The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-08-11
BosroN, jay 81.
TRI1UTE TO MERIT.

| Yeterday, the day ALIGNED for the public de-
mcnfration o. the eiteen and refpe of the citizen.
ot Bs7or for the merits and lr.trous iervces of the
late Cen Hamilton. AT half paf l2 o'e,ccl, : pro
cehon formed At the State-Houie Ie conGGed
o. the committee of Arrangement, Orator Chaplain,
lis Honour the 1t Governor, Judges Of the Supreme
Court, Foreign Coniuls, Strangers OF Dincio and
Citizens; and including 1000 perfons The pro
cei,ion moved through Wirier and AIaryoc9 -Ryc,,i
and part of Corn6W and Court-Rreef 70 the Chanel
Church e(corted by the Es56sndnt CaS4t. under the
command OF Major Pierce. The Throne of Grace
was addreited in an appropriate Prayer by the Rev.
Chaplain OF the Horie Of Representatives and sn An
them futed to the location was fung after which an
Eoiogy on the character of the deceaied Patriot and
Statefrnan was pronounced by the Hon. Harrifon G.
Otis, Efl.
The hon. Mr.. King, and Judge Benton, of New
York and the hon. Mr.. Rutledge, of South Carroll
M, were among the auditors at the chapel yeiter-
day.
Mot of the public Offices were cloled the f,ags Of
the ihipping in the harbour were fu:pended at Ralf
matt, through the day; and during the moving o.
the Proceiiion, minute guns fired at Fort Inde-
pendence.
The following highly ntereHing paragraph is taken
from Lsng's IN. " Gazette of Friday lat
The Coroner's InqueR, which has been fitting iince
the 18th ult after diligent and aborious nvegation
OF Cen Hamilton, lait evening brought in verdict
OF MURDER BY AARON BURR. We have not
yet Teen the official paper containing the verdict but
we underand that it amounts to Murder of the Bi1J
% dgree.
AUGUSTUS FOSTER, Efq. is appointed BY
his Britannia maiety to be his Secretary of Lee
CATION to the United States of America.
The dret4 &c NJ r
10 London is faid to relate to the concerns con-
nected with the cefIion of Louiliana.
The Hon William H. Wells, a member ofthe
Senate of the United States from DeLaeuare.
declines reelection. His term of feryice ex
pires in March next.
The Britifh Packet whichhas arrived at New
York, came out in company with the Britifh
ihip Leander, of so guns, and left her off Sandy
Hook. The Bottom frigate, it is faid, will now
go to Halifax. The Driver Hoop of war had
arrived there.
Capt. Peck, from Cadix, informs, that nezvs
7vH5 rseef1s6 there on tie 1913 Of June from tie
nl9f rsIpea06Ie 60gie5 at Gibraltar, Rating that
Aduirai Melon bad Gnf into 7oulon Roads three
TAI Of B'Ttib Hips Of tie line, evbo tired mon
TIE to7on and.lBitbiag. THE French jnt or eig,5t
(HH TO Si7'e fbrm ebaee /; quben Ad,niral Nelfan
[o'fhf0w' addifionaiNips, qUbieb 4vere in the of.
Gng gaze cbaee TO them and cut them oftbe land
The Frenfb commenced a running fgbf and bore
"T0Hr J0r LoJseA-Neijoh bnrjiung Them I'm H.
'nericHn 4sfa arri1'ed at Gibraiter from Mar
[eiNrs, pa40Ed them qvben in cbaee.
On the 1913 of 5Jft0e, tbe French National Ribs
o. auar at Cadis, e0nfRing Of one IA, and /oiue
Jv7alIer qe6eL, boJaed tie Imperial flag, and tired
three Roya! or Imperial lalntes and The French
Confm 0dminifeyed to TIE people tire oath Of alle-
glance to bis Imperial MajeR,.
Nor. Herald.