The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-28

obliged to retire from Widden.
EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
The following paragraph on this subject
appeared in the Moniteur of the 21st, in the
form Of notes upon two articles extracted
from the London Journals.
The assertion that France proposed to
comprehend in the exchange the Russians
taken in the lsstiwar, is caiumnious and alb :
surd. IF the English adopt as the basis of
the exchange, that of including all prisoners
who were comprised in the two belligerent
masses, that is to say the Spaniards and
Portuguese, there will no longer be any oh .
stacle to the exchange of prisoners, and ITO.
600 will return to their country. Observe
that of those ITO 600 men. France will send
home upwards ~ 70 600 English, Spaniards
and Portuguese. The object of this article
is to induce belief. thai the delay which
prolongs the sufftrings of so many families
ought to be attributed o France, and to cast
the whole odium upon her whereas. on the
contrary, Mr.. Mackenzie has been for a
! month without an answer to his dispatches,
and without Instructions 1t the negociati
| on ags, it is the fault of England"
| General Sarrazin was on duty when Ma
poleon and his new empress were at Bou
ilogne. After viewing the fortlhcations, and
every thing interesting in the town, they
! went to the heights to take peep at the
ocean. The Austrian princess had tele
scope in her hand, and observing "A vessel
Icruizing at some distance, she enqulred
| wha, it was, and was informed that 1t was
an English vessel. Perceiving five others in
the harbour, she asked what they were, and
was told they belonged to the EMPEROR
She then asked why the Ave vessels did not
go and take that belonging to the enemy p
| At this moment Bonaparte, who had shewn
I a restles impatience. could restrain his feel.
ings no longer, but snatching the glass out
of her hand, exclaimed in the Frencf. Ian
guage, with great impetuoSity-" Because
| the wind is not fair !"
A gentleman, who has just arrived from
Rotterdam in a fishing vessel, which was re
peatedly fired at by the French guard, says
that Napoleon is endeavoring TO transfer the
whole export of the produce OF the country
to the city of Antwerp, where licences are
obtained without difficulty. for a pecuniary
compliment. The only force in Amsterdam
was the Royal Guards of Louisa, consisting
of 5000 men. At Rotterdam there were a
thousand French, and in different stations
along the shores of the Maese about thirteen
thousand more For the insult to which the
French were lately exposed at Rot erdam,
the Du; chmen in that city have been obi.
ged to pay one hundred thousand guilders,
and they have since shewn no disposition to
give the same offence, and incur the like pc
nalty.
For some time several reports of c6nside-
rable Importance, have been in circulation :
one Of which is, that Illyria will be created
into kingdom, connected with the Confede
ration OF the Rhine, and that the Iliyrian
king will keep on foot an army of 100 600
men, for the protection OF that Confederati.
on.
Private letters yesterday received at Ham
burg from Paris. confidently state that sc
cond line of French Douaniers is to be esta :
blished, which will reach from the Elbe to
the shores of the Baltic.
yRIENDs OF FOREIGNERS IN DISTRESS.
LONDON June 25.
The anniversary dinner of this Society
was held on Thursday last at the City Of
London Tavern, at which his roy al highness
the duke of Gloucester presided, aud ABOUT
two hundred OF the members and friends of
the charity were present. Amongst those
were his eXcellency William Pinkney, A.
merican minister, Count Munster, lord DE
Dunstanvllle, Sir James Hall, bart. NJ. p.
Sir William Paxton, SIR William Chambers,
| &c. &c.
After dinner, the toasts of The King, >
- Queen and Royal Family having been
gwen,
William Manning Esq. VI p. one of
the stewards, proposed the health of his
Royal highness the duke of Gloucester, as
Patron OF the Society-which was received
with the warmest applause
His royal highhess in returning thanks,
stated that the honor which had been done
him was much increased by the manner in
which it had been conferred upon him. II
was his pride to receive this testimony from
society formed for purposes so truly be-
nevolent.
England said he, has ever stood for =
ward in the cause of humanity no country
has more numerous, or more useful institu
tions, which are not confined to ourselves
alone, but have been extended to the inha..
bItants of all other nations. She has feared
no menace, and shrunk from no danger !;
neither perils, threats or privations could
check the impulse of her benevolence She
has been generous in the midst Of dangers,
and charitable even in the hour of suffering
She enquired not whether the afflicted was
her friend or her foe---Sile forgot her iD.
suits and her calamities in her charities, <
asked not from what quarter of the world