Star.
London, England, 1814-06-14 00:00:00

JAMAICA

We hair. P'apeis td the Ist of May.
'---Tit-ey contain the following intelligence i
, • it KINOnt)I4, APRIL nu.
" We are sort+ to announce that Captain tack-
Poole, of the Stittira frigate, of 38 gits, fell on Thurs-
day morning in a duel with a Lieutenant of the Royal
Navy at Mosquito-Point. A Coroner's inquest wits'
beld shortly afterwards on the body, when a verdict
was returned, that the deceased came its his death
by a ball fired from a musket or pisml by some per
son or persons Anknown.!
" The remains of Captain Stackpoole were interred
yesterday morning in tile church-yard at flan-Royal.
with every soleinniti and respect due to his rank.—
Rear-Admiral Brown,and the Officers of the squa-
dron attended on the melancholy occasion.
66 The Arachne brig, of 18 guns, Captain Watson,
and the Mullet schoone, Of sir guns, Lieutenant
Thompson, sailed on Monday Morning, the former to
collect the Northside ship?, to join the homeward-
bound fleet, and the latter with a mail for Oreat Bri•
fain.

" Ills Catholic Majesty's Polacca Cupid, Capt. Don
Manuel Herrera, sailed the same morning, bound on
a 'cruise off Santa• Martha.
" The Talbot, post sloop, of 20 guns,Capt. Swaine,
arrived the same day from Curacoa, last from Aux
Cayes, with the ships Zephyr and Trader, to join

convoy.
" The MO frigate, of 44 guns, Captain Fothet
gill, from Cape Francois, the itota fligate, of Si guns,
Captain Somerville, from Port-au-Prince, and the
Carnation brig, of 18 guns, Captain Benthath, from
St. Jago de Cuba, arrived on Wednesday, the two
former having the esselt from St. Dorningb, men-
tioned in the list of arrivals, under their protection, to
loin the homeward.bound fleet.

. Rear-Admiral grown has beet pleased to make
the following promotions and appointments, viz..
Captain Sturman Swathe, of the Talbot post-sloop, of 20 guns,
the Statira frigate, of 313‘gune.
Captain Henry Haynes, of the Sapphire sloop of war, of 18
Igtni., to the Talbot.
Flag Lieutenant Brown, made Master and Commander
into the Sappblre.
Lietnenant William Hendry,' irst of tl:e Arlie frigate, of 44

guns, Master and Commander into the Foreseer, or t s guns, vice
Cdptain Alexandel• Kennedy.
-" The Mullet schooner, of six guns, Lieutenant
Thompson, thrived on Thursday with the February
Mail: She left Falmouth on the 27th of that month'
arrived Barbadoes on the 31st ult. and sailed the
same iftelitizion for thlt island.
6, It was mentioned at Barbadoes, while Lieutenant
Thompson Was there, that la Pique frigate, of 36
• •
guns, the Hon. Captain Maitland, which was cruiz-
ing in the Mbn'a Passage; had fallen in with a large
Ahierican frigate, suppoied to be the President,
when la Pique, being to leeward, lay to and fired a
gun, with a British Ensign flying at each mast head.
enemy not bearing down to her, the crew
went M Captain Maitland, and requested he would
nse every endeavour to corm to action, when he irn-
tnediately read to them his ir.structions from the Ad-
miralty, " not to seek an engagement with any of the
large American frigates, but at the same time not to
avoid a contest and stated his regt•et at being so
situated as not to be able to try the chalice, as he was
fully persuaded, from the kneWledge he had of his
Crew, that the British flag would never be tarnished
in any eontest with an enemy, however superior in
force. The American, at ter manoeuvring about for
more than an hour, bore away. The next day, when
la Pique's crew were to receive their daily allowance
of grog, every man threw it overboard, declaring,
that they did not require Dutch courage to engage a
Yankee ! .
The Barham, df 74 guns, Captain Spranger, and
the Statira frigate; of 38 guns, Captain Swaine, sailed
from Port Royal this morning for Negril-Bay, having
under their protection the homeward-bound vessels.
La Bonne Citoyenne frigate, of 20 guns, Captain
Greene, which sailed on Thnisday morning, together
with the Barham and Statira, will convoy the fleet to
England, and the LeViathan, of 71 guns, Captain
Drummond, which joined them shortly after their de-
parture from Port-Royal, with the vessels from Port
Morant and Morant-Bay, is to accompany them
through the Oulph."
Ills Majesty's schooner MULLET, which brought
the aboVe Mail, put back to Kingston, in consequence
of a British sloop of war having by mistake chaced
her; during which she threw her guns and heavy
stores overboard.
lit

A Mail from Malta and Gibraltar arrived yester-
day, with advices from the former to the 17th of
April, and from the latter to the 26th ult.
At Gibraltar official intelligence had been received
of the date of the Ith and 16th of April, from Gene-
ral MAll LAND, addressed to the Governor of that for-
tress. According to these accounts about thirty per-
sons ntore had died in the island of Got!), but on the
whole it was considered that the plague was gradu-
ally subsiding ; it however still raged at Smyrna and
Constantinople ; it had broken out with great violence
in Alexandria, and had appeared in all the Greek
iblands and in the Motea. The following is an ex-
tract from one of our comMunications
" GIAILALTAR, MAY 18..

" The pestilence continues to rage in the Eastern parts of the
Mediterranean ; but we have to congratulate ourselves upon the
excellent steps taken here to prevent the entrance of the malady.
The ga:riscm could never have been more healthy than at present,
or better prepared to guard itself from sickness.
A Cardinal arrived in town on Saturday morning,
charged with an important mission from the POPE.