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Volume Ilf] published weekly, BY JOJ7.V m. chap.ltox. s iET- as.-d.x, Hal# PAID IV ADVANCE. ON THE FUR TRADE. Front the Emigrant. The importance of this trade is queffioned by none ; but it has hitherto been conducted in fucli a manner, and on so fmail a scale, as to yield but little to the enterpris ing hardihood of the individuals concerned. An attempt to form a large company, and invent an umpie capital, has, wejaelieve, been formerly made, without success, on account of the smallness of the scale. The subject is now in agi aiion, but we fear too muqh lime will be consumed in deliberation, and the great, the all-important advantages now within our grasp, will ‘be taken from us. Should this be the case, property in this section ofthe country mu it depre ciate. Other settlements will be formed high up the Missouri which will be taken from us one of the principal articles of our trades, and by confequenres one of the principal sources of wealth. We do not hesitate to call this trade, conducted on the extensive icale now contemplated, an all important object, for in addition Cos the wealth to be accumulated from It, it is the only means of so cnrlty from a vexatious and ever lafling Indian warfare. To be fat isffed of this, we need only recur to the events of the late war. In this direction, it was emphatically a war of traders, and so in the nature of things, it muff ever be. Small companies, or many individuals with distinct and clashing interefls, and beyond the control of govern ment, embark in the fur trade, wherever they expect to collect mod skins.— A oonteft arises, and the Indians are easily persuaded to way-lay and murder the traders fiom whom they receive lead ad vantage. Added to this, the re cent occurrences of the Hudson’s Bay and N. W. companies (hould flimulate capitaliffs, to provide for their fafety and their interefls in time. The king of England and lord Selkirk are largely con cerned in the Hudson’s Bay com pany. The latter, finding the N. W. company engaged in a lucra tive fur trade, attacked and finally drove them from their posts by tite o’ce of arms. The law can not reach him, and if it could, would not be put in force. Ar rangements are now making by these companies to extend their trade up the Missouri, to the richefl: hunting grounds; and when our traders rcfolve, as they will, at fome diffant day, to embrace the advantages now within their reach, they will have to fight their way into (for they never can fight through) a powerful band of Bri tish traders and Indians. The mortification we (hall then feel, will not be abated by the recollec* THE .NEWS. WASHINGTON, (georg;a) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, is 17. tion that tnefe men are t on the Janus of rha U ( State \ Our rur trade is at prefeat car ried on entirely by individuals or (Vnall parties. It extends on Ivan fes river to the Kanfes town, on the f-a Platte to the Pawnee towns, on the Missouri, to the mouth of White river, or perhaps to the firff creek wed of the mouth. From this inconfidetable trafic in the word part of the country, little profit can be derivek Where as the grounds in the weit extend ing up the white Capp'd moun tains, and along fefferfon’s, Madi (on’s and Gallatin’s rivers, abound in lurs. A large company might be formed which wo aid cat off ar.d exclude the Urkifl; fro n our goods by force it requi ffre, prevent them from tampering with the Indians and fettle the dis pute with Selkirk and the N. W. company, in a fumovary way. Our frontier would thus be rtn dfre l secure ; the lavages, fom eri7 employed to murder our ct izens, would be attached to car interefls, and the wealth now car ried into Canada, might be forever secured to this and the neighboring territories. Funds would not Le wanting. If they could not be procured here, they might from the eastward. i'ois subject is certainly of vita! intereff. We diall hereafter call the attention of the citizens to its details. St. Louis, June 2 1. From the Boston Chronicle NARRATIVE. On the late visit ol the Freffdent to the Independence 74, commo dore Bainbridge, with that atten tion to the interefls of those under his command which so Urongly characterizes him, on preferring his officer, detained acting mid (li ip man King, while he mentioned his escape alone in an open bout from Burmuda. The following is the (latement in the words of midshipman King himfelf: I was taken in the United States brig Vixen, on the 22S of No vember, 1812, by his Britannic majefly’s (hip Southampton, were wrecked on the 27th of Novem ber, on Little Illand, one of the Bahamas. We were taken off Little island by his majesty’s brig Rhodian, and taken to Jamaica, th re wine kept prisoners until the 8d ol April, ISI3, when a part of the Vixen’s crew were paroled, myfelf among the number, and font home in the Rebecca, Syr of Philadelphia. We entered the Delaware on the 2d of May’, and were boarded by the Poictiers of 74 guns, commanded by Sir John I‘. Eerresford, who ordered us to come to anchor, and took ail the officers and men belonging to the Vixen on board the Poictiers, (or the purpose of exchanging them for lome of his crew then prisoners at Philadelphia. The officers and men were released on the ? oth ol j May, with the exception of James igStCVcus, cgroenrer of * tfi* Vixe/ and myfelf, who lir John thought proper to detain on supposition of our being British fubjeOs—The Poictiers failed for Burmuda on the 1 2th, and arrived on the 25th ol May. Stevens and myfelf were fenr on board the guard (hip Ruby, of 64 guns, then commanded by commodore Evans. The Ruby had a fine boat, which failed re markable fad. I mentioned to fome of my companions in captivi ty, that we might venture to cross the Gulf in her without much dan ger, but could get none ol them to join me, with the exception of a man by the name of John Black, who gave his aisent, and gave ins oath that he would join me in any scheme for our liberty. Thinking that I could put confidence in this man, I next day fold fomefhirrs to fome of the crew, and got one cf the men belonging to the Ruby to buy me a pocket compass and four loaves of bread. Being 6or 8 days without getting any chance that I could make my escape, & our mess being (hort of provisions, I gave 2 of my loaves to the mess. The 24th of July being very (lornty and continuing so during the night, I thought it would be the bed op portunity I could get of going of? with the boat, and accordingly watched for the favoring moment. About 11 o’clock P. M. a heavy squall of rain came on, and the fenn y on the gang-way went under a (lied that was built over the main hatch-way, and the officers of the deck and quartermaster got under the forward part of the poop. See ing the coail dear, I got my pocket compass and the remaining two loaves of bread, and called my companion. We got down on the lower deck, and unfhipped one of the gratings of the lower deck port; I gave my bundle to my compan ion, and told him to remain there until I could get the boat along side ; I got on the Twinging boom and cut the painter and haul’d the boat close into the fide ; but what was my astonishment when my companion, after handing me the bundle, said he would not go ! In vain did I state that we (hould have fair winds one half the way, at lead, owing to the trade winds, prevailing in that latitude; he said it would be impoflible to cross the Gulf in an open boat, and men tioned the scantiness of our pro viflor.s ; finding that I could not prevail on him to go, I (hoved oif & let the boat drift aflern ofthe (hip I When about an hundred yards a flern, they (truck a bill, and the j sentry cried all was well. I made (ail as soon as pofiible, and at day light was thirty miles Iror 1 the (hip. On miffing the boat they fenr several veflels in chafe of me, as I have fmce been informed by one of the prisoners on board. I had several fquals between 1 Bermuda and the Gulf Stream. 1 \ differed a good deal for want of | every thing XcoulcU • think. o c V ‘V- n My lips were parched witti (he uin; I used to Irritate them with fingers, to try it the pain would keep me awake ; but ail proved ineffectual; 1 often got asleep, and sometimes when 1 awoke would , and the boat with her fades aback and (leering a different courle. After being out four day, I tried to (leer by tying my hand to the til ler, which proved to be very ufe ful in the red of my passage. I fuifertd a good deal in the Gulf owing to the continued motion of the boat. I saw a brig, but think ing that (he was an Eriglilh man, I was fearful of approaching her. i made Cape Henry on the 2d of Auguff, about 4 P. M. on the approaching of the light-house discovered the British fleet lying in Lynnl.eren bay. I hailed to fouthw'ard, and beached the boat about 12 o’clock at night, about i o miles to the southward of the Cape. I unbent the boat’s jib, & carried it about a quarter of a mile from the boat, and went to sleep. I got up about sunrise next morn ing, and got to Mr. Whitehoufe’s dwelling, who treated me with every kindncfs that my situation required. I proceeded to Nor folk, aftei remaining with Mr. Whitehoufe two days, when I re ported myfelf to captain Cassin, who advanced me funds to get to Washington. I fold my boat (or 30 dollars; the boat was about 22 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 3 deep, with a forefail, mainfale and. jib. She was hallaftcd with freJlr water in breakers. Tbennopyla —ln two orations which we have seen, and which were delivered on the 4th of July lad, in honor of the day, we have obitTved the defence of the pass of Thermopylae cited as a parallel to the defence of Plattsburg and that of New Orleans. We are fond of classical aliufions; but they are ridiculous when they are not very appropriate. The Spartan band of three hundred commanded by Leonidas, fell bravely defending the Grecian defile ; but, notwith fl.anding that, the Pcrfians found their way into Greece. What funilitude, therefore, is therefore between the defence of Plattsburg and New-Orleans, (the particulars of which are glorious for our arms and too well known to be here re peated,) and that c f the pass of Thermopylae ! In one of the ora tions in question, we (hculd have expected from the orator,Mr AW), better things ; because, judging by the antiquity of his name, he ought to have been well acquainted with the (acts of ancient hi (lory : but we ihould, perhaps, excuse him, when we reded that it mud have been a long time fmce he left the Ark on Mount Ararat, and con sequently his memory may be a little rusty as to what he remarked in his pad age through Thessaly. [No. 34.