The Sun. — London, England, 1819-01-08 00:00:00

qte never ha'ving any allure of the presents dibtri , linted at Piospect Bluff, though he rendered rtprally es , etpial services as any of the iittier 'Chiefs to the British tause while at Aver with -Anierica, and Was at New Orleans 'with a pattof his'Avai riors. Ills frontiers being mote exposed to the predatory excursions of the bad Georgians, 'who enter his.territory cud drive tiff his cattle, Le is obliged to have large parties out to watch their motioii; and prevent their plundering. And irring now.cleficient of ammunition, be ftays your Excellency will grant his small demand, !muddy 'submitting the same.--1 have the hownir.to be your Excellency's most,hurtible servant, " A. A." The humble Representations of the tbiett of the Cree's f•la tion;ri his Excellency Guyer nor Canierea. First, beg leave to represent, that Ed ward Doyle and Wiliiam Llambly, Clerks at Prospect Bluff. to Messrs. Forbes, &c. and,who still reside on the Appalachicola river, we consi tler as the principal cause of our present ;roubles and on, asine..s. llatnbly was the insttnmental cause of the Fort ',at Prospect Bluff being destroy ed by the Americans, by which we boo the sup plies intended for our future wars. Since then . , both' these men haVe kr pi their emissaries among 'ill, tending to harass and disturb our repose, and trim of 99r brethren of (h - • Middle and Upper Na tion.; they spr ea d among us repot rs that t he Cow etas, aided by the Americans, are descending to drive Its off our land; they equally propagate false_" (C.)—From A. Arbuthnot to Benj. Moodie, Esq. inelosing Letters to Chas. Bagot, Esq. British NI inister at Washiugi on. " Sahtvanee, in the Creek Nat inn, :sth Jan. 1819. " Sits,--=The enclosed containing matter of se rious moment, and demanding tl►e immediate at tent ioo of I is. xcellra cy the British Ambassador, I trn•t be will, for this time, forg►ve the trifl:ng expence of postage, which I have endeavoure►l to present 'as much as possible, by compressing muck mutter in 'one sheet of paper. Should you, Sir, be put to any trouble or expence, by this trouble I give you, by being n►ade acquainted with the same, I will iustruct. Bain, Dnnsbee, and Co. to order payment of the same. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obe dient-humble servant, "A. ARBUTHNOT." From A. Arbuthnot to the Hou. Charles Bagot. " is with pain that I again ob trude myself 'upon your Excellency's notice ; but the prtssing solicitations of the Chiefs of the Creek tiajion, and the deplorable situation in which they are placEi by. the wanton aggres._ slims of the Americans; 1 itliSt, your Excellency will take as a sufficient apology for the present intrusion. " In August last,' the head Chief of the Semi nole.ludians received a letter from General Gaines,. of which 1 have taken the liberty of annexing. your Exc'ellency the contents, as delivered me by the Chicrs head English Interpreter, with Icing reply thereto. This letter appears to have been intended to sound the disposition of the Chief, and ascertain the force necessary to over-run the nation ; for from then until the actual attack was made on Fowl Town, - the same General, with General J.►ckson, seemetrlO have been collecting troops, and polling in various quarters. • " It your Excellency desires to have further information respecting the situation of this coitus. try and its inhabitants, I can, from thne.to inform your Excellency of such facts and circum stances as are stated to the by Chiefs of known veracity, or which may come under my own ob servation ; and your Excellency's order, addressed to me at New Providence, will either find me-there, or be forwarded me to this country.. " With great respect, I have the honour to. be your Excellency's - most obedient servant,. " A. A." The following memorandum was on the hack of the foregoing letter :—" King liabily 1000, Bo leek 1500,. ()so Hatjo Cl►octawhachy 500, Hi mashy Miso Chattchichy 600, at present with Hil lisajo. At present under arms 1000 and more ; and attacking those. Americans who have made inroads on their territory. A quantity, of gun powder, lead, - muskets, and flints, sufficient to arm 1000 or 2000 men ; muskets 1000, arms stuAller if possible ; 10,000 flints, a proportion for rifle, put up separate ; 50 casks gunpowder, a proportion for rifle ; 2000 itnives 6 to 9 inch blade, good quality ; 1000 tomahawks ; 1001hs. vermillion ; 20001bs. lead, independent of ball fur musket. (Signed) " King (Signed) " BOLECK." From General Gaines to the Seminole Chief. " 'l'o the Seminole Chief—Your Seminoles are - very bad people ; I don't say whom. You have murdered many of my people, and stolen my cattle and many good horses, that cost Me money ; and mlny good houses, that cost me money, you have burnt for me ; and now thai you see' my writing, yule!! think I have spoken right. I know it is so ; yOti know it •is so, or now you may say I will gu upon yon at random ;. but just give me the murderers, and I will show them my law, and when - that is finished and pass, if you will come about any of my people, you will see youriliends, and if you see me you will see your friend. But there is something our in the sva, a bird., with a forked tongue; whi l i him back before he lands, for he will be the ruin of you yet. Perhaps you do not know who or what 1 mean—l mean the name of Englishman. " I tell you this, that if you do not, give me up the murderers who have murdered my people, hay I have gut good strong warriors, with scalp ing knives and tomahawks. You harbour a great many of my black people among you at Saliwanee. If you give we leave to go by you against them, not hurt any thing belonging to you. • (Signed) , , " General GAINES." From King Hatchy to General Gaines, in answer to the fore going. " To GENERAL GAINES.—Yom charge me with killing your people, stealing your cattle, and burn ing your ihmses.. it is .1 that have cause to com plain of the. Americans. While one American has been justly killed while in the act of •Stealing eat'ir, mut., than four 1 :dianshavebeen morder•• ed 'wring, by these lawless freebooters. I, harbour no negroes. When the Englishmen were • at _Avar with America, some took shelter among th . rtu, and it is for you n bite people to tettle those things attiolik tionrseives., aria not trouble us with what we know nothing abinit. 1 shalt use force to stop any urtued Americans front passing 'my 'towns or my lands. (Signed) " sing FlATellti' (D.):e•-" Note of Indilm Talks:" " In :August, Capp bad a letter trout General Gaines, in substance as a n nexed, No. 1, and returned the answer as by Na. further was said on either side. The'end of Oc tober a party of Americans, from a fort on Flint river, surrounded Fowl Town during the night, and began burning it. The Indians then in it fled to the swamps, and in their flight had three per sons killed by fire from the Americans : they ral. lied their people, and forced the Americans to re tite some distance, bat 'not before they had two more persons killed. The Americans built a block-house, or fort, where they had fallen hack to, and immediately sent to the fort up the coun try for -assistance, staling the Itrdians were the aggressors ; and also s e t t l e d tv i t h lolternocklo for the loss his people 11..“1 siiffered ; at the same time sending a talk to. Kilter; Elatelay, by a head man, (Aptng) that he would put things in such a train as to prevent further encroachments, and get those Ameticans to leave the torts But no sooner was the good talk. given, and before the. bearer of it returned home',•than hundreds ut Americans came pouring down on the Indians; roused them to a sense of their own danger ; they flew to arms, and have been compelled to support them ever since It is not alone trom the country, but by vessels enter ing Appalachicola river, in vessels with tro::ps, and settlers are pouring in to the Indian territory ; and if permitted to continue, v , id soon ovetr“tt the whole of the Indian lands. From the talk sent King Hatchy, by Governor Mitchell, I ar in hopes that those aggressions of the Americans on the liv:l4m territory are not countenanced by the American Government, but originate with. men devoid of principle, who set laws and mstroct ions at defiance, and stick at no cruelty and oppressions to obtain their' ends, Against such oppresscotis the American Government must use not only a 1 their influence, but, if necessary, force, or their names will be.handed down to posterity. as a tor- tion more cruel and savage to the unfortunate . Aborigines of this country !hart ever were the SpaniArds, ,in more dark ages, to the nations of South America. " The'English Government., as the special pro tectors of the Indian nations, and o'u whom alone they rely for assistance, ought to step forward and save those unfortunate people from ruin ; ,and as you, Sir, sre appointed to watch over their inte rests., it.is my duty, as an Englishman, and the only one in this part of the Indian nation, to in struct you of the talks the Chiefs bring me for your information; and, I sincerely trust, Sir, -you will use the powers you are invested with, for the service and protection of those unfortunate people, who look up to you as their saviour.— I have written General 'Mitchell, who, I heard, is an excellent man ; and,' as he acts as Indian• Agent, I hope his influence will atop the torrent of innovations, and give peace and quietness to the Creek nation. I pray your Excellency will pardon this in trusion, which nothing hut the urgency of the case would have induced me to make. '' I bare the honour to be, your Excellency's most obedient servant, "A. A." (F.l)--Fiorn Cappichiniicco attd Bowleck to Gov. Cameron. I . ‘To•hii Excellency. Governor Cameron,—lt is with ; pain we are again obliged to obtrude our selves on .your Excellency's' notice, in conse quence of theoeuel war we have been forced into by the irruptions . of the Americans into the - heart 'ot our lands. It' will be first necessary to state to yourExcellencv, , that one I-lead Chief (Kinni jah) receked a letter froth General Gaines, in 'August last, a copy of which is inclosed .with the 'answer returned thereto. This letter only appears to have been a- prelude to plans determined ou by the said General and General Jackson,- to bring on troop and settlers to drive us frotn our lands, and sake possession of them ; for, in the ell(' of October, a . party_of Americans surrounded Fowl Town during the night, and in the morning, be gan setting fire to it, making the unfortunate in habitants fly to the swamp,' and who, in • their flight, had three persons killed by the fire of the Americans. Our Indians, rallying, drove the Americans from the ro%vn ; in their exertions,. bad two more of their ,people killed. The. Ante ricans retired some distance, and built.a fort ot block-honse to protect themselves, until the as - . sistance•they had sent for to the fort up the coon s try' should arrive. A letterlalling into the hands of General Mitchell, the Indian Agent, which states the Indians to have been the aggressors, - he suspected its truth, and, on inquiry, found it was the reverse. In-consequence, lie made sa-• tisfaction to Inhemocklo, •the Chief of Fowl Town, and his people, for the injuries they had sustained ; at the same time desired ktalk to be sent to our Head Chief, stating his wi s h to see a ll the Indian friends, and that in twenty days he would send and get the Americans. to retire from the forts. But this had no effect.on the lawless invaders of our soil, for, before the bearer of our talks could return home, lie met hundreds of Americans descending on us. They have also settlers and troops, which came front Mobile, and go up the Appalachicola River. Thus, seeing uo end to these inroads, necessity compels us to have recourse to arms, and our brethren are now fight ing for the lands they inherit from their forefa thers, for their families, and friends. But what will our nations do wi , hout assistance ? Our si news of war are almost spent; and harassed as we have been for years, we have not been able to lay by the means for our extraordinary wants ; and to whom can we look alp for protection and support, but to those friends who have, at all for mer times, held forth their hands to uphold us,• and who have sworn, in their late Treaty with the Americans, to see our just rights and privileges respected, arid protected from insult and aggres sion ? We now call on your Excellency, as the Representative of our good Fatter King George, to send us such aid, in ammunition, as we are absolutely in want of; and, as our brother. Chief, Hillisajor, was informed, when in England, that' when ammunition was wanted, to enable us, to protect our rights, your Excellency would supply us with what Was necessary. We have applied to the Sl►atti~l, Officer at the Port of Sr. Mark's, but his small supply prevented his being able to assist us; and twee have only on your Excellency to depend. We )iketvie pray ynor Excellency would •be pleased to lend an Officer c,r person to lead us right, and to apportion the supplies you may he pleased to send ns, agreeably to our proper wants. " lu praying your Excellency will lend an ear to our demand; and dispatch it .Wit bout delay, we remain your Excellency's faithful and most otie;.. dient friendi and servants, " CAPPACHINIICCO, " BOLECK, • . " Por ourselves, and all the other Chiefs of the Lower Oreek Nation." [To be continued.] NORTH-WEST PASS.IOE. EXPEDITION untie: Captain ROSS and LieuienaiA PARRY, in the Isabella and Alexander. • [From the last Number of BLA Ch WOOD'S Edinblirgh (Continued from TtiE SUN of Yesterday,) Runde and igaorattt as these poor creatutes.are, you must not believe what, is starad in the news papers,•that they had no knowledge of a - Sopreme Being : this is not a subject to obtain correct no tions aboat from Sas-ages, whose language we do not comprehend. Jack distiactly admitted that they, entertained the same notions of a good and evil spirit as their southern neiglibours'do, and %i licit all nations, savage and civilized, with cer tain mod firations. seem to . en'ertain, But 1 must quit the ratlike:. of these people, lest I shoald tire you. Ot,e circumstatice, however, -I bannot pass user, which is this, that their winter i,aboatioes were to the northward, and that they came down south to pass the summer where there is more ice and sitovvi and consequently more food to he had than in the former sit nation,—si seendirg' paradox, the truth of which, however, was completely ve rified by us. On the very northern summit of , Batfiu's Bay, which could not be leSs than 78 degrees, there was much less snow on the land, and much less ice on the water, than we hail hitherto met with in any part of 'Davis' Straits, and these people had told us that we should find it So'; wed, therefore, might our new frietols deem this the happy country,..and conclude that all the world to the south of them was ice and snow ! And if good looks and a. cheerftd demeanour may be considered as indications of happiness, they were certainly in the enjoyment of it : they were all in excellent keeping, with faces as round as the full moon, and exceedingly like the people of Xatnschaika and the Aleutian, Islands. Their dogs too were in excellent contli tiou ; they have long bUsby tails like the fox, a rough straggling mane toand,the neck, and have a general sesenthlance to the volt : they seem very quiet, and never balk; but a young dog, since its arrivsl at Deptford, has learnt to. bark as loud and long as the noisiest dog in the place. A breeze of wind, and an open sea, were oc currences Of too rsre aedimportaut a nature to be neglected, and w e accordingly availed ourselves o f them, and steered to the northward," leaving these children of nature, and, as we deemed them, of misei y, Without the smallest reluctance ; for, in fact, they at last became hold and troublesome, and attempted to steal every thing they could lay hands on. We bad not proceeded far, when a singular apPearance s of a deep crimson colour, on the surface of the snow, by the sides of the bills,. attracted our_ attention, amid the more so when we found it corn inning in ,patches, for an extent of ten or twelve miles. landed near to one of the patches, we collected a consi• - derable quantity of it, melted thesnow, and pre served the colouriag matter which it deposited. — Various c onjectures wete hazarded as to this cu riOna'a6iter, and all the three k ingtimns of nature were p ag e was tinned put inlequisition. Many a Over in our books 'of knowledge, with which the. Admiralty bad liberally supplied us ; and, at length, some one, Captain Sabine I believe, found, in Rees' Cyclopedia; the very thing we were search of, tinder the word " Snow ;" but the account there givenieft Oslust, where we started. Saussure, - it told us, found snOw of a bright red colour on the Alps, and considered the colouring matter as the farina of some plant, while M. Ra mood, rho found the same •kild of snow'on the ,Pyrenees, concludedit to be of mineral origin, ati'd we now learn since our return, that oars at least is neither the one nor the other,, but an animal sabstance, the excrement of birds, as Mr. Brande supposes, from - the qaantity of Uric - acid it is found to contain; anti I have nodotibt but lie is right, for in the very neighboUrhotid of it were such myriads of birds, of the Auk, kind (Alga Alce),' that when they rose up from the ice or the snow, they literallyalatkened the sky; and close to the spot where we landed was one of their breeding places. If. I say that they some times appeared in hundreds of thousands, or even millions, it will not give.yon an adequate idea of their numbet s. We shot as malty as we pleased, and fed die whole ship's company with them, being very palatable food, free from all fishy. taste or smell, and they made most excellent soup. We used to bring .dowti from twenty or thirty at a single shot ; and as -we had reason to believe that these vast multititiLes were chiefly confined to upper part of Baffin's Bay, we, laid in a stock for future supply, by. placing them in casks, with 'layers of pounded ice between them. Having passed Cape Dudley Digges we opened out a sonnd or strait, which was considered to be that of Baffin; named " Wolstenholm,,s Sound;" hilt the shallowness of the water, and the ice within it, gave no hopes of a passage that way, and we accordingly passed it ar the distance of 15 or 20 miles. The " Whale Sound" of 'Baffin was not more promising; but it appeared to many very desireable that we should have ap• proached somewhat nearer to. "Sir honias Smith's Sound," at the -north-weitern extremity of - the bay, which presented a very wide opening; hat we passed it at the distence of 50 o r 60 miles. The land now stretched S.W., and we ran with it, butt at so 'considerable a distance, thait was only to he seen at intervals, when the wea ther cleared up, which it did, sufficiently to, let us see another opening, which we were willing to recognise as " Alderman Jones' Sound" of Baffin. The weather was in general milt) and exceedingly Pleasant, aod the sea in the obo7e f t e part of the hay almost wholly tree trom ices ex' epting nOw and then a solitary ice-berg, or ,aground.By the way, we ,could have 11° doubt, from the'imnrense glaciers which filled tile yanks along the shores of Bitfio' s Bay, and tlle gieat depth of water elcAe in wit them, that the many hundreds of these enormous masses We "' et with in our progress through Davis' .traits, som e . aground, and other 3 afloat, bad their origin this bay. The appearance of these bergs is stir' gularly curio u s, e x hibi t i ng t h e ru i ned Corms castles and cathedrals, with their walls, gat es l towers, and spir e s, i n every state o f d ecay ; ori they ale somoimes so corWeiely perforalcd, boats may sail through them, in which case, if the sun should happen to shine out, it is impossi ble to conceive a more brilliant sight that? th ii i & which is thin ` displayed. It i s a p ce n e to be We' with only in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment s ; or it we are to IJok „for its parallel in real life, Hancock's glass shop in Cockspur-street, in sunny mocrung in the month of May, the p ie '. tune_ in .miniattire of, an excavated ice-berg._ _ . On the 30th august, when in latitude 74 deg' or thereabouts, we sud denly deepened our water, from 150 or 160 fathoms, to the Amazing dept h of 750 fathoms, and encreased its temperaturg front 32 deg. to 36 deg. On the weather clear ing tip, we 1, - Cuad ourselves abreast of a larg° opening, which we had no doubt, from its lath tude, was that named by Baffin, " Jig JAP es LancasttA's Sound." Frain the northern to th, c sonthein htadlands, it appeared to be at kaSt Miles in width. As we knew that Baffin bad no t eutered this sound, but stood away from it to the i south-eastward, it s a ppe ar , nee inspired' liope .1 ,3 y into every countenance ; and every officer ai l ' l. Man on the instant, as it were, made tip his min" that this must be the north-west passage ; width at the opening, the extraordinary depth o f water, the increased temperature,. and the stir : founding sea, and the .t. , :trait so perfectly ir e " tram ice, that not a parti, le Was seed floattttgr were circumstances so encouraging, Bud I° m thing 41..: lerent fro an- y we had yet Seen, that every heart panted to explore this , passage which `v as dto cot uct_us all t o glory and to tortune. TVe had hitherto met with n o thibg that could in th e lived' , well, degre e d amp our sp i r i ts ; hadlive suffered no fatigue, either iron) anxiety or bodily exertion ; we h a d seen n o thing like (lair ger; and we had been animated by one scow' ment ; but nothing had yet occurred to inspire 0 5 with the hope of success in the great enterprize; we had proceeded cheerfully, but without entlin.7 siasm, and our ard ou r had rather, di m i n ished 8 4 we begun to diminish our latitude. But to f illa so grand an opening under such circumstances as t have mentioned,'and in th e very spot too of others most likely to lead us at once 10 th . ° northern coast of America, was so unexpecient and at the same time ioexhilara!ing, that I firtO: the believe ie every pleasure c f creature , o n n ° tatd r ia, 1 ,1 n c d ic i tet ch to his friend, either from the eastern or the western shores of the PaCific. IVe stood direct. , ly into this spacious inlet ; the. width con tinued 1 prett y He a rty the saute, as far as we co u ld see, and p e , a ) : l Ei e - 1 e of ice On the water ; neither was there any appearance of land a-head. Ev e ry breast beat high, and every one was desirous to mount the crows-'nest, to look out for the open log which should conduct us into the Polar Sea , near the coait of the main -land of America.. IV° had not run, llowever, above ten leagues wit"' the . inlet, when the Isabella bore tip, and ()leanly the Alexander did the same, and we stand o ut of the inlet; why, we could not conjecture, but tin' der nit sail. Our Commodore, as it a lter%vards 'Appeared, had seen the land at the ,bottom of tha' inlet. it is impossible to describe to you Ill°, gloom that re • t• ry'' as mime( tate y spread over es.e countenance, all their sanguine hopes being "'": tttiexpe tw c a : tes:6liys,aotd a f,ai s ti l l i : e et ii ;in t s o: a l i d the tetup~ o t h: e e spot where the Isabella bore up, the dep th u mater tinued the same as at the entrance : the Ali'x au* ". der was about lour or live miles a-stern of he r consor olland was visitne b t u l t ie no d t ir t •e h c e ti l o es n o t f l tr r i a :l c : c. from her crows-nesi.* * The Crows -Nest is a kind of box, sufficient to hold milli; generally a cask, fixed near the toast-head, to protect the observer trouts cold, antl'ettable snarl to look out, tor livltates or open pieces of wal er.—(Ent i ron.) [7'o be continued J- BIRTH. On the 7th inst. in Nlaneliester-street, Manchester-sqiiare, the Lady of Join' liaillie, Esq. of the island of Jamaica, and Lovell-bill, Bettis, of twin sons. MARRIED. On the kith inst. at Camberwell - Church, Peter T. Blia well, Esq. of Peckham -Rye, to Mrs. Rich, relict of George RiCh, Esq. R.N. DIED. L ffit t Tuesday, P. Hepburn, Esq. of Chesham, ;f ood husband, a good father,•and generous tv 90 Ye" • Bucks, aged hi s poorneighbours, bight). respect e d an d muc h lamented.On Monday last, suhu Carr, Esq. of Enfieid• house in Caroline . on the 2,1 inst. at his house on the Green, Islington, in the Gist year of his age, Robert i)turdy, Esq. one of the Sworut Oct of the Court of Chancvry. PKOVINCIAL BIRTHS, _).l ::1{111A(.1ES, AND DEATHS. ZI It lIS. Lately, at Wrochwardiine, Cheshire; 'the Lady of William Lacun Wide, Esq. of a sun. Lately, the Lady of C... Aidenon, Esq. of Bodloodeb, , Conway, Carnarvonshire, of female twins. ALA Et MI En. 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