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<£ a king wWfimtt fubje£b, filled a Na
tion of but little confrquence.” The
iflue of which was, that the abandoned
chiefs became much exafp-rated a
gain'd thdie who had flocked to the
standard of tne Shawnee chief. The
deferred chiefs full continued to reside
at the Tawa Towns, with only a few
adherents. Finding no hopes of re
calling their(objects, their next slept i
was to prejudice the mind of general
Wells, the Indian agent, again!! those.
who adhered to the prophet—this end
it appears was accompli died. Gen.
Weils could never treat with the com
bined Indians 014 friendly terms ; bfitj
adhered to their enemies at the Tawa
Towns, whose object it seems, wasal-j
so to prejudice the Americans againltj
those alfemblinjj at Greenville. From
this circutnftance a jealvnify. hasarifen
‘between the contending parties—which
proves that the Indians have their’
schemes*and intrigues, as well as the
v,-kites. One of theoratois observed,
“ Congrefshas 3 great many good tnen, j
let theiii tab'* away Wells and put one
of them theri* —we (fate him. i( they
will not re'■:eve hhn, r vctvili * When
the Indian;, are cotning in to hear the
prophet, he lets doors to (lop them.
He asks Them, why go ye to hear the
prophet ? He is one poffeifed of a De
vi! ! I would as foun go to fee a dog
with’ the mange. When we talk friend
iy with him, he will not listen to us—
and.from beginning to end his talk is
blackguard —he treats us like dogs.”
Tney complained much of the
whites making encroachments upon
their territory, and of a few individuals
who had made (ale of lands beyond
of demerkatioo, but their dtfpohtions
towards us appeared friendly. lilac
[ticket observed—We have deluged
the counfry with blood to satiate our
revenge, and all to no purpose—we
have beep the fulferers. The Great
Spirit has (hewn us the vanity of these
things, we have laid down the toma
hawk never to take it up again, if it is
offered to us by the French, Engiifh,
Spaniards, or by you, our white bre
thren, we will not take it.”
* Being interrogated as so the rt-
Viovcil of Wells , they observed their
meaning was-, they would ot adhere to
him.
•—ii
J he following is said la be the speech of )
Blue Jacket, delivered to the Mes
sengers, when m the neighborhood of
Greenville :
Brethren —We are seated who
heard you yelierday. You will get a
true relation as far as we and our cou
rt ekl ions can give, who are as follows:
Shawnees, Wyandois, Potawatomies,
Tawas, Chippiwas, Wirmepaus, Ma
lominefe, Malockefe, Secawgoes, and
one man from the north of the Chip
pswas. Brethren—you fee all :h?fe
men fitting before you, who now speak
to you. ‘ *
About eleven days ago, we had a
council at which the Wyandot, (who
was the elder brother of the red peo
ple) spoke and laid, God had kindled
a fire, and all fat around it. In this
council we talked over the treaties with
the French and Americans. The Wy
andots and the French formerly mark
ed a line along the Alleghany moun
tains fouthetly to Charleiion, (S. C.)i
no man was to pass it from either fide, j
AY hen the Americans came to fettle i
over the line, the Engiifh told the In-!
duns to unite and drive of the French, 1
until the war came on between the Brt |
tifh and Ameiicans, when tt was tola
them that king George, by his officers,!
directed them to unite and drive the I
Americans back.
A i
After the treaty of peace between
the Engiifh and Americans, the fam
mer before Wayne’s armv came out,
the Englifn held a council with the in T
dians, and told them, if they would
turn out and finite as one man, they
might surround the like
deer in a ring fire,,and ciefiroy them all.
The Wyandot spoke funbei*!iivcoun
I cil. We fee, said he, there is like to
!be war between the Engiifh and our
. white brethren, the Americans. Let
us unite and consider fufferings
we Irave undergone from Intcrfei i;jg in
the wars of the Engiifh. They have
j often protnifed to help ns, and at la.fi,
j when we could not withdand the army
i which came again!! us, and went j£> the
| Engiifh fort for refuge, the Engiifh
! told us, I cannot let you in ; you are
painted mv children. Ii
was then we saw the British dealt
treacherouily with us. We now fee
diem going to war again. We do not
know what they are going to fight for.
! Let us, my bie hren, not interfere, was
the speech of the Wyandot.
Further, the Wyandot Gsid, I speak
to you, my little-brother, the, Shaw
'nets'at Greenville, and to Vou our hi
de brothers, all around. You aopear.
to be at Greenville to serve the Su
premeKulcr of the Universe. Now
fend forth your fpeecfres to ail our
brethren far aroud us, and let us all
unite to feekfor that which fhail be for
our eternal welfare, and unite outtclves
in a bond of eternal brotherhood.—
These, brethren, are the fenriments of
all the men who fit around you—thev
adhere to wh t the elder brother, the
Wyandot, has (aid, and these arc their
feniiments. It is not that they are a
fraid of their white brethren, but that 1
they ,desire peace and harmony,'and j
not that their white brethren could put
them to great neceffuy, for their for
mer arms were bows and arrows, by
which they got their, living. There i*
one difficulty in the way, that is, our|
white brethren are building forts at 1
Chicaga. We would rather our white
biethren would not build these forts. j
Your red brethren are not acquain
ted with the sentiments of the British i
Indians, or those on the IviifTifippi afar
off. But these are the sentiments of
all thoie we have all ready mentioned,
to vm : If our white brethren are go
ing to war, their red brethren have for- j
rued a determined resolution to inter-:
sere no way, but to fit full and- mind
their own concern. These are the fen- 1
timents of those who fit before you,-—•
And now, brethren, agreeable to the
articles of the Treaty at Greenville, if
we are dilfatished, or any one interfer-!
ed to make any disturbance among us,
we are to lei each other know of it.—
Brethren —the dilturber of our peace 1
appears to be seated at Fort Wayne
(Mr. Wells) who I think is a bad man. I
I want you to take him away, and place
a good perlon in his stead : this ad-j
i drefled to the governor at Chiiicothe, I
and wifn him to communicate it to the
President. Here Blue Jacket ended.
From the United Slates Gazette.
COMMUNICATION.
A little more of British Civility.
The schooner Sally, capt. Isaac Murphy,
with a load of sugar from Point-Petre, Gaud.
! bound to Philadelphia, faded from Point Petre
lon Sunday morning the sth September. About
| noon difeovered a frigate in chafe of her. She
j being off Baffetcrre, the frigate Handing too
I Uofe in was bred on aud edged away to avoid
I the (hot a little to the northward of Basseterre. j
| She began to fire on the Sally, when capt. Mur- :
; phy wilhing to avoid molestation from them,;
I hove about and flood in under the la (id. We ;
j were about four miles distant when they began j
j to fire, but getting in under the End was soon i
becalmed, and the frigate being in the offing, t i
I
and having every thing out, fcon came within
reach of us with her (hot, which wCre mo.. m
judiciously fired, forneiimes falling far fhoi <- o
us, and sometimes far beyond us, lhe;e uno
pened ty be -an eighteen poaad-arkrtd about ax
men on the part of the toad where we (tocTiri,
which began to fire on their, boats,.but_as t.iv.y
took care to keep the schooner between therri
and the IS pounder, they were in a mannei fe
ci u red from its fire. &Onc of-the -ihot fell prt.ty
near cue of their boats aud beat the water over
her. -As soon as the boats came within reach
of us with their mulketry, they began fir.r.g on
us, and were veyy near killing tire mate and one
hand, in hauling down tha, colors, as they parti
cularly alined at them. They were toon along
fide, aud boarded her, but did not treat us a3
citizens of a nation in amity with them, but
as if they had got a French prize. They fell to
rummaging the vessel, plundering her of what
fruit they had on board, (lores, &c. And not.
finding ally thing more convenient, they plun
dered the captain of his pillow cafe.to carry
fruit on board the frigate in ; eat'of his tweet >
meats, <xc. A proper feene of tjonfufioa then
ensued. They opened the ’ captain’s truks,
took out all his papers, and hurried him on board
the frigate, and ordered him aft. His fir ft fafu
tation was, a damned Yard.ee rascal, he ought to
be hanged. He told him he gloried :r. the name
of a ‘Yankee — Old Washington and Bunker’s
Bill forever ! and that it was more than thev
dared to do to hang him, and he was not afraid
of them, and thought that they (hould give him
credit for (landing so many (hot from them
They sent one of their boats on board, tockkout
captain Murphy’s people, capt. TowiffinfTfis
mate and an apprentice of his, who were paften
gers, carried them on board the frigate, aud pu
a centry over them ; took them in betweet
decks, and dripped fome of them. On captaii
Townlin’s remondruting againtl Inch treatment
a sergeant of marines informed him that he had
his orders aud moil execute them. Captai
Towniia informed him, he hoped it would no
be long before his country would relent fuel
indignities offered to her citizens, and such our
rage-s on her commerce. This was done by tie
express orders of that pitiful fee uadi-el iieut
Dix, vvlio had command of the frigate m th
alrfence of capt. King, who was put ashore i
Barhadoes. At night, the gunner, Mr. Braky
invited captains Murphy and Tow-fin to his ca
I bin, and accommodated them vvitlHuch chee
i as he could afford, tor w hich he has their heart’
thanks. One of their officers informed us th?
Mr. Brairy was the only officer in the thip win
ever paid any attention to those American dp
zens who were so unfortunate as to fall into’ tfi
(hands of those freebooters. They put tw
j midlhipinen outboard captain Murphy’s fclioone
1 and (is featnen. The largetl ot the midshipmen.
j -he night (lie was captured, got as drunk as
- lord On her arrival in Antigua he barteref
| part of capt. Murphy’s prcviiious, wdth the Bun
Boats, for fruit, See. They took his pendant
! away from him aud his merchant’s tignal.—The
figual they returned, and the agent of the snip
gave him a pillow case in lieu of the one he had
been robbed of. Capt. Murphy paid for fees
to the notary, aS.2B 4s. Antigua currency, but
, on fiis demanding receipts tor the money he had
j paid them, the day after, ttrange to tell, they
returned him £.17 of his money, as they knew
they had wronged him of it, and were afraid of
j being detected in it. From this the American
ieamen may fee what a set of rafeals they are.—
Capt. Murphy observed to them that he believ
ed they were a!! in partnership, none of them
- worth much, and that the longell liver was to
j take all. This frigate, the Alexander, which
; captured capt. Murphy, a few days before cap
tured a brig from North-Carolina, outward
j oound, with a cargo of 15,000 dollars on board,
j and ordered her into Antigua. They put a
: negro pilot on board of her, who ran her athore
; ar “-l Est vessel and cargo, the brig worth 5,000
dollars. They fell in with a Yankee herfe
I jockey, observed to him he was carrying contra-
I band, plundered him of nine head of cattle and
1 let him go. They took all the Carolinaman’s
live stock, poultry, See. on board the frigate
and turned him forward with the men, and at
ler.gth turned him aihore. Capt. Zudenarof
the brig Peggy of New-York, was raptured by
the Alexander privateer, his jib-boom carried
away, his bovvfprit fprupg, and his brig rendet
ed quike leaky in boarding him. They tired
into him after they had boarded him, they cot
and hacked his companion to pieces with their
culnfos. He had a valuable cargo of sugar,
coffee and passengers on board. He wasiiot
buffered to go on shore while he lay in Antigua.
A brig from Martinique belonging to New-
London, with returns of his outward bound
cargo, was tent in by the Alexander frigate,
After they got lum, they told him if he would
give them £.150 they would let him go, which i
heinftantly did. A handlcire bulinefs this, a |
Britilh King’s <hip to turn pirate, and lay o'ur!
fair traders under contribution. In fliort, ; after
the murder of Pierce, ar.d our fellow-citizens uni
board the Chesapeake, what will they not do ?
When in a Hate of infancy, old Johnny Bull, to
his torrovv, knows what we did; now that we j
i have arrived to a hate of nsanhcod, let him K
. ware how we take him in hand again, or he nmy
: fare worse than he did before.
Public Intelligencer .
SAVANNAH:
TUESDAY 1 , NorsußEß 3, ISO?,
i—
“cT THE COURT of ORDINARv
is adjourned ’till MONDAY next, the 9th
, ftaut.
THOMAS BOURKE, Clerk
Nov. 3
ON Friday last, SILAS RICHARDS,
Esq. was eiedled as Alderman of this City,
vice'John Tebeau, Esq. deceived.
The .Louiiville Gazette, of the 30th u!t.
contains the following :—•
“ ON; Saturday last, the Regiment of Jes,
ferfon county, commanded by Col. Shelman, met
in this town, for the purpose of drafting their
quota of 100,000 rnen required by the General
Government. But drafts being unanimonfry
despised, the different uniform companies attach,
ed to the regiment, volunteered their services-,
and to the honor of (he retl of the regiment, that
when the word was given for those who willed
to turn out voluntarily to advance four paces a
front the major part of the regiment’ ilepped for.
ward. One of the companies, oik of which there
were only three men required, offered their krvi.
ces to a man, which amounted to twenty krone
demanded. This does not appear to be surpassed
by any portion of the Union. Thp volunteers
iiom the different companies of the regiment, are
to be commanded by Captain Thomas Fulton.
The 2d cf November* is the day pointed
jut, by law, for the ineeting of the General Af.
embly of this State.’ The following are the
gentlemen who have been ‘relumed from the
afferent Counties :
Burke County.
Col. Horner V. Milton, Senator.
Gen. A. Jackson, Win, Byrne and Isaac V/ia*
erly, Efqrs. Reprefentativts,
Tat nail,
Jeff- Embre, efq. Senator.
Arthur Lott, efq. Representative.
Montgomery,
Col. Patrick M‘Griff, Senator.
George G Gaines, aud Heribry fu'gh.aja,
■fqVs. Reprefentaliyes.
Richmond,
Edward Rowell, efq. Senator.
Jofcph Hutchiufon and A. Hatcher,
Reprefeutatives.
Scri-ven,
C. Lanier, efq. Senator.
L. Lanier and M. Gross, efq’rs. Reprefcr,&
tives.
Wilkinson,
R. .Tael .ton, efq. Senator.
J. F. Fairchild, efq. Representative,
Lincoln ,
R. Walton , efq. Senator.
W. Greelhara and S. Fleming, efq'rs. Reprc*
sentatives.
Chatham,
J. Cuyler, efq. Senator.
J. Bryan, \\. Davies and E. Harden, efq‘r.
Reprefentative^
Clarlej
H. Runnells, efq. Seuatfir.
P. Randolph, Z. Cook aud W. Clark, eiqiß
Reprcfentatives.
Libertyi,
J. Stephens, efq. Senator.
E. Caffe Is and A. Maybank, efq'rs. Repre*
sentatives.
Oglethorpe,
G. Moore, efq. Senator.
G. Philips, G. Hudipetli and 0. Jones, efqs.
Reprcfentatives.
Ellen ,
C. Clarke, efq. Senator.
A. Daniel, B. Jeter aid Pofey, efj%
RepreCentatives.
F ranllin ,
• H. Little, efq. Senator,
P. P. Carnes, A. Allen and M. Wilful
efq rs. Representatives.
Hancock,
J. Herbert, efq. Senator.
R. A. Blour.t, D. Adams and W. Chant-^
. Representatives. t
! Greene ,
j E. Park, Senator.
! R- Greer, A. Herd and O. Porter, K.ep*
sentatives.
Baldwin,
n- Carlton, Senator.
A. I'rahklin, Reprefcntative..