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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, On Hancock Sired, opposite the .Indian Store, BY S. Gil 1 YTLA.YD if R. M. ORME AT THREE DOLLAR*, IN ADVANCE, OK FOUR DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE TEAR. Q7P Advertisements conspicuously ’inserted at the customer}' rates. Letters on business, m nil cuse9, must be tost paid. WUHiYYAVlW. por from the port folio. Commodore Alexander Murray was born in Chestertown, Maryland, on llie l«th day of July, 1755, of honest and respectable pa rents. From early life be was devoted to tile, watery element—and at tbe age of 18, commanded a vessel in the European trade. The revolution shortly after breaking out, zealously attached to tbe cause of his coun try, lie forsook the mercantile life, and was appointed a lieutenant in the. first Maryland regiment, commanded by Col. Smallwood. He had previously received an appointment to the same station in tbe navy, but as tve had no frigate then in service, he entered the army. He took an early and conspicuous wait in the hard fought battles that ensued ut VVhiteplains, Flatbnsh, York, foe. His sense of hearing was much impaired by the explosion & bursting of sundry pie ces of cannon, on the New-York battery, while firing at tbe enemy’s fleet, on their pas sage up the North river. This infirmity he labored under until bis death. At the close of this campaign he was severely afflicted by chronic complaints, and was compelled to retire, soon after having been appointed to the rank ofraptain in tbe second regiment.— At this time two hundred effective men only returned, out of 950 that marched to Anna- p,,|js the rest having bean either killed or taken, or having falleu victims to the mala dies of the camp. On the re-establishment of Ins health, cap tain Murray resumed his rank in the navy. As there were no public ships ready for ser vice he was appointed, at various times, to command sundry letters of marque, repeat- edlv passing and repassing the enemy s fleet, and seldom escaping without a battle. One of these engagements is worthy of record — Having hsen appointed to the command or the Revenge, a letter of marque, carrying 13 six pounders, with a complement ot ntty men only, lie sailed from Baltimore for Hol land. He had the chief command of all the Vessels then lying at that port, bound on fo reign voyages, some of which were armed. Meeting with the enemy’s force much supe rior, he was compelled to return with Ins fleet, consisting of forty vessels, and to seek refuge in the river Patuxent. The number afterwards increased to about filtysad the commanders of which all agreed to fight their way through the opposing squadron. With tins determination they put to sea, when a licet of privateers hove in sight. A signal was mad., for all the unarmed vessels to return, and for the remainder to rally round their commander. The enemy s fleet consisting of one ship of eighteen irons one brig of sixteen, and three priva teer schooner stood for the body ofthe fleet. One brig and one senooner only obeyed captain Murry’s signal to rally. He soon discovered himself lying between the ship nnd the brig, when a severe engagement, en- Bi.rd. Capt. Murray kept up an incessant fli-e from both broad sides, and in an hour s time had the satisfaction to see his enemies haul off. after having sustained much fta- muTo. The brig and the schooner likewise, helmed extremely well, and repelled the as- ■aultsoC their adversaries. Capt. Murray, after this action, returned to Hampton Roads his sails and rigging were much in- tiired, but fortunately no lives were los - iw only were wounded, himself among the Humbert After Capt. Murray had repaired his vessel, he sailed for the borrks ot New foundland, and was unfortunately overmen and surrounded by an English fleet oft a0 men of war and transports hound to New- York He was pursued and captured by a frigate. The captain and ■ lieutenant were his intimate friends, from whom he received every kindness and attention. He at last ar rived at Philadelphia, where lie was regulai- ]y exchanged. The United States’ frigate Trumbull, of nuns, commanded by his gallant friend and relation, the late capt. Nicholson, w«* then ready for service. Tins officer had be fore distinguished himself in a very severe engagement off New-York, with a British of war called the Wyatt. She was ?n ,lined with a picked crew and sent express ly to take the Trumbull. Tile action conti nued Yhr two hours—both sides received n ti, tniurv and a dreadful carnage ensu- Tlie British ship hauled off, nod was towed into NeW-York. The captain being asked the name of the Trumbull’s command er replied that ho must he either l aut Jones Devil—for never was a slop fought before with such frantic desperation. Capt P 1 ' 1 . . i » « .xnt into nort lire a complement of men and guns, he I giving by them to the principal Inhabitants took a cargo of tobacco, and went on an in-1 of that place. . ,, tended voyage to St. Croix. When he sail- Captain Murray received orders from He ed from Hampton Roads, lie had only five vana to return to America. Meeting with six pounders on bmird, fo the creiv amount- strong and heavy gales, and a ice cuirent, ed to no more than twenty-five men. A the shin sustained much injury, unit it was privateer of 14 guns and tOO men, came u- with die greatest difluulty that she was long side, by superior sailing, and lay fast brought into Baltimore 5 thus terminating a upon his quarter. The five guns were bro’t cruize of nine months, never longer than a to hear, and the privateer was repelled.— weak in one port, mid his slop almost ie- Perceiving captain Murray’s weakness, the I ducedto a wreck- the. tip! s am > attack was renewed with redoubled fury, ing from her ilecksand b'dcs in eveiyg . while his own guns were perpetually shifted Scarcely had lie time to a • i , from side to side, as occasion demanded.-1 Norfolk c0inm0( |‘ o ,. e In attempting to hoard, the privateer was a-’| command of the , ,, gain driven back, hut succeeded in carrying Truxtun having been irasnferr.d to the 1 e- away the mast, leaving nut a stick of timber sident. His first cruise was lor the Li ew aid Having refitted at this place, he captured ] the Windward Elands and on his passage a British packet by stratagem, in the Gulf encountered a dieadful gait, whe t he. na of Florida, without Hi ing a gun, and brought nearly foundered, and was on i ^ his prize into the Havana. An embargo cutting away his m s, whtn the .torm^ was laid at this port in consequence of an ex- hated, lie proceed ' - nedition then fitting out against the Bahama Guadeloupe, and fell m with the Fslands, in which he obtained a command. | grate Magnanimie of forty-tour guns lE^S’a'forl' ^ wVK I edtTem insLmlly to their qu-j-j without was immediately done, and the Spanish flag | reserve. It rcqidro-‘ b “* “jg waved triumphantly on the ramparts ancy to o)«erTr by he I'KM * u.e, iau ^ The governor and his aid (since the not-1 lantei ns this hill g I • j il( - ed gen. Miranda) who both sailed on l.cmlmir then full, exprissive mense city. There is more liberty en joyed in it than at Petersburg, where the court necessarily exercises great t.dlu- euce. The groat nobility settled ut Moscow who were not ambitious of place's—but they proved their patriotism by munificent gills to the stale, either tor public establishments during pence, or ns aids during the war. The colossal for tunes of the great liusHian nobility are employed in making collections of all kinds, and in enterpriz.es of which the Arabian Nights have given the models— these fortunes are also frequently lost by the unbridled passions of their possessors. Wtien l arrived at Moscow, nothing was talked of but the sacrifices that were niudo on account of the war. A young Count de Momonotf ruised a regiment for the state, and would only serve in it us a sub-lieutenant ; a Countess Orlnff, amia ble and wealthy in the A-iutic style,gave the fourth of her income. As 1 was pas sing before these palaces, surrounded by gardens, where space was thrown away, in a city as elsewhere in the middle ot the country, 1 was told that the possessor of this supurb residence had given a thousand peasants to the state : 1 hud some difficulty in accommodating myself to the expression, ot giving men, hut the peasants themselves ollercd their ser vices with ardor, and their lords were in this war, only their interpreters. As soon as a Russian becomes a sol dier, las beard is cut off, and from that moment lie is free. A desire w,ts lelt that all those who might have served in the militia should also he consideied .is free : hut in that case the nation would have been entirely so, for it rose almost his empire, with a view to fix by study the impatient spirit ofthe Russians. Florida" affairs. • — From the Charleston Courier 20th in si : GOV. COPPINUElt S PROTEST. The following is the Statement fo la test of Gov. Coitinger, on the subject of the lute proceedings ut St. Augustine. Colonel Joseph Coppinger, of the Spanish anny, late Gove.nor of East Florida, and commissioned by his go vernment to deliver up the province to the U. States in conformity to The trea ty concluded at Washington on the ‘22d sheriff went out, and in a very short time capt. Bell, with Mr. Gay, came in and made similar representations, producing a paper which they said contained the order of general Jackson, to proceed in thatmanner, on Which this deponent re ferred them to what he had already stat ed ; and repeated that lie protested a- gainst the utternpts which already ap peared to have been begun : this pro test was made in the presence of the A- merirnn Gen. John Geddes, his son Ma jor John Geddes, und a resident 'of this town Don Joseph Mariano Hermaml. z, who ut this time were in his house, and that after various altercations w hi< ti were * t0 }reciprocally made between the parties, gratify the public expectation upon the ,,, fe execution of the order of General fact of his having been forcibly deprived j. lc | u ’ on br j ng insisted on, by one party, ofthe government archives, which were If b y tb(s deponent the injustice and under his charge, together with his pri- v j 0 j eI1CB , v hich would he committed by vale papers, and the archives ofthe Es- ( , )e performance thereof; he maintain- cribano, which last, according to the sli- m)J [ llwi ,y 9 that by force atone, should pulations entered into with Col. Robert L he re u<iired archives lie taken away ; Butler, Commissioner on the part of the they tbpn wcnt ( 0 where the office ff*t, U. S. remained subject to the.future and )n( j finding the door locked with the ki y, conventional decision of the two cabin- | (b( ,y f orce d it open and without any par- cts, would wish td fhnkn known, that he will not be permitted, by the short stay he intends to make in this city, to lay before the world a statement of tacts in his own justification, supported by pro- ticipation on his part, proceeded to take awav all the papers anil documents there in, carrying them out of his aforesaid house in botes, which had been placed the said office for the purpose of hav- A controversy with Miranda ensued, which I This silent interchange of ended in a formal challenge on the part of sensations, moreeloqncnt, ho we*. ; than all Cant Murray. That officer believing, with the powers of language, Ustei0 I r som P - “ *'■ the better part of valor was time. Not n word was spoken-all was a - tention and dumb resentment, fnise oln i s at length to their astonishment and de Fulstttff, that - . discretion,” refused to answer the call hoard the Alliance frigate, as first liontanant, I to n urn .htBaMcw, Aafuilbradnde. A navy, ions frequently wounded, andaflcn Ink- i m.i . . b( ,i. ’ ’ . which was the only thing that e-1 peace had been signed bet ween 'la twa. ni. en prisoner, _ „ ■ ■ ver withdrew him from active and honorable engagement in the service. During the administration of President A dams, at the commencement of our hostili lies with Fiance, the name of capt. Murray was found amongst the officers appointed in the navy. He repaired In Baltimore and took the command of the United States’ ship ii go rents; and falling in with admiral Duck worth, tliese tidings were confirmed. Ai ming off Point Pelre, he sent a flag of truce to tha French commissioner, by whom tie was invited on shore and was received wuli ■very testimonial of respect. Feiixdejoie were fired from, the forts as lie passed, and during the two days of his residence at that Mont evil ma of 24 guns—cruised for eight | place, all was hilarity and mirth. He com- inonthsalong the whole range of Wesl-Indiu 1 municated the pacific commanders Islands, andwnvoyed nearly 100 sail to the whom he fed in, and taking a convoy, si different oorts of the U. Stales, without the for Philadelphia. . mss of a Be vessel. Returning, he arriv- The act of Congress reducing the navy ...i it the Delaware, received the public was now passed, and the eontiundoie .i thanks ofthe President, and was ordered In one ofthe 13 still retained ml ie] sm'• e command of the Insurgent. With a He received “^*7*. t0 T^Vican comrnorco ired on board of this rancan, to protect the American in that quarter from the ravages ot tue l ri- cruizrrs Cape w Ui,lllant friend, the present Comoro Ing liiy,R " c tiAntcnanta on hoard S 1 *”Dale, one of the lieutenant, on boa Kkewise In the midst of a violent gale,« 5X „ ed by thunder anil igl.tnnia-. . Kbu !:.a ,, ffi^r*viS',hem * , r m »fh close on board an English fri *■ 111 hands were, nevertheless, called gate. All nanus areadful action en to ^.r qba'^s, and d ^ fire r Cd - t slacken it was discovered that began t . Unirms were extiuguisli- most (led from their sta- ?' S " d Asecond English ship was laid along tions. r»Trumbull, which poured in thn .tern o "umlaujh ^ ^ (o her raking o oflhc lioute „ an ts, with Iteuti * Cl, r Murray " ere severely wounded—and nant M in’ 7 if . w eithRr killed or dtsa- i The Trumbull was-be next day tow- r d ’t New-York, without a mast standing ed into Ne T '. ’ ports beaten into one and several ot liergmi K 1 __ J fror crew of3-i0 men he repair ship, and sailed under a roving commission. ] m llial Understanding that the French frigate Am- polilun - I.usrade was in the neighborhood ofthe He was once becalmed, when c was West-India Islands, lie cruised there for se- tacked by all the Tripoline gun • > veral weeks, and put into the port of Lisbon | the contest was maintained for an to recruit his provisions. lie next proceeded in company with the rilisli frigate Phaeton, on hoard of which ere Lord F.lgin and suite, in quest of two ench frigates, reported to he cruizing oil St. Vincent, with whom h ailed until her arrival at the. Straits of Gibraltar. He then blockaded two largo French cur ettes in the hay of Cadiz: hot hearing that _ number of American vessels were watched by French privateers at Algesiras, he repair ed to Gib altar for information. Here admi ral Duckworth was anchored with a fleet oi several ships of the line, from whom he re ceived every testimony of civility & kindness, lie next cruized off Madeira and the Cana ry Isles : hut never obtained sight of the e- nemy, the two corvettes excepted. Receiv- ing information that the I 1 rp.nch frigate Y o- Iunleer, of 44 guns, was cruizing off Cayenne, lie arrived at that port, where he under stood she had sailed for Guadeloupe. At length lie discovered this frigate, of which he had been so long in chare, irt. Point l e- iiei o he blockaded her until all ins pro visions were consumed, and repaired to St. Christopher's to recruit. On returning to re new the blockade, he fell in company with th e Constellation, and learnt from th« l^‘l- nt TlUXton that tli’rs frigate was lhe Ven geance. The particulars of that memorable frtlllc are too well known to requite a epe- ific detail. . .ii,. The Constellation then m a crippled state, and (he Insurgent sailed in company to J a maica. for the purpose of refilling, where tin- two American officers experienced every kindness and courtesy from sir Hyde Parker, who commanded on that station. While sailing in quest of the French fri gate Vengeance, after the action with com modore Truxtun, he received information of her capture by the English, lie was al- lenvards relieved by captain Si vier, in tile frigate Congress, and sent on his return ti. Delaware. Passing through the Bahama straits, lie stopped at the Havanna to convoy some American vessels, and was introduced to the. vice roy of Mexico £i his lady, on their and A .iglit breeze springing u’p, he brought hi* guns to hear, and distributed 'among them such showers of grape that they never an noyed himafterwards. lie remained for a period in the bosom ol domestic retirement, from whence Jie was summoned to take command of the Adams, ti cruise, off the American coast, which was then infested by French privateers, lie j Europe cruised for some, time along the coasts ol Carolina and Georgia in a tumultuous season ofthe year, until his ship was almost a wreck, whcn|hc returned to Washington, where she was laid up. ■ i r During the late war and to the period nl his life lie was employed as commanding officer on the Philadelphia station. . These arc some ofthe prominent facts in the life of a man who was lately the oldest officer in the Ameriean navy, lie has emir.- ed every opportunity to prove Ins devotion to his country, by shedding his blood m her service. He has proved his fidelity to her bv dungeons and wounds, by seeking her foes in every stormy sea, and by puisuing danger and death in all the shapes in wlneh they were presented. lledied on the Glh October, tSill d several o.u-s- v .. covere d from lo the viceroy aim ex. ■» ~ mere B Ii;xxxla, in Hi ^oundThe’^P’’' 1 ^^ 0 B “ ltin 2 0 ^’ b ^ er * wUU*?v^y B ™»rk y o?SoiSiaV'wpect.parti 11 Have you seen the , was furnished ewub uimble lu JI o-1 cipaUnfi in all the splendid entertainments' and Europe are fo- MOSCOW. From the “ Ten Years F.xilc," of Me. de Slael Gilded cupolas announced Moscow from afar ; however, as the surround ing country is only ujplain, as well us the whole of Russia, you may arrive in that great city without being struck with its exlent. It lius been well said hy some one, that Moscow was rather a province than a city. In fart you there see huts, houses, palaces, a bazar ns in the East, churches, public buildings, pieces ot water, woods and parks. The variely ot manners, and ofthe na tions of which Russia is composed, are all exhibited in this immense residence. Will you, 1 was asked, buy some Cash- mere shawls, in the 1 artar quarter ? Chinese town ? Asia found united in this im en masse. Let us hope that this so much desired emancipation may ho effected without violence : but in the meantime I would wish to have the beards preserv ed, so much strength and dignity do they add to the physiognomy T the Russians with long beards never pass a church without making the sign ol the cross, and their confidence in the visible images ol religion is very affecting. 1 heir church es bear the mark of that taste for luxury which they have from Asia : you see in them ornaments of gold, and silver, and rubies. 1 was told that u Russian had pro posed to form an alphabet with precious stones, and to write a bilde in that man ner. He knew the best manner ot in teresting the imaginations of the Russians in what they read. This imagination however has not as yet manifested itseli either in the tine arts or in poetry. They reach a certain point in all tilings very quickly, and do not go beyond that, v Impulse makes them take the first step : but the second belongs to re flection, and those Russians, who have nothing in common with the people of the North, are as yet very little capable of meditation. Several of the palaces of Moscow are of wood, in order that they may be built quicker, and that the natural inconstancy ofthe nation, in every thing unconnect ed with country or religion, may be sa tisfied by an easy change of residence.— Several of lhe“e fine edifices have been constructed for an entertainment ; they were destined to add to the eclat of a day, and the rich manner in which they were decorated has made llicrn last up to this period of universal desliuctiou.— A great number of houses are green, yel low, or rose colour, and tire sculptured in detail like dc*ert ornaments. The citadel of the Kremlin, in which the emperors of Russia defended them selves against the Tartars, is surrounded by a high wall, embattled and flanked with turrets, which, by their odd shapes, remind one of a 1 ut kish minaret rather than a foi tress like those of the west ol Hut although the external char acter ofthe buildings of the ci*v be ori ental, the impression of Christianity was found in that multitude of churches so much venerated, ami which sittracted your notice at every step, line was re minded cf Rome in seeing Moscow : cer tainly not from the monuments being ot the same style, hut because the mixture of solitary country and magnificent pal i- ces, the grandeur of the c ity and Hie in finite number of its churches give the A- siatic Rome some points ot resemblance to the European Rome. The commercial establishments at Mos cow had quite an Asiatic character; men in turbans, and others dressed in the dil- ferenkcostunies of all the people of the East, exhibited the rarest merebundiz.e : the furs of Liberia & the muslins ol India there oflered all the enjoyments of luxury to those great noblemen whose imagina tion is equally pleased with the sables of the Samoicdes and with the rubies ofthe Persians. Here, the gardens and the palace Razoumowski contained the most beautiful collection of plants and miner als ; there, was the fine library of the Count de Douterlin, which he had spent thirty years of his life in collecting : a- moug the hooks lie possessed, there were several which contained manu script notices in the hand w riting of Peter 1. Tins great man never imagined that the same European civilization, of which he w as so jealous, w ould come lo destroy the cstablis! meats for public instruction which lie had founded in the middle of per documents, which should convince j nj r them carried to the Havana when hie all men ofthe outrage committed by the | romcnifw>ion should be completely folfill- iumediute orders ol the Secretary, act- That after it had become dusk, ho ing as Gov. of St. Augustine, W.G. L. , vt , n ( flown from the upper floor, whera Won/HiNUTON, and which orders, as he | )G bm ] rein ained, to the office, arrom- was informed, emanate from Gen. Jack- j ptxniod* by the aforesaid Gen. Geddes, son. This exposition, or manifesto, lie ar|( j b j 9fon) Don Joseph Hernandez and designs lo make, as soon as lie reaches otber persons,-mid found the door forced the point for which he will shortly set 1 the lock, nnd’H.e papers carried a- out ; and in the interim, in order that . un ,| this deponent further alledges, some idea may be formed of the above I that at the same time that this outrage mentioned occurrence, lie publishes the I w:l9 committed in his house, he was in- solemn protest which he made on the ] fo rmc d by ])„„ Joan de Entrulgo that pot, hoping that it any doubts should lbc y ] lll( | t-emuved from his in the same still he entertained hy those unacquaint ed with the particulars, they will he learcif up and removed when his mani festo shall appear. (COPY.) United btates of America, City of St. Augustine, anner by order of the government, tha archives, his own property, »nd amongst which were those of particular indvidu- :,ls of East-Florida, the same being rt<** nominated the Notary’s archives, which had been left subject as is before stat-il to the mutual decision of both govern- P>y this public instrument of declara- j men Is ; whereby the contract has been tion and protest, Be it known that on this violated which was made between Cry second day of Oet’r, in the year of our lonel Butler und this deponent. And he Lord one thousand eight hundred and further saith that, without prejudice te twenty one, before me,Thomas 11. Penn, the protest which the said Don Juan de of St. Augustine, Notary Public, per-1 Entrulgo has made, this deponent like- gonullv came and appeared, the Spanish wise declares, in discharge of his respon- Col. Don Joseph Coppinger, Coinmis- sibility, that he reserve# to himself the sioner on the part of his Government right of representing against each one for the delivery of the Province of E. land ull the persons who are and ought to Florida to the United States of America,] lie responsible for the violence coinmit- conformable to the treaty of cession con- ted by the seizure of both archives, that eluded upon between both nations, who, they may be adjudged conformable to the being duly sworn on the holy evangelists Constitution of the United States of A- of Almighty God, did depose nnd say, I merica, and other laws, protecting pri- that this day at 4 o’clock P. M. there vale property and the lights of dwelling* presented themselves nt his dwelling from being forcibly entered into, bro- liouse, the Mayor'’Colonel Forbes, tbe ken, or any violence committed there- Attorney General Joliu G. Bird, and the m or upon the persons inhabiting the Sheriff John Hanlnim, who madea de- same, they living under the immediate maud ofthe archives &, papers, which re- protection of the Americao government, mained in his possession, they being, as either as persons who, in a public char- tho.y stated, commissioned by their Go-’Lctcr, enjoy privileges, or as private in- vernmcnl; &: they were answered that in Jividuals. no wise could the aforesaid deliver! (be uc- Wherefore the said Don Joseph Cop- ceded to, because the archives remain- (linger declared to protest, and l the said ing in his charge were those containing Notary aforesaid, at his special instance the correspondence with his Govern- and request,'have protested, und by these ment, which li«d been enrried on by him- presents do most solemnly protest a- sclfand the preceding Governors, rela gainst ull the consequences, damage# and live to the employs tilled by the respec- prejudices, which have or may occur from live functionaries and persons ; that he the foregoing proceedings, and against all bad no documents which had any rela- persons concerned therein, Si against all lion directly or indirectly, n ith the pro- losses that may he sustained for or by rea- perty and sovereignty of the nation ; and son or means of the aforesaid proceedings one word, that the said archives were orotherwise relating thereto. All which particular property which he was bound to deliver to his Capt. General, and positively excluded by lhe Treaty ; that there were also nome of hiv own pa pers amongst them ; thersfore lie re peated, that in no wise could he deliver the said archive# j that the archives of the Notary remained subject to the res pective decision of both Governments, as had been stipulated with the Ameri can Commissioner Col. Butler, as ap pears by the correspondence mid the a- j,i cement which both made, and most po- siiively expressed in the acknowledg ment of the delivery, for which reason lie ought lo continue in the satno capa city lie now holds, until the conclusion of the aforesaid determination ; and that lliP aforesaid Colonel Follies insisted up on the delivery ofthe archives, as lie had positive oiders which he must inflexibly fulfil. The deponent again repeated, that he w ould not in any w ise do so vol untarily—and if the American Govern ment, contrary to the rights of nation#, against the inviolability ol his house, and the particular property of his nation and of himself, should lake by force, by which mode alone could they obtain them, that he protested solemnly against such au at tempt, contrary to the laws of nations, 'the protection of individual security and property, nnd more especially in the present case, wherein the aggression was directed against the rights of his person, in which he represented his Go vernment, by virtue of his office, as commissioner for the cession, which was not yet even concluded—and upon his persisting in this refusal and firm deter mination, notwithstanding all the argu ments which were ur^ed to him, the m liters k tilings were declared, alledged and affirmed, as before i9 set forth in the presence of the said Notary ; and therefore I have hereunto subscribed uiy name and affixed my notarial seal, being requested to testify and certify the premises. , * Thus done and protested at St. Augustine uforesaid, the day IE year above written. [L. S.] (Signed) THOS. II. PF.NN, JYutary Public for the City of St. Au gustine and County of St. Johns I do hereby certify that the annexed, con taining two sheets, is a true copy of a pro* let made, before me on the 2d of October. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed [L. S.] my notariat seal, this fourth day of October, 1821. * THOS. H. PENN, .Notary Publicfor the City of St. Au gustine and County of St. Johns. United States of America. ) Citu of St. Augustine, y Y ‘ John Geiffles, senr. John Geddes, Junr. and Joseph Mariano Hernandez, named in the foregoing protest, being severally and duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, do severally make oath and say, that the circumstances therein stated as having taken place in their presence, are to tne best of their knowledge and belief, in substance, correct. JOHN GEDDES. (Signed) JOHN GEDDES. junr. JOSEPH M. HERNANDEZ. Sworn by all the said deponents, this 5th day of October, 1821, before me, (Signed) THOS H. PENN, Notary Public for the\City of St. Auguiu tine and County of St. Johns. I do hereby certify, that the above i* ft copy of an affidavit made before me on tha 5th October, 1821. THOS. H. PENN, Notary Public for the City of St. Alt* gystln* and County <f St. Johut. tur of