The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-09-17
FROM THE PORT FoLlO-for lSep.en.ber.
LETTER
LII TEX
From Capt. Broke TO Capt. Lawrence.
His britannica Majesty's ship shannon
off Boston, June, 1878. {


sea, request you will do me the favor to meet the
Shannon with her. ship to ship, to try the fortune
Of our respective Gags 10 an officer OF your char
aeter, it requires some apology for proceeding to
further particulars BE assured, Sir, that II is not
from any doubt can entertain OF your wishing 10
close with rny proposal, but merely 10 provide
answer to any objection which might be made, aud
very reasonably, upon the chance OF our receiving
unfair support. ...,
After the diiigent attention which we had paid 10
Com. Rodgers the pains took 10 detach all force
but the Shannon and Tenedos 10 such distance
that they could possibly Join in any seton fought
In sight :of the Cspes; and the various verbal mes
sages which had been sent into Boston to that eff
feet; We were much disappointed 60 find the COM
modsre had euded Us by ssiNng on Che first change,
after the prevailing easterly winds bad obliged to
keep aa citing from the coast. lie perhaps wished
for some stronger assurance of fsr meeting.
am therefore induced TO address you more particu-
iarly, and to assure you that what write pledge
my honour TO perform 10 the utmost OF my power.
The Shannon mounts twenty. -four guns upon her
broadsde, and one light boat gun eighteen poun-
ders on hsr main deck, and thirty two pound car.
ronades OH her quarter deck and foreeaste; and is
manned with complement Of three hundred men
and boys large proposition or the latter besides
thirty seamen, boys and passengers, who were ia
heu ont Of re-oaptured vessels ,ately am thus
minute, because report has prevailed in some Of
the Boston Papers that had one hundred and
fifty men, additional, lent uc from La Hosue, which
really never was the case La Hogue &c noT' gone
to Halifax for provisions, and will oend all other
meet you wherever it is most agreeable to you,
within the limits of this aforementioned render
vous, viz.
Fron six to ten Leagues east Of Cape Cod light
house, from eight to ten leagues east Of Cape AIMS
hight on Csshes ledge in lat. -, NJ, at any bearing
snd distance you please to fix of the south breakers
Of Nantucket, or the shoai on St. Georges Bank.
lyon will favor with any plan of signals or tee-
graph, will warn you { if sailing under this prom
Use should any Of my friends be too nigh or any
where in sight until can detsch them out oil my
way or l would sail with you under Gag of truce
TO any place you think safest from our cruisers haul.
ing down when fair TO begin hoettes-
:, You must SIR, be awsre that my proposals
h'ghy advantageous TO you you cannot proceed to
sea snsly IN the Chesapeake without i'm rninent risk
oil BENG crushed by the superior force Of the nume-
Teus British squsarons which are now abroad, where
all your efforts, in OF rencontre, would how
ever gallant, be perfectly hopeless. entreat you
ar, not to inssine that au urged BY mere person
nj vanity TO the wish of meeting the Chesapeake or
that depend only upon yS,ir persona! ambition for
your accedng to this invitation I'VE have both no.
bier motives. You will feel it AZ compliment if
eay, that the result OF meeting may be the most
grateful service can render 80 my country and
ooubt not that you, equally confident Of success will
reel convinced, that it ia only by repeated fiumphs
IN evrn coa15ats, that your little navy can now hope
TO console yo country for the oes CT that trade il
csn no longor protect. Favor me with speedy re-
ply We are short Of provislons & water s. cannot
stay long here.
! nsge the honor to be, sir, your obedient humble
servant,
Isigned1 P.B;v SrcEv,
Cuptafn q a. 3. III. S. Shannaa
N. b. For the general service of watching your
coast, II Is requisite for to keep another chip in
COIL pany, to support me with her guns and boats
when employed near the land, and particularly to
aid each other it either chip in chaee should get on
ehore. You must he that cannot, consistent
y with my duty, wave so great an advantage for
this general service, by detaching my consort With
out an assurance your part of meeting me direct.
X; obi aid
from any other of your armed vessels, if detach
mine expressly for the sake of meeting you. Should
any special order restrain you from thus answer
ing formal challenge, you may yet oblige by
keeping my proposal secret and appointing any
place you Ike TO meet Us [ within three hu ndrcd
miles Of Boston in given number Of days after
you sai as uniess you agree to an interview. may
be busiec on other service, and perhaps be al dis
lance from Boston when you 60 to sea. Choose
Jour terms--but let US meet
To the commander of the u. (
). frgate Chesapeake.F )
Enforcement ON tie EnueloSe.
we have thirteen American prisoners on board
which viii give you for many British
ssiors, if you will send them OUT otherwise being
priSateersmen, they mus be detained
MURDER.
most shocking murder has been lately perne.
trsted in the village OF Athens, state of New York
The unfortunate sufferer is represented as having
heer very amable character--'s young beautiful
I'D mplished"-and no probable cause has as
yet been given for this affecting and daring atroci-
V--Ihe Trustees Of the town OF Athens have Of
fered 500 dollars for the discovery Of the Ruffians
and Governor Tompkins has offered the same sum
IN proclamation expressive of The alarrn horror Il
interest this deed If death has excited in ths state
The following particulars are extracted from Huo.
son paper Of August 81 -
On w Wednesday evening last, about o'clock Miss
Hamilton left the house OF her sister in the lover
settlement Of the village of Athens, where che had
been % fher1s :,,t Io
upper settlement, Che two settlements are about
puaintances. On reaching the upper settlement,
part OF her company stopped at store To make
sorac purchases, and being desired to 90 in, she
also stopped at the door, hut excused herself urging
that she had been from home oil day aud was anxious
70 return When she left the store, it was precisely
RAFT past eight O'Clock. From here she was accom-
Iabisu by two elderly ladies, and when she parted
from them, was within twenty rods Of her fathers
houses after she parted from these ladies' no pegi.
tive account oi her can be traced although the 90
ross she had to walk 90 reaeh her fathers house is
hearty as thiekly settled as any part of the city of
Hudson snd II wss not uet the next afternoon
that her absence was discovered, when her sister.
.. whose house che had been the preceding dsy. vi
sited her fathers and both parties missing the fsvo-
rte NJ The family, mutual enquiries for her were
Inodc, Rhich on further enquiry among the neigh
tours, resulted in the Distressing eciaiyciSSealenf
cnb~aecd ~ the preceding detaiI--The alarm was
Instantly given, AID search made tor her in every
JFs7iion w:ihou, erect
Jhv only intelligence that could be obtained that
~ any way tended to slueidse her fate was that be.
tT-sn and O'Clock of the evening in which she