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self-preservation.

ly which we humbly
the moires of
of ►he poor
chanced to he ceAt.
nod no rloolit

, spirit or
citizens of the U,
persecute their le.a
• encroachments
limited tracts of
the iosatiahle gel
resource from the
.patiou that threatener
friend to appeal
Jtice of the British
word shout war, or an

With respect to
acquitted the prisoner
though he was found
ing, and ob.-tting the
'he so acted was tl
'✓EIAMPLY, who stated
some of the Indians

,led them to go to
,of ten kegs of pow(
that were it not for th
the prisoner, the Ind'
war. This HAMOLY

inserted in the first o
the In by the p
ratter, and in the thin
,whose lives were said

Ite conduct of the
wow these circumetui

:e dipititerested %vitt'

ferrdit fur a greater sli
him to innme..,
troth AngUTUNOT's
of the United States

evitielick is altogether

Watt% against every p:

it is aim) ileArsAy Ar

theu2selves were prese

witnesses in 1111 Am

it was well ob•er
could the words

molly, who, if pr,
lent ? The lett*
such as would iv

chant or trader

the seat of w:tr
of having the su

Britain bubroitt,

(;overnmeist.

was iu the prisoner's
quantity, altogether
aliens to contend agai

army. and cuts, iti
cie of trade, being r

liuutitig expeditions.
protection for thee
cattle, against intlivin
for this purpose. the
much right as the cit
a British subject has
titan to supply the
trial. we conscientioal
the lent sktriow of

the charges against
likely to mislead I
,proceeding; than the
'ions charged, and
for such persons to
proof. We fear, t
prejudice in the ten
AMIUTIIINOT—for n
mice or wilful rrror
On the whole case,
contents laid before

tion in paying that t
NOT wail Y barbarou
shalt not now enter
bat shalt merely ►tal
fenced him to be put
ed their sentence, tht
be should receive .tr
-tined to hard labour

hryvever, cer.‘urril t
free of the

'Aeroflot'. Such a
uutlt•r iti4rtial
:1.4 action viva:d be

A Dutch Mail w
ille•Cth ituitant.

et the great nut.
•asstls.•t•imputed
to the pol Air,
fidtaigo to the Nouse
i(inatrar►nta) in tile.
ever asserted, that it
Court of Am.*, and

• '
swell au account of
'accused.

Her Modesty the E
le he day before cede
.041, NI i...r enlvitic c.
take Irate it,f their at
aceimi im !tied her ott
Which place the _
cordial tApreltii4ins of
her Joutury to St.
4k. Emorefis riaileil
sepulchre of the

ity winch
tensed the
"'offerings
lot chanced
'griefs, and
unrelenting
the citizens
persecute
• at ent.roa
' ry limiter
mm the Mr
sat resouro
• irpation the
. • friend to
justice oath
word shout
tell'-preserve
With yrs
acquitted t
; though he r
inihiegA,:apoi dysa:lii,
some of tl
tried them
f ten keg,
that were ii
the prisoner
war. This
inserted in t
• the Indians
racter, and
whose lives
lie conduc
ram these
dibititeret
'credit fur I
riii-ve him
rom Anew
of the Utti
evitielck is
"nate% agai
it is also
theU2seives
witnesses in
it was well I
could the w
snotty, who,
lent ? The
such as trot
chant or lr.l
the seat of
of having tl
Britain bul
Governmen
was its the
gig/witty, I
thane to col
army. and
die of trade
ltuutiog exi
protection
cattle, aged
for this pu
much right
a British si
titan to st
trial, we co
the least sl
the charges
likely to to
voceeding•
'ions chart
for such t
proof. Wo
prejudice i
Mkt/Tsai:
mice or mi
On the wit]
cutiaents Is
6011 iu say
SOT Will w
shall not I
but shall it
fenced hire
ed their sel
he should
tined to ha
I.o.vever,
t',r- free of
roxerutititi.
tinder 1114'
as action
A Dote
the 4th itu
191' the sti
**4
to the pato
Altsiigo to
Kinstructios
Never meth
Court of A
well 6141 at
recessed.
Her Stivii
stile day lief,
plan- St lu
181:c (case
which 1.14 c,
Cordial call
II her paint.
4he Eaupre6
se I sepulchre

ao toddy
Fes of ou
le poor
be east.
doubt d
it of say
i.e unit •
it iv.s p
tents sr •
acts of
Me graft
on the
reateiled
teal fro
ritish Ca
Or On a
1.
t to th
prisoner
ound
sg the e
was th
stated
Indians
o to we
powd
t for the
e lodi
IMOLY
lint eh,
the pi
he third
e said t
f the
urrtstani
svitW.
eater sli.
possess,
(IT'S tie
States t
;ether
every pr
sov de
• presen
iinetiea
rved by
i of a thi
resent,
tens add
Murall
auxiou
r, or by
offering
ted to
The p
isoner's
;ether i
d &gait
in fact
eing re
tions,
thew
odioid
e, the
he citi
yet lathere
ls
entiousl
rw of e
dust th
«I per
an the
and
ws to
w, too,
IC rain
fur not,
rt.rOr
MSC, as
before
that th•
rbarous
enter
ly btat
be put
ee, th
ive .tai
show.
red tii.
ICCOI
ovit a
law.
dbeh
err'r
t. Th
another
'puled
Howie
this a
hat it
, and I
it of
the E
t,terda
muce.
heir out .
t II
1:11111.
0119 of
St P.
Melt
die lat.

,‘f

Pie
t.,

pity which we humbly tru,t has generally chime•
tensed the natives of our Island, lamented over the
sufferings of the poor Indian., owing whom his
lot chanced to he cast. Tie sympathised in their
griefs, and no doubt detested that ferocious and
unrelenting spirit of savage persecution with which
the citizens of the United States have never ceased
to persecute their less poverfol neighbours. He saw
that encroachments were constatitly made on the
very limited tracts of land that had yet escaped
from the insatiable grasp of their enemies; and as a
last resource from the famine and consequent ex-
tirpation that threatened them, he advised them as
• friend to appeal from American rapacity to the
justice of the British Cabinet. But there is not one
word about war, or an appeal to arms even for their
aell-preservation.

iVith respect to the irecond charge, the Court
acquitted the prisoner of acting as a spy, and
though he was found guilty of " aiding, comfort-
ing, and Owning the enemy," the only proof that
he so seted was the evidence of WILLIAM
lIAMBLY, who stated that he had learned from
some of the Wiens that the prisoner had ad-
vised them to go to war, and that he was possessed
ea ten kegs of powder. flastaLtr also asserted
that were it not for the encouragement held out by
the prisoner, the Indians would not have gone to
wsr. This HOMY is the person whose name is
inserted in the first charge, as a mun denounced to
the Indians by the prisoner as a dangerous cha-
racter, and in the third charge, as one of the men
whose live+ were said to have been endangered by
the conduct of tlw prisoner. Who eats doubt,

from these circumstances, that HAMMY was nut .1
es disimerested witWts But even giving him
credit for a greater share of morality than we be-
l.ve him to possess, his evidence, as we collect
from ARBUTHNOT'S defence, ought not by the laws
a the United States to have been admitted. His
evidence is attoget'ser 1‘ hearsay," and as such mi-
litates against every principle of rational law, but
it is also hearsay derived front Winos, who, if
themselves were present, would he incompetent Ile
witnesses in an American Court of Judicature; and as
it was well observed by a Member of the Court, Ito.
could the words of a third person be received as testi.
molly, who, if present, would be rejected as incompe.
tent ? The letters adduced against the prisoner are
such as would naturally have beet, written by • mer-
chant or trader anxious to remove bis property from
the seat of war, or by any British subject desirous
of having the sufferings of • nation allied to Great
Britain submitted to the consideration of his own
Government. The powder which Illausse says
was in the prisoner's possession, was but a small
quantity, altogether incapable of enabling the M-
clnnis to contend against a well-appointed American
anus, and was, in fact, intended solely as an arti-
cle of trade, bring required by the Indians in their
hunting expeditions, and as a wails of immediate
protection for themselves, their families, and their
cats le, ugninbt individual assailants. To gunpowder
for this purpose, the Indians have undoubtedly as
much right as the citizens of the United States, and
a British subject has as much right as au Ame-
rican to supply them with it. U pun the whole
trial, we cutiscieiniously declare that we do not see
the least shadow of evi.lence sufficient to maintain
the charges against the prisoner. Nothing is
likely to mislead persons unaccustomed to judicial
proceedings than the importance of the allega-
tions charged, and nothing more common thin
for such persons to mistake the accusation for
proof. We fear, too, that there existed a violent
prejudice in the minds of his Judges against Alr.
Airturusoe—for nothing else than extreme igno-
rainr or wilful error could have found him guilty.
the whole case, as contained in the official ilo.
consents laid before Congress, we have no lirsita.
rims iu saying th tt the execution of Mr. Attui.Tit-
NOT was a barbarous and wanton stuatma. We
shall not now enter into Mr. AmeitirrEa's case,
but shall merely state that the Court ut first sen-
tenced him to be put to death; but having review-
ed !heir sentence, they subsequently resolved that
Is:. should receive stripes on the back, and he eon-
-hoed to hart! labour for twelve mouths. JACKSON,
however, censured the Court for this lenity, and iii
the face of the second sentence, put the first in
execution. Such • case could never occur but
wider martini law. In England, however, such
all action woold be held to be 111URDSR.

A Dutch Nleil arrived last night with Ripers to
theCtli natant. The following sill extracti

BRUSIEI.II, JANUARY 2.

of the great number of men who were lately arrested,
Pio.4 ib..cyrnr impaled to witiiin is out ytt eel t3iiily knows
4,, the I have been now removed from the
Ig., to the Howe r 4 Arrest. Preliminary reci.ellinsr
(iitatruriain) is it,... affair is not yet earn) ;uted. h haw-
,err askerted, that it will slimily he bralight before the
Cool t ct Aasa., tad that it will vxrite :peat setaztina, xa
web ou actouut of the wiekeiliti:ss as the fully of the
-atoned.

DIMUY, nrcraturn 19.

Her Haj.otty the Fmpreas t ot lefloothis city
the day before yesterday, with the %done :.olemnitirs as gawk
04er at herentraoce. The Royal Faintly, hewer's., did set
take leave of their august guest at iloc plea of Heehoc but
nreotnpaitiell her to the Palace of Foes:riirkqtrhle, front
%hid, 1.14 re the Eaaprera, after the repetition of the meat
CO( 4113. l'ApreSki.llP9 of frseothlop (iv both side-, mntinoted
1,..0 Jouito-y to Nt. Peterabore Amon.; the hlar.t e.hich
Ike ps tett daring her Sto.y wet the
11,614:hie of the late QUl.ell 1- oli,o, a! Charadtrtihnrs,,

where the deteeaticd Ett‘i the loath of that ineatapatable
Pe littera. MADRID, DEC:MIMI 19.

It seems certain that the Emperor A:exautler has tnede
urgeut r ptesentstions tis unr King in respett la the stair-
innate wlw cuerh.persed hi foreign countries. Their
number amounts to 6,000, among Alma are some of great
merit ; soldiers, who, its the war against Bonaparte, shed
their blood its defence of Spam. It is hoped that a general
memoir. will anon be taken in their fa►our, and that she
country will once more relate to its bosun' Muse who arc
dear to it, and may still sender it important ser►ices.

11AMBUROH, JANUARY 1.

Ismael Gibraltar, the agent of the Pacha of Egypt, is now
here. Air-mints from all parts of the North nt7iitian the I:4-
commonly tine mild wr:oher. At Elaine's'', so many ships as
are now there have uut been area fur min)/ years at this
season. STOCKIIIIII,M, DEMISE& 22

Ships srrive here anti sail daily, which, with tS degrees of
Lent, is unheard of at Ihis season. The gloomy air, and the
want of snow, make the very short days a kind of militia
nitrht, exceeding the da►kness during the last great eclipse at
1,. run. The herrinz fishery is much favoured by the mild
weather.

We have received Paris Papers of Monday last,
the 4th instant. Their contents are not impurnint.

Wt's• h ive received Germain Pipers to the 2d
instant, but their contentb are not of any im-
portance,.

A Flanders 111ai1 has arrived, atth Papers from
Bramels to the sth instaut.—The Emperor of
RUSIIA set out (ruin Vienna on the 23d last, on his
return in St. Petersburgh.—From the Ist January
to the 31st December 1818, 803 ships entered the
port of Antwerp ; among them were 352 of the
Netherlands, 297 English, 31 Aturricans, 29 Swe-
dish, 27 Danish, 21 French. 22 Hanoveriaiss, &c.
A Russian frigate. from Arclihugel, has arrived in
the Texel.

The Notional hatelligetteer saye--,, We under-
stand that on the 20th of October, the day before
he lately left London on his return to Paris, Mr.
GALLATIN. in conjunction with Mr. RUSII. signed
• Treaty between the United States and Great Bri-
tain. which had just been concluded by those
Gentlemen, with Plenipotentiaries 011 the part of
Great Britain ; but we do not learn that any copy
of this Treaty has yet been received." The Neto
York Caugie of the loth ult. copying the above,
adds, " we have sects a letter from a Member of
Congress, a hich states, that the Treaty lately made
with Great Britain Is to last ten years. Particu-
lars not known." There is also an article in the
Washington Papers of the 7th of December. to
the some effect, and it is observed also, that the
Treaty will probably " pass the ordeal of the Se-
nate during the present Session of Congress."
LINEN TRADE.-1t would appear, from the fol-
lowing statement of the quantity of Linen shipped
during the last week fioni Belfast, that the Ameri-
can-markets, which have been lately represented in
in • dull state, have revived, as to that manufacture,
which is pleasing to observe, as the Linen Trade is
of such vast ituportance to the interests of Ire-
land
Philadelphia 115,470 Yards.
Nrw Yea 43,894)
Jalousie&
Livrepeal 99,250
Glasgow . 50,420

Tulal Yards.... 383,350
Suppoued value, at 18d. per yaul, 24,7591. 13..
(Cosh latelleiptneer)

Extract of a letter from RICIIARD ALLEN. Esq.
British Consul General and Agent to Lloyd's, at
Corwin', dated 19th December, 1818 :—" By ad-
vice firm Vigo of the 17th inst. au Insurgent cor-
vette, commanded by the well-known AI.UEIDA,
had been cruising off that harbow for four days,
and captured and sunk several coasting vessels. On
the 15th she took a Spanish schooner, flout Co-
runna to Ilavatinah, and armed her with four guns,
and she e; now cruising with her."
The Emperor of AUSTRIA has conferred the
Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold on Sir G.
MuRRAY, Quarter-Master-General of the English
Coat wg.nt of the late Army of Occupation.

Mr. lto. who has retired from the situation of
Chairman of the Board of Customs, was previously
a Commi.sioner for auditing the public accounts of
the kingdom, and Sir ARTHUR PIGGOTT and him-
self nie 11,e only -ur►ivors of that Board, which also
consisted of Lord DORCHESTER. Sir Fitt:HARD
ISIF.Avy, Mr. A Nautstt, and Mr. DRUMMOND.
Lord Si DNIOUTH has, we understand, restored to
General inustravu the portfolio which was illegally
taken front him when he was arrested, but the lock
being broken open the General refused to receive it,
except in the presence of a Magistrate, who certi-
fied to the state iii which the portfolio was presented
by Lord SIDMOUTIeII agent. We hove not heard
windier the two pair of pistulq, the diamond truss
of the Legion of Honour, the silver knife and
spoon, with NAPOLEON'S arms on it, and other
of seiz,d under Lint ntou'rit's construction
of the Alien Bill, were surrendered at the bewe
tinge.

Nu less than 47 lives are Luteil to hare been lost.
by accidents incurred already by the !mailing of
the Southwark Bridge. The lu,t, a few days
since, Vliti a person employed in the iron works.

On the night of Tuesday se'nnight, a formidahle
party of twelve Highland smugglers, with eight
isomer, loaded with about 160 Obits of wilittkey,
was intercepted near itiintore by Mr. GILLESPIE,
the Excise Officer; when, assisted only by two
oleo, he, with his characteristic..courage, notwith-
standing the great disparity of numberN, attacked
the smugglers, some of whom having lied, a long
and desperate battle ensued% which terminated in
favour of GILLESPIE, be aucceeded in securing
six of the horses with their loads, idiom twelve
tinkers.. Mr. GILLESPIE WAS wottualed in the face,
and much bruised, and one of the smugglers was
severely sounded, having received a pilaw shot in
the kg, and another through the shoulder, and the
hall from the latter not being extracted, lie lies
drtiv,erously ill. A huise and a dug were shot in
the heat' of the Cray.'

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