Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-10-13

jesiy, appointed to negotiate a commercial
treaty between the United States and Great
Britain, had arrived at the London Hotel, Abe
marie street.
The American ship Zephyr, Brun,nal!,
rived at Cowes, Eng on the 2ist August in
is0 days passage from Canton.
The Alexander aud Isabella, discovery ships
wer. spoken with 9TH July, in lat rs Al lung as,
and were in sight on the 10th, perse,eiing To
the rOI Inward.
American Sew six per ents. al London, Aug.
Is, iOi a los. Nothing done in other American
stocks.
Prices current, at Liverpool, August 27tk -
Cotton, Sea Island, rs 1, To Is, very dull; Up
lard, Is "a Is % New Orleans, Is rs;
Tennessee, is7ais9: Flour, SWEEP, lis a ASS
sour, 36s 4ls; Am. Wheat los IA lbs } Race
in bond, ais 4Gs; Tobacco, leaf, I'd "a iOd;
stemncd, i0l, to i5d; Ashes, Pots, SOS DIS
fear!s. J5s u SIS; Iurp.ntne, i5s a 8; iar,
lis d lis.
ioadon McrketS, hug 2i.--The pnblic saiss
OF Cctiee on "Wednesday went rather lower,
but yesterday the prices recovered. and good
qualities advanced rs per cwt. Private sales
have been very extensive.
LONDON, August IL he account this morn
Ing from Kew is, that :" her Majesty continues
better"
oe'ock.-Thisis a Iolyday a, The bank The
stock exchange Is, however, open. The fluids
are again shade lower; at 81 o'clock the con-
suls Being 75h.
The manufacturers have this week raised
the prices ot weaving Is per cwt. or abou, 10
pen cent. on the sort OF goods most generally
manufactured III tbis SIC ghh0 fhOod.
Fre$ton Chronicle.
Some thousands OF quarters OF EneiIsb aud
foreign wheat ave nov on board vessels lying
inihe liver Thames; and every sranary OF It's
| banks that could be procured, has been taken
! foi the purpose OF storing.
| Up TO, aud uclusi> e Of the3i ult. the COM
niss,oners ter the reduction OF The national
| debt had received, on account OF the savings
Intnl f.ar -
which had been purchased = ,569,423 per
cents.
| in the Insolven,'s Court in London, on Fri.
| day, William Hall was remanded back to phi,
| son. Tor sqnanacrin: upon attorneys the money
with which lie should have paid lust debi
! (he had sXpendejt 10 IN resisting the payme OF
OF t IL les Dand fora fraudulent transfer OF his
| property.
Report says that the Earl of Mulgrave is
! to be The first Lord or The Admiralty, and the
| Duke OF yelling ion Master General of the
| Ordnance
| Mr.. Justice Abbot is spoken of as likely to
succeed Lord Eienborou-h, on the retire
| meat OF his LordShp from the Court OF King
| Be- CHI.
Lord Cochrane has actually sailed from Bou
| legne, for South America, as supposed and has
taken his wife with him. He went in a vessel
| named the Rees.
| BoNAFr, August s.-Captain Ridley, of the
| irad whaleship, OF this port just etnrned from
| the northern ocean, informs us, that OIL the
lo'h OF play, he was IN lat. 80, 3d. about 8 miles
| from SpitZbergen, in - faihcms water: the
sun was at great altitude: there WAS scarce.
| ~ any night they could follow the glorious
| iumiHarH cicling again ana again rOSnd the
heavens the atmosphere, at this time, WAS
| very clear. Captain r. went 10 the ton,nast
| and could see, with glass, to the extent oil
| between 10 and 80 miles (as he supposes across
| the great polar ocean which was M ire opcn Than
when he was IN 81 last year.-Ihere were il.
| deed, large islands OF flaw ice floating about .
| y..li ,.-i,
great diinculty, AS far the eve could reach
| but Inc ice was running ashore, and accumil-
| iating IN large masses OF the them coas, of
| Spitzbergen. Indeed, il would undoubtedly
| appear, mat the discovery ships have been
| Obliged 10 abandon the attempt TO navigate the
| sea between Greenland and SDItzberseu.
| captain X. says, that, when he lett the sea
mere was an immense accumulation Of field
an" Ma" ice, stretching almost from shore to
shore. lie Quilted the vicinity of Spitzber-
| gen dbont the 18th of May and directed his
course towards Greenland. About the middle
oil June, being IN lat. rs i20 miles from land as
heariS as lie can judge, The eatheI very RAINY,
WIN thick fog, ne spoke an Aberdeen whale
Isillhg snip, the master OF which had seen the
discovery ships, OIL the 10Th of June in lat.
o. ana went on board with MS log book. He
was informed by the officers, that they had ex-
piored IN every direction 10 the ,west of spi,z
D'rgen tor passage uoribward bun could i4ot
gel half a degree farther than theywere They
weie steering >. w when last seen. Whether
NY sHt "ot hliu ~ 10 pass De
tween Spitzbergen and Nova Zembia is ano
therquestiOn. Their ). W course would induce
us 10 think they did not intend trying at that
time From all this, there is much apparent
cause i0f regret, that the expedition did Iot set
cut sooner; as then they might have coasted
cpizGergen, and entered the polar basin by the
| opening which capain Ridley found.
he domestics OF Bonaparte and Count Ber-
traud, who arrived few DAYS ago in the
| thames from 81. Helena, have taken their de.
| pariure for Hamburg
| General Count WItgeusteu has taken the
command of the Russian ann, of the south.
that Is 10 say, on the Turkish frontier in lieu of
| Connt Bennigsen, who has quilted the service
| OF the Emperor
public procession has taken place at Paris,
| on account OF the long continued drought and
solemn prayers for rain, have been offered up.
| It's reported that the commercial treaty in
negotiation at Paris, between France aud the
| United States, is, for the present, entirely at
| stand the conferences, OIL the part OF France,
| being discontinued.
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