The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-08-10


the term OF enlistment Of FIVE regiments y
the twelve months men authorised ty the
act OF the last session TO ave years or during
the war To anne nd the act establishing the
ordnance departn ent /; to regulate the I'll
lowanCc of forage to the officers of tue ar
my, esc. BESIDES these military and naval
lprePsratious and regulations. two acts were
passed. the FIRST of the IN unanimously in
both Houses, which, ha sing all important
bearing on cur military operations, we also
class under this head. speak CT the act
20 provide for ire widows and orphans of
militia siain anu for militia disabled in the
! service OF the United States; ard the ace
making compensation Ter Wagons ard
teams captured t;.u destroyed by the eneny
at Detroit. The irst OF these acts assures
20 the militia man who is called ,It under
his country's banners, that if he is disabled
his government will secure him from want,
and that, il he falls, HIS country viii tsse
his family under its guardian Care; the last
assures compensation TO the citizen for his
property destroyed in the public service
II had become notorious, and the fact was
established by the woful experience Of many
who had engaged in and Suffered by it, that
Privatessing on the ocean, that nude OF
| warfare which. We believe more than any
other, harnesses the enemy by distressing
his commerce, had lanSuishcd and had al
meut from the government, the absence of
which, gcther with the obstructiops thrown
in the nay by those opposed TO the success
of their contry's arms, had discouraged &c
smoihcred that enterprizing spirit, under
the impulse pt which, on the declaration of
the war, privateeriny so vigorously com
rnenceG. Congress took his subject into
their mature consideration and, during
the session, PASSED several laws, having Tor
III, -
States to certain British property captured
by private armed vessels TO reduce the
dates on prize goods captured by private
armed vessels To allow a bounty Of IS dol
| lars torevery prisoner captured and brought
IN by them to extend tins act allowing pen
sions TO the wounded in action on board pri-
vate armedvessels, to such as shall be acct
dentaliy wounded during the cruise. Under
these saiutary provisions, it is hoped and be
lieVed a new spring will be given 10 enter
prize, and that the ocean will again swarm
with our hsrdy and adventurous seamen,
who have already signalized themselves in
every sea by their bravery and skill whene
yer they hare encountered an enemy.
The only law passed OF a general commer
cisl nature, is one very important in its ef
fects on the present state OF our commerce,
and which had become necessary 70 prevent
| our trade from becoming wholly subservienc
! to the Interests of the enemy--we mean the
act prohibiting the use of British licences
| This viii put an end, we trust, to the dis
graceful intercourse carried on with the enc
| my under this gaise at least--thoush we
| fear that neutral character is as easily
purchased as & British licercc. and that ma
| ny of our vesTtls viii aScuIne the former.
which cannot low take the latter. Still,
| much will have t-en done co remedy an evil,
which Could onlJ have been cured by d ge-
neral embargo.
The proposed amendment to the natural;-
sation Law, which has been for two OF three
| sessions banded alioit between the two
Houses Of Congress, has at length passed,
in an imperfect shape, sse believe, hut the
only form in which it could meet the views
| of q majority Of both HOuSes, and in such
| form, too, as viii materially arrisnd snd i'm
prove the existing provisions Oh tsat head.
| In consequence of the FIRST session OF The
Thirteenth Congress having been hcla in
anticipation OF the period, prelcribaG by The
Constitution as that on which the fret ses
sion Of each Congress shall. be held uj.les.
o.herwiac directed by law, it became ne
| cesssry TO provide ty law on what day Con
gress should again assemble. a law WAS
| accordingly passad fixing the rext meeting
OF Congress for the first " onosy 10 DeceUi-
Der, the dag en- which Congress would have
assembled, had no Law passed authorizing an
| Extra SESSION.
The above statement comprises all the
| laws of a public nature which were passed
during the session. Several otner mea sures
of importance were proposed, and received
! their quetrs in one or the other branch of
| the Legislature, among which was general
! Embargo, the faJe Of which is too recent to
| require any particular remarks from u.s.
The subject, besides. is pretty well under.
stood by the People At large, who are quite
/ as competent as ourselves to Judge Oft ex-
I. pediency. Our inte'it:oa was merely to of
=; fer a general statement os all the measures
of general nature which passed the Con
| gress--and all the laws of that description,
! We believe, are Comprised in the above reca .
pitulasion. Mar. Ins.
New YORK, August g.
! We learn from New. London, that cept.
Hardy of the RaTnilics, had not gone OFT Of
| the Sound, As was reported.
We also leerr, that four boats which hsd
been sent ont by Com. Decatur to reconnoi
tire, had returned with two heutenants, a
midshipman and iye sssmen. belonging to
the British eouadrop. whom thry had sur
iprised on shme.
( Bo,b public and privsts accounts from
EugIand speak unfavoTsbIy Of the Russian
| Meditation between Great Britain x this
country. The following il an extract Of =
letter from the House Of Muilct, of Lon.
don