The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-07-30

the world has cast her off. she is ITO longer nc
cessary to the wants of Europe. She made
choice OF terrapin system (; She must now
perpetuate it.
The Nova Scotia Fencibles (s0O) that ar
rived on Sunday from Newfoundland, took i'm
mediately their departure, in the transports,
for Montreal.
All the hostages who made their escape
from the Jail of this city, are retakcn and Sc
cured, except one, of the tfame of Putnam.
We have been favored with the following
account from gentleman, who came passen-
ger IL the William Heathcote, transport from
Newfoundland
EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.
On the ID instant, (being off Cape Chat
the sun assumed 4 very high blood color &,
at half past two, Il total darkness ensued.-
This continued till about sun set when the
horiScn somewhat cleared but at . O'Clock it
became SO dark that it was impossible to OBJ
serve any object, however near withou, the
help OF lanthorns The ship laid too tin two,
A. M. when the obscurty disappeared.
1t was singular, and at The same time, no
vel sight, to notice the sailors and soldiers, at
midday, having recourse to lanthorns, to dis
| tinguish their buildings and meat out of the
f, cahouse and not less so for the officers to be
| seated at their early dinner, by oandle-ight.
1t is difficult to account for this phenomenon,
| ther side of the spot where the ship stood
For three days previously some ashes and
| smoke had been observed, but on the Cd no
| symptoms OF burnt wood was felt Itmav be
presumed that some volcanic eruption has Ia
| ken place III South Easterly direction, which
| caused a total darkness in breadth Of about
! fifteen leagues, from each side Of Cape Chat.
MONTREAL, July -.
! ChjtfeuaV Bdttie-S,itish .4ccounf
hn,-
scrbing into this number general order pub
hshed here yesterday, by which it appears
that a severe battle bad been fought on the
Niagara frontier, on the 5th ult. between
small body of our brave troops, under the
command of Gen. Rial, and an American ar
my Of 5000 men, which had landed in the
| neighborhood of Fort Erie ; the gallantly of
our officers and men, in this unequal contest
was highly conspicuous, but they were under
the necessity of retrcating from such an inn
mense disparity of numbers, to Chippeway
and we regret to find with considerable loss.
The movements of the enemy for these some
weeks past have strongly indicated, Gas we
have previously intentionally that the Niagara
frontier would be the scene of his operations,
consequently we are not surprised at this at
tempt to gain footing on our side but we
| must confess that we were disappointed in fin
ding that our force was so much divided in
that quarter, which canbe accounted for only
by the adherence to the defensive system on
| our part by which means the enemy must al
ways have the advantage of concentrating his
| force and choosing his point of attack-Howe-
yer, as very large achievements have arriv-
ed and are still expected from Europe, we
| hope that our force in Upper Canada will
soon be augmented in such manner as to re-
leve that i'll fated district from the presence
OF their unprincipled invaders, and prevent a
recurrence of similar misfortunes