The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-13
foreign 5n.sIIierncr.
BOSTON, March 81.


BOSTON, March 81.
The John Adams. Cant. Wood, arrived here
yefterday, in d davs from Liverpool.
The late profpett of peace had wholly vaniih-
ed at the ,at dates:-And had given place to
notes of active and general war, louder han had
before been heard. The debates in the Bri.;fh
Parliament breathe nothing hut preparation and
hottility.-Ten thoufand additional f.arnen " al
been votedfor the prefent vear;-.he regular
torce, and troops in pay, had been augmented
to 100000 men, independent of the Volun-
teers; and recruiting both for the army and A.
Wy was continued with fpirit and fnrcef. The
Stocks continued fationary at ahom go and
the Loan for 1905, it was fuppoE.d would ex
coed twenty millions :-while VAT quantities of
Spaniih dollars continued TO arrive in Snaniih
prizes, which were Immediately efcorted to the
Bank, or Mint. 1t was generally thought in
London, that the proportion of peace, made nv
Bonaparte, and mentioned in the Brittle Kings
fpeech was mere ftockiobbing manocuvre of
| Talleyrand.
| No new movement had been made in RuGIia:
nor were many 10 he expected in ,rof, ice
bound regions during the winter.-P,,t we do
not find that fhe had relax, d IN her war!ike
preparations or in her avowed hofility TO the.
aggrefiions Of Imperial France. Sweden CONT
nued her menaciug anitnde.-Aulria appear
ed diflatished but Pryiiia and Denmark were
anxious 10 maintain z ftrict neutrality.
| There were additional accounts of move
ments in the Mediterranean Lord N,-lfon, it
was fad was beliegine Minorca; and a French
tquadron, of contiderfbs force, was on the
point Of filling from Toulon.
The Britilh government at Malta continued
to below every attention on the American
fquadron there. Their prints f,eak highly of
the fpirit ~ our feanen before Tripoli and IA
ment the idus of the clm2aigr.
The menace Of be6eeing Gibraltar was con-
tinued in Spain and France; and the rock had
received confederate reinforcement oftroops,
Lieutenant General Fox-bro.her of Charles
James Fox-now commands thatfortrefs; which
the brItIih have held fince the year 1904.
FROM LATE LONDON PAPERS.
The late accounts from India announce A fe-
we're action TO have been fought on the banks of
the Jumna. between ftrong corps of Holkar's
cavalry, which had been occurring the country.
and an equal force of Scindea's the battle af-
ted nearly two hours, andterminated in favour of
the latter.
Holkar's army isftated to have fIffered great
ly from want of provfions, and that vaft num-
bers OF his followers had been carried off bya
lux. lie expected fome French officers BY way
OF Periia, but the Perfian monarch, alarmed
at the inturrections which French emifaries had
excited at Cabul, and other parts of India, ifIu
ed an order for the apprehension of all pcrfons
coming under that denomination, throughout
his empire : feveral of thefe French officers
were in confequence taken into cuftody, and
the pdnage of Others, who intended to follow,
has been prevented.
The Brahmin town of Nagilrka having refu-
fed compliance to an enormous contribution de-
handed by Holkar, he fent a corps of 500 foot
and 500 cavalry, to pillage the place, and put
all the principal inhabitants to the fword
The king of Cabul is creating an immenfe ar
my, but for what Object is not known. He
has induced fevera powerful Seick Chiefains
to enter his ferviCe, by promiies of great boo
Wy. The invafion of Hindofan was long fa-
vourite project ofthat court and was twice at
tempted by Zemaun Shah, at the mitigation of
Tippoo Saib.
The Termination of the war with Hokar was
preceded with fome ferrous lo1es on the part of
our army, which, with feveraI intereftng cir
cumftances relative to the origin of hoftties, 6,
the fuccefs of IIolkar's operations, are detailed
in private letters. Amar Khan, one of his ad :
heents, commenced hohilities by an interrup-
ton into Buudelcand, where he fiIddenly fur
rounded and cut in pieces two companies and
Tome artillery under the command Of captain.
There was, It is lad, at the time, a ftronger
force than thofe with which General Lake and
Welleily gained the victories of Delhi, LaGwar-
ri, and AGdp; but owing TO the abfence of one
officer, the death Of another, and the conduct
of the third, which remains to be accounted for
noefeCtual oppofition was made to the predato-
rial cfortof the enemy.
The battalion which f1ould have fupported
the detachment that was cot of, faw the cstaf-
frcPbe without advancing. The victorious MaE-
atlas afterwards fnrrouDded this body bnfthe
officer who commanded it effected his fetreat
u perfed order, aud without lofs joined the
camp. Tins united, the whole corps retrcga-
den !; and - one day, * in the middle of the
month Of MAY, PEI formed march of twenty
two miles, in~ which they loi more men than