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The witness then went down the hill, and found the 1
prisoner and Patterson engaged. Patterson
out for help : the Witness seeing several
lrewl look-
ingceleld
out of a window, asked whether they would
/platy sett an Indian massacre a white man. Hewitt
then came out of a house, and said be would help,
but had no weapon to defend himself. The witness
desired Hewitt to follow him and he would provide
him a stick ; he accordingly gave him a chesnut
pole of the length of seven feet, and about two
inches thick at the butt-end. Before they got to the
place where the prisoner had been engaged with
Patterson, the former bad retreated, saying again
"he was a man." The witness advised Hewitt to
follow and take him : he followed the prisoner three
or four steps, and made a blow at him with his
chesnut pole, which did not reach him. The wit-
ness, although he felt faint, proceeded a little fur-
ther, and then heard Hewitt cry murder. The
witness, when he came up to Hewitt, found him on
his hands and knees. In the course of two minutes
the prisoner was taken, and the witness took a knife
which was bloody from under his arm. The pri-
soner did not appear to be in liquor. The knife was
bent, and the clothes of the deceased were cut
through on the back. What was done in following
the prisoner was to prevent danger. The objea. of
the witness in desiring Hewitt to go after the pri-
soner was to assist Patterson. He told Hewitt that
he was dangerously wounded. Patterson was hal-
lowing for help when Hewitt came en. There are
eight or ten families at Buffalo Creek. There are
ten Indians to one white man. Hewitt had passed
Patterson about a rod before he had received his
mortal wound. The prisoner was retreating.
John Painter, one of the witnesses,. deposed, as
Hewitt came by the witness, he told him 46 to hit
the prisoner." Hewitt passed un ai.d struck at the
prisoner, but missed him. The prisoner then stabbed
him three times; once in his breast and twice in his
back. Hewitt said he was a dAd man, he walked
about a rod, and fell down dead.
Vincent Grant swore, that the prisonerand his bro-
ther came to Chapin's store, about 11 o'clock, A.M.
of the 25th of July, 1802, and again at four in the
afternoon of the same day, and paid something he
owed there. The witness gave him some liquor,
but he only tasted it, r.nd then gave it to some other
person While these two white men, who were
carpenters, passed the door; upon which the pri-
soner said, " God damn amnisliones, (which means
mill-wrights,) me kill them direaftly ;" but he did not
speak very passionately, or say he had any quarrel
with them, nor did he leave his place. The pri-
soner was not then drunk, nor did he ever see him
in liquor. The prisoner understands English enough
to comprehend the meaning of " hit him—knock
him down." He knows the prisoner to be a peace-
able quiet man.
The Attorney-General here rested the prosecu-
don. No witnesses were examined on the part of
the prisoner.
Red Jacket, a Sachem of the Seneca nation, by
permission of the Court, addressed the Jury in be-
half of the prisoner ; what he said was interpreted
by Mr. Jones.
Mr. Howell, the prisoner's Counsel, then made
his defence with great zeal and ability, and was re-
plied to by the Attorney-General, with his usual
force and intelligence.
The Court having charged the Jury, they retired
from the bar, and in two hours brought in a verdict
of— Guilty.
Sentence of death was thereupon passed on the
prisoner, which was interpreted to him in his own
lanyuage.
The 15th of April was appointed for his execution.
. March 4, 1803. BROCKHOI.ST LIVINGSTON.

The act to pardon Stiff-arni'd George, a Seneca
Indian for the murder of John Hewitt, has passed
the House of Assembly, with a proviso, that he be
banished from the State. It is now before the Se-
nate.

The Farmer, Brotkr, Young King, and another
warrior of the Seneca nation, were present in thi
sembly during the debate.

B.ERNADOTTE,
TOE FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO AMERICA.

During the American war Bernadotte was a sol-
dier, and the revolution found him a Serjeant in
the Regiment called La Vieille Marine, quartered at
Marseilles, where Mirabeau and the Orleans fac-
tion corrupted his loyalty, and made him one of their
tools to disorganise the King's army ; both in the
barracks and in the clubs, he soon because a patriotic
orator and a famous jacoliin ; to reward his many er:4l
ructions he was by Robespierre promoted, and by the
Dire Cory confirmed in the rank of a General of Divi-
sion ; and during the campaigns of 1795, 96, and 97,
he commanded a division under General Jeurdan.
After the peace of Campo Formio, he was nomi-
nated French Ambassador to the Court of Vienna ;
but the Austrian Government being yet unaccus-
tomed to the language and manners of Grenadier
Ambassadors, did not much relish the condusa and
behaviour of this Dire&orial Emissary, who abused
the Emperor's Ministers, insulted the Emperor him-
self, and the loyalty of leis subjeds, by exhibiting in
a threatening manner, in the spring of 1798, the
French national colours in the windows and over
the gates of his hotel ; this conduct was resented by
the people of Vienna, and accusing, as the French
always do, insults provoked as insult meditated, he
insisted on the dismission of the Austrian Minister,
Baron Thugut, whom neither French money could
corrupt, nor French intrigues blind as to the real in-
ttrs!sts of his country. leis demand not being com-
plied with, he left Vienna, as Lames left Portugal,
but the continent was not yet enslaved and degraded
enough to sillier revolutionary abuses to be added to
diplomatical offences, and therefore Bernadotte did
not return a-la Lasnes.
• In 1799, he was made a Minister of the \Var
.Department, which place he was soon obliged to
resign for want of capacity ; in December the same
• year, Bonaparte appointed him Commander in Chief
of the Army in the Western Departments; and the
rebel to Louis XVI. and the faithful subjed to Ro-
bespierre, Barras, Merlin, and Rewbel, became at
once the most submissive slave to Bonaparte.
This is the person lately nominated Ambassador to,
the United States of America.—As formerly in both
Military and Civil employments, he always has ailed
more upon the offensive than on the defensive, it is
hoped the Americans will prepare themselves in
time, to parry his manoeuvres against their interest
or their independence; and that this pacific and'
&Intake Ambassador from the Great Nation, will
one day meet with the same political defeat at Phi-
ladelphia as he met with at Vienna.