The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-25
Gle enquirer.
RICHMOND, e5f5 yuLr.
MIRANDA's ExpHDITIoN-Acr cad


Ifthe two following accounts are to I've heliev
ed, this celebrated drama has not yer re ,ch
ed iss catafrophe. The cnrtan is about to
al'ie uoon il fecond time and new f.,t of
characters is to De Introduced on the fapc in
the B"tifIi coftume. What il to be- the period
OF it's pretentation is completely uncertain
But 1t IS incerelyto be wi.hsd, that the catsffro
pho of tn piece may, at lesit refembe thef plea
ling actions ofthe ttage, which terminate by re-
wardIng the good and puei'hng the vicious ::
BALTIMORE, Iulyie.
Arrived the Daaiih fchooner Perseverance. wiz
hams, ii days from Sc. 'rhoraas Captan w. was
informed at St. Thomas, that genera, M1saNpA fail
ed from Barbadoes about the mid lie or Tune with :,
reinforcement he touch at Trinidad to take
on hoard number Of men who had volunteered in
the tervice.
NETWORK, July II.
"A letter from Trinidad, dated IN the 10Th of Tune
received by respectable commercial hour. IN ,b;s
city, by way OF Baltimore, contains the foow;ug ar
ticle
Miranda's buiiref occupies the general a,,.n,;o,
at this pace he is expected here on Saturday or
Sunday. Great preparations are nov making to re-
eeive him IN manner fuited to his rank Nine Sp,-
riards, who it is fId came here COR tbe pur,oG. of
aiaih mating him, have been apprcfen:d, and lodged
IN prilon. General HyTop, we are arured. has mad
an offer Of his bet fervces aud two thouf,nd voIun
teers to at this i'lurious ehara Ser in at,ai, the
Object of his expedition Com. dSg.
II is very improblble, however, that General
Hyfop would win to engage in fuch an 90
pedition, without the direct content or :,nrrc-
tons OF his government; but it is imDroba-
Bile, that any fuch initrut}ons had been re-
ceiYed, II there be any truth in the LonJos ar
81 nm
that 1t was only on the brecediag dav, that diff
patches had arrived from admiral Cochrane.
Hat'IG the proereis OF the expedition and re-
quitting ihtructions how ~ aGf On this extra.
ordinary location" The London Editor wifi.
es to infer from this application, that there
had been no previous connection be,wcen
Miranda aud the prtilh government. " II
News that tuch plan was MT in the con-
Temptation OF the late miniRrv. The dates
put the prefent administration wholly out of
the qus't'on." But the Inference is far from
being correct. Admiral Cochrane niybt
have received inltructions from the late miGiC.
try, but vet, uncertain as 70 the courfe.
which the new cabinet might win him to pur
iue, ne might have conGdered il his duty to
cnnihit them. Behdes, t,e(c inttrretions might
not have been Of A definite nature: The 90
vernnaent nay have relerve1 tn itfelf, the ul
timatc power of regulating its conduit by the
fate Of the EXPEDITION, and have fimDIv infruc-
ed admiral Cochrane to give the earlieft infor
nation ofts fate. We confefS, however. that
though the inference of the London editor he.
not altogether certain, it wears the appearance
of great probability and that it is mott like
". If admiral Cochranc mas now applied for
nttru Stions, that he had not prevoully received
any.
Another London paper obferves, that ,dgu;.
rel WARREN failed fFom England for the
Wef-lndies on June 9TH (the very dav, when
Cochrarc's difpatches were received "It is
conjettured, HE had orders to Cooperate with
Miranda"
One opinion. however, may be relied on, that
IT miranda does op-ny unite with the Englilh
he will dimni!h the number of his American
adherents and the probablc f,ccefs of his ex-
petition. In iIch cafe he will appear, not in
the light OF the deliverer of his country, but Of
an Ehgl'ih Agent not as one whole obietf ia
to tree Caracas from the Spaniih yoke. but
rather to place ii under the yoke OF England.
May we not even prefume that it was partly
from this policy, thar Miranda, though afifted
by the Engih, was determined to fit ont from
neutral ports, from n. York, & Cape Francois.
rather than from Barbados or Trinidad II
was his interea TO obtain the confidence. NOT
to excite the fuipicinn OF his American allies.
l'nt iiiould that be his prefsnt ftuation. his en-.
tcrpriie totters.