Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-01-07

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course oI AN hour, became King and Il father
| The late King dedat o'clock on the both last,
AMI about an hour previous the present Kings
eonsort, late Duchess of Oldenburg, preseased
| him with daughter. His Majesty has comm, n
ced has reign by earlyattentUn to the wants
OF ms people, in endeayouring TO reduce the
high price OF bread.
The experiment OF innoculating dogs, above
the root OF tie ear, with the cow-pock- virus as
preventative against the diStenipcr has been
successfully practised nSusseN.
a convention has been concluded, between
ms MAJESTY the king OF the Netherlands and mis-
serene Highness the rel.suing Prince of Salnl-
Saim, 10y which the latter cedes 10 his Majesty
al his right and title TO iiie toll on the Rhine, X
user. at Arniieiin, called the toll Auhelf for
an indemnity consisting of Inscriptions in a
doom OF the pubic debt. and two aud half
per cent. interest, to tie annual amount of
twenty-five thousand one hundred and fifteen
dutch iiOrius.
Weare informed that Parliament will meet
for the dispatch of business before February
probably aiInut the lSth OF January.
Ihis morning we received Paris papers and
private letters of Thursday hast. The two
Chambers met on Wednesday, The Chamber
OF Peers elected their secretaries Count
Mole and the Duke of Raguesa, rs we stated
on Saturday, are the new Secretaries. The o.
tiicf two, P~ ryt aud the Dune de ChoiSeui,
we're Secretare les in the late Chamber. Accom-
mittoe consisting OfN. de tontancs, Lally Toll
lendai, the Bishop ut ST. Malice, C0Upt Curni-
er, and the Marquis Taialn was appointed IN
dtiW up the Address to the King. The Cham
Der then adjourned TO SATURDAY.
Commodore Chauncey has quilted Messina,
with has squadron. A letter from Peiermo
ahdS that there were every day sapguinarv
qraifeis between the English and the Anleri-
caIs.
We have between 80 and 30 country papers
oy tne post this morning, and we are happy to
be able again to say, thatw cannot find in any
one OF them, any account of fresh violations of
the peace. But we do find in any one OF them
tat nIf t.a 4
the afiiuent aud humane, to relieve distress by
the best ofall possible means-giving employ
meHt to the poor
November 10
The Funds continue TO advance. Consols
for Account, the time of our going TO press yes
terday, were 627-S. They were this morning
SO nigh rs iS 3-S but as several extensive spe-
cniators wished To take advantage and secure
ihe profits which bad occurred from the late
rise, the prices declined To Us, butroSe soon af-
forwards to 6s,
We have published some further intelligence
from the American papers to the 10th uiio.
winch were received Yesterday. Though tie
finances Of America are ina low state, though
commerce languiShes, and the distress in the
difierent states, equals ifit does not surpasS,
th''t Whichis feltln Europe, thereappedrs 10 be
restieSsness inthe public mind, an impatience
OF peace, aniil-c1ncealed desire 10 plunge Il
gam In War-We donot mean to say with this
country, but with Spain. Does there occur any
event tiIat can he BY any forced construction
nag, the cry is Instantly iorwar. No inquiry
nc preliminary effort to ascertain whether any
nIront was reallymeant; but war, war at once
We announced Yesterday the case OF an aileo-
ei attack by Spanish squadron upon an Anne
rican vessel called the Firebrand. Coutradic-
tory accounts have been published even in the
american Papers, yet still IT is asserted that 1t
is an insult which ought 10 be avenged by war
iheAmetican Ofhcial Paper indeed says " that
Tue aggression is not to be considered as
me acto The Spanish nation, unless that gov
eminent choose 10 sustain it." But yet il con-
templates the possibility ofits being unredress-
ed, and OF its being then considered as RICH
teous cause for war.
we are ourselves unacquainted with the cir
cumstances oft;s particularcase: but is quite
as likely that the vessel may have been the ae-
SrcSs0r, By attempting 10 carry arms and am
munIuon 10 the insurgents, as that the Span
lards were. We suppose no enc will maintain
mar assisting the colonies of Spain agains,
Spain is nota violation the peace subsistiue
between Spain and America France u Spain
assisted the United States in carrying OH wa7
against the Mother Country (what bitter fruit
they have gathered from that policy, we need
not say y Aud now the Americans seem 10 be
ANXIOUS TO assist The Colonies ofSpau against
their Mother Countries. These Colonies af-
iord rich iieid for their speculations, and pro-
mise rich harvest to their commercial cupid
~, commercial cuPldity is blind to all great
political, constitutional consequences. Nothing
perhaps, is to be more desired, in really coI-
stItuu0nal point OF view, by the United States
than mat they should not extend themselves
INTO the more southern parts of their immense
Continent. Ii may be doubted whether they
are not, even now, too large and cumbrous a
Dody. ISut the enlargement oft, by fresh ac-
cessIon from the South, would at no distant pc
rod be attended by consequences fatal to any
system OF real freedOm-bV internal dissension
by sepafation-by adissOlution of the union
and lastly, by the triumph of a military despo-
usn.--[ Courier.
Norenlber ID.
tarnOt has left Warsaw, having repaired to
rIeiiii TO solicit an asylum from the King of
russia. Ills majesty allotted Aiagdebureii for
his residence, which he is not to leave without
permission.
General Sir George Beckwith, G.. c. r. hav-
ing been appointed TO the chief command of the
forces iii ireland has left this country for the
sister kingdom.
November H.
There were at late hour this morning no
arrivals from the continent: the late dreadful
gales have prevented any ships putting To sea
from the opposite coasts, and fo, these four or
ave days we have been really toto dirisos orbe
ifd ByuHos
Count Gottorp, the King of Sweden, is said
70 have fixed the next month for the declarati-
on OF the majority ofhis son and on the occa-
SION or that ceremony he intends to make his
son renounce his right To the Throne of Swe-
den.
LIVERPOOL, 10th Nov. 1916.
Gentlemen,
We have the pleasure to hand you here
with the circular Of our friends in Suffolk,
which we doubt not will be interesting mas.
much as : viii give you the most correct nfor-
nation OF the state of orr crops in that county,
winch. flor wheat more especially is the most
important.
Weare, respectfully,