The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-11-17
Foreign Intelligence.
From the Neav York A1erccnlile .adyerriao,

V November 8!
by the ship Lydia, accounts from Malta
anu Gibraltar, state, that Admiral Free.
mantle had been sent up the Adriatic, ant
bout 5000 men. The object was not know,
-perhaps as mere diversion.
| From the dispatches from Sir WIN. BEN
timex, it appears that Sicily is about be
coming an ally of England
he battle of Salamanca had produced a
great accession of recruits from the Portu-
guese peasantry, who had come forward
with renewed alacrity. Provisions were more
abundant.
The official account of the taking of Sc
vile appears in the London Gazette Of the
22d September. The loss was very trifling
HE place was defended by eight French
pattaiiohs OF infantry, and two regiments OF
cavalry.
On the 18th Sept. person belonging to
the suite of Mr. Foster, arrived at London.
with dispatches from Washington. He left
Halifax IN the Cleaner ON the 26th of Au-
gust. 1t IL remarked on his arrival, &" that
the revocation Of the Orders i'm Council had
produced little or no effect here and it was
not SUPPOSED that any alteration would take
place till Mr.. Madison was out of power"
The 18th French Bulletin SAYS, " AT the
battles of Smolensk and Valontlna, the enc
my lost 90 Generals killed, wounded or ia.
ken, and very great number of Officers.
The number of killed, taken or wounded,
on these occasions, may amount to from IS,
to $4,000 men,"
Other accounts say the Russians were
victorious, the French having lost IL 900
men.
The seventeenth French Bulletin OF the
Grand Army, dated at Ghjat, Sept. 8, is
hsstu f,f
operations. 1t states that potatoes, pulse
and cabbages, grow there in abundance, &
the granaries are all full" The bulletin
| adds, " the enemy is employed in forming
an entrenchet camp, in front Of Mojaisk,
and has established lines before Moscow -
! The Star of the Dist Sept. contains let
ters and extracts from papers from New
| York to the 14tt, and f ON Washington to
| the 29th of August. The Editor observes
! that eff America insists on free ships ma
king free goods, there is not the slightest
prospect OF Il speedy termination Of hosti-
lities." AT this time 1t was known in Eng
] land, that the revocation Of the Orders in
| Council had not the desired effect. Copious
remarks on this subject appear.
| The arrival OF the above intelligence OF
course renders comparatively uninteresting
the accounts brought by the Gottenburg
mail on Saturday. The advices from st
Petersburg by this conveyance, are to the
Sd, and Gottenbprg to the 18th. Govern
ment at the same time received dispatches
from Lord Csthcart and Sir X. Wilson the
former re ating to the result of the Congress-
Of Abo, and the latter to the movements Of
the Russian army. The following accounts
has been given-we know not on what au-
thority-of the contents of Sir Roberts dis
patches -
Sir Il. wilson, dispatches rot only de-
tail the late military events in the neighbor.
hood of Smolensk, of which he was IN eye
witness, but contain a very minute and ac.
citrate report Of the numbers, equipment:
and condition Of the Russian srfny, the spi
rit which pervaded the popuiation and the
probability that the government would bt
able 20 cxpel the invaders. He stated, that
the abandonment Of Snolensk was with the
concurrence Of all the Russian Command
RS that the army amounted to 10000 ;
ind that it would receive an advantage o.