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VOL. VI.
AUGUSTA. ?5 1 r »v DANIEL STARNES 4? Co. wist end of broad-treet. SATURDAY Night, February , 9 , ,f, 4 .
land near Augusta,
FOR SALE.
The subscriber for sale, &
valuable tract of PJNE LAND, to
Bouth-Carolma, part of which lies
within one mile of Augusta—The
Timber is particularly tine. The
roads from Angara » tr*m Camp
bt-Hfon, pusses through it, stvl at
their pDciton would he a fine place )
for a 'Tavern cr Grocery. The 1
irfct contains about 100 acre*, a j
large portion ol which would do
well for cultivation. There are i
several handsome scites lor build' 1
ing, and otic or more excellent j
Springs on the trace. If not sold I
entiic, it <nigl»' bi divided. Ap- 1
ply for lo da) h hence at Campbell*- j
ton, to
Lewis L. Hammond.
Ftbnxiy 12. 2*
Will be Sold,
On tie firat Thursday in April
next, it kVarrea county, at the late
residence of Joseph Maiks, dec’d.
all the Personal Prtpertv belong
iog to said dci>as9<l. 'Terms of
sale wr.ll bts made known on the
day of ’sale.
Mary Marks, adm’rx.
February 12.
N O T I C E.
ALL persons indeb ed to the
Subscriber either by note or ;
•pen account, »re neti bed that h«
has appoint* d Mr. Jared Morris
his l<jwiui agent to settle the snn.e.
Thomas Jones.
Columbia county,
Jacuarv 22. 4t
NOTICE,
A I L persons having any
maud* against the esiato of
Kob:rl iiov d aece«sed, are r ta les
ted to lender io their accounts
prepeir attested within the time
prescrilled by law ; and those in
lo eaui s-stata are r< qti*ed
to m<’k* immediate par Mien, to
WILLIAM B'JiTD, adm’r
January 22, 6t
Proclamation*
"VSTHERE AS info; raarion has
v f b en given to the City Coun
cil of Augusta, that s»u attempt was
made l»v seine, person unknown, ;
last rijht, br ween the hours of |
teu sndelcven •’clock, to Murder !
M>. Gilbert Tongscrecf, by die- \
chaiging «t him, through wne of ;
the wmiowr., a loaded gun or pis.
io(, n-i he tva* aiitiog at in* table in
h*s house iu the city of Au
ntJ thereby g'ving to the
«i2id G* bm Lougstrcet a dauge
te pood,
].»/ -e rnd »hut v*ch evil dis
'ptn-.ed } eraoci or per**«tis way be
hr-j.igb; to condigo punishment, r
d>u uu ref ore wide the advice ot the
City Cvtincii aferetard, offer a re
p ard of ONE 1 . WND HL U DO L
bii US lo be pa v* to »oy pen>wu
prjcr ini who vs |il g.ve such in
*o;pi>w*»n agaj.-b'.; the ulf. uder cr
ofctptb.is, us will lead to the con.
Yiciiotiof the perpetrator *i the
crime aforesaid.
Given under uty hand and the
seal of the C its Council of Au
gutfa, this 18’h da/ of No
vember, in the yar of our
Leru o.ic tiwusjnd eight hua.
ditd atul tmrlvst!,*
Seaborn Jones, Intendant.
Au**.:—N. W. Hlkblrt, Cl’k.
MIRROR OF THE TIMES.
Outrages at St. Sebastians ! !
From intimations contained in
extracts from British newspapers,
an impression has peivaded the
public mind, that the capture of the
Spanish tow* of Ssiot Sebastian*
from the French, wa* followed by
occurrences highly disgraceful to
Great Britain. Os the nature anil
extent of these circumstances we
have uu!, until now, been afforded
the tuc&ns of junging—the detail*,
ii anv were contained in the Brit,
iblt gazettes, having been suppress
ed by the Bosion merchants and
editors, into whose hand* they
cam<-.
To the’atianticn of a gentleman
in this city, we are indtb cd tor a
Spanish ncisspaper primed at Cadiz,
dated Monday, September 27 n,
181 S, and entt'led I>uen»e lo*
Caffees. The letter, ol which
the lodowing is a translation, i.
published in its columns ; and if
any reader can per»*e it without
sympathy for the ayfftrings it de
scribes, and without an abhorrence
of th« barbarous authors of them,
he eiust be possessed of qualities of
hear* which we coufss* wc do not
envy.
The narrative in ibis letter, pre
sents a correspondent »cene to ihat
exhibited by ihe British at the vd
lage of Hamftsk; aggravated, if
aught could aggravate tile horror
acted there, by the consideration,
that in the present insiNttce the
cruelties which fill the picture wt re
perpetrated on a people, to whom
they came in the gaib of friends &t
deliverers ; who Jook.d to them for
succour, ior production, and friend
ship, hui who, instead of receiviDg
these office* at their hands, were
made the victims of the iVackeit
enormities that darken the page of
human crime and picß gauy
Merciful God l if such are the
Isuits ot British protection and
friendship, hay/ favorable are thy
dispensations, which have snatched
uj from their desolating ii fl 4cnct !
Over the transacuons uetai.lcci
in the letttr published bslow, lat
the clerical poJitictAQs ol *Vlasaa
ebusetts, «vh,) weekly prostitute re.
ligion by holding up Great Britain
as its bulwark "md piltar, gather,
and jfluiiiy ihe idol of their affec
tions. 'To the setnei ihete ueva-
let Pickering b.ing his
oblation cf ar'anratie.i a id p-ai.-ie,
aud record ou the monument thty
erect of British periidv and baioa--
lism, the inscription he covc-s ior
hi* own remains.
It must be remembered that the
statement in tht* lerter, is not the
ilreunion ot an embittered and t x.
a?pcr w ud cDtis/, That it is not
ot the «atne siauip with the tales,
which load the British press, ot
French inhummity'and guilt. No !
it is ihe piuuuction of u Spanish
sußj ect—*he publication ot u Span
lih Gazette—ihe representation, in
a worn, ot bo ally ol G/cat Bri
tttiit, winch ha* just been delivered
from the load ot oppression and
tyranny by the very auxilary
whose baseness that representation
denounces; —an aux.uaiy whose
services was anxious to cbe
ii.h with the ronucst rctiiduibrance,
but vvuo.e unnatural crimes iuve
oblitctaud ah traces ol gratitude,
and substituted ter ihem the keen
t.si indigoa’iwu and th« deepest
horror. —National Advsvutc.
Trsndated for the National Advocate frc»
- Caaia paper of tiio 57th otpt. I*l3.
St. Sebsttiuns Destroyed.
my dear uncle,
la my Ult letters 1 inform
ed you of the cruel conduft
of our dear aides in this ever
“ HOLD THE MIRROR up To N A T v r E— Shakespeare.
unfortunate city. I had ho
ped that I lliould not again
have occahon to bear telli
monjr of such condmff, for
thehonorof the nation which
has vomited forth thole fe
rocious deftroyeri of a city
which has merited a better
fate, and whole country was
the birth place of the illus
trious and rcfpetflable Lord
Wellington, Duke of Ciu
dad Rodrigo. Thefc, my
dear uncle, are my reflec
tions ; but the innumerable
cruelties committed by tiiwfe
men, which 1 have dailv
wnnefied, with the continu
ed fpedlacic of atifery which
those unfortunate inhabitants
have fuffered, have induced
me to relieve myfelf, by im
parting to one so worthy of
rny confidence, a ihort ac
count of what has taken
place. You mud not expect
to receive a full repre fen ra
tion of ail the sanguinary act 9
committed during thole days
of wnifery & afflidion. My
pen wants force to deferibe
them—l shall therelorc con
fine myfelf in giving a sim
ple but faithful narration of
luch circumltances as by
their notoriety, deserve ts be
recorded in brat’s, to the per
petual ignominy of the exe
crable perpetrstors of such
enormities. The Engi lh 5c
Partuguefe armies took pol-
Icflion of this place on the
31st ull. at 4 o’clock, PM.
—They might immediately
have made thcmfdves mat
ters ot the citadel by purlu
ing the enemy, who fled
thither for fifcty in the
greatest difortler ; but the
conquerors contented them
l’eives with wdiat thev had
J
acquired —dazzled with the
idea which preTented to them
the profpccl of a loeedy
plunder. The inhabitants,
who, from the commence
» meat of their entry into the
city, thronged the balconies
and windows of the houfei
to hail and applaud those
whom they thought their
deliverers, were soon taught
to regret their ill placed con.
fidence, which was of Iliort
duration, they being com
pelled to shut them Lives up
in their houles, the victors
haring commenced firing on
them, in return for their po
litcneft: they ruflicd into
the dwelling houles of the
inhabitants, and plundered
them of every valuable arti
cle they contained.
On the tft of the present
month they leemed infuriat
ed with the spirit of demons,
committing every fpetiti of
outrage, aflaflinaiion, tc vi j-
lation of women, through
out every part ot the city.
The houles were filled with
dead bodies, and the woman
who made resistance superior
to her lex, paid the forfeit of
her life—neither tht infant
of ten years of age, or the
matron of fixfy were exempt
from their brutal violenct.
I am not ablt to give you a
lilt of all who were the vie
fims of this (l'econd) day,
being too numerous; but I
will mention the names of
some of your acquaintances.
The priett (j!oicoechioy Ega
n i, of 70 years old ; Xraicra,
the servant of the curate,
F.riz ; the mother-in-law de
Echaniz; the iilver-fmith’s
wife, lire vi lly ; the keeper
of the Jail ; the chocolate
maker, who kept hi* (hop in
the houle of Izarramindi;
the other chocolate maker,
who was married to the ler
vant known by the name of
the good girl, and many o
ther 6
With refpeft to the viola
tions of women, you will
excufc me for not mention
ing any names; but in order
to give you an idea of their
enormities; I will relate to
you an ad which happened
to an intimate friend of ours,
who was the father of an in
nocent daughter of twelve
years of age. In order not
to be an eye-vvitnefs of the
horror about t® be perpetra
ted on her, he fuccccdcd in
ransoming her for the firm
of twelve dollars, being all
the money he then poflefled.
It is impossible to afeertain
the number oimartyrs towr
tue on that terrible day, for
numbers of them were burn
ed to death, and buried in tire
ruins of their houses. Oh !
my friend ! what a fpedacle
was at that moment present
ed to the fatherof a family on
beholding such scenes! Mul
titudes of centinels prevent
ed all communication with
the houses, when cruelties of
every kind were committing
therein—whilst the French
prisoners, their real enemy,
iemained unmolcfted ana
proteded. Neither was our
holy religion rcfptded—the \
churches were broken open j
and pillaged ; ana not find- :
ing in one gl’them the sacred
chalice, which had been care
fully secured by the curate, 1
they proceeded to his houle,
and compelled him to give
it up, and the liofVs, which
they dathed to tlie ground
and destroyed. The curate,
actuated with religious zed,
attempted to gather them
u;>--but, in entit.iv j! n* to
4 1 #
execute his pious intenions,
they seized him, tore oft his
clothe?, and, after beating
him unmercifully, kicked
him naked into the Ifrect.
A shirt, given to him by a
woman, was, by thole mon
flers, tom off his back : Suf
fice it to fay, that the human
imagination cannot conceive
any species of atrocity that
was not committed on that
day, which xCil] be ever me
motable to every good Span
iard, The next morning
they set fire to the city at
the corner of one of the prin
cipal ft reels. In the evening
it had extended as far as th *
Efcotilla Orcef ; and the fol
lowing morning »t had reach
ed Puyueto, and in the even
ing as far as Juan de Biboa,
and the Plaza Ncuva : in a
ward, the city was systemat
ically burned and pillaged.
During all this period, the
fire of the enemy was dis
- continued ; that is to lay,
from the time they took ro
fugt in the citadel, until the
whole city was deltroyed.
A few houles, however, in
Calle dt la Trinidad were
saved from the flames for
barracks for the foldicry
When I refledt ©n thefetranf
arflions, my imagination is
101 l in an abyss of horror.
We have not forgotten, that
St, Seballians, during peace,
puffeflfed a considerable trade
with France, which wai in
jurious to the commerce of
Great Britain ; we also re
member, that it was a place
of maritime importance
and with imall cxpenle, un
der a wile admiaiflration cf
government, might become
a port of rtil! greater impor
tance. Gen Graham hav
ing retired to Oyarzun dur
ing the conflagration, and
not calling on the inhabi
tants of the vicinity to affiffc
in extinguifliing the flames
until the filth Hay, when the
city was nearly reduced to
allies, ftrengtnens the infer
ence to be drawn from these
observations.
Such is the lamentable
fate of this patriotic city,
which has adhered torhejufk
caule of liberty, wiih unde
viating perfeverancc, amidst
French bayonets, for the
(pace of fix ycari, during
which they have been iepa
rateri from ,the government
to which they have been
ever attached. We would
cornmilcrate the (ate of Pam
pelunj, Toitolfi, Barcelona,
tcc. if we had not before us
the catastrophe of be. Sebal- > •
tians •, and u . »o he feared f, jP
that the ••tilt ff t thol 'ft 1 1
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No. 279.