The Friend and monitor. (Washington, Ga.) 1815-18??, September 29, 1815, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThr.'t lollars per annum .] A • M Cunufor the State Legis lature M. T:-' ’ •')■■>!. Senate L-.‘Wer House. Col. j. Wellbor.i Aiexr. Pope, E-q Col. Henderson, Abraham Simons Thosji Wingfield, ► Charles Irvine, Hetspeth, lames Render, Maj. B. Porter, Herbert, Wm. Evans. Miscellaneous Articles. Frjjom the Baltimore Patriot. ANOTHER INSTANCE OF BRITISH VILLANY. The following letter, detailing the particulars of the barbarous flogging of Joseph Slater, an Ame rican Teaman, by the British Heroes , becaule he refufed to fight against his native country, has been hand ed us for publication —Mr. Beas ley has undoubtedly communicated a copy oi tiie letter to o>r govern ment and we cannot think they wilifuffer tueh a flagrant aft *f vil lainy to pais unnoticed. The mag nanimous Britiih, not being able to meet our soldiers on land or seamen on the ocean, relort to the despica ble and cowardly praftice otflog ging and shooting them when in their power, unarmed and defencelefs. Yet this is the bulwark of govern or Strong’s religion, and the na tion thfat does us ‘ no eflential in jury.” Prison-ship Irresistable , Chatham September 12, 1812. R. G Beailey, Eesq. Honored Sir.*—We confider it a duty which we owe to our country and fellow-citizens in general, to inform you, as our country’s agent, of the barbarous treatment which Joseph Slater, an American priion er of war, received on board the Britiih national brig Centor, lieu tenant W. R. Lucas, commander. It appears from tbe Itatement of Air. Slatet'l chat he had been acting boatiwain of the brig, and returning from the Beit with a convoy oound to England, law a ichooncr wnicn they • xuefted to be an American priv te r when Mr. Slater was or deie ; -o pipe all hanus to quarters, whii.n he did, and then went att and informed lieutenant Lucas, that should the chalt be an Ameri can, he would not hght her, ana of fered himfelf up as a priloner of war, qfut would not be received as such and was obliged to return to his duty, and continued to do duty until the 3d instant, when he was sent on board the Namur, lying at Sheernels, .and examined oeiore three captains and the Ist lieuten ant of the Namur, ana was return ed on board the old brig (the Cen sor) as a priloner of war—when Mr. Lucas, (the commander) or dered him BOTH I.EG6 IN IRON 6, THE FRIEND AND MONITOR. “ A wit’s a feather and a Chief’s a roci, 4n honest man’s the Noblest work of God.” PUBLISHED (weekly) BY JOHN K. M. CHARLTON. TON', (Geo.) i* K 1 DAY , > 1 MB £ R 29. 1815. and kept hioi in that situation un der the centinel’s charge and on priloner’s allowance until the lOth initant, ana publicly whipped, by order of Lieutenant Lucas, and was then lent to this imp as a pri loner of war. vVe examind Mr. Slater s back as loon as he caine down into tne pnion, and found that he nau Deeu icandaloufly and inhumanly w nipped, as ail his wounds were nelh,and appeared to agree witn his itateuient, that he had oetn flogged about two hours before we law him. lie iikewne lhewed us his pro tettion, certifying him to be a na tive citizen ot the United states, and no douot remains wan us ot ot nis being iucli j we tiieielore pray you to make nis cate known to our government, and to the Lng lilh board ot admiralty, or to take any other method you may think prudent to obtain reureis* We are with due reipect, your very humble servants. (jrEORG M'LELLAN, President of the L o/hintstoners* Laban Thayer, John Warner, John o. Bagent, IHOAS W ETERiri AN. Members oj the Committee. i lungs uy tiuir Right Tunics. By fome newspapers I find that Political Parties are much more numerous than 1 had any concep tion of. During the revoiutiouai y war, there were Whigs and Tones ; after the adoption of the Con;; uu tion, there were Federalists anu Anti-Federalists; and in the ad ministration of Mr. Adams, there were Federalists Quids and Republi cans. The latter were fomctimes called (contemptuously ) by ineir opponents, Democrats , fomctimes Jacobins. Now there are (accor ding to my newspaper intormaton) Federalists and decided Federalists, Peace Party (though we arc not at War) Opposition Republicans , Democrats and decided Democrats. I conceive that all thole parties might be reduced to three, the choice of names I leave to the per sons themlelves—that is, thole who are in favor of the administration ; those who are opposed to the ad ministration ; and those, who, be ing governed in their opinions by measures, not men, can fee the faults of all parties. I must beg pardon of perhaps the mofl nume rous party, which haveexifted in all ages—l mean those who make their private interest their political guide, and who zee Federalists with Fed eralists; Republicans with Republi cans, &c. &c. These are the mod dangerous, & lead to be truded of any—for it is easier to guard a gaind an open enemy than a deceit ful friend. Raleigh Register. Valuable institutions. —There are institutions in Holland, to which wives may fend drunken husbands for coredrion, & husbands fend dis orderly wives, in this country VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND SCIENCE. such houses would five a world ot domedic unhappiness, by supplying a proper sty tor filthy beasts . Political Examiner. It is a faS, to which the farmers of this country and other parts of the date can tedify, that previous to the reftri&ions being laid on importations from England, they had to go in debt to,the merchants for foreign manufactures, nearly to the amount ot their whole year’s produce. Merchants had a cash price and a credit price } and the firmer, who had to buy at the lat ter, tound the procteds ot his farm not much more than fufficient, at the year’s end, to meet his debts. But when these reltridions were laid, he commenced manufacturing tor himfelf, and the glorious coh* consequence has reiuited, that he is now able to clothe himfelf and family, without purchasing English duffs at exorbitant rates—rbefides which, he can lay by lorpething for “a wet day.” Why then do federaiilts aoufe thele meaiures ? simply because they crippled the manufactures ol Great Britain, and curtailed her of a fruitful source ot revenue. Ibid. Mediterranean squadron. EXTRACT DATED “ Cadiz , July i4, 1815. “ Commodore iJecatur, we learn has lettled tne account with Al giers ; aiter taking their hneit fri gate and a fl oop oi w ar, he appear ed off uiecity of Algiers, and sent a flag ashore, with an intimation that he mult release all Americans and American vefftls, and that he should have four Hours to deliberate: but that it no answer should be received at that period, he would lay the ci ty in ashes. “ An Algerine corvette, from off Tunis, hove in fight during this period, and landed a number of 1 urks of didmCfcion; the palace of the dey was surrounded, and he was menaced with decapitation ; at the end ot the third hopr, the flag returned, with the fubmiflion of the dey to the terms dictated by com modore Decatur; ail Americans were relealed—the dey engages not to demand tribute hereafter from the United States; and that ail Americans whatever taken or on board whatever (hips, shall be re leased withuut ranloin. “ .The commodore and suit went on shore; and upon reprelentations by the dey, of the danger he was in, the commodore made him a present of the captured frigate.— fhus has ended the third African war. We have these advices by way of Carthagena. _ Aurora. BAD SPELLING. The “ Deliverers” prefended that in attacking France they con tended for ‘‘the Peace of Europe.” Ihe manifeft ablurdity of this con sists not so much in the fact alledg ’ ed, as in the bad spelling; which if v*e corrett, and write, the allies contended for a of Europe, the |[Payable half yearly. [Number 38. difficulty is cleared up, and the truth of the assertion Hands indis putable. Yankee. Lexington; K. Y. August 28. A gentleman, who has just arri ved from St. Louis, informs us, that a treaty of peace has been negocia ted with the hoftiie tribes ofrlndi ans in that quarter. & that depreca tions on the frontiers had ceased. Col. Miller’s regiment was ordered to Detroit, and is to be replaced by the one commanded by Col. Nich olas. Another Specimen of British Refinement. To the Editor of the Boston Patriot. Sir— -As the British frequently style the toasts given at our public dinners vulgar and abusive, I beg leave to hand you two that were lately given at dinners in Halifax. They not only mark the bitter and vindictive feelings that the inhabit ants of that town feeSagainft the government and people of this country, but may be considered as evidences of British refinement The firft was given at a public din ner in celebration of the battle of Waterloo, at which the hon. Mr. Udi ack, attorney general of the province of Nova Scotia,(l ft crown officer) presided. “ Bonaparte• the Devil , and Mr. Madison, in a close Virginia hugh .” The fecund was drank by a well known pedestrian lawyer of the name ot Hill, it is as follows :—“ Damnation to ‘all the damned Yankees ” In justice how ever to fome of the gentlemen who were present, I must remark they refufed to drink it. JOSEPH BONAPARTE. 1 he ex-king of Spain, who arri ved in tiiis city about a fortnight since from France; has reported himfelf to our Mayor, as Joseph Bonaparte , and claims the protec tion of the constituted authorities. King Joseph left this city for Phila delphia on Saturday lpft, in a pri vate carriage. N. Y. Gazette. Were we even to allow the esti mate made by Blucher of the French forces in the great battle of Belgium, to be correft—we should ft ill find the number of the enemy at least double those of the French. Say, for instance, that the French were 130,000 strong, (which we admit only as a postulatum) Wel lington’s eflimate of the force un der his immediate command, con ning of cavalry, infantry and ar tillery, English, Hanoverians and Prussians, amounted to9s,ooomen. Ii will be remarked, that Bona parte’s principal efforrson the 18th were to prevent tbejunflion of the two armies opposed to him. He could and did actually beat each singly together they constitut ed too formidable a rnafs— 'amount ing to 175,000 men. In this cal culation v/e do riot take in the forces under Bulow, which though attached to lilucher’s corps, r.c: ir.ek’dci in the 60,a0 me?