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SOCIETY FOR THE DISCHARGE AND RELIEF OF
PERSONS IMPRISONED FOR SMALL DEBTS,
Craven-mreet, Stroud, October 3, 1921.
BENEFACTIONS SINCE THE LAST
REPORT, viz. £ a. d.
Mrs. Barker Ann. 2 0 0
Walker Ferranti,. A. 2 2 0
S. Marjoribanks. Esq. per Secretary A. 2 2 0
W. G. Pasting, Esq. A 2 2 0
Matthew Muter, Esq ....A.. 2 2 0
Wynilum Knatchbull, Fog.
Job. Anderdon. Esq A 2 2 0
George Stephenson %Viotisur, Esq. A 2 2 0
Executors of Thos. Nicholson, Esq. deceased
a dimmtional donation lOO 0 0
J.Waits, Esq. per Secretary A. 2 2 0
Mrs. Langton A. 2 2 0
Edw. Howell, Esq. Cheltenham A 2 2 0
John Dawkins, Esq. A 2 2 tt
Mr. R. W. Coward
Adam Askew. EN. per Hoares and Co A. 2 2 0
Thos. S. Gooch, Esq.
Sir W. %V. Pepys, Bart A 5 5 0
Anonymous
Ditto . • r 0 0 0
Rev. D. Yonge
Y. G. per Dorrien sad fws. A 50 0 0
W. S. F..... 5 0 0
W. T...

1403 14 0

Discharged and relieved from various Prisons
106 Debtor', for the sum of
Considered the Cares of 46 Petitioners,
Approved
Referred fur Characters 7 Petitions,
And Rejected
Renerictlons are received by John Camden Neild, E.q. the
Tee* rrrrr Cheyne.walk, Chelsea ; also by Messrs. Herne",
Farquhar, and Co. St. Janses's-street ; Meurs. Hoares, Fleet-
Meet; Hamm Whitmore and Co. Lombard•strvet, Ste.

Arnaldo Gail
Don Msriano latorday, sad Dus Isidro
tic Albo, Public laterpretre. The Spanish euliell.lentetemst
Don Domingo Sousa canteens! *aired fur me, earnestly de.
siting to speak with me. On entering be was accumpaoied
by au officer of the United Slates, who conducted leas es
prisoner, as he told me; having asked him for what reason,
be replied, in the presence of the company, that on the pre-
ceding day,three persons made their appearsnee at bis house,
who said, we are authorised by the Governor, Don Andrew
Jackson to order you to deliver up certain papers which hi
has been informed are in your possessive ; and from the In-
dications which they made to hiss, he compreheoded that
they were those which were packed up in cues belonging
the military tribunal and that of dunce; be told therm that
certain cases existed in his possession is which be believed
they were; but that he was a subaltern officer, subject to
My orders, and attached to the Commission, and libel the
men which be had mentioned were under Ms OM by Op
der*, as notary or clerk of those priv oft
my authority as Governor, and could sot
pert ualessby my command. The penman iaquestlon wll
and returned again the acme day with a deemed it. etellbsit:
of the papers, requiring him to give bit answer also in 1/14
ling, which he did, and consequently came to inform me'
thereof, but did not find me at home. On reflection this
morning, he determined on taking them to my boast, as a '
place of more security thin his. He did so ; but not Indies..
me at home, left them in my home. Mich was all he knew.,
I told him be bad done right. Re (WlmuldW, that 61*a, !
jest searched his horse, sod dentanM Imt repair
that they were in my bonne; on which datipasindmildi
as a prisoner. ist
I immediately seat my aide, Captain itilloruto,
to inform the Governor from me, that - arm
was au officer under my orders, and ismisped IMAM Csime-
minims ; that as the papers demanded mita not his irhirn ter,
him, be would have the goodness to address himself to me,
and that if they were such as could be delivered, they would
be furnished through the regular channel; extending for-
t hao my request, that be would be pleased to understand
that they could only be delivered by me. The answer which
my Adjutant brought me was, that "the order for tire
imprisonment of Sousa will lie continued," and that the Go.
'cram further told him, "tell Colonel Celine& that I will
put bim along with him." Under the impression that an
answer altogether NO unaccountable, without the slightest
provocation to rest mi, could may be attributed to en ex-
traordinary mistake in the interpretation which had Irma
made of my message to the Commissioner and Governor,
Andrew Jackson, 1 ordered my Adjutant to return, accom-
panied by another officer and the public interpreter, is or-
der more fully to acquaint the Governor therewith. They fel.
tilled their mission, and brought me for answer that the Go-
vernor had replied with loud vociferation*, and in the pre.
mace auroral persons, " that Colonel Callus shall go to
gaol!"
I waslost in astonishment, and my reason could not impute
00 extraordinary an occur' euce to any other cause this to an
• entire privation of judgment, or to sinister interpretatiou ;
but having no foundation un which to rest such an opinion,
1 proposed to go in person to the Governor, so soon as din.
nee was over; but before 1 could do so, three persons cause.
tie the house of Colonel Rrooke, who said they were utile..
Heed to demand of me immediately the papers, for the Gored,
nor would mot strew towards me any more coosidmetbattpt
! tit forms than he would to any other private individual. :
I replied to them, requesting them to inquire of the Catellill,
sioner of the United States, Andrew Jackson, how " was It
possible that he should forget in a meaner so unaccountable
my official character?* Did be not receive from me, as
Commissioner on the part of Spain, the province of West
Florida, of which I was his predecessor in the government,
and that my stay with my Secretary and Officers was peud-
iug the decision of the points submitted by himself and
me to our respective Governmeuts, relative to the con-
struction to be given to the second Article of the Treaty?
The artillery is still held in deposit under the national safe-
guard.
The papers and documents under my charge, as Governor,
to be given by use, under the Treaty, could not be delivered
by me in the character of a private individual, because they
did not come into my possession mid trust in that capacity.
I requested them to tell him, that 1 was altogether be-
wildered at this course which was now pursuing; that the
papers in my possession should be held sacred sad inviolable
ill Pensacola, my person being under the immunityof the laws
of nations, to be respected and protected agreeably to the
usages of civilized nations, and every other individual corn.
misstated by his respective Government. That they would
also lee pleased to tell him that I do not yet know
what papers he demands of me to deliver in this
manner, stud that be would base the goodness fully
to sciptaint me therewith iu au official form, haring
due regard to the peace and harmony which subsists
between Spain aad the United States; that I have always
acted towards him with the most distinguished cousideratioa,
both as Commissioner of the United States and as Governor;
anff in like manner 1 have treated all the citizens of the
Visited States, iudiscrimivately, with the greatest attention,
during my administration as Governor of West Florida.
That I assure General Jackson (both as Commissioner and
Governor), that whatever papers were to be delivered by
me to him this day, should be immediately furnished through
the regular channel, as a proof that they were given in a
mauner becoming my official character.
found myself attacked with a violent pain, from a com-
plaint under' which I have been suffering fur some time.
This l imparted to Colonel Brooke, and requested him to
permit me to retire to my house, which I did, sad
then ordered my secretary to address an official letter to
the Governor, makiag the same statement to him as I had
dune to the bearers of his messages; which official letter I
sent him by two officers, but the Governor refused to receive
it.

At seven o'clock at night the same persons came to my
house, demanded the papers from me as a private individual,
or to go with then, before the Governor. I found myself so
unwell as to bo unable to sit up, and stated to them that my
illness would not admit of my going out, and that 1-41w1
Dot clearly uuderstaad what papers they wanted, oar could

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me, so I pieced every thing at their dismal.
One of the deputation ordered the officer commandine to
VOW mg room, and at this time the Moises Don Jaen I nue-
really wished to iatercede, as it appeared to me; but in
aptakieg he was told to betides., and the officer was directed
to take me as • prisoner with his armed force. 1 replied,
that I esteeklerell myself as such, and in proof thereof I deli-
vered my sword and case, bet as to draggle( me from my
house, they insist lake iota consideration my ill state of
health; they answered that they knew it, ordered me to
dress, and with the armed troops einiducted me to the pre.
mace of the Governor, who was in a separate house from his
loggia`, accompanied bye large concourse of people of all
4 desimpliessof prow& The said Governor. through a per.
I Deg who acted as notary and interpreter, ordered him to ex.
I MO an interrogatory which he himself dictated, and required
Me an answer; the question was issignificamt, but I re-
quested to be permitted to answer in my own idiom, and to
write it with my own hand; it was granted ; cud while writ.
leg my weer, the paper was snatched from me, and with
all the furiousness of a person bereaved of his judgment, or
a vy
ered flake*: cokdseol
invetrheihtable,
ZIZII en; ostevioGl:ot gest'ures,with llieori
gam I was in the act of answering, but be gave me no time
liitlyeak, and whenever the interpreter began to explain my
!eempeep, is which I had been so often interrupted, he was
lane .Ipermitted to interpret, or did not interpret the same.
Mk As "eamsetiest demonstrations, I constantly entreated
Iliellfistilniallests la the present act, be deprived of the re-
. mem arid completion of answering in wriliog, and that I
eliesild be lotemegeled in the like manner, That a future run-
nueneet might be left, for I inferred, from the ravings of the
Ciovtreer, that I 11,11 l about to be assassinated. Uuavailiug
were all my requests, every thing was refused me, nor could
, Items wily I yirs dragged there.
la the Arm of misfortunes is which I found meself est-
veluped, unprotected by the laws, the osonnest at length ar.
rived wises Governor Jackson drew out, among other papers,
a wines order, which, agreeably to the interpretation made
to we, contained the mandate of my being sent to gaol.
Insets informed thereof, I requested the interpreter to ask
him Awn me Rite did not shudder at the perpetration of such
deeds i, that I protested before the Government of the United
Stales against the author of these atrocious °weaves com-
mitted against my person and the character I repre-
sented. The Gott:root. replied this time through the in-
terpreter; that be was alone answerable to his Govern-
ment : that he did not care for the conaequences, and that I
might protest before God himself. I was in fact carried to
gaol at the hour of midnight, in my delicate slate of health:
My house was left open to the mercy of the soldiers.—
The Spanish °Siete', and other persons of my confidence
who were there, or repaired timber, were ordered uff, cud
none of them permitted to remain. My pyres, cud those
of the Government which were under my charge, were left
without any inventory or account of the same ; the keys of
my trunks were left ; my property and that belonging to my
Government for the purposes of the Commission, were in
like manner ahanduned without any account or inventory, as
also all my other ermine! property. At eleven ou the &l-
imiting morning of the e 34 a writ of Habeas Corpus was
issued by the Judge, Mu Elegies Frontal in, but Governor
Jackman treated it with contempt, stating that he did not
think it proper to allow it to be carried into effect.
About five iu the afternoon of the same day I was inform-
, ad by the officer of the guard at the prison, of in order of
I the Governor, which stated I should be set at liberty, and
accompanied by the officer of the Jay to my house, as he had
I
new got possession of the papers, and I might see if the
cases were closed and sealed. I told the officer who deliver-
ed the order ihat I could not enter my house unless accom-
paeieel by a Judge. He said I might look fur one, and thee I
came out of prison.
The officer accompanied me, with many other persons,
and 1 went to the house of Judge Frumentin, as being the
only one in West Florida. I found him indisposed, and be.
fore every one present I made a succinct relation of all these
facts, and begged that be would extend to my person and
house the protection of the law. He informed me that his
indispositioe prevented hire from acrompanyieg me, and
that in his place I should take witii to be pi e'en! at the
recognition. -
I then went to the house, accompanied by many people,
and the officer of the day. I found armed troops inside, my
papers scattered on the table, a cave of papers whirl, had
been nailed and sealed with IS wax seals, with the impress
of the seal of my Government, was found fractured and re.
closed, and sealed with adiffereut seal. My state of health
has not hitherto permitted me to make the necessary exami-
nation of my private or public papers, nor the confidential
ones of my Government during my admiuistration, nor the
documents of my Commission. The money was entire.
The foregoing relations comprehend the outrages com-
mitted spinet my person and official character, in Pen-
sacola, on the 2211 day of August, 1821, by Governor
Andrew Jackson. This narrative is the most sacred truth.
I. it 1 have not "oppressed any previous circumstances ; the
history of the facts had no other origin. The motive I am
entirely ignorant of, and that the whole is a true exposition
I do solemnly swear. I tender the proofs, and I protest is ith
the same solemnity before Gud, before my Government, be-
fore that of the limited Slaws, and before all awn, against
the authors mid perpetrators of these deeds. I also se-ear,
under the same obligations, that I have always observed,
during my aihninistratiou as Governor of West Florida, in.
diecrinstentely, to every individual of the United States,
whether resident or transient persons, the utmost considers-
tion ; that I hare respected and caused to be respected,
their persons and property. When any one Timi been guilty
of any delinquency, be has always been treated with 'Wel-
genre and a generous he ratty; and so true is what I have
manifested, that if public notice were to be fixed through.
out the whole States, there wueld not be • single induvi.
dual who could show the least resentment. This couduct
emanates from my own natural disposition, and from the or-
ders prescribed to nee by my Government ; and that this is
my propensity so to act with all mangiest indiscriminately,
cannot be impugned by the strictest investigative into my

24. As the Cortes who are to be installed are to frame a
Coustitntiuu, it is necessary that the Deputies should receive
powers stifficieut fur that purpose, ■nd as It Is 11.0 of 111114 I,
importance that the Electors should Iwo+ they sec to he oo -
presented in the Congress of Mexico, and tout iu that of
Madrid, the heat& shall prescribe just rules fur the
and shall designate the time of it, and the time of the open-
ing of the Congress; and as the ,leet ))))) s commit now tole
place iu March, the time shall be extruded as anneb a. pui•
sible.

(Front the Baltimore American, October 4.1
LATEST F&o MEXICO.—AI ticks of ad)q•tutrttt
entered Into betstert► the Patriots and Royalists, at
Cordova, on the 24th of August I•*t.
ARTIC Lts of Adjustment entered into at Coidoct lu tem'
Duo luau O'Donuju, VII,. King. •nd Unn Nl.uuu•l
Itiirhide, Cumzuaadcr in Chief of the Imperial 111.xtersi
Forces.—

1. This America shall be Sovereign and ludepet;ileill, and
called the Mexican Ernpue.
I. Its Governoisot ►lull he a moderate Constitutional
Monarchy.
3. Fordiesn4 VII. on coming to Mexico, shall rrign ; ill
default, his heirs or surcessurs, m due order.
4. The Emperor shall tin his Court In Mexico, the Capi-
tal of the Empire.
S. Tiro Coososissioners from Signor Mu Joao 0' DJUOiII,