Star.
London, England, 1812-08-01 00:00:00

AMERICA.

We stated yesterday Out the embargo. on vessels
bound for America w.is resorted to more as a pre-
cautionary measure than as cr,:c of hostility, and we
now find that it was at the solicitati..n of the Mer-
chants and Underwriters at Lloyd's that Ministers
came to the determination. So confident, however,
are the merchants that there is little or no danger to
be apprehended from the hostilities of America, that
they have suggested an expedient by which vessels
will be permitted to sail with convoy for British ports
in America, there to continue until the result of the
rupture is ascertained. This plan is underst xrd to
have been acceded to by Goveromnt, on condition
of bonds being granted to the value of ship and
cargo, that no vessel shall fraudulently leave the
convoy and make for a port in the United States.

In the moan-time there will be captures made daily
of American vessels by our cruizas, for the Ame-
ricans are no doubt busy in this way themselves ;
but it will he an easy matter to settle accounts on
this score, by a general restoration of captured
property.

The Mary-Ann has arrived at Falmouth, from
New Brunswick, with intelligence that an American
gun-boat has captured a British armed schoo:ler, and
that the American troops had been repulsed by r.l
detachment of the 41st regiment, in an attenlnt to
surprize our out-posts in Canada ; but, as w have
rot been able to ascertain the dates of these occur-
rences, we are inclined to doubt the truth of the rerrt.
While on the subject of the Arner icon dispute, our
private sources cf information enable us to communi.
cate a most striking circumstance, which will fully
enable our Leaders to appreciate the probability of a
continuance of hostilities against Great Britain. The
question of declaring war against France was di:bated
in the Senate with closed doors, immediately after the
vote was taken respecting Great Britain, and it was;
last by a majority of two ; the numbers being kr war
15, against it 17. The delay in the return of the
Wasp from France was the sole motive for the ques.
tion not being carried in the affirmative. Now this
vessel sailed from Cherbourgh on the 3d of June,
after landing an American Gentleman at Cowes on
the 4th, and taking on board some English Newspa-
pers of that date. .This Gentleman, who was on
terms of the strictest intimacy with Mr. Bantow, at
Paris, informs us, that Mr. BARLOW had not effected
the object of his mission in a single point, and that his
representations to his Government had been by far
too sanguine.
The arrival of the Wasp in America will, there-
fore, produce a different sensation, and the question
of peace or war with France will unquesticmably
come under discussion ag sin, for, with all our dt übts
of his talents and integrity, we cannot suppose Mr.
MADISON capable of sacrificing the best interests of
his country to promote the overwhelming projects of
the French Government. If he does continue in his
'present spirit of animosity against Great Britain, we
think we may venture to predict that a single cam-
paign will lay America prostrate at our feet, and the
universal tyrant of the world win smile at her ruin.
The following is an extract of a private letter, dated
Boston. June igs, received yesterday, via HalifAx :
" The painful task now devolves upon me of com-
mmicating the declaration of war on the part of our
Government against Great Britain and her depen-
dencies, I have long been apprehensive that a reties
of blunders and mismanagement would lead to that