The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-06-30
wy RK, Ju.e 90.

Britain and 70 faIaiiarisd TO a6ts OF conf, ,:,r.
andoutraee from officers OF the Defender ofth
faith" that the mot hgnal ceaits TO excite fur
prize. The one which we are about 20 record
IS perhaps without parallel - tGe annals of 8,i
hih iniolerce.-it calls for the frongen renon-
itr,nces from the proper authority: for IN cx-
ert,on of energy ain:oh "hsyoId the law
On Sunday afternoon the hip Piet, Caos,;n
CamPbell-from Greenopk, arrived at this port,
with eig6iy-!svo paTengerS on board. The Fit
was boarded erifhin TIE NarrogvJ, ard about
60!f mile fiou tie quarantine L9eyy by fix ar
med boats, full of men, from the 3ri;iCi fripate
Cambran OF "a guns and 800 men and the Dr;-
yer Sloop of War of Is CarroHades-both from
Halifax. The object of this 0,s;eakLs z,iGt was
an impeachment of hands and difplay OF Other
acts or aggrefion eontDeGiy svitbi,l or jsa:/ye-
ton. The Pitt was boarded in great pomp, and
without a pang js1en.eenA of her hands ant, onc
paiienger tere Preiied
Britiih iniolence, however did net terminate
here. The whiting Health Oificer Dr.. Baily,
attempted to board the Pitt, agrseably to his din,
ty, but was repulitd and driven off bv the off,
GERS and men from the Cambran frigate and
Driver Hoop ofwar, who were all armed and re.
| NAMED on board after the eaptivss were carried
away in triumph. DIR. Baily, unable to per-
! form the duty enjoined by oar Lasps, returned
to the quarantine ground.
Mr.. Squire, Firit Lieutenant CT orr revenue
! cutter Vigilant, was now difpatched TO the Pitt,
10 GO ms ef'ity as revenue officer, but was alto
driven oil with like indignity and contempt
He now made fsCond ATTEMPT and ar
preaching the Pitt, emphaticaly informed the
Britih officers (who fill remained on boardl
| that he was Revenue Officer of the United
States, and was to do his duty as fucb. Totbis
they repied-d--n The Gutter, the R-perue Of
fcer5, and tie United States! and, fill ref. iing
to permit him to board, he returned to his ltati-
on unable to do his duty!
! The officers OF the Cambrian and the Driver
took the command from capt. Campbell, and
the Pitt is now riding at anchor iut without the
quarantine buoys. The Pitt, owing to Tho I'M
lawful rehitance, has not been examined by the
Health, nor viiited by the Revenue officers.
DR.. Rogers, the Health officer, has very pro-
perly and fpiritedly protected aganR this out.
| rageous conduct.
/ The above information is derived from an au
implicitly relied on.
| The Pitt is a letter of mark.
Republican Wate8 7ozve,'.J
| We are informed that dispatches have been
tent on to government refpe6fne the conduct of
the Britiih officers toward the Pitt, from Gree
mock, accompanied by the protefs of the health
and revenue officers the port as alto by affi-
davits proving the difrefpectful and contcmptu-
ted States, its laws and officers were fpoken of
at the time. The pilots, it is faid, were ordered
from on board the Britiih veileS; writs ifiued
againft their commanders to be ferved ihould
they be found on fhore and an order given by
tiie mayor to capt. Campbell of the Pitt, on
capt. Bradley ofthe Cambrian, to deliver up the
men Impreffed. In the mean time, we are in
formed that the Pitt cannot be fuffered to enter
at the cuftom houfe, till thefe matters are adult
ed.
| The Britifh flip Leander of so guns is RE
nOarea to be in the found. The Lilly noop of
war is hourly expected, having been feen by
capt. Montgomery of the Huntrefs.
DBf fna metz tS hf shh co1 h for
int' founded upon the ilegality of the proceed,
ing, ne immediately gave orders to that effe4.
ana beat went down laft evening for the D1r.
pole OF bringing the men up to town.
IL is laid that the French frigates claimed the
privilege or "a hours fart, and that the Mavor-
apPiied to Col. Barclay, Britifh Conful, on the
IIoJect' VINO decllned any interference. The
captains otthe Cambrian 6, Driver, their pilots
haVlng lett them, got under way themfelves and
peat Gown through the narrows. Whether this
| was done to AVOID any consequences that misbt
reiult from the affair OF the Pitt, or with view
to wait for the French frigates is not precifely
aicertained.
me french h1gates have come up to Cover
% manu- ana funouf adds, but without
satisfactory authority, that Jerome Bonanarte.
has LETT this place by private conveyance ON
board tome merchantmen, within the laff two or
three days. "a
1t is faid that his Individual opinion was in e.,
YOUR OF going at all events in one of the fIieates.
and taking the chance of combat if purfued. II
is added that his youthful bride was decidedly
| OF that fentiment.
| The Pilots who were on board the Brit;n, fri
gate Cainbrian and iloop of war Driver, receiv.
ed orders yefterday not to conduct the faid VET
iels out within 81 hours after the falling of The
French frigates Didon and Sybille in conf
quence of which they were put on fhore. and tbe
vehels proceeded tor fea without pilots. :. The
wind being eafferly, they probably anchored laft
evening within the Hook.--And, what is very
angular, fhortly after the Britifh fhips wsNI
OWN, the French frigates CAME UP from
staten Hand, and anchored near the cty-pro-
oaoiy with an intention of making their efcape
through the Sound the frlt fair wind
". r. &. Pen.
June 81.
We are informed that the men imnrenid
from the Pitt, are reftored. The Britiih Con-
iul, capt. Barclay, on application from the Nav
or on the fubiect, ftated that he did not pofefs
authority over the veGels of war, but wrote TO
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