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KEAN & CHARLTON.
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lUSTOIUCAL AF.HALKS
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Continued from the iicorgian of the loth inrt.
During (he revolutionary war be
tween the United States' and Great
jjrita'm, the Floridas were in the
possession of the latter. St. Au
fmavie, Pensacola, and Mobile,
were garrisoned, and some out-posts
were advanced to the nver of St.
Mans. These a‘,rong holds affor
ded an asylum lor those who were
Hina fleeted toward the independence
of the United States, and gave the
British government an ascendency
over ail the Indian tribes to the
jiorth-west of Georgia-
Ip 1770, govenor Tonya, ofE'St-
FUnula, fitted out, privateers to an
noy t lie sea-cost ot Georgia and Car
olina, in which they were very suc
cessful. The disatlecfed, who fled
from Georgia to the Floridas were
organized into a regiment, under
the command of colonel Drown, and
were denominated the Florida Ran
gers. —There predatory attacks b)
land, were ‘generally simultaneous 1
with the privateers along tire const.
Captain John linker, of Gem gin,
with seventy militia, advanced to
Ht. Marys river, with the expectation
of fating Wright’s for t try surprise.
He killed and made prisoners a boat’s
new, but found the garrisr n 100
strong to make an attack, with any
probability id success. Raker retreat
ed eight or nine miles, where be
encamped; and during the night,
two of his parly, Daniel and James
M,Girth, deserted, stole thirty hor
ses, and joined the British at St. Ma
rys. The former was rewarded by
an appointment of lieut. colonel,
mid the latter to the command of
•company in the regiment of Florida
Hangers*
Several plans were sugesled by
the government of the United States,
to reduce St. Augustine, bat Fort
fit. Marks, by which it was defen
■ded, was too strung to take with a.
formidable force and heavy artillery.
Fort M,lutosh, a stockade work
of one hundred feet square, was
erected cn the north side of Sattilln
river: the garrison, consisting ol
one company of continental troops,
was commanded by captain Richard
"Winn In order to gain the coun
try between Aitamaha and Satti >u,
Which afforded hue summer pasture,
and upon which t ere were a num
ber of cattle; an expedition was
fitted out at bt, Augustine, i g nnst
Fort M,lntosli, in Ki ln 1777.
The comtnnud was continent to co
lonel Fuser, and consisted of four
companies of British regulars the
Florida Rangers, and a party o. In
dians, commanded by the celebra
ted chief Cussuppa, with two six
Jiounders. The fort was defended
or two days, and then surrendered
by capitulation. Lieutenants Milton
nod Caldwell were retained as hos-"
tages Pur the performance of the
stipulations, anti the remainder ol
Winn’s company returned to Savan
nah, as prisoners of war.
In April 1777, governor Gwinnett
of Georgia, projected an expedition
ng.iinstSt. Augustine. Colonel Bil
ker was ordered to proceed by land,
with one hundred and nina militia,
and colonel Elbert’s regiment, con
sisting of four hundred continental
troops, embarked in three gallies and
Small boats, and proceeded by the
inland passage. Sawpit Bluff, twelve
miles from the north of St. John’s
river, was agreed upon as the place
of rendezvous, on the 28th of May.
the British spicier discovered Ban
ker,s detachment, soon after In
crossed St. Mary’s river, and lie
fore he reached his destination.—
hen Elbert reached Amelia Island,
it was found tnat the depth of water
would not admit his gallies through
the inland passage. To add to i
Liber’s embaras'inent, two armed
British vessels from St. Augustine.
Were weighting for h m, at the south
end of Amelia Island; in prevent
his crossing the sound, and to at
tack him if he attempted a passage
out side of the island, either of
which must have proved fatal, and
prevented Elbert’s junction with
Bakerat Sawpit Bluif. These move
ments, on the part of the United
States’troops, were regularly com
municated to the British governor at
St. Augustine, by his spies,* and be
had idupted such measures as were |
best calculated to destroy their cf- 1
facts* Tae two armed vessel* which (
ha has sent round to the south end (
Amelia Island, were incompe- '
,Vnt to a successful attack, in the
inland passage; but were sufficient
to ensure success, if made in the
Sound, or on the sea. ,
Governor Touyn ordered colonel i
Brown, with three hundred Florida !
.•lingers ami Indians, to march in i
ot colonel Baker's detach- <
'mart. The spies having discovered <
his position, Brown attacked bis
’ camp by surprise on the 17th of May, i
in three divisions. Baker was dc- i
seated, with the loss of three killed,
five afterwards murdered by the In
dians, nine wounded, and thirty
one, including the wounded, were
taken prisoners, the residue lied in
different directions, some joined
colonel Elbert, and others returned
to the settlements in Georgia, in
small parties. All hopes ol a sue
cessful termination to the expedi
tion, on the part of Elbert, being
at r.n end, he returned to Georgia,
Men who hayc rendered themselves
conspicuous by acts of treason, have
a just claim to particular notice in
history Captain Arthur Carney,
who had been appointed to the com
mand of a company in the first con
tinental battalion in Georgia, ig
norniniously abandoned the cause of
his country,and joined the Biitish
in St. Augustine. His mind does
not appear to have been stored with
a sufficiency of info; malio.i to qual
ilyl.iin for the practice of villanies
upon an extensive scale, but to acts
of a petty kind, his talents* His re
t iilei.ee was favorable to his purposes,
and undercover of Id's commission,
his treachery was practised for a
considerable time, without suspicion.
Me resided between the Aitamaha
and St- Marys rivers, where himself
and others owned extensive heads of
cattle. After his own were exhaus
ted in secret sales, to the enemy of
his country,ln; aided in the collec
tion of others, which belonged to
the inhabitants of Georgia, for the
supply of (he British troops ir
Florida, Ultimately, he tied to St.
Augustine, and took an active share,
in the royal cause. Such men should 1
always bear in mind, “ I love the
treason, hut i hate the traitor.”
General Arnold was insulted for
standing near the king.
In 1778, general Provost, then
governor at St. Augustine, received
such an acquisition of foice by re
fugees from the Carolinas and Geor
gia, that he cherished the hopes ol
conquering the latter. He had com
municated his place of operation to
the commander in chief at New-
York, and solicited tne co-opera
tion of a naval force. At the same
time live government of the United
States,projected nn expedition fur the
conquest of K. Florida. Gen. Howe,
with two battalions of Georgia & Car*
oliua continental troops. Gov. Moms
ton with the militia, and colonel
Williamson with a regiment ol
South-t arolina militia, marched in
three seperatedivisions, to St. Ma
ry's river, ami consisted the force
intended to reduce. SG Augustine.
Three st perate heads, to such a mass
of disco; dant materials, had the ef
fects, which one moment’s reflex
tion of a military sage, vvoul I have
foreseen, It would have been a*
dilfinilt for one human body, to have
acted consistently under the capri
cious whims of three heads, as it
would have been for this military force
to have acted with effect, under three
seperate commands, independent of
each other. When the army reach
ed St, Mary's river, the British dc
molished Fourt Touvn,and retreated
to Alligator creek, and fortified the
encampment with logs and abhatis.
Howe ordered three hundred men
to pursue the British, and attack
them in their camp. An attempt
was made to take it by storm, but
colonel Elijah Clark, w ho command
ed the assailants, was shot through
the thigh, and (he defences being
(omul impregnable, they retreated,
with a loss of three men killed, and
wounded. The United States’ troops,
being unaccustomed to the climale,
were attacked witli fever, and in a
short l ine, one third of the armyjin
the hospital Howe ordered tlvc con
vention of a council of Mar; and
they advised a retreat. The sick
were sent to the mouth of the river,
and returned in boats and small ves
sels I)v the inland passage ; but many
of them died on their way home.
Howe, w ith the main body, retrac
ed bis former rout. Colonel John
M.lntosh, with one hundred ami
twenty new continental troops w ere
posted at Sutjhu-y, and the feeble re
mains of regular troops, returned to
Savannah.
Encouraged by the result of this
disagterous expedition, general Pro
vost determined to ijfiog his whole
toice against Georgia. He had been
advised that the commander in thief
it New-York, had embarked a 'orce
to form a junction with him at Sa
vannah. Colonel Fuser embarked
ou board of small vessels,.with me
division of the troops ami some light
artillery, with instructions to take 1
'-unburg. Colonel James Mack
provost commanded the infanrtv, who
were transported by the inland pas
sage to Aitamaha, with instructions |
to join lieutenant colonel M,Girth,
with the Florida Rangers and a party
of Indians at Fort Barrington.
Provost iormed a junction with 1
M,Girth, and advanced toward Mid
way opposite to, and within ton
miles of banbury. An American
lotce, consisting principally of mili
tia, were hasti.y collected by Gen- 1
eral Seri ven ja ad M;»jor Baker was 1
•• ’ :y - i
detached with a email p*rly, to T>*r- h
rass Provost on his advance. A a
slight breastwork' was hastily con- r
structcd across the road ; a mile and 0
a bait south of tydway meeting s
house, in an advantageous position; s
flanked by thick woods, at the end I
of a causeway, defended by two six f
pounders. Provost advanced, and a I
warm contest ensued. Gen. Ecn- >
v*n received a mortal wound, early (
in the contest, Os which lie died the »
nextdav. toh i’rovost’s horse was 1
killed about tin; middle of the contest, i
but he was soon remounted.
The unequal contest was finally 1
yielded and the Americans retreated 1
to Ogechec Ferry.—Provost’s com- 1
inand, including Indians, consisted 1
of lour hundred Col. White, who
succeeded Scrivcu, had- about one
hundred, ?rovost pursued (lie Ame
ricans for a few miles, where he en
camped tnvait for intelligence from
(he forces vith which he expected to
form a junction. Co! Elbert advanc
ed from Sivannah to Ogechec ferry,
where he tlrcw iq> temporary works.
M‘Gir(h, jho was well acquainted
with the cdmtry, informed i’rovost,
that it wo)Id be impossible to pass
Ogechec, wthr.ut a great superiority
of fotce, i it was defended. Pro
vost havin; ascertained that there
was no irtelligonce of the British
force from IN. York, and that Fuser
had armc 1 ! at Sudbury, decided up
on an iimiediate reticatto St. Au
gustine. On his return, mid-way
meeting house, and almost every
dwelling louse, and Rice barn in the
country, ms plundered and left in
smoking ruins.
Head winds prevented Fuser’s ar
rival atSnnbury, until after Provost
had retreated-. On the first of De
cember, he entered the harbor with
several small vfsscls, laden with bat
tering cannon,[besides artillery and
mortars, with five hundred men. Af
ter making hm arrangements to at
tack the fort bj land and water, he
demanded a surrender of the fort!
Col. M‘lntosh considering it i mea
sure of policy, to put a daring front
upon his feeble condition, lacoani
cally replied, came and v;tk« it.”
Fuser asccrtaiucd that the ISorthcrr
forte had not arrived and that Pro-'
vosthed retreated,embarked and 10l
lowed his example. When these
oflh «rs returned to St. Augustine,
each charged (lie other with miscon
duct, and the cau.-c c! failuie m (ho
objects ot the expedition. This tar
nishes another evidence of the fatal
effects of uniting two equal beads, in
the command of a military expedition.
Early in December the expected
British fleet, consisting of two thou
sand regular and provincial troops,
arrived at Savannah, under the com
mand of Col. Campbell, defeated
general Howe, and took possession of
die city. Hi« arrival was communi
cated to General Provost, who em
barked and marched, with a mixture
of Regulars, Seamen, Rangers Mili
tia and Indians, amounting to two
thousand men. This force formed a
junction at Suntmiy on the <s'h Jan
uary. 1779. Major Lane who then
commanded the fort, had been order
ed to demolish tiie works and retreat
to (he back country ; but he disobey
ed the order and surrendered without
resistance. Col. Campbell extended
his military posts to Augusta, and
Provost resumed the government of
Georgia. ,
Fia tSt Marks, in St. Augustine;,
has been heretofore described, as a
formidable work ; and Provost
' ad left it garrisoned by a suffi
cient force to secure its defence.—
At that period, Gen. Campbell was
commander in chief, in West Flori
da. General Galvez, governor of
lower Louisiana, (aka.g into view the
weakened condition ol East Florida,
considered this a favorable moment,
for the reduction of West Florida.-
lie accordingly fitted out an expedi
tion against Baton Rouge, a fortress
on the Mississippi, garrisoned by four
or five hundred men, under the com
mand ol Lieut. Col, Dickson, which
was surrendered by capitulation, ate
iu 1799. Gen. tialwz then fumed
his attention to Mobile, which was
garrisoned with three hundred men,
tinder the command «! Capt. Dunford,
of Engineers, and Lieut. Governor of
the province, which was def,Milled
more formidably, hut ultimately sur
rendered by capitulation, in January
1780. Dunlord was Campbell’s chief
engineer.
Pensacola being the Capital of
West Florida, and the place of rcsi
dence of Governor hestert twenty
thousand pounds sterling had been
expended, under the direction of an
Engineer of some celebrity in his pro
fossien,inputting the works in a *ta(e
of defence ; there‘mo general 'amp
hell believed he would be able to de
fend it with the troops under his com
mand, consisting of six hundred re
gulars and three hundred provincials
(fen. Galvez tilled out a fleet a* the
Havana, under (he command of Don
Joseph Solano, ia February 1781,
consisting of twelve sail of the line
and several frigates to attack Pensa
cola. Soon after lie got to sea a vio
lent storm arose which dispersed his ;
whole fleet. The storm continued ■
for thirty hours j three T4’s and one
(54, were lost; and two thousand one
hundred and eighty tifficersy «amfen *!
and land troops. The ships were
repaired and the fleet again sailed in
ami *,
seven thmiflpd men.
Don Gfliv"di3emW™pd his land ,
force at Pensacola,
his operations by land, wluß: his na- t
val force was employed irapattering o
the works from the water—on the Stli
of May, he made an assault, in which
he succeeded in gaining possession j
of, and dcinulislicd part of the Ad- s
vanned lines of defence* Pending t
this assault, a shell bursted the door »
oi the principal Magatine, and one •!
of the redoubts was blown up by the - (
explosion. Campbell finding bis j
work wo longer tenable, hoisted a s
white frag and suggested terms of ca- •
pitulatioii, and surrendered ou the '
9th of May, 1781.
The possession of the Floridas by ,
the British government, during (ho i
revolutionary war wish the United i
States, gave important advantages to
the former, had a tendency to pro- 1
tract the war, and render its progress
more 'sanguinary- British merchant*
found their interest in supplying the
Indians with goods, in exchange for
peltry; which neither the merchants
nor the government of the United
States, had it in their power to pro
cure. Presents, which were given in
profusion, purchased the Indian*
friendship, and enlisted them in the
service of the British government
The dread ot the hatchet and scalp
ing knife; diverted the attention ol
(he militia, from carrying oa the war
against Great Britain; to the defence
of the Frontiers. The Florida:* also
furnished a» asylum to those who
were d.safleeted toward a republican
change of government in their own
country; winch would not otherwise
have been presented to them. St.
Augustine was also made the repos
itory for the safe keeping of United
Sta'es prisoners. The possession ol
the Floridas, rendered it a measure
of policy in the British government,
to change the scat of war, from (he
north to the south, in 1799; and it is
very doubtful, whether Georgia and
'•moth Carolina, could have been con
quered had it rot been for the ad
vantages derived from the possession
**f these provinces. These circum
stances indcnct.de: t of other consi
derations; will render the late ces
sion, very important to the U. States,
ft would be an act of injustice to
close this subject, without acknowl
edging the uni'emilted perseve
rance of rhe President of the United
States, in his capacity of Secretary
of State, as well as of slate mag
istrate, in. bringing to maturity,
the late treaty with Spain and al
(hough Mr. Forsyth, was u suc
cessful in his five efforts; (he con
clusion of the treaty, affords the
strongest evidence of policy and great
talents, in obtaining all the points ex
pected by his government This is
proved by its immediate ratification
by the President and Senate of the
United. States.
The Floridas have not been suf
ficiently explored by men of talents,
to give any thing like a correct dc
tiniation of the geography or syfice.
The best maps wav. made about forty
ycarsagoj and arc believed to bt ve
ry incorect. The little progress
which has been made in the cultiva
tion of the soil, scarcely exhibit
, the evidences ofagricultural pursuits
except on the river S John’s, and in
the immediate vicinity of St. Augus
tine and Pensacola and it is difficult
to fathom the policy of the Spanish
government, in discountenancing
those pursuits. Notwithstanding
the barrenness of a large proportion
of the surface : it is probable that (lie
lacy of the country will present very
different features in a few ye a• s-
Making experiments upon a 'small
scale, in the cultivation of many of
the tropical fruits, maybe well e
nough; hut it is probable that the
cultivation of the Cotton and Sugar
earn*, will prove to be the most ad
vantagouß aiticlec for the attention
4>f the plantei*, The quality of the
bind, has been greatly overrated, by
extravagant descriptions of it, wnicli
have gone aboard, ot course many of
the adventures will be disappointed,
w!u-n they have an opportunity of
judging for themselves.—This is com
mon, in all new- and unexplored
countries. They flow with milk and
honey : you have only to plant, am! '
you will have a plentiful Harvest
I hese fancies induce many to leap,
before they look, i advise such as 1
have been infected by this sort of
mania, to beware; they may repert. ■ 1
(° u late to repair the error
Ihe fraudulent tricks which have ;
been practised in the Floridas, in <
giving several grants, for the same
tracts o! land, will open a tedious 1
and vexatious field of investigation, !
for individual tribunals ; and it will |
be for adventurous purchasers, to act j
with extreme caution. * i
1
50 ' 1
BBI.S. containing three doz. each, 1
for safe -by 1
H. SG, Webster. '
April 16 3w • t
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pai eu] ,
ctuciitlWßr
SIR: InWmied of the reports, as ex
travagant as false, which the malevolence
of some, and the credulity of o®ers, have
concurred to spread and to accredit, on
the object and the results of the confer
ences of Troppau, the Allied Courts have
iuoged it necessary to furnish to their re
spective missions; in foreign countries, au
thentic inftrmaticn, such as may enable
them to dissipate the errors and the
prejudices which have prevailed in this
respect- Toe article hereto annexed is
intended to accomplish that etui. It is not
proposed to you to make this letter the
subject of any formal communication; but
there is nothing to prevent you from suf
•ering it to be confidentially read This
same view being also addressed to the
Ministers of the tw o other powers, you
will please, sir, to concert more pirticu
iarly with them the use which shall be
made of it.
Receive, sir, the assurances of mv moat
pei feci consideration. [Signed.]
TltW
Os the first mnlt if thv (Jonferaipes at
I’rofipuu.
The eve nts of 1 lie Bth of March in Spain,
those of the 5M of July in Ponigual; the
catastrophe at Naples, necessarily pro
duced, amongst all those who had an eye
io the tiiirquilil) cf nations, a deep sen
timent of inquietude ami pain, and a de
sire to unite and co-operate to avert from
Europe all the etfis leady to burst upon
her
It was natural that tins desire and thc*‘t
sentiments should be more lively in the
governments which not long ago had con
quered the revolutionary soiul, and who
saw it at this day le-aupeasipg---triumph
ant.
It was still tnora natural that, to repulse
it a third time, these governments should
have iccourse to the means which they •
lud so happily employe;) in the memo
rable struggle, in width Kuii.pe had seen
them break the yoke under which it had
groaned for twenty years.
Kvcry thing authorized die hope, that
this union of ths principal powers, form
i d in the midst of circumstances tho most
critical, crowned with the most brilliant
successes, perpetuated .finally by the acts
of 1814, 1815, and 18S8—r hat tills union,
which has prepared, iounded, and «om
pletcd the pacification of the world, having
delivered the Continent from the military
despotism exercised by the man so the lie
volution, would, in like manlier,- deliver
it from a new power; not less disasterous
—from the power of crime p.nd of revolv.
Such have been the motives and the
object oi the Cot gressof Trqppau. The
"liiit ought to be so generally felt as not
to require a longer explanation: the latter
is so honorable and so useful that the wish
es of all must, without doubt, accompany
the Allied Courts in their noble cuter
prize.
the task which duties and engage
ment i the most sacred impose upon
' hem, is vast and difficult; but favourable
presages permit them to believe, that
they will be able to accomplish it, by ac
ting in the spirit of the Treaties, by which
they had restored peace to Europe, and
established a general alliance among all
tile European governments.
Thu allied Powers have availed /there
selves of an inc< nteslable right, in deci
ding to take common measuies of precau
tion and restraint ( repressionJ towards
siatta, the confusion of which wrought
by revolt, regarding it only in iht light of
an example, would be an act hostile to
ah legitimate institutions & governments;
to wax ds slates which, about all, not con
tent with their own calamities, seek by
their agenti to communicate them to oth
er countries, and endeavor there to in
troduce disorder and insurrection,
'1 he position and the conduct of these
slates constitute a manifest infraction of
the. covenant, with guaran eestothe Eu
ropean governments, with the integrity*
ot the territories, the maintenance of those
pacific relations; the first effect of which
is to exclude even the idea of their doing
each other an injm v.
This irrefragtblc fact ought to be the
point cf departure of the Allied Cabinets,
P> consequence, the Flenipolenciaties,
who could receive at Ttoppau the orders
oi Sovereigns, have determined between
them, and submitted to the deliberations
of the courts of Paris and London, the
principles to be lollowtd towards slates
who submit to a voilent alteration in the
form of their interior regime; as well as
the means, whether of conciliation or of
force property to restore to the bosom of
tile alliance such of these stairs lis they
can exercise a salutary and efficacious a
gency upon.
As the Revolution ai Naples stmccs
deeper root every day; as-no oilier rr.cna
ces mere s.» sihly and immediiftjij the
tranquility of the neighboring, states' or
prompt, the convenience and necessity
are admitted of maxing to lire Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies the immediate applica
tion of the principles which have been in
dicated.
Before dismissing, with regard to him,
measures ol a conciliatory nature, the
Sovereigns present a Troppau have ad
dressed to him Sicilian Majesty an inviia
tom to join Ihnji at Luybach ; a step the
only object of which has been to set free
the will of his Majesty, and to engage
buii to interpose his mediation between
his deluded people countries whose re
pose they compromit.
Decided not to recognize governments
infatuated by sedition, the Sovereigns
could not enter into an intercourse, bttl
with the King in person. The ministers
at Naples have received correspondent,
orders.
France and England have been invited
to join in this proceeding. They will
without doubt the less -refuse to do so,
inasmuch as that the principle, in virtue
of which it has been resorted to, is strict
ly conformable to Treaties solemnly ratified
by these two powers; and that it offers
the sure proof of the most just and paci
fic views.
The system concerted between Austria,
Pruna, and Russia, i« not u new system.
It presents only a faithful application of
maxims consecrated by iho titinsucUons
which gave bit th to the Holy Affiance.
Fa*.from weakening the intimate uni
cn of the Courts which form th - centre pf
thlaalllQace, tMsst^cin
tify and consolidate',t R ?> 0t
it us it has been
by the same cabir ets, ami .
kwledfedthe advantages cf
reality qV lho|fd Va „.t
not tube called in qtßcnV'fJ
more over* cle- ally denio “ J
neither thoughts of conqui- ’J U
sire to assail the indepcndVuf f V
gove-nnents m what concent. J
nor administration, r .or that
ing wise and volur.lari’v .r pri
conformable to the true
People, tjiat have dictated th.j. 0
anons cf the Allied powers, tv
only to maintain peace, to r»e
rope from the scourge of -’■*
repair and prevent, as fir as L > f . ' r
• hem, the disordi.s v.frc'i • 1 •
by a forgetfulness cf alltht rl 1
order and cf morality. On theae
the Powers may flatter thontsehr
an unanimi us approbation will
;>enF.e them for their cat es and the •
t ions. ‘ '
'•WiiwraT"
Monday,
~o.in W- Green, of ’ irginia ,
eel accepting the appohument of,
-missicr.cr for the sutkmtot of fit*
under the Treaty with iipain.J^
Ilencvicl nf the War in Spanish A
—Bya jiroc'a,'..uior. hsticda; (w
tiic 2?d nit. by Gen. the-la Turn fi
mandrr of the Spanish forces, a a
that Gen. ISolfoar had unntunccdi
the termination <f the al
tac war has recommenced. '
i
Ijßw Inteiiigcnrr,
ICELIJS'vs. oVAULIX
This case was tried on Saturday,
Federal Circuit court, for S. Carol!
trict, held at Columbia,by his llonot
Johndbn. The case involved the
lion as to the validity of the grant i
ntas Aiken, dated in 1786, for ]
acres of land, situated between Ct
and Cr.mde n, on which there are
.-.undred faqiiilgs, settled nr.der
grants. After a very full hearing
case, before a jury drawn front £8
district, so as to guard against fur
prejudices, a verdict was returned
defendant; thus deciding against tl
dity of this long standing pretendci
The finding of the jury was in co
ty to the charge of the learned
’1 his ciainrt, His believed, is now
put at rest, and the peaceable oc
rtf this extensive tract ol country,
longer be hanassed by aUemr.i's
turU their titles.— CJ. S, C. Cm
Another attempt to rob the I
Philadelphia through the mci-ium
public culvert, was made last nig
fortunately frustrated. About 3
in the evening, the Cashier Lido
to go info Hank, and on opening l!
he heard a great noise -in the |
1 lead! ig to the directors’room, ’i
hers must also have heard him,
the tfi.ie he liad summoned the
they bad retreated through the a|
Into the public culvert and eluded
suit. Every effort was intmeilialel
to truce the villains, but without s
A man, under very suspicious «
stances, was taken up and commitl
examining the Bank it appearee
they had worked their way l-omt
1 vert into the cellar, hud ftcmflioi
progressed to the tjircctois too
at the time of their discovery wire
" act of forcing into the Hanking
Gaudies, a match, augurs and slur
iia. were left behind. —lieifPh
,n ii mm
We have been favored wWi n 1
tlie following opinion, his P'H
is should be published, for ihei.tfoi
■ of persons whose names have beer
ped from the Pension list, on i<*
r the amount of their propciG, mco
ly with the act of the IslMayhsI—■ 1 —■
arc about to maxe.»pplic#uw| ho
staled on the Pension List L| e
publication of it, it is hoped, vti-t]
much unnecessary trouble w:'* l
expense to the parties toncetw (
witt be seen that tlie ißvv.c.mccr
government has decided ihi.ftne
ry of War has no right io remsis-t
sioiier stricken from the rolls v
act of May 1, 1H2C:
(pice es 'the Attorney General
ftbfyars, hg
Sr: The act of the lit May k
dilion to the Pension Law «'• “
March, 1818, makes it the dv. yen
ret ary of War to strike from **
tione'rs the name of every r e ‘“
cording to tho evidence or
rc.q lived by the act, onga' i- • ‘ l
on i'. lam asked wlist..ai * -
power to icstcre, on sabsC',"- 1 '
(event evidence, the «*•»« ci
wiio may be s-ticket!
of the adit d .le : to v ’b , J -a
he has not; because the
only warrant ofa'litl ori yto j,
no audi power* If it be
should .possess it, Congress ■ -
or lie cannot, with ary
its exercise. „ s it
1 have the honor to
-respectfully, y our “ u gl
Hon J! C Calcoi x,
Secretary of War.
DESPERATE KBKCg?
Extract of a Utter to n S L "jj,
fo’h, dited Oil>'f ,t, ' r > ( \ n: ii
•‘•fhe Peacock sloop
• ailing for ft stoic ship tro ro ;e
to convoy her to Mahon • ‘ t , r
against the depredation, 1 ,- 0 !o:
privateers under ret oh l cr ;
have lately infested the * r
One of them has lately b ~"’. c3r ,ic
. Spanish Guarda Ecsta ( v t! ,
Valencia. The confil^' * 0 !
The priv. tecr is a sc _ j^li
four
12 pounders and «"* 'Atn
80 men, and comtnandet. ; V;i
(it is said) with out S rr - j nsd c
Margarita with a- 6 "’ J. iul bie
od and manned din(f Kb**;
She was carried by
crew jumped into the ,- jjitir
taken. Only boaU *.»a
picked up by she Spaa'd T b
been carried imo n -. ?rf? ;’
cn;i"“r is a brig cd