The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-09-17

wa wou det when in the al os critins iowA
a Ss;k 80 ire B nnaw's army.
The reiu't OF this acton appears 10 have bee,
an immet,ia'e psopoial from the Dalhaw for
peace; col. Lear went immediately 10 Iripoi
and 4 treaty of peace was 6gned on the 81. OF
june, and on. countrynen r.leafsd the next
day. The terms we cannot learn fully, but we
under1and that as far as we had Tripoiitans
they were exchanged man f,r man, for the ba-
lance of Americans remaining we are to pay Co.,
900 dollars. Some provifion, but what we Cam
not uad.raaadis made for the Ex-Bafhaw; his
wife and family, who were detained as hoiiaees,
are to BE- liberated. As the ofIicia, accounts
are gone o. to Wellington, we mutt fiipend
our curiohty as to the other articles for the pre-
Tent.
The Preident left Syracufe the 9TH cf July ::
The following was the iiitribution of the Ame-
rican iquadron ut that time. The frigates Con-
fttution, CONFEDERATION, and Efrx, with the
Brgs Syren. and Vixen. and Bomnk-tch Hor-
net, were at Syrscufe; the Argus had failed for
Egypt. and the n III tilis, for Me1ina. The fri
glte John Adams and two gun-hpats anchored
the cay the Preiident failed. General E,ton
failed for the United States in a merchant veatl
The Ex-Bafhaw was At Svracufc when the Pre-
ident failed. The PRECEDENT on her paiIa-e TO
Gibraltar rot near The Spariih COAT, WIS taken
WI " IUSo UPON IRON Inc
batteries.
It may be grateful TO the friends Of the Off
GERS, who have beer in captivity, to know
where they now arc, We ,hcefors have procur-
ed the following account or them.
Returned ~ tse P,ss.A7n.
William Bain'sridse, Caotain.
Jacob Jones, q Lieutenant.
Keith Spence. pnrfrr,. ~ o. =:
Rpn;,p,;u peal ;.,,t.n,,k
lanes Gihhon, do. do.
Daniel T.-PNterfon, do. do.
William Oiborne. Lieutenant Marines.
! James Bidd!e, M;dihipman.
Robert Gamble, do.
William Curbn1', do.
Wallace WorInley do.
James Renfhaw, do.
! Nicholas Harwooei, Surgeons Mate.
Jonathan Cowdry. do.
William Anderfon, Captains Clerk.
George Hodge, Boatfwain.
Iofeph Douglas, Samaker.
Richard Stevenfou, Gunner.
Remained liz TIE Mediterranean
Lieut.. David Porter.
- Theodore Hunt. .,~
- Benjamin Smith.
Bernard Henry. Matter.
Doctor John Ridley remains as Charge DAT
lars for the u. s. at Irpoli..
Simon Smith, Midhipmau, and
William Colby, Carpenter. L.d.er.
In addition to the above, we have it from Mr..
Dove, who was OH board one of the lombard
ing veiiels during the attack on Derne, that out
of the 800 Americans engaged on thore, there
were only five killed, which took place at the
time Capt. OsBANAN, who WAS iecond in com
mand, had, with his little baud, fcaled the walls
and pulled down the Torkifll flag, in place of
which he Immediately hoifed the American
ftandard
The prefent Baihaw of Tripoli is ftated by
our officers to be man of comfortable talent
and bravery, mixed with great cruelty-altho'
they did not experience themfelves any uncom-
mon fhare of the laft quality--at one time on
the attack of the brave Pre- bic, when every man
was driven from a fort BUT The Balllaw, he re-
manned, cody examining the operations with
a fPy glais. After the action of Eaton's, thai,
lead to peace, he was heard to declare, that If
ne thould approach nearer to Tripo, he would
| maf1acre every American and every Chriitian in
| his power. Mr.. Lear has been blamed for max
ing treaty precfpitately and before the appear
ance OF the fleet, but as the danger of the pri-
toners was eminent, and their reIeafe the prin-
| cipal Object of the war, it would appear that no
| moment that could attain this deGrable end wa 3
| to be waited in calculations of future fuccefs,
and that in embracing the very 6rft opening to
| releafe them from the cruelty Of the Ba!haw,
and lllutting the door forever on the return of
| his caprice or the chance of future events he
acted with the wiidon and precifion of poll
tician and patriot.
The officers and men appear while in Tripo-
Ii. to have been literally treated and fnppiied
by the confus of the Chrifian nations there,
and from their eeneroiity, to have taffed of the
| wines denied to their Mahometan matters
| this, perhaps, might have given the Banraw an
| idea that the Americans in their different at
| tacks were drunk, for he often faid, when our
yeiIels food in 70 boldly and made fuch near
| approaches to their forts, that they were all
drunk IF the attack was made in the afternoon,
| they had been drinking at dinner--if in the
morning, they had been drinking all night-none
bur madmen, drunksrds, or devils, would run
fuch rifque,-ai,d is this way he apologized to
himielf for the defertion and flight of his own
men, Herald.
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