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ies may* take 'trr. g a
painlf the besiegers, • •:! we
fear the refalt, if they do not i
take care to inlpire them
selves with confidence, since j
it cannot he forgotten that
the Spanard, who attempts (
to protect his fire fide is a I
rcfpedlable enemy, in coui- f
parifon to him who (caff's at,
his virtues. Thus far for the
present.
Receive my cordial affee- j
tion, and command your
humble nephew, who ki£es
your h^nd.
Mirringvi VeJaverJe.
Nashville, Jan. 26.
Fijtb Victory tier the Creeks .
[Oi FILIAL.]
Fort Claiborne, East batk #f Alabama, 85
miles above Fort Stcdtlart, Jau. 1, JSI4.
Sir,
Agreeably to previous ar
rangments, made with the
vie w of carrying the war in
to the enemy’s country, I
marched a detachment from
this place, on the 13th ult.
to ait again it rbc towns on
the Alabama. When I had j
marched about 80 miles, 1t
was informed that we were j
within thirty miles of a con* |
iiderable town called Fcca
r.Gchaca, (or Holy Ground,)
where the Indians from the
neighboring villages had as- ‘
feaibkd in confidcrabie force 1—
where Wither ford, w ho has 1
made kimfeif confpicuoua by
his depredations on our fron
tiers, and by the mafiacro at
hi inn ns; and where Josiah
iTancis a principal prophet,
re tided. After having caui
td to bo ertsed a doekc.de
lor the protection of the bag
gage and iiek, the troops
relumed their march on the
22J. On the mcraing of
u : 23d, when mar the
tow n, u v Ui >y . fiticu for the
attack was made. 1 march
ed in three columns. The
right ccmpofed of volunteers 1
commanded by CoKCarfon j j
the left con fitting of militia,
and a party of Chodaw>,
commanded by M.j. itmoot,
cf mditia - y and the centre
being a part of 3d U. S. re
giment of Infantry 6c mount
ed iViilitia Riflemen, under
Lieut. Col. Iluileil. With
this column I myfelf march
ed—having ordered Letter's
guards and Wills’* troop of
dragoon?, to ait as a corps
of icfeive.
lie righ*t being somewhat
advanced, Urtl came in view
oi the town ; and* were vi
| porously attacked by the en
emy— who had polled them
| Lives to the belt advantage.
Ihe centre and left made
evety edition to gain the
| field of action ; but before
they C' aid aii be fairly enga
f eJ the Indians broke Sc.tied
n every direction -many j
ct them thro wing a way their
r.'im. 1 hirty ol tee enemy
Lj we e kilf-d. Vie had one
y Corj Mai krile ■ ; one e ifign,
Ik .two iergeants, one corporal,
L a *l te. j piiv-tes wounded.
The country is so situated, *
that although a purluit was
i immediately made, nothing
could be elfedtcd by it—ma
il ny of them having crofifed
the Alabama. Appearances
( indicated that many were
i wounded.
1 The town, confining of
about 200 houses, built since
the commencement of hofli
lities, was burnt; and with
| it a large supply of provi
sions, and a great quantity of
other property. The enemy
had fufticient notice ©f our
approach, to fend their wives
and children acrois the Ala
bama, which russ near the
town.
The next day was employ- I
«d in destroying another
town, of 60 houses, and the
boats of the enemy. Three !
Indians, of fonie aiftin&ion,
were fell in with by a detach
ment, & killed, on the fame
day.
In Witherford’s house W3S
found a letter from the Go*
vernor of Pensacola to the
Creek Indiant, of which the
onclcfed is a copy. It flirvvs
the interefi; which the Span
ish government takes i.i the j
success of our savage ene
mies.
I would have proceeded
to feme towns about Forty
miles higher up the river,
but fer the impoflibility of
procuring faflicient tranf
portatiens for provisions, and
the diftrefTed Atuation of the
volunteers for want of blan
kets & clothing, and whose
term ®f service, in many ca
ses, had and were fad expir
ing.
I have the honor to be,
with great pe: final efieeni,
your excellency’s moil obe
dient servant,
* t
T. L. Claiborne, |
Frig. Gen . Volunteers. |
Gov. Elount.
[We have Teen another
| letter, which dates that there
were caly 1 10 Warriors who
engaged our army —therefi
having previously fled with
the vvornen and children.
Editors!)
Pensacola, 29 tb Sept. 1813.
Gentlemen —J received
the letter that you wrote me
ia the month or August, by
which, and with great fatif- ]
fa <sl ion, l was informed oi : |
the advantages which vour
brave warriors obtained over
your enemies. I
i reprelented, as I promi- J
fed you, to the captain-gen
eral ot the the re
que-l (which the lad time i
too.c you by the hand) vl
made me, ©1 arms and mu
nitions—but until no v I
cannot yet have an ani'wer.
Hut i am in hopes he will |
leriii me the effects which 11
reqaeided ; and as loon as 1 I
receive them, 1 fhili inform 1
y o'J, I
I am very thankful for your |
generous Oilers to procure
me the pro Vi lions end war..
riors ncceffary, in order to
re take the post of M#bile—
and you ask me at the lame
time, if we have given up
Mobile to the Americans ?
To whem I answer, for the
present, I cannot profit of
your generous offer—not be
ing at war with the Ameri
cans ; who did not take Mo
bile by force—fince they
pure ha fed it from the mifer
ab!e officer, destitute of hon
or, who commanded there,
and delivered it without au
thority : By which reasons,
the falc and delivery of that
place is totally void and
null—and i hope that the
Americans will restore it a*
gain to us, bscaufe nobody
j ca n dilpofe ,of a thing that is
| not his own property ; —in
consequence of which, the
Spaniards have not loft their
r;ght to it i and I hope, that
you will not pat in execu
tion the project which yea
tell me of. ti burn the tswn ;
iince those houfei and pro*
perties do not belong to
Americans, but to true Span
iards
To the hearers of your
letter, I have ordered some
small presents to be given.
And I remain, forever your
good father and friend.
(Signed) Manxiqjje.
Fareign Intelligence .
British accounts received by W&y of Bridge
town, Barbados*.
Loni*on, November 24.
The Cazeue of l*ft* night
contains dtfpatches from Lord
Citfteart, of the 19 b u!t. from
Sir Charles Stewart of the sift,
and from the Earl of Aberdeen
of ihe 22d. They all chiefly
relaie, to the fp’endid victories at
Leifdic, and to the arrangements
» made for the pur (nit of the cne.
1 rny’satmy; communicating aifo
| a variety of facts which though
many of them are now not new,
yes pofiefs intereft.
Lord Ca.heart mentions the cir*
cuniftance of a fCg of truce be*
iog feftt frora Lcipflf, in the
name of the King of Saxony, to
beg tbst the town might be
spared; but the Emperor of
RulJia viewing it as a nick o;
Bonapaste’s to gain time, re
turned a verbal anl’wer, in the
pielencc of fever* il bundled Of*
fleers, refufing to grant the
ieaft delay, and the army conti*- I
nuei its advance. Sir Charles
1 Stewcrt finenpons the advantage
S gained fcv St. Cyr, who been
1 left at Dresden with 25,05®
men. over 'he Ruffian Genesal
Toiftoly. Lord Aberdeen gives
) a luminary of the advantages
, obtained up to Ihe tad, 40,4 00
priloneis having then been ta
ken, meifuling 97 Generals, 309
pucesof cannon, and an ;tn
mence number of ammunition
waggons, fits Lordship ftetes
ailo, that in the battle of the,
imh, Buonparte narrowly cfca
ped being taken pnfoner, owed
I his safety only to the wiftnefi of
[ Ids horde* He supposes that the i
j number of the enemy who fled.
! after il*<. fina ! over throw at Leip
i amounted 10 about Bo,cso
1 men.
liedin Gazelles and Be;lii. 1
La.i.eis we.e «.ifo received yef* |
terday, containing a vane.y of
particulars re r peßing the move
ments of the Allied Armies,
and the affairs which took place
with the remains of the French
army on its retreat. Von
Yorck diftingnilhed himfelf by
repeated attacks upon the en
emy, one corps of whose troops,
it appears, was cutoff, and dri
ven for refuge into Thuringia.
I he Crown Prince was inarch,
ing in the direblion of Han
over, and is brobably now in
Holland.
From last night’s Gazette wa
learn likewise, the gratifying
f*& of the re-efUblifhmem of the
ancient confutation of Bremen.
Ihe Gazette too, contains
difpatcbes from Admiral Fre
mantle, ftaiing that Iftria and
Croatia were up again ft the
French, ar.d that the whole of
the Islands in the Adriatic were
cleared from the yoke of the
enemy, and narrating aifo Seve
ral paitsculara of the SuccetTe?
obtained by the Austrian Gen
eral Nugent,
, November 25,
OFFICIAL litfLLETIM.
Foreign Oj/ize, November f*.
u Bispatches have hero received
this morning from the earl es At «r
--d«en, lord Caihcart, »i r W,
§tewait, and Mr. I hernton.
The dispatches trem ths tnrl of i
Aberdeen and lord Catbtar?, a ret j
of the 10th add llih, iron* F a>k I
fort ; from sir C, Stewart, of the
16;h from Hanover 1 and from Mr,
Thornton, of theifuh, froz* &©.
men.
i he emperor Alexander made
hi* entry info Frankfort on the Jib,
attended by cavalry and artillery,
and the guard, amidst the loudest
acclamations*
On the foilnwicg day the empe
ror Franc:* entered and horh sove
reign# proceeded to the Cathedral.
Bonaparte v/as supposed to have
escaped over the Rhine w ith about
!ifiy thousand men.
The main army was assembling
at Fxaiiklort, and would soon be
ready tor ulterior operations. The
king ut Prussia was expected im
mediately at Frankfort. The grand
duke of Hesse, Darmstadt,hau lor
muily renounced hi* alhaoce with
France. Nassau and iladen the
same.
On the 9‘h, prince Schwartz;n
burg ordered an attack on tiie ene
mj’i lines at Hack helm, which
protected the tele de pent atLwJsel. i
Th«y were carried with a loss to
the enemy ot several 1. aad red pri -
aofiers and tour guas,
hir R. Wilson tya« in one of the
sterling parties.
Part obthfi army ®f the north os j
Ge:mavy continues its snatch on
Munster h Rreiuen, and the p;inc«
royal was moving on Lunching.
General St. €yr has surrendered
the garri>*a ©f Dresden, I<> 000
itrung. a# prisoners of war, having
in vain demanded a capitulation
| from Gen. Klenau.-
Mr. Ih unite a writes from Bre
men, oil the 16th November, that
W’inzingerode i;ad marehed to
Groenmgen, and as far as Lei, oc
cupying Zvral, Ziitpfeen,and in the
neighborhood »t Duveotar.
low w'&s marching on Arutheim
from Munster.
'i'he prince rovsl on this, deter
mined to go into Holland in p rson,
i having Davoutt and Hamburg to
?e*erai Wafmoden, gea* ral
cranfzahd the Swedes, and general
BeoMogsen.
General Wit zingerede h?d
. down a corj?9 to reduce
the forts at he rhov-h of h*. Wtsc
as wcil as Stacie, Uuvhftveu, an:’
liiose between Jl4 Elrle fk Weser.’’
The second G zette relates to
1 another famous triumph achieved
bv otr rwn VV tiling:on, wro in the*
taoe 1 f heroes stiH asserts his ti l
'o a fort most place. But tv* n en
«his gratifying news we have no
| .inte to dwell. On the I0d» it>>t
v (die dav we have before rpt-c fic^
I "tl that Os; v hp ll » senna: attic it O'
. the tncn-jL „t.*v!d be iu-
.* * j , w A w
* m i| *
• * * * ** •
* a a
Poult was assiileri bv the tr®o -
of the th-ne allied natie Ds , and Jt*
ter a whole day’* arduous 3tr« ?e '*
lorced from positions which it
taken hit* three months to strenr-h
en lor the purpose of cov e rjn g , '
south of France from invasion 1_
No defences could resist the in.pT
tuoug vaUr of our a m<—he f, a
was driven from pmru-ljJ*
the victors on the? 13th, the t'a ; e c f\
the diipntch. threatened him Wlth
similar avert h row i» his SOCO6I
row of entrsnchruact before
yontie; The Marquis ol Worces*
ter was the bearer of these ac
counts, in honor of which the Park
and Tower Guns ware tired at §
o’clock this morning.
The following l 8 an abstract 0 f
the British and Portuguese loss i«
the battle :
British— 277 killed, 1777 wound,
rd, 58 misv.ag.
Prnugueae- 66 killed, 501 wouih
ded, J 5 missing.
Total $43 ktded, 2278 woanded
7S missing.
With this comparatively
loss, the fnr*iy, posted aa he wai
j with bastions and redoubts to pro
tect him, was utterly overcame,
with the Joss of 600# men (va state
on good authority) of rnom nearly
2000 are prisoners. 51 piece* of
cannen were taken in the Held e a
the J#th, and many subsequently,
20 that the lose of the foe in thu
branch way be fairly estimated ac
obtmi one hund-cd.
In addition to chi* 1 , we have tt
• s»are the reports current, oaei arm.
|ly relied on ;n the city, i; is
that af’cir comrouaeeuting with our
fleet ©lf St. Jean de Lux, tori Wel
itngton pushed on a light <ii?isi#a
to Bordeaux, in co-operation with
our gallant tars, which cuy ha*
been taken possession of, together
with upwards of one'bundled and
twenty uad as vessels, chiefly Ame
rican 11
Lonbcn, November 24,
A vessel has arrived in the Ein*,
with the interesting news that the
whole es the l ast Findland has
been evacuated by the Fiencb, and
is new in the occupation of the
Russians and Prussians.
Advices have been received from
France, those from ihe ceasi on she
‘2oth inst. and reports
cuiation yesterday of the assassina
tion of Bonapari.tr, and of cfcivnio*
tions in Normandy. For the for
mer there appfas» m» foundation.
I he Utter is uncciuie, and tba
fact ol a number of letters haring
arrived, from trial quarter with re.
mittances to invest in the fu:id v sand
I f»r comnrMrcial purposes has naui*
rally given rise to a great number
ot conjectures.
It was reported yesterday that
15r auburnais, in -onrequeme *f aa
*i i<*ng\ mtrnc with the sing of Ba
varia, im laiher-in-law, had gone
1 over to the a.lies with the wnole ot
the tirtny under hi« orderi, cc-nc
f-isting of 20,##0 nita. We L*a>v
not what credit i» doc ta ibis ru»
mor. but scarcely any thing is now
too iaiprcbable for belief.
'i he clown prince has hal sa in
terview with general Walstoden,
and it advancing ©n Holland with
iGOjOeO »icn.
The first Veteran battalion, a
mounting to sb®ut i#oo meo, h as
embarked born Lai guard feiC fe>r
Holland.
Lt ipsic , Cr 'cbcr 30. —1 he king*
f dom ol Saxen’f, besides Laudsiro" 1
i and Landwchr, will furnish 30,
, %un, regular troops ;
repert ihe reigtrtg duke of
mar wli uke a command in ihe at •
nr»v. Prince Burrdiardvon Weimar
vi l cen unmcTth, traxon guards-
PROCLAMATION.
By order of his majesty the ent.
pnor ©i aH the Russia*, eiy mas
ter, Mic of his rotal h ghness iho
Crown Prince of Sweden, 1 •
French authorities of the city of
1 Bremen, and of its firmer tcrritr •
rv, are Ir*'** this day ciissolvei-
I arid the anc.-.t constitution cl rl-'
Free H.-.r.s Towns «f Bremen i>
I li rt wi.h rtsicred. Ihe Russia- 1
1 in p rial m. j©! general,
i ARcN V- N TeTTENBORK
t Th© batteries <f Ifexusi on tho
’Vcsii iu.t bortU up tu the “