The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-03-26

a.lsr,in 10 Senhoise
Morgiana Is Scott
Ra,tler ID Gordon
Recruit Is Evan.
Sophie l8 Lockyer
oyiph IS Douglass
Besides p nuE-oe:. CO email sesse's.
The Cumberland -, aud storatio & Rhin
trisates. are expected.
-. :: -, NEW Yoay, March IS.
The Delaware is blockaded by the Poic-
tiers, -. capt. Beresford, BciYidera fri
gate. capt. Byron, schr. Paz, and pilot boat
Ulysses.
Col. Barclay is appointed superntendant
general of British prisoners in America. to
reside. lat New York. He sailed from Eng
land in the Valiant, -. He will have a
gents at the ports where prisoners may be
held. ~.
A London Editor expects that Mr.. Bar
clay may be the medium Of negotiation.
y PHILADELPHIA, Afarck H.
BLOCKADE OF THE DELAWARE:,
MIR. Clamper, who arrived here Yesterday
afternoon, in the Pilot Boat Kitty, from
Lewiston, informs that he left there on
Sunday night and that on Monday morn
ing one OF the 74's was anchored miles
inside of the light house. A ship that had
passed to windward of the squadron. was
pursuedby atender ,svertaken at the brown
on Monday forenoon, and either captured
or turned back.
From Wesv Castle, March 15.-Euening.
A pilot boat APP came with the follow
ing nformation-Saw one "a five miles in
side the cape, two 74's cruizing off. one
tender at anchor on the Brown, & one cruz
zng."
PHILADELPHIA, 18th March,
Extract Of letter from LeesSnrS, ". j.
March 16.
Our inhabitants are in a great state of
alarm. On Saturday British ~, came
into the Delaware, and is now about ten
miles within the Capes. On Monday "A
frigate anchored alongside. Last night at
IL o'clock, two of the Cape May pilot
boats were driven in Maurice river, and
captured by one of the enemy's tenders
They took two sloops out of the river, loa-
ded with wood. The morning they captu-
red a schooner.
PHILADELPHIA, March 1s.
THE BLOCKADE,
Mr.. M'Corklc,
SIR this day left Wilmington, (Del.)
and received the following from a gentle.
man OF undoubted veracity. The Banks of
Wilmington and Newcastle, have ship
ped all their specie, for its better preserva-
ton, to this city, part of which has arrived
per Wilmington Packet, and been deposi-
| ted in the vaults of the Pennsylvania Bank
The people of Wilmington are preparing
| themselves with arms and accoutrements
| to be ready at a moments warning. Col,
| Allen M'Lane is to head this Spartan
Band. 1t is to be. feared the English intend
to make an attack on the French prize
lately brought into the Delaware; loaded
! with Powder, Rockets, &c.
March II, 1912.
From Great Egg Har5or.
March 15-Evenirg
Arrived, sloop New Jersey, capt. Bruton.
She was taken by the Ulysses tender YES
terday.. II miles s. w. of this port, and a
prize master, with three men put on board.
Sapsain Bruton retook her, and brought
/ her IN safe. The prize master informs.
that the Belyidcra, Spartan, and Acasts
frigates, with the Paz schooner, form a
part OF the Delaware blockading squadron.
CAPE HEN1oPEN, March IA.
There are British TAPS in sight, near
the Delaware one at anchor bet ween the
two Capes IL gun schooner near the
buoy on the Brown.
BLOCKADE OF THE DELAWARE.
The last accounts from the Della ware
+blockading squadron, state that it was this
with boats out taking sopndings and fixing
buoys,
FROM WILMINGTON (DELAWARE:o
Wa,chgnn 0Rce, 2oth hln-cb
A gentleman this moment arrived from
Lewistown, Delaware, has furnished a COPY
of the following document.
His Britannia Majesfys Poicfiers.
in the mouth Of the DekaSuare,
16th March, 1913.
SIR-As soon as you receive this, l
must request you will send twenty live
Builocks with a proportionate quantity of
vegetables and hay to the Poicters, for the
use of his Britannia Majesty's squadron
now at this anchorage, which Shall be i'm
mediately paid for at the Philadelphia pri-
oes. IF you refuse to comply with this re-
quest, / shall be under the necessity of
destroying your town.
have the honor to be,
"Sir,
"Your very OPT serv't 49,
"J. P. BERESFORD.
Commodore, e commandine- thc
" British sguadron in the mouth
90. "otfhe Deiawurs.
"To tht fret Magistrate
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