The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-08-27

| firlt naau he With was FIR. ,siferon."
In as,,son the tei.nonv already cited we may
conddr tie following, letter afr. Hur,ingdon ,;,
Preideas Of congre;s dated Redmond lanuary oo.A,
! 1881. as an Authentic fouree of intelligence
becaufe it was written at a time whei, the
ercumlsr &C were fref in The recollection of every
oblers x becaufe it wasaddrcfedt abodyi.tnate-
ly Informed on the fubiea by innunerabie MEANS *
who v'cuA 10. have fileto have exro1ed the Hight
n a,'enrt made - tsccye them =. : crIs &, am
PORTRAIT and a iac!i elevated nand;ng
SIa,
ST, may feeri ol coisi,iering The important events
which have taken riice in ss ase within TIE co,rs
o. ten days rae; that itouid not have ran!init.ed
| an account vi them 20 your c.tellency iooner But
fs-h has been their extraordinary rapidly. and fuel
.lie uor-nii.ted attention they have required fran all
concerr ed in The government, tho, do not reeoile9
the pcron of rme hieh could have .aken to COM
nit them to paper. On the 81 of December let
ter from private gentleman gen. N.fon anne to
my hands notifying th,t in the morning of the pre-
cedirr Day 81 fail Of vefels entered ,ha Capes and
fror ,hc oI the letrer we had reaon TO exscta
within ewhours, further intelligence, whether they
wers friends or Toes, their force and other crcur
ces. We immediately 1iipatched general Mellon 20
the lower country, with powers TO call on the militia
in that quar.er, at othervile exyeuc;es I,oud
require: Int waed further intelligence before we
would call Tor militia from the middle or upper coun-
(Iarusry) infant when the former confirmed +,
was afeerained they had advanced np James River "a
Warraoueak Bav. All arrangements were immedi.
aely taken for calling in fuicient body OF m,a for
opppli'on; in the Mont of the Srd, received adj
vice. they were ct anchor oppof;e James town. We
then fuppoied Williamsburg to be their ebieSa. The
wind, however, winch had hitherto been unfavoura-
bic, fhted fair and the tide being ALTO in their favour
they attended theriver to Kennons that evening and
with the next tide came up Wefover having on
their way taken poeii on Of ione works we had az
Floods, by which two three OF their we'd
fone DANA re; bur which of neceflty ABANDON
| ed by the trna garrifon of so placed there on
the enemy's landing to inveR the works Intelligence
of their having Quilted the fation at lanes town
| from which we uppoied they TO land for Will
hamburg. and RIA they had got in the evening to
Cannons, reached Us the next morning at five o.
clock and was the FRI indication of their meaning TO
penetrate towards .his place Petersburg. As the
orders for drawing the militia here had been riven t,.
two days, oppofitior IN readiness. Every ef
tort was therefore necei!ary to withdraw the arms
and other military ores, records &C. fro: this place
| Every effort was accordingly made to con-
| vey them 10 TIE foundry fix miles above this I'll
about fun lct Of that dav, when we learnt che enemy
| had come to anchor WeiSover that morning
We tien knew this and Peterfburg was their u-
,ect and We BEGAN carry acrois the river, ma ~
things remaining here and remove what had h-en
4 v.
Wefham the nearea crofing fcven mixes above this
place; which operation continued ill they had APP
| preached very near They marched frcl:, Welover
AZ ocock in the afternoon OF the fourth and entered
Richmond he day following. A regiment of inf g.
Try, ard 45out 60 horie continued without hating
to the tnrndery they Burnt that, tie Boring Mill
/ Magazine, and two o:har Eoufes, and proceeded to
Wc!an,, but nothing being in their power. there,
they retired to Richmond the next morning they
burnt one buildings Of public, and fo-lc Of private
property, with what flores remained in ,.,e,n; de-
troYed great quantity OF private flores aid about
IL O'Clock retired towards Wefover, when they
! eHcamPed within the neck the day The lofs IS
yer accurately known. As far as have been able
TO dhtover, it eoniiised, in this place Of about 800
nuikets, for,e folders coathing to nall an,ount,
lone quarter matter tloTes OF which 100 l;Ges O.
Leather was the principal article par. O. the ar,if-
! GERS tools. and three Wagons; befdcs which, FIVE
brais !brs. which fuak in the river were NEoO.y-
ed to them, RATED and carried OF. Within 48 hours
from the time of their landing, and l9 from our
knowing .hair de!tiuatnn, they had penetrated 90
miles, done t:ie whole III; ury and retired
| her numbers from the beh intelligence have
ad are about 1900 Infantry, and their cavalry
accounts varYirom so to 100, the whole command
ed by the Pa,rde ArnoiG, Militia dfperfed o;cs
large tract OF country, be called in but Goyyy
On the day the enemy advanced to this place, two
hundred only were embodied they were Of this town
|
thing. AT fbii tine, they are aIen,bled in pret,
comfortable bodies, on the South Gde of lanes RI;
yer, but nor yet brought point. On the North
lde are two three fmail bodies amounting in the
whole to about nine hundred men The enemy
were at o'e'"-k yellerday evsling Gill remaining in
their encampment, at Wecover, and Berkeley Neck
In the mean time, Daron5,euben Jealous friend has
deieended from the dignity IF his proper comnland
to direct our iTnsi'ell movements His vigilance has
IN great mea'ure fupplied the want Of force in pre-
venting the enemy from, crofing the river, which
| might nave been very fatal. He has been aifdu-
Gully employed in preparing ee,;pments for the Mi
litia as hey aiiemble pointing them to a proper OBJ
je1t' and ether cfhccs Of. good commander Should
they 10 ter little longer, aDt is found practicable
10 coeet ar adequate force, ;ter nyfaf they vii!
not eteape with inipuri.y. To what place they VIII
point their next cxettions, we canrot even cnnec.
| ture The whole country on tide waters and ada
cent to theni, rs equally open imiIsr inh.lt :"
! (Slg"ed) THOMAS JEFFERSON.
| Upon this fubjet9 we will only add, an ex.raa
| rom letter, written by gen. Iohn Minor Of
fredeTickfburg, 70 has friend" That being in COM
Pany with gen. Stevens and Others wfen the char .
brought ag'i1H MIR. Isaerfon by Charles Synne,
the preieni collector oi the port OF alexandria wa,
the iubjed Of oonv.riation, gen s. exprefsed the
'Tarmeh indignation; faid It was faifhood 70 his
certain lro7"iR; that he defped the idea of eff n
ing any political prpoe a, the eypence Of t5uth hat