Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-04-01
Merchants Hall, Boston, !
March d. (

March u. 5
Nfrssrs. Lang, Turncr&i Co.
Arr. brig Coromandel, Coffin, Canton,
,35 day s-teas, nankins, silks, china,
&c.
Also, ship Packet, Bacon, Gibraltar, %
days. Sailed 9Th nit. with ship William,
OF Boston, for Calcutta.
Ertrcct Of a letter from a correspondent at
Gibraltar, dated 5th Feb. 1877.
we wrote you on the Goth Jan. per
sch. Happy Couple, via Salem, and sent
YOU two newspapers, and a list OF Amer
can arrivals at this place, from Dec. %
20 that date. We now send duplicates,
and list Of arrivals from LIST Jan. 1872,
and the last Gibraltar Chronicle, which is
published but once week, and contains
no commercial news, except the report of
arrivals and clearances for the week Eli
closed, you have Price Current. Flour
and Rice are high; a few arrivals with
produce ct the new crop, will undoubted-
ly reduce Otir prices; yet. from the gen.
cral scarcity throughout Europe, the o.
pinion is universal, that good prices will
be supported till summer.
After the Java had sailed for America,
we understood that she was bearer of the
new treaty concluded with Algicrs, by
Gem. Chauncey, upon his own terms,
which il confirmed by the arrival of the
Washington. Com. Chaunccy, from Al
giers. We hear he intends visiting Cadiz
with his ship. after the return Of the Spark
from Malaga The schr. Hornet, Lieut..
Claxton, is going TO America. The brig
Caroline, Scott, will sail in all this week
for Boston, when we shall again write
YOU.
in consequence Of the cdict issued BY
the. King of Spain, prohibiting the impor-
tation and sale OF foreign manufactured
cotton goods, except through the medium
o.t'ie Philippine Island Company, towlom
all;iie existencies at the date Of prohibi-
ton, was to take effect, we're te be deliv-
cred by the holders at valuation. Peti-
tidDs were addressed to his Catholic Ma
jesty from the principal commercial cities,
signedby the most respectable merchants,
praying for period to be allotted fhem to
dispose oftheir goods, and not be obliged
to hand them over to the Philippine Island
Company. The result is not yet publish
ed, but il is known with certainty, that
they ate TO he allowed either six or nine
months from the LIST of January last, (ge-
morally believed the ,atfer,l III considera-
flon of $500, 900, to be levied OF the hold
ers OF cotton goods, according 10 the va
iac of their respective stocks. The effect
'"'~ dS ~
place, will be of consequence only while
1t continues, and during this period il is
currently belle 81 that cotton manufac-
lures will find regular sale. Hoping tie
Information We from time to time may
tonrTsaTd Won. may prove useful, we remain
your friends, &c.
american arTiUals at Gibraltar. from, Jaa
%, TO FEB. 4.
Jan. 20. store ship George Long, Ben
nett, Norfolk, So days, and sailed for Ma
lsga same day.-Feb. |, ship Washington,
Com. Chauncey, Algiers, z. is going to
Cadiz; schr. Hornet, Lieut.. Claxfon,
Malaga. I, for The United Stafes.-Feb. 2,
store ship Alert. Stewart, Malaga, for tile
United States: brig Spark, Lieut. Niclol-
son, Aigiers, X, gone to Malaga for let
ters.-Feb. 3, ship Peacock, Rodgers,
Malaga. 9, uncertain; brig Independence,
pierccvaI, Charleston, 20, just arrived
feb. 4, ship William, BatcbcIdor, Mar
Yours, &c.
). S. TOPLIFF.