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London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

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The Members or Couross • &ivy' the ftationol
Intelligencer of tit, 1001 instrtm hegin to assemble
at the seat of Government. Mr. Gaillard. the Pre.
vident pro tempor'e of the Se►ete, irrived here a day
or two ago. and Frumertin, of the
It;eliaLe, hove also arrived.

Croiyeemis asseathle mt Washistaiton on ,Monday
next. Sera! or the Metut,ers frwn the north-
ward and easmard have already passed through
this c.ty.

1%! ti.i.FraEviLLE, orTocitit 22.

We have Intelligence frum the i:turida posts on
the east of the Appilachictila, in the occupancy of
tur troops, to the Stli Institut., The hoktile Indians,
,sitieutilitqc,
it was supposed, tostiont i,OOO w:trriors,,
who hart slot come in, were in a stare of starvation ;
man, hod died of limiter. A woman arrived at
st. blunts the be of this month, withintimationa
from some of the principal is:it-lying Chiefs, of a
wish to surrender, provided tlirir lives were spared,
and the property they bad left, ifs,
which the Frirodly Inc:kali, are i;aclined to rifle them,
should he secured, These ili:lpu.itions have beets
humanely encouraged by the Cummitudisig Officer
of the (rest; and link &obi is ondettained 'antihero
will soon be a dual terminatims of the Seminolias
war, which has *gilded on par borders, and
many acts of cruelty, far nearly two year* post.
General (lodises hats transferred his ttearl.qoarseni
front Fort Hawkins to St. Mitryii..— floor nal.)

ror.w ORI.eIN!., .‘.C.IIVIIER 13.
PENSACOLA.
We have conversed with a gentleman who came
poseetigcr in the schooner Young Spartan, Irons
Pensacola. IVhesi he left there, the town had been
descried by most of the Spanish residents, anti
einivrants had ceased in come in.
_Every kind
of Cosiorbs and speculation was consequently at
stand. The citizens, including Spaidardp, seem
anxious that the United Slates should retain pos.
session, and it was the prevailing opinion antoupgat
them that the American flag would never be dis.
placed from the Barinicas. It was Irani, 'However,
that Coo!tinsel King had received order• to &liver
tip the posts, unconditionally, whenever they ought
be iirotoerly demanded.
The Indians iii the neighbourhood of reimuseolot
appear to have been completely put down. Capt.
Bytes, with his company of riiiigeia, is constantly
employed in scouring the country
•for thirty miles
roitud, abd occasiotnilly brinks in *Mall numbers of
prisoner's.

Report of deaths fur the week ending the gtb
instont

Diseases—hilious fever, 13; intermittent dcf. 3; ny en
(cry, 4; diarrhoea, 2; cholera wito444, Jr; in.t
temperance, 2; accident, 1; hut reported, 4 • Of •►ans
were, white, 23; coloured, 9 ; stints, 2:); eliiidreti, 3.
terments in the Catholic borii.g.gruilud, 24; Pruirstaue
du. B.—Tutal 32.

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ROGEnSVI TAR, OCTOBER

MOST noKßoo ATituclTY. . 6
On Wednesday a devil of the mist shocking enormity wit.
perpetrated at the house of Mr. Robert Oamfnll, in di vigil
only of this place. The particulars, tau) far as we have bees
able to learn, are as follows:
Mr Cambill had left home early in the day, after which,
it appears, tleat•bia negro hay. about 14 yews of age, took
lits master's rise gnu from the rick itt the
which lie found etnidi; he loads-i it, and then prtieceded to
the loam house %time his mistress was watving, and that
charged u, tastittinis at her through a etrstre between the logs
of the house. The ball appears to Lace ellilfrd behind her
right ear, and came out in tier left (heck Deer her ear. Tim
monster that enticed the balance pf the family, consisting of
516.. Gambill% thr-te children, the youngest about to'elvc
Melllllll old, and a sniall negro girl about ten years old, to
gut with him to the baits, when he re-commenced the horrid
wink of destruction which i.e had begun with his mistress
he tont an axe and dispatched.. as lie thongid, the io 0.0 girl
and all the children, except the youngest, which he left un-
hurt. He then hid the axe, and progeedesl to the humus of
the nearest neighbours, and informed them that mune per
snit bad Collie to his mattes's house and shut his mistress and
killed the children. When she neitisbuitra assembled a 11106 t.
sFnckinF Speclacle was presented to their view. Mug Gam-
bill had fallen from her seat at the loom, and lay weltering
iri her blood, apparently just estisiring, and the ehildres
lying in the barn yard, apparently dead. The culprit was
fskesi into custody and confessed to the facts above related.
He also states, that he was persuaded to commit the crime
by a white matt and a negro belonging to Mr. Cuektam, a
near neighbour of Mr Gambill's; the white man and negro.
are also iii custody. All the family le yet Itelllg, but iittic
166,6 p es are entertained of the recovery of any but the oldest
chid.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.