BRITISH OUTRAGE.
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 =. We learn, from the Bulletin, that the Amer lcan Brig John .M. Clayton, Capt. Moore, ar rived at New Orleans on the 18th inst. and reported that she had been chased, fired into, and searched, On the lst inst. by a British schooner of war. The following statement of the particulars we cut from the Bulletin of the 00u.

 The Brig JoAn .M. Clayton reports as fol- lows: Son the passage from Barbadoes to New Orleaps, on the 1st inst, at 3 o'clock r. M., Tn lat. l3 330, Ion. 6l, it blowing good breeze at the time, and having all sail set, by the wind, British man-of-war schooner. said to be ilie Hornet, hove in sight and fired . gun for us to come to. We immediately holsted the American ensign and kept on our course. She then fired second, and the shot fell short which we paid no attention to. n thIrd shot was fired, which crossed our sieTn-the fourth shot passed between our loee and main mast. The brig was then hove n, sith the ensign still flying at the gaf, ana ne schr. came alongside and lowered a Doa1 M which was an officer and five men, wno came on board and overhauled our pa- PeSs and manifest and also the hold of the vessel We wsse then permitted to proceed on our voyage, the officer statinp, as he was ieax'ng, thathe came near firing into the br;g. lExAatt iron the Log.