Star.
London, England, 1805-06-10 00:00:00

- WEST INDIES.

The Wowing letter from Liverpool, dated time*
Inftant, gives reafon to believe that the Cork convoy
has arrived fife at Jamaica:
" You will be pleated to hear that the Egyptienns,
Captain CAMMIL, is arrived here from the Weft In-
dies. On the 29th of March, thrp days after the
failed from Kinglion, fhe paffed through a fleet in the
night, which fhe (poke, and learnt it was that from
Cork, which had occafioned fo much unealinefs to
the merchants and underwriters. Two running (hips
were expeBed to fail foon after the Egyptienne, and
as the wind is now come round to the Weftward, they
may be expeEted to arrive with later intelligence."
By the arrival of the Leeward Mind Mail on Sa-
turday, we have received letters from Tortola to the
loth ult, newfpapers from Antigua, to the a7th of
April inclufive, and from St. Kitt's, SL Vincent's,
Ike. to the s 7th. The Antigua paper of the a3d of
Apt il, contains the following articles :
" A Gentleman juft arrived from St. Bartholo-
mew's, has favoured us with the following account :
That Captain Foes:tilt, of the fchooner Virginia,
bad arrived at that ifland from Norfolk, and gave in-
formation—that he fpoke the French fleet on the sth
intl. in lat. 24.. long. 66. that they were then (leer-
ing north eaft by eaft. The fleet had been at St.
Domingo, and landed there tifooo troops, with pro.
vifions—alfo fent money on chore to the Comman-
dant. Captain Foasyvis took on board a French
Pilot from the fleet, which they had taken off Porto
Rico. They made no Ray at St. Domingoooteven

coming to an anchor." -
The above account is in part confirmed by a letter ,
from Captain Rosa, of the CIRCE frigate. dated the
29th of April, Rating, that on the 28th of March, the
French landed 550 men at St. Domingo.
Admiral COCHRAN, paired Tortola on the 13th of
April, in purfuit of the French fleet, which fleeted
the fame eourfe 17 days before.
Sir Samos:. HOOD, we underhand, has jolt ar-
rived at Englifh Harbour, in his Majeity's fhip AM-

STIRDARL
kITIGUA, APRIL IB—The fleet from England for
the Leeward Iflands etcaped the enemy, and arrived
tafe at this ifland on the loth. Unfortunately we
had no convoy for them here ; they were under the
neceflity, therefore, of failing from hence for the I
Leeward Maud:, under the protation of the Venus,
Capt. Hoar, which is a fliircompletely armed, and
carries a pendant. • • •
Aran. 37.—A1l bands here bas been totally tut-
pended during the preterite of the enemy in there
teas : all the white inhabitrts have been fubjeaed
to military duty, colleaed in the barracks, and fup.
plied with the ordinary rations of foldiers. The ne-
groes were left to themfelves in the plantations, and
bare doubtlefs plundered as well asnegleaed the crops.
The Manchefter packet arrived here this day, having.
bad an amazingly quick paifage from Falmouth to
Barbadoes, only twenty days. A large fleet for Eng-
land, for which we are now under much anxiety, is to
fail from Tortola on the r ft day of June. For tome time
pall we have heard nothing of the Rochefort fqua-
dron, fo that our fpeculations on its further deftina-
don are various. • • . . , ,
The paper of the r ith of April, Pays—" The fol-
lowing men of war, under the command of Admiral
Coot Less, arrived off Engliffi Harbour on Monday
Taft, and immediately failed in purfuit of the enemy,
viz. NORTHUMBIRLAND (flag fhip) 7.E.guns,
80, ATL•S, 74., Escna,74., and v aTaus,64.,
—The Legiflature met yellerday when, in tante-
quence of the arrival of Admiral Cocsaames tqua-
dron, there being no further occafion for martial
law, the fame was ditcontinned, to the great joy of
our little community, which, during the Jam alarm,
manifefted the greateft &ganef', patience, and ac-
tivity." .
The Barbadoes paper of the 6th of April, an-
nounccs the capture of la Defiree, French privateer
of t 4 guns and 7z men, by the Barbadoes. The
Defiree hid miftaken and chafed the Barbadoes, but
(truck on receiving a fhot which killed or wounded
five of her men. .
• The Lieutenant Governor of Trinidad, and the
Council of the Ifland, have officially announced, that
any militiaman or other who might be wounded in
repelling the expeited invafion oithe French, would
be provided for out of the Colonial Fund, which
ffiould likewife make allow;:nce to the families of
inch as might fall.
The Governor of Barbadoes' on the arrival of the
Rochefort fquadron in the vieu Indies, announced
to the Negroes by proclamation a law of the Wand,
which, in cafe of invafion, grants freedom to any
Lave who may kill an enemy.
A convoy was appointed to fail from Surinam for
Europe on the t zth of May ; another appointed
for the Toth of June, and a third for the ;111 of July.
The fleet from London arrived at Surinam int.the
4th of April, all well.
The firft convoy from Tortola for England was to
leave that Aland on the 11l
The Heroine, for St. Kites, one of the Cork con-
voy, was taken by a French privateer on the z9th of
March; and rept for Guadaloupe ; bat the prize-
'mailer, through miftake, made Antigna, and get-
ting on fhore near Corbinfon's Point, was taken poi
felfion of, and the Frenchmen, nine in number, can-
dueled to prifon.
The 68th regiment, under the command of Lieut.
Col. FARLEY, arrived at Antigua on the 14th April.
• The ooth regiment, under the orders of Colonel
MiNant, has arrived at St. Vincent's to relieve the
68th.
SURINAM, APRIL 5.—A valuable fleet from Lon-
don is juft arrived here all fafe, not a veffel miffing,
though they were more than once in danger from a
firaggling cruiser of the enemy.

One night laft week eight French prifoners of war
made their efcape from a prifon flip in the Medway.
by means of a boat belonging to a man who fupplia
the Mips with vegetables ; from her they landed mi
the He of Grains, near•Qireenbotougb, where they
feizcd a fifhing-boat, the crew of which, confating
of two men and twa flout boys, bad retired to reft.
—The Frenchmen faftened the main hatchyray, and
had got beyond the Note, before the Fillsrmen.were
aware of their fituation, when, miner' 'With hard'
fpikes, &c. they rufbed an the deck. and aftcr a fe-
vere confliti, fucceeded in driving the Frenchmen be-
low, where they fecured them, and la*ded th:m at
Harwich.