Star.
London, England, 1806-07-23 00:00:00

BAST MD/ES.

EXTRACT FROM TILE MADRAS COURIER, JAN. IS.
Letters from Colombo mention the arrival of the
Ar.i.:l jean thin Prelident, of Salem, detained by his
idelly's (hip Pitt, Capt. Bathurst.
Captain &Wont! flit in with this (hip on the 219
Nov. near the lfle of France, to which place (he ss AS
apparently hound ; the had made two voyages from
the French In olds to Batavia and the Moluccas,
and had on h mid a very valuable cargo, couftaing
of fpices, coffee, and tugar.
His Majcily's thin Tel pfiebore, Lieut. Collins,
Mling Captain, captuted of the tile of Fiance, on
the 19th Nov. the French brig Helena ; foe had ar-
rived at C. •In mho for adjudication.
Letters have alfo ben received, which mention,
that two Port ugticfe tracts, fuppofed to have Dutch
pt.iperty on board, had been feized by the Coleman.
tier of a Briti(b (hip at Balambangan.
An American (hip. trading at Rio, in the Straits
of Malacca, was recently attacked by the Malay in•
habitants of that place, who murdered the whole of
the clew, excepting the Captain. and one of his Mates
and plundered the (hip of every article of value.

WEST MDIES.

KINGSTON, JUNE 7•

We onderflard that on the Peruvian colours which
Miranda carried with him, the frillnwing words were
imprinted in large.charafters:—Yiva el Rey de Ffinvm,
y mutra d mal Vonitrese—i. Long live the King of
Spain, but let his mifthievous Government perith.".
• The Fifgard frigate, 38 guns, Capt. BOLTON, ar-
rived from a anise Thurfdav evening t and on the
following. day arrived the Fortunee frigate, of 36
guns, Capt.•Vanfittart, with a French privateer, of 7
guns and tar men, her prise ; and the armed f:hoo.
ner Ruth, from Port.au• Prince bound to Port Royal,
with difpatches to Admiral Dacres, but detained by
the Fortunee off the ceaft of Sr. D smingo. The
difpatches are from Capt. Lewis. of the Blip Empe-
ror (the brother of Capt. Lewis, of the Leander, Mi-
randa's veffel) who has requefted to be informed if
any official communication of Miranda's proceedings
have been received here, as it was underßood at Port-
rays-Prince, that he had been fuccefsful at the Caraccay
and was on his march to polies himfelf of Laguira I
and if that intelligence fhoultl prove to be corral,
Capt. Lewis lives, that he is in readinefs to embark
with a confiderabl: number of Mulattoes, to go to
his affiflance.
The Hunter brig, of t 3 guns, Capt. Inglefield, ar-
rived at Halifax from this ifland about the 7th of
April, and the &meet's frigate, of 31 guns, Captain
Ayfeough, en the zoth. The brig Eliza, Harris,
which failed from this port for Halifax, under con-
voy of the Hunter, foundered five days after leaving
the ifland.
From the deraflatina committed by the heavy and
inceffant rains in the high and low lands of Liguanea,
and the adjacent parishes, both eaftward and welt-
ward, and by the tot rents which have poured through
this city, and (wept over the wharfs, during the
cnurfe of this week, we fear that accounts of much
more ferious mifchief will be received. We under-
Rand that the River Minn, in the parifh of Claren-
don. came down 101 l week with great vinlence, by
which circumßance, Dr. James Johnfon, a very ref-
palable prahitinner of that parifh, was unfortunately
drowned ; and we site lorry to add that it has been
I mentiAned. that the Rev. William R. Batnett, Rec.
for of St. Dorothy, in attempting, io the early part
of this week, to clot's a place called Cutthroat Gully,
a fhort diiiance from Spanifh.Town in a fulky, was
overturned, and re; irazd, u ith his fervent and horfe.
In the vicinity r.f that city levet al negroes have loft
their lives. On Tticfday a negro man, the property
of Mr. Stamp, in endeavouring to five a 1.-1 of ma-
hogany, which was carried away by the current of
water down the gully, near Pinney Lodye, was thrown
on his back and (wept into the fea. The body of a
(mall boy was taken up on Wednefday from beneath
the land at the lower pat? of King.firccr. The road
of communication between the {nines ot St. Andrew
and Port Royal. as well as the Hope road by the
Long Mountain, have bt.th beets rendered impalfable
for travellers on horte!rack.
Captain Wife, of the Elk brig, of :8 guns, has been
promoted to the rank of Poll Captain, and appointed
to the Mediator frigate, of 36 guns, vice Seater, de•
ceafed.—Captain Morris, of the Penguin brig, of r 8
guns, to the Elk, vice Wile.—Captain Smith, Shark
(loop of war, of 16 guns, to the Penguin, vice Mor-
ris ; and Captain _ n fl ..ii_rworth, to IA SUFSCIiCUIC brig,
01 12 guns, vice B arlderfon fupcifeded
Arrived the fchooncr Ex periment,from Barbadoes,
by which we learn, that two Americans, one called
the IndependenCe, the other's name not recollated,
had brought accounts there, a few days before her
failing, of their having fallen in with a French (qua-
dron, confifliag of three line of battle (hips and four
frigates, cruising thirty leagues to windward of that
iflan.d. Admiral COCHaAIIa was then it Antigua,
with the Caeara and Nosroute * • of 74 elm
By the (hip F•ctietick, arrived at I3arbadoes from
Africa, hot !I.er I•atticelars are received of the French
feni no %% Lich h.ts lately annoyed the trading (hips
on that C. A.l. Their are Rated to confiß of the Re-
ain h of 84 gun., Cybele and Prefsdent, of ao each,
Rurveillance brig, and a fchrioner. The Fatnurite
!limp of war, which they captured, has been cernomif.
fouled, and i. cruising with them. •
ol any of the Guincarnen made a gallant refinance.
but the Fsede ick was the only ore fortunate enough
to ['recast in r epelling their fuperinr force. She twice
fuflained their attack tat the Bth of February, being
at one time engaged with the brig and feho .ner for
near two toasts ; and after heating them off, had
again to etinthai one of the frigates and the fl•mp of
war, from which the cfcaped by night coming on,
and anchored in tl•rec fathoms water.
The defence made by Capt. Adams, of the Mary,
of L. ndon, was highly commendable, but fatal to
hisnlylf : She was attacked by one of the frigates,
which the engaged for f..nse time, and at halt boarded,
Carr. Ao.s.ws •placing Modell. at the head of sso of
the naves, armed with knives, made dreadful havock
upon the enemy', deck, and alually tarried the fri.
gate,at which rr...0.-nt this gallant though unfortunate
men waft killed, am!. the negroes having no one to
command then., e,•it onto coalition, when the French-
them below, retook the frigate,
and ,aptured the Maly.