The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-02-08

and that the inhabitants were in confeouence
flying in all diredions.-From Naples we like
wife hear, that the country round Veiuvius is
over1owed b. lava, and that the people appre-
bending tome early and terrible explohons,
were hy'ng from the towns and villages in it's
vicinage to places of more fafety.
Accounts The Cd ant, Fate fiat the ui-H
timatum of the Court of Madrid, onthe fubieetE
of the differences between Spain and this coulI-I
try, was expected 1T Liibon in the courie Of Al
few daysfrom that date. What may be conf
dered as extraordinary, is the filence obfervcdI
in the moft recent letters from Spain refpeGfing
the captureof the Spanfh frigates. We have
ieen ieveral letters from Madrid, ofthe cath and |
25th ult. which do not allude even in the mott 4
diitant way to that important circumlance.j
notwithstanding the vigilance of our cruizers,
the Saoina hrigate, whole arrival at Vigo, with
three millions of dollars, we mentioned yefer-j
day, tucceeded in making that port, although
HE was for fhort time of Caaiz. She ap-l
peared there the 18th ult hut in corfeouenceI
of politive order from the Court. that no yef-3
Eel fhoud be admitted into the harbor on ac-!
count of the fever which RACES there, fle was
ordered to proceed TO Vigo.
The price of Porter will this clav (Nuv. $50
be RATED to Sixpence the Pot. the Brewers hav-
ing determined to advance that ncceii:,ry ari-l
Gle eleven thiliings in the barrel to the retail
dealer. In coniequence ofthis exorbitant in-
create, the owners of all public houfcs within
the bills OF mortality have apprifed their cuito-
rncrs, that from this day, they would be under
the neceihty ofadding one penny per quart to
the former price OF that beverage.
The French papers notice the gracious man.
ncr in which M. Monroe, the Amt rican Minif-
ter to our Court, WIS received ut The Thuiller-
les. The ohie6 OF Mr.. MCnroe's tourney to
France is laid to be, AS we had already fippo.
fed, the fettlement of the differences between
America and Spain and, if we are to Judge
from the language of the French writers, no APP
prehenhon is 10 be entertained of anv rupl ure
between thofe two States, as it would throw
America into the arms OF Great Britain. Sp;in
will, probably, be forced by Bouapartc to give
up Florida to the United States.
Bread upon the Continent, at leaf in France
and Germany, was lately 7s per cent. cheaper
than in England. On the cath hlt. loaf Of
bread weighing Alb. fold al Paris for Ii sous, or
hvePence farthing and at Hamburger, on the
- infant, bread was only two pence per POUND.
Thefe prices eynce the abundance os corn a0a
the cheapnefs Of bread is, we are aiIured, fill
lower in RufIia and Sweden.
Itis very extraordinary that Goals are at fuel,
an exorbltant price, when it is known to a GER
tantY, that there never was an infance known
OF their having been iich quantity in London
80 'o my " ti'S Col, f!iQ yCt lney ire Cc-.t
out to the public at 74s. per chaldron
The astronomer, De II Lande, has calculated,
that more rain has fallen within thefe lat nine
months than the twenty feven preceding: to
this he afcribes the fevers which afflict feveral
countries. To confole us, however, he pro:ni-
fes very healthy, dry, but, at the fame time,
a very cold winter.
We are happy to learn that trade is more than
commonly briik in moi OF our manuia6turi7 ~
towns. Since the cefiicn of Louiliana TO the A.
mericans, immenfe orders have come over from
thence to this country, particularly for flower
ed and fancy mullins. The returns made are
IN raw materials, dollars and proviions.
The entries of goods, and linens in particular,
for the ports of America, at Dublin, continue TO
be very comfortable, ESPECIALLY 80 Phifadelphia
New-York, and Bottom, and our imports from
thence are ofthe moft ufeful and valuable ma
ture as being the materials of indutry, except
tobacco, which, however, brings in a very large
revenue to thefe countries.
Were the details given in all the Morning Pa
pers of an action fought by the Lord Melville
privateer, Captain Hutchins, of Plymouth, with
SPanifh frigate, from Vera Cruz, true, ot,r ma
val annals would have been lately graced with
deed of more ntrepidity but we have ftrong
grounds 70 believe that the whole account is a
fcandaious fabrication, invented to triae with
! the public cf5tuiiiity. we nave, however,
thoughtit our duty to infert the relation as it
has appeared. If we recoeet right, iimi-
lar impoiition was played Off during the LAT
oPaniln war. TRAVELLER.