The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-12-11

LONDON, OG. ~.
Adrioes we've :, ccvcd this day, Eating that
or tae 9Th al. tae MeGula Indefatisahle, Am
D ion, aud Lively, fell in with four SDani.h
q gates, %; 81. M1ry's from Rio de Ia Plata
bound 20 Cadz, with treaiure. As they re6ft-
| Ell the orders winch our frigates were under
TO detan MI Spaniih ihips OF war till Cl,slac-
! CRY explanation ihould We given in regard TO
the preieut armaments in the ports of Spain.
~ engagement took place in which after a few
broad-ii,lts, one of the Spaniih veFcls blew up,
two Others, one with Rear-Admiraps Rav.
itruck, the fourth endeavouiny To make her
etcape was ovsrtaeen 10y the Lively, and after a
ihort action itruck, a,fo. She proved TO b Ia
| E1ma OF 81 guns and 500 men, had killed and
! 50 wounded Ihe was commanded bv 4 cor
modore. The Lively has arrived at Portf-
mouth, with La Fama the two others, La
Mcdea and La Clara were hourly expeaed.
! I he trea.u.y on board is eitimated AZ 10000
| 600 of dolls. The whole of the crew periihed in
the hip thatwas blown up. (SuN.)
We have ieen a letter from Dublin Of the
18th containing the following information,
which we hope will prove exaggerated =
DUBLIN, OF. 10.
At this very moment, s O'Clock, letter
has been put into my hands from Lcighlin
Bridge, in the county of Kildare, which comes
i'Oi pSIIOil WIFI NUOtU 1 am wen ACQUAINTED.
and Whole veracity have never had reafon to
doubt. The letter fates that they are all in
confederation at Leiehn Bridge in COME
quence OF having diicovered horrid plot. One
or the contpirators has made Il difcovery, and
has declared that the number of pertons organ-
zed is very considerable, so 900, but that num-
Der is probably exaggerated.
" The letter adds, what we have certainly
no knowledge of here, that committee of fc-
venty of the ringleaders has been fitting in Dub
lin. The perfon who has made the ditcoverv
has pointed out a wood, which was 70 be
cut down, to be manufactured into pixies.
The intelligence from Leighlin Bridge has been
trantmitted to government, who are not igno-
rant OF the particulars, but who do not partici-
pate in the alarm which feems TO have occupi-
ed the minds fthc perfons by whom the ac-
count ofthe plot was fent"
Such is the fubtarceo Of the letter that has
been received from Dublin. We mutt belive
that the account has been greatly exaggerated.
At any rate, as government are IL pofeliion OF
the intelligence, they will of cOulie take every
itep to defeat any treafonable attempt that may
be made. (Conr;er.)
On Saturday next, We have been given TO I'M
deritand, the new form of government which
Holland is to afiume, is TO be publicly declared.
Preparatory TO that event, the French troops
for the purpofe, as has been fated, of adopting
meaiures with rcfpect to Englih merchandise,
but really perhaps for the purpofr of checking
any dIicontent or diturbance which might take
place IN contequencc of the changes in the 90
vernment. Yet in the prefent fate of the pub
lie mind in Holland, we do not expect that any
attempt will be made 10 retit the tyranny of the
French. Perhaps Bonaparte may have alarm
ed the Dutch with the idea of conflicting Bri
tlih produce, and of checking the trade with
this country, for the purpofe of diverting their
attention from political fubjeSts.--He may
mean TO accompany the new changes in the con-
ftitution, with fome encouraging commercial
deca' alton, and with an afiurance, that the a.
larms of the Dutch merchants are unfounded,
and the Dutch would then, we have no doubt,
receive the new charges, if not with 10Y, at leaft
without difapprobasion. We believe the
Dutch to be very little folicitous about any
thing efe but commerce. ID.
The departure of the Rullian charge d'afaires, NJ
D. Oubr from Mentz, is fuf1cient reftation of the
runour at Paris that the differences between Rulia
and France were likely to be adjulted. M. D'Oubril
was kept at Mentz a prifoner, or honage for the
French miniher at Peterfburgh and Bonaparte, with
the nolence that forms prominent feature of his cha
Tacter wihed have it fuppoled thar the perion of
his own niniiter would have been nfecure had he
not detained the Rufiian minifer thus treating the
Huiiiau government and nation, a people agaiIlR
whom it necehary to adopt the fame precautions
as agant tribes and hordes of iavages and barbara
aps. ibid
We have been favoured with the following extract
of letter from naval officer on board the Foudroy-
ant, admiral SIR Thomas Graves, off Rrei to naval
officer at Dundee, dated 18th September iaH-" have
ncloed liz of the euemy's feet in the outer road
OF Brett They are extremely formidable, and the f.
nett ihps ever law They appear to me to be all
ready for fart. went in the Sirius frigate with
SIR Thomas Graves, to reconnoire, and the weather
being fine, we had very good view indeed. We
food in 70 clofe, that we had the peafure of being
aluted from both fides Of the entrance with hot and
hclls two of the latter nearly fell on board of the
frigate. A few days $50 four French folders came
off in boat. They belonged to the 9TH brigade of
marine artillery. One is very intelligent man in
deed, and had been one of the noblefe. The French
folders have only Sd. PER dem, and coarfe fuit of
blue cloth i'll three years Bread and wine is We
ry dear in France"
fLoTTE DE BREsT.
Ghz'. Gaut.