Jamaica papers to the 28t...
Jamaica paperg to the 28th of MAarch arrived yesterday. A nest of pirates has been diseovered by the British ships of war on the Jamaica station in the Isle of Pines. 'Two or three small vessels had been found in the river Santa Fe; and in the attempt to capture them the English force was so small that it was unsuccessfll, and Lieutenant LAYTON, MIrt STROb , and four seamen, are said to ha-re fallen a sa- crifice. A party of loo men bad been detached up the river in boats, to capture and destroy the baxntUtti. The force agoat for thas expeilition, in'b;ats and'schoonets,edn- sisted of between 300 and 400 men. A letter from Jamaica of the 2.5th mnentions that salutes had been interchanged tor the first time between the English Admiral and the commander of a Colombian frigate. A detachment of Co- lomnblan troop had sailed from Carthagena to co-operate with the army in 1'eru. They were to be lam led at Porto Bello, and marched acrdss the isthmus to Panama. The letters received in Jamaica from Ctrthagena speak favour- ably of the commercial prospects at that place, which ware tapidly imnproving.