The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-07-24
LATEST FOREIGN ACCOUNTS
LONDON May 25-e6-27.


tant news from the u. ). /, now appears that
the good sense of the better part OF the PEG
pie OF America has gained the day, as, in
fact, must be the case every where. for he
eat bulk of mankind are grown wiser than
they were, and they will act with and carry
Through all the measures Of wise and refiec-
ting men
American papers 10 the 5th of April were
received yesterday. II appears from sub
sequent extracts, that a resolution to repeal
the non Intercourse bill has been carried i'm
the House of Representatives by a majority
ct 90 to SIS. We are happy TO observe this
Prospect OF the good understanding between
the two Countries being thus happily restor
ed the interruption OF which, for single
day, is the subject of regret with every Ii
berai man in the United Kingdom.
ne latest account received yesterday of
The state OF the Princess Amelia health in
Inmates that she has experienced no very
material change
Letters from Lisbon mention that Mr.. Jer-
VS., the American consul at that capital,
had obtained possession of the pape-s of s
o." 10 embargo breakers in the Iagus. and
II was presumed thep would suffer the pen
alIics inflicted by the laws of the u S. against
such deiineuents
Sir II Sirach AN sailed with ships of the
1ne on The Goth inst. from the Downs, on
cruize off the mouth uf the Scheldt Il is
saia that the French feet has dropped down
the ocheidt from Antwerp, and that it is the
Intention of the gallant Admiral to make a
dash at them while at anchor, shoald the
opportunity be afforded by the wind 8. wea-
cher.
The possibility of this attempt is favored
by the knowiedge acquired in the naviga
tion of Doth rhe East & West Scheldt, in the
late expedition to Waicheren
Letters from ireland speak of several
large failures in Dublin as well as in Cork
and Limerick, the effects of which will be
sensibly felt IN London
Accounts have been received from Tene-
Fife, which bear distressing complexion.
An earthquake is said to have taken place.
and the effects of it have been felt by the in
habitants To a serious extent 1t had de
molshed great number of houses, and ma
ny lives we understand were lost The peak
OF Ieneriffe is stated 20 have been affected,
and part ut 1t shook into the sea, which in
Jured a great number of vessels
The evidence Of the mate of the American
ship relative to Jeffrey the seaman, is cor
Toborated by the testimony of an officer of a
similar description. who arrived in the
Downs month oack-and seeing the state
ment IN the papers, communicated % the A
merlcan consul at Deal, Information of 81 :
milar nature, namely. that Jcffery was taken
from the Island II SpmbrerD by an Ameri-
can schooner, and landed at Ma biehead,
Mass. where he resides.
We nave no Deter authority dad enough)
Than runner from Plymouth, for the fol-
lowing statement A letter from an off :
Ger on bard the Implacable. OF u guns.
states, that Baron dc Kni has been exeeu
ted III sight OF our shipping in Qoiberon
Bay, aad his body left suspended Ter two
days"
fhe following is the substance of the an
swer returned by Sir F. Burdett, TO the ad
dress voted him by the inhabitants of Can
terbury :
. anticipate, gentlemen, the happiest re
suits from the warm spirit of freedom which
find so generally difused and am upon
the present occasion particularly encoura :
gcd from observing that whatever differ
ence OF opinion may exist upon minor points,
the whole cry of Canterbury is unanimous
as 20 the necessity of retrenchnent aud re
form DIS in the petition agreed upon by the
Mayor and past of the Common Council.
who do not concur with you, Gentlemen, in
the honor You have been pleased to bestow
OH me--hey do, however, concur with
you IN that which is alone essential the alb !.
Golute nece 'sity of immediate reform.
g remain, Gentlemen, &c.
"F. BURDETT."
Mr.. Dickinson who acco ipaned Mr..
N"ckenzie 90 MoraiX, and brought dos-
pdcres from thence some time ago, is re
turned to France with the ans yer TO these
de patches As Mr.. Mackenzie is at Paris,
he val proceed thther direct.
some alarm was naturally excited in Rus
STA ON the appearance Of the powerful AZ ct
under ADMIRAL Saum2rez Several regiments
OF artillery m4rche for Crons adj in order
to tortiy and garrison that place, under the
apprehension OF an attack from the English
IL IS said to be the intention OF Alexander to
Suengthen the whole of che coast OF Finland,
ara TO place troops in all the harbors of the
B3iIic under his government.
Letters from Paris state, that q report has
been circulated in that capital, and very
GENERALLY believed, that Napoleon nten.
ded TO NARY the daughter of Lucien Bona
parte to Ferdinand VIII -F
Letters from the Baltic to the date of the
11th inst. state, that the dismiSsion OF the
two ministers BernstorG has given rise to
much dissatisfaction.
IL was rumored that the king OF Prussia
was 20 be deposed, and to retire on a pen =.
sion and that the sovereign of Westphalia
ana Hanover was 10 connect with his domi
mons the pstrimony of the house of Brandon
butgh
Almost all the German papers have reIa =.
ted, that the Empress Maria Louisa receiv-
ed, on the road from Vienna to Paris, a plain
gold box, as a present from the Emperor
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