The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-03-25

bat the American feet came up attacked ours beat
and captured the whole of the ships Sir George Pre-
vos seeing the fate of the fleet speedily INTO
Csnals, wssoilowed, the Americans say, BY their
army, who havassed it, took some cai,noa II great
quantity OF stores and many prisoners and received
from the British army, great number OF teseiters,
who quilted Sir George Provost, aud went over to
them L ms Is the most serious part of the subject
aud therefore, as the Mont cal newspapers had stated
thst we lost $50 men by deserton tho Am- loans
made them amount to great n,,n,y hundreds & as
Mr. Wiithread, in the debate va Parliament. a few
days ago, SAID ebsd heard that they to 2OJo
and tst too, oil fielding the people were
~ anxious TO Ser George PreuOst's account ofhs
retreat The Ministers said, that Sir George Provost
had said NOTHING .sout any DESl;t lion; aud
that, q course, he Trod hare mentioned il, lift had
been true. But the Times newspaper now tells us
that Sir Ceorge has scn of his red eatur
1T least that Sois has BEEN recsl,ed According 10
the Ministers, Sir Geo pes account has bes, reeeiy-
ell, and no mention rs E.,ade ~ il of ieserons.
According TO the Times, Sir Georges account has
NOT been received We must believe the Ministers,
OF course, and must the Times down for prounu'-
gator OF wiui issehoo6s But. then, there is a RIB
ist II the account OF the retreat is come, WHY
MOI PUBLiSHfr This is another riddle, Johnny
Euh, tor your winter evenings amusement The at
tack OF our forces Mobile furnishes new feature tn
the war We have before the two parties enya-
ged. bgate to risate, brig brig soo to sloop and
In two instances, feet TO feet We have seen them.
on land, alternately bcsieged and b. siegine we now
see the Americans in tort, containing ony I3S uea
as to the result of which, after describing the scene Of
seon must ior the present, take their own offs
al account Point Mobile is siiuae, on the mann land
on the border of the guph of Mexico, not far from
the mouth ofthe great liver Mississippi On this point
tort, called Fort Bower belonging to the Repub
hean enemy TO the attack of which our squadron pro
eeeded in Sept last Here follow the American on.
| Gal accouals
extract these articles from the Times ne wspsner
and yet, u the lace OF these cs in defiance of these
red-hot balls, the consunma,e ass would make nc
peace except at " ec- York or Phialelbla they he
lpS hrst .he headquarters OF Pcssi ora IiY Th.
ss good lit as this writer c0sd lave given to MIR
Madison, and hard blow as he could have gwen II
the No0eSSe OF Massachusetts on whom he and Ia,
rest OF our tribe had built, AMI do still build then
hopes OF ultimate Let him look at the atti
tude Oh New-York and of Philadelphia
not say that it IS inpossib to get at either Of
| those cities with lOmb-shels or rockets; bur an
quite satisfied that it would require very large army
to set tooin either of them, even for the purpose o.
oarn'ng and tnen quitting them in safety i will nov
maze an Observation two with regard to bg6Ic o6i
mon rs TO the American war. People are tIisappoin,
Gu continuance nj tiIe Properly Iaa, lunches
hut would they have the luxury of war without uaviot
tort' No, no. Pay they must or they mus nat uf
with what they have gotten, and see the Stars an,
4o9peS waving IN every sea. They would have war.
war wastheir cry They have it, and they must nav