proceed hither.
A mart {heck of an earthquake was felt in this
reply How prepoflerous is that policy which requires . - city and its vicinity about a quarter before one o'clock
64
on Thurfday morning.
us to abandon and deflroy the very objea, for the pre.
firvation of which honilities ate to be commenced ! AUGUST 8 —Arrived the Mermaid, Sinclair. She
It may not be emirs (he adds) to enlarge on the con- failed from Monte Video on the a4,h of Aptil, and
fequences of our engaging in the war againa Great pmfacd her voyage for this port .until the 3d ult.
Britain. when, about 90 leagues to the windward of Barba-
-48 1. Seeing the has the command of the fee (and doe {h tleferied a brig, under Engli(h colours, in
chafe of her, which coming up foon after, was
appearances indicatefirong/y that the will maintain that
command) —(excellent judgment Prefident Want hailed, bat no anfwer being received, and Captain
ington polfeffed, as events fhew)—our commerce Sinclair fuppaling her to be an enemy, he fired his
flern chafers, when the brig inflantle hauled down
might in one year be annihilated, and thoufands of
our ((amen be (hut up or dying in jails and prifon the Enpfh, and Wiled the Frei flag. An affirm
immediately commenced, which honed zo minutes,
{hips. In additinn to her fleets now in cnmminion,
when the enemy attempted to board, but was re-
ptivateer, would (warm, as foon as ohjelts fo alluring
ulled with the lots of leveral men, and two were left
audfo alai:chili al American commerce thould prefent. p
on board the Mermaid. She immediately came up
44 If sae look back to the two left years of our re-
again under a heavy fire of great guns and Email
volutionary war, a Judgment may be formed on this
arms, when Capt. Sinclair and his Mate being fe-
point. A biking deka in her naval arrangements
veldt, wounded (the former very badly in two places)
in preceding years, left our ports open for the entry
and having 3 men killed and 3 wounded the Mer
of commerce, far the equipment of privateers, and
maid was compelled to furrender, when fhe was taken
the introduaion of prizes. A different arrangement
poffeffion of by the enemy and ordered for Guada
in the latter part of the war totally changed the
loupe, previoufly, however, plundering her of every
fcene. The (mall privateers were hurled up as una-
article that could pnffibly be taken away. Off Del-
ble to cope with armed merchantmen, and the larger
ceada, on the 7th ult. fhe was fallen in with by the
privateers were taken. Our (hipping fell at the fame
Belleine, of 74 guns, Capt. Hargnnd, by whom (he
time a facrifice to the vigilant operations of the Bri-
, was recaptured and fent for Antigua, where fhe ar-
tifh navy•
rived on the following day. The Prize Mailer who
41 At the prefenemomena( ;795) her naval power
was put on board the Mermaid faid, that on board
is extended beyond al! former examplef ; while that
lean not ;sweated. the Qineral Ernouf there were from 18 to 20 men
cf h.r enemies is at
. wounded, and that ten miffing were fuppofed to have
al adly Our landed as,well as commercial interefis
been 'kilted in attempting to board her. The priva
would Puffer beyond all calculation. Agriculture,
r carried 14 guns, 9 and 6 pounders, with 126
above the fupply of our own wants, would ha (of- steer
men, and belongs to Guadeloupe. The: Mermaid
wended, or its produce perill, in our hand:. The value
mounts 18 guns, t 2 and 9 potinders, but had only
of nat. lands and every Ipecies of dorneflic property
, 2z, men on board, eight of whom were killed or
w tad fink
o 301 y The forces of revenue failing, public ere wounded before fhe furrender ed.
dit would be defiroyed, and sou
of citizens We hear that the land t'iTrelawnYr Maroon Town,
is now laying cut in lots by a forveyor ; 3co acres
invr Ived in ruin. The people at
°large would be plunged
for the garrifon, and the rema:raing 1200 acres in
from the fummit of profperkty into an abyfs of ruin,
too fudden and too fcvere to be patiently bornea To lots of too acres each; the latter will foon be put up
to !public anatinn, under Etnhority of an a& of the
increafe their calamities, direfii taxi: mull be levied to
ftionner the war; and it would be happy for us if we Legiflature (3611 Gen. 111 cap. 33), and will form
floe proviiion settlements, being to near to a ready
c' tad c ntemplate only forgive war, in which all might
money market.
unite"
am h. Americans! was the opinion cf your re- AuGusr Ig.—The Trotrats frigate:of 36 guns,
Captain 'I AY Loa, and la Mc t irMli E by ig, of t 6 guns,
vtre.l Walhingtnn, as to a &Hot war. It appears
t. oIA to be prophetic, to applicable is it 19 Our pre- Capt. Dcuoaas, failed Cr-oil Port Royal, the former
sr' t 4.3 re on Saturday, and the latter on Sunday, on a cruize.
, the ~
l' . ' ..., are carenmnances changed ?We are Almall French felucca, called the Ifabella, has
ei,-!.r r- ••C have awe to lore, bat are fake as defeatrielL been fcized by an Officer of his Majerl y's Ctilloms,
&eat ii,itAin is Avenger, and der rannies we.A. oaths for having on board a number of Finch paffenners
e:, pn. • • from the Aland of Cuba, contrary to Certain regnla•
lions of his Excellency the Commander in Chief.
Al that time, we bad a hog in Wallington at the
hes.d or our navies and armies. Mr. Jefferfon's While-Capt. B rfwell of the thin Minerva, which
rr here on Sunday fe'nnight, lay at Cape
greateß admirers a ill not contend that his arikory
arrived in Africa, war was waged between the A Stan-
talents are equal to thole of the &rof OBS revolutile•
tee and Fantec nations; and on the t6th of Jnne,
How perfectly cast formable are the ideas
the
three days previous to the failing of the Minerva,
expreffed by Wanti gran, to the puhlica ians in the
‘Pspertory, and to I" cificns, in the Centime( pp* a the former came down the country in immenfe num
nilar oecafion ! ! A DisperLF pp WAS4II.GT 14. hers, having in their progrefa burnt the towns of
fu
Upper and lA' wer C.romantine and Aga, doting
014.1 SFAIc. was Er. waieh great fierighter was blade on bralt fides, and a
Cornmod.rre %sena 1 faid to hare 4010 Car- peat ro*• rof the Fantecs ',riven into the lea antil
Hurarnatas, that his orders iiipm his opal Outran. drowned. Having arrived at Annomabrre, the Ant
tnent were to receive no dierterf, slid that there were .ABESCS pad;t.gr /4 1
an --e--oa. attack upon the fort there,'
not any men in Isis thie Fp, ao'veered Ate deicrip. is which' , h.•weeer, Governor White was feverely
Aim, ; though it afterwarcla appgarca that mare than wounded, tone her with feveral others of their fcanty
t2o Britilh Icemen were on boaod her at the time,' ga-sifon: Inflmation of thjs unexpeited attack
muff of whom had been teeendy M iris Majeityrs ter- hash been inturnanicated to Counter Totraine,
vice. An r fficer (grinner) 9.4111 wa, killed, had been at Cape Coati, he immediately fent a reinforcement
enticed to detest from the chichefler; and two icemen of troops. The Minerva alfu proceeded at the fame
who fell, but whole names do rent appear in the time of Fort Annamaboe, and came to an anchor
American account', were def.:tiers ro m the Halifax. cl.le in (bore, to cover the landing of the reinfarce
J his WR'un. alias Julia Ratr ad, who !rat taken ment, which was fortunately effeeed without the lots
out of the Chelepe. ak, had been matter failmakei in of a tingle man. The fire fir ns Fort Annomaboe
the Halifax, and, as a Britilb (earners, had received and the Minerva. during and after the landing, cr.m.
twenty guineas bounty on entering on board that (kip pittely (wept Ihreoall, within the reach reiheir guns,
when in title harbour. William Ward, Daniel Mar of the invaders, *men& numbers of whom were
tin, killed
and John Strewn, aisle' Story, alto taken from
'2.11 Chelapeak, were &fetters from the Melampus, • Captain. Bo& ell, having a party of Governor
and have nate declared that there were more than White's troops put under his command. afterwards
one hundred Bri iffi feavnen in kroetican frigate, landed, and sniffed is driving the enemy from the
the .
deferters from his Majefly's (hips on this nation, and town andci ' inty of Annomaboe ; and Rates, that
from Bririth merchant veffels, who were not taken the beach wYlsflrewed with their dead bodies. Vail
amt by Captain Husarintays, (pecan& his officers numbers of the Alliantee nation were, it is frippnfed,
could not identify them. on their way to Mk in the war againli the Fantees,
The American papers mention only three men whom they had avowed their determination, if pot
kilted And 13 wounded: the truth is, that far men fible. to exterminate. The (hip Three Williams,
were killed, and tatiesty-air w.runded; and it is ob. Captain M•Clune, Saving on the coaß at the time,
:vim for what real.'n the numbers were thus mills- wit, inenniequence of the difpute between the above
fed. The men whnfe names are omitted were proved obliged tribes,
to proceed to Logas, not being able
to have been definers from the B: ;tint navy; and to purchale any Dawes.
one of them, the dot per iguana), lately from the An open boat arrived on, Sunday, the '9th ult. at
pietistic:. Port Antonio, which landed Lieut. William Gray.
'ete fags being well accenained, the candid and four feamen belonging to the Ferret brig of 18
reader, in America or any other part of the world, runs, from whom we learn the following particulars:
may be left In draw his own conclufion—whetber rfhe brig Lycker, Chrinian Wallmouth, or John
poMmodare Ration has *Red confifiently 11,ith the
Gambler Mailer, was, on nr about the ,4th ult.
orders of his Goaerameat 1 or whether, forgetting. taken by the Ferret off Cape Nicholas Mole, and
his dignified fitialinAg be his ft."Pe.o PA'eadte anta faieu t. :G ray and (even men pot on board the prize,
prevaricate? io which were left on board five men, who called
"" 201A3"' h fl f four tick
. pionex 0 perms iii4dEN. 4 etu e yes pa epacrs,rumen and a boy.—
The following clay, at about half pall ten o'clock,
T 2.0 Atorricarromiesittass bees tharrittleedlgreraliat= •
alt Arittlk.frailwa, Witteerferters who weresskes in the P. Id. as Lieut. gray was &Aliening fail in a (quail,
:peas ,fitr r k.r thou:Arno. ' rhea they wilB de car, tt reenteadity kW of .the Immo beitag alofr, one if the pa Fenger.
NWon 'rote! boost* berlaahted; it theeefereanhavesatt H¢: came up to him, and prefeoting a piltol to him, +w-
ent; framewto take ewe at tlbetraftlyes. aid by j4ining their Vero oared lint below; upon which lie pared pall him,
scum tyspodar.d yeAS, to ay Ati es Irrl4RlCiil sadvaiatelyi Lit
• _ ' ,s,
‘Nnacke for the oft of the Fertees fumes that

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Thls day were petfled. Oft
REFT,V,.rrIONS the SIN FlillinSS rf
Cif lir CY to ANI V 1.11,11 on force uf tkemolt pr. vale t
Fyamilte ^f it. Aid on foot- of the retie Powerful fil,i,ivta by
which it it Vntaioragod; -in a iieintort Fititohed at AM sallit
Chaerb, Sutithansptiati we %I day, Au's& adk, *Sol.
dy itleftdlil) Tel ANT.. KA.
("unite a Parotos, and. rite Fame of Otte} entire. Osfised.
printed for F C. tindY: RioinFtdd, thitilltiit..Faiora Church-
yard; anti J. liatplieed4Wiely.
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