The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-12-07

CAPTAIN Bingham has been made host-
caiitain, and appointed to the command of
he Voltage, a proof that OUR government
prefer his statement to that of Commodore
Rodgers
October 90
CoMMERcE.-The attention of French
merchants and manufacturers has already
been several times called to the new route
opened to them by the Illyrian Provinces,
for facilitating their direct relations with
the Levant.-We can now felicitate them
on being enabled TO announce their success.
The merchandise imported from the LIST
January to the month of August, amounted
in weight to 1882 Vienna quintals, or S99, $ 8
Kilograms.
There are already settled at Costameza,
four principal agents for the Levant trade.
One of them has dispatched 5000 bales Of
cotton for Paris, Lyons and Venice.
The Turks brought about 5000 bales on
their own account the surplus has been
sent off direct from the Levant to the
merchants of France and Italy. The car
riage tor Paris is conducted partly by way
of Trieste, and partly by Laybach and Vii
ZACH.
1t is believed that 10000 bales of cotton
will arrive at Costanieza before winter. in
consequence Of the facilities created, & the
suppression of duties which Instructed the
commerce of CostanieZa. The route of Cos
tanieza is not the only privileged one that
of Spalatto presents some advantages, and,
among others, that of a less heightened
conveyance over the Ottoman Territory,
and longer passage through countries uni
ted to the Empire, or subject to- his majesty
From CostanieZa the trade passes gene
rally through Petrinis, Goritza, Neustadt,
and Laybach (; from thence to Trieste and
Milan.
The road of Carlsbad is not practicable
tor commerce. That from Costanieza to
Graduzza. by the Save, is tolerable.
When the Save is navigabie, cottons may
be embarked at Graduzza, for Lavbach-
this route is good deal frqueented.
From these details it appears, that the
speculations of French merchants may be
conducted with perfect security, by certain
points in the Illyrian provinces, which are
open to cur connexions with the LevaEt;-
and that the merchants who first seconded
the views of government, have been the first
TO reap the advantage of it.
The amount of Levant merchandise which
passed through the custom house of Costani-
eza, for France and Italy, from the first of
January to the 30th Of June, was 5O,5S8
francs IN specie, and 2179 bales From the
lst of July to the 31st OF August, IL was
go, l25 francs, and 4646 bales.
Among the most extraordinary events &
examples which the French revolution has
produced, il is not one Of the least, that Aus
tria is busily employed at this moment in
selling it's ecclesiastical propcrty.---Thc
cnurch, which has always been too apt to
encourage wars, ought, in justice, to pay a
part OF their expence.
An instance of desperation not exceeded
by any Oh record, lately occurred on the con-
tinent. Two families, named JoviCh, who
mad Tor upwards of 20 years, established
themselves upon the nearly inaccessible
mountain of Deligrad, situated between Dali
malta and Croatia, from whence they laid
all the adjacent country under contribution,
were surrounded in their retreat by body
OF French troops. Dcspairing OF efiectng
their escape, and learning i'll o conference
with French officer, that an ignominious
death awaited them, they assembled their
wives and children i'll two buildings, and
condemned them to the flames, with their
most valuable effects They afterwards
threw themselves from the highest point of
the mountain, but did not meet that death
which they courted. Near 800 souls perish
cd in the conAagration, and many o. the sur
viyors were drcadfully burnt.
LONDON. Oct. 7.---The American ship
Prince Madoc, Capt. Balsh, has arrived in a
British port from Norfolk, Virginia. The
master states, that in the Channel he was
boarded by a French pfiyateer, the COM
mander Of which having learned from
whence he came, & whittier bound, and ha-
wing examined his papers, allowed him to
procced-adding, that he had no order to
take American vessels.