The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-08


fupplies of thofe articles are daily expected, we
requett you will not make any ihipments of eli
ther for the prefent."- Phil. GaS.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 3.
Books were this day opened at the court houfs
to enter Interruptions foi the Farmers Bank of
Maryland, but the room, when we were there
al ls o'clock, was very little crowded. AT that
time there were only about half dozen names
on the ht.- Bali. Fed. GaS.
Voney has reGgned his feat in the Congrefs
of the ConfervatYe (perhaps more properly cal
led the mutatiVe) Senate. He was one of
the very imall minority that voted againft the
confultum which changed the farm of the 60
vernment. He has now got fomethng to add
to mis- next edition of the Rams Of Empires.
Nor. Ledger.l 4
We hear that captain Cater, an aid de
camp of General Ferrand, commander in chief
of Santo Domingo, has lately arrived from that
illand via. Baltimore, and that he is come to de-
mand the troops lately ordered to France by Mr..
Bichon, the French charges DIES affaires, and to
procure iupphes from that gentleman for the
ufe of the French army of St. Domingo, which
for year paft have fufIered every hardliip 1t
s tobe prefumed that captain CATER will fuc-
iced, general Ferrand' fervices under all cir
scum6ances are extraordinary he appears to
have purified different conduct from his pre-
decefior, and efabilhed principles of the ftriG1-
eft economy s. order, in every branch of his adj
miniftration without external aid or other refour-
ces but thoie of conftant and unihaken refo-
luton.
General Ferrard who now commands at St.
Domingo, ferved in our revolution as lieuten-
ant in the Huiars of Lauzen he diftinguifhed
himfeif during the French revolution In many
gallant actions, particularly at Boulogne, where
he commanded when admiral Melton attemp-
ted the bombardment of that place.
General Ferrand is about 4s years of age, a
tall and commanding failure, fair complexion,
but more taciturn than the generality of bis
countrymen.-L Phil. pap.
A letter from ST. Domingo to merchant in
Philadelphia, fays--by feveral late arrivals from
France, we have been informed that the 60
vernment having conceiv d that all was loft at
St. Domingo, after the evacuation of the Cape,
have experienced extreme fatisfa6ton, on
receiving the unexpected account of general
FeTrand's pofef1ing the whole of the cidevant
Spaniin part of st. Domingo, with the remains
of the French army. In confequence he is now
veifed with unlimited powers, and act of his !
administration will have full force and validity
every bill drawn by him on the public treaiu-
ry has been duly honoured, circumltance high
ly interefing TO the American commerce. The /
French troops, behde the city of st. Do
mingo, occupy St. Jago, under the command |
o. DsTeanx, adiutant commandant, and PulAe {:
1ief of the battaon-Colonel Peralta COM
ltsinds the Spaniih national guards, who fight !
IKE veteran folders. In the defeat of Ddhalines |
iitt St. Jago by gen. Ferrand the former had one
rhouiand men killed and great many more
wounded the enraged black chief, TO avenee |
his lofs cruelty ordered feveral whites and mu-
lattoes to be maiIacred, and the cities of Monte |
Chriftie, and Fort Dauphin reduced to afhes. |
St. Domingo is in complete itate of defence. |
and if the French agents in the United States
exert temfelves in its favour, it mutt hold out
until peace is enablhed, however remote that |
peEod may be-"
eI'he above letter agrees with the information |
received from other quarters.
On Tuefday morning arrived at the Navy !
Yard in Washington from Norfolk, gun boat |
No.2. She is to be rugged & fent to her place |
OF dlfination.
We are authorized to fate, that Col Hamp- |,
ton declines being coniidered a candidate at the |
enfliDg Election, for feat in Congress and |
th1t i'll confequence ofhs refufal, O'Brien Smith, |
Eio. IS propofed by his friends, as the Republic |
can candidate 70 reprelent the united diRriGts
OF Richiand, Orangeburgh and Colleton, in the |
Congreis of the United States.
S. Car. State Gas.
Benjamin Hall, one of the dhrie judges of
South Carolina. is appointed federal Judge, we
underRand, at New Orleans.
(AnguRa Cbron.)
1t is reported that Col. Smith, the Prefident I
of the New-York State Society of Cincinnati,
has received an auiwer to letter addreHed by
fad Society to Gen. Charles Cotefworth Pick
ney, the Vice President General of the Society.
Mr.. Pinckney, tits f4id, condemns inthe ftrongeft
manner the practice of dueling, and propofes
that the f5ciety at general meeting, or at their
different Rate meetings, lhould enter into a re.
fOlution neither to give nor to except chal-
TenQp Such letter corninc, from a yenflsrpau |