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Foreign Intelligence, Nassau, (n. p ) Dec. E 6. Ititelli< T ' , nce has been received at Jamaica, from Barbidoes, that the enemy’s frigate, the ‘I he tis. and the corvettes le J.vrtx P< la Svloie, which escaped from sir Samuel Hood, have eluded ilie vigilance of oor cruisers, and got safe into Martinique on the 81st ult. A line of battle ship, (•he Canada) atvl two frigates were in tile Martinique Channel the tl*v previous to the enemy’s arrival in port. Intelligence has also been re ceived at Jamaica, bv an arrival at Barbadoes and Dominique the former island she quilted on the Bih of November, and the latter On the ‘l7th, that previous to her departure from the last mentioned colony, accounts were received of the recent ar.ival of 12 sail of the line at Mar Unique, & in consequence of which an em bargo was laid on all vessels both tl.ereund at Guadaloupe, to pre sent, as it was said, any neutral giving information of their des tination, lie _ BAR BA DOES, Oct. 7. Severn! daysofthc present bur# Gripe season hate borne an a fuming appearance, option Sun- 1 day night there was n strong in dication of an approaching tem pest, which seemed to threaten imminent danger to the shipping in Carlisle bav. ‘] lie sea came from tl-yp southward with a great swell, anti occasioned them to strain hard on their cables, but fortunately the wind being steady from tlie land, and not verv high, they all, with the exception of one, (the American schooner j a. ket) lode it out safely. We scarce remember to have : seen the sea break with sO tremen- j dons a surge as it did that night, and best part oi yesterday, a ]ong the whole shore, and parti cularly at the pier nt.nl, over which it made a complete breach. But for the shelter which this useful structure, notwithstanding its ruinous condition, i-.fords the town from a southerly swell, die whole of Bioad street must cm Sunday ni* ‘ * and yesterday hi’ e been delugerr wiih the sea, and perhaps swept away. That a public work oT so much utility, and nil Veering an ample revenue, .should for 2S years not have un dergone any adequate repairs, and he sufferred even to become more ruinous, is most unaccoun table, and highly merits ihe con sideration and investigation of our legislature, and deeply ir.ie rrsts the inhabitants .’ the town, whose prepei lies and lives yculy become more exposed to the ef fects. of a tempestuous sea. The schooner Packet was driven cm the sou *ii side of the pier, and her bottom, together witn the whole cargo of ruin and molasses, soon s■ o\ e. ihe point on which this vessel struck contributed in no small degree to the preservation ec that part of the pier-head itself, :rt well as the vessels lying on the opposite side. The sea greatly subsided be fore night, but soon after sun set yesterday the most vivid andtet rific lightning set in, and bil lowed each other in rapid sue cession until near d.iv light this • morning, accompanied lor the last three*'hours with dreadiui peals of thunder, the rain pour ing down in torrents. It Sceuntd to be immediately over th.e town, but fortunately did no injury, ex cept to a drogher, lying hi the whiff aback of Broad street, the masts of which the lightning struck, and slightly splintered; nnd also struck 3 men on board the Tobago, king's schooner, iu the Bay. From Dominica we learn, that -on the night ot the -Man uk. mat island was again thrown into con fci durable ahum by the gloomy k threatening appearsi. e ci the weather, wlnch vv..-at.'nd..d by coßtinu.'-i stiCCiSsum ot squads aid rain, (hatch ’. no cease uu” ill the night of die 2.5. 1i, mid U-i. ring which the river again over, flowed bv lakingits former course through the toWn of liosseau, did further dainage- K I NSSTO M, Nov. 29. The Resistance frigate, of 36 runs, captain * dam arrived at Port Roval yesterday. She sail ed fiom Plymouth on the 4th tilt. wi:h dispatches lor the governor and admiral, and touched at Gar th,'gena on the 17th int. lor the j purpose of landing signior Men- j clonza, Spanish nobleman. t Pre- ; vious to her arrival there ac- j counts were received (said to be j on the Bih of the same month) J bv an express from the vice-roy j of San'a Fee, stating the recap- ; tore of Buenos Ayres by a Spa nish commander, who marched with 2000 men from Mphteviedo, crossed the river in boats, when the enemy, joined bv all lire force it was possible to collect, attack ed the British, and made prison ers of general Beresford and his troops. The \ ice.roy h di-p itch es particularised the names and rank of our t,dicers, and the regi ments they were attached to. — Sir Home I’opharn is mentioned to have been it anchor near Bue nos Ayres, when the fort was j carried. From the rerv circuitous route : by Which this informat:’ n has been conveye 1 to Carthagena, we place no belief in it. That general Beresford and his whole force should have fallen into ‘be hands ol a parcel of undiscipliu- j ed, panic-struck militia, is alto gether improbable. He is too aide and vigilant an officer to have suffered himself to have been surrounded; and : 1 he had found himself likely to be Overpowered by numbers, there is little doubt but that ac would have been able to effect a secure, or safe retreat, in short, the in telligence comesin so questiona ble a shape that it hardly deserves serious uo'ice. * We understand that the Re sistance has brought accounts of a powerful force being about to be svnt out to the West-Indies, intended to take possession °i some part of the Spanish domi nions, which his Catholic majes ty has determined to deliver over to Great Britain, to protect it from the rapacious grasp of the t Corsican Usurper- This appears very probable, as the Duke of Kent packet brought intelligence of the arrival at Falmouth on the l,t tilt. of a Spanish messenger, wiui tiispar hes irom iVC.dfiu lor the British government, and it is supposed that the Resistance was ■ dispute ted in consequence ot th<=. inhumation they coataintd- Late on Thursday everting last week, a duel too', place at Port Royal, between iieut. B- of the royal Ar ‘tiler., and lieur. S. of the s*loo 1 Wcu-India regiment ot foot, when after an exchange oi shots, the former was severely wounded in the breast* NATCHEZ, Nov. li. This day at noon, his cxcsllen ! cy gen. Wilkinson arrived in I town, accompanied by his aid de ! camp, AValter Burling, Fsq. of i tins territory, from whom we j have the following brief sutnma j rv of the general’s operations on ; ’-he borders of the province of j i'cxhas, in opposition to the ! Spanish troops under the orders ol governors Cordefo and tier i rera. i The American army marched j oil the 23d, and leached the left j bank of the Sabine river on the hist nlf. The general found go i vernor Herrera posted on the op -1 posite bauk, and encamped near j him. Three unarmed Spanish soldiers were taken bv the ad vanced guard on that day, whom the general returned to the Spa nish camp, with a desire that the trespass might not be repeated, & which whs duly respected. On the march, the general had, bv letters from the Spanish chief, j !ecu twice prohibited from crtis ! .-ing the Anoyaiur-da; on the 1 2'd.u t.it lie oi-pau-iied ctipt. i.ur i bug, witit a letter to governor Comet v, intcply to those pi ohr bltion*, which produced some discussion between ihe chic 9, and on the 24th it was agreed bv governor Herrera, C!1 m ' s l ,3rt °’ the Spaniards, that the American troops -hot,ld retire to Natch no chM.’Sf those of Sp un to Nacog doches. on the sarv.e day, & mat these should not recross the Sa bine, nor those the Anoyalundt, pending the pacific negotiations of the United States with Spain. Thus the ita/U. <]'to at the sur render of the province of Louisi ana to th United Suites has been restored, the lives of our citizens spared, & the peace r.f our coun try preserved—And thus ail the noist and trouble on our western frontier has been quieted wiih’ out bloodshed, by the intelli gence, temper, decision and firm ness of our general. I he following order was issu ed by the general on the morning of tile sth inst. on which ctttv he returned to Nachitcches to make arrangements for accelerating the descent of the troops to New-Or leans* He left that place four dc\ s since, and v. e understand proceeds for New-Orleans in a lew days!, we are sorry to add, leaving his lady extremely ill at major Minut’s in this vicinity. Morning General Order=. ITcivl-QiUtrlers. Comp, left hank of the Sabine, Novem ber 5,1806. Parole America, ) C. Sign Wash ngton. ) His excellency governor Her rera, the military chief immedi ately opposed to this corps, hav ing agreed to withdraw his troops to Nacogdoches, and to prohibit their recrossing the Sabine liver, pend ngthe negotiation", between the United States and Spain, the objects of this expedition aie ac complished, and the camp will of course be raised to-morrow or the next day, and col. Cush ing will lead back the troops to Nachitoches. ‘1 he uniform conduct of the troops engaged on this service, lias been exemplary, and merits the-applause of their country To major V> elcli and his mount ed volunteers, the general offers his thanks for their vigilance and perseverance. The order, pati ence am! promptitude of Farar’s dragoons, would do honor to a veteran • corps; and the general gives them, individually, a place m hiv affections, convinced, that should the occasion ever present, their sabres will reap an harvest oft. ‘.it! As. To die regular troops, his irietids, his associates, his companions in hardships, suffer ing-. aod perils, h i s sufficient for him to say, that he knows they are ever remb to meet danger, and to dare death in the cause of honor and their country; and that as disinterested patiiotSj thav wdi \ icrl.l the jiahn to no citizen of United America. W. Burling, Aid-de-Camp. From the AURORA. SOUTH AMERICA, The public have been pre. fented with a defeription of : that part of South America i lately conquered by the Eng lish. The following is an ac count of such of the other contiguous places, as may be expended to invite the atten tion of Biitifh valour and Brit i(h enterprize. Chili —This province is in length 1288 miles, in breadth | 580, and is bounded on the call by La Plata. St. jago is the chief town. The climate of Chili is one of the cnoit delightful in the world, being a medium be tween the two extremes of heat and cold. Not only the I iropical fruits, but all species j ol grain come to the greatcll j perfection. Fire country is j but thinly inhabited ; but pro digious numbers ot oxen, goats, sheep See. are fattened on the plains. Chili produces great quan tities of gold, {'lvor, copper, tin, quickiilver, iron and iead. Such vail quantities of gold are Walhed clown fiom the mountains, annually, as a, e eftimatedat 8,000,000 e-f dol lars. Fern —This province is hounded on the north by Chili. It extends in length 1820, and in breadth 500 miles. In this diflricl is that im mense chain of mountains, the Andes, which separate it from Amazonia and Paraguay. A number of rivers run through the country into the Pacific j ocean. Gold and lilver are produced in groat abundance; and Peru is the only place chat produces quickiilver, an arti cle of imntenfe value, which was firft difeovered in 1567. It is a lingular fatl it never rains in Peru ; but this is am, ply tecompenfed by a foft kindly dew which generally fails every night. Wheal, barley, cassava, (kins, potatoes, wine, &c._ are produced here ; a principal ar ticle of commerce is the Peru vian bark.—The iree which produces this moft invaluable drug grows molt abundantly I in Ouito. The tree which bears it is about the size of a cherry tree, and produces a kind of fruit refembiing an al mond, but it is only tite bark which pofiefles those excellent qualities, for which it is so much celebrated. Ptide and lrtzinefs; as in the other parts of South America, are the charaderiltics ofthe natives. As an initance of the pro digious wealth of this coun try, we need only remark that in the year 1682, when the viceroy made his entrance in to Lima, the capital, the in habitants to do him honor, caused the streets to be paved with ingots of Giver, to the a mount of seventeen millions (lerling ! Indeed all travellers lpeak with, amazement of the churches loaded with gold, Li ver and precious Hones. Old Mexico —Which being bounded on one of its iides by the Pacific ocean, lies very convenient for comme r cc. In -I length it is 2000 miles and 600 ! in breadth. This country pof. felfes many exceedingly large rivers, as likewile lakes', in one of vnich, on an ifiand, the ci ty of Mexico (lands. This country is immensely rich in mines of gold and silver so much 10, that of the latter they reckon no Ids than 1000. The revenue of Mexico a mounts to the vail Sum of 22 millions of our money, and it is well knpwn that this, to gether with the other provinces of Spaniih America, Supply the whole world with Stiver. Precious Stones arc hkewife produced here. The climate is exceedingly hot, except in the inland coun try. It is more abundant in fruit than grain; the Soil prod uces pineapples, pomegranates, oranges, lemons, citrons, figs, and cocoa nuts, which hft are here in the greateil perfeftion and plenty. Mexico produces, also, a prodigious quantity cf Sugar —cedar, logwood, and other wood abounds—but next to gold and Silver, the mod va luable product is cochineal, which is of the nrdrnti ■> and of the Species of ■ in fell. It adheres Mil called apuntia, and f,.u juice ofthe lru.it, which',;.,® crimson colour. R this juice that the derives its value. R cd in medicine as a y ‘,® and as a cordial; and it i pitted that the SpanG tM port ho less than Q -, pounds weight cf tin, ' o ,'®, dity annually. . rom the old rmvj-M 1 horses, a Res, Sheep, gnat -,'* have been transported/ 31H have multiplied. Horned C H tie are found wiki in her-;, 'H from 30 to 40,000. Th® aKl> exdls in this prodigious num'nei of ; H 200 species are Paid to f r® cuhar to this country. 9BE From the N. T. Flerramn. j® vertiser. Celebration. — Ihe air of the final evacuation of .-.rt.tß at the close of the war, was, on Tuesthv, r.i.Vi® ed in a handsome manner. Ist rcgiinent of auiilerv V H the command of Lieut. CC. tl ten'ui3, the 2d rerinient un'-H the command of Maj >r h int;,® 7 companies of Sitchet’s C:;H lion, 2 troops cf horse :>r';ii ; ® under the command of c?r;r.:i® R. B. Forbes, a :quadron cl'e® valry under comistand of ca --.® Warner, and a regiment of j® fantrv under command >.f L® Steddiford, the whole i>Htr e® command of General Mrt H the aitillerv, nppeared erde® arms, in honor cf the dav—l..® were reviewed by M:j- 0-® Stevens on the battery, at 1® o’clock, and after in arching ■ the principal streets <4 the ci® returned to the battery, \v!ie® they went through a number oH firings and closed as usual, tv;'® the. feu de joie. ‘1 he parade tv® numerous, and the n o >ps,ina® pearance and disetplir _-. are wH imarine, surpassed by },. w ui® condnent. ■ d'he corporation of tins c'fl having some time since vwoi fl present of a pair of coiotirs tir.hfl brigade—a pair cdegantlv r® broidered were prepared, s® this dav selected for their p® sentation —accordingly, at ® o’clock, the troops formed ® column in Broad street in <r® of the city hall. The halconj ol the hall having been fixed r.poiß as the place of presentation a® the otficeis ofthe brigade hav;® assenibled in the east end ol !■ the mayor,attended by the com® mon council, entered the iialcontß from the council chamber, wm the standards, borne by the RJ corder.—Upon presenting standards to gen. Morton, ccmj manding the brigade, hi> iioooii the , mayor made the loUowiql address : I “GENERAL, 1 “ In behalf ol this citv, I p :! l sent these stands of colours the brigade of artillery unde f j your command. “The military service yu are called upon to pet form >s primary importance in the c j fence of this great and fivuiaS" 1 ing citv. “ The Soldier of a free state has every inducement to ext a himself in the career of glory a in the cause of his country. U® pride of freedom and the sp lil! of patriotism, united with a sen timent of personal honor and a thirst of fame, must elevate hi® above the Slave of despotist® 1 and if he also combine an as* lo, uous cultivation of the ixtilita'f art and a severe attention to d'*” cipline and subordination, country will consider him m period of danger and alarm. ’ a shield and a safeguard, and 13 the tranquil season of P eac ®',. . an ornament and a friend. * 1 ‘ the artillery of this ci')’ may e serve this exalted character, Jl ‘ enjoy this distinguished is our ardent desire. And feel persuaded that these st ‘ nu arwls now c'.nsecrated to n- n ’