The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-09-06

er fize has had 1000 gs. for 4 voyage To L,ibon.
The profits on the flock of the Ruilian Ame-
rican Company for the year 1902 and 1903, are
] SIS rubies per Hare.
JvLY GIVE mentioned in part OF our i'm
preiiion vefterday, that Lord Sidmouth has at
length retired from the Cabinet. MIR. N. Van
fttart has re6gned the Office of Principal Secre-
tary TO The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, anI Mr.
Potter the pot OF Iriih Chancellor Of the En-
cheqmer. WE heartily congratulate the coua-
try upon thefe cyents. The Addinytons were
a dead weight upon Mr.. Pitt, which checked
the fprng of his genius, and the energy Of his
talents.--We are glad they are at 'ait removed,
re itands now alone, unclogged and free.--He
fands alone, bmt ftrong in the confidence Of the
nation, he will iutify his Claim to that pre-eni-
hence, where, If there be grsa, peril to DC eu-
countered, there is alto erea; glory to be ac-
quired. All the oppoiitionias, as waste he ex.
peSfed, have opened upon him for having un-
looted himiels from the AddingtonS. Their
cries and inveGtives are 10 many tributes TO the
greatness of his taients.-we always know when
bird of prey is near, by the icreau,ing of the
fmal birds.
Earl Cunden is mentioned as Lord Sid
| months tucceGor in the Cabinet, and MIR.
Yorke as Lord Camden's fucceilor in the War
| Department.
| The Earl OF Bnckinshamfhire, we underfa l,
Duchy of LancaHer.
JuNes.
The followingis, according TO private letter,
the fate of the naval preparations in the Dltc!i
ports:
AT Antwerp, building.6 CHIPS of the line, and
2 trga.cs.
a; hnfterdam, / n,ir of "A guns, jat launch
ed {: do. go5e to The Texe,.
AT Rotterdam, 'hipof 81 guns, to be launch
ed IN about 8 months, and / friyate OF So guns.
| In the TeXei, .l,ius of rhe line, with fever
al ir'gates; and from - 10 5otraniports of from
I 400 to 500 tons burthei
| The manocnvres of tue expedition army in the
Dutch camp at Yeya b.van the 10th ult.
IN the preience of the French general Mar,non,.
feherday neAenfer was ordered 10 hold
| himtelf in readiness Il leave town for the Cor
tinent, with dipatch.s from LORD, Mu!crave
his deftination is kept 70 profound iecrr., that
hei MOTTO know it Until his arrival al Gotten
burgh.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, July 6. 1905.
Copy of letter from Rear-Aimiral Drury.
to William Ma-f.en, Eiquire, dated on b9ati
the Trent, in Cork Harbour, June c2, 1905.
SIa-Ihis morning arrived here his macay's
mp Lore, bringing with her the Valiant, a for
tnidable french prwatecr, which ille captured
tour days ago, as related in captain Mlitland's
letter, herewith encofed, for the information
| OF my lords comnitiioners OF the Admiralty.
lam, sc. w. OBJ. DRURY.
His Majefty'S flip Loire at Sea.
or June Is, 1905.
nave much pea'ure in announcing to you
the capture of the Valiant of Bordeaux, A fri
gate privateer, carrying thirty guns, and two
hundred and Forty men, by his maieny's flip
undermy command, in lat. 80 deg. so min and
long. l6 deg. 90 min. after very hard cha!e of
twelve hours; when nearly within gua-fhot, the
Mo!arpus and Brilliant hove in fight on the
weather bow, which obliged her to bear up, and
hE 52 SRE heV %5ao q Rats
reckoned one of the mott complete fhirs ever
iitted out at Bordeaux, and is perfectly calcu
lated TO be taken into his maiety's feryice, fails
lincomparably faf, carries twenty-four eighteen
Founders on her main-deck and fix fxes( (which
Inc threw overheard in the chafe) on her quar-
ter-deck. The Valiant had been twenty DAYS
from bordeaux, was vi6tualied and ftored for
-FOUR months crIIize; the only capture fhe has
madeis the Lord Spencer, Halifax Packet.
have the honour 10 be, &c
FRED. MAITLAND.
To Rear Admiral Drury, Sc. &c. Cove.
We have the pleafure of announcing the arri-
val of the Mediterranean fleet. II conlined of
more than 40 fail, the greateff part of which is
now in the Downs. The Anton frieate which
conveyed them is arrived at Portsmouth with
the tranfports.
JULY 9.-Capt. Fleming of his MaieRv's hin
Esyptenne, captured market-boat off Ro-
rheiie, On The 22d ult. in which boat CAPTAIN
Fleming, and eight of his people went into the
harbor, and pafied the whole of the feet living
there, coniting of nine fail of the line, fix OF
"a guns, and three large lhps, two fricates, and
three Hoops of war they returned fate on
board the Egyptienne unknown by the enemy.
The French Papers contain political dif.nfi-
ons of the manufactures of Hauteriye in which
the llte fuccefes Of the French marine, and the
alarms they are fuppofed to excite in this coun-
Try, for Trinidad, Jamaica, Bengal, Bombay and
Newfoundland, are iniled upon with taunt
ing infoence, and all the hitternefs of fcorn and
Invective France and her Allies are quickly
to have | 80 films the line at Ca. The Argus
ohierves that it is not the buiinefs of the French
Marine to fight battles, bat TO fecure the liber
~ OF the Teas. We are fhop keeping nation
the ports ofhalf the wort, are ihnt araina us
France can Garry on the war without her peo-
pie feeling taxation, &c. &c. We tru1 Lord
Mellon will foon enable us 70 give all the an
liver thefc gaiccrading manifsAoes defervc.
The French Emperor, it flIould feem, from
the following article, extracted from one Of the
min,r Paris Journals, is henceforh 10 give the
ton to all the crowned heads in Rnrope -
MCf SOVEREIGN i'm Rurn,,, ,.,. e., ~