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Ftotn tbs All any Regijter.
BRITISH TREATMENT.
Several officers have r'turned cn
their parole from Gat Hull's army. —
IVbi!H tbs Britijb pr if oners am treat
ed with attention and humanity t we
are informed from the mo ft credible
fsurces that tbi conduct of the English
and their allies, after the furreudr of
Gen Hull, was moft wantonly barba
rous and infulting .
Capt Fuller of tbs 4ib Re finer!,
•while walking on the green flirting
the road, to avoid the dufi, was ac
coded by a Britifh Major, Sammons,
Ki Take the middle cf the road or
Til hew vr>u down )Ou <J< -d yan
kee rafeal.”
Capt. SnelTtng, who behaved jo va
liantly at Tippecanoe, andfines, at the
engagement near Brown down, was el
fin treated in the mofl brutal manner
Worn he applied for psrmififion to
/peak to his Lady ( with •whom he had
been connected only a few days) and
render her feme attentions —be was
\tauntingly refufed. was turned into the
ranks, and fubjeßtd to every indigni
ty. Ct-pt. Sr (Ting okfe'ved te then
that he was in their power, and cx
pelted not fucb cowardly infiults when
di!armed ; but hoped again to meet
them at the head of bis company and
hare the honor of again driving them
tit the point of the bayonet, as be had
a few days before in the woods of
Hrcwnfiown.
A Britifh officer, with two ft verges,
cam: up to Lieut. Goodwin of the 4 ;h
regiment, and witxsjjcd the exhibition
of America* fealps, with all the
frantic grimaces of Which theft Jons of
Moloch ate capable
Api ivate of the Obis militia was
ftgbtly wounded, and taken prifoner
by ibe Indians. He was carried by
them within a few rods of Fort Mai
de and (here in ‘he prefence of the
Britijh furreunded by the Indians, and
tortured in the molt barbarous man
ner He was finally di/patched by a
fiquaw (more merciful than the refi)
ho plunged a tomahawk in bis
brains
lThen the vrfjcls pafifed down Lake
Ene with Gen Hull and his troops
O', beard, a body of Indians were dif
covered on the fhore dancing round
their “ favage fires'* and performing
their bellifh rites. The Britifh com
manding officer immediately ordered a
national jelute to be fired in honor of
“ h s M jeft ‘s AI LIES.”
The bcufes of Mcjfirs. Atwater and
Flaggs and M'Donald's /tore at De
troit, were plundered of every article
by the Britifh.
Americans ! Can yeu longer behold
tbefe cruelties and indignities with in
difference ? Are tbefe “ HORRIBLE
HELL HOUNDS of favage war
fare” to be let loofie on your wives and
children without a vow on the altar,
fixed as fate, andfalexin as death, to
expel ibe INSTIGAIORS of tbefe
enormities from the continent ?~—-
Manes of Jlnugbtcr ed women and chil
dren call aloud for VENGEANCE !
VENGEANCE !
T^mmrnrTAL?.
WILL BE SOLD ,
To the high eft bidder on the 2%tb of
November next, at the Court - Ihuft
of Clark county, the follo wing pro
perty —
ONE grey horfe, levied on as
the property of Jsmes Right to fa
tisfy hi* tax for ISll—iax due fix
dollars 47 cents.
W. C. DOBBINS,
T. C. C. C.
Oflober 23, 1812.
G L ORvii A EX. i ’ fv E y .
A THENS, OC 1 OI3ER 23.
We irmie ta'’ due kl©:i of our
r ea ! e f s to the fubjuined cx'racts,
feic&c and from an inter ftng article,
produced bv the pn of tr-at able
and clear headed p 1 icia? Wn.
Cobber, on the fubjed! of the Wbr
exlftlng between tins country and
Great Britain.
“ But the rcr.der not per
ceive, that ;t Amcica has declared
war, the is at war ? And tha *f five
is at war > chere mml b f z treaty be
fore there can be * peace? To
make a treaty of peace will require
forne months, at any rate; and does
the reader fuppoff that the Ameri
cans, after the ex pence of arming
has barn encountered, will difarm
till fhr has obtained farisfadbon up
on all the points at fin ? The
a£h of aggreiiion (as file confiders
them) on our part are many;
does the reader uppole that the
mere news of the re pea! of the or
d* is in coua'v! will fatisfy her -
Befide, if there were no fu‘ j 6t of
dikgrremem but that of the orders
in council, dors not the n-ad-.o per
ceive that the repeal has not btrn
full, and complete, and unqualified-,
. * ♦
and tnat if it were fo, America can
not be expected to dilarm with ut
kune fort of compcnfation ?
Wna r ?is our government to com
mit upon the Americans whatever
afts cf aggreffi >n itpleaies; and,
after thrr, when Amcricn arms and
declares war, a-e we to fuppole that,
to eft ft an mftant pva **, we
no thing to do but to put a flop to
°ur aggrt ffions ?
“ She u niw armed ; fnt has g >t
over her grest relu&ance to eMift
foldiers and to fit out armed vcfTei* j
and Hie will, m my opinion, never
lay down her arms, that is to fay,
fhc will never nuke peas c w-ith us,
until wc agree to make her ample
compenfation for her loffes and in
juries under the Orders in Council*
and rlfo agree to def;s from im
preff: ig any perfoni on board her
(hips at fca. Are we prepared for
th'S ? Aie the nfT.Jciates of Perce
val ready to give up thefc points ?
Arc they rc.*dy to pay for whai has
been captured under regulations
which the Americans regard as a
violation of the r rights* and are
they ready to make it a crime in any
EnglYfh ffi tr to fe ze feamen cn
board Amencari fh'ps at fta ? If
they are, wr fiiail ccrta'nly foon be
at ptace witn America, if they are
not, my opinion is, that we ftiali
have war with her till thole points
are given up.
“ 1 had letters from America,
uritten by perlons ©f a little more
underltanding than appears to be
poffcffed by thole from whom our
lawyers get their information, j
did not know to what extent the
merchants of America might, fub
mit to have their property lei2ed;
but I was well allured that the A
merican people wnuld no longer
fuffer their lea men co be imprcff.d
upon the open lea. This I was pof
itively told nearly two year agw •
and I am now particularly anxious to
imprefs it upon the mind* of the
inmifters ; for they may be affured,
that the American government, if it
has actually declared war, will ne
ver make peace till that point is fet
tled to the fatisfa&ion of the Ame
rican people * nil, in fiiort, we a
gree to dditt wholly from taking
any perfbn wnarever out of an Ame
rican (hip atfea. I am aware how
flinging it will ®e to femeperfions in
England te yield enc jot to Ameri
ca. I am aware how much more
they hate her government tlun they
hate that of France. I aWaware
how glad they would be to hear of
the United States bring fwailowed
up by an ear hquake. Not 10,
however, the people of England
generally, wno do not grudge any
thing that is yielded to America fo
mu.ii as they do what I*3 yirldrd to
other powers. They do nor, be
fi )e , fee verv clearly the advantages
fh-y are to derive from the keeping
down eftbe Americans by the means of
the Engli/k navy . They do not fee
the benefit toat is likely to accrue
C them from any thisg, ths ten
dency of which is to piefs upon a
fiee people in another country. —
Nothing, lam convinced, will ever
m ike an American war popular in
England.”
Extract of a kner from a refpeßable
gentleman at St. Mary's to his
friend in Savannah, dated ihtb nit.
“ I wifii you to make known,
tha* the (loop Alpha, Jerry Welter,
mailer, owned by Jonathan Meigs,*
(i believe) whick cleared from your
place h ely for Havannah, with a
load of provifi ms, h?s gone to Au
guflmr* to fupply the more favage
Spaniards who have encouraged ..nd
rewarded the blood-thirftv fevarres
to fpread dclblarion and horror
through all Eaft-Florida and on
our cwn frontier, and have com
bined their own ******* with t fc .c
Indians who attacked part of Col.
Smith's troops, killed one and
wounded fix. Under thefe circum
ftances, the bread of every Ame
rican ought to Iwdl with indigna
tion agair.fi: the banditti at Auguf
tine.
<f A fchooner was loaded here
this week wstn corn, and cleared
out for Havannah j but btforr fine
failed, it was found out that (he ws
bound for Augufiinc. On Thurf
dav nighc was fcuttled, and had
one of mafts cut a wav.
u We have fhee formed a af
fociation not to furnifh any articles
to that place, and truft that the
fame mcaiures will be adopted at
every place.
(< You make all tbefe circum
flancts as public as you pkafe.”
The authority for the above in
formation, can b< fcad on applica
tion to thfc pi inter.
* According to the rcgHer at ths
cufiom htufe. which we have fetn,
ths vejfel appears te have been owned
by Dan id Meigs and Capt Waiter,
•who commanded her, at the time of
failing.
A Span fh 1 hooner which had
left Auguft.nc about the 29 h ulr.
put mto Tybee cn the tfl inftant.—
The captain of which reported,
that two cay* before he failed the
United States troops under the
command of Col. Smith had bro
ken up their eicampmcnt before
Auguftine, and had fallen back to
Sr. John's river. The gate cf Au
guftine had been opened and the
Governor's Proclamation ifiucd of
fering a free pardon for all thofe
inhabitants who had been compel
led to join the Patriots. The
Spaniards had taken about ten of the
Patriots* who had been a&ive in the
rebellion they had b-ten tried and
condemned to be fW, and the ex
ecution was to take place in a few
days. They aie in da ly expecta
tion of a refnfsrce:n;at of one
thouland men from Havannah, and
alio of firing rciti.urcemeftts from
the Indians.
Courier.
We are much gratified to hear
that his Excellency the Governor
intends railing a* early as pcfiiMe,
(cveral hundred rifi mtn for the
pur pole of pynifh ng the late ag.
grefiSons of the Semmoles Indians.
Such a firp has bee m- indifpenfa
bie } or we fhail foon iec cur fron
tier fctriers fl/ing before the uplift
ed tomahawk, and the murderous
Lai ping knife reeking with the
blood of our women and children.
Governor Kinderland has recent
ly augmented his premium far A*
mcricau fealps. He now • fLrs eight
dollars and a bottle of rum for each.
We have not words to exprefs our
abhorrence of fuch infamous con
aufl—condu6l, equally repugnant
to humanity and every principle of
honorable warfare.— Geo. Jour.
New-Hampfhire a wake, — ■ --Thc
fpmt and numbers of the conven
tion at Kingston on Thurfday, and
of the convention to be at Ware
this day, are in earns!! of what ths
republicans v/ili do on the fi ft
Monday in November next. We
allure cur friends throughout the
union, that New Haiapihire will
on tiisc cay emulate the glorious
example frt them by the Green
Mountain Boys—znd that they may
calculate with a good degree of
confidence on her giving EIGHT
Electoral Votes for JAMES MAD
ISON and! ELD RIDGE GERRY.
Dc Witt Clinton here has not a fuli
tary partilan except among the fe
derafi(ls.-‘-iV H. Patriot.
Volunteering —ln Connefticut,
the republicans have commenced
volunteering in the defence of our
common country. In Tolland, a
volunteer company commanded by
capt. Gkai\ncy Ives , have received
tncir com tiiffi in* anti marched to
fort Trumbull, at New-London,
wnere they enter into actual fervice-
This is the dawning of the fpmt of
patrioulrn— -may it encrcafc, to ttie
full light of meridian day.
By cthe 1 a t Matl.
BOSTON, OBt. 2.
Import an t —if true lvl r Bm TANARUS,
who came pali-xger In the Mark
and Ab gaT l, capt. F tier, from Al
geziras, arr ived at Porrsmou f h (N.
H.) 1 Tar the AI .GERINES
are at W/ill with AMERICA.-
That he 1 faw Mr. Coniul Lrar in
the Bay pj f Gibraltar, on beard ef
the ftorc Lip which w;is fent to
Algeziras, & which the D-y would
not receive :, but ordered Mr. Lear
and his fan 1 ly immediately away.
Ph iladelphia, G<sl. 1.
Alarming 1 ttelligence from Niagara.
It is th is morning reported that
an Albany fiaop, which arrived vef
tercav at c ae o'clot k at New Y :rk
brought tf ie diftrefii g information
that Gtn. : Stephen Van RanffiUrr,
who come nanded at Fort Niagara,
had been c umpelled after forr.e k
vere fightin. | to capitulate, with the
refidue of h s troops, about 800, to
a Britifh for ce of about 2500 —The
Steam Boai ; which reached New-
York after 1 he Hoop, is faicl to have
brought a confirmation of the dif
aftrous intcli igence.
RlCl IMONB, (V.) 0(51. 5,
Various ri unors founded on let
ters receive i from ‘New-York by
Sunday's rna 1, of tho defeat of a
part of the .* American army at Ni
agua, rant confirmation, and we
muft fincsrel y hope will prove urs
foueded : our tNew-Y-srk letters &
payers are t ncirely filent on the
lowmg letter r cceived by laft night's
mail from Ba th, in New-York, > o:i
---ly 129 miics from Niagara, that