Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-02-18

/ "NNu Ot ulStOtbt dbu ueDOSit. SyCeUt
receive and disbarse or transmit the depos ites
| OF The revenue of The United Stsies. aud call
IA ana collect their debts aud close thrir
| accounts.
| KINGSTON, JAMAICA, DEC. 10.
| HOUSE or ASSEMBLY.
! Message to his Grace the Governor, az fol.
| lows -
Nay i, please your Grace We his Majesty's
most dntiinl aud loyal subjects. the Assembly
81 jamaica. beg leave TO represent to yomr
| Grace, that as well from the communication
from the Commander or the forces. through
Nonr Grace,as by ether evidence, it appears to
the House that, except small part OF the
County OF Middlesex the late storm has caus-
Ell great desolatioh and distress To the island
| and more particularly The western parishes,
where the negro provisions are generally de
siroycd, whereby great scarcity Us likely to
enSue, and in some parts famine itself; as sell
70 The slave population as to the troops and
That the planters have not the means of
paving, an money, for the articles OF lie which
ave imported, and depend on the permission to
pay - produce.
Tins threatened with the impending Gala.
mlty at famine, we iinpsore your Grace 40 open
the ports Of all nations, for the Importation OF
such articles of Snstepsnce, and for such time
as to your Grace shall seem proper, with per
mtssioh To pay fer The same in produce, or
Otherwise as shall be most likely TO encourage
ssch mporiations."
10 which his Grace was pleased to reply
mr. Speaker, and Gertlemen of The Assem-
Diy-it Is aiwJN : my desire 10 comply with the
wishes Of the House of Assembly and if he
state TO do so on the present occasion, / am
persuaded the House will see the propriety of
my waiting until am able to aseertaia how
.ar tiie scarcity of provisions, which the late
tempestuous weather may have occasi0Hed,
can he otherwise relieved before I have re-
course TO measure which nothing but the
most urgent necessity conld justify"
ANOTHER CASE OF PIRACY.
The ship ASIA, Satheriand, OF this port, from
ttavre, honnd 10 New Orleans, via the Cape
de Verd Islands, while at Bonavista on the
zo'h November, was boarded by two boats
crews nom ship, supposed to be tile same
'nat committed the recent piraces at the isle
OF May they were armed with pistols and
cu'iasses. after wounIing the captain, and
knocking him down the cabin stairs, they
uToVe the rest OF the crew and passengers
oe'ow, where they remained TIL midnight !;
"heh hearinguo noise, they went npon deck
ana found The pirates had left them. They
had plundered the ship OF ahout SO packages
airy goods, lsht hundred dollars in specie,
aud every thing else of value. besides robb;ng
tle passengers and Grew of all their bausaye
money aud clothing, leaving them utterly
uesti'nie OF change of garments. They also
carried on or sunk the Asias boat, and one
which capt. ). had borrowed
LIE foilowing is an extract ofa letter from
Capt. sutherland 10 his owners
N. J. Iier. A9u.
~, ponasfsia, Dec. ~, 1918.
nave only time to give ynn the ouiliaes
OF The most shameful transaction that ever
diSEraced any set OF men. On The 2Slh nit.
me snip Union, that was in New Orleans last
NarcD, bearing The Buenos Ayres flag and
commanded by Captain Brown, (salI by the
present crew 10 have been assassiDaied) now
comma"ded by John Craig, of Boston, Mass
her former gunner, and converted into a pirate
OF the most desperate kind, come on board on
The afternoon of that da y, and took possession
OF rue ASA: and almost put period to my
existence, LOT not readily complying with their
orders. got my head cut clear across. INV
ieit arm cut into the bone; IA sword passed
thropgh my pantalOOns just bslow nv waist
coat another passed down the left thigh
i,hey conhned ns all, and commenced an in
discriminate plumber. even 10 our dirty linen
mattresses and blankets; had fonr cabin
passengers, three of them had every article
mat conid be useful, aud in abundance. with
money IN their trnnks--ihese gentlemen were
lett W lth what they stood in. not a sinule oar.
ment left AS transactions of this Kind arc
iiaDie 10 be thought exaggerated I will leave
~ 10 o!hers, present at the time, to describe il
more iuiiy-fhe whole cargo was plundered
excepting one package of goods"
From Baenos Ayres. Il Isl STATED in the Wash.
lngicn City Gazette, on the authority of Ie,ters
from buenos Ayres, that Mr. Halsey II =
cousin al that port, had suddenly taken his
"eSpnt ,"ie from Ihehce Tor Chill, leaving his
ofhciai papers behind him without being mn,
mo Tue charge of any one /; in conseouenc.
OF which, the supreme director from natives
OF friendship to the interests Of the limited
States, had ordered them 10 be procsred
anu lodged Tor safe keeping under the superin
tendance of an officer of the Republic. In
The absence of MIR. Wortliinv ton. who is also
sdid 10 have gone to Chill. this was thought 10
pc the only step whereby documents yalua
Die TO the U. States could have bepnpreserv
Ell. An unauthorized person, in tina mean
TINE, SAID to have taken the advantage of
Mr.. HAlsey's absence aud attempted 10 exer.
else some OF the consular functions.
NASSAU, IN. Pr JAN 9.-<Cn Thnrsdav last
arrived and remained in the oftin- the armed
brig Hero, so days from London. The mas.
sencers landed from her, are Gen. Sir Grepor
Mac Gregor, Col O'Hara, and his neice.
January i6.--Sailed on Thursday. brig Uero
or ID guns, HUDSON commander, having on
board Gen. Sir Gregor Mac Creeor, his lady
and son, Col. O'Hara, about 40 other officers.
iuid some men, bouna TO !Soutl, America.
NOVEL PROPOSITION.
In the Legislature OF OHIO on the 18th nit
the following was submitted by a MIR. Kerr. as
an amendment 10 the law for the punishment
of crimes t.
That each convict shall he liberated whsn
he SHAH nave committed to memory one chan
ter OF The New Testament for each month for