The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-10-11

cOifcC Oy tcw cannon on SCivdn.S Hand
The Au;ufa -, aai The Merlin Coop of war
blown up by the cannonade from Mud Hand
the Charon AID Gusdaloupe burnt by the
French battery at York Town: and the Spa.
Min 0iips and gun.boats deitroyed by the bat
terry at Gibraltar; it is vain to ridicule the ufs
of the batteries propofed in the Enquirer in.
deed it is ridiculous to obieei TO it.
! "A long cannon carrying ball of 80 pounds
weight, and placed in tue DOW and itern of A
ttrong well-conftruSted galley, mutt be truly
formidable TO frigates when aground or at an.
Choir anti becalmed, not only on account of its
hyperion weight of metal, but on account OF the
certainty with which fucs guns, in fuch veiiels,
may be directed againa ihip, and the imprac-
ticabi!ity OF the fiip's guns doing any cxecu-
ton with grape-Giot at the ditance the galley
may take; or of hitting her at all with Jingle.
balls, as her bow would be 70 fnall an object to
aim at, when placed at that ditance which
would beft fnit the galley. I; has been aiTerted
and almof demonstrated, that 6 fuch gallies, at
proper diftance, may deftroy even 81 gun
ffip: the large Object, which fuch flip pre-
tents to every galley, being fure mark, & their
bows and the large intervals between them,
greatly increaiing the difficulty aud improbable
lily of her hitting any of them within the
time in which their fhot might prove deftruc-
tive to the fhips. And rs To temporary land
battery, it may be eaG!y contributed of futIici-
ent ftrength in a proper place to relit the fire
OF one frigate from which "a FOUNDER firing
en- Barbet, that is, playing over the parapet and
not through an embroflre, may dcftroy fri
gate, cfpecia!lyif aided by proper cannon fir
ing red-hot flot.
Governor Johnfton in the American war de
clared I'm oppoiition to the afIertion of the mi
nliterial party in the HouGe OF Commons, who
had affirmed that their Hoops Of war and fri
gates would be very formidable in our rivers)
that ince forced to fuppor; his opinion, "the
fatal fecret mutt be out - tat Ga Jingle ls
FOUNDER IN proper petition, can put to flight
the itontett hip" And here think he had in
view, a cafe at Martinique in the preceding war,
where Jingle Is ponnder in Barhet battery,
did almot deitroy 81 gun-fhip, and did 70
greatly annoy another Ga (the Rippon thinl)
which was fent TO bring her off, tina; the Briti.h
were obliged to land fome troops and diGodge
the fmall party which manned that battery, be-
tore they could hlence that Jingle cannon. AT
Fort Sullivan, near CharieGon, Sir Peter Parker,
when he with two 80 gun-ihips, frigatc and
oomb-ketch was Obliged t. retire, leaving fine
trgate after letting her on fire (the Aeteon after
Inc had broached and ran a-ground, her rigging
being ihot away; and the Charon a III and
Guadaloupc friga,e fet on FIRE by the French
battery on Neion's farm during the Siege OF
York, demonitrate the efficacy of land-batte-
RES. The cafe OF The Auguila "a, and the
Merlin Hoop OF war, blown up by the cannon
on Mud Hand and the rout of the Otter,
King Fiiher and the Dunmorc, and two E,il of
Dunmore's fcet at Gwynn's Ifland, and the de-
itruction OF the Spanlih gun-ooats at Gibraltar.
may be added, TO tailsty iuch as doubt of the
efficacy OF Batteries in oppoling ihips ofwar.