The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-09-24

deck, was looking at the Little Belt and
saw her fire first.
Samuel Brown. Cd Captain list absent)
4sh gun. 9Th division. quarter deck, declares
the same.
Richard Cookie. I'd Captain list absent)
5th gun quarter deck. saw the Little Belt
fire 5 or q seconds first,
Edward Patterson. Captain 9th gun. or.
deck, declares the same.
John anderson, Captain 9TH gun. or. deck.
declares the same.
James Weleh Captain ssh gun. or. deck,
declares the same.
Lieutenant Creighton testified further
that when the Belt was silenced the second
time. she laffed up towards the Commodore.
instead of keeping away, as she should
have done, to fire at the President, and
would have done. is her rudder had been
free Com. Rodgers expressed much hu !.
manly and anxiety to stop the firing.
Dfr 1laH testified that the Commodore
Displayed great humanity
Licuf. Dallas heard two reports, one the
sh e against the Presidents mast, and the
other, the report of the gun from the Little
Belt 500
&las H. Stringhdn,, 1Nidshihman, saw
the Bell fire first.
James II. Ludioso. Nidshifmcn. saw the
same.
David Gelsfon Ingrahanr. Midshitn,an,
sa W the same
Lieut.. Creighton testified to the offers of
assistance from Com. Rodgers to the Little
Belt the next morning,
Here the examination closed having, as
VIC understand, embraced every deck offi-
Ger. as well as captains OF guns, now on
board the President, who were present du
he
ohace and action took place, with the
courses steered, and some technical sea
terms, are omitted as unessential tn the ma
terial objects of the enquiry.--N Y. Col.
-s,5.s = 49, -. ...e IS,
We are authorised to state, rom an un-
questionable source, that the testimony gi-
ven to the Court of Enquiry by Captain
Charles Ludlow, in the affair, OF the Presi
dent and Little Belt, differs very material
ly from the detail published in the .Colum.
bian, and copied from that paper into the
Mercantile Advertiser. - ..1 =. :,
Captain Ludlow informed the Court, til AT
when the first gun was fired, he was not in
situation to see the Little Belt, (being
employed at the time in giving directions
| to shorten sail on the President, and was in
the act of backing the mizen topsail,) and
that he.had nc doubt but the Little Belt
hired the FIRST gun, as he did not feel any
jar or conclusion on hearing the report.
which must have been the case, had it come
from the Presiden Mere. .Hdr.
BY the brig Diana, which arrived at this
port. on Sunday, from the Havana, we
learn, that the properly in the Island of
Cuba, belonging o subjects of France, W Aich
was sequestered about Two years since py
the government, Of the Island has recently
been restored otis original propretors. By
order OF the Supreme Junta of Spain.-Ib
s-.u .WAsEINGToN, September 1g.
Comnicrce.-Ourt trade to England, i. is
fact notorious to merchants, is nov To-.
sing speculation with all who engage in it.
Would it we're otherwise yet the fac, is
uncenlaoIy SO, the assertions of the ederai
prints to the contrary notwithstanding But
If the fact were othe wise il it were most
profitable what possible connection has this
question with that of the Orders i'm council !,
None under heaven, and yet the federal
prints endeavor to connect them. Do they
mean to take the ground, assuming our trade
with England to be more lucrative than any
other, that therefore we should submit with
out murnur 10 be restricted by her block
aiding naval force from trading elsewhere /,
SIT that they are willing to be driven to
their own good, like cattle to the richest
pasturage IF this be the meaning of fede
raj Editors when they at the present crisis
so pertinaciously insist that our merchants
can trade more ativantageoEs)y to British
ports than any other, we wish they womb
be more explicits if they do not mean this
they mean nothing, and merely utter a muI.
ttude OF words on this topic with the same
design as the juggler, who by talking nom
Sense endeavors to divert the spectators
from too minute an inspection of his deg
ferrous tricks
BY the way, the very fact of the hume
rous Captures under the orders in Council
OF itself is amply sufficient to disprove the
assertion that our most lucrative trade is 70
England because. if our trade to England
was so very lucrative, the merchants would
not run such risks as they do in sending
cargoes to French and other ports
The truth is, as we stated a day mr. two
ago, that the markets for our produce
throughout Europe have deprecated. 10Th
as to the quantity of our produce consumed.
and the prices obtained, for it and thus the
reduction is effected in Commerce. which
as we have before remarked, there il m,
much reason TO believe will be pei manen,.
Nat. I,S
we ere informed from source fbot
merifs confidence, that Coz. FoLeh and Mr.
1IoraleS are ordered BY tie tahtain ~neu
erat TO Tie HaUanna. When MeLeffers thar
Coz Fo(ch 70rofe NJ Kee and Seere
fa1y SINH we're made 6nbhc at Pensacola
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