The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-31

was truck by bomb about half pan fix O'Clock.
1t heeled on one dds, and took in 4 deal of VA
ter but it foon after righted. when the crew got
out their fweeps, and made henais of diarefs.
ne lmmortalite frigate immediately food in
between the cutter and the land. and fired fe
veral broaddes at the French iloiiila and at the
batteries, TO cover the cutter, which was re-
treatingw with itsfweepsoccaionally falling OH one
tide, and taking in water as If The had been
truck and cut open by the bomb on that iide.
The Immortaite fent out all her boats to PICK
up the crew, and other boats were lkewife fent
out, tn the number of about thirty ;they were
in few minutes near the cutter, and took ont
her men. 1t sfuppofed the crew were all faved,
as the boats held up all their oars in Ggnal that
no man was lot. When any are loft, one or
two oars are held down in proportion to the
number who fuffer.-Soon after the men were
faved, the cutter went to the bottom. when
the Immortalite went in and fred, the blazes
and fmoke both from her and the land-batter;cs,
were dreadful. Many fliots could be feen fall
conhderably on this iide of her, and fome bombs
fell 70 near as to fplaih her fides with water.
Indeed, it is not doubted, that ihe received fe-
veral fbot, and probably fuftained foule damage.
| When the Immortalite and another fr;gs,e
got under weigh, fome perfons on our heights
expected to fee our whole fquadron &c. under
weigh alto; and that the enemy was actually
| gong to attempt to come over. The veiIcis
were full OF folders. They remained, however,
very fnug under the cover of our batteries, when
the night fell, ard this morning they were in the
lame petition. One the frigates put into our
roads this morning, and boat put 70 fhorc with
two officers. The moment they landed they
law the boat away, that the crew might not
communicate with the spectators. Perfons who
viewed Boulogne within few miles veierday,
and who have been at Gibraltar, fay il is fo,tifi-
ed rs firongly as that celebrated carlton. great
| additions and improvements having lately been
made"
Six, p. My gentleman iuft come M
here from Hythe, have learnt, that the enemy
has continued to fend their Ro.lla ont the whole
or the tide, where they anchor in line clole in
with the ihore."
AusuR e5.
Our troops along the coaf are to be exeycifsd
III nautical manGuvres and fham fights. The
attack is to be conducted by the FINAL veiiels be-
longing TO our fquadrons, and the fea-fencibles,
| and the refitance to be made by the different en-
lcampments, in which the light artillery is mar
ticulary to be brought into action.
1T is iad Government has received certain
advice that the enemy has taken bis Proyifion
and flores on board, and thoroughly prepared
to make his long-menaced attempt. This ru-
mour has been followed by another, that orders
have been ii1ued to remove the French prifoners
into the interior OF the country. Thefe reports
naturally arfe out of the circular letter written
10y Lord Hawkefbury TO the Lord Leutenants
OF Counties, and the fpeech made TO the Brigade
which Lord Banbury infpe6ed on Thuriday
iait, IN Hyde Park, mentioning that it was pro-
bable the Volunteers would foon be called into
actual 1ervice. We Gncerely with the attempt
might be made Immediately, which we have no
doubt will fet the queftion of invaiion for ever
at ref, and while it will add to the valour and
nj he Rr1fIf oh .SAa,-
with difcomfture and difsrace the imperial
Damon and his difgraced legons of flaves and
freebooters.
LONDON, Sept. 1.
No foreign intelligence of importance has
reached town fince our lat. Eut the afpee of
affairs with regard to the enemy's long looked
FOR attempt on this country, becomes every day
more interefiug, as the denominations made
by his ornaments are daily more bold and fe-
r'ouHy rnenacing from Dover, by yef-
terday's pot, fates, that fince Friday evening
Taft, the enemy't boats have been venturing out
OF Boulogne; and, it is faid, that no lefs than
$50 have come out, and they are ftated to be
full OF troops. They range themfelves in line
cloie IN fhore, under the protection of the land
batteries.
Captain hcn:rGc, &c .ls A;:;SbIe Matilda ida,
ieit 1AhitSiudih OIL Tue ftn oePtenDer, but brings
neither papers nor verbal intelligence, excepting
that the Britilh blockading fquadron had left
the TeEel before he failed. Captain T. did not
hear that any declaration of war had been ifiued
by Ruiha agant France.-N. r. Mer. Adv.
Bordeaux price current of The 18th of Au
quit repretents the fate of that market as very
inviting to commercial enterprise. NantZ mar
ket was proportionably Hattering.
London paper of the 25th of Augnl Eys.
Louis XVIII and the Duke d Angouleme
are fafe out of the PrufEan domnions. Letters
from Wariaw tates that the Duchefs d. Angou
eme hadreceived lettersfrom her huiband, dated
on the third day after his departure from War
faw. His MaieRy and his Royal Highnefs ex-
peeted to be at Grodno OIL the following day.
NETWORK, OCTOBER 81.
London papers during the laft two or three
days have poured in upon us like food, but
without affording much qualification to the ex-
pectirg quidnunc. Ieferday morning we re-
ceived London Papers by the flip Jupiter to
the Sd of Scptember and, after we had Drepar-
cd the mott material of their contents for the
preis, the flip Mary, Wood, came up in 10 dave
from Liverpool and our file of Engliih pap >, is
extended to the 18th. The rumour ofinyahon,
it will be perceived, has melted into "tlin air %
and though fuch an event is well provided a.