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No. 570.---Vot. XII. SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 181 D. Pam

POLITICAL DISQUISITION.

questionable fact. As a trader with the Indians, it
VIM impossible to do otherwise ; since on the supply of
powder and shot depended the return cargo of fors for
Europe. But these arc not the paints cn which the
question turns. Mr. Arbuthnot del stimulate the
Indians to resist the arms of the United States. He
did convey the means of warfare to the Chiefs. He
engaged in the service of the Creek cations, and sup-
ported them to the utmost in what lie felt to Le their
justiglable 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.
ne say, therefore, that on no princfle of public law
amid Mr. Arbuthnot be condemnett by this American
Court martial.

THE LATE QUEEN'S WILL.

MESSRS. ARBUTIINO F AN!) AMBRITMR.

THE proceedings of the North American Court
Martial, which sat upon the trial of Messrs Arbuthnot
and A mbristcr, have arrived this week. The circum-
stances are fresh in the minds of our readers. The
charges—the evidence (if such it can be called)—the
defence of the prisoners—the sentence of the Court,
and the execution of our countrymen; one of whom was
hanged in pursuance of the sentence pronounced upon
him ; while the other was shot by the order of-General
Jackson, and in open defiance of, and contempt fisr,
the sentence of the Court which tried him these
are matters too striking and affecting to be soon forgot.
It is of high importance to the honour of Great Britain,
and of the United States, as well as to the durjun of
that friendship which happily subsists between them,
that the whole of this subject should be carefully re-
considered ; and that the national judgment on both
shores of the Atlantic should be temperately formed
and gravely recorded. If an injury shall then appear
to have been sustained by England, in the persons of
any number of her tuna:tiding subj, ets, we doubt not
that ample and amicable redress will follow without
delay. Thus may no uneasy feeling, the certain source
of jealousy and distrust, be left to rankle in the heart
of either country ; no consciousness on one side of
hiving beer. affronted with impunity ; nor fear, on the
other, of Ling vi,ited by future retaliation.
The circumstances under which Messrs. A. Arbuth-
not and Robert C. Atubrister CAI into the hands of
General Jackson, commanding the American army
against the Seminole Indians, are too well known to
require that they should be immediately recapitulated.
These gentlemen were resident among the Indians
who inhabited the wild country upon the ill defined
borders of Georgia and the Floridas. They were
tacit by the Americans within a Spanish post. A
Court martial was assembled, by General Jackson's
orders, on the 26th of last April, 18 $B, io try these
British subjees kw crimes against the United States,
of which Court martial General Gaines was President.
The charges againht Mr. Arinohnot were three in
number :

It will be seen from the course which we have taken,
that, so fur as we can form an opinion, Mr. Arbuthnot
was illegally tried—unjustly sentenced—and barba-
rously executed. The question regarding Mr. Am.
brister is in some respects to be decided by the same
reasonings as tltose which apply to the situation of his
associate, on which we have spoken at so great length,
that we must compress what remaina within a narrow
compass. The charges against this prisoner werc
lit. Aiding the enemy.

2J. Lending and conirminding them.
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 he should be
whipped, and confined with a chain for 12 months,
Gen. Jackson disapproies this latter sentence ; and of
his own sovereign will and barefaced power, reviving
the decision which the court bad cane, , and which
therefore was already null and void, h y erdered
the miserable man to be shot. Uptati this point, at
least, there can be no second feeling. We *inch doubt
whether the indignation produced by it in America
will not be more intense and profouhd than here. It
is indeed an inhuman and atrocious murder—it is,
however, the iuurdct cf only a single Englishman
while it is if there be any law in the United States)
a most tyr.milical and daring overthrow of the entire
body of Republican laws and constitutions throughout
the United States. It was not that a General Officer
made a Court-martial his agent of injustice—lie,matle
it, in common with nature and humanity, ut o‘ce his
victim and his sport. We shall discover by the next
arrivals from America, the incirres4s, produced in
Congress by this disgraceful and te,ol4og.tieed, which
must, it is manifest, at nu distant period, receive from
the British Parliament a strict and therot,gh.inves-

Ist. Exciting the Creek Indii.ns to war against the Unitoi Stags.
he being a sal,ject of Great tt iwin. with which the said 6:Ate' were
atpeacc.
Acting as a spy, and aiding the enemy—supplying them with
the means of war. .

3tl. Exciting the Ind:=3 tpa:iler W. llaultily and :Jo)!
Eibject, A.:N:4Am si Govcr:ll»..at.

With respect to the last ettatr4e, however, the Court
hating declared its want of j,iris.liction, we shall
tlis-
mis it froth our .notice Toe evitiewe in support of
the first allegation, that Mr. Arbuthnot hai " excited
Ca: Iteli ins to war' against :be i...;aited States, consists,
liar the most /art, of his own letters to Governor Ca-
meron, of the 'hilt:nulls ; Mr. !'.abut, our Ambassador
atlV:tsiiington ; Colonic' Nich..ll, a British officer ; to
his son ; ivati to certain c)fthe American vents. The
object of these letters to the Authortities
was invariably to claim ov.:is!aziec Cr ;

t igat ion.

A Mail from llollantl has arrived with intelligence
to the 7th inst. The I:.:tuperor Alcr.atuler left Vienna
on the 23a opt. ~,, hie return 1,, St. 1-'etlisburg.—F'rot
the Is,. of January to the 31s& or o...xeibber, 1818,
80:1 ships entered the port of Antwerp; among ;Lem
were 552 of the Netherlands, 197 FteLialt, 31 Antal-
vans, 27 t?.anish, Fend:, 22 Hoim-
verians, &c. A ftxtssian fri._,ate, nom Ar,:!:angel, ha
arrived in the Trxel.—Ali the Lest iitroturs limui liar
North of Europe coincide in represendfill the attr>%af
thq weather an I.l.netnn.un.ily mild an.lbelicfrent. The
vessels collected at llineur in consequ'efee, i. destril;cd
ad numeruns beyond all precedent.

!:CA:(311, in

sonic shape or u!hcr, f.,r the Indian tribes, againit
what he always repres4.lited to be thol:ttaeks, encroach-
ments and cruelties of the Anteric...ns. There are
diqinet papers hearing the si,oature of divers Indian
Chiefs, addressed to fanctionarics, 'tad Spanish,
with a p...wer of attorney delepting extensive trusts
t !.Ir. Arbuthnot, anal which that ;;; ntlentah apron;
to !lave drawn 1.,); there is lilsetvise brow. ht focward

Wednesday Mr. Sergeant Sellou took leave of the
Mai;istratos at Union flab, and wilt,tale his seat at
attou Gardcn. Ba;11..!11 Alleyne, E 4. the Master of
Dtt!wicil Cult're, is appointed in tip; Learned Ser-
geant s playa a: Uniuu HaIL
It is unler‘tood, front pretty good•authority, that
according to the nalculution a Ministers, the folio.ving
is the esact 'we of the ensuing Nal:lntel.:

seine oral testimony, all ten ling to prove, tvl.st it
ni.ciiless to deny, his active suficrinteilai nee over !Lilian
al.irs, and his struiltiel:s excrii,os for what lie -con-
L-ivitd to be the most i.nportant interest of that hapkia:i
a:i.l persieuted people. Ilia of certain mtieies
aulnaulaition to the • Indians is is:aLEshi.d as au ut..

Iliniscr.i lids
Opposition
DuulaUal

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:z 90.

The Will of Her late Majesty was on Fri.lay proved
in Doctor's Commons, by Lord Arden and General
Taylor, the executors The peronal property is sworn
to as being under 140,0001.
The will is ia substance as follows:
Her Majesty directs hur debts, and the legacies and
rasauities given by her will, to be paid out of tliu per-
sonalty, or out of the sale of personals; if there is not
Nutficient in Her Majesty's treasury to provide fur those
payments.

Her Majesty states her property to consist of a real
estate in New IVindsor, milled the Lower Lodge, and
of personals of various descriptions : those of the great.
est value being her jewels, which are classed as fol-
lows :--

t. Those which the King purchased fur 30,0001. and
presented to her, (supposed on her marriage.)
2. Those presented to her by the Nabob of Arent.
3. Those purchased by herself, or being presents
made on birth-days or other occasions.

In the event of the King surviving, and being re-
stored front his malady, Her Majesty bequeaths to bias
the jewels which he purchased and gave her ; but if
lie should not survive, or should not be restored to a
sound state of mind, she then gives those jewels to the
House of Hanover as an heir-loom.

Her Majesty then alludes to the Queen of War.
temberg being so handsomely provided fly, and giata
the jewels prasenteti by the Nabob of Arcot to her four
remaining daughters, directing those jewels to be soh!,
and the produce divided amongst the tour daughters,
subject to the charge of debts, &c.
The remaining jewels she gives equally amongst the
four daughters just meutioned, to be divided according
to a valuation to be made of them.

The house and ground ut Fro,„,nnore, and the Shawe
establishment, Her Majesty gives to the hineess Au.
gusta Sophia ; but if she should find living in it, and •
keeping it up too expensive, it is directed to revert to
the Crown, upon a valuation bein4. made and given for
it to the Princess Augusta Sophia, with due eencen_..
ration to the improvements; whether it shall please tfilb
Prince Regent, to reserve the po•siession of it as an tip.
pendage to Windser-castle, or to authorize any other
disposal of it.
filer Majesty gives the fixtures, articles of common
household furniture, and live and dead stock in the
house at Frogmore, or on the estates,. to her daughter
Augusta Sophia.
She gives the real estate in New Windsor, purchased
of the late Duke of St. Alban:, and commonly called
the Lower Lodge, with its appendages, to her youngest
daughter Sophia.
Her books, plate, house-linen, .china, pictures, draw-
ings, prints, all articles of ornamental furniture, and all
other valuables and personals, she directs to be divided
in equal shams, according to a valuttion to be made,
amongst her ibur younger daughters.
Her ;Majesty states, that she brought various pro.
perty from hlecklenborg, as specifiedin a list, No. I, .
to ho annexed to her will ; and she desires, that that
property shall revert to the House of Mecklenburg.
Strelitz, and be sent back to the senior branch of that
House.
Her Majesty then expresses her intention of givia4
several legacies, as specified in a list, No. to he an. •
nexed to her will, to he paid out of •her perstmal pro-
perty, %vithin six months after her death : but rs such
lists as these were -annexed to her wi&l sr made out. bY
her '.l.litjesty.
Her ;that:4r Appqints .Lord Arden and Geneni
'Taylor, Trustees i r the property bequeathed tb I.tr
dat.ghters Elizabeth and Mary ; stating that property
to he left to them for their sole benefit. and iinieperrn.
ent of any husband% they have of easy have, and efts
di6o appoints Lord Arden and General Taylor her
Executors._

_.. •
The will is date,' Nov. 13, i 818, (the doy before
her Nlajesty'.s death.) It is in the hand-writing eft
Gencral Taylo7 ; and two of the at te.o.ing %vitae:4o'
are Sir Francis Nlilltn.in and Sir henry 114f4n1;

It i. undo-It:toil that Parliament will be opened by
eimmiis.ion nu Thurscioy next. As there is no idea of
oppokine• the lute wo;thy Speaker, it expectetr that
he v6iii"be pres.ited to the Cotn.7lissiorier% for appro.
bation on Friday, the second dAv of the Nies tiug ; and
6,ooequently the new writs wilt tottuvvitla be moved.