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Confnnationcf the News cj Peace
with Tripoli.
Tuesday a r rmd in \ Tampton
Roads, the Ui ircci States lig
ate Pre fit It: nr, Com modi. re Ba r -
ron, captain James Barron, in
38 davs from Gibraltar. By
this ship we art relieved from
all anxiety upon this intereftmg
fubjehl, for not only docs (lie
bring rhe certain accounts of
peace of peace being concluded,
and tl ;e 1 cicala of our unfortunate
countrymen, but lhe has bro’t
capt. Bainbridge, his officers &
part of Us crew, a number of
whom are now in town.
We underftnnd that gen. Fa
ton reached Dtlne about the lafl
of April, when he inflandy at
tacked the Bafhaw’s annv, and
defeated it with little loFs, bim
iclf being wounded in the right
arm foas to render it ufdcfs.
Ti e few Americans who were
in the action, di (played a cou
rage thatconfounded rhe ‘l urks;
they 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, capt. Dent in the Nautilus,
and lieut. Evans of the 1 lornet
bomb ketch, attacked rhe bat
teries by sea.
Gen. Eaton’s arm l7 , we un
derhand was compoltd of 1500
men, and that of the Bilhaw’s
of 5000. This intrepid little
band had marched 800 miles a
cross the Tandy defeats, through
ahoflile country, and had seve
ral partial aCTions before the de
cisive one at Derne. Gen. Ea
ton was was wounded when in
the a<ft of cutting down a Seik of
the Bafhaw’s army.
The result of this action ap
pears to have been an immediate
proposal from the Bafhaw for
peace ; col. Tea.* went imme
diately to Tripoli and a treaty
of peace was signed 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 man, 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 hostages, are
to be liberated. As the offici
al accounts are gone on to Waffi
ington, we mull suspend our
curiosity 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 ar that time.—
‘Ehe frigates Constitution, Con
ftcllation, and Efiex, with the
Brigs Syren Vixen and Bomb-’
ketch Hornet, were at Syracuse ;
the Argus had failed for Egypt,
and the Nautilus for Medina.
The trigate John Adams and two
gun-boats anchored the dav the
President failed. General Ei
ton failed for the United States
in a merchant vefTcl. The Ex
.Bafnaw was at Syracuse when
the President fii.led. Ihe Pres
ident cn h*T paUage to Gffrarar
got rear tlie Spai.Th was
t l en foi a Br tfn Fixate, and
fired upon from the Batteries.
It may be grateful to the
friends of the officers wl o have
been in captivity, to know where
they now are, we therefore have
procured the following account.
Returned in the President.
William Bainbridge, Capt.
Jacob ionrs, 2d Lieut.
Keith Spence, Purler.
Behj. E. Read, Lieut, promoted.
James Gibbon, do. do.
Dank T. Patterson, do.
Wm. Osborne, Lieut. Marines.
Tames Biddle, Miofh pman.
Robt. Gamble, do.
Wm. C urbtdb, do.
Wallace Wormlcy. do.
James Kenffiaw, do.
Nick. Harwood, Surgeon’s M.
Jonathan Cowdrv, do.
Wm. Anclerfon, Capt’s. Clerk.
George I lodge, .Boatiwain.
Jofcph Douglafi, Sailmaker.
Richard Stephenson. Gunner.
Remained in the Mediterranean.
1 ieut. David Porter.
Theodore Hunt.
Benjamin Smith.
Bernard Henry, Mailer.
Dodlor John Ridgley remains as
Charge de affairs for the U. S.
at Tripoli.
Simon Smirh 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 veffi ls during the attack
on Derne, that out of che 300
Americans engaged on shore,
there were oniv five 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 Turkish
flag, in place of which he im
mediately hoisted the American
standard !
The present Bafhaw of Tri
poli is Rated by our Officers to
be a*man of coi fide table talent
and bravery, mixed with grant
cruelty—although they did not
experience themselves any un
common (bare of the iafl quali
ty —at one time on the attack of
the brave Preble, when every
man was driven Irom a fort but
the Bafhaw, he remained, cool
ly examining the operation with
a fpy-glals. After the action of
Eaton’s, that ltd to a peace, he
was heard to declare, that if he
fhouki approach neater to Tri
poli, he would massacre every
American and every Christian in
his power. Mr. Lear has been
blamed for making a treaty pre
cipitately and before the appear
ance of the fleet, but as the
danger of the prilbne.rs was im
minent, and their release the ob
ject of the war, it would appear
that no moment that could at
tain this desirable end was to be
walled in calculations of future
luccck, and that in embracing
the very firft opening to release
them from the cruelty of the
Bafhaw, and sh mting the door
forever on the return of his ca
price or the chance of future e
vents, he acted with the wi'fdom
and precifionof a politician and
patriot.
The officers Sec. appear while
in Tripoli, to have been libe
rally treated and supplied by the
consuls of the cnriician nations
there, and horn their generali
ty, to have t ifteJ of the wines
denied to their Mahometan mas
ters —this, perhaps, might have
given the Bafliaw an idea that
the Americans in their dfterent
attacks were drunk, for he of
ten said, when our veffids 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 night—none
but madmen drunkards or dev
ils would run such nfques—and
in this way he apt.logifed co him
feif for the daemon and flight
of his own men.
P ETERSBUR G,
Saturday, OP. 5, 1805.
- “mietegitee* •——
To the Public.
AN obligation I owe myfelf
and family compels me to lay
before the public, a matter of
difference between Philip Zim
merman Esq. and myfelf. The
find Zimmerman has in various
instances attempted to injure
my private character in my
neighborhood, and the methods
adopted by the ingenious gen
tleman, to effetf: his purpose, is
by telling his neighbors of at
tempts made by me again ft him.
Several reports have come to
my ears said to have originated
with me, intended to injure the
gentleman; the indelicacy of
the reports is such, that I am not
permitted to derail them, but
iuen as they are I deny them
intoto ; and call upon Mr. Zim
merman to bring forward any
man on earth, that will confine
hunfeif to truth, and fay lever
did, directly or i rid ire dll y, make
any unfavorable report againfl
his character. lam bold to Ay
Ido not believe that Mr. Z.
was ever informed of che reports
which he has endeavored to
impress on the minds of people,
as originating.with me; on the
contrary, lam convinced that
they are fabrications of his own,
intended to answer forne of his
low-cunning purposes, perhaps
to account for tne loss of Jus
popularity; to make use of a
common faying, “ a drowning
maw will catch at a flraw.”—
I am rather induced to believe
the gentleman’s situation in re
gard to his popularity is getting
to a very low ebb, ib much so,
that I am fully perluaded he will
not again be the objetft of ridi
cule at Louisville, as areprefen
tative from this County, altho*
he has the audacity to hold him
felf a Candidate for the ealuing
Election,
1 do not know of any cause
that could possibly have gave
rife to a difference between Mr.
Z. and my lei f, except, that on
the 2d. Saturday in April lafl,
there was a Negro wedding at
Mr.- Peter Guliati’s of this coun
ty, and che Patroie of the Dd
tiifl being informed of the fame,
conceived it their duty to.pay
that place a vili, in order to
iupprefs any improper conduct
on the part or the negroes ; che
laid Patroie, on arriving at Mr.
Gulla't’s, found a very Urge
coLe&ion of the blacks, and
thinking iuch libejites unpfttifP
able unlcfsby a written permission
froni their owners; they pro
ceeded tochaftife fome of them >
when Mr. Z. and John Tomlin
fon came to the negro house,
and swore none of them (hould
be whipped, and began verr
much to abule the Patrole;—
however they whipped several
of the negroes; about the fame
time Mr. Z. pulled off his coat
and swore he would protect his
own negroes; Mr. Z. drank
very freely with the negroes, Sc
it was underft >od> as a j office of
the peace, he was to join in ho
ly wedlock the pair expected
to be married that night. Ow
ing to fnme 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 forrw?
time in bed, by the Patrole to
aid and affifl them in the execu -
tion of their duty as Patroies,
at the fame time rel.ring the:
circumstance of their having
been at Mr. Gullarps, and the
conduct of Mr. Z. Conceiv
ing it as my duty, I did not he
sitate a moment, but darted im
mediately to Mr. Gullatt’s with
the Patrole ; on arriving there>
Mr. Z. was (landing before the
negro house with several ne
groes, at which time [ suppose,
ltmuft have been midnight p—
the Patrole called upon several
of the negroes to come out of
the house, and to the belt of my
judgment they did not in the
fm ail est degree exceed their au
thority as Patroles; the con
du<st or Mr. Z. I conceived very
improper, though I was entirely
silent on the fubjtdl.
T hole cir umftances are all I
know of, that could poftibly
give rife to a difference between
Mr. Z. and rnylelf ; however
from that time he has never
faded to embrace every pcfiible
opportunity to calumniate my
character, regardlels of truth Sc
all fort of propriety. The in
finuarions of the gentleman may
poffbiy have the desired effect
on the minds of a few ; but I
flatter rnylelf my character as a
citizen of this county, is fuffici
ently established, not to be ef
fected by the gentleman’s infl
nuations, however high he may
(uppole his (landing to be. I
now call on Mr. Z. to eftabhfli
the charges he has made aga nft
me; (hould he fail to do this,
as he mull, well knowing he
cant efleet impoflibilines, as
great as he is. I presume we
(hail then stand upon the ground
we are entitled to; but after all
I have said on the occasion,
(hould it not be ftrificient, toge
ther wrh the filen.ee on the part
of Mr. Z. after my call on him
to eftabh’fh his charges ; I fay
alter all this, (hould there exist:
di übrs unfavorable to my cha
radter, I will* fold my arms in
tranquility, and smile at a mista
ken world.
bTEPHiN Hr/.R!:33ERCrR.
Lincoln County, }
QHcbcr i, 1805. )
We have been informed, and
no doubc may be entertained of
the correctneis of the informa
tion, that fir.ee the conclusion of
<--- treaty of purchteb with the