The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-01-30
eurnpran SnfrlIigcnes.
DOVER, November "a.

Never expectation more alive to fuccefs
never arrangements better calculated to enfure
IL, than in fquadron on Thurfday laft; that G.
vening being defined for the grand attack. finer
day for preparation could rot have fhone the fea
was fmooth as glais the wind in the very quarter
that mott to be dcfred, blowing gentle breeze
from E. N Z. AT noon the gun brigs and rocket
launches in tow, Rood the northward and anchor
ed abreaf Of Ainbeteufe, jun hell range, it hav-
ing been determined that they hould run down along
the enenny's line lying in the road at night fall
with the lal Of the ebb. BY half paH four p. M.
every thing was completely arranged on beard the
gun briggs and rocket launches, under the Immediate
INFECTION of Mr.. Congreve, who is the inventor Of
this new fyftem of bombardment, may fairly be
called. Upwards of thoufand fhell aud carcaie.
rockets were fixed in the frames from which thew
were to be fired in voies-the hell rockets at low
anoi. intended be poured into the French briggs at
anchors the carcafe rockets, each carrying as much
cireafe competition is fired in one round by an
eight inch mortar S of elevation were to be re-
feryed fer throwing into the baton. The trains were
land that were defined to pour them by hundreds i'm
volley on the devoted velfes of the enemy. About
eight o'clock the admiral went over the iide of the
Antelope, 10 move his flag OH board the Diligence
Hoop OF war, in which vefie as he draws but little
water and is armed with ten "a Founders on fide
tle gallant Sir Sydney lead the attack in
p-rion. Never more ardor and enthufiaim diff.
played than at that moment by all ranks More than
hundred armed boats followed the admiral TO the
Diligence cheering him with reiterated denonftrati-
OF their ardor for the co.e which though every
one fell muf have been fucceful, yet every one knew
mnh be dearly purehaied feeling that the enemy were
July OF neditatng the attack for that nirht
and had been heating his furnaces for red lo. fhot.
not only from one end ofthe bay the other but
ven on board every OF the gun-brigs.
The evening was fill, every thing that could
have been wiihed, and little after eight the igna
was made for the bomb fhips to open in the bay as
the prelude 10 the attack the effect truly fub-
lime, and every heart now beat with accumulated
hope. The Admirals flag Aging on board
the Diligence, the gnal made for the gun-brigs
to lead i'll, and they actually under weigh, head
ed by the admiral hirnfef Al was vet well l.; but
fcarcely had the lne got under weigh, fcarcely
was the firA volley Of rockets discharged, when on
fudden the wind United round TO the north welt
and in aO infant blew gale. Every one who ha,
been IN Bov!ogne bay, knows what muir have been
the immediate conieqsence from the fmootheR fur
face, the NOR agitated turf came tunbling in upon
U.S. The largei veties Of the fquadron were in i'm
n,iuent Danger ct going afhore and the ila,er ones
Were rolling gun vale TO. Victory was in a moment
matched from our grafo. The admiral was reluc-
tantly compelled to aDuul the fgnas of astack-the
bobardment ceafed fuch of our fhips as were under
weigh were with difficulty towed or the fnore n,any
that were not, were compelled flip their cables
The confuiion became general-falie fires were burn
ing IN all drettions--the armed boats were hurryi1y
back the veiIes, many of them conftraned TO
take fiel'er in the frf flip they could make In a
fht Of wind 70 unexpected ard 70 violent, it is not
difficult the damage that has been fulfair
ed in the maer craft, and in the apparatus belonging
70 them What the extent Of it is, we are vet rno-
rant, as the gale inereafng in the night and blow
ing hard all day yeerday, the fquadron we. diierf.
ed Three ofthe launches, however, are known to
have gone down. without the lois of any lives II is
but too much to be feared, that 70 much damage
has been received, that the operations eanno, be re-
n.wed on the fame fcale this year. One good effca
however, has refulted, that every man in the laua-
dron and every Of the enemy too it is believed
who witneffed the commencement of the attack. /.
fasfed that the dearuSion Of Bonlogne NAV vet he
accomplished, when the clements are not apaina us
DEAL, Nov. "a.
"Rcar Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, in
his majefy's fip Antelope, with the TRULY
Vettal. Venus, Vdlorus, HecIa, Explofion, Prof
pero, Vefuvius, Difcovery, Otter, Biflik, Fla
nler, Firm, Exerion and Brllizer, Sceptre arm.
ed fhip, arrived from off Boulogne, not being
able to make the attack, the wind being at N
w. IT is reported that Sir Sidney loit his gle
with fourteen of his bet men, being drove or
fhore on the enemy's coat, and made prifon
ers."
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