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mm mm s**.*®: REPUIJLIOAN. Saturday, December 30, 1815. • BT FREDERICK S. FELL, •U TBS BAT, BEAK TBE EZCBABBB. PRINTED THREE TIMES A WEEK. At Six Dollies per aonatn, In advance. ?.. . i-atf: i-1 *isT , .SEQUEL 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