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, FROM _
Tin WAR DRPARTMENT.

River Black Warrior, Teskeloon County,
Alahrtna Territory, Sept. 22, 18 lb.
HasomtroSto—l hasten to lay before your Department
saute statements rel..tive to the, late battle fought with a
band of Indians, eirosisting of eevenly warriors, and their
lepton! and children. From the best information that I
have received, they ire a remnant of the hostile Creeks,
wbu, oWfinding they rustri no longer tw protected its Flo.
rids, lately iPplied to the Chickasaw tribe fur laud to settle
; but, twine denied, they formed a resolution to fight
their way through onr settlements, over file Mississippi,
,where, they were told by the Chickasaws, they could get
In order to execute their design, they crossed the rivers
Alabama and Cabala, sod out their way to the Warrior, they
killed two white men and three Choctaws. On reaching
This river, at ti place called Corners bettlemeut, they eum-
mitted several Outrage, nu our Cilitems, and murdered some
of the family of a Si,. Hall. they then steered their course
fur this place.
Haitog received intelligence of their approach, on the
kik instant, sixteen of our most enterprising own armed
theinaelves, soil chose Major S Taylor and myself to com-
plied them. We were joined by Captain Bacon and fourteen
turn.: Bing thus united, we went in pursuit, and, having
met with their hail, we followed it through swamps and
cane brakes, heretofore thought be he impenetrable, until
we found where they had crossed the Warrior, eight miles
below the Falls. After crossing mod marching four *dee,
through the must horrid swamps and cane brakes, and be.
trig separated from Captain Bacnu's command, we discover.
rut the envoy encamped in • beaver dans, well fortified
by nature, there being • thick cane brake on the right,
sail • high bluff on the left. They no sooner saw us
than they raised the war-whoop, and prepared for action.
We then gave orders to charge on them, which was done
with the spirit of true Americans, and eight or ten of their
warrior, were kid dead on the ground. We then retreated
aid loaded onr guns; and having formed again on the en-
trance of the eticanspnwiii, we were reinforced by Captain
Hann and part of his men. A smart skirmish was kept op
for thirty miuntes, during which time we killed six or eight
more of the enemy; but finding they were cud ing to
outflank us, a retreat was ordered, which was effected with.
out any molestation. We lust two br we men, killed in the
ivories', and hail one badly wounded ; the loss of the enemy
was not less than lb kiaed, and several wounded. On the
.17th eighteen of tie went to the battle ground to bury our
dead ; but on finning that the enemy had nut left their strong
hold, we withdrew. Dim the 19th, with • more formida-
ble force, we again procreded in quest of our enemy, and
after patroling the swamps and cane brokers it was dis-
covered they had ded towards the Sipsy River. We then
buried our dead, and returned to our respective abodes.
Ow the same day Colonel T. Hombre, with 110 mounted
osen,set off iu pursuit of them, and coming up with their
rear, killed one of their wartion. They have takes their
flight towards the horde's of the Choctaws, who are apprised
of their approach, sad will, I trust, soon give a good ac-
count of them.
My remota fur making this coninumiestiop to your De-
partment, is in cutimequence of our having Wed without
any kind of orders, lint solely front self-preservation Should
it meet the approbst ion of Goes rumen', I shall feel happy
in having rendered my country the smallest service; if not,
I hope it wilt be attributed to my want of skill, and not to
the lack of good will to be of service to my fellow-citixena
in tessera'.
I have the honour to he,
Your must obedient Servant,
JOHN M'NEILL,
Formerly a Lieutenant of the 43J
Regiment United States Infantry.
The Secretary of War.
U' he ghee letter states facts that may be relied on, of as
of convict, it Web, the reader will recollect, we have already
noticed and regretted.—Editors Nal. label.]

New vomit, °crone" 31.
A letter reetited in town yesterday from Washington,
!Oates that General Swift had resigned his commission in the
army, and has rcc.•ived the appointment of /termer of the
Werner for the I'm t of New Vutk.

'Pie brig Mary Aim, Moore, 52 slays from Rio Janeiro,
with hides, Maros, der. arrived at Ruston un Monday evening.
Left the same vessels as reported by the schooner Gazette,
at this port. The tunoage deity on American vessels, after
fir hi Noveinker, is ID be nue dollar per ton. Fluor had
fallen to twelve donate per bbl. and likely to be lower, in
consequence of Ile aerialsl of several thousand bbls. from
Hollaud, England, the Coifed Statee, the Northern ports of
Br. t.lo. es also from two to 3,000 tow of wheal, already
arrived (runt Valparaiso, and as much more expected in the
course of two or their weeks from thence, as well as several
Cal goes from Trieste, France, Liverpool, Rio Grande, &c.
Captain Mitchell, of the schooner Eagle, in 15 days from
Cape Fleury, Hayti, whii,oreived at Newburypurt ou the
stah inst. reports, that in consequence of the citadel being
blown up., And the nu•n from the Cape and from all the plan-
tations, both rich and pour, being 'mitered to rebuild the
same, the produce of the island is at present extremely
scarce and high, and will probably continue so for some time.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PA IC IS PA PER::.

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PARIS, lovmsra 25.

M. the Coma de Mtt, Ainloatio.a.koi f Pruimin, and
the P!•assisti l.lruttn.url liester3l Carol de Ziethets, obtain-
id a private ast,lteare uf the Kin; yesterday.

M. Puzzu di lime°, :Unlash r Plenipotentiary of AU the
Russias at the Court of Franre, arrived here last morning.
His Excellency last evening, at wile o'clock, obtained a
private audience of his Majesty.
On Sunday list Assir leaden boxes were enclosed within
the trittesiriati statue of Henry IV. meted on the Pout-
Neuf, coma:wing Voltaire's Ilenriadr, and various other
works relating to Henry IV. magnificently bound, and the
pructs reriod of the restoration of the monument. Fur ibis
purpose an opening was made in the horse's flank, which
was again closed in rnsence of the Minister of the Interior,
of the Prefect of the Police, and of M. Lemol.
From Cologne it lA said—" Two important affairs have
been definitively settled at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle.
One relating to the differences between Sweden and Den-
mark, the other to the diAtgreement between Prussia and tile
Iliteierlands respectieg the Customs. Sweden shall be held
drugs sl with all the (kids centracted by Denmark uu the
part of Norway, and this inkiest in arrear shall be added
to the principst. All the of .iris, purely German, are defi-
nitively settind to the Commission at Frankfurt."

AU newly-married me, 111 the Tsrol und Vora!berg !nee
beet. subjected to a kitill of tan of Imo (lorius elvls, to be
paid at the time of their eignotrails, fur the purpoeic of form-
in: a fm.t: d.,tiottll fur the peutotithm of eArciunt tots in then
eouitte,s4..

PARIS, NOVEMBER 26.
Majesty preitided )e,tereloy et o
Coutivi!, which hvotd !wad live o'clock.

The !sirtitben: of tier Bureau of Longitude, intro-
duced to the M. Libor, the Alinisster of
the Interior, 1.,111 She lionotir of presenting to Lis
Mujeety the mutton y sot and Ilse table of titne
Far ►631.

'i•lce Acatlktry of S,•if nre., in i Col of Tuef-

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, leis.

A Flanders Mail arrived lest night with Papers
to the 28th inst. containing the following account
of the n►ovemeuts of the distinguished persons re-
cently assembled at Aix-lit-Chapelle :

SEUPSELS, NOYIMSER 21.

Prince Metternich and the Duke of Wellington have ar-
rived here; also Count Csraman, First Secretary to the
French Legat. at London ; and the Duke and Duchess
of Vicenza—all from Aix.la.Chapelle.
The number of persons who have received rich presents
from the Empress Dowager of Russia is su great, that it
would be very difficult to give a complete list of them. We
shall therefore only say, that independently of these pre-
sents she has given the sum of 35,0110 francs to be distri-
buted among the donations of the Prince Royal. The pour
of Brussels have also reot•ised marks of munificence of this
Pi inceu, who has left recollections that will never be ef-
faced. Her Majesty's parting from her august daughter, at
Liege, was extremely affecting.

NOVEMBER 26.

This morning, at 10 o'clock, the Duke of Wellington called
fur Prince Metternich, and they vet out together, with a suit
of three carriages, to go ■od visit the celebrated Geld of
iVaterloo, the immortal theatre of the valour of ilia Allied
Armies, owl of the genius of the great Captain who com-
manded them. The Duke de Richelieu and Count Reser!.
rude have arrived here frum

VRANKTOI+, NOVEMBek 20.

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria passed through this
city tu•daq, on his return from Aix-la-Chapelle, and was re-
ceived with all the honours due to his rank.

NovrStsrle 22.

We expect the Emperor Aleicander here so morlow. Flis
Majesty, it is said, will go to dme at 11 ~,,, lung on the 24th,
will set out on the 25th for Darmstadt and Car!smile, will
arrive at Stutgat.l uti she 29th, stay there three days, then
go to Weimar, where he will remain she 301 s, Ruh, and 71h
December, and oo the Ruh set out fur Vienna. The king of
Prussia will. dine on the 24th at Homburg.
notucvnnit 23.
His Majesty the Loiperne Alexander arrived here yester-
day afternoon, at six o'clock, and continued his juuruey
im-
mediately. 'I he Empress Dowager, and the Drawl Dukes
Mu hart and Coti,viiit ills% arrived of lialr-I.lllli eh ern k
this morning. The illustrious travellers visited the embe-
ds al bud otlns. uvmatLatde olit cto, and proceeded ou their

inurney at eleven o'clock. Their Royal Highnrase7; t h
Prince Royal cud Prince ICilliatn of Prussia Ul.l iv cd thie.e
afternoon.

We have received Paris Papers of Weduesday
and Thursday last. The French Funds continua
to fall, notwithstanding the eXrill..ll: made by the
Loan Contractors ant Capttaii,te to snuiotaitt the
public credit, and although the time for pai;ug the
French contributions to the Allied ['osiers liven
extended. That part -of the Protoeol of tl:c la.e
Congress, in which is recorded the acquiescence of
the Sovereigns in the request made by the Frei.ch
Government upon this point, has been published,
hut .its contents and character are already known
to nor readers. It recites the inconvenience
that began to he felt in the circulation of
France, in consequence of the too rapid absorption
of specie, and the necessary reduction in its dm-
counts by the Bank of France; but it adds, (lint
the acquiescence of the Allied Powers in the re-
quest of the French Government to extend the pe-
riod of payment was not fur the convenience of the
Contractors and of France only, but for the gene-
ral accommodation of all Europe. For the purpose,
therefore, of securing the currencies of other coun-
tries from being affected by an extensive exporta-
tion of specie, the Allied Powers allow the Bunkers,
contractors fur the loan, to make good their engage-
ments, not by paying the contributions in Paris
only, but by drawing bills upon London, Vienna,
and other cities.

The five per cents. closed on Tuesday at
69 fr. 10 c.—Bank Stock 1,550 fr. Ott %%redoes-
day the five per cent.. closed at 69 fr. and Bank
Stock at 1,545 fr.

We have received New York Papers to the Ist
instant. An official account of an attack upon a
party of Creek Indians is calculated to excite the
most painful emotions. These poor wretches, no
longer protected in Florida. were seeking, with
their wives and children, some place of settlement
in their native land, when they were discovered
and hunted like heasts of prey by a party of
the people of the United States. We may thence
learn to estimate the savage ferocity into which
mutual injuries and aggressions have exasperated
these hostile parties.

Advices from Valparaiso state, the Envoy from
the Viceroy of Peru to Chili sailed from that port
on the 14th June, in the (hetario, American frigate.
on his return to Urns, having failed in his mission
tontrgociate an exchange of prisoners.

On Wednesday the Racoon, 26, Captain JAMES
Wows, arrived st Portsmouth, from the St. He-
lena and Cape station, to be paid off. She left
St. Helena on the 15th of October, sixteen days
after the Musquito, and brought duplicates of the
dispatches sent home by Sir HUDSON LOWE in that
vessel. These dispatches, whatever might have
been their express sod specific import, do not
sustain any of the importance attached to them by
the present arrival. Nothing bud publicly trans-
pired at the island worthy the slightest notice.—
BONAPARTE was in tolerable health ; and all the
same precautionary rules regarding him, before
established, had contioned to he observed with the
same degree of watchful activity. The station is
stated by our naval officers as the most unpleasant
that can be conceived, combining more mini and
deprivation of fresh supplies than the moat vigilant
blockade of a dispirited enemy's port in the 'indict
of war. The Mewls is to he paid oft at Ports-
mouth. Slit is come into harbour.

A Supplemental Gazette was published on Satur-
day morning, containing the substance of dis-
patches from India, a copy of which is given in our
preceding columns.

Saturday morning the Primrose, 18, Captain
PILILLOTT, and the lyrion. Captious FELIX, ar-
rived ut Portsniouili, front the Jamaica station, to
be paid ctf. The Primrose is 144 from the Bay of
lloirdniats; the lyrics,r from the friavatinah. The
latter left Port Itopil ou the igth October. They
bring neither news nor specie. The Larne, Capt.
LOWE, was to rail on the 30th October, for Eng.
hind.

The Pique frigate, Captain MACKEILLA It, which
arrived on Wednesday at Portsmouth Ii um the
Jamaica station, last from the I lavammli, ui live
weeks, has brought 400,000 dollars rm. merchants.
Haile% litudt_4l the specie, she Mlllitti oil Saturday
niorniog fur Deptford, to he paid off. She left
Port Royal with the £tk—the llavailisish 15th
October,

The Reisavio, Captain PEARE. arrived at Ports-
mouth, from Plymouth, on Wednesday, whither she
went with Uovernment money for th.it dock-yard.
She is to be paid off, and removed to the Sliterness
station. Captain I'EAXE (who is sou of Sir HENRY
Pk:AKE, Surveyor of the Navy), has held the active
cos iiiii and of the I..osurio rift years.
The Shisistruck. surveying vewel, Capt. MARTIN
WItITV, arrived at POI bait/all Oil Thursday, to
refit.

Friday the Hyperion, Capt. T. SFittr.r.
from Porbmtototh for Leith. The Veal,eur and
Driver. %sill shortly proceed to that Lit uui. The
Grecian, Lieutenant N. MAIITI4, un 11ted-
tic•tlay, u cruit.e.
The Dee, Capt. CH %Mf:GItS, sided f,oin Porto.
mouth, oil Thi,rbitly, for Deptford, it.ol the If ye,
lIARPLit. for Chutittots, to he !mot off. The
Pthram, Captain Cu papt,i; 9tl. at PVlrt!,.