Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-11-06

the army, hold the reins of government.
and keep the rest OF the people under
tribute. The cruelties and atrocities of
all kinds the latter experience trcin their
! masters, can only be equalled by their
conduct toward Christian slaves. The
inhabitants OF a Moorish town trcmble at
the sight OF Turk. Its natural, there
| fore, To suppose that they are always anN-
ious and ready to be freed from these in
truders, who have usurped authority over
them by numbering their lawful Princes,
| filling their country with carnage, and
| thus UNFOLDING themselves by terror and
! oppression. The Beys, of the interior,
are degraded vassals, and there the
| Turks only hold sway by extreme visi-
Lance, by disarming the people, by Sc
we're police, and by keeping garrisons in
the towns and commanding ports.
| The injury which the Hop plantations
have sustained within the last Ten DAYS.
has reduced the calculated produce du-
| ty from ninety To thirty thousand pounds
Kent.-The return OF fair weather after
! the dreary weather of Monday, has given
life to the cXertions of the farmers III
Kent, andmuchwheat has in consequence
since been carried and housed. There
were, however, some very heavy showers
| OF ram on "Wednesday, particularly at
| Wingllam and Bridge, but their duration
was short, and their extent very confined
The harvest III the vicinity of Maidstone,
al the latter end of last week, had parti-
ally begun, but the return of wet weather
on Monday stOpped If. 1t is expected
that the crops will in general be tavora-
bic; The wheat mere so than the bar
ley, the latter having been so much bea-
ten down. On Wednesday there was IA
violent bail storm, which did much dam
age TO the corn. At Marden, eight miles
from Maidstone, hailstones as large as
nuts were picked up; at Ilarrietsham Sc
verai windows were broken, aud other
damage done by the hail. Snow fell
once or twice in the neighbourhood du-
ring the week, aud more than once ice of
the thickness. of half a crown was found liz
the morning.
Letters were received yesterday from
-. Jago, stating the arrival there of tie
Congo sloop of war. Some trihing de-
tects were TO be remedicd iii this vessel,
and 1t was expected that in few DAYS
she Woi;lG sail, TO commence the arduous
task OF exploring the river Zair, or Congo
on the African coast. Capt. Tuckev. his
officers and men, are represented as be-
ing IN good health and spirits, and very
anxious to proceed OH their voyage.
Nothing had been heard at Hamburger
from Mrs. Richards, the adventurous
@ronaut, since h er ascent. In was fear
ed that the high winds which prevailed
at the time had blown her TO some dis
lance, and on her aerial voyage NAV
have been attended with considerable
danger.
A mailirom Flanders brings an account
OF disturbance among the troops mt Ma
muir, iii which some were Killed and
wounded. The disturbance arose out of
quarrel in a public house.
The Dutch papers tell us, that the
Russian ship Prince Butcher, having on
board the dowry OF the Prince of Orange,
had arrived at Elsineur from Cronstadt
on its way to Holland.
n Monsieur Simon, who had made
some noise in the kingdom OF the Neither
lands, through the discussion of which
he was the subject in the Second Cham
Der OF the States-General was delivered
up OIL the 2lst of Aug. to the French au-
thorities.
The harvests around Paris are said to
present an unfavorable aspect. The rain
continues pouring i'll the departments of
the north, nor is there any prospect of lis
Immediately ceasing. The same quanti-
ty OF bread which was lately sold for IS
sois, has risen III price TO 20, and was for
merry TO be had for 10 orl7 No fruit of
any kind is to be met with
A Jew, of the name Of Gerson, was bap-
tlsed on Wednesday in ST. James Church
Bath. This convert to the Christian re-
lglon is between 30 and 40 wears of
age.
The Dublin evening Post of Tuesday
last says: "Since Saturday last. there
las scarcely been ever remembered in
the neighbourhood of Dublin such AN
lncessant storm of wind and rain. Last
night it blew d tornado. 1t awoke and
alarmed most of the inhabitants of this
CITY"
A remarkable proof of the severity of
the weather.-In the beginning of last |
week the Marquis of Salisbury picked ND |
two pheasants frozen to death in Hatfield |
Park
Last week, the caldron of one of the |
Thames steam packets burst, no other i'll |
jury occurred, except frightening some |
OF the passengers who got on shore.
and went to town by the Kent coaches. |
On Monday se'nnight were sold at !
Wakefield, belonging to two respectable |
farmers Ill the neighbourhood, two horses.
with each a saddle q bride, for tie sum of
three Guineas; wives may also be consi-
dered as much depressed in value by the
pressure OF the times. a labourer having
sold his wife on Wednesday last to a wa, !
terman, for the small sum of sixpence.
festerday we received Dutch papers TO
the 8th inst. The most important inteIli-
gcnce which they communicate is, that
the Dutch Government has proposed TO
tie Legislature new plan of law relative
Al. a