The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-10-12
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FROM A NEW eRLEANs PAPER.

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To me Editors Of the Orleans Gazette.
! Gentlemen .}tt-S -
! When furnished for publication a
COPY of nv report to Gen Wilkinson OF zen
| Gun boats ready to receive the troops ON
board, l had ne, the slightest suspicion Sha'
any error as TO date existed l am nov com
WINGED that il was on the 21st OF August, IN
stead of the 18Th, that the Report was made
--and i was led into the error by the
mistake Of my cl rk. who recorded 1T into
my letter book with the date OF the 18th OF
August.
The same regard for truth and justice
which induced me to publish that Report,
now impels me to acknowledge the error
and nope your brother Editors, throughout
the u. ). who have published the errone-
Gus Report, will have the goodness to Cor
rect it.
M. B. CARROLL.
Setl 2. 1910.
Ertracf ofo letter f,om LNew YORK, dated
| An insf.
By letters FROM London of Aug 22d,
we are Informed of Bonaparte's determine
| ton to restore to the proprietors, the pro-
| perry sequestered at 81 Sebastlans on the
| paynent of the new duties. "--I'hiiadeL~
lhhia Gazette.
KNOXVILLE, Sept % BY gentleman
just from the Mobile country, we learn the
following facts:
About the middle of August orders from
the secretary Of Inc war department arrived
at the post of Fort StoddaTt, mm3nding
col. Richard Sparks % detach ,wo commits
stoned officers four non.commissIoGe ed, aud
twenty ptivates 10 form Two companies tor
the purpose of ex lloring the country be ween
th.at lar nd OIL NVd n
of the distance, and learning every particu
lar they possibly can, respecting soil, growth,
water, &c r.
Captain F.. p. Gaines, who has formerly
{ been employed by the government on sImi-
lar excurs ons, we understand, takes com.
mand Of one of the parties. This gentle.
man. it is said, is emlneDtly calculated to
do justice to his appointment He follows
the dividing ridge between the waters of the
Bgby and Alabama from thence to the
ridge which divides the waters Of the Black
Warrior or Tuscaloosa from those of the
Coosa and pursues this last until It is lost in
the great dividing ridge lying between the
| waters of Tennessee and Moble-from thi-
last he is TO strike the Highwasee, ascend
| il to the last boatable point, cross the ridge
dividing the Highwasee from the Counasa
| go, in such place as will afford the shortesi
and best portage 20 boatable point on the
/ latter--from this last point he commences
the long wished for survey of the alabama.
| At this place the captain is 20 To be met by
the second party, WHO pursue from the Ala
| bama tlle Common path to Highwasee,
through the Creek nation and Cherokee.
What officer will conduct the second par
ty, was not learnt when our informant came
| away
! The parties we're to start about the LIST
of September from Fort Stoddart."
! NoR7oLK, Octobe 8 The u States frigate
| Constitution, Capt, HULL, anchored in Hampton
| Roads on Saturday, from Boston,
| We learn that important dispatches from Nj
! Pinkuey, were forwarded by Saturday, Mail b
| the seat Of government, by Mr. Ellis, of Rich
mend, landed here from Liverpool which place
/ he left the 9Th August. Herald.
! The report some days past in circulation in
this city, that the French feucca privstesr, which
re fitted in this port, and sailed on Friday last,
| was taken by British priyateer, is without
| William and Eliza, arrived yesterday in days
! from Philadelphia, saw her TO The northward Of
s.. Helena on Monday last Sooannah MRseHni
! 9Th Rh
! The British Gag is flying on the Castle Of Pen.
sac0la. Our Information Is derived from gen
tIeran II days from that quarter, This is M
/ more, the reader will rocollect, than we calcu-
lated upon IN former pa per, and is probaby