The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-08-20
Nzw.YoNx, August IS.
DISTRICT COURT.


III Ce't, eas. This was an action of deb,
Ihe CH!tea States. on Bond, under of the
------- late Embargo Acts.
AT the present Term Of the Court. the y ttorney
tor the United States moved to bring the triai
when the Counsel for the Defendant challenged The
arIsy OF the panDe! o! Jurors.
The question was, whether the present mode Of
summoning the Jury which had been, not by lot,
but by the selection of the Marshal, was legal.
Counsel having been fully heard boil, sides his
houor Judge Van Ness, yesterday, a very able,
luminous, and eloquent opinion, decided, that the
array be quashed, and of course thai the Jurors
ought 20 be selected by lot the mode nov prac-
Used in the Supreme Court, being the highest Court
OF common law in this State, and at the will aud
discretion of the Marshal.
We learn by capt. Woodward, frem stonnston,
in the smack Chari, ston, that there is British pri-
vateer schooner in the Sound, aud that the smack
and sioop Here, were CHASED into Saybrcok By her
and barge Wednesday. The privstaer has
been as far AS Faukner's Island. The Rarn;iies and
frisate lay Fishers ISLAND, aud their hsrses
were constantly employed in rowing sround them.
The Senate of the United States have confirmed
the nomination OF Lieut.. WIN. IL Allen, OF Provi-
dence, Master aud Commandanf, and VIM II Al.
len, OF. hudson, IN, S. frst Lieut. IN the Navy.
And o. James Perry, Captain, Robert Carter, 1t.
and James Perry, Jun. Ensign, Of a Eompsuy of
Sea Fsncibles, ts be raised and stationed at New.
port. .Ne1spor. .tSercury.
About so 600 dollars of the cargo Of the Anne rican
ship Venus from England, SET; iuto Salem last SUM
mer by the Dolphin privsteer, has been conde,G,eL
10 the csptors as enemy's property, by His Honor
Judge Davis of the ID strict court Of the United
Ststes, sitting in Boston.--r Salem Register
The Swedish ship Experimen, from N Haven,
has arrived at st Bartholomew, vita the newly up.
pointed American Consul oa board.
.Mc196uryhort. .fuguat II.
N Prize taken guithoHt a P'iuatecr's
Commission, % nSuaday last we understand
one of our fishing boats fell in with q whale
in the bay, which had been harpooned, and,
succeeded in towing the FISH ashore il Is
about rs feet long, weighing about 100 TONS,
and 1t is judged will make go barreiC OF oil
Persons are employed in trying it out
The property belongs to Mr.. Samuel Broo-
kings and others.
1t will be recolected that the Southern
papers, few weeks since, contained ar
advertisement of the believers IN Perpetual
Motion, offering to bet ). 100 dollars to prove
its real existence. Mr.. Jacob Perkins, OF
this town, being at Philadelphia, accepted
the challange ;--and it is to be decided
by Ave judges to be appointed by MIR. p
1t is believed there will not be much diff
Guilty in proving the non ferfetuity of Mr.
Redheafer's invention.
Extract o1fa letter 10 q gentleman in this
city, dated CsnterviHe, Czvithin IA miles
u Kent Island J Eastern Sisore Of Glary.
land, august g. 1873.
4 wrote you by the last mail, inforInjpp-
you that the British had landed on Kent
Island. If we are to judge from appearan.
Ces, it 6uSt be their intentions to make il
their head quarters, as they have now four
encampment5 there. One is ct the Mr.
rows, where thsy have planted artillery
and 3 or brgs and schooners hav; come
up on the eastern side of the Island, which
are moored close to the farrows. so as to
command the Causeway. They have Ike
wise Cut down all the corn in the field as
you approach the Narrows, which will ena
bic them to discover any attempt upon their
position. They have 2 second encampment
at Broad Greek, 4 third at Parsons Point.
and a fourth at Kent Point where il is said
they are erecting fortiications. These cir
cunstsnces led us To believe that thew
mean TO make considerable stay on the
Island, and it is certainly an eligible posi-
ton tor their predatory warfare, as they can
plumber with equal facility K ent, Queen
nne's, Talbot counties, along the shores Of
Chester, St. Michaels x Wye Rivers 49,
They have not yet attempted to advance
any distance upon the Main the whole
of the lower Regiment in Queen Anne,
is on duty under the command of Major
Nicholson (Col. Wright being sick) and l
suppose the upper Regiment will Join them
Immediately" Bel. red. Gax.
Report from North Point 10 Gen. Smith,
Sunday moTHing. Augu8t IS, o'ciock.
Attwenty minutes past \. NJ. discoy-
cred 80 barges and boats together at the
mouth of the Patapsco some Of them were
in a line with the Bodkin from this place,
rowing and sailing, apparently as fas. az
they could, down towards the feet. do
not perceive that any Of the ships shifted
their births curing the night the frigatt
that shifted her birth LIS. eveslng was join
ed by sroalI schooner during The night
The enemy's shipping nov in sight OF this
place is as 70 lows below Sandy Poisr
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