The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-31 00:00:00

CASE OF MR. ARBUTHNOTT. TWA letter will bring the British putlic acquainted the whole case, us it relates to tLe constant ag gTes:ions of tl:e Americans, the defenceiess state of the latt;am, :Ltd the obligations of Great Multi by treaty to protect them against lawless invasion_ " NUSG:i. N. P. Aug. 46, 1817. 6 6 stn—•l am especially authorised to adders* you by the Chicti of the Creek Nation, whose naines I affix to the tai e•ent. _ " Ti o desire it to he made known, that they have impli citly followed your advice in living•frienilly with the Anted cans, wen were their neighbours, anti no wise attempted to rimiest them ; though they have seen the Ansericaniveneruaelt bn their territory, be rning their towns, and making fields where their limier.; stood ; rather than make remis•ance, they have r; tired in..ter in the Peninsula. The town of Eleau:flialluteay ou the Chattabunclie, where Otis Miro vi Ks Chief, is the in stance of the encroachments of the Americans. This town is situated meter the guns of Port Gaines, and 3tiro was de- - aired to sidnuit to the incricans, in his town would he blown to :.loots; rather than do so hr roiled, is now living in th e lower nation, and his fields where the tuwn stood, are ploughed sup by the Americans. They complain of the Fuglish Govern seem neglecting them, aster having drawn them into wits with America ; that the pruniise made•them of sending people to reside among them has net been kept; and it they have not some person or persons resident in the nation to watch over their interests, they will soon he driven to the extremity of the Peninsula. You left Mr..liambly to watch over the in tants °film Creek nation, hut you had hardly lee the 'ration, when he turned traitor, and wits led by Forbes to take the parr of the Americutts ; hi:letter • to me, to which I :wove vuu a copy, Wit! s;;:aw you shat lengths ho would go if he Laillhe means. •It is C 1411744 eed-Llay;e wha give the lndiuns all the trouble tiny experience; they send their emissaries among the lower Creeks, end make them believe the Cathie.. tat, aided by the Americans, are c .ming down on them ; they send to the •Cuishittag, and repout the lower nation is aeainstillein ; thus both are post in tear, and their fields ore neglected, and knitting is sot thought of'. Ifigve endenvoined to do away with this - fear, by writing to the (•;i i ef. of Conbitta Town, that they onght to live on friendly terms w ith their - brethren of the lower nation, I% hose wish it was to he on good terms with them, and not to listen to any lead talks, hut to chase those that give them loom aiming them. ly letter was answered by them rather favoarably ; end I hope the talk that was vent to the Wig tVerrior, last June, will heal the differences het weal them. " 2lidliv Adj.. arrives.% in my schooner at Oko!Ans. Sound lastJuise,anci *vas r sceived by all the Chiefs and oilers µ ho fame to welcome him house; in roost-speller of iris a •tl a talk **a* ludd, the suboanee of which I put on psper for I !will. and ii sus sent crick a pipe of peace to the cubs r nations. Millis .I:ps u Med ru return to Nassau %Sill Mr, but l pot 'ailed uu hint to stay with the nation and keep thew all at peace. t .1 1 11 *Jeri: eil In return Hillis Adjo'e warmest ackuow. lesion's'. 610 tb.• very handsome manner in which you treated him its Engisild, cud he begs hi* prayers may be laid at the foot nt . Huy al Highness the Prinee Regent. 1 left him and all Ili faintly Welton theleth of June. " O.d I appaelitmled desired use to send yon his best res pects, and requests y our will send oat some people to live among them, and all the land they took from For bus shall be their'. ; at all events. "they musthave an agent among them to tier that the Americans adhere to the Beaty, and permit . ' thew tu Inc un.u , de. red on their onto lutad this agent should be asylno i.ed by his Majesty's Gutetilsiient, ur he will cut be attends d 6, b. the Asiieticaus. " lii OwVes of Georgie, the Americans report the Stainable 1(1 , 114to. sue Confi ssss ally committing murders on their hordeis, and makiag incursions into the State; these are fa Lekaimns I..siding to irritate the American Government against the poor Indians; for during the time 1 seas in thesation, there was ouly one American killed, and . h e, w i t h 100 others, was in the act of driving off cattle be. tonging to Boleck, chief of Sawahee ; whereas Ibsee men and a bay wide killwl last June, by a party of eattle stealers, while in their hunting tramps ; the boy they scalped ; and omit ofßoleck's head own was killed on St. John's River, in July. Thr Back vt mid Georgians, and those resident on the borders of the Indian nation, are continually eutering it and &atil': off cattle; they'll-we in some instances mace settlements, and particularly on the Choctokatche IliVer ; where a considerable *umber have descends d. " By the Treaty with Great Britain the Americans were to rive up to the Indians all the lands that might has e be , ittakesi during the war, and placed them 00 the same footing they were in 16111. It appears that *hes have nut dour so; that Fort Gaines, Int the Chatahour by Riveromd Camp Crawford, en the Flint River, are both on I udiass terr . otory, that was not in possession of the Americans is: 1811. • " They ale fearful that before any aid is given by the English Government, they will no longer be in possession of any territory. 1 wrote last January to Isis Excellency dr. Hon, Cheeks Bassos, representing toe encro..e anent% of the Americans (as I was iiitorined by the 4 opy •of a letter from t h e Right lion. Earl Batbuist, band. it rue by his. Exeellency Governor C .merwe,) that btu Nlatesty'r. Ambassador had is rebored GICILI! , 4 to watch ores Coo joie/4 4 ,1s 'Of site Indians. Since my renum here, I have leer-is/0 lioil4 Mr. bloiodle,of Ctiarleston, au extract olio letter from the Hun. Cll4l les Begot, that t h e et perisp of postage is sd tousldesabk, any. further eohrnitnicativris of; the souse natrire must be sent urn it, pri v tie hatirls ; now, Sir, as no person goes from this 'disco t is. Washings •., how 4111 . 1 to be aide to comply will, his ries,r. thus he wilt he kept ignownt of the is al situation of she poor Indians, seal the a 'seri nehmen. made on their laud by the A me r coo settles'', while he nay be told 'y 'the Amerlean Gaverrair. 1.1 that 100 estlellooriimeoto buve ureoi made, suit that _ tbe rolls key *old' hold•are necessary to check the untuly Se' nwsuirs ; thus the person appointed to vroselt•over the woos', 1 Idians. 11%i 4 Iflg 1.0 oofp, Of informistion than from the parriss ..otra 411 'heir destruction, and trom seeing figgc Noy to issue Asorfiripl Gazettes, 111ceoulifs Of relict ,, noirtle4 , 4.: l / 4 4% cos.mstled by the Indians. on Mu foontierset ra rss of the United States, tic also 'broil , 11444 tt. the All./ 515 ow. fill 4.1 then,. Bid let leis Mllairsly's- Oro. •es usu. us "pi ass avert, will, full ruivreiv, wird lu rates puad wok ...• r 41 Wa.lonottita, wad hi . • ..1% wl.l Is.• Iperie.l .14 to tht 0a..11%,4 that Ameri• All ~ ..L.vi.11.4140.1 well all the Ofneryklll4.lll, iu viltfplig the itidtaw. •* file r•4ivrn .ste, mud ibe w. le to mr. p. , yest 11.il as wEll at the Guveritut• (st i.w. , L1..4 tuaL a atta.sorial to Um Gorenser- THE NATIONAL REGISTER General would be torn.) Refeirilig .ot, to th• rlllll/•,•.1.t I am, most revectfully, St., )ouct.bvilient servant, " P.ARDUTHNOTT." " To Lieut. Colonel Nitholl." • Extract of a Letter signed W. Ram*. received at Okclohnc Sound, May, 1817. Sir-1 am desired by the Chiefs of the nation to request you will extricate yourself from a band of outlaws, among whom you now are. for the arm of justice is lifted up against them. and it will ere lung fall heavy on them, you, and - your property. They say they would haven() objection to your settlingany way to the west of Appala chieola river. bat where you now are, you are among a set of outlaws; they have lately comnllttxl twenty most cruel murders on women and children on the frontiers . of the United States. and stolen 100 horses, and they say it is by your iesire. Spanish Wulf; May 10, 1817. rAgned) W. HAMMY. t Signatures of the Chiefs of the Creek nation, to a power given to A. Arbuthnott. dated the 17th cf June, 1 8 7. Cappachhnico, 00ehaeona Tustonaky, nllomathle Mich°. Inhainathlo, Di mathluelle, "l'ahnuches Hatch°, Oharle 'furtenaky, n:ntrimathluetti. liidlis Adjo. Otod gLakoi Ilimathlo Oppaithlimizo. interpreter. I'ETER SIitTGERT. Approved of by F. C. I.IIF NGO, Commandant of `t. Mark's. PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE. The King of Portugal has published a Royal Alvaro, eer law, hated Rio Janeiro, May ti, 1818, to .etiforee the articles of the late convention with the. British Govern ment tin the abolition of the slave trade, north of the Equator. It fixes the penalties to which those traders are liable who engage in the prohibited traffic, and males the necessary regulations for the protection and support of those slaves who, in consequence of these •penalties, shall be declared free, The following are some of its provisions:-- 1. All persons, of whatsoever quality or condition, who shall proceed to fit out or prepare vex-cis tier the traffic in slaves, in any part of the coast of Africa lyisig north of the Equator, shall incur the penalty of the loss of the naves, who diall be declared free, with a destination herein afterwards mentioned. The vessels esigag..l in the traflic shall be con fiscated, with all their la C k it! and appurtenances, tagellirr with the earo,,o, of whatever it consists, which shall he ou board on account of the owners or freighters of such vessel; and the owners of such slaves. The officers of such vessel, to wit, the captain or rimier, the pilot and supercargo. shall he banished: or five ye.riseto Ntosamblque, and each shall pay a tine equivalent to the pay or other interests which Ste was to gain by the adventures. Policies of insurance cannot be mask on such vessels, sir their cargoes'; and if they are made the assurers who shall knowingly make •them shall he con demned in triple the autumn of the stipulated premium. 2. The same peraity of the loss of the slaves sit:Matt:tell to pee owns of whatever rank or condition who shall import slaves into Brazil in foreign vessels. _ . 3. Declares that owe half of the confiscated property shall he given to the informer,and the other brought into the royal treasury. If there is no informer, the whole produce of the cargo, and the whole su:n of the tine, shall go to the royal treasury. . . 4- Itegalatee the mode of proceeding in cases where in formation is given, fixes the authorities before whom the prosecution is to be brought, and appoints the manner in which the sentence is to be executed 6. The slaves consigned to the royal treasury, and all those declared frre by the above article has it would be unjust to abandon them without support), shall be delivered up to the judge ut the district berme whom the condemnation shall lake place (whose powers shall be enlarged with teat juris diction), to serve as freed men for 14 years, in any public service of the navy, the fiertroeses, agriculture, or public offices, as may be thought most convenient, being fur that I mo pose enrolled in the re.ile•ctive stations ; or shall be hired out to tudivieluals of known ploperty and probity, who shall b • bound to seppot t, clothe, and Matt Oct them, teaching them ...me handicraft or labour that may be agreed liputi, during the stipulated period; the termeattnil the condifinsia of which snail be renewed as often as necessary, till the 14 years are expired ; the time of servitude may be-shortened by two or more years, according -as the good conduct of these persons may- entitle them to the eejoyment of full freedom. In case these feed men are destined bur the public service, the officer who shall have authority in the respective station to which thee are assigned, shall numinete a person capable of thing their term, who shall be responsible for their edema' and teem:neut. They shad have as curator a person of known probity, who shall be noodoated every the ee years by the judge, and approved of by the judicial sunned ur govea nut and captain general of the province. To him it shall be kli; US provide every thing which may couttibate to their se cal tieing, to rectify abuses that may effect them, to precut e them release after their proper tom of se t es c e, and enee ce generally f u r their benefit the olniersatiee of the lime pre scribed for the pi othciiuu of crphatis, in as tar as those-lac e are applicable to them, to the end that whatever is urdeted conceiving them may be ste icily exrctaeel. 0-• lit the purls to tee wroth of the Equator, where the 1106 . 1. in slaves is still permitted, the regulatiotis passed in the • 14%1.. 1 01hr rata (4* Noe einte r, lel3, stroll bt ote.ei %eel • oh the followmg nuid.ficatioits : —The elislitietiou bet a ern vessels which *ball exceed or shall no; et seecel V.Ol tons, shall by ebidedied, and the number of slaves skill be regulated tie cot ding to the tottmege of the vessel, in ;lir poriporituu lot live to es esy two toes. it shall be allowed to the serous whit mvit or freight slave vessels, to Het indiecrimillatt ly hurt 111 copper kettles, provided the limier eve r'. voyage sue *wheel, :thew. 41 surge ties do not sail on board such vessel*, on ar. of the impossibility orf pee/cuing them, the owners shut ne• obliged to rally:week them Witch suegretdorea, elites kneel' an 115. trralotrut •f the 'dote ayes with which the slaves ass VO .unduly afflicted. 7. Till the c me ere iu slaves is changed by new reptile •, the tenpin saloon of slaves lulu Brazil, Isom aloe pulls' 1,15551. the loalfie 15,1501 pi is pit mimed. The usual order iassubjoitied to all the authorities to observe and admit this law. A fellow, who said his came was , lintley, • tier days since. re pre•entirg hinewlf as nephew of Mrs. House, grocer. of Diem/ord. edited at the blacking hatnulactoty of K. Tumcr. 114 . 1 .011t10n-road. Southwark. and ordered good, to the amount of 111.3 v. and teuder• ed a cheek thr 361. 71.. on Glyn and Co. purporting to he dr.,an by Sales. Pollard and Co. Afdeate.dreet. wholesale tobaceoni,n, which proved to be a forgery, and received a cheek in cscltaogc on Sir J. Paring awl Co. !Or tsl. BUONAPARTE. Longo owl, Api iI2I, 1818. . - • ----- TO 'IIIE GOVERNOR. HIRC—Wheo on the 12th of &oil I was informed by Dr. O'Meara that he should discontinue the exercise of his folic • tions as plivsicimi to the Emprtur Napoleon, I hastened to send a message II Major Ourrequer, begging Lim to favour tiro with a call, having some co.usuunicatiour to make to Lim of the very highest importance. I told this officer that I had intended to app. ise him of oar regret at salcombe'.•t 11OnIt tiring deprived of supplying the provisions ; that the journey of the principal of that house to London could nut be a reason of depriving Ilion of his bu siness, since the service had been always perk), mud by his partners, lklessrs. Fowler and Cole, 111111 Mr Ilateumbe had never interfered therewith ; but that the connutinieutiou I had just received fr Dr. O'Meara was vastly more imput . tant, and that the Emperor could not rest a single day 'with_ out the aid of Di. O'Meara. The next day, the 13111.1 had the honour to write to you to the same effect ; 1 had hoped to awve an answer in the course eveituf that day, hut this lh the 211 h, and I am stilloithout any reply. Thus, fur E.! days 11 or the Lippert), beendeptived of all medical ;assistance. the mouth ut Drumm he was 24 (la's asthma seeing Dr. O'Meara, at the U PC you assumed the nsionishing right ut imposing upon him the Will:alien to issue his bulletins only tinder your dictation, without their first tieing sithmitted to the Emperor, Or the being felt in Midlands. Then, however, Its rasorrict wits iu its infamy , now it has made some consia:irable pi ogress. Count Mon *holm), who lodge, in the same part of the building as tho Emperor, informs me, that oiethe and to day, the V4th„ he was awakened at two u . elerk in the morning ny the Eta perur's valet.de_thaitibre, and remained at that Prince's bed side tido!) two o'clock in the morning till five, is itiii.ssing the sitiFerings le. endured, and utterly nuable to alleviate thew. Your restrictions upon Longwood of the lOtla of April have thus already had the saddest effect. I beg, therefore, to repeat my request, that you would re store Doctor O'Meara to the esereise , of his functions, aid discontinue to annoy him, and make litut feel the effects ut seek ill treatment. by ITIIIO% hug the rest, let ions you, so routrary to what have been in force for tare years, have imposed apes I • by your letter of the lOtli ut April, to which he neither will nor can snowlt , without dishonouring In short, Sir, whatever reasons you may be aisle to-ellege. reflect upon the eutiseipleoces of continuing things ut these Present state, and of dein lying the Emperor of the Poysicion of his choice, without having bilbstitiated another. canto main, to my letter of the 13111 of April. If you still persist ut tilts line of euttiliact, this arbitrary act wilt be duly appreciated by tut ope, by your own country, and even i by your Ministers. I have the honour to be, &e. Count BERTRAND. To Licit. Gen Mr Hudson Lowe. Plantation Honse,•April 2s. Ste—l ant directed by Lieutenant General Sir fintiaost Lowe to make the following remarks on your letter to hint at' the 24th instant, received this day : • His letter of the:II:11, in answer to yours of the 13th, was 'transmitted to Longwood oil the Ath, and delisesed at your house on the saute day ; consequently your letter of the 24t4, which did nut leave Longwood until this day, most base bekis dispatched after his letter of the 22.1 had art tved there. The manner of your addressing Major Gtirrepter on.the 12th, the Governor has already noted ; the particular ei.- pressionts. you used he disdained, however, to repeat they art futeign heEnglish usage. It Mr. O'Meara discontinued his functions as a medical , attendant on Napoleon Lluottapatte, it was entirely without the Governor's knowledge or approbation. The copy of the Guve nor's decision on Mr. O'Me.tra's ap, plication to resign, which you received yesterday, sling a that lie lies not been displaced limn his functions, but that lie is to continue to exercise them until relieved. Under these circumstances, the Governor 4-mishit:is medical attendance fur every ordinary occasion us duly prOrliled, awl that in referring the application to Ettglano,due attention has been paid at the same time to What is Staled in your letter of th e 13th, as tote means tit his replacement, The asstition that your letter contains, that the Goiernor attempted to impose such an ohlignltuts wt alas Ovite g us us that he write budettils under lits dietkr,lie directs etc most pointedly to contradict, upon whatever autliosity.you tine) 11115 c made it. Its conclusion, I Jill directed by the Governor to acquaint you as follows Ist. that lie will nut henceforward receive any letter or communication witaisuver trout airy person in attend:we upon Napoleon Buono pal tc, %these the Ittle of.Etopei or shall or given to lain, aunt that it any such letter tir he iiiiiimetted, it will be relit/he.; acting 11l tilts respect in coliformity to the instruction conveyed nu Earl 134- thug st's letter to thin, dated 17th tit Sepleinnet, !ha, Arcady reminieitivatell tO )uti. IteCyci ing to a letter addict sed to Count disled nth of August, 1816, that le witinut ft:ewe:my cureounitiea tient respect tog the Si. ilattOli 41 Nitpuleuniiiii-.li ;‘aite 110111 any of the forele.i pelrOOS fu "ititeitilasiel upon oils', Hitless it.,. itiMitictly.e‘plem at d tie Hie salmi that it Pilitritteil by his authority. I- have Mt Tsotlutil ito Ire, big . , )war taut outuiteut and must I isle NVI . V.IIII, (Sli lard) I'. RC, DE. • Lieut. Con n and Adjutant General. To Lieut. General CUUUt Bertrauilos:e.are. Plantation !loose, April 2:". Sin-. 4 am directed by the Governor to desire yon will as quaint use tot his information, Ito. How snotty flows you have seen Napoleon llooisaparte since Ow 12th ima. and ou what days' 2:1. 1C yon have 'closed your 111C1C104i 41141 to him on arry i#Co4 , llllll*lllllCe that dis) The •a4tnvr , quesUuus being of f fiery simple nature, it is nesisdit•you wtll smid an immediate utiliser so thew by the beat r. (Sispiekl) B. Oltleard, E,41. 1 am, Sir, G. kiiLlit PAVER, Major, Act. bin. Sec. ANSU Longwood. April Si. SIR.-4 have the honour to reply, lie) vier iimiP,lll4l 1 di•l ilut bee Napsoirues IS.tu 4 i i4s..r v., the Ihe 14th, se illb9lll Iliad (lA}, be Nett' ;ill lair r to Isis room, but cattcring tutu novelirai Abby Elm 1 re ou..uel with him abuai e leartur of en houi,rwei the tir,oure, AUG ai 0 ''• I, al