The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-09-20
Foreign.
FURTHER EXTRACTS
FROM LONDON PRINTS.
LONDON, July %

ming through the Rompoos, and broke his
back.
July IS.
!, The Raty, Of 81 guns, under immediate sa;
ling orders tor Barsnuda, received counter or.
ders on Saturday last, not to sail, until she
had received on board company OF artillery.
with their guns and ammunition, which were
cmbarking with all possible dispatch.
July "a.
BY accounts from St. Petersburg, We aa..s.-
stand, that the French Ambassador, Gen. l. al
riston, has demanded of the Emperor Alexsn-
Der, to reduce his army, which is at present ia
great force on the frontiers of Poland, to peace
establishment. This demand on the psrt of the
FRENCH being supported by numerous army,
collecting round Dantzic anu Colburg, has in
supae degree, alarmed Russia \; and it is
ssaid. she will comply with Bonaparte's de-
sirn 1nccnseGuen,iy, there will be blood.
Zen. sfne to-" great powers for the
rom Gottenburg, states that every
~ ~ there very quietly. Admiral
permits the coasting trade with
Swctfish produce, and the Swedes, in return
shut their eyes to every thing that is inconsis.
tent with their declaration of war against En-
gland,
A.-private letter from Kouingsburgh, June
28, says, 4" The politicsl accounts which we
have here are by no means tranqnihzing. --I
have long been of opinion that Russia will be
Iuled to sleep by the French, WHO will then
fall upon us from every side, and what else can
be expected by any one vho considers the i'm
mense number. of troops collected at Dantzic,
Clogsu, &C. When they have once done with
Prussia, it will be. too l4le fog the Russians tc
do any thing, aud they will be obliged TO bear
their chains with patience The demand or
the French is, that the Russians are to place
their Armies on, The Peace establishment,
and we have strong reason to suspect that
they will be persuaded to this MEASURE ,
July IS
In April last, baker at Constantnople, VINO
was detected in selling bread short of weight,
was ordered by the Cadi to be Consumed IN ais
I. own Oven!
A Russian peasant, of the name of alexe,
NikfoToy, lately died in the village of Ksmenka,
in the province of lisa, a, the advanced age OF
I24 AT 1o1 he lost his wife, aged 90; and
two yesrs after married another, by whom he
bad two daughters, whom he lived to see mar
Tfed, and mothers.
On the 4,h inst. Thomas Standen,, of Sale
hurst, near Silver Hill Barracks, finished the
ardu6us task, which for a triejng wager he had
undertaken, of walking HOO miles IN so many
successive hours, gong one mile only in each
hour. THIS man is nearly 6o years of age, and
his performances outdoes that which Capt Barr
lay, after such great training, performed a,
Newmarket.
THK FINE ARrs--The British Gallery, in
Pail Mall, closed for the present season OF, S.
turday last, and we have mach pleasure in re-.
cording the unprecedented success which has
ewarded the labors ofthe Directors of this pa.
triotic institution. Our readers are already
ware, that Mr. Vests sublime Picture of
- Christ healing the SICK in the TEMPLE" was the
principal magnet of attraction and, indeed
such was the interest excited by this noble per-
formance, that near four thousand persons vsi
Ted the Gallery during the isst three days of
the Exhibition. The picture will be immedl-
ately put into the hands of the engraver, the
ingenious Mr. Heath The public, however,
will not hereafter be denied the qualification OF
viewing it, as we understand the Directors of
the Institution have recently determined, that
it shall be annually exhibited at their Gallery,
during part OF each Exhibition, until the plate
be finished.-The encouragement given 10 the
Proposals for this Plate rises progressively, as
the matter becomes more generally known
fesides the numerous Subscribers in the Me.
tropols, they are rapidly pouring in, we observe
from the remotest parts Of the United King
dom. Many Of tie Royal Family, and of
our first Nobility and Gentry, have warmly
hers.
Letters received from an officer of the Artil-
Gerry in Lord Wellngton's army at the Potsle-
gre, state that Sout has made q strong recon-
Goissance of three days of our position, and that
he had suddenly retired, supposed towards Sc
willie, he had broken up his camp. Lord
''Wellngton's army, in high spirits and health,
retained their ground and were going into cam
'tenments. The tents for the Royal Artillery
had arrived ct Portalegre from Lisbon, as pre-,
yious to that every officer ard private had for
six weeks slept on the bare ground, yet were
still healthy. The last convoy, with the SD 4
ether regiments from Guernsey, had arrived
safe at Lisbon, and were preparing TO .joia lord
Weliington's army. They ere remarkably heal.
thy.
= Sir Richard Kea,cs is going Immediately to
the Mediterranean, as second in command on
That station. He is succeeded in the command
at Cadiz by Admiral Legge.
On the 9Th of June the British army in P5r.
tusal amounted TO $4,000 men. OF this mum
her, il is said, there ara $4,000 rank and file &C
fuaiIy fit for duty 7oco wounded, but doing
well. and likely 5000 to be Eble to return to their
duty (; and 5000 sick, no extraordinary number,
IT is added at the present moment when the I'M
healthy season has already set in---the remain
der are employed in attachments, the garrison
ofI.isbon, aud other duties. There were 1000
men at Csdiz; the reinforcements, including
those already arrived, on their way, embark
;ng. or under orders, amount to no less than
1900. In very short time Lord Wellington
will have fourteen regiments Of cavalry, a.
mounting to between five aud Coco rank and
file.
From the large mass Of American pa
J,ers received yesterday. we have made long
and important extracts. And first with re-
spect to the unjust seizure of West Florida