The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-11-28 00:00:00, page 2

That the said committee have power to
send for persons and papers,
The members chosen, Mr. Whipple, Mr.
Pane, Mre. Hopking, Mr, Sherman, My,
Cianton, Me. Wilsony, Mr, Pucay, Mr. Jeffer
son, Mr. Hewesy, Me, Middleton and My, Tl
Thae committee to whom the cartely, be
tween Brigadier General Arnold and Caprain
Forster, and the several papers thereto relu
ting were recommitted, bronght in their re
por:y which was read-as follows :
That having made deligent enguiry into
the facts, they find, that a party of 390 con
sinental troops, under the command of Col,
Bedely was posted at the Cedars, about 43
mitics abuve Montreal ; that they had there
formed some works of defence, the greater
p-t of them picketed lines, the rest a breasts
work of earth, with two field pieces mounted :
Thaty on Wednesday, the 15th of M.y,
Col, Bedel, received intelligence, that a painy
of the enemy, consisting of about 600 repu
larsy, Cunadions and Indians, were on their
way to attack his post, and were then within
9 wiles of it ¢ that Col. Bedel thereon set out
himself for Montreal 10 procure a reinforee
m ntwhereupon the command at the Cedars
devoived on Major Bauerfield :
Thaty on Thursday, a veinforcement, un
der the command of M. jor Sherburne, mar
ched from Montrenl for the Cedars, while a
lurgrer detachment should be getting ready to
proceed thither with Brigadier Gen. Arnold :
T haty on Friduy, the 17uh, the enemy, un
der the command of Copt. Forster, invesied
the postat the Cedarsy and for two days kept
a loose seattering fire 5 that Mgjor Butter
fic)d proposed from the very first to surren
dor the posty and refused repeated solicita
tions from his officers and men, to permit
them to sally out on the enemy
T hat, on Sunday afternoon, a flag being
sent in by the enemy, Mujor Buterfield a
greed to surrender the fort aad garrison to
Capt. Forstery capitoluting with him, whether
verbatly or in writing does not appear, that
e garnson should not be put into the hands
af the suvages, avd that thewr bagygage should
not ve plundered :
T'hat, at the timse of the surrender, the en
emy consisted of about 40 regulars, 100 Ca
nadians, and 500 loadiwns, and no cannon ; the
gracrison had sustuined no injury from their
fire, but having one man wounded ; they had
Ltwenty rounds of cartrides a many 30 rounds
£ar one feid piecey 5 for another, half & bav
r:l ol guu powder, 15 pounds of musque
bali, and peovisions sullicient to have Jasted
them 20 or 30 days : Mojor Butterfield knew
that o relntorcement was on its way, und
forcover was $0 near the main body ot the
acinyy that he could ot doubt of being sup
ported by (hat @
Trat immediately on the surrender, the
garvisan was pat inme the custody of the Sav
uges, who plundered them of their baggage.
and gven steippold them ol their cloatas ¢
That Myjor Sherburne having lended on
Mool the 200 @t Quinvz Chenes, wbhoat 9
miles {rom the Cedars, and muarched on with
his party, consisiing thea of 100 meu, to
within four miies therenfy; wus therve attacked
by about live hundred of the enemy ; that he
muiatained his ground about an hour, and
taen being consirained to retreat, porformed
t e sune in good owmder, receiving and retur
nin < a coustant fire for about forty minutes,
wihen tae enemy finding means to post advan
¢ d parting in such a manner, as to intercept
his Cacrer rerrcat, they also were muade prise
ouzrs of war:
Christim kiowledge by the dissemination of
Bies, Common Prayer Books and religious
tracts, huve been long confessed among chris
tlans generatly, and particularly in G. Britain,
Therg, large sums of meney are annually ex
pended, in promoung these olijects. In a
new country, it is of immense consequence,
even in a civil point of view,that religious und
ot ul principies should keep puce with the
increase of population and wealth. In regurd
to the cternal interests of man, the mpor
tance of this truth rises ahove ali calculution,
Cunisrians ! your sympathy is olten a
wakened tor the bodies of men. Have com
passion on their sculs. Minisier 1o their
spitituai health, Provide for their eternal
welture, At the last day an cnquiry will be
fnstitated.—~luve ye fed the hungry ! Huave
ye cloathed the nuked 7 Remember ! a more
important enguiry will be==kave ye fed the
hungery with the bread of life 7 Have ye
cloathed the nuked with the garments of
salvation 2 l
WM. Simens,
THE publick have long lamented the mangled
statements mude by M Jous Mawsmann in the
life of Wasnivaron, Nothirg can exhivit the
partiality snd inaccurucy of thae man’y history, more
thon the miseruble, and misrepresented diseription
of the Butile, fuught at the Cedars. By giving pub
lieity to the subjoined report of that tragical eventy
every anbiasscd mind will be competent to judge of
the aceuruey of circumstances detailed by My Mar
shadl, It will alse hiow the firmness of Congress in
those dayw, du) s that tried men's souls.
A CITIZIEN.
Resolved, That u committee, 1o consist of
a member from euch colony, be appointed 10
Inguire into the causes of the miscarviages in
Cuundu.
Tue earnest prayer is offcred to him who
holds in his hand the hearts of ali men, that
he wonld dispose Christians to aid an institu
tion, humbly devoted 10 his glovy, with the
means of permanently and extensively diffu-
sing the knowledge of his holy word.
I'. o yacy were bamsdiately put ino the
THLE BATTLE OF THE CEDARS.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
In Cangressy, June 24. 1776,
2! i€ Savag s culiied 1o where Maj.
Buterfickd wnd his party were, and sivipsed
Ob Wit baggege wnd wearing apparei
That two ol them were put to death that
evening, four or five others at dificrent times
afterwurds, one of whom of those who sur.
endered on capitulaiion at the Cedars,and
was killed on the Bth duy after that surrcn
der 3 that one was first shoty and while re
tuining life und sensution, was rousted,
was teiated by his companion now in posses
sion of the savages, who bimsell saw the
fact ; und that several others being worn
down by funuine and crueity, were left expo
sed inan island nuked and pervishing with
cold and bubger :
T'hat, while Major Sherburne was in cus
tody of the enemy, copt. Forster required of
hiny, snd the other ofiicers, to sign a cartel
stipulating the exchange of themselves and
their men for as many of equal conattion of
the British troops in our possession ; further
that notwithstanding the exchange, ncitber
themselves nor men should ever agein beur
arms agoinst the Bridsh government ; und
for the performunce of this, four Lostages
wefe 10 be delivered, which, they being vuder
the absolute puwer ol the cnery, did sign :
That on Sundey the 26th the prisoners
were carried to Quintz Chenesy, when 1t was
discovered that Gen Arvold was approsch
g, and maukiog disposidons 1o attack thew :
That Capt, Forster buving dosived Major
Sherburne to attend a flag, which he was a
bout to send to Gen. Avnold lor contiiniation
of the caurtel, carvied him into the counchi of
Indiuns, then situing, who twld bim, that 1t
‘Wus @ mercy never betore shiewn in their
wulyy that they had to put to death so tew of
the priseners ; but that he must expect und
so inforn. Gen. Arpold, that they shouid cer
taimly kil every man, who should therealier
tall into thelr hands @ \
That Gen, Ainoid was extrenely averse
[rom entering lnto any apreement, and was
at tength induced to do it by no other nios
tivey, than thut ot saving the prisoners froui
cruel and innminan deatiiy threatened 1o such
ters as lelt no doubt it wus o e perpetra
ted, and thut he did at lengin conclude 1, a'-
et several flags received. from cupt. Forsier,
and a relinquishment by b of the wneqguai
article restraining; our solaiers trom ugaii
bearing arms :
That the prisoners so stipuluted to be given
up'tu the eneny, where not in the Posseasion
of Gen. Arnoid, nor under his divoction, hut
were, at that time disteibuted 10 various
parts of the continent, under the orders ol
this House @
Fhat cupt. Forster joined m desiting that
this bloody message sheuld be delivercd o
G, Arnoldy and moreover that he shovld
bemotificd, that 1t Lie rejected the cartely and
atthcked bimy every mon of the prisoncs
would be put 1o tnsiant death @
cuptaing, sixteen subalterns and three bhuos
dred and fifty five privates as specified ina
Certificate of capt. James Ospood and others
of whon no specification by therr names or
numbers has yet been trausmitted 5 that bhe
retained tweive Canadians wiledging in bis
justification express orders 5o 1o do, and thet
iiving in w miiitary government, they weeve to
be considered even in a worse light than de
serters trom his majesty’s armies : ‘L hese he
carried saway m irons, but ufierwurds reres
ed : ‘l'bat he permitted the Indians to carry
into their countries severai other natives of
the United Siates for purpeses unknown :
Thaty during the time of thehi capuivity,
not haif food was allowed thie prisoners ; they
were continually insulted, buffeued and iu
treated by the suvages ; and when the fiest
purties of them were carried off from the
shore 10 be delivered o Gen. Arnold, balls ot
mud were fred at them, and at the last par
ties musket bails.
That four hostages were accordingly de
livered 1o capt. Forstery, who werve immedi
ately piundered and stripped by the savayes §
and on s purt were delivered, 1 major,td
The Congress taking into considerstion
the foregoing reporty came to the foliowing
Resolutions
Resolved, T'hat all acts contrary to good
faith. the laws ol nature, or the custoins ol
civilized nations, done by the officers or sol
diers of His Brittanick Mujesty, or by For
ergners or Savages tuken lnto s service,are
to be considered as done by his orders,unless
indemuntfication be made in cases which admit
indemnificationy and in all other cases, unless
immediate and effective measures be taken
by him, or by his officers, for bringing 1o con
dign punishment the aut ors, abettors and
perpetrators ot this act:
That the plundering the bacgage of the
garrison at the Cedurs, stripping them of
their cloathes, anddelivering them into the
hands of the savages, was a breuch of the
capitulation on the part of the enemy, for
whichindemnificattion ought to be dem wded @
That the shametul surrender of the post
at the Cedars, is chargeable (o the commun
ding.officer ; that such other of the prison
ers, as were taken there, shewed a willing
ness and desire te fight the enemy ; and that
M. jor Sherburne and the prisoners taken
with him, though their disparity of munbers
was greaty fought the enemy bravely for a
That the murder ol the prisoners of war
was a rross aud inhuman violation of the laws
of nature and nations § that coudign punishe
ment should be inflicted on the authors, übet
tors and perpetrators of the same ; and that,
for this purpose, it be required, that they be
delivered into onr hands ¢
That the agreement enteved into by Gen.
Arnold, was a mere sponsion .o his part ; he
not being invested with powers for the dispo
sul of prisoners not in his possession, nor un
der his divection ; and thaty timgpelore, it is
subject to be ratified or annulled, t e dis re
stor: of this Housc ¢
THLE consumpuon, whichi is too frequent
ly futal, and which puts a period to the exist
cuce wi lour out ol twelve wiho diey, muy be
penerahly known by the tollowing charscier
isticks @ viz. emaciation debiiity, cough, hec
tc-levery, purnlent expectoration, with or
witheut ulceration, haenoptysis, nighiesweats.
&c. &c. To distdpguish this discase tron
othiers, to which 1t bheurs & stiiking resem
biunce, re uives much acuteness ol discer
menty and the most_ minnte attention, becau v
all the symproms are e uivocul. The couse:
of this diseuse wre various, 1t has been cur
cd in all its toris 5 and is nor accoasarddy fatal,
b (rom neglect o mismunagement, Lhis
discuse, when arising from an oigunick affec
tton ol the lungs, or when it haus cssumed the
form of pulmonasry consuniption, lrom neglec
OF misinabagement, oF when arising tiom
mal-conlormation, 1t is mdeed, of ali othe:
lorms,the most certoinily futal - But dissections
have proved, to. complete satistaction, that
thousand s have died, of what was calicd A Cule
Sirmed consumption, when in fuct thelir lungs
were found as sound and gouod, as wiey were
in perfect health. ' .
- The danger of consumption, from whatevesr
cuttse it may have arisen; must be judged oi
by the degree to which hectic and its cunse
quences have arvived, I from neglect or
mismunagement, the diseuse 1¢ suflered to
ran till u certain degree of emaciction, debil
ty, profuse pigh-sweats, and diarrhoeu bas
Lken place, death wiily wine times in ten,
closc the srene. There s w noiion which pre
valls among the peopie, and with many phy
siciuns, that what they call a confirmed con
smnption can ever be cured. But this no
tioi: is un erioneous one, und the lesult of iy, -
norance. The expression, * ¢ firmed cor
sumiptton”” is misguiding and improper ; and
i o instunce recuired,cxceptto cover the ig
norance of the physician,or to frighton the pat
tivot and friends into the beliefl of the inutiily
ol seching lurtheraid. lurequiresa competem
kiowicdge of the unutomy and physiology ot
the lungs, as well as much skill in pulthonary
diseasrs, o disinguish one species of this
discase from another ; which is absoiutely
necessary [or the adoption of a judicious and
sucegssful made of treatment. This dread
ful disease, is alike destructive to the old and
the young ; but the fairer part of creation,
have become, of late, the sport of this enenly
of their existence. PHILANTHROPOS.
Notwitiistending our mortifications at the
vt ccountable <hpineness of repubiicans, we
will net conceal our sincere satistaction at the
resnit. We suy we are satisficd, because we
huve not only held our own.but have contuered
On ©antagonists without even the show of ex
ertion, If, by is merits alone, our canse is
not only alle 10 stand its ground, but to ad
vance upon the enemy, it must be a good and
strobg cause indeed. And is not the state of
that party desperate, which by unintermitted
eforts and obstinate perseverance, unopposed
by any thing like activity on the part of re
publicans, instead of ascending, sinks the
decper instead of guining, loses a part, even
. of the little it hus yet retvined. Our indig
nation, Bowever, at the idleness and inaiffer
" wiLe “‘ the NG.“ fl'ien(’b_ Df BVUVGc Uy
Thut w copy of the above report and reso
lutifins be transmitted to the cammander in
chicf of the continental forces, to be by Lim
sent to Geueraip Howe and Burgoyne.
That, if the enewny shall commit any fur
the, solences, Ly pu iy to death, torturing,
or otherwise il treating the piisoners re
tained by themy or avy of the hostages pin
into their hands, recou.se be hud to retullia
ticn, us the sole meuns of stopping the pro
gress of human butenery 3 and that for tha
purpose, punishmenis of the same kind and
degree be inflicted on an ¢ * A number of
the captives fvom them in our possession,
il they shoir be taught to respect the violu
ted rirhts of navions @
The election is supposed to have terminat
ed in the choier of the foliowing wenileman
o the 120 Conpiess. For Middleser, Gon.
VARNU M= \Ur/olly Mr. SEAVER==Plymonth,
Mr, ToryeEßr=—{urnstabcy, Mv. GREENE—
Berkshive, Mr. BAcoN=—York, Mr. Currse—
Cumbertand, Me Wincery=<ZLineotny Me.
LALLMAN—Acnnebeck, My Gaxyerr—{all
re publicans J==Suffolky My, Quincy—Briscol,
Me. Waeatonae Hampshive, Mossers. 20y and
Tugpariea Worcester, Messers, Drigktan and
Vigelugpems ksgex, Messers, Mhite and Reed.
Vine Repubhicans to right Vederalisis—a Re
publicun gain of one, wnd a Federal loss of
one; since the lust election.
~ V'hat, previous to the delivery of the pris
oners to be returned on our party the Britsh
comimaunder in Canada be required o deliver
inte our bands the sutlors, abettors and per
petrators of the borid murder commited
on the prisuners, to suller such punishment
as their erime deserves ;3 and also o mishe
imdemuitication for the plunder at the Cedars,
tuken contrary o the f:ith of the cupitula
tion ; end that, until such deiivery and in
demmnification be maude, the suld prisoncis be
not delivered '
considerable tme, and svrrendered at last,
but on absointe necessity ; on which €onsic
eration, and oo which alone it is resolved,
tirat the suid sponsion be ratified ; and tha
an equal number of captives from the ene
iy, of the same rank wnd condition, to be
restored to them, us stipulated by the seid
spolsion :
MLEDICAL.
““ 0, fell coneumption ! thy unerring dart,
Fiets ita broud wing in Youth's veluciunt heart.”
MIASSACHUSETTS ELECTION.
FOR THE REPULLICLN.,
- —a——
“ The melancholy task devolves upon us,
of announcing to yvo:. the unfortunate cutus
trophe of the schooner 8L gsom, and ber ui
happy Chgw, ationg whom,us passénper, wus
our lamented friend, Mr. Epwarp Youxa,
whose private worth \vil{;%ng be remembers
ed by aill who had the pleasure of knowing
“him. '
“ This schonner sailed from Aur-Cuvrew
on the 10th ol Octobery, and two or (hree
leagues trom the land, was boarded by two
atined barges from that pluce, who, alter os
verpowering the Capivin and. Mr. Youna,
(the crew having retrested below) confined
themw uli in the holde=piundered the sclicoi
er of sixteen thousand dollars—and, horrid
to relatey bervied the unhappy crew alive, by
scuttfing the vessel. Six of the perpetrae
tors have been tried end executed ;5 o strict
search is going on for the remcinder, who
are condemned to the same &:‘a. y
“ A few doys after this ho_rﬂd and croel
murder was committed, a vesse passed the
unfortunate schooner Bloasom, and described
her $o accurately on hes wrvival at Auar<Caee,
that Mr, Twomas Youxo, brother to Mr,
Fowarp Youxa, and consignee of said ves-
Sel, knew it must he the er in which
his brother had tuken passage. The schoon
er was found and proved 0 be ‘tFe Dlvisom,
The haeh ur-master and five more, (onc of
whom had conf-ssed the atracions deed were
feaceuicd wtlow wlter mark. Gicat pani n(‘
- J '
¢
I'T must utlord much pleasure to the be
nevolent mind, to obse:ve the progress in the
woy of welledeing, exhibited by the « N 4 1.
POFRT LINLEVOLINT FLEMALLE SCCJ
ETY.” Anexamination of the aoings of s
Lonourab.e Sodiety, s set forth in their oc
count cuirent, cannot but excite in (e mind
the most lively sentimients of the vusuliied bes
nevolence, integrity «nd correctness of those
Ladies who have superiniended the sof
the Socicty. k& aad a
An iustitution like this, foundé® on the
most humane and philanthropick principles,
deserves the highest encomivums. @i is mat
ter of regret that ic s nat in the power of e
writer to state the whole number of ctpion
children (het have been educated since the
Society was first instituted. But (ke last year
« xhibits a very plessing prospect to tie be
wevolent mind, ot how much good muy be
done by those who icel a disposition to ce
vote @ small sum of money for the parpose
of anicliotating the condiiion of sefiering hu
manry. Whatypermit mie to ask. is the con
divon of eorphan lemale children vscatiered
through our towns ! They ure, perbups,
permitted to e&ray in scme person’s kitclhi
¢ni, but they arve not unfrequently most inhus
mwenly treated 3 for they Liave no one (o firo
tvect thom, Thus muny of those ltile inno.
centsy if perniitted to live, are trained vp in
the way they shoutd mor go. Tur different
wre the doings of this Socicty 5 for they rce
ceivesprotect, vietuvl, clothe snd educete, poor
orpivan female ehildien, tll they arrive at
certain age ;3 when they are otherwise cow -
fortubly provided for. .
Institutions like this, should excite the
geuercus teelings of every member in socics
ty. Lot notadeaf car be turned to the culis
of distre sed humanity—Dut gather these 7.
tic ones topether, protect and pieserve their
existence.and teach them the way they savurd
Loythat whon they come 10 years ol maturiy,
they may not cepart hhop those correct pili,-
cpies, which they imbibed in early youth,end
therely picpare them for usefviness here,
and happiness hereafter. And when ye have
performed ail these duiiesy then nisy our
blessed Lord and Saviour sy unto you=—
“ Come y¢ blessed of ny Father, inberit
the kingdom prepared for you from the fotin
dation of the world ; for I was an hungied,
and ye gave me meat ; I wusthirsty,und ye gave
me drink ; 1 was a stranger, und ye took me
in ; naked, and ye *clothed me; I was sick,
and ye visited me 3 1 was in prison and ye
camie unto me. And inasmuch asye have
done it to one of the least of these” lvle
anes, % ye have done it unto me, =t Lnrer
thouw into the joye of Heaven”
BENEVOLLENTIA.
Though we have now tiumpled noic'y
by the justice of our cuuse,it conmor be « w. ve
so. . Without more wtiention te suppoi: cur
freedom und the administration of ous ¢/ cice,
by exercising the right of suffiage, fcdciuis
sty always uleri, never discouraged, nover
too seif-confident, snd alwiys encugl oy
MUST ANU WILL EVENTUALLY TKIUMPH.
Bear this an mind, fellow-citizans 3 for vicorh
o sonie other concerns the race is not <iwoys
to the swilt, vor e battle to the strong, we
cannot conceive that an ciceticn con be won
without voting. or that people cin send whom
they will to congress without attending ut the
poils,
Sourh-Curcura and Geo gia=llive not a
blot upon their characters, politicully consid
cred. Their Members of Congress are i)
Republicun. [NVar. Zgis)
returns with double foice, when we centem .
plate the eveni ol the eleciion, in Seuih | »-
sex, in Briswol, énd in South Worcester. o’
cach of these, republicuns were untuestiona
bly üble 10 buve chosen their cancioutes. 1 d
they pertormed their duy, the deieg.' «n
from Mussachuseus wouid have consiswo of
TWELVE Repubiicans to_five Federatists ! !
Extract of o Letter, frem Philadelllia, deted,
' NoVvEMBER 13, 1810,
NEWPORT :
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1810.
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