Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-04-02

the Navy Yard in Southwark her bowsprit
was fixed yesterday, and preparation made ,r
step her foremost this day-her mainuast i,
ready, and weighs upwards of 28 tons she is
ordered round to Norfolk.
The brig James Murdoch, capt Sayin, sailed
from this port on Tuesday for ST. Jago, with
valuable Cargo and forty passengers, being
mechanics Of every description employed in
housc-build;ng. We understand they have
their passages paid, and $500 per year, and
boarding and lodg ing. Phil Cds.
.dnother Reputhic.--Information has been
received by the way of Mexico, from Cuati-
timala, that general Victoria, who has been
for several years distinguished leader in the
revolution of Mexico, had with IA considerable
number OF his compatriots, proceeded 10 Qua
tlmala, and that "a republican government has
been established in thar beautiful country.
.4urera.
: BosroN, March 2e.-About week since,
the Marshal of this district liberated from the
County Jail, Adolphe LacOste, who has been
imprisoned for twenty-five months past, for
having been concerned in the Slave Trade
1t will perhaps he recolccted that the brig
Science was taken on the coast of Africa in
the year 1890, ai4SsSpt into the United States
by one of our cr0izefs-- Lacostp, the master,
was convicted in Nov. i3s0, in the u. S. Cir
cult Court for this Circuit he was sentenced
to years Imprisonment and to the payment
of a fine of 5000 dollars. This sentence was
previous To the existence of the law of the
United States prescribing the punishment of
death to the offence of Slave dealing. In con-
sequence of representations touching his good
behaviour since he has been confined, made
by the friends of LacOste, and particularly of
fln.As. .,f ID.
gress from South Carolina, made in his behalf,
the President of the United States has been
induced to grant him full pardon for the rest
of his term Qfimprisonment, and remission
of the fine and cost of prosecution. Accom-
panying the pardon was a letter to Lacoste, in
closing draft, for $50 presented To him by
Mr. Poinsett TO enable him 10 pay his exrcn-
SEES to ;. Carolina, were his family who are re-
spectacle reside. Erening Ga-.
PIRATES CAPTURED
March e6.-Capt Scabury, of brig Joseph,
at Holiness Hole, from Cuba, reports that
he was boarded in sight of Cape Antonio on
the 9th inst. by the U. S. brig Enterprise, and
was Informed that she had captured that
morning eight piratcal Vessels, and had their
crews, amounting to about l6O men, then in
possession. Boston ID. .4du.
Rhode Island IisolUent La,cs.-The Su-
preme Judicial Court of Rhode Island, now
sitting at Providence, has decided unanimously
after full argument, in the case OF Seth .4ppLeby
vs.. .Hdrmadukc .Uo,cry, that the lnsolyent act
OF that state, passed nJme 1856, is unconsii-
tuIIona', and on that ground decided against
the defendant who had pleaded the proceed
ings under this act, in bar of an action, on
promissory note. 1t is stated in the Provi-
dence Gazette that this decision has been
awaited with great anxiety by a large portion
OF that community. Gb.
An account reached town last evening i'm a
letter from Falmouth, dated Sith inst at four
p. NJ. stating the arrival of the brig Joseph,
Seabury, at Holmes Hole, from Xagud,
(Cubal Capt. S. reports that being off Cape
Antonio on the 9th last, he was boarded by the
L. S. brig Enterprise, Capt. Kearney, and was
informed that she had captured that morning
plratica! vessels with their crews. amounting
TO about 100 men, who were prisoners on
hoard. The Enterprise was reported on the
Sd or 4th of March as having number of A :
meilcan merchant vessels under convoy, and
on the 9th we find her near Cape Antonio.
having conveyed them out of tn. reach of dan
ger, attacking the pirates in their very nest
Several vessels were previously reported to
have been in that vicinity.
ifthe foregoing account prove correct, Capt
kearney must have on board more prisoners
IN irons, than he has seamcn belonging TO his
crew, and he will richly deserve, complimen.
ta,y present FROM the Insurance Offices, for
his active vigilance, and exertions in saving
the property of his countrymen from robbery
and their persons from violation and insult.
BoSt. E. Gaz.