Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

CHARLESTON, September 9.

Captain Arundel, of the brig Sophia, of Philadelphia, who arrived at this port on Wednesday evening, in 8 days from St. Kitts, informs us, that he left London in April last, for the Western Islands, where he took in a cargo of corn and proceeded to the West-Indies. He touched at several of the British islands in quest of a market. Capt. A. informs that the planters in the West-India islands, having turned their attention to the cultivation of corn and other articles of provisions, in future they will be able to supply themselves with every article of ground provisions, the crops which were coming in being very luxuriant. Our embargo, instead of being considered in the West-Indies as an evil, was hailed as a great and important advantage to the British nation, and scarcely any other flag is now flying in those seas, than that of the British. Accounts had reached the West-Indies from Mexico, the Caracas, Vera Cruz, and indeed all the Spanish possessions and provinces on this side of the river Oronoco, stating their unanimous determination to take part with the Spanish patriots. The West Indies are now plentifully supplied with live stock from the Spanish Main, and vessels are daily arriving in the British islands from Vera Cruz with flour, &c.—Flour was selling at St. Kitts for 25 dollars per barrel, and pork at 30 dollars. A number of vessels had lately arrived from Halifax, with fish, &c. French privateering is nearly destroyed, in consequence of the war between Spain and France, as they are now left without any other places of rendezvous in the West-Indies, than Cayenne and Gaudaloupe. It is frequently declared in the British islands, that they care not whether they ever again see the American flag flying in those seas.