The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-11-03


discharges of cannon, that the Commiilary Gem
eral received from the engineer in chief, Mr..
Mangin, the trowel and the hammer for the pur-
poie of laying the hrit ftone, to which was affix-
ed, copper plate with the following infcripti-
on:
The frlt year Of the glorious reign of
BoNAPARrE,
Enperour of the French,
The 2sth TherInidor, year XII.
Vice Admiral Decres being Minifter of Marine,
The firit ftone of the Arfsnal of Antwerp was
laid
BY P.V. Malouet, CommifIary General OF MA
rine;
Four fhips OF the line, one frigate and loop of
Being on the ftocks
The 9th Thermidor, year XII NAPOLEON mark
cd out the ground for the Arfenal, aud ordered
it to be begun.
lie Commerce de Lyons, of n guns,
The frtt man of war built at Antwerp,
BY the under-engineer Jaunez.
On the Tide of the ftone, was placed leaden
box, with gold and FLYER coins, bearing the efIigy
of NAPOLEON 1T Emperour of the French, and
the decree Of the 9th Thermidor, year XI, for
the establishment of an Arfenal at Antwerp.
BREMEN, Aug. %. A new regulation has
that there will foon be an end put to the vexa-
lions lately experienced and the tranfportati-
on of merchandise, by means Of the Wefer, and
through Hanover, will again be allowed.
Count de Lille, otherwife Lewis XVIII. is ar
rived at Groduo and has taken up his abode
IN the palace of the Count Won Junzeil.
ROME, Aug. II. II is aderted, thatthe difpatch-
es lately arrived here from Paris, contain arequeit
from the Emperour Of the French to the Pope,
to honour the coronation of the former with
his prefence.
1t is alto reported, that the Baron Won HON.
pefch, formerly Grand Matter of the Maltefe
Order, has received French difpatches, at his
place of retidence in Citadi.Caaelo ;n.sking
an offer to him of a comfortable annuity, on
condition that he retrad his Remuneration of the
Grand Maferfhip, and take up his abode with
In the French territory.
According to the lat letters from Spain, &C.
neral Moreau is not defined to inhaIe the free
air of the United States of America, but to be-
guile the paiiing hours at Minorca, under the
eye of the Spanifh Governour of that illand.
CoNsrAhrINoPLE, July "a. BY letters re-
ceived to- day from Aleppo, dated the 6th, we
learn that very ferrous diturbances broke out
there on the soth ult the janlases, Gseended ty
the Scherifs, are in open rebellion againit the
new governour, Mahamed Pacha and after an
obstinate confetti OF days, compelled him to
take TO flight, leaving his family behind. When
the letter came away, all was trouble and con-
FUTON and the city, and Iuburbs, a prey to
plunderers and deftroyers
The Wahabis are completely matters Of the
environs of Mecca and Medina and Law the
pilgrims under contribution. On mother fide,
the banditti of Romelia are equally formidable
for, although only 5000 men ftrong, it feems
that two armies, each from 90 to $4,000, are
not adequate to keep them in fnbjeGtion.
new detachment of RuGian troops, from
1000 to 1900 men, with two fhips of the line,
has failed from hence for Corfu, under the fu-
peintendency of Lieutenant General Aurcp,
who IS appointed TO the command of all the
Rufiian forces in the Republic of the Seven H.
ands.
M. Agiropolo departed for Berlin on the goth
inf. in quality of rninifter of the third rank.
1t is faid that he will take Bucharet and War.
faw in his rout.
July 81. The rebellion which lately broke
out at Aleppo, was caufed by the demand of an
extraordinary impof, on the part ofthe Pacha:
and no lefs than 5000 perfons have already loft
their lives On tirat melancholy occaiion. The
force of the Janifiaries, who begun the rebeli-
on, contiited OF 10000 men, and that of the adj
hcrentS OF ocnerIS ana Emlrs, who made il
common caufe with them, of $4,000 men. The
Pacha's cattle, in which he CALAMITY defended
hiInfelf, was taken by aifaut. He however eC
capped, and is now at Damafcus with his father
who, for 2ofucceffve years, was Pacha of Alep-
pc.
The rebels of Romelia have defeated fome
corps of Turkifh troops ; and on the 2stb, fet
fire to two villages near Cape St. George on the
Sea of Marmora.
AT Smyrna two comfortable houfes of COM
merce have again Topped payment.
In the Channel lie at prefent more than 100
yeiiels, from the Aufrian, Italian, Spanifh and
other ports, all defined for the Black Sea to
take in cargoes of grain.
1t is confidently reported here, that the
Wahabics, under the command ofthe fon ofthe
late Abdul Wechab, have for the fecond time,
got pof1eflion of Mecca.
Letters from YafIi, Of July 81, mention, that
every thing, on the part of the Ruffians, announ-
ces hottie dehgns that military corps are again
proceeding along the Dneiher and Befarabia /;
that at Widen, where Ruiiian conful had ne
yer been teen, there is one now arrived and
that all the frontier places are putting in poc
ture OF defence. The Drufes have made good
thenfeiyes matters of Beyrut, and the Mutualis
OF Sour. The Pacha ofDamafcus has been az
fallinated.
The whole of the Hull Greenland whalers,
to the amount of no lefs than 10 fail, have reach
ed that port'in fafety. They have had one of the
mott fuccefsful fealons ever experienced ; not
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