Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

MIRANDA.

Extract of a letter from Kingston, in Jamaica, dated 5th of May, 1806, to a gentleman in this place.

"On the business therein mentioned, I have only to add that I have just received a letter from Mr. dated at Aruba, mentioning, that not finding a ready market for a cargo of Dry Goods which he carried up from this, he intended to proceed with General Miranda, who arrived there with his squadron a few days before, on that extraordinary expedition of the attack of Caracas."

Our knowledge of the person referred to in the above extract, and the very respectable character to whom the letter is addressed in this place, induce us to assure our readers that they may rely, that a few days previous to the 5th of May, that Miranda was at Aruba, and that it was there understood that he intended for Caracas.

Aruba, or as it is otherwise called Oruba, is a small Island near the Main Continent of Terra Firma, in lat. 12. 30. N. long. 69. 30.

A Jamaica paper of the 9th of May, has the following remarks on Miranda's expedition.

"The expedition of Miranda furnishes a problem not to be easily solved. The tales in circulation may be half true, but, certainly, not wholly so. The vaunted successes were reported through a doubtful channel, and can therefore meet no more than suspended belief.

"We do not, said one of the officers, while on the Main, we do not go to the continent to fight. It is true we are provided with the means of self-defence and perhaps of annoyance, but we are going into the bosom of a people who expect us, and from whose arms we have nothing to look to but an embrace.

"The officers in this equipment are uniformed in a splendid manner. They seem confident of success; and that powerful engine, the Press, has been employed, not only during their passage, but while in Jacquemel, in printing such papers, both in Spanish and in the native language of the people, as may best forward the purposes of their new visitants."