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peals to the officers of his own and the Spanish governments, of tneir applications for protection in wnat they deemed their just rights, and of tneir remonstrances to our own Indian agents, against past or anticipated injury and oppression. It is possible too, mat lie supplied them with some scanty munitions of war; thougn a merciful court would have inferred, unit nine kegs of powder and 500 pounds ol lead, were imported by an Indian trader, as a supply lor Hunting, not for war. That nc took a deep interest in tne affairs of this devoted race; that ne depiored their miserable condition; that he regarded them as ius fellow creatures; and was desirous and active to save them from utter extirpation; 01 tnese unchristian crimes (as Gen. Jackson considers them,*) he was certainly guilty. The general regards him as a secret agent of tne British government, and thinks tuat government was well advised of nis proceedings.* I mink it very probable .... But that wouid prove not his gain but nis innocence, it wouiu prove tuat it was not tne individual, out Uie Bnusii govern ment tuat had wronged us, il a*iy wrong uau been done. Its siibject couid be guilty 01 no iauit m following its orders. Every suti|ect or citizen owes obedience to his government; except, in deed, the officers of gen. Jackson’s ow uJJtvtsion tj the South. Ambiister was abett ing and comforting suppiy ing them With the means ol 2uiy, ot leading and commanding ludia?tsmi war against the C hited Sup ls; he being a suoject, and nis at peace with our's. lcss to disenss tne evidence adduced in support of tne first charge, as tue accused confessed tno second, which is far tne stioliger ot the two. It is, sir, unaccountable to me, now the court mar tial, convicting this man on Uiese charges, snould in his case, have commuted tne piuiisnment of death for that of stripes and imprisonment, and should not have recalled the sentence ol death it J pronounced against Arbuthnot. Is it not ciear, mat, upon tneir own principles, Ambnster was the more heinous criminal? But if, sir, the guilt of these men, with every imaginable aggravation, be admitted, the ques tion would still remain, whether, according to the laws of nations and tue usages ot war, they were liable to tiic punishment ol death? It is im possible for the meanest capacity, to misunder stand the writers on public law, so far as to see in them any authority for the monstrous princi ples affirmed in the latal general order. Dis carding tne illustrious instances ol Ea Fayette, Kosciusko and De Kalb, tne question may be brought immediately home to our bosoms, m ns application to tue humoiest and obcurestoi man kind. American and Bmisn meicnanis are, a t this very time, supplying the royal ana revolu tionary armies in Spanish America (wnithevei affords the best market) witn an kinds 01 muni tions of war: II tne masters and crews of tneir vessels should be taken in the very act ot carry ing on this traue, are tney liable to be ai 1 aigued before a naval or military court martial, sentenc ed, and hanged up at the yard arm, or on t.ie next tree ? Many of our youm nave accepted commissions in tne f’atiiot army, and are fight ing the batiies of South American independence; should they iail into the nanus of tne royansts, has Spain a general, or couiu a court martial be detailed from her armies, who would hang tucm in coid blood? When 1 hear it urged, mat Ar buthnot and Ambristei did not unite in war witn civilized nations, but with the wild savages oi ‘ the forest, who do not respect tne laws of civiliz ed warfare; I look into die history of my own ‘ country, and find there (thank God) that such a distinction is not be endured at tins day. We never before heard of it. Had it prevailed, I know not how many Englishmen gen. Wayne might have hanged, in the war lie conducted a gainst the Indians; but he cuuid not siience the pleadings of conscience and humanity in his own,, bosom; or encountei the frown of Washington. Had it prevailed, why were not the British pris oners, taken on our northern frontier during tne late war, fighting by the side of savages, whom tney and their government had incited to hostili ty against us, at a time too wnen (to the disgrace ol the British name) rewards were offered for American scalps; why were they not, an, in stantly tried, convicted and led to execution ? Where (as it iias been justly asked) was the necessity ol executing these two men, even if their sentence was undoubtedly light? The Se minole war was at an end: anil had it still been raging, general Jackson could nave sent these prisoners in cnains to the United Slates, to be dealt with according to tne wisdom of his gov ernment. The biood even ol the guilty net he shed without reluctance and wtmoti! * v . good end. * As to Ambrister, the court martial bid not con demn him to die. The first sentence, as geni al Jacksdb is pleased to consider it, being instant ly rescinded bv the court, v. as in truth no sen tence at all. His approbation could not revive its existence. The last sentence was the only sentence. When the commander in chief disap proved it, the most he could rightfully have none, tv as to otyler the court martial to reconsider it/ By what authority, then, was Ambrister doomed to death? By the sovereign will ol major general Andrew Jackson, in whose hands are the powers •f peace and war, life and death. Mr. Gales, in his officious and awkward zeal to excuse this part of the general’s conduct, sug gests, “that it was no doubt dictated by a regard “to the wishes of the prisoner, who preferred “death to the ignominious punishment, for which “that fate was commuted by the court.” This is not a mere surmise of Mr. Gales. If the fact were so, it aggravates the general’s guilt. A brave man, asking death at his hands, as a refuge from disgrace, should have moved him to res pect, sympathy and pardon. What shall we 1 clemency, according to his defenders , is to in- death for mercy’s sake? VBms, sir, has an American officer destroyed tlßuves of two of his feilow creatures, without anjßgntful power, without any adequate native, andvbh such indecent precipitancy as hanlly to for prayer, in tne interval between judgment and death. Humanity bieedp at the recitaind national pride sinks in t M- Ameri can beam oppressed with the load tjsname and grief. \ And clQsUiat thejiresident of thf United States has said , all he has done, isMo tell congress, that a the proceedings Jthe court mar tial, in the of Arbuthnot ami Ambrister, shall be laid b formthem, and to fuMl theto-omise! Here, sir, lor the present, let us slmMrscene. General Jackski, from the moment i trusted with < (Vnmand, tndh avo\vedl% aad sys tematically, made his ownnvill and sole rule and guile of all 4iis actions; he sus pended the executive, fegisiative and judicial functions of the snks, ith arbitrary sway, and assumed to do so ao|i ignt; he has’insulted the executive oi the Uimfli States, at whose pleasure . he holds his commi|kn, spurned its authority, disregarded and tiaJsmnded its orders: he has usurped the high pfer*-ative of peace and war, | entrusted hv all nations %> the sovereign authori ty of the state, ancUnyoureonsiitution to congress | alone: he has abftgated Vie known laws of na tions, and promulgated a Aw code of his own, conceived in mmlness or Vlly, and writtcu in blood: he lias, if fine, \ ioliwcl all laws human and divine, ancWviolatcd tftmkyith impunity. Unconi*ectl with public Vnen, bearing no part in publicaffairs, a silent sjKculator of ordi nary political occurrences, I caim et never be in different to great questions of nigV, that directly affect the pface, the honor and tk constitution •of my couhtry. I see no reason ok the present j occasion,/o forbear the public communication of |my opinions; or to soften, if 1 couldmhc indig nant lai Jruage of truth and justice, \iberty is not of Spontaneous growth in any soil o\ clime: and hm is deaf to the voice of experience, who deei* it that hardy plant which will flourish eveßafter it lias taken root, without continual pains and cultivation. • f * ALGERNON SIDNEY. DARIEN, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1819. C (IRRESPON D E XCE. The author of A Faisvn to Justice may rest assured that our private feelings shall never interfere with the duty we owe to the public; nor the threats nor favors of friends or enemies exclude from our columns wliat is couched in decent terms and having* a tendency to elu cidate the wrongs inflicted by any one nation onanother, or the omissions or malpractice in office of any public servant, belonging* to the executive, legislative, judicial or mll ry Icpartment. Our < Eject is truth; but, to attain i . great circumspection should be used, lest plausible misrepresentation be taken for fact and our principles as .veil as our understandings be poisoned and perverted. No information from a dubious souict should be trusted; and that for the veracity of which an author is backward in leaving his name with his printer must certainly be viewed in that ligh.. A Friend to Justice will perceive the cause of our not comply ing with his request. By putting us in possession of his name, the obstacle may be removed. GENERAL JACKSON. Os the policy pursued by this olficer during Ids last Jndian campaign we freely gave our opinion some weeks since, and time has confirmed us in it. He has been de fended by all the devious wiles that the sophistry of his and adherents could invent, but also assailed w?T+i such forcible arguments, such cogent that the great body of the American people ceedings in Florida, notwithstanding bis less and unwarranta far as Ins superiors and the constifeitffffti of our comujßßboun trv. We wish we that all the assail aßfc/rePfc actuated by ih&**r*~ purely American, (though* t\o lo cality jjiHkelnigs of any man neither adds non t(en*acts rfrtifn the cogency ofiiis writings) but we cannot ventqre to sav so. The examination of his military life, so farasit. has clashed with the instructions of his superiors and] with the laws of his country is, however, from a source : which cannot be suspect'd. The character of Mr. ! Ritchie’s paper forbids even an ungenerous surmise:— Yet with the author we must on some points disagree. ; We cannot denounce the motives nor the measures adopted by our government to obtain sesssiotis of land from the Indians, who, since the earth was created for the common subsistence of all mankind, have no right to retain more land than they can appropriate to the use of civilized habits, while the whites are at a loss for ground to* till. The smaller the compass the savage is confined to,flic greater necessity he will perceive there is to abandon his erratic life, imitate civilized man in siead of prowing the wilderness like a beast of prey with Ills hands steeped in Moorland his mind intent on crime. We i- mot accuse general Jackson of having acted with unnecessary cruelty at Taliapoose. There the stages refused to accept or receive quarter, v\ Inch obsi 1 nacy doomed them by the usages oi all civilized na tions to destruction. To have taken them alive would have been uselessly exposing the lives ofiiis faithful fol lowers, and to have left them, infuriate and burning* v. is n revenge alPtlieir discomfiture, in his rear would have been leaving the women and children of our frontiers to the tomahaw k and scalping knife. Neither should Jack son be aspersed for driving the British out of Pcnsaco la during the war with England when New-Orleans was threatened. Congress had previously passed an act au thorising the executive to take possession of the Flori das, in case they should be invaded, and there is good reason for supposing* him to have been intrusted with discretionary power on that occasion. Nor can we agree with Algernon Sidney in thinking the editors of the National Intelligencer as having exceeded their pri vileges in making public their sentiments with respect to the operations of general Jackson. The press is free, and the liberty of opinion guaranteed by the laws of our country. Si*<h are our objections only to the able production in question, which we recommend to the at tention of every man who loves freedom and values the republican institutions of bis country. Messrs. Emmas —Observing a publication in your ]ap of t lie 11th instant, over the signature of A Citi , zen making some enquiry, through the medium of your paper, why an election was not held, at Mdntosh Court House, agreeable notice for a memlmr of | congress, to fill the of Mr. John Fon^H; ■ mated to the senate of andLin this ; enquiry, obliquely wishing e util In. j of die 1 the feelings of any individual present, for one moment, I suggest to them the smallest idea of any intention of infringement of their constitutional privileges being intended. 1 am not a judge of the inferior court, nor had I any ( thing to do with the election but to give my vote, i On my arrival at. the court house, l found about twen ty persons collected; and they were, as nearly as l could discover, about equally divided in their opinions respecting the two candidates, Judge Read, and Gene ral Milton. The magistrates were seated on the bench, and I presumed ready to receive votes. No person appeared solicitous about the matter, nor was a vole of fered. I spoke to one of the judges, who told me he was very sick, and could not sit more than half an hour longer, but lie supposed, as the people were about equally divided, it was of no consequence keep ing the poll open all day. I thought with hint, and re-1 turned home. To make mountains of mole-hills looks dark and invidious. A SUBSCRIBER. If we conjecture rightly, the preceding article is from a source entitled to credit, and no doubt can be en tertained of the writer having related correctly what ever oarne within his own immediate notice. We suspect however that sip did not witness all that transpired at the court-house on that day. Indeed it appears from his own statement, that his stav there was but short. W e now hold in our possession an affidavit proving sat isfactorily to us, that the sheriff did proclaim the election, mid after the election hml been so proclaim’ !■,‘rotes .cert offered but refused. The cause of this refusal, we have been given to understand, was that the clerks had not, at the momcmt, prepared their lists. Witnesses of ti e whole transaction concur in this part of the statement, but they likewise declare that no opportunity for giving in their votes was afterwards afforded them, the busi-. ness of the court of ordinary having been called up.—J The statement given by ws in our last paper we araj convinced is literally true. The election was proclaim-’ ed by the sheriff, the clerks were chosen and the jus tices seated; but no election took place* That the ma gistrates at first intended to hold the election seems e\ .- from one of the bench to assist in head ing the lists, others quitting it to harangue the__ voters in favor of one of the candidates. The former officer differed w ith them in opinion as to the men, and spoke in behalf of the opposite candidate. This is conclusive evidence that they had determined to open the poll. Even if indisposition prevented, as our correspondent intimates, one of them from presiding, that is, we conceive, no excuse for the other two, a fourth individual properly qualified being present. In fact it is the impression of nearly every man with whom we have conversed who was there, .that the election miscarried from design and not inadvertency. The bench, we feel no hesitation to say, was m fault—but whether one, two or three are to blame is for the ma gistrates themselves to decide. We hope, for the credit of the county, the state and the union, that no circumstance of the kind will again occur; for, when it shall he common for the few to place the many in a state of political pupilage as it were, then farewell to liberty. Her very shadow will vanish at the frown of some daring conspirator.— Editors Da rien Gazette. CITY ELECTION. The following gentlemen were, on the 11th instant, elected aldermen for this city*. George Street received 80 votes. Henry Harford 78 E. C. Grosvenor 76 Scott Cray 68 James Troup y 62 Armand Lefils 56 Calvin Baker 54 The Aldermen the same day elected James Tiiorr to the o’fficc of mayor. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. Darien, January 18, 1819. Cotton, sea-islanid, per ib. .... 45"5 50 Do. upland do - - 24 a 25 Rice, - - -- . ... . ... 550a 575 Congressional Election. —Returns from eighteen ceun ties(saysthe Milledgeville Reflector of tlie 12fli instant) give judge Reid a majority of twelve hundred votes over general Milton. Notwithstanding the unfavorableness of the Darien bank charter (says the Georgia Journal) the stock al lotted to different places in the back country, lias been taken dp with great avidity. The steam-boat Alatamaha arrived on the 12th instant at Augusta from Savannah. Though several of the freighting boats employed between those two cities re quire to be lighted, from the lowness of the river, she ascended without any material difficulty. The trip is experimental; and we hope that the majestic stream whose name she bears wiH receive her on its bosom in a few days. Despatches have been received at Washington City from Mr. Campbell, our minister to Russia. ” John Graham, late commissioner to South America, has been appointed by the president, minister plenipo tentiary to the Brazils. Letters from Washington state, that John Forsyth, a senator from Georgia, has been nominated by the Presi dent, as minister to Spain. It is said Ihe senate have been discussing the subject of the Canada line in conclave. Advices from Hendon are to 7th and from Liverpool to the 19th November. The best upland cotton com manded but from 17d a 17|d, and the. price was ex pected to fall still lower, liice met with a ready sale at 48 shillings. The queen of England made her demise at one o'clock on the morning of the 17th November. A mortification took place in her leg the preceeding evening, and she is said to have died without a struggle; she was horn May 17, 1741. wmmwj m# t ** * * *+* w Died, on the 29th ult. Peter James Nepiiew, at the interesting age of 23 years, only son of Janies Nephew, esq. To a parent, the bereavement of such a support is not easily discerned.. The anguish of tender and affec tionate sisters is equally distressing. He was a faithful son, a kind brother, a generous friend, and it cannot denied that he was free from the many youthful inclis cretions w hich characterise the present age. He died in the hope of mercy through his Redeemer. Mt Ratine lUnosu PORT OF DARIEN. ARRIVED. • British brig Jane, Murphy, Liverpool, 60 days—salt and dry goods—to Hall, Cooke & Cos. Schooner Telegraph, Graves, Charleston, 1 day—an assorted cargo—to Anson Kimberly, Mr. Hurt, C. Cook j the muster. { Bright Phoebus, Smith, Savannah, 3 i herring, hams, and the bank—-Wtanmge, Richardson 8c (Jo. Sloop IjKLßowmtn, New- Y sorted Cooke Hurd & kinand Roswell King. ** ‘ 41 Ann, Luce, ed cargo—to Daniel JacksW^j bank, rigging, sails from me ! wreck schooner Cornelia. Sparrow*, Treat, from St. Andrews, with shells, j Mary, Bunce, from St. Andrews, with AUhhu* Woody> wd } IVoin Boboj. I Brazil’s boat, with cotton, from Telfair county, to Si Cray, Hall, C .n/e 8c < o. ...id throw or. Boat utter, wiui co mn, from Haruord, to B. King 8* Cos. L()>S OF THE SCHOONER CORNELIA. 1 Schooner Cornelia, Hatch, from Charleston, bound to St. Augustine, was, mi lie oth ins.ant, stranded on an island ot sail i oft t ..ttle Si. Simon’s. No lives were lost though out little ot tne cargo has been saved. The cap tain i rn*. the null io the waicr'sc* ge tor the purpose ot saving the iron work. The island is übo.i. i nirt n feel a >ove high water mark, is ye.rl increasing in .* *e, and never covered except in heavy gales* The cap uin encamped five da\ s, during vvh i h urn* ,ie was without* fix sli water in lieu of which lie gave ins’ men a seamy portion of porter. __.ii;. . - : -ce-r AUCTION. be sold to the lugnest bidder on M >nil:u, the T T Bih February, TRUST LOTS E and F, pleasant ly si mated in me city < 1 Darien, having \ criion s t . ire to the west. Term —one half of the purchase money to be paid down; a credit of nine y dais on the u‘ .cl* halt, secured by a note w ith an approved indorser; viH*. purcliasers to pay for titles. JOSHUA A COFFEE, auctioneer. jan 11——12 For Liverp >ol. fcjarOrpHE t:ist *g British sli p LORD WET r~ u;JL LiNG I’ON, Jann -> \1 tcliell, nus it, wiii sail I for the above port on or before the 10th February n vt. Kua ions, CO. S’ diooner >r terms 19th iiist. will be held 1 for Clerk Marshal and Gaoler /ivVWYF/R & Hr. RUING O r FER for sale the cargoes of schooners Paragon and wander, and sloops Bridgeport and Collector from New-York, comprising A.V EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF Groceries, Provisions. Earthenware, Costings and Furniture. Also a few cases extra sunerfine west, of England BROAD’ ‘LOTUS C\SLMEHEand ladies’ CLOTHS. 8 cases domestic Goods 10 trunks Shoes 10 cases Hats and 1000 bushels Cadiz Salt, just received jan 18 it 13 The subscribers Have just received by the regular pad ’ e* Telegraph, J. Graves, master, and offer for sale UsD© DEMIJOHNS 12 boxes best Charleston Candles, 5 to a pound 12 ditto ditto Sqap A few barrels best Philadelphia llecr 18 dozen best double Hibbert’s London Porter 40 doz. double flint Tumble rs and Winc-GlasaiS 8000 D itch Quills Different sizes Burlaps and white Rolls 2 patent iron Blocks 1 box assorted Medicine Looking-Glasses, and sundry other articles DEWITT 8c BURNETT* jan 18 13 For. sale barrels Flour . 2 Anchors Jifl 1 Cable 2 the above articles :nav be had low if applied for (lavs hv LKt* TER 8c LEONA ABB jail IS— 1 ‘The subscriber % % hIJ. i -.pose 111 lou i* (If file I.< >'! *• oil his Pi<aßß| V ? . . si (; a boil Mwo 111 ‘< s below* Darien, *o and leu fc ct front, and tilree ilus^^H back—cither on a building lease, or otherwise. situation of those Lots, as .t regards flic advantage^^B retreat during the summer months, and its Darien, with the repeated health experienced thereon, is so well known, that it needs but little said—and in ad dition to that object, health, it has a spring of watei of an excellent quality—and the view extensive and com manding, open to Doboy Bar—and in addition to those the society in the neighborhood is agreeable. JAMES SMITH. jan 18 1 13 Togbe commissioners of Pilotage for the’ Darien and Sapelo liiveiy’ l am the commissioners of the port of Sapelo River gave thejrfselvcs the trouble of order that I am-notJior never was a pilot, as it intention Jtq.Jollow that for a living. I acted in at diffiltent times purely witlithe m#ycsof sertin)Qjjose flxit me, with w*ith saving inward and out clefi(*ii.*iiUffCTUK*rienced Pilots: i;ke great ex/mnee to establish the yMTof the bar aijjffver, and th%false runJPs that had widely abroad he liar. 1 hope the boarjWm pursuing the rules be gun, in appapffmg strangers that no may happen aiid/nat they may treat them with tude have me. JEREMIAH Pan aib ay the plantation of Mr. Archibald \PI arin, ojß \arinah river, three negro fellows, viz: I’ Mow, h , on iron-, win nhr w . 1,1 oil'. I • H^HBBBI v ’ .’o'i ■. <>{.,. : * ’ - . i.i ~. ’:. r ■ri ‘ w I', !’ I ion'. • I \ lib. r.! n .* x\Y “*i l ;M ” 1 ‘ .i.n : —i i'. ~ F. 1, •’ ■* v’ ■”/ (■*'* '■,* *’