The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-01-04

mlklOnS OF square miles In about seventy MI
nutes.
From the nature, quality, and direction of
The shocks felt in this city, am induced,
from variety of circumstances, TO suppose,
that they may be traced to some of the Vol
canic operations of the Cordiirra de los IN
des-& if the hasty remarks, which now do
myself the pleasure of submitting, arc deem,
ed sufficiently interesting for publication, the
subject will DC renewed with mere method x
reflection.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Savannch, Dec. 23rd. 1911.
COLUMBIA, Is c.) Dec. 90.
About quarter past IL O'Clock, ON Tues
day last, the 18th inst. another smart shock
OF an Earfhquake was experienced by the
citizens Of this place. The shock which was
experienced at half past 2 O'clock on Mon
day morning last, from what we have been
able to learn, has been very extensive, and
generally severe. In Laurens and Newber-
ry; the only back districts we have,as yet
heard from, it was SO severe that it cracked
and started some of the chimnies from the
houses. BY gentleman just from Charles
to-, we arc informed, that the people there
were SO much alarmed, that many left their
houses that the bells in the Churches rang,
and that some Of the clocks in the houses
were stopped by the violence of the shock
From Strasburgh we hear it was equally
| severe. blu; fortunately no damage was done.
| At all the above places the shock appears
| to have been felt about the saMc time it was
here.
Earfhquake.--An alarming earthquake
was felt in this town and the adjoining
country as far as we have heard about Ism
last two O'Clock yesterday morning. The
'locks, which continued until after day,
W re some of item very severe-so much
. that the heaviest houses seemed to be
racked to pieces, however we have heard
u no real injury sustained except the fall
some chimnics in the country.
This eng the LIST shock Ct the kind ever
cit in the place and commencing at the
a"ur it did, terrified the citizens at first
cry much until recollection assigned the
true cause of the dreadful visitation.
II is pretty generally supposed that an
eruption or conclusion must have taken
piace to the south, and we wait with anx-
iety until We hear from the southern coun-
try.
We rather incline to suppose It however
70 be an eruption of the vulcano to the west
mentioned by Lewis and Clark. The atmos-
Phere continued dark, & apprehensions are
entertained of another shock--very little air
IS stirring.-NashviNe Clarion.
NORFOLK, Jan. I.
We are indebted to CAPTAIN Barnard, of
the Ship Manhattan, for London papers to
the Lth Nov. whose contents are principal
iy anticipated by the arrival of the Pacific
at New York.
Mr.. Griswold, the bearer of dispatches
from our charge d'affaires in London to the
secretary OF state, came passenger in the
Man attain.
Bonaparte, before he left Holland, grant
ed sixty licenses for the importation of GER
cain articles from England.
New licenses have been issued in Eng
land, under the authority Of the board Of
trade, on the following conditions
For exporting II cwt. of sugar, permissi-
On to import one ton of wine.
For 100 lbs. coffee eXported-Ditto.
For ton of copper in sheets-Ditto
And for British cottons, cloths or woolcns,
to the value of I. 100, one ION of wine.
Licenses were also granted for the i'm
portation Of grain from the Baltic.
The articles of cotton, coffee and sugar,
had advanced in price at Liverpool and
Glasgow.
Advices from Paris to the 9th of Nov.
stated, that matters between Russia and
rance. remain as before; Bonaparte has
.lnd 1t expedient to permit the Emperor
Alexander to regulate his own trade for the
present; the affairs of SPAN giving the for
mer full employment.
The Little Bet has been found unfit for
Inc service OF government, and was adver-
Used to be sold at public auction; she is
stated to be of the measurement of 462
tons.
Serisus disturbances have broken out in
D. lmatia, and the adjacent provinces. The
oppression OF the French government had
been found insupportable
The Island Of Sicily was in great commo-
ton, the people and one party of the mobiles
being in favor Of becoming province of
Great Britain from the complexion of the
accounts before us, we are inclined to think,
chat Sicily has become a British possession
BY this time, at least, that the government
has been taken out of the hands oftlc late
rulers.-Led5,er.
NORFOLK, January /.
The Mayor. Recorder, Aldermen and
common Council of the Borough of Norfolk.
impressed with deep sense of the late aw-
Nj visitation of Divine Providence upon
tiieir Fellow Citizens Of Richmond, thus
humbfy tender their tribute ofcondoement |
and whilst they bow down before the rod
of Eternal Justice, would piously pour their
VINE and oil into the wounds that it iniiicts
1t is an holy Office, in which, all the
nournful virtues of their hearts would min
ister--lt is that portion of Christian W ac-
lice, where duty forgets the awe of moral |
preocpt, where that which is an obligation
sacrediy cnJoined, appears aprivilego ben