The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-10 00:00:00

i 7 n. / c.. 0 .. . vqe L _ ..... 1 . ,• 43 t ir ltionalf - A - tot - D - 'lrr+ out . tang, ConOitittion anD it MI. .........E.._eit No. 570.---Vot. XII. SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 181 D. Pam POLITICAL DISQUISITION. questionable fact. As a trader with the Indians, it VIM impossible to do otherwise ; since on the supply of powder and shot depended the return cargo of fors for Europe. But these arc not the paints cn which the question turns. Mr. Arbuthnot del stimulate the Indians to resist the arms of the United States. He did convey the means of warfare to the Chiefs. He engaged in the service of the Creek cations, and sup ported them to the utmost in what lie felt to Le their justiglable hostilities against the Republican arms. This was the whole case that was proved against our countryman—this is the whole finding of the Court ; for, as to the impudent and monstrous charge, that he was " a spy," the sentence is a complete acquittal. ne say, therefore, that on no princfle of public law amid Mr. Arbuthnot be condemnett by this American Court martial. THE LATE QUEEN'S WILL. MESSRS. ARBUTIINO F AN!) AMBRITMR. THE proceedings of the North American Court Martial, which sat upon the trial of Messrs Arbuthnot and A mbristcr, have arrived this week. The circum stances are fresh in the minds of our readers. The charges—the evidence (if such it can be called)—the defence of the prisoners—the sentence of the Court, and the execution of our countrymen; one of whom was hanged in pursuance of the sentence pronounced upon him ; while the other was shot by the order of - General Jackson, and in open defiance of, and contempt fisr, the sentence of the Court which tried him these are matters too striking and affecting to be soon forgot. It is of high importance to the honour of Great Britain, and of the United States, as well as to the durjun of that friendship which happily subsists between them, that the whole of this subject should be carefully re considered ; and that the national judgment on both shores of the Atlantic should be temperately formed and gravely recorded. If an injury shall then appear to have been sustained by England, in the persons of any number of her tuna:tiding subj , ets, we doubt not that ample and amicable redress will follow without delay. Thus may no uneasy feeling, the certain source of jealousy and distrust, be left to rankle in the heart of either country ; no consciousness on one side of h i ving beer. affronted with impunity ; nor fear, on the other, of Ling vi,ited by future retaliation. The circumstances under which Messrs. A. Arbuth not and Robert C. Atubrister CAI into the hands of General Jackson, commanding the American army against the Seminole Indians, are too well known to require that they should be immediately recapitulated. These gentlemen were resident among the Indians who inhabited the wild country upon the ill defined borders of Georgia and the Floridas. They were tacit by the Americans within a Spanish post. A Court martial was assembled, by General Jackson's orders, on the 26th of last April, 18 $B, io try these British subjees kw crimes against the United States, of which Court martial General Gaines was President. The charges againht Mr. Arinohnot were three in number : It will be seen from the course which we have taken, that, so fur as we can form an opinion, Mr. Arbuthnot was illegally tried—unjustly sentenced—and barba rously executed. The question regarding Mr. Am. brister is in some respects to be decided by the same reasonings as tltose which apply to the situation of his associate, on which we have spoken at so great length, that we must compress what remaina within a narrow compass. The charges against this prisoner werc lit. Aiding the enemy. 2J. Lending and conirminding them. Ambrister had been an officer in the British service, and the Court in the first instance condemned him to death ; but this sentence they reconsidered, when'their final and official judgment was, that he should be whipped, and confined with a chain for 12 months, Gen. Jackson disapproies this latter sentence ; and of his own sovereign will and barefaced power, reviving the decision which the court bad cane , , and which therefore was already null and void, h y erdered the miserable man to be shot. Uptati this point, at least, there can be no second feeling. We *inch doubt whether the indignation produced by it in America will not be more intense and profouhd than here. It is indeed an inhuman and atrocious murder—it is, however, the iuurdct cf only a single Englishman while it is if there be any law in the United States) a most tyr.milical and daring overthrow of the entire body of Republican laws and constitutions throughout the United States. It was not that a General Officer made a Court-martial his agent of injustice—lie,matle it, in common with nature and humanity, ut o‘ce his victim and his sport. We shall discover by the next arrivals from America, the incirres4s, produced in Congress by this disgraceful and te , ol4og . tieed, w hi c h must, it is manifest, at nu distant period, receive from the British Parliament a strict and therot,gh.inves- Ist. Exciting the Creek Indii.ns to war against the Unitoi Stags. he being a sal,ject of Great tt iwin. with which the said 6:Ate' were atpeacc. Acting as a spy, and aiding the enemy—supplying them with the means of war. . 3tl. Exciting the Ind:=3 tpa:iler W. llaultily and :Jo)! Eibject, A.:N:4Am si Govcr:ll»..at. With respect to the last ettatr4e, however, the Court hating declared its want of j , iris.liction, we shall tlis mis it froth our .notice Toe evitiewe in support of the first allegation, that Mr. Arbuthnot hai " excited Ca: Iteli ins to war' against :be i...;aited States, consists, liar the most /art, of his own letters to Governor Ca meron, of the 'hilt:nulls ; Mr. !'.abut, our A mbassador atlV:tsiiington ; Colonic' Nich..ll, a British officer ; to his son ; ivati to certain c)fthe American vents. The object of these letters to the Authortities was invariably to claim ov.:is!aziec Cr ; t igat ion. A Mail from llollantl has arrived with intelligence to the 7th inst. The I:.:tuperor Alcr.atuler left Vienna on the 23a opt. ~,, hie return 1,, St. 1 - 'etlisburg.—F'rot the Is , . of January to the 31s& or o . ..xeibber, 1818, 80:1 ships entered the port of Antwerp; among ;Lem were 552 of the Netherlands, 197 FteLialt, 31 Antal vans, 27 t ?. anish, Fend:, 22 Hoim verians, &c. A ftxtssian fri._,ate, nom Ar,:!:angel, ha arrived in the Trxel.—Ali the Lest iitroturs limui liar North of Europe coincide in represendfill the attr>%af thq weather an I.l.netnn.un.ily mild an.lbelicfrent. The vessels collected at llineur in consequ'efee, i. destril;cd ad numeruns beyond all precedent. !:CA:(311, in sonic shape or u!hcr, f. , r the Indian tribes, againit what he always repres4.lited to b e tho l: ttaeks, encroach ments and cruelties of the Anteric...ns. There are diqinet papers hearing the si,oature of divers Indian Chiefs, addressed to fanctionarics, 'tad Spanish, with a p...wer of attorney delepting extensive trusts t !.Ir. Arbuthnot, anal which that ;;; ntlentah apron; to !lave drawn 1.,); there is lilsetvise brow. ht focward Wednesday Mr. Sergeant Sellou took leave of the Ma i ;istratos at Union flab, and wilt , tale his seat at attou Gardcn. Ba;11..!11 Alleyne, E 4. the Master of Dtt!wicil Cult're, is appointed in tip; Learned Ser geant s playa a: Uniuu HaIL It is unler‘tood, front pretty good•authority, that according to the nalculution a Ministers, the folio.ving is the esact 'we of the ensuing Nal:lntel.: seine oral testimony, all ten ling to prove, tvl.st it ni.ciiless to deny, his active su f icrinteilai nee over !Lilian al.irs, and his struiltiel:s excrii,os for what lie -con- L-ivitd to be the most i.nportant interest of that hapk i a:i a:i.l persieuted people. Ilia of certain mtieies aulnaulaition to the • Indians is is:aLEshi.d as au ut.. Iliniscr.i lids Opposition DuulaUal 7751 b 7 13.-141 i :z 90. The Will of Her late Majesty was on Fri.lay proved in Doctor's Commons, by Lord Arden and General Taylor, the executors The peronal property is sworn to as being under 140,0001. The will is ia substance as follows: Her Majesty directs hur debts, and the legacies and rasauities given by her will, to be paid out of tliu per sonalty, or out of the sale of personals; if there is not Nutficient in Her Majesty's treasury to provide fur those payments. Her Majesty states her property to consist of a real estate in New IVindsor, milled the Lower Lodge, and of personals of various descriptions : those of the great. est value being her jewels, which are classed as fol lows :-- t. Those which the King purchased fur 30,0001. and presented to her, (supposed on her marriage.) 2. Those presented to her by the Nabob of Arent. 3. Those purchased by herself, or being presents made on birth-days or other occasions. In the event of the King surviving, and being re stored front his malady, Her Majesty bequeaths to bias the jewels which he purchased and gave her ; but if lie should not survive, or should not be restored to a sound state of mind, she then gives those jewels to the House of Hanover as an heir-loom. Her Majesty then alludes to the Queen of War. temberg being so handsomely provided fly, and giata the jewels prasenteti by the Nabob of Arcot to her four remaining daughters, directing those jewels to be soh!, and the produce divided amongst the tour daughters, subject to the charge of debts, &c. The remaining jewels she gives equally amongst the four daughters just meutioned, to be divided according to a valuation to be made of them. The house and ground ut Fro , „,nnore, and the Shawe establishment, Her Majesty gives to the hineess Au. gusta Sophia ; but if she should find living in it, and • keeping it up too expensive, it is directed to revert to the Crown, upon a valuation bein4. made and given for it to the Princess Augusta Sophia, with due eencen_.. ration to the improvements; whether it shall please tfilb Prince Regent, to reserve the po•siession of it as an tip. pendage to Windser-castle, or to authorize any other disposal of it. filer Majesty gives the fixtures, articles of common household furniture, and live and dead stock in the house at Frogmore, or on the estates,. to her daughter Augusta Sophia. She gives the real estate in New Windsor, purchased of the late Duke of St. Alban:, and commonly called the Lower Lodge, with its appendages, to her youngest daughter Sophia. Her books, plate, house-linen, .china, pictures, draw ings, prints, all articles of ornamental furniture, and all other valuables and personals, she directs to be divided in equal shams, according to a valuttion to be made, amongst her ibur younger daughters. Her ;Majesty states, that she brought various pro. perty from hlecklenborg, as specifiedin a list, No. I, . to ho annexed to her will ; and she desires, that that property shall revert to the House of Mecklenburg. Strelitz, and be sent back to the senior branch of that House. Her Majesty then expresses her intention of givia4 several legacies, as specified in a list, No. to h e an . • nexed to her will, to he paid out of •her perstmal pro perty, %vithin six months after her death : but rs such lists as these were -annexed to her wi&l sr made out. bY her '. l .litjesty. Her ;tha t: 4 r A ppqints .Lord Arden and Geneni 'Taylor, Trustees i r the property bequeathed tb I.tr dat.ghters Elizabeth and Mary ; stating that property to he left to them for their sole benefit. and iinieperrn. ent of any husband% they have of easy have, and efts di6o appoints Lord Arden and General Taylor her Executors._ _.. • The will is date,' Nov. 13, i 818, (the doy before her Nlajesty'.s death.) It is in the hand-wri t ing eft Gencral Taylo7 ; and two of the at te.o.ing %vitae:4o' are Sir Francis Nlilltn.in and Sir henry 114f4n1; It i. undo-It:toil that Parliament will be opened by eimmiis.ion nu Thurscioy next. As there is no idea of oppokine• the lute wo;thy Speaker, it expectetr that he v6iii " be pres.ited to the Cotn.7lissiorier% for appro. bation on Friday, the second dAv of the Nies tiug ; and 6 , oo equently the new writs wilt tottuvvitla be moved. -