The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-04

70 fronSly watched, az nearly to fufpend all
communication between them. : It's mention.
ed in one of the Paris papers, that party of
| twsnty-one officers and three ladirs, venturipg
beyond the gates of one of the towns, was fred
on by the Calabrians, and all killed except one
who recovered the ea,riiou, although feverely
wounded. The preparations for the attack of
Sicily were Continued with activity.
| Acc ordiDg to letters from Augsburg of the
esd April, the French continued their labours
| TO ftrengthen the fotfications of Brannau---fe-
| veral new redoubts have been formed. New
haus, near Paffau, has likewife been fortified.
The decree appointing Jofeph Bonaparte king
of the Two Sicihes, was received at Naples on
the 18th Of April, and forwarded to him in
Calabria.-It was reported at Naples on the
4th, that an inlurre6tion had taken place at
Palermo, and that the king and queen had fied
| to Meffina.-Another report, hilf lefs probable,
mentions that the RuIlian troops, in the Seven
Hands, had on the 10th of March, received or
ders TO return home. .st ...-
| The French troops IN Dalma;ia on the i4.h
ult. according to letters from Venice Of that
date. amounted to 40 or a. 900, and were adj
vahcing TO occupy Butrinto, Prevefa, and other
places to the fouthward.
| The mof rigorous meafures have been adopt
ed TO prevent the Introduction into Italy of all
merchandise prohibited in France. and particu-
| iarly thofe tranfmitted from Switzerland, which
are found to be chiefly Engl,,h.
The Journal de Paris fays, that the feizure of
Pafwan Og'ou is not yet confirmed but that
mutitudes of infurgents daily nundate the from
tiers OF Preiburgh, and that fome Deceive events
mutt fhortly occur in the Turkifh provinces.
Louis Bonaparte, the intended king of Hol-
land, rs now dangeroufly i'll at Paris.
Senator Beauharnois, brothcr-n-law to Ma
dame Bonaparte, and uncle to the vicerov of
Italy, 1t is fad, isto be chief of the Heve.c Re.
public.
! The French and Spaniards have now fix
lquadrons at fea (; namely, that under Jerome
bonaparte and adm. Guillaume, confining of
the Veteran of 80 guns, Foudrayaut 81, -Maief.
Itic, Eole, Impeteux, Gator, and Patriot, of IA
gums, four fr;gatcs, and corvette, which failed
from Brett on the I4th of Observation-Disclosures
! fguadron, computing FIX fail of the line, which
Jailed from the fame port on the fame day, not
llnce heard of.-Thrd, five fail of the line, three
frIgates and three corvettes, which failed from
Brett in January, not fnce heard of.-Fourth,
he Resulus, 80, PRECEDENT and Sy belle, of 10,
and Surveillant, which failed from L'Orient 5th
November, and were to the Southwark of the
line on the Goth January.-Fifth, the fqladron
of frigates which failed from L'Orient the e7th
March and laitly, the fquadron of erigates
which failed from Cadiz the 18th March.
Yeterday's letters from Gibraltar, confirm
|
of the line, two frgates, and a brig, from Car
shagena, on the I'd April. The latter has been
taken by the Renomee the Others are fuppof-
ed to have paied the Straits on the night OF the
4th.
Aanlir0! Berkeley takes bis baGage TO Halifax
IN the Milan f,igate, and is TO boiR bis tag on
board toe Le0nder, Of so gans to avbieb hip
capt. Humpbrie5 is appointed, 4'icr capt. WbitLy.
Admiral Villeneuve, who commanded the
French feet in the battle of Trafalgar, died fud-
denly at the hotel in which he lodged at Rem
mes, on his route TO Paris, on the night of t he
18th ult.--Iti s f,id he fhot himfelf but there
is much reaton to fuppoie that he. like Pichegrl,
and Wright, fell by the order of Bonaparte. He
Mr.. Skip1vifb, tbe american Cor5ii, 4p5oy,
zve LATELY mentioned to bas,e failed from Neto.
fo'k,Jor France, arrived at L Orisat or the 2sa
nH.
(Fwtber extrA6J in our next. ..