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Confirwat ion cf the News of Peace
with Tripou.
Tuesday arrived in If jmpton
Roads, the Ui.-ired States’ frig
ate P refitlt n t, Com mode.re Bar
ron, captain James Barron, in
38 da vs from Gibraltar. By
this flap we are relieved from
all anxiety upon this intereftmg
fubjed, for riot only does Hie
bring the certain accounts of
peace of peace being concluded,
and tl ie i c leafs of our unfortunate
countrymen, but she has bro’c
rapt. Bainbridge, his officers &
part of his crew, a number of
whom are now in town.
We ur.derftand that gen, Ea
ton reached Deine about the lafl
of April, when he iriftantly at
tacked the Bafbaw’s army, and
defeated it wirh little loft, him-
Tclf being wounded in the right
armfoas to render ir ufdefs.
The few Americans who were
in the action, displayed a cou
rage thatcor founded the l urks ;
rhey were appointed to lead the
attack, which service they per
formed in a manner that did ho
nor to their country. We un
derhand that at the time Gene
ral Eaton attacked the army bv
land, that capt. Hull in the Ar
gus, cape. Dent in the Nautilus,
and lieut. Evans of the l lornet
bomb ketch, attacked the bat
teries by sea.
Gen. Eaton’s army, we un
derhand was compelled of 1500
men, and that of the Bafhaw’s
of 5000. This intrepid little
band had marched 800 miles a
cross the Tandy defects, through
ahoftile country, and had seve
ral partial adions before the de
cisive one at Derne. Gen. Ea
ton was was wounded when in
the ad of cutting down a Seik of
the Bafhaw’s army.
The result of this adion ap
pears to have been an immediate
proposal from the Balhaw for
peace ; col. 1 .ear went imme
diately to Tripoli and a treaty
of peace was ligned on the 3d of
June, and our countrymen re
leased the next day. The terms
we cannot learn fully, but we
understand that as far as we had
Tripolitans they were exchang
ed man for nun, for the balance
of Americans remaining we are
to pay 90,000 dollars. Some
provision, but we cannot under
stand is made for the Ex-Bafh
aw ; his wife and family who
were detained as hoftnges, are
to be liberated. As the offici
al accounts are gone on to Wafli
fngton, we must fuipend our
curiofitv as to the other articles
•for the prefenr.
The President left Syracuse
the 7th of July : The following
was the distribution of the Ame
rican squadron ,w that time.—
The frigates Canftitution, Con
stellation, and Eff-x, with the
Brigs Syren Vixen and Bomb-’
ketch Hornet, were at Syracuse;
the Argus had failed for Egypt,
and the Nautilus for Medina.
.1 he frigate John Adams and two
gun-boats anchored the day the
President faded. General Ea
ton failed for the United Stares
in a merchant veflel. The Ex
.Bufiiaw was at Syracuse when
the President faded, ihe Pres
ident cn her p ullage to Gibratar
gc.rrear the Spai.’lh Cep ft, was
then foi aßrt fn E. i< ate, and
fired upon from the Batteries.
It may be grateful to the
friends of the officers who have
been in capriviiy, to know where
they now are, we therefore have
procured the following account.
Returned in the President.
William Bainbridge, Cape.
Jacob ionrs, 2d Lieut.
Keith Spence, Purser.
Benj. E. Read, Lieut, promoted.
Janies Gibbon, do. do.
Dank T. Patterson, do.
V/m. Osborne, Lieut. Marines.
James Biddle, Miofh pman.
Robt. Gamble, do.
Wm. Ciubifh, do.
Wallace Worm ley. do.
James Renftiaw, do.
Nick. Harwood, Surgeon’s M.
Jonathan Cowdrv, do.
Wm. A.nderfon, Capt’s. Clerk.
George I Judge, .Boatswain.
Joftph Douglafi, Sailmaker.
Richard Stcphenfon. Gunner.
Remained in the Mediterranean.
1 ieut. David Porter.
Theodore Hunt.
Benjamin Smith.
Bernard Henry, Master.
Dodor John Ridgley remains as
Charge de affairs for the U. S.
at Tripoli.
Simon Smith Midshipman. and
William Goodby, Carpenter. |
In addition to the above, we
have it from Mr Dove, who
was on board one of the bom
barding vefli Is during the attack
on Drrne, that out of the 300
Americans engaged on shore,
there were only fi/e killed,
which took place at the time
Capt. O’Banan, who was se
cond in command, had, with
his little band, sealed the walls
and pulled down the Turkifti
flag, in place of which he im
mediately hoisted the American
standard !
The prefect Balhaw of Tri
poli is flateri by our Officers to
be a* man of confide sable talent
and mixed with grant
cruelty—-although they did not
experience themfelvcs any un
common lhare of the last quali
ty —at one time on the attack of
the brave Preble, when every
man was driven from a fort but
the Balhaw, he remained, cool
ly examining the operation with
a fpy-glals. After the action of
Eaton’s, that led to a peace, he
was heard to declare, that if he
should approach nearer to Tri
poli, he would mafifacre every
American and every Chriflian in
his power. Mr. Lear has been
blamed for making a treaty pre
cipitately and before the appear
ance of the licet, but as the
danger of the pri loners was im
minent, and their release the ob
ject of the war, it would appear
that no moment that could at
tain this definable end was to be
walled in calculations of future
fuccels, and that in embracing
the very fir ft opening to release
them from the cruelty of the
Balhaw, and {huffing the door
forever on the return of his ca
price or the chance of future e
vents, he acted with the wisdom
and pi ecifion of a politician and
patriot.
The officers &e. appear while
in I npoli, to have been libe
rally treated and fuppliedby the
con fills of rlie efiriihan nations
there, and fiom their generoi:-
ty, to have lifted of the wines
denied to thtir Mahometan mas
ters —this, perhaps, might have
given the Baftiaw an idea that
the Americans in their dfterent
attacks were drunk, for he of
ten laid, when our vefftls flood
in so boldly and made f.ich near
approaches to their forts, that
they were all drunk—if the at
tack was made in the afternoon,
they had been drinking at din
ner —if in the morning they had
been drinking all nighc—none
but madmen drunkards or dev
ils would run such rifques—and
in this way he apulogifed co him
leif for the dt Tendon and flight
of his own men.
F ETERSBUR G,
Saturday, OP. 5, 1805.
To the Public.
AN obligation I ewe myfeif
and family compels me to lay
before the public, a matter of
difference between Philip Zim
in crm an E sq. and myfe If. i'h e
find Zimmerman has in various
instances attempted to injure
mv private charader in my
neighborhood, and the methods
adopted by the ingenious gen
tleman, to effed his purpose, is
by telling his neighbors of at
tempts made by me against him.
Several reports have come to
my ears fiaid to have originated
with me, intended to injure the
gentleman j the indelicacy of
the reports is such, that lam not
permitted to detail them, but
Jucn as they are I deny them
intoto ; and call upon Mr. Zim
merman to bring forward any
man on earth, that will confine
himfeit to truth, and fay lever
did, directly or indiredly, make
any unfavorable report against
his charader. lam bold to lay
Ido not believe that Mr. Z.
was ever informed of the reports
which he has endeavored to
impress on the minds of people,
as originatin g with me; on the
contrary, I am convinced that
they are fabrications of his own,
intended to anlwer forne of his
low-cunning purpolcs, perhaps
to account for tne loss of Jus
popularity; to make use of a
common laying, (( a drowning
mas will catch at a draw.”—
1 am rather induced to believe
the gentleman’s lituation in re
gard to his popularity is getting
to a very low ebb, lo much so,
that I am fully perluaded lie will
not again be the objed of ridi
cule at Loiiifivilie, as areprefen
tative from this County, aitho’
he has the audacity to hold nim
felf a Candidate for the ealumtr
Election.
I do not know of any cause
that could possibly have gave
rife to a difference between Mr.
Z. and myfeif, except, that on
the 2d. Saturday in April last,
there was a Negro wedding at
Mr.- Feter Guliau’s of this coun
ty, and the Pacroie of the DiT
ti id being informed of the fame,
conceived it their duty to .pay
that place a vifi, in order to
lupprefs any improper conduct
on the part o i the negroes ; tne
laid Patrole, on arriving at Mr.
Guikrt\, found a very hr >e
Cv>i.ev’*ion Ci tie slacks, and >
ihirtVmg iuch iiDCilieS bnj.iltiu ••
able unless by a written permission
frorri theVr owners; they pro
ceeded to chastise fome of them,
when Mr. Z. and John Tomlin
fon came to the negro house,
and swore none of them ihould
be whipped, and began ven*
much to abide the Pacrole
however they whipped several
of the negroes ; about the fa tut:
time Mr. Z. pulled off his coat
and swore he would pro rest his
own negroes; Mr. Z. drank
very freely with the negroes, Sc
it was understood, as ajufticeof
the peace, he was to join in ho
ly wedlock the pair expeded
to be married that night. Ow
ing to (bme interference on the
part of Mr. Gullatr, the Patrole
was forced to retreat, not being
able to (land their hand with
both blacks and whites. I was
called upon at a very lute hour
at night, after I had been fome
time in bed, by the Patrole to
aid and a (Tift them in the execu
tion of their dury as Patroles,
at the fame time reiving the
circumstance of their hav'i PC r
been at Mr. Gullarc's, and the
conduct of Mr. Z. Conceiv
ing it as my duty, I did not he
sitate a moment, but started im
mediately to Mr. Gullatt’s with
the Patrole ; on arriving there,
Mr. Z. was handing before the
negro house with several ne
groes, at which time I suppose,
it muff have been midnight;—
the Patrole called upon several
of the negroes to come out of
the house, and to the bed of my
judgment they did not in rhe
finalieft degree exceed their au
thority as Patroles ; the con
do (51 oi Mr. Z. I conceived very
improper, though I was entirely
silent on the fubjtd.
T hose (lances are all I
know of, that could possibly
give rife to a difference between
Mr. Z. and mylelf; however
from that time he has never
faded to embrace every poflible
opportunity to caluimvate my
character, regardlels of truth &:
all lort of propriety. The in
finuarions of the gentleman may
poffibiy have the desired effedt
on the minds of a few ; but I
flatter mylelf my character as a
citizen of this county, is fuflici
ently established, not to be ef
fe&ed by the gentleman’s infl
nuations, however high he may
suppose his (landing to be. I
now call on Mr. Z. to eftabhfb
the charges he has made aga nft
me; Ihould he fail to do this,
as he mud, well knowing he
cant effect impofTibilines, as
great as he is. I presume we
(hall then fraud upon the ground
we are entitled to; but after all
I have said on the cccafion,
(hculd it not be fuffleient, toge
ther wrh the flien.ee on the part
of Mr. Z. after my call on him
to effabhfh his charges ; I fay
a terail this, Ihould there exist
cl übrs unfavorable to my cha
racter, I will fold my arms in
tranquility, and fmilc at a mista
ker. world.
V s TEp H 2 N H2AR!t S3E R C E It .
Lincoln County t }
October i, i lie 5. )
Yx e have been informed, and
no doubt may be entertained of
the correftnefs of the informa
tion, that flr.ee the concluflon of—
treaty of purchase with the