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London, England, 1807-06-11 00:00:00

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WEST INDIES.

KINGSTON, APRIL :v.

Information having been received here that the
American blip Indoflan, of 24 guns. and fully man-
tied, tr tding to St. Domingo from the, United Sines.
had lately been fallen in with, and engaged by,. the
Squirrel frigate, of g 24 guns, which the fueceeded in
beating off ; the Elk brig, of tit 'guns, Captain
Coglrlan, failed on Tuefday, we underftand, for the
tinrpofe of endeavouring to inteteept her, and saiter-
wards to proceed to New Provides*
Letters recr.ntly received from Cuba Rate that a
number of American veffels have lately been detained
and fent into the different ports of that inand, by
French and Spann privateers, in confequence of Bo•
naparte's blockading decree.
On the ill inftant, off the Weft end of Tottnas,
the brig Eliza, from Philadelphia, was boarded by
the French privateer fchooner Exchange, of ona.gun
and too men, of and from the city of Santo Domin.•
go, which, after plundering her of feveral articles,
fent on board the mate and nine fearmn, belonging
to the fchooner Variable, originally from New York,
bound to St. Thomas's, but had been compelled,
from firers of weather, to bear away for this iftand,
when the above privateer fell• in with her, and fent
her for Samana, allowing only the Captain and two ,
men to remain on board. At the time the Variable I
was captured, another French privateer fchooner, of
one gun and 55 men, belonging to St. Jago de Cuba,
was in company.
Off Cape Nicholas Mole, the American fhip So-
canna was boarded by a French privateer fchooner,
of one gun, and full of merr, faid to be the Lady Er-
notif. The crew plundered the brig of every article
they could carry with them. The Commander of
the privateer told Captain Bingley, that if he coat.
dered his veinl to be worth 4000 dollars, he would,
in confequence of the late blockading decree, have
made prize of her, On Sunday morning fall, off the
Eaft end, Captain Bingley fpoke the Ferret blig,and
informed the Honourable Captain Cadogan of hi.
having been boarded by the above, privateer, when
he immediately crowded faitand went in fearch of
her.

APRIL 18.—We regret to Rate, that the Pikefchoo-
ner, of four guns, Lieutenant Oatley, on her way
from Port Royal to the ifland of Cur acoa, was cap-
tured a few days fince by a French privateer (chock,
ner, of two guns and feventy men. "the enemy car-
ried the Pike by boarding, with the affiftance of Come
boats from Santo Domingo, manned principally with
the officers who belonged to the (hips of the fquadron
of Rear Admiral Leffeigues, which were dcltroyed
by Sir John Thomas Duckworth.
We underftand that Brigadier General Carmi-
chael, who failed for Europe Tome time ago in his
Majefly', fhip le Brave, for the recovery of hts health,
after a long fervice in this climate, has been cr,nti.
nued on the flaff of this Mind, and is gone to Mon-
, tego Bay, to take the command, in place of Brigadier
General Montrefor, who has his Majefty's pernaiffion
to return to Europe.
APRIL 25.—La Pique frigate, of 36 guns, Captain
Rofs, from a cruize, and the Spanifh fchooner Atre-
vidara, from St. Jar de Cuba, bound to Carthagena
wi:h bees wax, &c. captured by the Anfon frigate,of
40 guns, on the 16th Whitt, about too miles to
windward of this Wand, arrived an Saturday. The
enemy had one gun, which The threw overboard dur-
ing the chace.
On Monday came on, in the Surrey ARize Court,
the trial of George Dixon, a free brown man, for the
wilful murder of John Dwyer, an American feaman-
on the r4th day of March lA, of which the Jury, af
ter a patient inveftigation of the circumßances,found
him guilty. He was brought to the bar yellerday
forenoon at ten o'cluek, when he received fen:ence of
death.
La Diligente brig, of t 6 guns, Capt. Hall, failed
on thurfday morning for the purpofe of collelling
the h ,steward bound fleet.
The Bkride frigate, of 38 guns, Capt. Ballard,
returned to Port Royal the fame day, with the Swe.l
clifh fhip Margaret, Tufts, from St. Bartholometv'a,'
bound to Jachmel with provifions, detained off St.
Domingo on Monday ha by the Blonde, while pro-
fecutng her voyage to Barbadoes.
The brig William, Grant, which failed from this
port early in February tail for Holland, as a flag of
truce, with the prifoners taken at Curacoa, was ob-
liged to put into the Havannah to repair a leak fhe
bad fprung, and, we are lorry to Rate, has been de-
tained there by the Spanifh Governor, who has fent
her crew to prifon, liberated the prifoners that were
on beard, and only permitted Capt. Grant, an officer
of the 2d Wefi India regiment, who went in her, to
take their paffage to America. They have arrived in
the Ichooner Hunter, at Charleflon.
A citric of a very interelling and novel nature was
tried on the 13th inftant. It was an action inflitated
fur an excels of jurifdidion, by Mr. Charles Lake
againtt Mr. Robert Hamilton, as Prefident of a Court
Martial which fat on a trial of Mr. Lake, in
Jantt-
a: on charges exhit.ited againß him by Colonel
Mallon, of the Port Royal Regiment, for neglect of
duty and difobedience cf orders. It apaeared by the
evidence, that the Court Martial had exceeded the
powers veiled in them, and pronounced judgment
a~aii it Mr. Lake, contrary to evidence, by which I
I,e had been comr ;lied to pay a fine of 501. a warrant
having been iffue'd againti hilt for that- fun), and he
was to !land ci trimmed until that fine was paid.— 1
The Jury gave a verdict of 2501. damages, with colt.,
againft the defendant.