The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-30 00:00:00

CASE OF MR. ARBUTHNOTT.

This letter will bring the British public acquainted
n•lth the whole ease, us it relates to the constant ag-
Fessions of the Americans, the defenceless state of the
Indians, tool the obligations of Great Britain by treaty
to protect them against lawless

.• N. P. Aug. 26. 1817..

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81111••••1 ain ester. i lily antloiti.ed to adders% you by
the Chiefs of the CI I•CE. Natiolll,• whose mimes I tsilia to the
prescift.
.•• They desire it to he made known, that they have impli-
csely followed pear advice lieng ti s ddis..y it nth the Anteri—
s who were their sieighnours, and no wise attempted to
molest thesis ; thoogh they have seat the Americans encroach
oil their tee ritory, burningtheir towns, and making tells where
toeir loonies stood ; rather thins make test/1'2116e they have
retard lower in the Peninsula. 'Clic town of EcatiVilalloway
sin the Glootahouclui, where Otis Meru was Chid; is the in:
ritattee of she tioctoacheneuts 'of ti.e•Amerieaus. This town
is situated tinder tile giussof Fort Gaines, and Miro was de-
cked to submit to the Asneriratis, us his town would be blown
141 rather than the se he retired, is now living in the
'dikter nation, aiiii his fields where the town stood, are ploughed
up by the Atwericaits. They complain of the Englislitklovcret
silent neglecting them, after having draws/ them into vier with
America ; that the promise made them of sending /ample to
reside unsung them has not been kept; and if theyarave not
slime person or persons resident blithe nation to Watch over
their interests, they will soots bsiddriven to the ontirentity of
the Penitanla. You left Mr.Hiembly to watt:borer' the hr li
tyres!, oft lee Creek nation, but you had hardly heft tbe nation,
'alien by turned traitor, and was led by Poetics to take the
part of the Anieriemas t his letter • to use, to whirl, I omit:
von a copy, wilt show you what lengths he would go if he
• ;,ad the means, It is lldnibly and Dayle who gist the Indians
ail the trouble they eaperience; they send their emissaries
among the lower Ciecks, and make them believe the Cotibit-
tax, aided by the Americans, are causing down on theta ;
' they send to the Contraltos, and report the lower nation is
;trilling against thesis ; thus both are pit• is fear, and their
fields are iii•gluried, and hunting is not thought of. I have
entleavtint ed to Ito away with this fear, by writing to din
Chiefs id' Coithitta Town, that they ought to live on friendly
terms with their brethren of the lower nation, whose wish it
sae to be on good terms with them, sad nut tolisten to any
had talks, lint to chase those that give them from among
them. My letter was ansi.vcred by thens rasher favourably ;
and I hope the talk that was sent to the brig Warrior, Lot
• issue, will heal the differences between them.

Hidlis Arlje urrivedin my schooner at clkolokne Sound
lastJtme, and ss as well r-tceived by all the Chiefs sad others aho
clime to welcome him home ; in consequence of his arrival a
talk vta. held, the substance of which liiut on paper fer them,
and it was scat with a •pipe of peace to the other fllloll/1.
lidlis Arkto wished to return to Nassau with me, but I pre-
vailed on shim• to stay with the nation and keep them all at
peace.
'• I .tin desired to return IfiAlis Adjo's warmest aeknow.
lcdgmesit for- the very handsome manner in which you treated
him in England, and he begs his prayer. may be laid at the
foot of hi. Royal Highness the Prince Regent. I left him
and all Ida family well un the 20th of June.

" OIQ Cap?achimico desired me to send yen -his best res.
'peels, Imo lemmata you vs ill•-smid oat some people to livg
among them, and all the land they took (tom Forbes shall be
their's; at all events, they must have an agent among them
to see that theiAmerleans adhere to the treaty, and •permit
them to live uninniested on their own land thisagent should
be authorised by his Majesty's Government, or be will notbe
attended to by the Americans. •
" Ise the. Gazettes of Georgia, • the Americans report the
Seminole Indians are continually committing murders on their
borders,- and slinking incursions into the State ; these are ta •
brications tending to in hate• the American Government
against the poor Indier.s ; for during the time I
was in the nation, there was only one American killed, and
be, with two• others, WaS4II the act of driving off cattle be •
longing to Boleck, chief of Sawaliee ; whereas three men
and a hey were killed last June, by a party of cat:le steslets,
while in their hunting camps ; the boy they scalped ; and one
of Beleek's bead men was killed on St. John's River, in July.
The Rockwood Georgians, and those resident on the borders
of the 'eaten nation, are contintiellyenteriag it avid-Arising
off cattle ;-they have in somelestinres made settlements, and
particularly otettre.Clitictokatehe River, where a considerable
number have descended.
"'By the Treaty-with GreatTritein yheiAtiteefeans were to
giveeip to the Indians. all thelands theimight havebeen taken
during 'the wary-and placed them on the moo reciting they
were It appears that they have not 'Almelo 7 that
'Tort Games, en the-OWtalioucht River,ond Llniep Crawford,
on the Flint River; are both oft Radian territory, that waemot
in p ion of the Americana irell3ll.
" They are fealful Wilt before soya% Is by the
English 'Gov etc anent ;they will no longer be in possession of
any territory. wrote last Janoaty to his Excellency the
Hoe. Charles Beget, representing tits encroachierols of the
A merleans (as I was informed by the (-ivy of a' tette' from
die Right hier4 Earl Bathurst, handed me by Nil Excellency.
- Gooerntireameren,) that -his Alajesty's. Ambassador had re-
ceived- ustlerir•to watelr over the -interest' ollitheindiaite•
SI lie/Imq return here, I'have-reeeleet trona al r. bloodie,of
Charleston, an extrictofe helmet, froarthe Rea: Charles Sago,
that thrseamenae of •is so ceoliderablee any further
conillantitilioni of trottlie odder, 4new be mint him by pri•
• gate bends raw, Sir as no penioss goes from this direct to ,
Viaishimilum;4ltow sin Its be able toromply with his desire?
s thus be will be kept ignoring,. of the real situation of the
poor Indiana, aid • the etterpachmeat matte on their land by
the Ameecsn sertlers, while he may be told•by the Anierieta
.Governinent that ao encroachoseats have been made, mid thief
the forts they slat luiliPare necessary to check the-anrisiy'Se;
rilooles ; thus the persom•eppointed to vratelesieetivtie
I#iians, basing no otheweireanssilt-in formation their front the
pieties inivaryttd in theiOdestewition;•ebd free, iteent•lfroth•
• times to time in the America-Chastities; actOnabt tit ten di
• inuellers,•ace. coninitted by the leirtiOns, on the-frontier set
time of the United States, he .491preitegodx the Imbeds tiled%
all the Americans do to them. 'glint ers-cMs Mniestylr 60.
tetra cent appoint um-event. with NH pirivenn and. to 4-0111,11.
poen> swith his Majesty's Ambassador -et Wiabingtha,-and 'his
ere will then I.e opened ms to the motives -that iailitente
Amierii an inclividostscaswelfas the Government, in vilifying
thiltentlians.
...tow 1,. wt.; s given rive.eitiiit' heinet ructions, were to me
titaiestve Oneersiment, as well as the Governor-
i impact+ ; and I fear that a mitreosial lathe Govessor-

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Grueral terruhl be ofoo ii.e. Hefei ring you to the encloserl,t
I it monust respectfully, Sir, your obetlieni servant,
" P. AlIBUTHIllerr."

" To Lieut. Cotooel Ni^holl."

• Extract of a Letter signed W. Ilambly, received at Okelohne
Sir—l am desired by the Chiefs of the nation to request you will
extticate yolrself from a baud of outlaws, among whom you new
:ire. for the em of justice is lifted up against them, and it will ere
long fall heavy on them, you, and your property. They say they
would have or• objection to your tettlingany way to the west of Appal:,
chieola river, hut where7ou now arc, you are among sect of outlaws;
they have lately comniittell twenty most cruel murders on women
and children on the frontiers of the tluat:4 States, and stolen 100
horses, and they say it is ry your desire.
Spanishtlllutf, May to, ;817. (Signed) W. 11A.MBLY.
t Signatures of the Chiefs of the Creek nation, to a power given
to A. ArbUtIUMU, dated the 17th of June, 1817.
CVpaellimico, lOehacone sTustimaky, , tlomathle M icho.
Inhimathlo. s I mathluehe, gTalmuches Hatch°.
!•OhtirleTustonaky, islattrimathluehi, lit idlis Adjo,
:Stod Mico, Ilimathlo
Interpreter, PETER
Arprovod of by F. C. LULING°,
Commandant c•f St. Mark's.