Star.
London, England, 1805-09-02 00:00:00

AMERICAN FAPERS.

Saturday were received, sga Liverpool, fume pack.
ets of papers from New Yolk, Cuatlcflon, and Port..
land, which have afforded us a few extrafts. We
find by a letter from Cbarlellnn, of the 25th ult. re•
ceived by the fame channel, that two of the home-
ward bound Jamaica-men had pt 4 in there for tread.
and water.

An embargo was impofed on all veffels in the port
of Martel, in Cuba, early in July, in confequenee of
two brigs laden with treafare having strived Were.
on their way probably to Europe.
One of our crullers on the Ames ican Ration, (flip.
pored to be the Bacchante) early in July fell in with
and captured, off Savanulh, a large French priiateer
mounting 20 guns, (luppofed to be the Matilda) af'
ter a long chace.
The report in the American papers of a PrenEh
retadron, of three fail of the line having been teen
off Cnba, is doubilers unfounded : it retis on the
authority of a Carain Wd Irv, who left Havannah
on the 3oth June, and who Rates, that a few days
before his departure, a Danillt veffel arrived there
from St. Thomas's, the mailer of which reported,
that on his paltsge eaftward of Cape Maize, he fell
in with three French line of battle (hips, which he
rupparsd were bound for fame of the ports of Cuba.
There arc accounts from all our Minds to the end
of June, and had the force in queflion appeared in
thole fcas at the time reported, we mull have heard
of it through other channels : added to this, there
are letters from Havannall to the 13th July, which
are w!solly filent on the lubjeet.
A veffel arrived at Philadelphia on the 13th of
July, from the city of St. Domingo, with 40 frecch
sieeers on board, who had been wounded in the late
attacks of DESSA LIN Ei. One of the crew died on
the pisfrage, of the yellow fever, and the mailer and
a feaman were ill of it when the veiLl reached the
Delaware.

The (chimer Deborah. Keay., was fpoken with in
great diflrels on her pairtge from Malaga fur Phi-
ladelphia ; the Captain declared, that for 41 days
hinifelf and people had been reduced to half a biicuit
a day each man, and that, even at that allowance,
(hey had provilion for one more day only.
A (hip of 350 tons was lately 1 itinclied in Ame-
rica with her mans in, and her rigging complete ;
the had alto feventeen guns on her quarter deck,
which were difcharged as the left the flip. She is
named the Remittance, and is to he employed in the
trade between New York and London. Her bottom
was painted while on the flocks. This, we believe,
is the firer veff:l launched with her r igging overhead.
Accounts from Cayenne to the middle of July
(late, that the priv:_reers from thence were very nu.
humus and fuccef.ful—provifinns were fcarce, and
flour obtained a ready fide at 30 &Mars per bsrrel.
The we other was intenfely hot in North America
during the month of July, but to the date of the 14
accounts, that continent continued healthy. The
precautions ufed at New YO/k againa the fever, are
very comprehenfive, no pickled or faired meat is al-
lowed to be depolited iii the city between' the t t of
June and the tft of November, uncle; a' penalty of
500 dollars ; no oyflers are allowed between the Ilk
of June and the 1 3th of September ; no butcher is
fuffered to bring the offals into the market ; no new.
made ground is to be turned up dining the glimmer,
nor manufaftories emitting offenive limas or
Imokes, aliowed work. There ate various other
intcrdiaions, and cleanlinefs is enfureed.under heavy
penalties.
Don Jos. CAIIR.FRA, in the foite of the Spanilli
niter in America, has been convifted at Philadelphia
of forgery, and (being delivered up by the Ambaf•
fador), has ken fentcnced to pay a fine of 2,00 es
dollars, and to be confined to hard labour for three
years.
Several bodies. having been privately buried dor-
. ing the night at Philadelphia, the Board of Htalth
has offered a reward of zoo dollars for the difcovery
of the perfuns employed in doing fo.