The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-15

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the Port of Rl,imcre
An Habeas Corpus WIS applied for, to
] Judge Scott, lac on Thursday evening on
behalf of seven men a,ratsd. and held in
custody by the Sheriff, at tie request. and on
the statement a the British consul that they
were deyertcrs.S by their C,uncil. The Ha
beas Corpus wS issueda, prayed Tor, lie
turnable the nett MORNING. at o'clock
cordingiy this morning th men were brought
up amid an immense coEcourSe of citizens,
who hlled the c)urt houseand the neighbor-
ing streer, and ,he sheri made return that
he had arrested and defined the men i'm
custody, in Write of the FLOWING authorits
from the British consul:
"BRIrISH CONSUI.S OFFICE.
baltimore, 9Th Sept. 1909.
JOHN HUNTER, Esq.
SIR,
Having received information that IS
Seamen have deserted from L'Africaine fri
gate, and are now in this cty-I have to re
Quest that you will he beas.tl to secure them
till they Can be sent on pbard.
am, &c.
-. WIN WOOD.
BY virtue of this authority, have arrest
ed and put in prison the following persons
to wit,
spitN NOW LhNl,
WILLIAM WHOHES.
DENNIS MURPHY,
RICHARD HEWES,
JOHN carp,
JOHN BURWELU
JACOB LAMB"
The judge said that hehad conceived i,
his duty to give notice To Mr.. Wood (the
British ConsuD of the Application, So that he
might appear and shcw cause, If s,ns he had
why the men snould he detained
In the Course of a few minutes MIR. Wood
came into court, and the Council for the pri
soners, Messrs. Glenn and l.. Donaldson
moved the court that the men be DISCHARGED
sufficient cause for their detention not an
pearing, on the return. Mr.. Wo,N,,s coun
Gil, Mr.. Walter Dorsey, requested 10 be al
lowed time to enquire into the law. and said
that they would be ready to prove that the Sc
men were deser,ers from his Britannia Mo.
jesty's ship. The council for the prisoners
objected to the delay; and the Judge dec;at.
ing that the arrest had been unlawful. and
mat there was no authority to old them in
custody, ordered them to be DISCHARGED
which took place amid the pautlits & heart
iett reJoicings OF a numerous concourse OF
people. :..BaH. Eveu. Post.
N
firm that the following persons, .Asne,je,na cir;
sens, have been impressed, and are low detained
on board L'Airicaine irirate.
Edward Swainc, John Ferguson George vii.
SON, John Butler, John Williams, Ambrose
Cruise.
The three last are black men, .E. Post
T. firact Of letter from, Gentleman al
CSdensburS, 10 his friend at .Nezv York
dated .dmgustI5.
Since saw you, I have travelled from
Albany by land through the Gennessee coun.
try to Niagara, and from thence have pro.
ceeded thus fairly water, on my way to Mon
treat, from which place shall return home
by Lake Champaign
/" The rapidity with which the Genpessee
country has settled is almost incredible.
Fine cultivated farms and populous villages
are now tonnd where, but a few wears ago
was nothing but wilderness the lands are
excellent, producing grain in abundance as
well as beef, pork, Scc-The inhabitants
however, have hitherto latDured under dis.
advantages IN consequence OF the great dis.
tance they were compelled to carry thsi,
produce to market, being rom two to three
hundred miles from Albany. To which place
tie whole surplus produce of this countr,
was carted-you will readily perceive thai
I'd cart pushel OF wheat or a barrel oi tiau,
such distance must cost almost as much a,
IL was worth. But the farmers III that conn-
try have now discovered, that their produce
can be brought to this place and carried from
hence to Montreal at an expence of less than
one fourth of the transportation to A lbany.-
AN experiment has lately been made which
has proved beyond all doubt that the navi
CATION Tor large vessels from 0gdensburg in.
to Lake Ontario is not only practicable bu,
perfectly easy. notwithstanding all the tx.
ertions that have been made by the British
TO establish hing ston, as the foot of the ship
n = Vigation, and the point at which the u {,
duce OF the upper country was to be put
on board OF small boats to descend the rapids
to Montreal, it is now universally admitted
that this must be the place of deposit in con.
sequence OF the result of this summers expe
riment to Ogdensburg.
FROM THE BOSTOWP.dTRIOT.