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. t LVTELLIG,ENCE. [MOM 11111 WA/111111011031 MAMMAL nrorworatess, so.. 161 Cu nsw lisnovieNTunr..—The public have seen and he:lra - enough of Captain Obed Wright and his • celebrate] exploit, to desire to hear no more of it. But it is due to Governor.ltabun, of Georgia, whose name lias been brought into the controversy respect ing that melancholy affair, to copy the exposition of, it, which Ile has given on the first public occasion that offered. We therefore copy the following: 1111111 ACT runic A C /14111M."AT10:14T TIM GOMM& OF CIORO/A, TO VIZ LEOISLATIM OT THAT ETATS, WOW IN SESSION. " The war which had commenced during the last year, between the United States and the Seminole intlians, bordering on our southern frontier, has been terminated by a mutual cessation of hostilities, with out any particular stipulations for peace. "' I should not enlarge my remarks nu this subject, but for an event connected with it, which has excited great interest throughout the State. The circumstance to which I allude is the late expedition, undertaken to retaliate. and thus to repress and chastise the atro cious audacity of the savage inhabitants of two hostile •illages, designated from their chief men, Hopannee and Phelemme. " From these dens, it was ascertained, they made frequent and formidable inioads upon our defence less homier, *marking their course with the butchery of our women. and child.en, and the other terrific enormities peculiar to their barbarous warfare. Afilic tiveAnd aiarming intelligence of these depredations, accompanied by urgent demands for protection from those whose situations were most exposed, reached the Executive almost daily. " An early application was made to the command ing General of the Military district, for a force corn petent to the defence of our frontier ; but it was•seve ral months before it was even noticed. Under these circumstances, I should have shewn culpable insensi. bitty to the sufferings of niy fellow-citizens, and to the duties of the high and important trust with which you have honoured me, had I hesitated what course to pursue. I dem mined to organize a three suffi cient to inflict condign punishment on this miscreant foe, anffmake them feel that the frontier of Geor , via was not to be devastated with impunity. At this juncture, Captain Wright presented himself, as a gentleman recently holding a Command in the ser vice of the United States, and bearing recommenda tory testimonials from persons of high rank and un questionable respectability. This person, by a Gene ral Order of the 14th of - April, (a copy of which, and copies of all the documents relative to this subject, will be laid before you) was authorised to collect the troops, and march them upon the two villages noto rious as the residence of the murderers and marau ders. Oa nearing the Chehaw town, they were in formed that one of the hostile Chiefs was harboured there, and conceiving the spirit of their instructions warranted the measure, they attacked the town, and, stung with the recollection of the merciless barbari ties exercised on their neighbours and relatives, and their Supposed perfidy committed in harbouring the enemy, proceeded to extremities, over which huma nity weeps, and which I deeply and sincerely lament. In the General Orders, it will be seen, that Cap tain Wright was directed to call on Captain Bothwell, of the Militia of this State, then in the service of the United States, commanding at Fort Early, for part of his force, if necessary. I was not certain that I had the right to call on these troops, but the emergency of the case, left on my mind no doubt of its propriety. On the return of the troops, and the report of the Commanding Officer, whose statement was corrobo rated by the testimony of other Officers of the de tachment, some of whom are gentlemen of high standing and character in the State, I felt satisfied that, although the orders given had been manifestly violated, yet, that the motives which influenced the conduct, both of the troops and their Officers, were more the result of a sincere desire to prevent a recur ranee of the distressing scenes which had recently been witnessed on the frontier, than any deliberate _cruelty or premeditated severity. The subject, how- ever, became a theme of animadversion, and a num ber of opposite statements being made, both to the Executive and in the public prints, I deemed it neces sary, for the purpose of doing justice to the Indians, as well as to the character of Captain Wright, to have him arrested. An order was accordingly issued 'I on the 20th of May, directed to Colonel Marshall, at Savannah, the late residence of Captain Wright, and to which place it was supposed he would immedi ately return Before he reached there, however, he was overtaken by en Officer, sent by General Jack son, who arrested him. On their way to Fort Haw. kins, passing through this place, Captain Wright, was released from the custody of the o;6cer, by a writ of ,habeas Corpus, before the inferior Court of this county, '• On ti. sant: ever'..g, I issued as order to the ekdjutent-General, to Went andockflite deer- I TO THE EDITOR OF THE STA& mined to refer the mode of trying him td flee Presi - dent of the ',inked States; which coarse I was the SIR—I crest that in offering a few remarks on the More willing to purstte, as it seemed to have been the subject of the Poor, to which the attention of your one contemplated by General Jackson: alit before Readers has been lately directed, by the publication a proper warrant could be obtained to enable the of some Inquiries, dated King's Head Tavern, P°111 " Matshal to take him into cpstody, by mean:, of a pa try, I am influenced, by an humble desire, though ragraph in one of the Savannah Papers, he ascer in a very inferior degree, to assist in the great object tamed that the President had directed him to be pro. which, doubtless, will excite the greatest elucidation muted for the murder of friendly Indians, before a fltim the most intelligent minds. special commission to be issued for that perpose„ In the series or Inquiries, above referred to, it ap- „onformably to an Act of Congress of the 80th of that the suitable employment of Land by the * - March, 1802; and being alarmed, I presume, at this' pis Poor; in their leisure hpurs, has been thought of suf- intimation of the danger that might result to him ficient importance to occupy the principal'place.— from such trial, effected his escape, and has not yet Thie sentiment is conceived to be well founded. In- been apprehended. deed, the concurrence with which it has almost uni- „ I have felt it a duty to the outraged character vernally been received for the last half century, may of the State, fellow-citizens, to be thus particular in bapresumed-confidently to_ furnish an argument in noticing this transaction, as mistaken one-sided hu bs support. The discontinuan ce of a practice so sa- manity, and meddling mal i gnity, have been perse hitary has been in every one 's mouth ; and its un- veringly busy in distorting and disguising almost *hippy effects as generally lamented. But where la- every circumstance connected with the expedition." i bin:leers are still to be found in the possession of Land, in a. multitude of happy instances, proof is yet de- MILLEDGEVILLE, NOVEMBER 3. mQastratively evincing that Parish relief is, in the INDIAN PHILANTHROPY.—We occasionally meet worst of times, unnecessary. The writer, in corn- with traits of Indian character, so disinterested and mon, it is presumed, with many'others, could point to noble, so humane and generous, as to produce in the such cheering examples; end, should, it be required, civilized mind mingled emotions of astonishment and to name them, could readily perform a task of so delight. We all remember how I'ochahontas, when pleasing a name. He ventures to believe, Mr. Edi- Captain Smith, one of the first settlers of Virginia, tor,that no other remedy than the due cultivation of was taken captive, and about to be sacrificed, mag owe native toil remains for the eradication of those nanimously tendered her own life as a peace-offering evils at which humanity is shocked, and every rank to the wrath of her offended father, the vindictive in our community inundated. s. Powhatan; and how she at length, by supplication and entreaty, caused him to spare the existence of his devoted victim. We also recollect, when Captain Smith was afterwards doomed to fall by the hand of treachery, that at the dead hour of the night she gave him - item of the impending danger, and, at the most imminent hazard effected his escape. Nor have we forgotten the still more recent, but not less commendable conduct of the faithful Alta kullakulla. After the perfidious massacre by the Cherokees of the garrison of Fort London, situated near the Muscle-shoals on the Tennessee river, this noble Chief, always the friend of peace and of white men, no sooner heard that Captain Stewart (subse quently southerit agent of Indian affairs during the existence of the colonial government) had escaped death, than he hastened to the spot, and purchased him from he Indian who took him, giving by way of ransom, his rifle, clothes, and all that I.e could command. `The life of Captain Stewart being again menaced, for refusing to aid the savages in their me• ditated reduction of Fort George, Attakullakulla re solved to rescue his friend from the perilous situa tion in which he was placed, or perish in the attempt. He accordingly signified to his countrymen that he intended to go hunting, and take his prisoner with him to eat veniscn. Having arranged every thing, they set out on their journey—the distance to the frontier settlements was great, and suspicion of their design being soon excited, the utmost expedition was necessary to prevent being overtaken by those in pur suit of them. Nine days and nights did they travel through a dreary wilderness, never before traversed but by savages and wild beasts, shaping their course by the sun and moon, and subsisting on what chance -placed in their way, till they fell in with a party of rangers sent out for the protection of the frontier, who conducted them in safety to the settlements. The incident we are about to relate (an imperfect account of which has heretofore been given), equally with the foregoing, deserves to be recorded. Dun can M'Krimmon, a resident of this town, was a ' Georgia militia-man, in the service of the United States, during the late Seminolean war. While sta tioned at Fort Gadsden, on the Appalachicola, be one morning went fishing, and in attempting to re turn missed his way, and was several days lost in the surrounding wilderness. After wandering about in various directions he was espied and captured by a party of hostile Iniians, headed by the Prophet Francis, who had an elegant uniform, a fine brace of pistols, and a. British commission of Brigadier- General, which he exultingly skewed to the prisoner. Having obtained the satisfaction they wanted re specting the strength and position of the American army, they began to prepare for the intended sacri- ' fice. M'Krimmon was placed at a stake, and the' ruthless savages having shaved his head, and reduced his body to a state of nudity, formed themselves into a circle, and danced around him some hours, yelling all the while most horribly. The younger daughter of the Prophet, who is about 15 years of age, and represented by Officers of the army we have con versed with, to be a woman very superior to her associates, was sad and silent the whole time—she participated not in the general joy, but was evidently, even to the affrighted prisoner, much pained at the savage scene she was compelled to witness. When the fatal tomahawk was raised to terminate for ever the mortal existence of the unfortunate M'Krimmon, at that critical, that awful moment, Milly Francis, like an angel of mercy, placed herself between it and death, resolutely bidding the astonished execu tioner, if lie thirsted for human blood, to shed her's; being . determined, she said, not to surv i ve t h e pr i-' soner s death. A momentary pause was produced by this unexpected occurrence, and she took advan-, tage of the circumstance to implore the pity of her ferocious father—who finally yielded to her wishes; with the intention, however, it is believed, of mur dering them both, if he could not sell M'Krimmon to the Spaniards, which was luckily effected in a few days after, at St. Mark's, for seven gallons and a half of root. As long as he remained a prisoner, M'Krimmon's benefactress continued to chew him ' acts of kindness. Now, the fortune of war has placed her in the power of the white people ; she arrived at Fort Gadsden not long since, with a number of others that had surrendered, in a starving condition. We are gratified to learn, that a proper respect for her virtues induced the Commanding-Officer, Colonel Arbuckle, to relieve her immediate wants. hlt(Krim men appears to have a due sense of the obligation he owes the woman who saved his life at the hazard of her own—he left town last week to seek her, and, as far as may be in his power, to alleviate her mis, fortunes. It is also his "firm determination, we un derstand, if she will consent, to make her his wife, and reside, provided he can prevail upon her to do so within the settled parts of Georgia. It thus appears, that rude and uncultivated minds are susceptible of the Guest sensibility, oldie water attacirmeats, of the most ins;ulable friendship, . ... 10 STAR. . LONDON. WEDNESDAY, Dr.CEMIIER 23, 18:Si THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS TUTS DAY AT TWELVE O . CLECK: per Cent. Reduced 7711--4 per Cent. Cons. shut Cons.for Account, 78i 79—Si per Cent. 86ff :.er Cent. 94-5 per Cent. Navy shut India Bonds 76 78 pi e.—Omniurn par, pre. Exchequer Bills 9 15 pre. Letters have arrived front Madrid of the 7th inst. but they contain nothing confirmatory of the reports which have been recently in circulation of some great political movement having taken place in Spain. They state, on the contrary, that the KING had not, as was rumoured, fled with his QUEEN and Court to the Escurial, but still remained at Madrid awaiting the aczouchement of her MAJESTY, which was daily expected. It is confessed, however, that things look very ill, and that large bodies of banditti (as they are called) continue assembled in the mountains, make occasional descents upon the towns and villages, and laj• them under contribution. These banditti are, in 'fact, no others than the numerous deserters from the Grand American Expedition, who took shelter, as we mentioned some weeks ago, in the mountains of Gal licia, and having been joined there by a considerable number of peasantry and dissatisfied persons from all quarters, have gone the length of issuing Proclama tions of open rebellion. We gave it some days ago as our opinion, that the reports which have been the cause of so much public sensation, had taken their origin wholly from this insurrectional assemblage in the mountains ; adding, at the same time, what we now repeat with increased conviction, that such a nucleus of rebellion being once formed, nothing is more probable, under the existing state of feeling in Spain, than it should soon reach a height formidable to the safety of the Dynasty and Government of FERDINAND. The Agents of the Republic of Venezuela resident in London have received advises from South Ame rica, pressing them with great earnestness to obtain a supply of money for the Republic from this coun try, to aid them in their resistance to the Royal army under Monuto. These dispatches are dated in the middle of October, at which time noising had re cently taken place on either side. The money is pro bably wished to be obtained by way of loan from our money holders, who ate never backward to fur nish it to any Power on obtaining good terms, with at least a plausible security. Eventually, there can be no doubt of the South American Colonies esta blishing their independence ; but in a time of revc lution so many changes occur in the direction of public affairs, that it is always more or less a matter of uncertainty 4vhether the debts contracted in the straggle will be held binding by those who may be in power when the business comes to be terminated. This, however, will not prevent the loan or loans from being effected; for those who take the loan commonly contrive to get rid of their bargain with a certain profit long before the period of final settle ment. In the mean time, the richest Members of the Government of Venezuela are themselves making great sacrifices for the maintenance of their indepen dence ; selling their plate and jewels to raise funds for the public service. General PAET is represented as indefatigable in his efforts to discipline and render efficient the troops of the Patriots, but what their amount is we have not been able to ascertain. They probably do not exceed five or 6000 men. We have extracted in preceding column from the American Papers, an official account, by the Go vernor of Georgia, of the escape of Captain WRIGHT from trial, on account of the horrible barbarities in flicted by him and the troops under him, on the Chehaw town, belonging to the Seminole Indians. The Governor publishes his statement in order to justify himself, and evidently also to palliate the atrocities of Walcur. We think that the effect will be the direct contrary of that which he intended; for to us it appears hardly possible to read the narrative without suspecting WRIGHT'S escape to have been connived at : and it is in the first instance a suspici ous circumstance, that the Governor is more intent upon describing the provocation given by the In dians, than in stating the horrid vengeance inflicted on them, though the latter should have been more peculiarly the subject of his communication. This account of the cruelties exercised on the In dians in a body, is followed by interesting tales of generosity and humanity indicated by individuals of that race. Bills of Indictment - event five Of owners of the Patriot privateer la thee The 16th of N ov e m b er was the day fired e n the Ms.eting of Congress ; and, is there wa s cient number of Members asxnabled at a t . !et Government, i: was supposed that the hu m Message would be presented on Tuesday, THE PIIESIDEgT'S SPtECII. • 'At a late hour this forenoon we h-tve reteired PRESIDENT'S Message to Congress, brought by Vestal from Baltimore, arrived in the Do wnt , h i extremely long, and it is not in our powe r give more than at) abstract of its centtnts. congratulating Congress on the abundant harreiti proceeds as follows with respect to the relation s l e tween the United States and this Country: • " As the terms limited for the operation ! 0 !..a 4 Commercial Convention with Great 13r;tain wj pire in July nest, and it was deemed iri . ortaat tb 4 there should be no interval, during which that ioni c' of our Commerce which was provided for by ti n! Convention, should not be regulated either br a , rangemeet between the two Go 7 ernreents, ci• b y authority of Congress, the Minister of the Crisi States at London was instructed early in th e w summer to invite the atter.ti:); ,'± . the British Go vern ment to the subject. He was int:ructed to prop also, that the negociathin, :t was %%kilted s open, might extend to the ger:ern] cvnnserce two countries, and to every other icteres settled difference be tween them, particularly de l relating to impressment, the fisheries, and buti n d a ries, in the hope that an arrztrgettent might h made, on principles of reciprocal advantage, whit) might comprehend and provide, in 2 sat:ti:cta manner, for all these high concern,. Charleston Papers to the 2‘23 ult. arrived this morning. The Ontario, which has gone out to take posses- sion of Columbia river in the name of the United States, is stated to be accompanied by the Most friendly wishes of Great Britain. So far from throw ing any obstacle in the way of the American Settle ment it is said that Captain HICKY, of the British, sloop of war BLOSSOM, " goes to renounce all claim i to the Settlement in the name of the British Govern ment."—So much for " wars and rumours of wars." " I have the satisfaction to state, that the po lls sal was received by the British Government in ti spirit which prompted it, and that a negociatiLnE been opened in London, embracing all these object The Speech then states, that, previous to (peel the oegociation, it was - agreed that the Converai should continue for a term of not less than eight yet The Speech enters at consider able length into affairs with Sp..in, which we have not time to gl It, however, observes, that they remain r.early in same state as at the close of the last Session. With respect to Messrs. Arbudinott and Ambri! it observes, as follows:—" Copies of the instru:t: to the Commanding• General, of his cortesponde with the S,:oretary of War, explaining his met: and justifying his conduct, with a copy of the] ceedings of the Coarts Martial of the trLl of buthnott and Ambristic. and the correspondence tween the Secretary cf State and the Minister 11 potentiary of Spain near this Government, and el Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at. drid with the Government cf Spain, will be laid fore Congres,." The Speech then observes, That its Comm!r.c have returned from South Amerka, and the cble dons they have made regarding the rar beta Spain and the Patriots, will be laid before Cong: It further observes, that there is no prospect c termination of the war in that quarter. The Speech then says as follows I have g satisfaction to state, that our relations with Frai Russia, and the other Powers, continue on the n friendly basis. The augmentation of our Nay advancing with a stea.iy progress." A Letter from Baltimore, date! the 13th instant, says Our Grand Jur7 now ih :essioa have fou:Icl • Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council held at the LORD CSIANCELLOM'S house, on am of the Noble ard Learned Lord continuing indi sed, which was attended by, besides the LORD Ca cm..Loa, the Earl of lavaarooL, Viscount SIDHOL Viscount CASTLEREAGH, the Earl BATHURST, CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. WILLIS POLE, the Duke of WELLINGTON, &c. The CO Ministers were summoned on Monday afteueor meet yesterday, and the Duke of WELLINGTON summoned to attend in the same manner. The binet continued their dehberations till about half three o'clock. At the breaking up of the Cos the Duke of WELLINGTON rode on herseoae] Carlton House to pay his respects to the PRINCE GENT. His Grace remained with his Royal High upwards of an hour. Viscount Si nuotrirn had an audiencoof the PE REGENT after the breaking up of the Cabinet Cou The Duke of YORK had a long conference his Royal Brother, the REGENT, at Carltoc-Hoe Yesterday morning, soon after II o'ciosk, count CMTLEREACH went to Carlton House to his respects to the PRINCE REGENT upon his re from A ix. , 14-Cliapelle. The Cross which the Duke of Wenn:ra)) ceived from the King of FRANCE surpasses in si dour every one of the same kind in Euzope. said to be worth full A:25,000 sterling. The cam of his Grace broke down twice on his way r Paris. It appears that it is the same vehicle wi he made use of throughout the Spanb.h 'Tar, that it is now to be laid up in ordinary, after long and eventful journeys. The Duke was r repectfully and cordially received at Cami; and there were not wanting persons who es; sed their regret that the Army bad left them ; declared that they should have sincerely de its longer stay, had not the honour and bit of their country required its departure. This ma regarded as partly complimentary and partly t tor, while severe discipline preverael the peorlet suffering the inconveniencies Which usually r from the sojourn of foreign armies, the addit consumption must have be en grea tly favoaral trade. It is a curig i ns circumstance, that in hu visit to Waterloo, our illustrious General nary, escaped a severe accident. In f.illing, trona the pery state of the ground, le w near dislocatin 41a41dcz.