The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-01


morrow month, unlcfs fomethiug new ard cX-
traordinary iha happen.
The bill, for the abolition of flavery,' which
| pa!ied the houtc Of commons few DAYS fnce,
has been checked III he '.,,..:l OF lords bv poit-
poning its fecond reading for three months
His Majefty has completely recovered his
| health
Bonaparte in his late aidreies to the CONT
mental fovereigns, calls them ali coufns :Lut
they we believe, exc!aim in return, with Father
Foigard--'' the Devil burn the relaiionihip,
| Honey"
july 4.
TIE Glbjea Of Lrzqfon reneqyed.
| The following is given in morning paper as
an extract of a private letter from Paris, dated
June is :" Bonapa-te intends next week to fet
out TOR the coat and, as he is TO return before
the l4th of July, the common belief here is,
that, ihould wind and circumstances permit,
fometling will be undertaken before that pc
/ 'iod.
"The day before yeaerday, extra-couriers
left this city for Holland, Boulogne, and Brett,
with orders for our naval commanders to feize
the firf opportunity ofputting to fes, and coutc
qui coute, land in England, as many troops
as poiliblc, 70 that, before the coronation &C.
remcny, an invaiion and victory may be an
nounced.
Our Brea fleet is nearly as numerous, and
! the JeXel fleet not much inferior, to the Englifh
Liockadirg feet.-But, both in our fleets and
fiohllas, are iome cholen fIips, containing pick
ed and dcfpcrate crews, called enfans perdus,
who, as an advanced guard, are 10 try to create
contuiion among their enemies, by boarding &c.
and, by it, permit the remainder Of their fleets
and traniports to efcaPe, and to land their troops
IN England. Every man Of thefe crews, who
iurvives, is to be created member of the legion
! OF honour, and to receive peniion.
On board thefe fhips are, befdeS, CONDUIT
: tbie matters, OF new competition, which are
iaid to be inextinguiihable.
! I" According to what / have heard in CONVEX
fation with the French naval and military Off
GERS, the Brett feet the eat and the Bologna
flotila the iouth of England. AS to Ireland,
they faid, it would fall by ititlf, if they were
victorious in Great Britain.
| Thefe particulars are no fecrets here, but
talked of in our frf and ben Informed focie-
ties.'
That Bonaparte foon will, and muft, at
| tempt an invation, fools only cannot forefee;
and traitors dare to dcny-He has pledged him
ielf TO France and TO the world-and prepared
as he now is, his troops will regard longer de-
lay as defeat. ii we are upon our guard,
and pofiefs the fame fpitit and patriotifin which
we evinced laft year, the fooner we have tried
our ftreDgth with our irreconcileable foe the
better; 6ecaufc are convinced it will finiih to
I ms ihanle, and perhaps make the firft year of
his empire the iait. Withal his powerful means,
the real and relative ftuatjon of this extraordi-
nary man is as desperate as IL &ny former part
of his career. A defeat will inevitably be fol-
lowed, not only by lois of rank and authority,
but that Of life itfelf; for he owes every thing
to ali uninterrupted fuccefs, and, fattered as his
folders have been, with an eafy and certain con-
queit, misfortunes will foon annihilate the gold
en- image, which PROPERTY alone has fet up.
Pichegru and MORGAN will be remembered and
the univerie revenged. Beiides, Detected and
feared as Bonaparte, every where upon the con-
tInent, defeat would be now, as after the bat
tie OF Aboukir, fgnal for new confederacy
and while difunion, dfafettion, and perhaps
civil wars, ragged at home, France would expe-
1lence an invaiion from abroad and the dfcon-
tented, enllayed, and oppre1ed Swifs, Batavi-
ans and Italians, ieize the tirit opportunity to
throw off yoke, which notwithstanding COM
manded addrefes and populations, they wear
with 70 much dfglf.
Private accounts from Parisofthe 10th, fate,
that 900 men of the Imperial guard, had prece-
ded Bonaparte TO the coat. They add, that be-
tween the gift Nay and the 18th June, up
wards of 200 vefiels fome of them with troops
entered Boulogne, from Fluihng, Offend, Ha-
vre, &c.
All the accounts from the continent concur
In Rating, that the long-menaccd Invalion is on
the eve of being attempted. Our letters from
i1oIland curing the week, 1tate that the encamp-
ment in the neighbourhood of Berwick had bro
ken up for the purpofe of embarkation and
that all the forces in North Holland were mo-
wing towards the Helder, for like purpofe.
The circumstance, however, which, more
than any other convinces us that the enemy are
about to engage in fome naval enterprise, is,
that the crews Of all the French priyateers are
impreiied Immediately on their return TO port,
and fent to man the national marine 70 gene
rally and 70 urgent is the order on this fIbie6,
that the famous pryateer, the Blonde, which
made greater devaftation on our commerce
than any other ofthe enemy's cruizers, has been
itrpped of all her hands and we learn, by
letter which we yefterday received from the
Phoenix frigate, that Ihe is laid up in paHage,
near Bayonne. There are four other privateers
iimilar circunfauccd, at this latter port, and
from thence to Bordeaux, upwards of twen-
| ty.
| tits not probabls that the government would
forego the advantages refuting from the active
occupation oftheie cruilcfs, ifther feryces were
not required for objects of more importance
or that they would be prematurey taken from
a condition, in which they enriched the coun-
| try as well as themGelves, and materially enbar-
rallied our trade.
HAGUE, June IS.
| Whereas fsvera captains Of American vefT.s have
late1y fbeir ds-,irt,ta from, 4