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✓ v trith him, he will not listen 10 us—
and from beginning to end his talk is
blackguard—he treats us like dogs.”
They complained much of the Whites
making encroachments upon their ten i
Ty9 an».l ot a tew individuals, who had
made sale ot lands beyond the line of
pemarkation, hut their dispositions to
wards us appeared friendly. Blue
Jacket observed, “W c have deluged the
country with blood to satiate our re
venge, and all to no purpose—we have
Wen the sufferers. 1 he Great Spirit
has shewn us the vanity of these things.
▼Ve have Uid down the tomahawk never
to take it up again; if it is offered to us
hy the French, English, Spaniards, or
txy you9 our white brethren, we will not
t*ke it.”
New-Yoiw, September 3a
By the fast sailing ship Liverpool
Tackett eapt. Parsons, from Liverpool,
tfce editors of the New-York Gazette
Jtove received London papers to the 2-tth
of August.
The British fleet in the Baltic appear
to have made every disposition for a
attack on Copenhagen, and
"9 for completely surrounding the
Whole island. Between Holstein and
tlje opposite shore in Zealand, to pre
want the French troops from coming o
wer, are four ships of the line, four fri
and a number of gun-boats and
transports.
The grand army of Denmark being
Wt Holstein, there were supposed to be
%o more than from 12 to 16,000 troops
on the island of Zealand. ‘
October 2.
Captain i nomas, of the Delaware, in
*S day* from Amsterdam, informs, that
jpst before he sailed, the news of a de
puration of war on the part cf Denmark
against Great Britain, had reached Am
sterdam. In consequence of which the
2>au^h ships that had just sailed from
Amsterdom had put back and others
popped loading..
The editors of tho New-York Ga
tctte hare received Amsterdam papers
I to the Kth August. From a cursory
pen^||of these papers, w» observe—
property has been confis
at Copenhagen and Alton a. The
of Denmark has Icfr'Gbpenhagtn
^pe to Chiding, in J utlimd.
crown prihee has returned to Ki
flfc to organize the army.
TbMrUie British jeruizers had taken
!
sc'wal oi iho Danish vir.v. I, lr. the
Greenland tr.uL.
Mr* Jackson, the Tnglish cnvo*,*, 1 f
K’.l'I on the 8th of August-, to proceed
on board the Kiij.1. ,’a licet in the Dane *1
soa^., tor fho purpose of communicating
to Admiral Gambier thi: result of Id-!
embassy; but lie was detained bv contra
ry v-inds till the 11th, by which means
the Duma gained 3 oa\s to make pre
parations tor defence.
II' HEEL INC,
Thursday, 15th Octobi r, isor.
Correspondents.—The remarks of
Husband" have been received, and
are intended for oar next.
^L\ rri r. n, on I hursdav evening last,
at hish creek, by J. Williamson, Esq.
Mr. Rf.sin Biddi.f., of that place, to
“Miss Betsf.y” Wy kert,of Wheeling.
The British government has, it ap
pears, signified to Mr. Munroc, that it
neither does, nor has at any time main
tained the pretension of a right to search
ships of war, in the national service of
any state, for deserters ; and that if it
should appear that the act of the British
officers in the affair of the Leopard and
Chesapeake rested on no other grounds
than the simple and unqualified asserti
on of such a pretension, there would he
no difficulty in disavowing the act and
making the reparation really due.
Nat, Intel*
Burr’s Trial—So great an interest
has been excited by this important trial,
that we presume the majority of our
readers are already acquainted with its
progress and result. We will however
present them with a summary of the
proceedings.
The trial for treason commenced on
the 3d of August. A great number of
jurymen were set aside by the court, it
appearing from their own acknowledg
ments in court, that they were prejudi*
ced against the prisoner. After the jury
were impaneled, the prosecutor pro
ceeded to examine Gem Eaton, Com
modore Truxton, and the Morgans, to
prove the treasonable intent. He then
proceeded to give evidence of the as
semblage of men at Blennerhassct’s is
land.. J& appeared in evidence that Blur
vas present at this assemblage. His
counsel then objected to any farmer evi
uo.ncc bcinq qivcn again , imri. Thry
c6ntv:id d du.t iic could i>c»t bo qtiih\ J:
:.va«on, ur.Ic- ; he was p, sent whcn’thr
ovi rt art war committed. Thw cjn
tended also, that it his presence v;is
not in ci ssary, yet Im could not be con
\ :eti cl until some of those who rero
pj t sent were ti:e:l and conviete I, and
the record of such conviction pro lured.•
On those points an ;>.r.,uinent was com
nu need, v.hieh was continued inor,. than
a week. Tile court deckled that trea
son could he committed iiy a person not
' r Kent at the assemblage, or other o
v rt act. Hut tiny also decided that
Hitrr could not he convicted in this case,
until some ot the partv who had assem
bled at the island was tried and con
victed; that Burr's quilt was derivative,
and depended upon the quill of the as
semblage at the island, which could on
ly be established in a prosecution aqainst
some of the party. The court also inti
mated an opinion, that the assemblage
at the island did not amount to an overt
act of levying war. After this opinion
was delivered, the attorney tor the U
niied States abandoned the prosecution,
and the jury rendered a verdict of not
quiltv.
On the Oth Sept, a jury wan impanel
ed, and the trial for the misdemeanor
commenced. Severed witnesses were ex
amined. I he attornev for the U. States
offered the testimony of one Neale, to
prove the acknowledgments of Blenner
liasset respecting the nature and object
ot the enterprise. This testimony was
objected to by Burr. An argument was
then commenced, on the general nature
of the testimony which ought to be ad
mitted. This discussion continued i’or
three days; when the court decided,
that the declarations of third persons not
forming a part of the transaction and
not made in the presence of the accus
ed, could not be received in evidence ;
that the acts of accomplices, except so
far ;is they proved the character or ob
ject of the expedition, could not be re
ceived as evidence ; that the acts of the
accused in a different district, which
constituted in themselves substantive
causes for a prosecution, could not he
given in evidence, unless th v went di
rectly to prove the charges laid in the
indictment; that any h gal t. tnn^ny
which shewed the exp -Uition to be mi
litary, or to have been designed agaiiwt
the dominions of Spain, might l»e receiv
ed ; that any testimony shewing that the
accused performed within the district