The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-09-29

lpec,ed. which if speedily made by the Bril-
fish, cannot see what will hinder them
from possessing all the forts here. There
are 10 or 10 small pieces Of cannon here,
(though mere are expected) to oppose up
wards of 100 pieces on the other shore,
some of which are of the heaviest metal
To complete the gloomy prospect here, our
garrison is almost destitute of ammunition !;
besides, the soldiers are very jealous OF their
officers"
Extract yetter from the United States
Consul General in Enrohe, 10 a reshec-
table merchant IN this city.
I" 1t appears by the treaties made be-
tween France, Austria, and Prussia i'm the
mruth OF March last, & published i'm May
following. that each contracting party en-
cages itself to have no connection whatever
with any neutrals before that the British
cabiuet shall decide to regulate its operati-
oas by the maritime principles established
by the treaty of Utrecht it is therefore e.
vident that the repeal of the Orders in
Council will not operate to open a renewed
intercourse i'm trade between the United
States and France, or any part of the CONT
ncnt of Europe under its influence. This
fact ought to be duly appreciated by the
merchants Of the u. Stat es, which will be
the means of restraining them from at
tempting new'adventures to the continent
OF Europe, and of preventing the loss of
much property from new seizures and con-
hsCations." baltimore Sur.
GALLANT ,ACTION--AT SEA.
Cohy ola letter from U1iiiam 3. Dobsou
cdisfan' Of fhe Ieazer. addressed 10 her
lafe commander, CAPTAIN Woosfer offkis
city.
Sui am sorry to inform you. shat on
the 10th instant off Cape Sable, fell In
with two English ships in company. One
mounting twenty guns, the other sixteen
We engaged them both and came to close
quarters, with grape and musketry, when
the smallest ship struck. But the largest
wore ship, and raking us, Shot away three
OF our four shrouds and obliged us to haul
OH to repair. They unfortunately killed
one man and wounded four--two we sup
pose mortally. We continued chase hoping
afterwards to separate them, but found il
impossible, and therefore gave up the
chase. Yours truly,
WILLIAM B. DoBsoN.
Sir William Scott has pronounced his
Decree condemning the American ship
the ship was liable to condemnation under
the Orders in Council, she having been ia :
Ken on the 2Sth of March last entering the
river OF bordeaux while on the, other
hand the claimants commended, that these
Orders in Council had ceased to operate
before the capture. on account of French
Decree, bearing date the 28th of April.
1911. having repealed the Berlin and Mi
| Ian DEGREES to which these Orders had on
| ly been retaliatory measures, which the Bril-
| tlsh government were pledged to annul
from the date of the French DEGREES. Sir
William after review of the arguments,
said, he should determine on the case be-
tore him, and on all those that depended
on the same principle, that the instrument
porporting to be a French decree, dated
IN April 1911, did not take those cases out
OF the general operation of the law, as des-
crioed in the ORDERS in Council and that
therefore, those vessels captured under
them before the Goth of May last, could not
be discharged from their operation 1t
was only to the vessels captured after the
goth of May, that the revocation of the Or
ders in Council applied.
WASHING TON, Sep. q.
Inc gathering ofthe BorderS.-From the
Northern and Western Frontiers we cont
vast bodies of citizens of all ranks and des-
criptions. vyins with each other in their ar
de- to efface the ingiorious stain their coun-
try's character and honor received in the
loss OF Detroit, and to revenge the horrid
butcheries of the misguided and unprinci-
PIED wretches, whose services of savage CO.
operation in war altho' the United States
nave nobly disdained to buy or even to ac-
cept, their scarcely less brutal employers do
not blush to boast of having purchased
When the news of this disasterwas spread
by expresses throughout Kentucky, Ohio
and the western part Of Pennsylvania, i'm
PEELED by the warmest feelings of patrio-
tism, almost every man capable of bearing
arms pressed on to the frontier. In COM
paring this general concourse to what is re-
lated OF the celebrity and promptitude of the
ancient gathering of the Scottish clans in
cases OF urgent danger, we do not exagge
rate and, quoting the romantic verse OF
Walter Scott when describing similar scenes
we may truly say. that on the late occasion,
From, the grey sire, 7shose fyens6iing hand
Could hardly BUCKLE on his brand,
TO the ra7p boy, 7vhose skqft and 6oxo
WeTeyef scarce terror 20 the crou.
Each ValIey, each SegueStered gien,
'..1fuStered it's little h3rtie of men,
That met, as torrents from the height,
In HIPHlQYQ dale their Srre0g,,s urtfe