The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-08

OF American Diplomacy; and it mus. te ul,
vious that there is no minister ut Paris who
mas either power or authority TO undertake
new arrangements, or to make any Change
In the previous dispositions relative to com
merce. 1t is very certain that before the
emperor set out for the army, he was dispo-
BED to make dispositions which would have
been favorable to the commerce of neutrals :;
and that the motive for not making the new
arrangements at that moment was, that like
CEsar's wife. he would not be even suspected
II would be Interpreted not as AN act of use
ful policy, but as AN act OF submission to
" that nation Of shohSeehers."
What operation the eveats oc battle & the
aspect OF our own measures. contrasted with
those OF Britain. may produce. it is not very
easy at this moment to anticipate but the
shutting OF all the ports of Elrope we make
no doubt will be one momehtous effect.
.4are,u.
- - -" BALrIMoFr, August 1. Il,
The assertion in the Federal Republicans
OF Saturday, that the Secretary of state, o,
any member of the Administration was ac-
quainted with Mr.. Erskine's Instructions at
the time of the late negotiation, is not only
FALSE, but 6esc and inta,nois.... We have
y rom the best authority, that neither the
President. Secretary of State, nor any of the
cabinet ever saw: Mr.. Erskine's instruc-
tions--that froIi, the nature OF his credenti-
ais they had no right to demand it that
Mr. Ersk'ne did not think proper to exhi-
bit .them--and that he continues to the pre-
Sent moment to maintain that he did not ex.
coed his instructions, Notwithstanding the
&c fGrtc letter OF Mr.. Canning. The psr-
hdy ct the British government appears in a
glaring hue Mr.. Canning's letter recent
ly published, may be considered as the basis
of Jackson to treat with us ...Bait,more> If
me:fcaa.
:. The Hon. Mr.. Adams ard suite will EN-.
bark for Russia in fewIiays.
The expectation OF gun powder, salt petre
and ammunttion, and any sort of arms from
Great Britain, isprohibited until the 6th Of
December next.
We understand that one of Mr. Gray's
vessels is prepared to take out Mr.. Adams
and his family to Russia. A son OF Colonel
Smiths of New York grandson to President
Adams) goes as private secretary and Il
son OF MIR. Gray accompaniesMr. A. Capt.
Benjamin Bckford, of Beverly commands
the ship.
The amount of the notes of the bank Iof
England III circulation on the LIST February
last, was Il $50 ,000l. of which nearly foar
and a half millions were for one and two
pounds.
On Friday the 25th ult. the District Court of
the United States c!oaedi its session in Boston
HE following vessels, libeited for breach of the
embargo laws, were decrecd forfeit, viz
Schooner TWO Friends aid cargo-slip Com.
rnerCe, OF Salem--schr Reaoi,ition
brig Hannah, observation-disclosures Fear :nd cargo
schooner Morning Star+-hrig' Short Staple
sloop Carolne-7schr. Giyed and cargo schr
H'inah and cargo.
-.r -. .
eWAsHINoToN, August g.
On Monday1arrived in this City, Captain
CoLEs, the bearer of dispatches from our
Minister in France. He arrived at New
4oril on Saturday last in the Syren, which
sailed from L'Orient on the 9Th June
No changers understood to have taken
Place Tia our relations with France.
inc Mentor had not sailed when Mr..
Coles lett France, being detained to await the
orders of Mr.. Armstrong.
1t rs understood that the French losses In
the Austrian waf, and particularly in the en-
gage ment of the 21st and 22d MAY, have
been very great; though from the French
papers no such thing could be inferred, their
contents consisting almost entirely OF lite
rary articles, appointments in the Legion of
i"nor' celebrations ut birthdays aud victo-
RES and annunciations OF public spectacles.
Mar. Mt
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- ICH LNND--1io RENT-on Wednes-
IL day, the 10th inst. will positively be rented
to the highest bidder, at powhqtan court house.
being court day, those three rich tracts OIL IND
IN that county, beoRSng to the estate of the late