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9f Commodore Porter*a. expedition in
the South Sea.
We are indebted to the politeness
•Pone the officers of the government
3nr a copy of the following letter, ad
dressed by captain Gamble (of the ma
rines) to commodore Porter, on the
return of the former to the United
States, in August last. Captain Gam
ble, (the reader tr ill recollect) was left
by commodore Porter with a few men
.• in charge of two or three vessels and
-some public property, when he sailed
•from Madison Island for Valparaiso,
.previous to his ever-memorable bat-
. tie in the Essex. The following let
ter comprises all the- subsequent oc
currences - -National Jntellegeneer.
The following is a copy of a letter
&om Captain Gar-'le to Commodore
Porter.
Ncw-Yorlc. August 30.1815.
Sir—With regret 1 have to inform
you, the frigate had not got clear
Of the Marqutses before we discover,
ed in the natives a hostile disposition
towards us, who in few days become
so insoleut,, that I-found it absolutely
necessary, not only for the security of
the ships and property on shore, but
for our personal safety, lo land my
men ond regain by force of arms, the
many things they had, in the most dar
ing manner, stolen from the encamp
ment : and what was of still greater im
portance, to prevent, if possible, their
putting threats into execution which
might have been attended with the
most serious consequences on our
part, from duty requiring my men to
be so much seperated.
I, however, had the satisfaction to
Accomplish my Wish without firings
tnusket, and from that time lived in
the most perfect amity with them, un
til the 7th of May, following, when my
distressed situation placed me in their
power.
Before mentioning the lamentable
Events of that day, and the two suc
ceeding ones, I shall give you a brief
Account of a few preceding occurren
oes, which were sources of great tine?.-
biness to me. The fir;,t was th death
of John Wetter, (marine) who was
Unfortunately drowned in the surf on
•flie afternoon of the 28th February,
^nd the desertion of four of my men.—
They took tiie advantage of a dark
night and left the bay unobserved by any
person, all excepting one(a prisoner) ha-
vine the watch on deck. They took
crefl, and Peter CodJLigiaa (marine)
dangerously wounded. After bending
the jib and spanker, we cut oar moor
ings, and.fortunately had alight breeze
*tiat carried the ship, clear of the bay
with six cartridges remaining out pi
the only barrel left us by the muti
neers.
After getting out of the bay, we
found our situation niost distressing.
In attempting to run the boat up, it
broke in two parts, and we were com
pelled to cut away from the bows the
only anchor, not being able to cat it.-r-
We mustered altogether eight souls,
out of whicir there was one cripple,
one dangerously wounded, one sick,
one just recovering from the scurvy,
and myself confined to the bed wit!; a
high fever, produced by my wound.
In that state, destitute of charts, and
almost of every means of- navigating
the ship, I reached the Sandwich Isl
North AtnerieanTndians, who joined
during the late war admiral. Cochrane’s
squadron ; these mcii it appevs, se-
lected/l’rinidad for their future resi
dcnce, where, in pursuance of the pro
mise originally held out to tkeni, they
will receive grants of land, and be
taught the culture and manufacture of
the sugar cane.” Now, although I am
far from wishing to take up the hope
less cause of these poor kidnapped In
dians, does any one of your readers se- his majesty.,' at.Chumpee, ah intcidtc~ j
ribusly believd that they voluntarily. tion so rigidly enforced, that the Eng-.|
joined the admiral, and that they WiU • fish vessels attempting . its violation, /
be treated according “ to the promise were fired on by the Chinese shij\s of
originally held out to them ” The war. The viceroy,- even seized the-
admiral himself owns a large sugar person of an agent, sent out ,by the-:
(plantation in Trinidad ; and, now, court of .directors in England, bearing
that the slave trade is abolished, the portrait of the former viceroy,
and scarcely any hope remains for The complaints, at last, became so i
smuggling negroes, in my opinion rious, that the English determined o:
British, resident at the factor;,-. It was J
staled in reply, that ftir mere than a.*”
100 years, the serVaiitt employed in.,
the factories, were chiefly Chinese;
blit these-remonstrance? were regular
ly returned, unopnned, on the ground,
that none would be received, unlesu
written^in the Chinese language J—
The viceroy, afterwards established a
iibn-intercour.-K between the compa
ny’s Ships* at YVompoa, and. those c£
m my
nothing can be more plain, than that appealing to hif imperial majesty, ai
he intends those deluded " red "allies, all the British subjects residcutat Ca
ands, after a passage ef 17 days, and ! of his majesty” to supply the place of ton, received orders from their o’
suffering much, from fatigue and hard- ' field negroes on his plantation. As to government,Jo quit that placed fou',
ships. . I was there* unf. * tunately cap
tured by the English ship Cherub, re
mained a piisondjfen board of her se
ven months^ during which time my
men were ticated in a most shameful
manner. We were then put on shore
at Rio Janerio, without the possi
bility of getting away until after hear
ing of the peace. I then, by the ad
vice of the physician who attended me,
embarked on board a Swedish - ship
bound to Havre-de-Grace, (there being
no other means of getting away at
that time) leaving behind acting mid
shipman Ckpp and five men, having
lost one soon after my arrival in' that
place with the’small-pox.
On the 1st inst. lat. 47 N. Ion. 18 \v.
we fell in with the American ship Oil
ver Ellsworth, from Havre, bound to
this port. 1 took a passage on board
of her, and arrived here two days since,
after being upwards of an hundred days
at sea. Jam at present unable to tra
vel, aind shall therefore await either
your orders, or the orders of the com
mandant of the marine corps at this
place
I have the honor to remain, with the
highest respect and esteem, sir, y»ur
obedient servant.
JoHir M,Gamble.
FROM RUIvNOS AYRES.
The foliov.-ing is an extract of a let-:
ter from an American, to his friend in
Baltimore, dated,
Buenos Ayres, August 2o-
I had expected on arrival to
have found affairs in a favorable situa
tion ; that they had secured the coun
try to themselves, by becoming mas
ters of the entire province, a. govern
ment similar to that of the United
States would be established, by a union
of the different Provinces of Para
guay under one head, and forming a
constitution conducive to tVir gener-
with them several muskets, a supply of j a j interests and prosperity. But
hmmunition, and many articles of but
.little value. Mv attempt to pursue
jhem was prevented by their destroy
ing partially the only boat (near the
beach) at that time seaworthy.
On the 12th of April began to rig
lieu of uniting themselves, each pro
vince. acts for itself, bv having separate
the promise that, was “ originally held days. Sir George Staunton* bating]
out to them,” nothing can be more fa- as the representative of the company.'
bulous—we all know freta their uni
form reluctance to sailing in ships, that
no promises could induce them to em
bark for Trinidad, and they certainly: letter addressed to the imperial cour,
must have L en carried there by force, j of Pekin. An explanation then ensu*
That they*will be “ taught the culture ! ed, by the agency of the navy merj
and manufacture of the sugar cane,”; chants, but whether satisfactory orneft
I have not the sm allest doubt—but time will develope. - - ' • V
not for tiieir own advantage: Abe' ad
miral’s agent v<!l take care ‘ of that
part cf the business. During the
whole of last war, this exalted naval
officer of Great Britain seems to have
thought as much of speculating in ne.
grocs and cotton, as of fighting the en
emy. Makr nort mentions an instance
that occurred not many years ago,
in which the admiral, “ in mani
fest violation of his duty; appropri
ated to himself 200 prize slaves, men,
women, and children, by bribing the
judge of the vice-admiraity, prize
court, and king’s agent, at Tortola; and
sent the poor devils to Ids plantation in
Trinidad. On this plantation, “ he ua
lawfully forced them to work as field
negroes, without their having any
chance of reclaiming their liberty, thus
usurped, upon their first importation
from-Africa, before they acquired any
knowledge of the English language,
and consequently before they could
form any conception of the protection
and advantages granted to them by
the Abolition act ’’-See Niles’s Week
ly Register, vol, 9 pace 24.
TECUMSEH.
SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN.
Several article, prepared for tha pr _
ore, for want of room, laid over for oar next.
The Small-Pea. at.present, isveryvfataf,
— |r ^
the people of Mew York. From tbs'tfth to tft
16th inst. no less than seventeen persons bl
came victims to Us ravages.
'ON.
CAN
From the Baltimore Telegraph, De
cember 18.
A number of benevolent gentlemen
city af New- York have remitted a donation:!
nearly four thousand dollars toThoiaes P. Eye ,
esq. of Providence, Rhode-Ialand, for the reljej
of the poor of that town whs safiVed set
ly in the gale of September last.
On tlio SOtif initsnt, the British packet
waiting, in. New-Yorfc, for the arrival of th_
king’s messenger, 1'rom-Washington city, W ;tf:
tins ratification of the commercial treaty. ‘ *
We have received sevet^l accounts
of a serious controversy between the
Americans at Canton, and the English
residing at that place. The following
compendious statement of the prin
cipal facts. Early in May fast, a boat
belonging to his Majesty’s ship Doris,
boarded an American schooner, lying
chiefs and laws. .The Province of {in Whampoa. The viceroy complained
Rio de la Plata, ef which Moi.tr Video ! of this act as a breach of neutrality on
is the chief town, situated on the other j the part of the English, and demanded
side of this river, an- which was some j reparation. The committee of English
May.: All hands were then engaged; to it. The chiefs thereof, who are
in getting the remainder of the proper- principally from this place, complain
ty from the Greenwich to the Seringa- that they are without any means of de-
f>atam, as I began to despair of your fending themselves, in case the royal
rejoining me at that place, ; js*s should attack ; the Gannon which
The work wenton well, and the men belonged to Monte Video, as also the
sVere obedient to mv orders, though I arms, ammunition. &c. being reinov-
tliscovered an evident change in their; ed to Buenos Ayres,a heavy; contribu-
countenances, which led rne to sup-} tion having-been laid on the inhabit-
pose their was something Wrong in ag:-! an t S) an d that they’ are not allowed the
tation, and under that impression, had saiT)C advantages as the citizens of this
all the muskets, ammunition, and place General Artigas, their princi-
small arms of every description, taken, p.,j chief, who maintains himself at the
to the Greenivich,.(the ship I lived on } ie3 d of a considerable} force, *sent dc-
board of) from the other ships, as ne- puties, some time since, wit h certain
eessary precaution against a surprize
from my own men. %
On the 7th May, while on board
the Scringapatam, on duty, whieh re
quired my being present, a mutiny
think place in which 1 was wounded,
■and the mutineers succeeded in getting
the .Scringapatam out of the bay-—two
days alter, when making the necessary
preparations to depart for Valparaiso,
we were attacked by the savages, and
1 have, with the deepest regret, to in-
fxra you. sir, midshipmen William
Felters, lohn Thomas, Thomas Gibbs,
•add YYidiam Brcdincil, wore nwssa-
propositions; but how they will settle
the same, it is impossible to state. In
consequence of this misunderstanding,
there is r.o communication, between
this and the other side of the river,
which tends considerably to the disad
vantage of commerce.”—Patriot.
ADM. COCHRANE’S INDIANS.
Messrs. Gales & Seatok—-Inthe
Intelligencer of the !4th instant, I ob
serve an article copier! from a London
pap^r, stating that “the Charon, cap
tain Pctersha!!, has lately convey'd
front Bermuda to Truudad> fifty
vernment insisted on the immediate
departure of the Doris. Afterwards,
the Arabella of Calcutta, hating been
_ captured by an American privateer^
f’was proceeding to Whampoa, when
’ having discovered the Doris, she took
refuge with her prize in the-harbor of
Macoa. The governor ordered the
Arabella, to quit the Portuguese limits,
and she was afterwards boarded and
recaptured by the Doris. The Chinese
government considered this act, as an
other violation of their neutrality and
issued an order prohibiting the supply
of his majesty’s ships of war, with
arms on provisions, and further de-
manj-.cn the removal of the naval force.
The Doris, not having paid attention
to these remonstrances, while employ
ed in the convoy of two English Ves-.
scls up the Barca, was fired on by the
Chinese shins of war. ^The eaptain,
O’Brien, answered the broadside with
a single gun
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
By the arrival of the schooner Milo, Braflej
fonr days from Now York, si have been pa,
ta possession ef papers of that ai ty as lata ai
the &jd instant. The)' contain London date'
down to the 1st, and Glasgow to lha 4th, Wof
vember, tho substance of'which is, as usaai, i
little moment* except that it baars farther ct
dences of the antipathy borne by the m^joriC
of the French nation towards choir present in
beeile sovereign, and details circumstance? ■
cruelty, well worththc descendant ofFreder
the Great, committed by the Prussian and el
allied troops, lha Rassians excepted. In ft
the lenity of the Caar towards the French
enereased so much the apprehelr:jins of t?
Austrians and Prnssians that an alliance offef
sivo and defensive has been concladed by
latter powers for afiordiog protection again
the designs of the former. England see ms
determined to assist the Prassians in hamili},
ip.g France. Large-reinforcements o£d
troops are marching through tho Nethd
to join Lord Wellington; and numerous
raised Prassian battalions are, from 1
time, marched across, the Maese.into ]
in order to be equipped (atthe expense
inhab.tants.) In the departments of the
and the Ardennes, tbe allied troops, wl
they appear in small bodies or foraging i
are opposed by the villagers and countr
pie; in consequence of which manx^ent
who have been considered as <Ofmj>rr»t
condemned to hard labor on the
Germany. Upon the whole, we rniek, f
the disposition shewn by the French, tha
Bourbons have little reason to felicitate
selv.fs apon their restoration; and much i
to fear a catastrophe similar to the tragieal
of Lonis XYI. . .
The. emperor of Rdssia arrived at Berlin,j
lober 34, on bis jonrney home.
esw-bss. Oectinber 29. _ I
XaiettJrom Europe—By the Caledonh;
Greenock, in 33 days, London dates of thfe
October, nnd Greencck to the M Stove;
are are received at. the •Courier office. At.
ty offensive and defensive was concluded
tween Austria and Prussia. The Ffe&r
tribution of rtO mitiione of francs, is
to the allies in instalmenu of 1A -niilirm
year, besides 130 m.Uioos tosnp«*vt the fot
troop;, who ace to remain to yrnrd the E
bon* bn their “Tfcgitiihatc*’<‘nrone I
Dirtorbances had not.uhsi.ted in Pr-’’c
and rcfs/jrnrroents .were sending both to
English and Prassimi artaie*. Many Frt
men were transported to Germany, ti t
on the fcrtiBcation!, for acts of violetcj
wards tb- toreigp troops.
.An article under tbe Drovr-H ho»«la Oe
25, shows the homiliatiyo of Brands u 1 -';
ing ir.snner.' ~ -
•• It is onderstopd, fihat by a spsercl
vention betweeS tbe British governmonf
coy’,, the ynmtary {rentier of tbe Scinud
the Netherlands, extending from Leige;
north sea, is to be pot in a complete
defence by the time that the allien e
tbe French fortresses which they are t
Innrleri tvith i »occcup>-‘ Tba Masse and the Sambre I
lo„oed with powder. be defen:] , d by chariewi. j
only , arid boarding them, demanded are to become ,f5rtressa» of the fin*
wti-jfection. This circumstance was' fortresses of Mariq?*!
_ . . ■ r - . , Philtppcville, which France cedes.
reported .0 ^ the government, and; territory. Beaumont, CVio*y, Most,;,
the viceroy issued HB order prohibit- j n-y, Ccurtray. Ypre*. Furaes, and
ing'tinder severe penalties, the Chi- fw® strong tortressae. and
6 . . . . - _ , i this line cf dereocc. The very great
mss ; Ireg» wterms; the service «f tfac • ww g h *s»o imw w« w.u L