Star.
London, England, 1817-06-07 00:00:00

AME.RICA.

American Papers to the 14th ult. reached us this
day. From the Philadelphia Arms we extract the
flowing letter :

" CUR AC OA, APRIL io.

" We learn from Puorto Cabello, that General
Mum.° had arrived at Maracay. Private letters
mention that Brigadier PAiQUEL REAL has been put
:der an arrest in the.Castill,l del Colonado, b La
Guayra ; and that Brigadier MORALES, Colonels
URR/ESTIETTA and QUER(/' and Captain ALB!" are
a! lo in arrest at Puerto Cabello. No reason is as-
t gned for the confinement of those Officers. Briga-
eitr SARAN° is Captain• General ad interim of Car-
rac:as, his .Excellency DOD SALVADOR T♦; MAXO
1137:ng proceeded for the army."

7E. xtr act of a Letter from Mr. Mayas, our Consul
-at Barcelona, dated May 2411817 :

" Letters from Ali ant, of the teth•instant, advise, that a te.
!eft prevailed there of the Dey of Algiers baying again violated
it Treaties by the inhuman death of his Majesty's Consul, and
xis Catholic Majesty's Consul, with the whole of their suite, Ste.
:!at the fortifications have nut only been completely repaired tram
the treets of the gallant and successful attack of Admiral Lard
i ~fOUTE, hut considcribigniProved ; and that the Dey had id-
'iced many disaffected French Whirs, &curb* were occupied
organising troops, and plating every thing in a formidable
rue of defence. However, the authenticity of the above is put
u doubt by a declaration.made me by Ceptain Dasoy, of the Gib.
nhar brig Mercury, arived here from Mahon on the .19th I :et.
Aar before he sailed on the 17th, a Spanish brigreammastled by
a Caputo Escudea, arrived oa the 13th, who sailed from BOOS
loth inst. at which period nothlug new had transpired, except
that two armed Altering brigs had arrived at aaid'placa from
Algiers, bound to the eastward, in quest of the frigate, and other i
presents expected from the Good &Isis*. Amebas Waite
the hope of such a horrid catastrophe as reported from Alleant,'
sli prove unfotindud. (Signed) "P.C. Tu iris, Consul."

It appears by the regular report from .the Agent
kr LLOYD'S at St. Thomas's, by the last packet, that
io the ten weeks preceding the date of the report,l9B
vessels had cleared. out with goods for the Spanish
Colonies on the Main; while the Agent at Trinidad
reposes in the &astir period, that literally no commu-
ratios had taken place between that island and the
Maio. Does not this fact furnish incontrovertible
evidence that there is something radically wrong,
either in our colonial system itself, or in impractical
details, so far as they relate to 'Trinidad 3 Is it not
soaderful, while our home trade is suffering so:
Hach from anavoidable causes, that any part of our
foreign system should be such as to increase the evil.
At Ttioidad the price of meat which was generally
Ed. and 91 per pound, had risen to ss. 6d. in con-
scllence of no supplies from the Spaniards.
Wliat adds to the grievance is, that since. the re.
rotation of St. Thomas's to the Crown of Denmark,
is as become a depot for foreiga goods and manu-
factures, which interfere very seriously with the for-
mer consumption of British supplies in the Spanish
Ccionier, and this evil is increased by the unwise re-
-1:!-ctions upou the transport of German linens through
tb:s country, for the assortment of cargoes for foreign

These facts transpired at a general meeting of
14ercliants and others interested in the Island of
Trinidad, called at the London Tavern yesterday, to
lcceive a Report from the Committee appointed to
ororounicate with Ministers, on the recent extraordi.
'HY proceedings of the Colonial Government. We
21t bappy to bear that this Meetmg came to an
l'ueirootis Resolution, expressive of their cordial
c.lecurrence in any additional provisions or regula.
'ins which could be.devised for the protection and
r:otal iaiprovement of the coloured population, in
eVent of their wishes being complied with, of the
establishment of British laws in that Island.

141:17 HYDE PARKER entertained a select 'circled
14ss'ionables on 'lsbury:l4y evening, it her house in
("rex Cumbetlatnd place. On the 16th of June her
l'adluhip intends having a masked ball.