The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-06

may hereafter bring forward their claims, at iuch
times as may be mof convenient to them.
Seventh-The prefent convention fhall have no
force effect until be ratified by the contracting
parties, and the notifications a be exchanged foon
as poihble. In faith whereof, the underwritten
plenpotenares, have gned this convention and have
affixed thereto REFLECTIVE eals.
Done at Madrid this eleventh day of Augut, one
thoufand eight hundred and two.
PEDRO CEVALLOS, (Seal)
CHARLES PINCKNEY, (SeaL)
Extra9 ofa letter from one of our eaptiVe fellozu
citizens, dated
Tripoli Prifon, May 4, 1904.
eel mentioned to you fome time fince what
the Englifh conful had told me, that he had OBJ
tanned leave for me to live with him, but that
the burning of the Philadelphia frigate, by our
fquadron, had irrtated the bafhaw aganff us,
and made him retraGt the perTnif1ion which it
feems he had granted with 70 much reluctance.
Since that the conful has gone to Malta, having
been peremtorily ordered to leave this regency.
feel very little difpofed to regret his difmifIal,
at leaf in him have loft no friend, notwthftand-
ing his projections, and affected freudfhip.....H
conduct towards us on our arrival, at this place
was far from being friendly. Inftead of coming
forward as he ought to have done, TO confole us
under our misfortune, and alleviate our necelIi-
fuch a man in Tripoli. Inftead of being with
us as humanity ought to have dictated was his
duty, he was bafriy COUGHING at the throne of
an unpriDclpled tyrannical ufurper, and with
the mott defpicable humiliation congratulating
him upon his good fortune in obtaining 70 valu-
able prize as our fhip, and 70 many flaves thus
fuddenly becoming his With regard to what
he faid of having obtained permiflion for me to
live with him at his houfe, l am very much in
chned to think he never preached the fubjcct to
the baifaw, he never mentioned it to me until he
knew that fuch thing wasnext to impraaicable.
His difinifiion was a circumstance rather to be
rejoiced at, for fhould another conful be fent
here he may be gentleman, and coming from
Malta will no doubt be made my friend by fir
A. Ball. Should fuch be the cafe, and we con-
tlnue here any time after peace, or after the ne
gociation for our ranfom is finally concluded,
ihall then probably live with him, and will have
It in my power to tell you fomething about this
barbarous country, and its ferocious inhabi-
tants.
AS it is now, we are as much fecluded; and
as cloiely confined as any of the bahaw's wo-
men. lis faid there are many circumstances in
this city and its neighborhood well worthy of
feeling, the ruins Of ancient pillars, trumphal
ches, &c. &c. But we might remain here twen-
ty years and not know more of them, except by
report, than you who hope will never fee the
place. There is triumphal arch in this city
which have feen :the workmanfhip is finifhed
In avery hyperion yle, and the figures in bafe re-
liefof bold and beautiful execution. TheLatin
interruption is in fome parts much defaced, and
what is legible is in fuch detached & imperfect
parts, words, and letters that it would puzzle
profound antiquarian.
T." 1t is in general fuppofed that our fquadron
intends to lombard this place fometime in the
courfe of the approaching fummer.....fhould
fuch be the cafe, we ihall all be moved with
the ro7aI family and be confined in the country
palace.
Altho' the bafhaw has no very fncere regard
for us, yet 70 foon as this town is attacked by
our fquadron, he will take care to have us reno
we'd to place of fifety. Hope in God we
lhal have another crack at him, don't think
we ihould ever again be made prifoners to the
bafhaw of Tripol."
Capt. M'Millen, who arrived at New-York ON
ruefday evening lat, from Cadiz, informs, that the
tall Of a war between the United States and Spain,
had fubided and that our Miniler at the Court of
SPAIN had not, his knowledge, left Madrid, as re-
ported.
General Moreau and Lady were at Cadiz, and
would fail for America foon after the confinement
Of Mrs Moreau, poiible.
Pill Cos.--Ssbt 81.