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_ ,1141 . :!'ICAN PAARS. • DOSTON, \ SERTF44IBER EMBRYO INVASION or Mexico.—A:Gentlemannow in Washington, and late from New Orleans, reports that the fortified camp established near Trinity-river; in the Province of Texas, continues to receive almost daily, volunteers ; that if the force augments for one year longer in the proportion it has for some time past, there can be no doubt they will have a concen tration at this point, adequate to strike at once for the liberation of Mexico, and fully equal to cope with the Spaniards ; that General Lallemand is chief in comnlt,nd, and has under him many veteran French officers ; that they spend much time in the open air, practising the use of arms, and that they are well or ganized, inured to fatigue, and keep up a very exact discipline. If this information is correct, (and we have no reason to doubt it), Mexico is destined, at no distant day, to assume an imposing attitude, and become a formidable Empire ; and this, _very pro bably, under the direction of some military aspirant, who with the sinews of war at command, might laugh to scorn the powers of combined Europe. ..,: '\ I i t i 1 I I I I . ) 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 ; 1 . - I I 4 , i . 1' ; , t !. i e i , ; 1 • : k 1 . I i 1 s )1 4 " 4 c i . is 1 , i l' ~.. t t ft 1 1 i # k 1.. 1 ' 1 1 1 11 i . k 44 SEPTEMBER 24. FLORIDA.--We have seen (says the National In telligencer) some conjectures in the newspapers re specting the delivery of the Spanish Posts in Florida, which IL has been announced are to be restored to the Spa iish Gov e ernment, that have led us•to some inquiu y into the subject. The two posts, we are in clined to believe, will be surrendered under variant circumstances. The post of St. Marks will not be sunendered, but to a force conrpetent to hold it. It is a military post, remote from any population, sur rounded by horde., uf• desperate Indians and Negroes ; it is the only barrier against their ravages•and incur sions. To evacuate it on the mere demand of any Spanish Agent deputed to receive, or to a force in competent to hold it, would be to evacuate it to the Indians; for we have the authority of the late Spa nish Commander of it for saying, that the Indians controuiled him, and not he them. Self-preserva tion is the first dictate of nature, and there is no. thing in the law of nations, most rigorously con strued, which requires a nation to prostrate any part of its population at the mercy of an infuriated and. Savage enemy. We have daily accounts that the Seminole Indians, remaining nnsubdtted, are embo died in force : this check withdrawn, and they might sweep our borders. On the appearance of a force adequate to garrison the post, it will promptly be given up. With respect to Pensacola, that post stands on a different footing. There are not fifty warriors west of the Appalachicola, and the popula tion of the frontier is sufficient to keep them in awe. The population of Pensacola alone is abundantly competent to preserve it from falling into the hands of the Indians. That post, therefore, will be sur rendered, without condition, to any Agent of Spain duly authorized to receive it. It is thus seen, that the United States do not desire to hold the Spanish posts ; one of which is surrendered without any con ditioa, but that it shall hot be surrendered to a force nominally Spanish, under a coretroul actually Indian. In a word, it is to Spain, and not to the Seminoles, that both the posts are to be surrendered. The Baltimore Federal Republican informs, that The Judge of the Court of the United States for Maryland District has issued warrants against several gentlemen of that city, on a charge of being con cerned in fitting out a Patriot privateer from that port. The information was given on oath, and the parties arrested have given bail to appear at the next Coar•t." NORFOLK, SEPTXMBER 21. MysrEnrovs Arent rt.—Sixteen Spanish seamen were brought to this place on Saturday night, in the East River Packet, Captain Turner, from Mathews county, and put under the care of the Spanish Con sul. :These seamen state, that they were part of the crew of the Spanish schooner called the La Mila, (alias Sufficiente), commanded by Captain Jose Car boner, which sailed from Havannah on the 15th of August last, bound on a voyage to the coast of Africa; that on the 31st of the same month, in hit. 32. long. 70. they fell in with an armed brig under General Artigas's colours, called El Oriental Irre sistible, Captain —, a resident at Baltimore, as they understand from her crew, who captured the La Mila, and after taking from on board twenty-one of her crew, leaving the Captain and five men on board the prize, she was manned with a prize crew, and ordered for Margaretta. Four days alter their capture they fell in with the American ship Good Return, W. C. Sands, master, of and from Baltimore, and were put immediately on board that vessel ; the Captain of the privateer furnished Captain Sands at the same time with plenty of provisions and water to carry them to St. Bartholomew's, and paying also kir each man 22 dollats. As soon as Captain Sands had got the prisoners in charge, he ordered them to bd put in irons, between decks, and in this situation they re mained until the following day, .when they were brought up and ordered to work, with threats and menaces that they should lose their lives if they dared disobey. During the night they remained in irons, they heard at times considerable bustle upon deck, and occasionally the rowing of boats, as if passing from the vessel they were in to some other : and bags and boxes of money, as they believed, were repeatedly thrown upon deck, and into the cabin, as they distinctly heard the noise of dollars jingling when the bag or box was thrown down. A few days afterwards some of the crew of the ship attempted to rise upon the Captain and Officers, but were overpowered and put in irons; and while in this situation one of them was repeatedly beaten and whipped most inlinmanly by sonic of the crew. After receiving on board the treasure, Captain Sands steered for Baltimore, and on his passage, a few days before he arrived in the bay, was boarded by a schooner from that port, and ordered thither. The ship accordingly entered the Chesapeake, and an chored somewhere near the mouth of East River, on the 14th instant. The day following the Spanish seamen were ordered by Captain Sands to be put on shore, but on their begging that they might he taken to Baltimore, as they understood the ship was going there, or to be sent to Norfolk in the pilot-boat which was in company, Captain Sands threatened them that if they did not embark immediately on board the pilot-boat, he would have them tied and thrown over boatel. They accordingly went on board the boat under on escort of. armpd men from the ship, and were set on shhre without any means of subsistence, end in • a country where they were entire strangers. They were soon relieved by the humanity of some of, the citizens, and taken care of until their situation ', was made known to their Consul in Baltimore, who lost no time in employing the same person who' brought him the account of it to return and bring them to this port. n.u.Trmonr, SEPTEMBER '2l. MEMORIAL OF AMIIRIBTER ' S FATHER. •The indifference with which the account of the execution of•Arbitthnott and Ambrister has been re ceived in England, may be taken as evidence of the fact, that the Government of that country has re• ceived satisfactory assurances of the justice of the measure. The subject has given rise to a much greater degree of excitement in this country : some of our Newspapers, indeed, have even gone so far as to condemn the act off hand, as altogether unjustifi able and unprecedented. For our own part, we never, doubted that their punishment, however terrible it may have been, was authorized by the laws of nations, as it was merited by the magnitude of their offences; though we could have wished that the grounds and proofs upon which they had been tried and condemned had been officially promulgated. Some facts connected with the history of one of these individuals has come to our knowledge, which may bo interesting to some of our Readers, though they are entitled to no importance in a political point of view. They are contained in the following Me morial, addressed by the father of the young man, Ambrister (a resident of the island of New Provi dence), to the Governor of the Bahamas. While we yield our assent to the stern decree of justice pro nounced against the son, humanity claims our sym pathy in behalf of the afflicted parent : TILE MEMORIAL OF JAMES AMBRISTER, OF Tllt num, OF NEW etovizemcc, Humbly sheirefh, caplets's: Your Memorialist's youngest son, Roans? CHRISTY'S -beams via, was born in this Colony, in the year 1797: he served as a Midshipman in his Majesty's Navy for about four years; he af terwards obtained, under Admiral t'ocitasia, a Lieutenant's Commission in his Majesty's late Corps or Royal Colonial Ma rines, destined to be employed during the late war with the United States of America, is which capacity he served with Major NICHOLLS in the Florida', and from thence he returned to New Providence on the esta►lishment of peace, without hav ing been then, or at any time since, confirmed to his last-men tioned rank in any way whatever by his Majesty's Government. Some short time since, your Mernorialist's said son, when on a visit to the Ploridas, as a passenger in a small trading vessel from these Islands, certainly on the last occasion without any military commission or appointment of any kind which your Memorialist is aware of, was (as your Memorialist with deepest pain has lately learned from different quarters) seizes' upon at his Catho lic Majesty's Fort, St. Mark's, by a military force from the United States of America, tried by a Court Martial, and con demned to be shot, on some pretence of crime not yet known to your Memorialist, and actually executed in pursuance of his sea tence.—As your Memorialist understands, his son had not been en shore mere than fourteen days when he was thus fatally pro ceeded against. By the same public accounts, your Memorialist further learns, that Mr. ALZXANDIR Aaauvanors, a trader of this place, who is well known never to have had any connexion y.rith military life, was also seized at St. Mark's, at the same time as your Memo rialist's son, and executed, in pursuance of a sentence of the same Court Martial. Your Memorialist, without being able to conjecture what of fence either his son or Mr. A Rbil ?}MOTT could well have been guilty of, within his Catholic Majesty's dominions, which could, according to any known principle of natural law, subject their lives to forfeiture in this instance, within the fair jurisclictian of the invading force, respectfully represents as a characteristic ag gravation of this apparently flagitious mockery of justice (should the fact prove to be as is represented and believed), that the principal witness produced against the prisoners, before the ex- I traerdinary Tribunal which claimed the right of bringing them Ito trial, was an infamous person of the name of Coma, a vendue master's clerk, who some time before quitted these islands ftl consequence of having robbed his master, and who was after wards imprisoned at St. Mark's for a similar offence against Mr. Aasernworr, who had the misfortune to employ him in his mer cantile concerns there. Your Memorialist therefore trusts that your Honour, in kind indulgence to the natural feelings and solicitude of a parent at so dark and melancholy an event, as *ell as from motives of a more important general character, will be pleased to lay this State ment before his Majesty's Government ; your Memorialist hum bly but anxiously hoping that your Honour ' s communication may lead to an inquiry of high authority, which your Memo rialist confidently believes must redeem the memory of his son from all unjust imputations of dishonour, and (your Memorialist begs he may be excused for adding) the British character also, from those fabricated tales and foul aspersions with which the public ear is abused, particularly in the United States of Ame rica, in justification of the above-mentioned sanguinary measures of their present 'Military Commanders. Your Mentorialkt will ever pray, &c. (Signed 2 Nassau, June 49, In& JAMES AM BLUSTER. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUMMY, OCTOBER 22, 1818. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT TWILVI O . CLO:K Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced 76g. 3 per Cent. Consols 77h—for Acc. 771 i. • 3 per Cent. 86i1-1 per Cent.,9sf. 5 per Ct. Navy 107 H—India Bonds 88 89 pre. Omnium dis.—Exchequer Bills 19 21 prem. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning. The report of an intended visit to Paris by the Em perorALEXANDER and King of PRUSSIA, is now said to be premature, in as far as regards the former, but there appears to be no doubt that the latter will pass some days in the French capital. In a circular address by the Prefect of the Mo selle to the Mayors of the Communes of his Arron dissement, announcing the departure of the Army of Occupation, it gives us much pleasure to meet with the following discreet and conciliatory passages : " In announcing to you this happy event, for which Frenchmen are indebted to the wisdom of their King, and to their own conduct, I do not doubt, Mr. Mayor, that the citizens under your administra tion will preserve in the expressiOn of their joy, the dignity which they have shewn during days of suf fering and of sacrifice. I trust they will act in such a manner that the foreigners shall separate from them as from hosts by whom they have been honour ably entertained, and that they shall go forth and attest to all Europe that France, the same under all fortunes, has supported their stay among them with out abjectness, and has seem their departure without exultation. Vial w ill tale care, 'qtr. Mayor, to main- I tain the good harmony which has hitherto subsisted' between the inhabitants and the foreign troops, and! you will enjoin that all foreign soldiers, whether those which have already been in the occupation of your department, or those which may be passing through it on their way home, shall be treated with respect; you will immediately repre‘s every expres sion of joy which may have an offensive air, and you will be particularly careful that no sort of excess I 'shall be committe j j. The orders of the King are positive on this subject ; you are respon,ible for their I execution." A letter from Dona'', of the 15th of October, states that five Officers of the Douai• Regiment of Artil lery, three of whom are Chiefs of Battalion, received orders on the 14th inst. to repair forthwith to Mau ' beuge, Conde, Laadrecies, Bouchain, and Cambray, to take possession of the artillery of these places in the name of the KING, immediately after the depar ture of the Allied troops. The Austrian cavalry stationed in the neighbour hood of Strasburgh, were to commence their march home on the 15th, and were to be followed by the rest of the Austrian troops in successive detachments. The indisposition of the Duke of FELTRE, the late Minister of War, who continues at his chateau of Nenviller, near Saverne, has recently assumed a very serious aspect. A Flanders Mail has brought us this forenoon Brussels Papers to the 20th instant. The following are extracts: BRUSSELS, OCTOBER io. His Majesty the King arrived here in the course of yesterday evening. OCTOBER l9.—The opening of the annual Session of the States General of the Kingdom, took place to-day, with the customary solemnity. Ills Majesty repaired to the Assembly at one o'clock, and delivered a very gracious Speech. VALENCIENNES, OCTOBER 16. The English Cavalry which was stationed in the environs of St. Omer's and of Cassel, has arrived be tween this city and Cambray, and has joined the other troops of the same nation. All the Russian troops encamped near llaubeuge have been exercising for some days past preparatory to the grand review and the manoeuvres which will follow it. All is here prepared for the reception of the Em peror of Russia, the King of Prussia, the Duke of Wellington, and the numerous suites of Generals and superior Officers, who are already arriving succes sively in this city. The English Officers have been obliged to give up their lodgings. The arrival of the Sovereigns is announced for Monday evening. All the troops will be under arms, and the artillery of the fortress will fire a salute at the entrance. It is affirmed that the place will be occupied on the 10th of November by a French garrison, com posed of a regiment of the Royal Guard coming from Paris, a legion of infantry, and one regiment of ca valry. All is preparing with the greatest activity for the evacuation of the French territory. We have given in a preceding part some further Extracts from the American Papers received yester day, among which we beg particularly to direct the attention of our Readers to a Memorial from the father of Mr. AMBRISTER, the unfortunate young gentleman who was so wantonly tried and hung along with Mr. ARBUTHNOT, by the Military Commission under the orders of GenA•al JACKSON. The docu ment is preceded by some observations of •m Ameri can Editor, in which he affects to be surprised at the apathy with which this murder of two British sub jects has been regarded by the British Government. We have reason to believe that our Government have done all that became them on an occasion so deeply affecting the national dignity, and that explanations have been called fur, the want of which is actually at this moment a bar to several important negocia tions, particularly of a commercial nature, which were in dependence between the two Governments. New York Papers of a dad• later than the prece ding, came to hand at a late hour this forenoon.— The following are extracts : BOSTON, SEPTEMBER le. The United States frigate Macedonian, Captain John Downes, is now in our harbour, quite ready for sea, and waits only a favourable wind to proceed on her cruize. We understand the Macedonian will touch at St. Salvador, Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, and then proceed round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, to relieve the Ontario, xvhich it is exp&ted will return to the United States before winter. NORFOLK, SPAM:MI:ER ta. LATEST FROM TIIE SPANISH NIA I Nl—eaptain Kerr, of the British schooner Sector, has politely favoured us with a proof sheet slip from the office of the T,i nidad Courant, dated 29th August, which contains the following highly interesting extract : • " TRINIDAD, AUGUST " On Friday, the 21st instant, anchored in this port about ten miles to the southward, Admiral 13rion, and having had a sort of neutral communicatim. with Admiral Harvey, proceeded early next morning for his destination. " A squadrilla of what they term the sulaleforec, composed of gun-boats and flecheras, with 700 men of debarkment on board, commanded by Commo- dire Diu and General Bennuchfr, hisl. F l l '.ded the river with the Admiral, and d e p„ ) ., the Cano de Macareo, and readezvouied Icacos, were ordered to join to the westv, “ The result of this expedition was ter, yesterday by a canoe, and has been, that I attacked by ten o'clock on Monday nigh instant, and carried by assault, with very the assailants, but a very considciable Spaniards. " We learn verbally from Captain Kerr, tclligence received by the Scarnander, Tel above affair, was in substance as folly gate had been dispatched by the Br::: , demand from the Spanish Command: the release -of two English vessel, it tair.ed by him. On her arrival in the Brion was making his dispositions fo; place. The Spanish Commandant refw up the two English vessels, and the Scam, out and lay off the I.arb , air to recocnoi gagement, which soon commenced. P re ever, Adniiral Brion .e:.t word to the C. Scamander to give himself no concern at Eels, as he would engage t 3 deliver they the course of the day, which he did. l)uring the action, the Favourite (1 the preceding account) got becalmed, ' which left her at the complete disposal o. who boarded her and massacred ever crew. Soon after this horrid act of barba sprung up, and the Admiral, in the Vial Favourite as stated above) was enabled vourable position, when he opened a tremea on the Spanish flotilla and batter ies. the fire of the Spaniards was complw Those at the batteries fled in all (limo those in the gun-boats were indiscrimii death by the avenging swords cf the Pi u Captain Kerr states, that the univen at Trinidad was, that the Patriots woul be in undisturbed possession of every inc! in Venezuela. He also states, that in of communications betK•een the British Admiral Brion, the former addressed th his official title of Admiral aid C, Chief of the naval forces of the Indepen , ment of Venezuela ; thus recognizing dence of the Power under which he actea NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER We learn from Mr. Dupont, who came in the schooner Fairplay, from Aut C, Patriot privateer Fox, had been seized by a Government ketch ; and that serer Christophe had been taken at Port-ai imprisoned. Captain Appleby, of the schooner Pal Domingo, informs, that in July last guese ship, mounting 22 guns, ;u cal Patriots. The Spaniards at the city o' fitted out a launch, mannedw•ith t 5 r:., ceeded to Cape Beta, where the prize tore her. In attempting to board tbi man belonging to the launch was hiller A Gentleman, who has jnst returned through tic counties of Chester, York, Westmoreland, states, that several nu or persons accredited, and acting under the din of some eminent individuals in that country, been tampering with many of the best hands bde silk, woollen, and cotton trades; holding out to List the immense advantages to he derived from an ese• rise of their professions in lln•sia, but more espt cially in the Polish provinces, where considerable manufactories have already been begun, and when great immunities and privileges are granted t o artizau of every description. It has been long knownthat the Emperor ALEX% NDER entertained the design tiro lonizing the distant and half-peopled districts °flit vast Empire; and, by the introduction of ii,genioas foreigners, to direct the energies of his powerful hitherto scarcely civilized dominions, into the ch nels of Commerce and the useful Arts. It must har been evident to every person of common sagacity that the late Royal and Imperial visits, and the doe prying into and inspection of our various maratfae tories and machinery, from the Tweed to the Tam as well as in Scotland and the sister Kingdom, Sect not undertaken on the score of curiosity only--thel were the result of well-founded and deliberate pl Most of these persons were men of shrewd tion ; and were accompanied by persons o f equal a superior abilities to themselves, who did not s ail the most minute.particulars connected with the m nufitctories and machinery which they visited, to escape their notice. The different European nations h rye all in their turn partaken largely of the Ifni of British commerce and industry, in the shape of subsidies, and now, knowing that " Oihelly's isor Hoe in this respect is gone for the preqnrt, they to possess themselves of the primeval sour,es fa ear greatness, and in this, to a certain extent, they comet fail to succeed. The time they have cho,en is Co' tainly favourable to their views, when so many 4 43 manufacturing population shew a desire to corneae. Yesterday morning Earl BATHURST OM tO toe: from Putney, and had an audience of the Prat REGENT at L'arlton House. In the evening tbe N4b , ' Earl returned to Putney. Lord and Lady CAsTLEREAGH arc Csliected 4 . 441 next week from Aix-la•Chapellc; .hags ed 4 . 21 : 4 - Art ef.t . 'N- .1 • t G11;t•a, : 11 t, th e s Y litte:y,. e nue th at; , elaaitr t o rs :Admi t 4 nt at G t i 4 Ir.,:',)pe: y Ilse, atucZ.rg tot wed . 4 . pt . rran! , :7 mite Cie e e ,. 'rerio ns , ••Aptain about the Th, em tO LZ, a lmentiow in f ma k s of the tray, r+o.etffa e arity, a :m u etoriau the I to take 3 fa. remendc ts 6, e Ina little erre letely O me r ections, inately t. ) rsal imire uld very Ids ef t . an exchu. s Admiral the latter t',. 'ommanda: rodent C . the Ind ,led." anse passel, • ',ayes, that si in that eral spies , au-Ptince ralet, (rens. a large Porta. aPtuTe 4 by the >I St. Domingo r.on, pro. e lay, to recap- he s> iiti trey ied tram a us Laneam,ml ussiAn r the direction country, .a*