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

piograPner OF C2Itr mutt NEW us the charaCte
of Brutus and of Anthony. DR.. Ranisv's h
tory is faithful and intereRing but MIR. Mar
ihall's will, in all probability, become the fapd-
ard authority upon fubjees connected with the
American revolution. The latter draws full
pictures of what the former gives general out.
lines and only faint fketches.
Ofthe fyle of the book before u.s. it may be
confidently fad the general rsfult is favourable.
Its principal characteristics are perfpicuity and
cafe !; without high ornament or periods very
glowing. II is 70 elevated that it will adorn the
library ofthe man of letters, and vet, 70 familiar,
that mott of its chapters may delight the even
ing leiure ofthe mechanic or the hu!bandn,an.
The writings of fome of the hiitorians of our Ian
Suage make the tate for ftyle iomewhat luxuri-
Gus. In the life of Warrington there is now and
then an embarra;ied fentence, and in few in
frances, dietion fomewhat loofe. A nice ear is
tonetimcs offended by the repetition of parton.
lar mods of expreilion, and does not always
find the harmony it could with. But, whoever
is dfpofed to exert verbal criticifm upon this
work, niould keep in mind the peculiar circum-
frances under which it has been written he
ihoud recolle6 that the fecond volume has ex
tended TO near fix hundred octave pages, and
fbould be told, that this volume is to be follow
ed by three more of equal bulk. Mr.. MarfhalI
has ihewn himfrlf futicient matter of ftye TO
allure his readers, that when, unrerplexed by
"the preifing hour of publication he fball re-
view his competition for another imprefion,
talk which at future day muft be impofed on
him, its inaccuracies will dfappear. His pages
form body, the folidity of which qualities it to
take any polifh.
The authors narrative has been ftIfprndcd at
an interefting crifis of the revolution, and when
the fame of his hero was beaming with particu-
lar luitre. The reader waits with anxiety for
the continuation. | P6ila. Reg
The PRECEDENT ofthe United States, arrived at
Wilmington, on the SOth ult.
We are informed that three perfons have
been apprehended at Tioga, in conicuuence Of
the Governors proclamation, among whom is
Gillet, iuppof-d TO be principal. Againl him
the grand jury have found bill. The bills
againf the other two have been returned igne-
ramm5.- U. S. Gas.
Estra9 Of a letter from Vfh;aufbort Lyeozi;ug
county, RrqnlviUania, dated Sept. Is, so4.
"Aaron Gillet has been taken and brought to
this place. and two bills found againt him by
the grand iury-He has entered bail for his ap
pearance at our next court. Dorman Blofs and
his family are come in, and ! am informed by
him, that Gi'ler has fold the tract in the name
of Mark WILCOX, to certain Samuel Sattarbe
The grand Jury found bills againft number
OF the Yankees For forcible entry on Willcox's
tract, but if government does not take fome de-
cifve meafures, it will be OF no ufe to get pof-
ieion of any lands by courfe of law, as the per-
ions to whom You leafe, are drove off By thofe
viains-There is one way they might be kept
IN fubleet'on, which is, for the governor TO fta-
tion garrifon on the Tiogl and one at the
mouth OF Sugar creek, which would keep them
iii fear, and the civil officers would be able TO do
their duty-At prefent no procefs can be execu-
ted of any kind.
The Yankees have cut up Wil!cox's traH and
one below. into fmall tracts of so perches-on
the Tioga and extending one mile back they
give one hundred acres to each Connect
cut fettler. IF fomething is not done by
government to put aop TO thefe intruders,
we may as well give them the country. in
tend forwarding by next pof all the depofitious
have."-[b.
JEROME letter from Halifax
received al Bottom fays, Z" believe there was a
mlitake in printing here the account of the letters
respecting M. Jerome Bonaparte that addref-
fed to him was faid to be written by Decres."
hut it appears to have been from &c Denes," the
perfon who wrote the other letter which has
been mentioned. II begins thus, 90 am ;uft
come my dear Jerome, from performing very
diitreiiing frvjce," and then goes on to inform
him, that he has written officially to NJ. Pichon
to top his allowances, Stc.-PaLadium.
The injury done by the latc form in the Sou
thern itates is eitinated at Savannah to amount
TIC $4,000 dollars, and in South Carolina to ex-
coed million.
Capt. Sabin of the fch. Indufry, arrived at
New-York) from Madeira informs, that feet of
Seven Britifh tranfPorts, under convoy of the
Culloden, Sir Edward Pellew, Commander, and
two frigates, failed from Madeira the beginning
Of laft month, for India. 1Pba. GAG.
A fever has, we underftand, lately made it's
appearance at York Town, in the fate of Penn
fylvania, which has been alarmingly fatal. Four
teen deaths occurred in that borough on Tuef.
day the l1thinf. This is comparatively greater
than the mortality il the city of Philadelphia in
the fever of '9S and 'os.
". T. Mer. Adv.
We underfand Walter Jones is appointed by
the PRECEDENT, attorney for this Ditrict, in the
room of John Thompfon Mafon, refigned.
<sfexr. Expoftor.
The Treaty lately held between the Creek
Nation aud the United States Commifioners,
has terminated inauipiciou0y for Georgia, they
have not obtained one acre of land A deputa-