The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-08-20
PLASTER OLE PARIS

we take the following paragraph from the
Boston Lcntine!!
We understand that several vesseis with Pas
ter Of Paris, have been seized in Boston Harbor
Wha;-plaster of Paris contr absnd piast er
OF Paris comPrehendcd among the articles not
be imported Why ALI, says some grave
politician, II comes froa, the British dominions,
| and that's ali--snd here it would Sc ia the mat.
ter was at an end-but
Within the last week number of per,ops
from baltimore, Phiadeiphia and New-York,
have suddenly moved off for Boston-and what
then, says the Quidnunc Nothing more than
that they are all gons ouy plaster of Paris !
Why Mr. E. has large stock on hand, and 1
find it plenty, he's not gone, o no, nor is Mr.
l.. nor II. r-but there's Mr. c. and Mr. II.
40 Mr.. II. are all gone to Boston.
What Mr. G. of Third Street Aye WY
he's merchant teylor-Yes, but he's gone to
buy plaster of Paris.
Then Mr. r. why he's dry good merchsn.
Hes gone 10 buy plaster of Paris at Boston
for all that.
But what do you say of Mr. H. he deals prip
cipslly in superfne wooen cloths
Ha, ba ha, ma. So you are politician and
have visited the coffee house three times a day
for twenty years. snowy days md equity morn
ings excepted) and you do no, know that SUPER.
fine Toootlens, and dry goods, all the articles
III when Merchant Tay ors deal, are no
thing more ihsn plaster OF Paris.--You Joke
No joke, by the sound principles of steady habits,
by the sacred canons otpiety and PATRIOTISM as
preached and protested by The mercantile part
OF the community, plaster OF Paris is neither
more nor less than British manufactures. care
fully packed IN boxes aid packages, over which
Is ha"usonsiy slowed a su'tabie quantity OF
GYPSUM, merely to cover the peniure
oucB IS the state OF plety and patrib,is m ~
| Boston. IN sight OF Bunkcr's NIL, on the spot
| where the first American blood was she'd IN
| Boston, the shutting up of whose port eIectr,
fled this continent and srrayed the twelve sister
| colonies m arms, when they i,ad no direct IN
| ter-st IN the trsnsscuoI, and when they might
haze saved not merely millions of money nu,
| thousands OF precious lives by Remaining neu
| ter---itI Boston all uOse glorious sacrifices
tnose si5nni acts OF generous virtue, are T. got
ten-----and Boston has become another Hciiyo
inno--a shop tor vending British slups. uricr
TIE maine OF platter of Pvis f---.iwora
Arrived. British Packet Duke of Ken,
from Falmouth, via Halifax, with the June
mail 1T The Tammaamaan was coudemn
cd al Halifax on the 29th of JuIy. Csot
Skiddy came home in the Packet.
On Monday 5th inst. a dtel was fought
at iaconnic, on the confines of ConpecuCut.
Massachusetts and New York, between Mr.
Henry Armstrong. Second son of General
Armstrong ana Mt. Benz amin Price, ct this
city. Two shots were exchanged without
effect at the Sd fire Mr.. A. received ms
antagonists bail in the side, which struck
his rio. and ieli 20 the ground The wound
is not dangerous. They fought at eight pa
ces. ihe cause OF the duel is said To be a
trifing quarrel which took place AT bail AT
Col. De Neaux'S, al Rhinebeck.--N Y p
| AdviceS from military officers suggest
that the plan ot the French Is to make n
simultaneous attack north and south OF the
Tagus Marm0nt 70 collect all Lhe troops
that can be spared from the north and cen
| ire OF Spain, an t0 give battle TO Sir brent
| Spencer, OH the plains Of Leon. Souit is to
unite the division under Sebasliani and
Victor with his own, and 10 engage the al
lies in the vale OF GuadaiquVer.-It they
are successful. they MAINTAIN heir ground
IN he west Of spain. and u Otherwise they
retreat immediately. the iormer along the
banks OF the Douro and the latter BY La
Carolina, and the passes OF Gaudtana and
lSounoherra 20 the boundary OF the EbrO. -
The success Of the Catalonians in ti.esr owr
IProyince mag disap2oint this prejsct, and