Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-06-19


| ture OF cotton and silk goods, has thought
| proper to augment the interior consumption
duty on Foreign articles of these descrp-
TONS" The effect of this measure will of
course lie a demand for British fabrics, but
I, the edict is principally important as shelving
that efforts are how making in Russia, as they
have long been in other parts of the Cont
nent ofEurope, TO supply themselves with
those manufactures which they have hithcr-
to been accustomed TO receive from Eng
| land.
Destruction oChe T'uniSiGn Feet.
LONDON, April 21.-The following partic-
ulars appear in a letter dated Tunis, Fcbrua-
ry e4.-
1t has been long since resolved in the
council of the Bey, that strong squadron
should be ready at the -hoginning of the
| spring to sail from the port of the Goletta,
to crtilze in the Mediterranean, and to plum
der the Christian vessels that might fall in its
way. Nothing had been neglected that
could ensure the success Of this formidable
enterprise. The squadron consisted of nine
vessels, well equipped, and provided with ev-
cry necessary, and with numerous and we'll
/ disciplined crews. The brass cannon. mot
to mention those ofiron) amounted to 500.
The 5th of this month all the vessels
were assembled in the harbor of the Golet-
ia the 9th was fixed for putting to sea-
The Bey already devouring in Imagination,
| the riches in Cristendom, set out from the
Bardo, the name of the Bey's palace,l and
beheld, with barbarous pleasure, the various
manGuvres which the squadron performed
In his presence. This review being ended,
the vessels received orders to sail the follow
ing day. But in the night between the 5th,
and 9Th, a violent tramontane wind suddenly
closed the mouth of the harbor, and increas-
ing in violence and fury during the 9th, 9TH,
and 9th, raised the wives of the sea, and
| sunk and totally destroyed that formidable
| fiotllla. The tremendous tempest did not
leave any time to guard against it all the
mariners, crews, and soldiers persisted and
| on the 9th, the sea still agitated, Showed to
the astonislied spectators, the broken masts
and sails, and the floating corpses, as monu-
ments ofits fury.-The Bey saw the flower
OF his navy and his army vanish before his
| eyes. Three Thousand men were submerged
IN this dreadful hurricane. 1t seems that the
storm discharged its greatest rage on the
ships of the barharians but the European
vessels, never suffered from it, Fortunately
| all the crews and passengers of the latter are
saved, except four persons whose fate is not
yet ascertained."
LoNDoN, April 27.-SpuniM papers and
private letters from Madrid bring intelligence
tnat the public mind, both in the capital and
at a distance from 1t, IL in state of much uu-
! easiness and agitation. At Barcelona the
| Bishop, with the ex-lnquisitor, and two 9th
er eccleslastics of high rank, as also five
| general officers, one ofwhom bears the name
OF Campbell,and another that of Saarsfeld,
were ordered by the Captain General and
Junta to be shipped off for Mahon. No spe-
| education has yet reached us of the crime of
which these official persons were accused -
| nor are we told whether any thing but the
| dread of popular violence was alleged by
the Captain General as his motive for arrest
ing them.
| EXTRACT Of q private Letter dated Madrid,
| .4prI 12.)
1t is impossible to describe the effet {
which the news of the recent events at Ma
pies has produced here. 1t was brought to
Barcelona, by Col. de Conclls, member of
the Parliament. The King communicated it
10 the Cortes IN message, in which his Ma
Jesty loudly manifested how blamable the
conduct ofthe Neapolitan Princes appeared
| to him that he trusted that the Spaniards, in
similar circumstances, would not behave like
| the Neapolitans and, to conclude, that in
| the political situation Of Europe, twas to be
hoped that the Allied Powers would not in
terfere with the affairs Of the Peninsula. The
| Cortes decided that committee should 20
up with thanks to his Majesty for his mes
| sage, and concert measures which it might
| appear proper to take under existing Circum-
stances. This passed in a secret Sitting, J.
On this subject an important discussion was
brought on the tapis, viz, whether the COM
mittee should see the King in private, or
| whether IN the presence Of his Minister'S
The party of the late Ministers warmly op-
posed the last proposition, and the Count de
Terno said that the present Ministers did rot
deserve public confidence to suth degree
that the Deputies of the Legislative body
could speak TO his majesty in their presence
M. 1'raver combatted this opinion with
much energy. al See" he said, I" and am
forced to say it against my inclination, that
there IS a faction in the bosom Of the Cortes,
and that this faction is DISCONTINUED THAT the
klng having made use ofthe powers which
the Constitution has given him, has changed
| the Ministry, who hatter themselves with the
| nope OF seing the men replaced who have
just been deprived of the confidence of the
monarch. They Hatter themselves in vain.
| They have fallen forever. Public opinion
had dismissed them before the king did So
| And after this fall, which mn national interests
demanded. their friends dare show here the
| spite which 1t has occasioned Sixty mil
lions Of the Paris loan have disappeared, and
yet they dare speak of their probity -
SPAN, is full of disorders, cnmlties, factions
enemies Of the present system and they
boast of their foresight Gentlemen, if the
| present Ministers do not please us, so much
the worse for us. They are neither our SER
wants nor oGr organs. They are the servants
and the organs Of the King. It is to him that
the constitution grants the right Of appoint
| ing and Diminishing them. Let us require
their responsibility lift be called for. Bit
how shall we do it Their predecessors
took good care not to call for this important