The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-29

ISecrge nns Oefencc-1ns NC res-c; : y.a;e
that The fear, Tor ,i,e SAFETY of The ;ixro, us
~ guas, Capt. ]. n. Newman, aye rcal-
,zeG. On Chrisuas day, she s,ruck ~n
Haak Sand. near tine Tcxc!, on wiitn' the
Mnotarr was lest last winter, ard founder
letl Every soul OIL beard of her, il is added.
iperichcd.
The Grasshopper sloop os war is also lost.
She struck on the Haak, but got over it, &
was subsequently wrecked. Captain Fam
shaws the comm, andCr, and the ciiiceri and
crew, were, it is sta,e',, saved froin tine
wreck-but are made prisoners of war in
Holland
The Secrctary's Report of the financial &
commercial state OF America, which we
gave yesterday is an article of great impor-
lance, as clearly developing the effect of the
present system, and the means Of that coull-
try. Oar extracts yesterday did not, howe
yer, exhaust the New York papers, which,
la the course cfthe day, We received mp to
the 5th last. 10 them we now add the Re-
port OF the Committee, to which was refer
red that part of the Presidents Message
respecting Foreign affairs. 1t brca,hes an
hostile spirit, but it is little more than an
echo ct the Presidents message. and the at.-
dltional measures of defence which j. propo-
ses, arc the same that were suggested in
that docunent.-Giobe.
DIR. Mitchell, physician of learning, and
politician of notoriety, is passenger by
the Hornet. in the charter of a Minister
but, whether he is to proceed from this coun-
| try to St. Petersburg, to replace Mr. ]. O.
Adams, and the latter gentleman to become
Minister in London for the United States, is
not ascertained DR.. Mitchill, we believe,
has been Senator in three successive Con-
crosses. ~ DR.. NJ. is no7v in Washington
Great fears are entertained for the Ame-
rican schooner, taken by the Niemen. 1t is
supposed she must have foundered, or have
been taken into an enemy's port.
GRAlN.--ln every part of England il
now appears the late harvest was a very
scanty one. particularly in the production Of
barleys, which have universally been fail
ing crop; as well as wheat, which rises We
ry small from the fail.
January
The Board Of Trade on Saturday gave no.
tee OF new arrangement with respect to
the licences granted for the commerce to
Norway. 1t has been determined by their
lordships, that none will be issued for i'm
ports from that country, excepting to such
ships as take exports from hence Of British
goods, to the value of ST. for each ton of their
bulk.
In consequence of the general report of
the loss of the St. George. 90 guns, capt.
Guion, III the North Sea, the Desiree fri
gate has sailed from Yarmouth to the Tcxel,
and will send in flag Of truce to ascertain
the fact.
Arrived at Dartmouth the 18th inst the
Eliza cartel, from Morlaix, with an Ame-
lrican messenger from Paris, with despatch
es for London.
JanuaryS.
Monday night his Maesty's sloop the
Royalist, captured off Dover, the French
|privateer lie Furet, No. ., belonging to Bou-
logne, being the privateer which took, few
menths ago, one of his majesty's cutters and
carried her into Calais.
A gentleman who arrived in the las. car
tel from Morlaix, has favored us with a
long list of American vessels which have
been lately liberated in France, and which
are now loading for America. Restitution
OF great quantities of American property
which has been confscated, was also ex-
pected-and the measures of the French
government seemed to be decidedly AMIGA
BILE towards America.