The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-27 00:00:00

TIFF:, 'NATIONAL RE STIEIt

New Orleans Papers have arrived to the 24th July.
—They state that the Indians had recently committed
• mans murders on the White inhabitants of the environs
of Pensacola: and the alarm was such, that many fa-
•milies bad deserted their houses. People were even
•deaving the town, where provisions had attained a very
high price, and no business was doing. According to
the lost advises from St. Louis, the Indians who inhabit
the banks of the River Platt, and those .resident be-
tween Missouri and Arkansaws, were at war with each
other. A party of tho Pawnees,-eonsisting of 400, had
• met a party of Osages in the plains, within 50 or 60
miles of Arkansaws. The advanced guard or the Paw-
nees made •a • running fight, drawing after them the
Osages into an ambuscade, rimmed by the main' body of
the Pawnees. The affair is said' to have terminated in
the entire defeat 'mid destruction of the Osages, only
ore inn escaped out of 48 warriors. "The Pawnees
are also at war with- the Spaniards of. Santa Fe. They
lately defeated and killed sever Spaniards out of a hunt-
ing party they met withia the /limits of the United
Stat.s. Among the baggage ill the Spaniards, they
found, eahcenled, boy, about ten
years of age, whom

they intended to sacrifice to the Great ftital."—Oac
thousand slaves arc stated to have arrived in the haebour
of the Havaunah on the Ist ofJune: the cargo of one
vessel consisted of 735 Negroes, estimated at 30,000
dollars in cash!

Letters from Rio ec Janeiro, tilted the 13th of July,
state, that accounts hail been received there, that the
markets of Chili -were quite open to the British trade.
Some revehrtionary movements arc expected 'at Lima,
as soon as the result of the battle of Maipo .shall he
known there. Artigns is said not to have been success-
ful of late in his military enterprises; but he is a man
of such activity, and such extraordinary' resources, that
he is not unlikely to re-appear shortly in the field,
equally to the tuttioyance of the Buenos Ayreans and
tile Portuguese. The Royal Treasury at the Rio is ie
1 a very exhausted state, and many demands upon it
have beet, rejected from want of funds.
• The following letter from Buenos Ayres, dated June
'M, communicates the latest and most important intel-
ligence from that part of 'South Auzerica: —" For the
last three or thur weeks we have bad but little news of
any kind, and what there was, not very favourable :
yesterday, however, Government received dispatches,
which announce that The Patriots in Chili have gained
a new victory over a considerable body of Royalists,
tJlto had assembled themselves under General St_Jago,
and were advancing in aid of those, who, I informed
you- some time ago, were utterly defeated at Maipo.—
St. Jago's fbrcc execeded 1500 men, but they were ill
armed and equipped, and apparently -did not expect
that they should be so soon fallen in with and jitter-
cepted . The army of the Patriots consis ed ofinterior
nurabers,- but of superior discipline, and better accou-
tred : the contest waaloag, considering the feebleness
of the enemy ; and to do them justice, it seems they
fought bravely : how many were killed and wounded
do not know, for the dispatches have not yet been pub-
lished; but it is said, that our loss is comparatively
trifling, and that General St. Jago was taken, in en-
deavouring to make his escape: and of this we are cer-
tain, that the victory was on our side. As to the pre-
sent state of things here, little is to be said, there have '
bean such changes in the management of public affairs,
caused by the envy and jealousy of some of the Mem-
bers of the Government, but none of them of much
importance. A little time ago there was a slight pub-
lic commotion in this place, in consequence of some
offence taken by the people, at an order regulating the
sale of provisions, 'out it was soon allayed; and the
mercy shewn to some of the ringleaders had a good ef-
fect; only two were executed, and three-flogged. I
just hear that the news above given is somewhat more
fiwourable than I imagined; but nothing has been yet
pubikhed from .autharity. The Government here is
using great exertions to support General San Martin,
mid are embodyinie with activity a considerable force to
aid hint in his further attempts."
By a resent regulation in the naval service during
peace, all sea-going ships, at home and abroad, arc to
be paid offal the eapiration of every third year, thereby
discontinuing the services of Commissioned and Warrant

Officers then in emplo}m►ent, and giving an opening
for others in their respective ranks for the practice of
their naval tactics. Ships are relieved as their date of

service may expire under this regulation ; they are paid
off on their arrival in England, and if, on survey,
found fit for service, are re-commissioned, without the
trouble and expense of dismantling, and returning their
naval stores. There is scarcely a ship of war now at
home that has nut undergone this regulation for, the
benefit of naval officers, anti tho service at large.
A Privy Council was held at Dublin Castle on •Sa-
' torday last, when Mr Charles Grant was sworn into
of as Chief Secretary for Ireland. The Lord Lieu
tenant presided, and after thy! ceremony-was performed,
Mr. Grant took his seat at the Board.
It is with pieast:re we announce that the late Prince
de ...tttle, in remembrance of the hospitable asylum af-
for.led him during. his lotto absence from Fri occ, t)e-
rpteathed to the ;•:r;roY Wansteacl, and
Door

Fr'r.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Thursday a Court of Common Council was held
at Guildhall, for the purpose of electing. a Comtnon
Pleader (Counsel) for the City, vacant by the death or
laze William'AVatscin, -Esq.: and fur the discussiott
of other miscellaneous kusinesst.

Lord Mayor declared a vacancy in the office or
Enord-hearer, by the !decease of the late William Cot.
terell, Esq. ; and after scan: discusticri, an especial eOlll-•
mittee was appointed to inquire into the nature and
duties of that Lace, and to report the same to. the Court.