The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-26
european J,neiiigents.
NETWORK, April II.

Giatgow, the Editors of the Newly York Gazette
have received Glafgow papers to the 9th, and
London papers to the 9th of March, one month
later than our previous advices; but they con-
tain no news of importance.
Various fpeculations were afloat in England,
of the deftinaton of the Rochefort fonadron.
Among the reft, it was reported that it had put
INTO Ferrol, but they had a fufpicion that it had
gone to the Welt-Indies, as admiral Cochrane
had been ordered to proceed to that quarter
with all poiiible expedition. The force with
which he failed from his ftation off Ferrol, con-
lifts of the st. George, Atlas, Northumberland,
Eagle, Spartiate, and Veteran. The St. George
is his flag fhip.
The London Gazette mentions, that lord
Henry Stuart, was appointed his maiefy's en-
voy extraordinary, &c. to the cleetor of Wur-
temburg and the honorable VIM. Hill, envoy
&c. to the circle of Franconia, and minlter to
the Diet of Ratiibon.
Andrew Allen, junior, efquire, has been ap-
pointed by the king, confu for the fate of
New ampfhire, MalIachuietts, Rhode Hand
and Connecticut.
:. The Englilh miniRry was about laying an ad.
ditional duty on falt.
Valuable Spanilh prizes fill continued to be
tent into the different ports in England.
LONDON, February 20.
This morning, threSC ottenburg mails arri-
we'd, by which we have received Hamburg pa
pers to the date ofFebrtary 4.
We have received Paris papers to the 10th
inf. They contain iittlesintelligence of mo-
ment. Among the recenf aiPI5uatic appoint
ments of the French gosERfDsasSsM. De Ro-
chefocault has been nolad5 u nador at
Vienna, and general Junot ldlfthe fame f.
tuation at Liibon. On Sunday fe'ennight a
GRAND dInInm az ouI;ap-a A.
Autrian, Saxon, Prufian and Bavarian ambaf-
fadors, who prefentcd letters of congratu!ation
from their REFLECTIVE courts, upon the birth of
prince Napoleon Louis. Prince Murat took
the oaths as grand-admiral, and was compli-
mentcd by the fenate. Bonaparte is hortly ex-
peeted to fet ont for the camp at Boulogne.
March l..
1t would feem that Bonaparte has coniciited
to the neutrality of the court of Naples, at !eaft
with refpeet to Sicily, and that he no longer re-
qures the ports of that illnd to be fliut againft
our fhipPing. For this concei1ion it nun, how
ever, be remarked, that the only pledge given
is the verbal af1urance of the French minifer
at Naples. Our envoy till continues in that
capital.
We are afTured, by letter from Paris, in
terted IN the Hamburg Journals, that his Pruf-
han majefty's offer to mediate between France
and Great-Britain has been we'll received by the
emperor Napoleon.
The reports of the total excIufion of Ameri-
can vefiels from the harbours of Jamaica is evil
IDENTIFY unfounded. 1t appears to have origina-
ted III rniiconception of the orders which have
been iiiued, not only at Jamaica, but at mott Of
the other Weft-India settlements, for inforcing
the proviiions of the 2sth of his prefent majef-
ty, relative to the trade both with the United
States and the Britifh plantations in North A
merica.
Yesterday morning capt. Bradley, late COM
mander of the Cambran frigate, arrived in town
from Nova Scotia, with dispatches from admi-
raj lir A. Mitchell, commanding on that ftati-
on.
The feet under the command of admiral
CORVALLIS fill remains in Torbay. II has been
Joined by the Tonnant, Hero, and luxurious,
and coniilts now of IA fail of the line, beiides
frigatcs.
March 2.
Moreau, according to report was detained in
Spain, becaufe Bonaparte was afraid he would
be received with too much diftinction in Anne.
RIGA. 1t was indeed natural TO fIppofe that a
republican general would be we'll received in
America, having fallen victim to the ambiti-
on of a man who has converted a common
wealth or at leaft what was held forth as fscb,
into the mott abfolute monarchy on earth.
March 4.
Dispatches were laf night fent off from the
admiralty to Yarmouth. Orders have been Civ
en- for great number of fllips of the line to
join the North-Sea feet
The members Of the committee delegated to
bring over the Irifh Roman Catholic petition,
have arrived in town. In obedience to their in
ftruetons, their firft ftep will be 10 obtain an
audience of Mr.. Pitt, and requef, on the part
of the Catholics of Ireland, that he will be plea
fed to prefent it to the houfe of commons, and
iupport it with all his power and influence in
the country and in cafe that his reoueft fhould
not be complied with, it is to be entrufted to
Mr.. Fox, and the principal members of the old
administration, who are underftood to be pIedg.
ed to that meafure.
Count Rumford has recently married the
widow of NJ. Variety, in Paris; by which nup-
tial experiment he obtains fortune of sooOl
per annum: this is evidently the moi effective
OF all the RanfordiSing projects for keeping a
bonjt qoarml
We can undertake TO allure our readers, that
IN conteGuence Of the fcarcity which is now &c.
vesely felt throughout the whole Of Spain, or.
ders have been dilpatched to the commander.
of our fquadrons and cruifers off the Spanin
coat TO permit all neutral veffeIs freighted with
grain to pats unmoIeted; and even to allow all
kinds Of fhippiRg of the fame defcription, unlef:
they have e.lemy's property on board. The
ltrietnefs maintained in the blockade of Cadi2
was merely meafure Of difcretion, exercilcd