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His Majesty!. ship °Possum, frorojsence WAIN,
John's New Brunswick, strtick oft aWO Of Mil
near dope Sable, on the nigk of ult. brit
-*. thrOwitigherkorit tiverboardt and otherwise 14-liten:.
'ins her,- she was soon et.off.. and proceeded on he!
voyage: •
ViIIAnLESTON. AV( usr so. .
.• • Foot SURIIaII.—We learn from CApt. Gerahty,.
*tine British schooner Helen, arrived hero yester-
sfaP from Barbndoesi that he, mein Serif:AM oil the-
ltkh of •July, at Which time it was very sickly. • The
' 'Governor of that place died of a putrid . fever (the
?revelling epideeisic) on the f6th, and ores succeeded
an-authority by the. Fiscal or Soperintendant, who
WU also atm:eked. and lay-ill when Captain Gerahty
left there. but eras not tonsidered in a d‘ngetous
tandem There were about (nor or 6ve hundred
Ditch troopt in garrison when the disorder broke
vat, and it- was supposed ;that in its progatss :shout
one half of then: hAd been swept off Four or five
.01ficers died in twu days, whilst Captain Gerahtp
sonsained there: they were veterans,- and hadioaglit
in the battle of Waterloo. The deAth olthe Giiver.
nor excited the greatest sympathy arriang the inhabi-
tants and soldiery. He is represented to have bees
. an excellent 'man, had been long in Office, and pos-
se:wed • their • utmost confidence and esteem. Com-
mercial Nosiness was very dull in Surinam. as well
as-et Barbadoes "end all the West India Islands.—
No news stirring.
. A Gentleman who cline in the packet Irons New
York,- basil:formed us that the British .Consul (Mr..
Buchanan) at that place, employed two skips to take'
upwards or 700 distressed British subjects from thence.
to England. -
1.1014 TIN COIOIIIIIIIIIAL ADVIATIaIIa-ffl Barroom IL.
The following edict was published at Pert Louis,
(Isle of Fr:nee), sonde time previous to Capt. Bura.f
ham's sailing from that plum, a cipy of which he
pro Sored, and forwarded to Merchant.' halls Boston : '
. v Nonce is hereby:leen, that lo consommes o< ospreasessur
Rands (roes his Maps. fa hiluistees, dosed September 61, 101(11,
aid fteeived by hi. lineUe-cy the Goventor. 11y the eadnies;
*one& and °char fnretsn oia.cis are front henceforward tvrtdd-
dim to enter or land carps* in the ports of this Guverottent, or
to lead .bere with coluoial produce, direct tor France any
other country. The Wrote:neat of this order will subject dos
. offender to a sat, to be instituted in the Court of Vice Admi-
ralty he this Colmar, for the coatinatioH of ship and arse.
0 By order of iiiiiiscelleacy the Goes:nor,
(Signet') " Ai. A. BAUM, Coati bectsttly.
" Peet Louis, (Isle of From), May 6, loin."
MOH TH2 CHAKLESToN GATITTIL

LAT* NEVIS TRUIt HAV AU ST AU. —Captain Bens4king
arrived here yesterday in the sloop Jane, five days
from the Havana ah. He informs us. that jubt before
he sailed a report was in circulitioo that the Canha•
g,essians (or ituergents, as they are called) had captured
Pensacola: This news was said to have been brought
by a British man 4,f war brig, in a short pest Age
keen the mouth of the Mississippi.
it fleet ot merchantmen, principally • Spaniards,
tinder convoy of a French in.in of war brig, was tar
tin from Havannah the d4y after Captain Brunking.
They amount to .about eighty sail, and were prince.
pally bound to Cadiz and other. ports of Spaia.
The day before the Jane bailed, a Spanibh *chums/ '
arrived from the coast, and two others some few days
paurious, all with full cargoes of slain. *meowing
U►teltgen nine hundred or is thousand.
The citiestionstspecting the separation of Maine
from the States of Masbachnsets SteMSlO have been
ereniinatid, by a resolution on dialer &of theinliabt•
trots to form a denim* State, under a new Coital-
. onion. .
By an arrival from Havannah, it appeared that the
earthaitenian or Patriot privateers, which bad aso
sebibled attic Belean, had taken Pensacola. Three
Guineamen, with 960 slaves, had reached the HS.
'annals,
IaCrUACT 07 A•LITTin TROIS AN AIMILICAU °MUCUS,
DATED USED DRUMS; AUGUST 4.
fa 'Since I wrote you bolt 1 have been down to
Mexico, and derived much information respecting
that. delightful country. We were at Boequille, the
principal port belonging to the Nunn:, where I learnt
the suite of the two contending parties, and the result
that may be expected from their political dispute.
.4. Civil war in its most terrific form rages in Mexico.
. Vile Royalist& instantly put to death all prisoners
taken from the other party ; and all the Royalists'
. taben by the Patriots are seat to the interior, whence
they never fetal, as the principle of retaliation is
rigittly observed:. A Spsnish ship, with 80,000 dol.
lars.na boarditad p valuable cargo. was lately wrecked
near &eugoilie, and fell into the handsof the Patriots.
.4, The .Patriots were .rapidly advancing towards
their. independence, a Congress mahout to be assem.
blird ; the army is-well supplied with arms, and they
beVetthirteen priviteers."
titISM BONAPARTIIO.—This BUM it is known, has
his 'residence on a moderate property at Bor.
..i.town, N. I, worth 16 or 18,000 dollars. He
SWIM determined in conform to the manners of our
,antry. 1 saw Std Mr. Sayre of whom he put..
abased the farm: in said, whop idr.. UnhaPayte came
to tate possession of that place, he was called out,
from dinner, and found Min busily engaged, with his
Sn beads, unloading the furniture he had brought.
mething was said about sending for othar Van& $
'.. he said no, every body worked in this country...
..4Babisiere. ifeuricair.) .
A report wa. circulated at New York, on the Itti
'Sept. that -N.:plant had escaped from St. Helena.
The weather in many parts of 'Anierica has been
extremely wet. In ether parts the inhabitants had to
complain of almost uttexampled drought. /Liana
item Tappabannock, of the Stk of Septesnlier,mys,
ig) The chief object of nay writing at this time
.is to
apprize you of the alarming .prospects whici sox-
/uund as : 'cutely. less than starvation Sawn to
threaten tu on all sides. We have not bad a rain
beie since harvest (or about the Ist of July)
};lent to benefit vegetation in any degree, nor had we
any for tieo months anilla half previous to that time.
This *section of the Stattitas alweys been :unsuitable
le its sbundant crops; indeed, it has betetofore been
Isidered its Staple. Bet this year (even if the fall
Litild prove favourable) We shall scarcely Mate a
dliciency of grain for out own consumption. Many
Ids are so.completely parched by the drought. that
blades tedl erosible from the groostls to the
tarbeli. and it hreported here, that soznoof t:ie far-
tarvas have eut‘up *bolo bids of.co.ehi and. *ached
for fodder." .4

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