The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-15
GROANS OF THE BRITONS

From .1fontreaL-This morning we received No,-
real paperst the 9Th uit There were seventy YES
s. sci. In the port OF Quebec from Europe, unloading
their carrnes, composed chiefly of British manufac
ture A gale Of Yind on Lake Ontario has wrecked
number OF merchant boats with their caryoes ON their
way to York and Niagara. Many lives are supposed
MONTREAL. Nov. 2s
The Provincial Parliament is proro,urd n
the 9th day of Dec. next
Thirty American deserters arrival here IN
Wednesday
From the Montreal Gazette ofNou. %
we understand the neutral vessel will sail
from the lines tomorrow OH her last trip un
Lake Champlain, with full cargo of British
manuiactures-Who would have expected to
have seen Swedish flag navigating exclu-
sively an inland water belonging to the. U. S.
of America.
Our harbor presents scene that was ne
yer before witnessed at this season-upwards
OF 20 vessels of different sizes are now unload
ing their cargoes, composed chiefly of British
manufactures; and all the activity incident
to crowded port IN summer is seen az a ne
nod when formerly the navigation was con-
sidered as closed or solitary fishing craft
remained to terminate it. What Contrast
the war has brought about in the relative ST.
tuation of this Province and the U. States (!
In the one, commerce is more. than treble
IN the latter, 1t has given place to the despi-
cable supply of foreign commodities through
the infamous system of robbery OH the ocean
and the nation which was once second in
the commercial world, is now reduced to a
dependence on prlvateering, or the agency of
those british provinces, which she yainly
boosted three years ago, she would CAPTURE in
three months-Io a calculating people this
must be most miserable disappointment.
We have this instant been informed, that
most violent gale of wind. has lately been ex
perienced on Lake Ontario, in which a num-
Der OF Merchants boats with their cargoes,
and many of their crews, on their way to
York and Niagara, have been lost. We sim
cerely hope tnatit may not prove SO disas
troua, as it has been represented.
We were TINS morning favored with the
loan OF the London Morning Chronicle of the
Goth of Sept. and a Portsmouth paper of the
same date the latter is entirely filed with
dispatches from this country relative 10 the
war operations on the Niagara frontier
at that date the Editors Of these papers do
not appear to have LEARNT but that the af-
tairsln this country had been managed very
well, although the disasters at Fort Erie were
given in their columns.
The Boston Gazette of the 18th inst. is the
only paper received from the States the week
past, from which several extracts in the pre-
ceding page is given, which will shsw that
the affairs IN that Country are drawing to an
important crisis. The American government
appear determined to carry their point in
raising an army, by coNscRipTIon, which if
gained viii put down the high standing which
the northern states appear determined to sup
port i'll self-defence against their Internal e.
nemies"
From the Quebec Mercury, Nor. 90.
The Telegraph yesterday announced 20
SQUARE ripped vessels IL of thorn are S.;i o.
be feet with 10, 900 barrels Of pork, two on
ly with troops. They sailed from Cork on
the I'd Of Oct A proof that If Great Britain
thinks of us, tits not with such knowledge
of the country as good hemsnen should pos
sess. a party have entered the harbour {;
for their arrival we must be thankful |;
but the thanks are more due to our good for
tune than to the Judgement of our British land
pilots.
Its said, that Some vessel arrived TODAY.
brings an account that the American fricate
Constitution is taken.
Ia our late Montreal papers. from which we have
made some further extracts to-day, perceive an al
yert,cmcn, Of the Deputy Comrnssary Of the British
army in Cansls offering to contract for eighteen tou
sand cords Of wool to h, delivered into the Barracks
Al the lowing places II serves to slow the different
encanpmenn tle British goldicry in Lower Canada
surng tic ensuing winter, and will enable the reader
to form some idea o. ie lc5cs ct each ofthcse military
posts ~. j. Ercr. Posi-,
At Coteau dn Lao 500 f,,ra,
3prs'rie 3,G1p
81; Philips 80
Blai findy $50
Chamhy f,OnO
Yanarka 500
81 Johns 25C0
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