The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-02-03

lie enemy approached that ship, and let off
one OF his machines. which made d great
noise and produced much smoke, but did
not the least injury. The warrant officers,
awoke by the report, and went on deck, il
appearing to them as though the lower deck
guns rad been discharged.--The water was
agitated, & the ship rolled a little with the
swell. The man who superntended this
noble explicit went on shore and spread a
report, that he had blown in the ships bows s.,
and that he left her on her broadside, sink
ing
Our ships being very near the shore, a
great number of slaves. (men, women and
children,) have made their escape, and
come on board The cruelty of their
masters forced them TO this extremity. We
have even taken OH board, women with
infants at their breasts.
" "A lieutenant Of the Barcssa frgate has
lost his life in the Potomac, while assisting
to capture gun boat.--A small schooner,
tender TO the Nemsis, with Midsh Bman
fifth. and crew on board, upset few
days since, aud all on bard perish ed-This
happened near the upper end of the middle
ground of the Chesapeake"
The London Courier of Nov. contains
accounts of several recent dreadful inunda =.
tons on the continent. The first is of the
rlveriWangr when high mountain was IN
dermined and fell into the-channs! of the
river, and upwards of 90 villages, with their
'tanding crops apd flocks, were washed a
way, and more than 1900 persons perish
ed. The second, of the Danube, which on
the 18th OF Sept. in the night suddenly
overfiowed an island, on which were 5000
turkish Soldiers, all Of whom perished.--
The third. of the brave, when six villages
were destroyed, and minister with his con-
greg ion OF about $40 persons. were buried
"a faat ftaav. u.
esia, upwards of 5000 inhabitants have pc
rished.-5 .--On the banks the V,stula.
in Poland 1000 lives have been lest and
much prope ty ofevery kind has been every
Were destroyed.
The grand bridge over the Iser, at NIu
Mich, suddenly fell, on the evening of the
l4th sept. at the moment when it was
crowded with people, the greatest part of
whom Perished--45 bod es have been pick
ed up.--ltis presumed that about $50 per
sons persisted.
Lord Castlereagh has in the British Par
hament proposed a bill t. augment the dis
possible force of the British Empire.
The Freedom of the City ot Dublin has
been granted to Captain Broke.
IL appears that two French frieates. a
corvette * a cutter, sailed from Eherbourg
October IS. o
is said that in Ostend, 70 mercantile
neuses OF responsibility in Holland stoned
payment. 1t is perhaps extraordinary, that
here is one there that can Fay.
Acco, nts from Malta, September II. state
Eat the plague had entirely ceased in that
island and that in the usual term of FORTY
tdays, business would be renewed there az
usual.
At Gibraltar, October 10, the dea,hs IN
the three preceding days amounted to 81. *
he new cases within the same time amount
to upwards CT 100.
Vienna, Seht. 22.-The accounts from
Turkey, state that the Turks are making
great progress against the Servians. abano
doaed by all the forces which they had from
the Christians. The Servians are hastily
provisioning Belgrade. but they begin ratli e,
too late, for If the Turks had not been de-
tanned by bad weather they would already
have been at the foot Of the walls of III a,
| fortress.
Semhn. Con IRE Danube, Seht. So
The Turk IN army IS 600, on the banks Of
he Moravia, took on the 21st inst. the for
tined isle of Boretsch, by storm, after dav,
siege: The Servian garrison was put to the
sword. The Servian army is posted opno-
site 80 that of the Turks