The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-02-06
vered to any Of H. NJ. officers. oflodeed in

vered to any of H. M. officers, or lodged in
any gaol of this Province.
Part of the cargo brig Hare had been
sold in Halifax. and parts of the cargoes
OF brig George, from France) Phebe, and
ship Marquis de Someruelos, are advertised
20 be sold-it appears that the ARTICLES adj
vertised, are perishable in their nature or
liable to damage. it kept on board.
The distribution of prize money, of YES
sells recaptured by the Statira, was to be
paid on board that vessel the S0th ult.-
Part of the cargo of the British ship Dh,na,
recaptured, was advertised TO be sold, to
pay salvage.
The following proclamation by HUcH
PIGoT, Esq. Captain Of his H. NJ. ship
Orpheus, senior officer in the port of Ha-
lifax, was published the Goth uIt.
- 1t is hereby certified and declared all
MARINES and SEAMEN, who shall
come into this Province, from the United
States of America, within three months
from this date, shall be protected from i'm
pressment. and will be permitted to return
to England or an. part of the British domi-
mons they please"
Governo" of the Province. in addition to
the Kings bounty, for every able seaman
that shall voluntarily enter his majesty's
service. =.
have cleaned the papers of every ar
ticle worth writing, the gentleman has in
formed in addition, that the frigate Or
pheus, was the only ship of war in Halifax !;
that the sloop Of war Rather, sailed the
day before he left there with a convoy up
the Bay of Fnndy, thence, it was said, to
cruise in Boston Bay that the late priva.
teer brig Rapid of Portland, had been ia
ken into his majesty's service; is COM
mauded by Lieut.. Kent, Oate of the Guer-
riere) is called the Nova Scotia, and had
sailed on cruise; that several persons
concerned in smuggling gunpowder out of
the province bad been apprehended and
Imprisoned. Two were Americans, the
rest Englishmen that the Liverpool Pack
ct was rehttng at Liverpool, N. 5. but the
owners were undetermined, whether to
send her again off Cape Cod or not that
the Tulip is the only vessel sent in since
our last accounts, and that none of the
vessels sent in since the war had been con-
dcnned
CORRECTION. In the Yeas and Nays as
published in our paper, on the passage of
the bill, in the House of Representatives,
for chasing the Militia, the name of Mr..
Butler was inadvertently omitted. He vo-
ted for the bill.
- WASHING TON, Feb. 8.
The Senate of the United States have
been principally occupied with business OF
confidential nature for several days past.
A bill was yesterday reported in that body,
by Mr.. Campbell, from the Committee OF
Foreign relations, vestiHg the power of re-
taliation i'll the President of the United
States, in certain cases therein specified.
: COMMUNICATIONS. ~ - =
f. new regulation or designation is a
bout TO take place respecting future cartels
from the United States to- Britain More
mischief than inconvenience having arisen
from their designation to and from Ne4v-
York, the port of Wilmington on Dele
ware is assigned for their arrival and de-
parture in future. i, s. -.
1t is said that the cartel ship Pacific
(Which was supposed would have sailed in
a few days from New York; is ordered
round to Wilmington and to sail in about
3 weeks tor LIVERPOOL, some, unfair practi-
ces having been discovered by passengers
going and coming therein, as to soundines,
drawings,Stc. OF that important port.
alexandria Herald.
Capt Decatur has in the handsomest Sc
most liberal manner given up. to the COM
mander and officers of the British captur-
ed frgate Macedonian, all and every iarti-
Gle OF their personal property even TO large
quantities OF bottled wine, liquors and trif-
ling minuti1 as to Tnoveablesiofs furniture
&c. How different is this conduct to some
commanders of minor Brissh cruisers, who
fravc withheld from some of oar captured Of
Gcers even their nautical instruments, sea
charts &c. Ib.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania, we
understand. have it in conte IN plation to or
game grand State Bank, with branches
IN the different towns and at the same
time to levy a TAX on all contemporaries
Banking Institutions. [PhH Gaz.
SAVANNAH, Jan. 25:
On Wednesday last, arrived in this CITY
from St. Mary's, Commodore HUGH G.
CAMPBELL, commanding the y. States ma
val forces OH the Georgia station,
FROM FLORIDA.
Our letters from Florida, by last Mail.
inform US, that the Troops under the com.
TDahd OF Colonel SMITH, still occupy their
Camp on the St. Johns, and are now engae-
ed in building Barracks to protect them
from the unprecedented severity of the wea
tpsr. ! Their sick list is fast diminishing. &
NE! Troops generally, are in excellent
health. and anxious for more active EN-
ploYment. They state, that Council OF
War will sit in few days at St. Mary's.
ard believe that on the close of their deli