The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-03-31

any lntciiiSeIsre OF greater Importance thar
vii be toundsin the following EXTRACTS:
:, ~ LONDON, jan. %.
mat from Malta arrived. tins yerning
IL mas brought tie following account vi q
most gslla.: action by detachment Of til,
62d Regiment and the Royal Marincs q,
the Neapolitnn Coast
ORDERD Of THE DAY.
! . Head Quarters, aessinu, Nor. 10. 1917
Lieut.. Gen. MARYLAND &c els the creates,
satisfaction in Notifying to the Army the
bravery and good conduct of detachment
OF the 62d regiment, consisting of $50 men,
under the comrlanil of Major Dar,ey this,
detachment, with 80 marines, commar de- {.
oy 1t. Pipoa, lanfed from his Majesty 5
ships the Imperieuse and the Thames, il
lace OF the eDer.v who were about ] 600
strong, commanded by Gen. Pignatcli Cere-
hiara, attacked and carried the position of
the enemy, and beiIg themselves attacked,
jrepulsed the encnym charge, driving him
from his ground, and maintaining their posi-
ltion two days; they also took a convoy of
9 gun boats and Lother barks laden with
nsvna ARTICLES. WHICH were ia the Bay of
faiinnrus two batteries were also taken,
with the telegraph tower"
By letters brought by the Conousror. da
ted 18th Dec. from the Mediterranean. We
learn that Admiral FELLEw, after recon
noitering and enticingou the enemy's feet
from Ioulon, on the Nth December, fBri
tish IL sail, French 16sail Of the tlins,) re
turned to Mahen harbour, (, as the enemy
hugyed their own shore 10 closely and il be-
ing very flne weather, it was impossible to
bring them to action Two sail of the line
IN the Mediterranean areeoming home go
The Pear(en had dashedIinto Toulon prior
to the 18th, but on Coming cut she was en-
a t.1r. Ntx A a
out only by cutting away the rigging of the
az In the cass of the American ship Fe
male, Cregh, master, detained for breach
OF the Orders i'll Council. ant brought To ad
|Judication before the Court Of Admiralty
on Tuesday last, DIR. Phllin,cre moved the
Court for permission to introduce evidence
to shew that the operation 81 the DEGREES
OF Milan and Berlin had ceased. He sta
tee, that IT this fact could Gas he was Gre
dibly informed ii could be proved, he should
then think he. might confidently contend
before the Court, that the Americans would
DC entitled to the restoration of their pro-
perry even though there was no formal re-
vocation Of the Orders in Council ON the
part OF our. governnaeht--that the ground
OF his argument would he, u.at as the Or
slers in Council were allowed To be csatra
~ to the law of nations, and only justified
as measure of retaliation, If it could be
showed that the DEGREES. which they wcrc
INTENDED to retaliatc, were no longer in ex-
Iistence, then these orders would become
lifso facto cancelled and annulled aud
fcould have no legal validity in a court OF
urged the PIapr,es y ss s,..I who we're
trading in strict conformity to the ancient
acknowledged rtfts of maritime law, and
whose property could only be liable to con-
hscatlon, under Innovations lately introduced
into that law. Sir w. Scott, after inquiriDg
whether the proofs suggested could be i'm
mediately produced, rejected the .abnIoat;-
on. He thought the Ease in questionsmus,
follow the course of The other American ca
ses he could not presume a revocation OF
the Orders in Council till it had been mott
ned TO him by government, and he susges-
ted, that even if it could be shown that the
French DEGREES were revoked, there would
Eill be question of law, whether repeal
" them IS to,America alone, would be con
sde-ed as repeal by our government. II
- ~ .Januay IS.
hour this morning. The reports of war be-
tween Russia and France ara revived with
additional confidence. "a,
HELLO GLAND, ian. IA. .
VIC oiS SAtiCMCiy concerned TO learn,
from accounts brought BY flag Of truce
from Husum, the disastrous loss Of the St.
George, OF 68 guns, and Defehce, Of "a guns,
| on the coast vi jutiand, with three briggs *
some merchantmen. The ST. George is
said to have gone to the bottom, and every
soul on board to have persisted, and only
seventeen of the ether vessels to have been
saved. - 49, 49,
BY late accounts from other parts OF the
coast we have been Informed, that war
between Russia Gin conjunction with Prussia J
and France is more conhdentially looked
| Tor than ever, and that hostilities NAV be
certainly expected to commence by tn. be-
ginning OF next month The brave Prussi-
an General Bluche is, it is said, to have a
command inthc Russian army.
Lhe batteries of Cuxhaven, and other
parts ON the coast have been entirely dis
mounted NJ Their gsns With view, IL is sup
posed, OF preventing them falling INTO the
hands OF the. English, should circumstances
render It necessary TO march off all the
troops st these stations to the scene Of the
expected campaign.
The hospitals in Hamburger are stated
to be crowded with sick Of the French ar
| my, Consisting Of troops who have marched
It!i' Nerfrom Spain, and who are dying from
20 to 50 erery day, in Consequence of dis
eases brought on by excessive cxertions
tatigufs, and famine. The dead are put in
sacks,and buried in the sands ON the shore,
ii the Elbe, during the night, 10 conceal
Their numbers from the inhabitants"
/ January q.