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and qualifying them to vote by
veiling them with momentary
polfeflion of the legal Turn of
property ; thus by pafTing his
own gold watch from hand to
hand, convening the ele&ivc
light to a fufncrent number of
vagabonds to enfure him the feat
which he did not fail to difho
nor,
qth. Who will dare to rcfleft
upon the purity and the under-
Oanding of Mr Jefferfon, fo
much as to funpofe be would
even contemplate the nomina
te n of a man who, while in
I i ndon, fuffered his third for
rank (of which he is dill tena
cious) and his defire of wealth,
fo to cloud his judgement and
fafeinate his undcrflanding, that
while he imagined he was en
grafting himfelf into a rich
branch of Tome noble family, he
was really performing the mar
riage ceremony with a call off
tnidrefs of the Prince of Wales ;
and who, when he difeovered
that he had been duped to be
come the feavenger of a royal
fcraglio, perfidioully left his
lawful wife a vi6lim to pride
and ambition.
6th. Can it be furprifing that
a man of the above defeription,
fhould in his youth, as a pre
face to his future exploits, have
been guilty of pealing a cozo f and
fo to disfigure her, by painting,
and docking as to elude detec
tion ; and is it poffiblc that fuch
a mao can have the lead hopes
of arriving at the pinaclc of our
judiciary department ?
yth. In Ihort, can it for a
moment be fuppofed that Mr.
JeffeTfon could be led to fele6l
for that office a man whofe intel
ligence and underdanding arc
fcldom furpaffed, and which are
only equalled by his malignity
and his meannefs; who owes
bis elevation to his intrigue—
his riches to his treachery;
wrtefe private villainy is only
furpaffed by his public iniquity,
whofe every acquirement of the
bead, is obfeured by the depra
vity of his heart—and who is
ca'culatcd to Chafe the lad fpark
of iil eity from his devoted
country.
NEW-YORK. June 21.
One of the vdfels which arri
val here yederday from Europe,
is reported to have brought in
telligence that our commiffioners
at Tatis had effe&ed the objeft
of their million, and that a treaty
had been concluded between the
United States and the French
Republic, on terms highly ho
norable to both.
BALTIMORE. June 20.
W e dopthc pre'sto announce
the arrival of the brig Sally, capt.
Hampton, of this port, 13 days
bom St. Thomas's. Whild
getting under way from faid
Jfland, a fchooner arrived in
21 days from P.ourdeaux, who
faid that the American commif
honeis had accomplifbcd the
objeft of their rniffion. Some
extrafcls (hall be given in our
next from St. Vincent and Gre
nada papers of the 19th ult.
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SAVANNAH, July 4*
ExtraU of a letter from a gentle
man in Augufline , to his friend
in this city , dated the 24 th June>
1800.
“ This place at prefent is in
a confufed date of alarm—yes
terday a party of Indians, (faid
to he fent bv Bowles) came with
in half a mile of this town, and
killed a man at work in his field,
fcalpcd him, and partly burnt
him, and mangled him in a hor
rid manner. In two hours after
the black general and his com
pany went in purfuit of the
favages, and this morning a
troop of horfc under the com
mand of capt. Solana fat out
likcwife. The diftreffes of the
country inhabitants arc very
alarming, and God only knows
where they will end.”
ST. MARY's, June 25, 1800.
Mefjrs. Seymour id Woolhopler }
Yeflerday I received letters
ficm my friends in St. Auguf
tine and on St. John's river,
giving the very unpleafant in
formation of Bowles the noted
adventurer, having fent a large
party of Indians, Negroes, and
vagabond white men, to plunder
’and break up all the fettlements
in Eafi Florida : That this par
ty hada&ualiy croffcd St. John's
river and had commenced the
plunder of negroes horfes and
cattle, within twenty miles of
Auguftinc, That the governor
of Florida had fent his orde»s
for all the inhabitants of the
country to remove their fami
lies and properly into Auguf
line. and on the iflands along
the coafl. That this order was
putting in execution, which
muff end in the total lofs of
their promifing crops of cotton
and provifiom—as yet there was
not any ai count of murder com
mitted by the favage patty on
the inhabitants, nor do I fup
pofe they will, whilfl they are
allowed to carry on their depre
dations without oppefition ;
but furcly this cannot long be
the cafe ; No government can
look on, and fee their citizens
or fubje&s mined with im
punity. There is alfo advice
from the fame channel, that.
Bowles had taken the Spanifh
Fort of St. Maiks, on the Apa
lachecola ; and killed nineteen
of the garrifon.
By an exprefs arrived here
lafl night from Colcrain on this
river, we are informed that the
notorious horfc thief Robert
Allen, with three vagabond ne
gro men, fftilingthemfeWes fret)
trom their Town in the I otcha
way country, made their ap
pearance near Colerain two
days part—that Allen and two
of the negroes were taken and
put (by a magiftrate) under
charge of the Federal Camion
at that place, until they could
be conveyed to the prilon in
this town: But ffiameful to
tell, the villain Allen, who but a
fhort time before wuh his ac
complices had Role five horfes
from that fettlcmcnt, and was
well known to the officer and
foldiers as furh; be however
was fuffered to efcape out of a
flrong block houfe furrounded
by pickets. Tw’o of the negroes
were in cuftody when the cx-
prefs came away-*-the other its
(aid was drowned in attempting
to efcape acrofe St. Mary's river
to his party in Florida.
Allen and his party, which
from information, confffts of
Indians, negroes and whites, in
all about twenty-five or thirty,
are direft from Bowie,s's head
quarters at St. Marks with or
ders to do milchief on St. John's
and St. Mary's, which doubtlds
they will. Thefe fellows con
firm the account of the taking o f
St, Marks, and the killing oi
nineteen Spaniards.
Is if not tncft extraordinary
that the governments of Spain
and the Unhid States fhould
have continued fo long in a
profound deep, as from the 31ft
of October laft, when the ic
noxvncd general William A.
Bowks was fo polite as to
info.m them by his proclama
tion and other proceedings of
that date, from his head quar
ters at the Wickawa, on the
Chatahooche river, what he in
tended doing ? and which he is
now putting in force. It is
true, that the Spaniards awoke
for a moment, and made a fee
ble attempt to break up Bowles,
but without pfFeft. Our go
vernment. perhaps, are in forne
degree cxcufable, as they have
had feveral powerful anodyne
draughts adminiftered to them
from time to time by their fu
perintendant of Indian affairs,
who ever fmcc Bowdcs's arrival
has been amufing us with the
feac/ahh and good difpofiticn oj the
Indians, and of their turning cul
tivators in Head ot lobbcrs and
murderers. Stubb-in fafts now
prove, that this (uperintendant
has been egregioully miftaken
or buffered himfelf to be impos
ed on, or if not, he rnuft have
intentionally mifrepreicntcd mat
ters.
Any per Ton of common dif
cernment, muft have feen from
the time of Bowles's firfi landing
in Odlober laft, and his luble
quent publications, what would
be the confequtnce if not check
ed in his plans Perhaps it is
not generally know n that by our
treaty with Spain, that the two
nations are mutually bound to
each other in cafe of an Indian
war—that they ate, will be feen
by the sth article of faid tieaty,
which is as follows:
Article s th. “ The two high
contra&mg parties fhali, by all
the means in theis power, main
tain peace and harmony among
the feveral Indian rations who
inhabit the country adjacent fo
the lines and rivers which, by
the preceding articles, form the
boundaries ot the Floridas. And
the better to obtain this effeft,
both parties oblige themlclves
exprclsly to reftrain by force all
hoftilities on the part ot the In
dians living within their boun
dary : So that Spain will not
fuffer her Indians to attack the
citizens of the United States, nor
the Indians inhabiting their ter
ritory, nor will the United States
peimit thefe laft mentioned In
dians to commence hoftilities
again ft the fubjedls of his Ca
tholic majefly, or his Indians,
in any manner whatever."
If the fuperintendant of In
dian affairs has that influence
over the Indians which he n rc „
tends to have, it is natural t \.
t 0 alk » w *>y did he allow f 0 or rst
a number of them to
Bowles, as to enable him t 0 t lie
the caftle of St. Marks, a regular
built ftcne fortification, z\ W9%i
confidered as deferable againft
the whole of the Indian tribes;
and why is he at this time fufferl
ir.g large bodies of the Creeks t J
flock to the flandaid of Bowlrs •
But this is a well known f?Q
that luch is the nature of ibe
reOlels favage, that even without
invitation they would fooner
travel one rhoufand miles oq
foot to do milchief, th n b*
earneft felicitation they would
go five miles to do a good aft,-
or even be induced to Ct fo
long ft ill in peace. Then how
were we to expeft that thefa
people would be quiet when
called on by a defining adven
turer fuch as Bowles, who
doubtlels held to their view the
moft pleafing profpefts of large
fupplies in the way of trade, and
what is flii] more dear to them,
an abundance of plunder.
Had the advice of your cor*
refpendent from this place,
which I have Teen published in
your paper of the 2 1 ft of Janua
ry laft, been attended to, it is
highly probable the ruin of the
province of Eafl Florida might
have been prevented, as well as
many unpleafant confluences
that are likely to follow to our
own country: But forry ami
to obferve, that it is now too
late, for the fine new regiments
then talked of, are now no more.
Perhaps our wife folks in con
grefs did not calculate on the
United States ever having any
other nation or people to con
tend with but France. I fm
ceicly hope they n y not re
pent the difmiffal cf three regi
ments too fpon, for though I
avow my fclf an enemy to a ft end
ing army, flill I am of opinion
we fhall want them, and proba
bly the fooner, if our difpute
with France is fettled to our
wi flies.
I have taken the trouble of
dating thefe matters, to be com
municated through your ufeful
paper, to our fellow-citieens on
our extenfive and very ill gar
rifoned frontier, in order that
they be on their guard, Will
you be To good as to enquire
what tue commanding officer of
the Federal troops in Geo r g’ a »
has been doing for years, and is
flill doing with the very fine
troop of cavalry at Fort VvTkm
fon, on the Oconee : 1 srn of
opinion that they would be
much better and more ulcfully
employed on this frontier.
Perhaps the commandant has
had fomeof thefuperintendants
anodynes. It is expefted that
the commanding officer of our
country, will immediately order
detachments from our militia to
cover the fettlemenls from plun
der, which undoubtedly is the
intention of Allen and his par
ty, as w‘ 11 as many others.
Withrefpeft I remain yours,&c#
A PLANTER.
ALMANACS
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