The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-08
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
NETWORK, Aueuit 90.

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This morning the French frigates DIDO and
S,6fHe' got under way about : O'Clock, and
proceeded through the narrows, with , ..h,
breeze from N. E. Their departure had oc,,-
Toned thouiand coniettures, and bets Nav.
been made 10 a comfortable amount, that thev
will not go our. Report iays, that they re-.
ceived orders this morning at . O'Clock TO pro.
coed to fea. This is not unlikely from this cir.
cunitance; at the above hour, final encamr
ment which they had eretted on Gibbet iflmt.
was broke up, and all hands ordered ON board
with the utmoit expedition.
There is only one with here on the fuhjeSf--
that is, f@0f ting h7e gone OF, let the reiult b.
what 1t may, between them and the BrtillI--
FOR the conduit of the Brtiih off our port has
been cenilred by all parties, and in my oph.i-
on, very defervedy
With reipect to the courft &c of the Frrnch
irgates, iiia be able TO adyife you in nv
next.
The French frisates got to Sandy-Iook about
nine.
Auguf 81.
French frigoteS retwned.--The French frisates
Didon and Cybee, yeiterday returned into
port, and anchored in their former iituation,
oppoite Governors iiland. The object of the
Frencbmen's expedition to GravefeDd bay, was
laid to be merely to exercife their men, and that
their intentions was not to put to fea-at pre-
fent.
SEA-FIGHT.-Several patiengers in the N.
bruniwick packet report, that a heavy firing was
heard yetterday, between IL and l O'Clock.
winch came from two yeiiels engaged about five
league Sc. of Sandy-hook. They could plainly
difcern the tmoke that aroft, but the hull the
veeIs were not feen. The firing, they fav, lait-
ed about twenty minutes, and that they count
edabout 100 guns that were fired. The Britith
ihips, Leander and Cambrian were then at au-
Choir at the Hook.
In our paper of yefcrday we mentioned the
arrival of a fchooner, which was fired at while
under the Highlands, by the Cambrian and Le-
ander; fhe proved to be the Almira, Peckman
a COATING Jcboonsr from Virginia. Captain P.
informs that he was fired at when within a mile
of the beacon, and that 4 fhot out of 5 truck
within ten rods of the Amira when the men
OF war could not bring her to, they food off for
a vetiel in the ofing.- MO,m. Cbron.
Capt. Storey, from Gonaives, in addition to
what is mentioned in our paper of Thurfday,
informs, that Deiialnes had formally iffned a
proclamation of war againit Spain, and in con-
fequence the Haytians were employing their
cruilers to intercept the Spanih velIels, and had
actually captured copper bottomed flip.
~. 4. paper
The flip Areis, bound for Cadiz, returned TO ,his
port yeiterday, having had two of her men preed by
one of the Britih veiels of off the harbour and
being from this crcumance incapable of profecasng
her voyage
A gentleman lately from Spain informs, that
throughout theinteEor ofthat country reatef fear
city of proviiions prevailed. So extreme was it at
Madrid i'll the month of June, that ROYAL order was
hued ordering all the inhabitants who had not reidei
there for years leavethe city Immediately This
dtrefiing circumstance occaiioned by the failure
ofthe lait crops.
BY Capt. Halell, arrived at Salem we have int.li-
gence OF the Engh taking poleIiion of the port and
town of Muca (Sunatra) with force conGhing of
ihiP OF 20 guns, one of Is guns, offs, OF s.
and one Of 4, and between three and four hundred
SePoys after an action of fix hours, in which the Ma
lays lott so men, and the Engh 90. This was On
the 18th of April.
Captain Wallace, of the fchooner Betfey, ar
rived at this port, from the Bay of Honduras,
itates, that the trade at that place was open for
Americans bringing provifonS, under the ref
tr1ttions OF not bringing off wood more than II
inches iquare. He adds, that wood was very
plenty, and veiiels very fcarce; and that provi-
mons were rather low, not paying more than
freight.
From the Mediterranean we learn that Com
modorc Preble had failed from MefIina with his
1quadron, four bomb-veilels and four large gun
boats which Mr.. Cathcart the late Conful at
Tripol, had borrowed of the King of Naples
for the bornbardment of Tripo The fquad-
ron, we alto hear, was in good health and fpi.
rits.- ~. Z. Mer. Ad7,.
We learn by capt. Petry, of the fchr. Lively
from the city of Santo Domingo, that no attack
had been made on that place by the indigeu Gus
army OF Detial'neS nor was fuch an event ex-
Ill al. ~
comfortable diftance. The Iland throtigoae
was tranquil. An uninterrupted intercourse was
permitted to American veliels by the J}ritiih
blockading fquadron, who were fationesl there
for the avowed purpoie ofntercepting french
feet which was daily expected with relnfcrce-
ments.
Capt. Peckham of the fchooner Al1,ra, iu-
forms us that four lbots was fired at hirn by the
Leander after he had paffed the middle ground,
and was about mile from the fliore. The
Leander was feparated from the Almira
by the middle ground, which enabled the latter
to efcape. This is not thc only yefiei whiei,
this bit of ground has favoured, and as the cruz
fers off this port feem determined to bring TO
every vei1el which comes within reach of their
guns, no matter how near the fhOre-would it
not be equally proper, aud much more conye-
nient forthem aboard veIelswithin the Hook :
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