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dFFiei All DESPATCHES.
The* following is a copy of a letter
from Commod ire Decatur, to the Se
cretary of thf 'Navyr 0ated United
$ t #Si[ shi P5 luerrierc > ofTunis,
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> July 51, 1815. , . ^
~SrR—I ftave the honor to inform . , u . - ...
you, that upon mv arrival at this an- i the bey and his officers were friendly
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disposition of the bashaw forprescrying
the peace with us. *■ 1 '
At Tripoli, learning that tlvt bey of
Tunis tfa^rewfess tbwards theUnited
States, / immediately proceeded with - -
the vessels with me for that place.
On my arrival at Tunis, / learned
by a letter from our consul there, that
chorage, I was made acquainted with
the following transactions, which had 1
taken place here during our late war ^ions, exploited me iorce unuer my
- With ( Treat Britain, command to a 1 the Barbary powers,
Two prizes, which had been taken (and which I believe will have a ten
disposed towards us.
Having' agreeably to your instruc
tions, exhibited the force under my
&
; by the Abaellino privateer, and sent m
dency to prolong our treaties with
them) I have only now, in obedience
to those instructions, to return with the
squadron to the United States.”
The following is an extract of a let
ter from the same to the same, dated
w.
to this port, were taken possession of
by a British vessel of war, while lying
within the protection of the bey of Tu-
nis. The consul having communica
ted to me inform itiou of this violation
of our treaty with Tunis, I demanded
satisfaction of • the hey. After some
hesitation apd proposing a delay of
payment for one year, my demand was
acceded to, and the money, amoun-
tiriit to forty-six thousand dollars, was
paid into the hands of the consul, Mr.
Noah, agent for the privateer.
I shall proceed immediately for Tri
poli, and will give you early informa
tion of the further proceedings of this
squadron. The bey of Tunis has j
now lying in this harbor, nearly ready ■ autumn, in pursuance of your orders,
for sea, three frigates and several it is very desireable that it should leave
small vessels of wari I have the ho-this sea as soon as possible, to avoid
nor to be, with great respect, sir, your the inclemency of the winter of our
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LoittSqi*. September 25.
. following is an extract of a letter ft
the phublin Journal received this'morfting’
4 * Strong bodied of troops are marching to Cat-
old wikh they were ordered torlire
ter*—on the rebels, because they are
rebels, robbers, and murderers—on the nobility
and gentry, because they have supinely suffered
this rebellious spirit to ripen into acts: Why
were they hot arm?d ; and, at the head of their
friends apd tenants, -scouring the country to
maintain peace ?” \
London, September 30.
A foreign courier arrived this forenoon at
lord Castlrreagh’s Office with despatches
from the duke of Wellington in Paris.
The Paris Journals to thb28th, which arrived
this morning, announcing the apointment of
the t.wo other ministers. Saree Makbois is
the new minister of justice,'pnd Count Cor-
vetto minister of France. • In consequence
of these changes, in consequence of placing in
the seat of power men supposed well affected
to general tranquility, the allies are said to
have receded from several of theih demands of
the treaty of peace. This tteaty whether for
mally and finally, or only preliminarj/ is said to
icr iroiu uic wuu. io have, been signed at four o’clock ok Tuesday
United Otdtes snip Independence, l*,t in'Paris, on the part of the chief allied 10-
Malaga Roads, September, 14, 1815
vereigns. Several facts coroborate tliis asser-
~~~p . . * ' j__ ! tion. The Austrian goverriHient established al
1 arrived here yesterday, tinder ; the city of Lydns.isabolisl.’*'!, expressly in con
» rtf vnaatirw* Kora fKo ’ af >La A . A .. • 1 _ A D :• ..JtJ
the expectation of meeting here the j sequence of the treaty signed at Paris.’aiffi the
first squadron, but to my regret, com- £, lotl ™de of Strasbargh has been discontinued.
1 » j bor the same reason it is. no doubt, that the
modore Decatur has not yet come
down the Mediterranean, and where
the squadron with him is /knownot;
for the last / heard of them was off
Tripoli, which place they left on the
9th ultimo.
As the squadron has to return this
ll- /n such a statepf.the .
rould he . useless in us to
subject, it would dc us
assert that government is worthy of>
die trust whifch dictation has confided
to it, and that the'measures it has pur
sued have ;t accelerated the prosperity
and encreased the glory of. the nation, •
since three fourths of America are ful
ly convinced of the fact. It may not,
however, be improper, to make a few
animadversions on the conduct of that .
state which he represents as the Ath
ens of America. The encomium*
passed on Connecticut are rather ex
aggerated. /fit is the best informed
of all the states, why did it allow the
assemblingofdeputios from other pares
of New-England at Hartford, and be
come a party of that convention, which
was expressly formed for the purpose
of separating the Union? Why has it
permitted its clergy to prostitute the
pastoral dignity, by neglecting the ser
vice of God, and exciting the people,
by haranguing them from the pulpit.
Prussian troops are quitting the western de- i to sedition against the general govern
pnrtmlents The military measures are indeed { merit? Whv Was its militia not callfct
every where relaxing on the part of the allies f Q ^ agains ' t a „ enemy whose avo „£
a, the new royal army acquires consilience.—.
The disbanded soldiers are retiring to their
homes in ell parts of France, and the disaffect
ed h ve {occasioned some disturbances, particu
larly at Nantz. In consequence Of returning
confidence and the appearance of a general
peace, the French fundi are recovering.—Cou
rier. \
obedient servant.
Stephen Depatixh.
Honorable B IV- Crowninshicld,
Secretary of the Navy.
The following is an extract of a let
ter f-om Commodore Decatur, to the
.Secretary of the Navy, dated United
States* ship Guerriere, Messina, Au
gust 31, r 815.
“ I have the honor to inform you,
that immediately after the date of my
last communication, I proceeded to
Tripoli Upon my arrival off that
place, l received from our consul a
li tter ; in consequence of the informa
tion contained in this letter, I deemed
it necessary to demand justice from
the bashaw. On the next day the
governor of the city of Tripoli came
on board of the Guerriere, to treat in
behalf of the bashaw. He objected to
the amount claimed by us but fi-
naly agreed to our demands. The
money, amounting tothe sum of twen
ty five thousand dollars, has been paid
in the hands of the consul, who is
agent for the privateer.
The bashaw also delivered up to me
ten captives, two of them Danes, and
the others Neapolitans.
During the progress of our nego-
ciations with the states of Barbary,
now brought to a conclusion, there has
app< ared a disposition on the part of
each of them, to grant as far as we
were disposed to demand.
I trust that the successful result of
our small expedition, so honorable to
our country, will induce other nations
to follow the example; in which
■jt case the Barbary states will be com
pelled to abandon their piratical sys
tem.
v ~\j I shall now proceed with the squad
ron to Cirthagena, at which place I
coast particularly on account of the
smaller vessels. The independence,
Congress, Boxer, Saranac, Chippawa,
and Spark are here; the Erie /expect
every hour from Malta, where I had
sent her; the Torch and Lynx are at
Carthagena. All these vessels will be
prepared immediately to return ; but
they cannot sail till the other squadron
has joined us.”
A court martial ha* besn held at N“wY k
ipoo Thomu Waine, esq Pursur in the Uni;ed
State:.’navy, upon ci.a:£i.*s ex'ni> iieit ag
Sim by lieutenant commandant Nathaniel D
Nicholson, the result of which wi< an honor*
vcqnittal of Mr. Waine from 01 the c'>
•>nd •specifications thereof.—National It el.
16/A init.
‘ Robert Burns.—The remain} of thil cele
brated Scots bard was recently •* removed to
the vault of the Man-oleum now erecting to hi»
memory in St- Michael’* church yard, Dum
fries.” !
SAVANNAH republican.
Saturday Evening, Nov. 25,1815.
Robert Cranston, midshipman of the United
States’ ship Java, has been dismissed from the
navy by sentence efa court martial held on
board the United States’ ketch Vesuvius.
DISTRESSING FIRE!
Between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning, our
citizens were alarmed by the cry o^fire. which
it appears originated in a carpenter’s shop back
of a new building commenced adjoining the
dwelling of Mr. Robert Oliver, in C»y-strcel.
The fire quickly communicated to the s'one
budding in Market-street, occupied by Mr Ja
cob Myers as a china and queen’s ware store,
the roof and interior of which, together with the
greater portion of the ware, were completely
destroyed. The adjoining store occupied by
Messrs Magill & Co was burnt to the ground ;
the goods were chieflb savev. These two hmis-
The brig Marquis Wellington, ar
riv< d thi?» Morning, in 16 days from
Martinique —the captain informs, that
on the 7th instant, a Trench brig of
war arrived at that place, from L’Ori-
ent, with the treaty of peace ratified,
between the allies and Tranced The
terms of the treaty are, that the allied
powers are to keep possession of eight
of the strongest fortresses in Trance,
for eight years—that the British are
to hold Brest harbor and Gaudaloupe,
lor the same space of time; and
that 150,000 troops are to remain
in Trance for six years and to be un-
dor the command of lord Wellington.
Tib brig that brought the treaty left
L’Orient on the 5th of October,
which is the lates' accounts we have
pi were owned by Mr. Tachuddy. snd were not
in*sured. The roof and interior of Mr. Wohler’s
brick house, occupied by Mrs. Ringgold as
fancy store, were also consumed ; but the goods
of Mrs. R. were saved, with perhaps the exc-p-
tion of a few articles Several houses in Trip,
plett’s alley, belonging to Mr Z'dicoflTer. were
likewise entirely destroyed. The fire was Jiere
happily arrested, and no further loss, as far as
We have been able to learn was sustained.—
The fire seems to have been accidently, or at
worst, carelessly procured.—lia/ti.-nore Pat
riot, 111 A instant.
Indian news.
St. Louis, October 14.
A deputation from the hostile Sacks of Rock
River, has arrived at Portage de Sioux in order
it is said to treat and bury the toiaab-wk —
Those dupes of .British traders ha'e H—n fre-
n j ,• c ■, - r ; quently invited to attend the trratv, and buve
hope to find the relief squadron fromi always met our advances to accommodation
An erro .eous report is too generally
abroad that there has been within a
few days past, cases of the Small
Pox, in Savannah—now, we state it as
a fact, (having made it our business to
enquire;) that no case of the kind has
m ide its appearance in our city—nor
do we believe that it will, when we take
into consideration the restrictions that
are now laid on vessels and persons
arriving from the north. We therefore
think our country-brethren will run
| no risk in coining to Savannah at this
. time.
America.**
with insolent threads. Now that the commis
sioners have closed the business of their aiinoint-
nii e ,, • - __ ^p_ • ment, and forwarded their report to W ishing-
Thc following is an extract oFa ton, we are at a loss to conceive how these In
letter from Commodore Cambridge to disns will be dealt with.
the Secretary of the Navy,dated United! A few days -go a number of the principal
’ , . I , , J , r, chiefs and wa’riors of the Kensah nation of In-
Otates Snip Independence, on .he cay disns arrived here. It is said they wish io enter
into a
States.
BROTHER HOBBY,
Editor of the Augusta Herald, com-
minting on Governor Early’s speech,
o jei:ts to that part of it which states,
tnat we possess one advantage over
other nations, and that is “ our people,
are better informed.” When applied
to the United - tates as a nation, he
of Tunis, September 6, 1815.
“ I had the honor of making com-1
a treaty of friendship with the United
admits it is strictly true; but Georgia
is an exception! Of all the states in j norant and vicious community?
the Union, the best informed one taken | imagine a winter's residence in
object was the recolonization of the
country? Surely, if the inhabitants of
Connecticut are so enlightened, and
have studied their own interest, they
would not have countenanced, by op- *
posing,their own lawful rulers, the re
establishment of British taxation; espe
cially as their complaints were ground
ed on the imposts Which the conditions
of their country rendered indispensible.
A people’s endeavoring to exchange a
momentary inconvenience for a great
er and a perpetual one, we cannot con- .
ceive, is indicative of their superior 1
knowledge. But Hobby will have it
so; and he is equally correct in affirm
ing, that his native state “has been the
most stable in its institutions,” and “the
most uniform in its political course.’!
'Connecticut once had a judicial insti
tution, that is vulgarly yclept Blue-
Laws, but it appears the principal part
of that code has fallen into disuse. A
stable institution indeed! During the
revolutionary war, the people of that
stat** manfully contended against the
soldiers of England: submission to
the mother country was not then
preached in the houses of religion:
7 he reverse was the case in our late
conflict: What uniformity! Connecti
cut “has invariably prospered.” By
what means can we come at the truth
of this declaration?—By adverting to
the fertility of Connecticut—the hap
piness or wealth of its population— or
the number of strangers who repair
thither from motives of gain? Ever
since the peace, droves of its farmers {
have been, and now are, emigrating to
Ohio; &id its mechanics and pedlars
are swarming in the southern sea-port
towns, particularly in .Savannah, who
are battening on southern abundance,
like the wild geese in our fields, through
the winter: and next summer to return
to their homes, and support them
selves and their families on the riches
of our clime till necessity compels
them again to seek a subsistence in
bur country. This is a specimen of
Connecticut’s encreasing prosperity:
A countiy which is unable to support
its own population must be in a mi
serable situation, indeed. If Connec
ticut were in that flourishing situation
that Hobbv represents it, why did he
quit so fine a country and agreeable
society for the pestilential swamps and
arid pine woods of Georgia and its ig-
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in Nor-
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These people are of Osage origin. an<i reside collectively, the most stable in its in-ivich on potatoes and cod-fish was not
Inw I’ll* Oil n’a and Maha’a on ilia lYlitsnnrS «*•« *«rt -i tKr* *nen4 -.msAwom <n a. > llsl <s,ii4g oa a/aah^mJ nr. J a! a
munications to you from Carthagena' the Otto’s and Maha’s on the Missouri stitutions. the most uniform, in its politi- ■ quite so pleasant as to spend that seasoa
on the 10th ultimo, from which place
I sailed with the Independence, Con
gress, Erie, Chippewa and .Spark, des
cal course is^ ONNECTICUT, which
holding fast its integrity has invaria-
, bly prospered. 1 hough we view
tint d for fripoii* having learned the j uiouhium ^^,0,. i«,-ued..
misunderstanding that'existed between
^he bashaw of that place, and our con-!
sql residing there. On my way I called j
A liviprc fn ^vKiKtt tKic o/IrlihAnal
Suicide.—Lieutenant O’Flixg, of the array,
says the Buffalo Journal of November 6. whose
.llantry rendered him so conspicuous at the
.jrtie on the 17lh of September, 1814, termi ■ . . . - .
nated his existence at Batavia, on Friday last, i the citizens of Georgia as an attack
We have beared no cause assigned for this me
lancholy act
at Algiers to exhibit this additional!
force off there, presuming jt would
have some weight in preserving the
peace which had just been made ; for,
thp only (mode of (fenvincing these
people is by occular demonstration.
On my arrival off Tripoli, /learned
commodore Decatur had been
It is stated in the Columbian of the 14 lb in
stant, that the story of the discovery of a valua
ble coal mine at Greenbosh, near Albany, is
withontfoundation; and that there are no in
dications of the existence of coal in that neigh
borhood*
that
“ A gentleman, who has just arrived from
the North E astern frontier of France, states
that great complain ts is made of the abuses of
some members of the alliance. He affirms that
he met above 40,000 Prussians, without arras,
and without regimental'clothing, who were pro-
there with the first squadron, and had
adjusted our differences which existed *»d without regimental clothing, who were pro-
J , ^ , yv . . ©ceding to the interior of France to supply
St th3t plilCC. Our consul^ at 1 ripoli themselves with both. He understood that
informed me that the exhibiting of our. there was 'another column also of 40 000 men
naval force before Tripoli, had pro- £7^ rn ” i * • d ’ anci ?e /" V‘ e “ roe ,ute * nd
navrfi » l • .l or the ume purpose ! [—London paper, Sep-
duccd a most favorable change in the Umber 24 ^
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on ourselves, we must unre servedly
own, that Hobby’s way of arguing
amused us not a little. Among the
many circumstances (many of which
by the by originated in the brains of
malevolent factious editors) which he
adduces in proof of the ignorance of
the Georgian population, are the. con
fidence which th' y repose in the gene
ral government, and their approving
its measures which (says he) are at
tended with sadly mischievous conse
quences; but he neither attempts to
prove the impropriety of the first
charge, nor refers his readers to facts
by which the truth of the second may
in Georgia wijth a various and plentiful
table.
With regard to his charging the ci
tizens of this state as being frequently
“the dupes of theartful and designing;’*
believing “a man’s loud professions of
patriotism is conclusive evidence of
his integrity;” “versatility in our pub
lic affairs,” &c. we have little to say;
They are entirely unfounded; and can-,
not be confirmed by any facts of which
Brother Hobby may be in possession;
but as a member of a religious society,
he should have made such specifica
tions as would have given them some
degree of plausibility. /Such a mode
of conduct would have been more cre
ditable to himself, and less offensive
to the people whom he has unjustly
censured. They are not all philoso
phers, and when injured without cause
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