The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-11 00:00:00

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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1819.

questionable fact. Asa trader with the Indians, it
was impossible to do otherwise ; since on the supply of
powder and shot depended the return cargo of furs for
Europe. But these arc not the points Gil which the
question turns. M. Arbuthnot dul stimulate the
Indians to resist the arms of the United States. He
did convey the means of warfare to the Chiefi. He
engaged in the service of the Creek nations, and sup-
ported them to the uttnost iu whM Its felt to be their
ju►tifiable hostilities against the republican arms.
This was the whole case that was proved against our
countryman—this is the whole finding of the Court ;
for, as to the impudent and monstrous charge, that he
was " a spy," the sentence is a complete acquittal.
11 e say, therefore, that on no prinrple of public law
could Mr. Arbuthnot be condemned by this American
Court martial.

It will be seen from the course which we hare taken,
that, so ftr as we can farm an opinion, Mr. Arbuthnot
was illegally tried—unjustly sentenced—and barbs•
rously executed. The question regarding Mr. Am-
brister is in some respects to be decided by the same
reasonings as those which apply to the situation of his
associate, on which we have spoken at so great length,
that we must compress what rena within a narrow
compass. The charge 2 against this prisoner were
Ist. Aiding the thew.

Td. Lading and coma-nutting than.

Ambrister had been an officer in the British service,
and the Court in the first instance condemned him to
death ; but this sentence they reconsidered, when their
final and official judgment was, that ho should be
whipped, and confined with a chain for 12 months.
Gen. Jackson disapproves this latter sentence; and of
his own sovereign will and barefaced power, reviving
the decision which the court had cancelled, and which
therefore was already null anal void, he actually ordered
the miserable man to be shot. Upon this point, at
least, there can be no second feeling. We much doubt
whether ►he indignation produced by it in America
will not be more intense anti profoulid than here. It
is indeed an inhumiat and atrocious murder—it is, •
however, the murder of only a single Eaglishmao ;
while it is (if there be any law in the United States)
a most tyrannical and daring overthrow of the entire
body of Republican laws and constitutions throughout
the United States. It was not that n General Officer
made a Court.martial his agent of injustice--he made
it, in common with nature and humanity, at once his
victim and his sport. We shall discover by the next
arrivals from America, the impression produced in
Congress by this disgraceful and revolting deed, which
must, it is manifest, at no distant period, receive from
the British Parliament a strict and thoroagh inves-
tigatioa.

A Mail from Holland has arrived with intelli7enee
to the 7th inst. The Emperor Alexander left Vienna
on the C 3,1 ult. on his return ta St. l'etersburg.—From
the Ist of Jar,Lialy to the :3!st of December, 1818,
80 Maya entered the port of Antwerp ; among them
v 4 e 332 of the Netherlands, 297 English, 31 Atneri-
cans, 2, SwediNh, 27 DanisL, '4 French, 22 Hann-
&c. A Russian fligate, liora Archangel, has
arrived in the Texel.—All the latest accounts from the
North of Europe coincide in reprewnting the state of
the weather as uncommonly mild and henefif.ent. The
vessels collected at Elsineta in c•mscquence, is described
as numerous beyond all precedent.
Wedneglay Mr. Sergeant &Bon took leave of the
M;o4istraies :It Union and will take, his seat at
tattoo Carden. Baugh Alleyne, Eli. the Master of
Dulwich Colleze, is sp.minted in the Learned Ser-
geant s place at Union Hall.

I t is underitood, fron► pretty good authority, that
accordin;.; to the culeti:aiion ei. ,Nliohours, the fillowitte;
is the exact state of tie cnsuine l'ariiament :
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