Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-01-17
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CONTINUATION OF
Nate Foreign News,

LONDON, Nov. i6.-We by no means vouch
for the following extraordinary statement
which is copied from a country paper.
we lately gave an account of an immense
fortune being left to youth by "A gentleman
who had accidentally met him in a stage coach,
ON his way to school at Shrewsbury. We have
now before as letter on this subject from a
gentleman IN Cambridgeshire, dated October
~, from which we extract the following parti-
culars
/ delayed this letter till cOnld give you
some particulars of the most extraordinary of
all extraordinary affairs that ever came 10 my
knowledge. The young man who has been
spoken OF III the newspapers, as having had a
fortune of 500,0o0i. left him, is one whom
know very well, as well as his family They
are respectable farmers at Chippenham, near
newmarket, and their farm is part of the
Thorpe estate, OF which MIR. w, lis receiver by
appointment OF the Court of Chancerv. When
the tldinss were first made public here, il was
considered as a joke npon the father of the
young man. aud after il began in some slight
degree To be credited, no one could think il
possible thai tile property bequeathed was so
inine.Ise as II has since proved. The accounts
yoH have seen in the papers are pretty cor
rect, as far as they go, with the exception of
this pa' ticular. The person who left tho pro-
perry never knew the family; nor tue fortu-
nate object of his bounty, any further than
seeing him going 10 ard from the Shrewsbury
school But now for the amount The Duke
of Devoushlre'S income rs 233 ,000!. year and
~.
roll. Tie income left To this yOnth is more
than double that of these two Dukes Mr.
w. the receiver above mentioned, and who is a
gentleman Of great IespCctabilitv was reaups.
ted on Thursday by the father of the youth, to
go TO Chlppenham immediately TO meet the
family, and he staid with them till Saturday
1 have had much conversation with him since
on the matter II appears the person who left
this property was named Deyelucaux that
he lived recuse aud was little known. In'the
funds have been found millions, his property !;
not one or two, Mr.. W. SAYS, hut millions !
The estate in Spain is valued at 100 ,OCOI a
year-the Scotch estate immense, besides an
estate of great valae ian the West indies There
Is not Sovereign in Europe but what is i'll
dsbted % him, and that to an immense amount
Scarcely a loan tbat he has not share in
ora NOblemdRs estate in Great Britain invoI-
we'd, but this man has a claim upon Whatev.
er You may think OF this statement il will soon
be found to be true. Mr. w. says it is pro.
perry OF dangerous amount for il is more than
sufficient to Oyarturn the State. am sorry to
add, that within the last few days the favored
youth (w,O is about rs years of age) has take
10 MS Del, ma caITHOg De persuaded 10 oct nm
IL is feared that his good fortune has aftected
ms mind, and great uneasiness and alarm are
felt for him. La my next you shall know
more"
LONDON, Nov. 5.-Jhe Paris papers Of Sa.
eurday arrived yesterday. The kiug. follow.
ing up the other proofs which he has recently
given OF having again admitted prince Ialley-
rand into favour, honoured him Oh Friday with
Z private audience, at which the prince pre
sented 10 hiSmajeSty his brother. lie duke Of
JalleyraBd. Whatever Talleyra,iHs dement's
nlay have been towards Louis XVI the rti,,l,iu,r
monarch Is well aware thathe had little chance
OF ever sittI on the thfone of France, had il
not been f0F tie mastefly maumuvre by which
Tales rand distamced the friends OF yoi,ny M
poleon, and agfeeably disappointed tie inten.
Mons Of tie emperOTs Alexander and Francis
NORTH WEST PASSAGE.
Nov. 2S.--lt is said that vessel is TO be fit.
ted cut for the purpose of attempting again
the north west passage, the season being con
sidefed as peculiarly favorable to such an OK.
petition. Our readers need not TO be inform
ed, that larger masses Office than ever were be.
fore known have this year been seen floating
in the Atlantic and that from their magnitude
and solidity, they reached even the d0tb tati.
tude before they were melted IN hnid state.
From aD examination Of The Greenland can.
taius Il has been fOnnd that owing 10 some
cOnvUlsiOns OF nature, the sea was more omen
aud free from compact ice than in any former
voyage they ever made tiat several ships ac.
tuaiy reached the oith degree Of latitntle
ga whicA no zee whateyer was found that for
ibf firStuine tor 800 Yeats. vessels penetrated
10 tie west coast Of Greenland, and that they
unprecedented no obstacle to their even reacl-
ing the Pole, IL bad consisted with their du-
t. ~ their employers to make the attejnpf
The curious and important information. llas
we learn, Induced the royal society to appIy 10
ministers to renew the attempt ofexplorinr
north west passage, As well as TO give en-
COuTagcnent 10 fishing vessels to try how far