The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-26


The dispatches are now on their way in lie Ven
geur floop- of war. Another communication
which we have TO make will not fail to give cor
dial ABSTRACTION to the generous feelings of the
country: 1t has been finally fettled, that all
private property, without any exception or IL
imitation whatever, found OH board the Spanifh
veIiels captured by his maiety's fhips, fial be
returned to the owners. Directions to this eff
fef have been already ifiued.
March S.
Confols, S.; Reduced, hut; Omnium, 4
prem.
Government daily expects the anfwer of the
emperor Alexander to his majeGy's communi-
cation refpr6ting the late ovcrtures made BY
Bonaparte. The meflengeri is, in all probabili-
ty, detained by the weather at Hufum.
February 29-March 8.
Previous to the failing of the Townihend,
letters had been received at Lifbon from Glib
ratar, which ftated that the French feet had
failed from Toulon, with number of troops
OH board, but its defamation was unknown.
The report itated in a preceding column, ref
pceting revolt at the Cape of Good-Hope, is
aid to have the trongeit fanetion of feveral let
tiers received IN London; one of which fatcs,
that the fcttlcment was furrcudcred to the En-
glih III confequence of a previous negotiation
opened with the Brtilh government at Madras.
1t ihoud feem as if the French government had
received fome intimation to this effect, at the
time Of FULFILLING its famous Exbo/e on the sIft
of December, which, fpeaking of the Batavian
republic, fays-"Its colonies have been fe-
cond time fold to the Englifh, and delivered up
without rcfiftance )" an exprefIion which GER
tanly does not at all apply to the late furrender
Of any of the Dutch fettlements in the Welt
Indies.
The infertion in the Lifbon official Gazette
of the grofs libel of the Prince of Peace againit
this country, has been followed up by all order
from the Portuguese government, that all
Spanifh fhips, prizes to the Englifh, fhall quit
the Tagus, and that in future no fuch prizes
fhall be admitted" This order was iffued on
the soth infant. The Townlhend Packet,
captain Dodd, which left Lifbon on the follow
ing day, arrived at Falmouth on Thurfday en-
night.
Letters of the 18th ult. received from Rot
terdam on Saturday, mention the arrival of M
Van acknowledgements, at the Hague, with the
new contribution manufactured at Paris. M
Schimmepenninck, it is faid, is to be invetted
with the fupreme command of civil govern
ment and it is added, that for this arrange
ment the Dutch are indebted to the court of
Berlin.
The deputation appointed to bring over the
petition for the Catholic emancipation, may be
We underftand that they are inftrueted to wait
| on Mr.. Pitt, and to requef that he will prefent
| it TO the Houfe of Commons. Should Mr.. Pitt
| content, they are authorized to intimate to him,
that it is their with he fhould only pray that it
may be laid on the table, as the Catholics do not
| mean TO prcfs the buhncfs, unefs with the ap-
probation of his majeRy's government, and an
| afTurance that it will not produce warm diff
cutiion. This arrangement has been produced
| by the moderate party among the Catholics, at
the head of which is lord Finga. His lordihip
and his friends have been from the beginning
alarmed at the probable. coniequence of vio-
lent oppofition to the queftion at the prefent
criis. The ref of the leading Catholics, how
ever, aware that difunion mutt prove fatal to the
caufe, yielded to the wifhes of the moderate
party; and hence the petition will be brought
forward in the humble and concilatory manner
which we have mentioned.
The Slave Trade Bill, NOW before the houfe
of commons, goes to enact that from time to
be determined, no negro Have fhali be import
cd into any of his majefty's colonies, under pc
nalty to be hereafter determined. All infurance
OH venels employed in the Slave Trade, to be
declared void. The benefit of feiZure of vef-
| fels employed in the traffic to rebound to the
feizing officers. Forfeiture to be recovered by
profecution in the courts.
Orders have been if1ued from the navy board
for the greatef difpatch being ufed in the equip
| ment of every fhip in condition to put to fea.
The Gazette of Saturday night contains a
proclamation for permitting the importation of
| corn and other proviGons from the u. States of
America, into his maelty's North American
Colonies.
Accounts from Holland fate, that an mutual
degree of activity prevails in their naval depart
| ment, the Dutch have received from Paris new
contribution, by M. acknowledgements, who is
| to be at the head of it. No other particulars
| are yet known, but it is faid the whole of the
military departmentremains under the controul
of the French emperor.
| A report that the Cape of Good-Hope had
| surrendered to Britifh fGuadron, is not believ-
ed.
| The following paragraphs appear in the poft-
! fcript of the Courier de Londres
| M. Bonaparte has caufed it to be inherited
in his journals " that England and France have
accepted the mediation of great power"
"The Majefeux, one of the Rochefort fquad-
| ron, has returned to that port, dfmafed-the
Others have not entered the harbor of Brett"
Large detachments from the French army in
| the Neapolitan territories have been ordered to
march to Upper Italy-orders which have per-
! haps been occafiened by the increafing ftrength
of the Auftrian Gordon. The Italian powers,
! which have hitherto been neutral, are no longer
| to be permitted to remain 70, but are to be re-
CURED TO ihut their ports againft England.
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