The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-09-03
FREDER1cKsDuRc, Aug. 81.

Since Wednesday morning last 10 mail mas
been received from the north, IN this place.
with the exception OF few letters and papers
by Mondays mail. An express was sent on
FRIDAY last, by the Town Council, for the.
purpose of furnishing correct information q
thers nave also been sent from General Park
ers head quarters, now in this place, for the.
same purpose from neither of which has a
ny thing satisfactory been received. Howe
yer, we are authorised to say, We NAV exoect
to hear IN the Course of the dav. IF So. we
shall stop the press, for the purpose OF salts
lying the minds OF sn anxious public
AT present we give. such verbal information
as we have been able to collect and digest
and which we have reason to believe SAVIOUR,
OF truth The principal part is derived rom
a respectable gentleman who is a member OF
the Fairfax cavalry, who arrived III Town YES
terday, and who was present in the short skir
mIsh winch took place at Bladensbcrp The
man body OF the militia were not engaged in
the attair.-Com. Barney, with a rev hundred
brave companions, bore the borden of the
battle, and destroyed numbers of the enemy
and no doubt would have ARK sted their pro-
gress, had he been properly :iupported-that
he hnaiIy received a severe wound, and was
taken together with al his artillery Gene
raj Armstrong is said 70 have been D,esert IN
the engagement, and General Winder. NV ms
directions, ordered a ret reat which was re-
ceived with indignation oy all, or most of Ike
Coiiected forcc. Our less was stated ODE from
SIXTY to eighty, apd Civ AT of the enemy az from
nve to seven hundred. A small portion of the
enemy only entered the city-some said not
more than l5Q-th.atiD their progress in, they
were hred at from the windows of Tomlinsou;s
avern am. Mr.. Gallatin's house, in conse-
quence-iD which, BOTH together with the Of
nee OF U,e National Ilteligencer, were pu,i-
ed 4own. Private property in every other
7 instance was respected. Public property. IS
| before stated, was demolished. The enemy
evacuated the city on Thursday, pursuing the
! road by which they entered, and leaving. /,
! is SAID, number of their dead between Bla-
dens6urg and the City unburied
| Ahe gentleman through whose means we
nave obtained this Intelligence, is said to nave
!ett our FORCE IN the neighbourhood of OpDeI.
mariborough, at which place the main body
OF Tie enemy had arrived---another part hid
| proceeded diff rent Course. Numbers of
| Their sick and stragglers from their camp
were hourly taken. General Wnder, with
| tue principal paIT Of our force, had arrived
by forced marches at Baltimore. prcsacnine
that city to be the next object of the enemy.
I from HleTand,7a.
Nothing Correctly can be stated Of its pre-
sent condition. The city is, no doubt III com
piete possession OF the enemy. Their force.
consisting Of 2 frigatcs, sloops of wap 2
bomb bi1gs, and schooner, is sufficient to
keep 1t during their pleasure, otherwise To de-
stroy it, which is highly probable they will do,
1t opposed from within. There are many and
various reports relative to their demands.
which cannot be fully relied on, and which we
iorbear, from that reason to mention. Cen
eral Hnngerford was in the reighborhood
with between and 5000 troops but we ur-
derstand he has orders to proceed by Fairfax
Courthouse, to join the force under General
| Winder.
The President and the several Secretaries
were in Washington, With the execution u
SeE' armstrong HerIid.