The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-27 00:00:00

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HORRID BARBARITY.

The following is from the New York Evening.
Post of the Vst ult. :

" INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH :10.—It becomes our paintel
duty to record one of the most r. trageous transactions that has
occurred since the settlement of the State. We have been en-
abled to collect the following particulars from the intbnnation of
a traveller who has just passed through the neighbourhood, and
in whose veracity we place the utmost confidence :—lt seems that
a party of Indians, 10 in number, consisting of 3 men, 3 women,
2 girls, about half-grown, and two small boys, were encamped
on on Fair Creek, in Madison county, about eign; miles above the
Falls, and thirty-five miles above this place, for the purpose
five white
hunting. On Monday, the 22d instant, a party
cflatshsisting them
men and two boys went to the camp and clecoye
away from the camp, for the ostensible purpose()
e distance from
to hunt some cattle. After they had g
d'one l'hme third made his
the camp, two of the Indians were shot e ;
ad of the same day, the
escape, very badly wounded. In the evening
of making some profs:;_
same party returned to the camp, ani
of
the women and chil-
sions of friendship, murdered the wholeny
e
I mangled, for the pur-
'::i.
three men
t it wits the work of Indians,
dren. Their bodies were most: ltro lc
of men, when one of the worng
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killed°fwone of the children by taking it by
:aierhoaceasioned by the falling of a
tree. One of the men
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d by a
thethe heelsplace
but (lied on the evening of the next day. At
was found still alive,
the time the
Indians,camp, was
consisting of guns, skins, furs, &c. was
rr i e
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dr ee
rf (and i
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perty of the
and was left there unmolested ; but on the
still at the
camp,
the place was visited by a party of men from
andwas beatingvistte
next day, when
-0 Fall-creek, the bodies were found stripped, and
the fall
that one
_
i that
compelled to assist, by the threats of his father), soon after the
.
transaction, gave information, and five of the I
party concerned
were immediately arrested, and are now in custody at the falls
cfiesthef pardospe concerned)
of Fall (reek; one made his escape, and the youth who gave
the information is said to be at liberty in the neighbourhood.
Since their arrest it is said that the persons have made a full
confession. All the families composing the settlement in the
neighbourhood of the scene of this horrible transaction, have
removed to the mills, at the falls on Fall Creek, to avoid the
retaliating vengeance of the Indians."

TIIE LONDON
.JOURNALS,

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, May 27.

[THE TIMES.]
The Spaniards, in order to suspend what we
hope we may call the imminent recognition of
the independence of the South American States
by this Government, put forth at intervals wild
reports of the armaments which they are going
to send out for their subjugation. So, last night,
news was said to have reached this country from
Madrid, that an expedition, consisting of 36,000
men, was fitting out at Cadiz, which would be
ready to sail by the beginning of July. Exagge-
rations of this kind need no refutation, more
especially as the motives which give birth to
them are obvious. However, many people think
that we linger long and needlessly in making the
recognition. One moral good would spring from
it even to the Government of Old Spain,—that it
would be saved the guilt of many an untruth ;
and further, though we may not be deceived by
the pretences of Ferdinand arid his Ministers, it
is not clear that such pretences are equally in-
noxious elsewhere. It is probable that the em-
bers of discord may be kept alive in the sepa-
rated provinces by some reliance on the promised
exertions of the mother country in behalf of those
who still adhere in their hearts to the obsolete
system. And in this view the suspension of
our recognition is actually injurious to the inte-
rests of humanity. But there is one course
which would answer all the purposes of recogni-
tion, and would render the formality almost
superfluous. The French say that their presence
in Spain is necessary, in order to prevent scenes
of civil discord from being acted between the
confEcting parties. In reply to this we have
only to say, that we are very sure the liberal
party needs not the protection of the French,
but would be quite content to be left to defend
itself against the fury of its adversaries; and if,
as was pretended at the commencement of the
invasion, the Royalists were by far the most
numerous, and only needed to be freed from a
certain temporary predominance of the opposi-
tion faction, that good has been effected. Surely,'
therefore, these " most numerous " subjects of
the King have still less occasion to require the
protracted stay of an army of foreigners in their
country. But if the presence of the French in
the Peninsula does no good to Old Spain, we are
sure that it does infinite harm to the trans-At-
lantic Provinces; for the hope of assistance to the
vanquished 'Royalists there, can only be founded
upon the continuance of the French in the mother,
country,and the consequent disposability of the na-
tive force. The stay of the Bourbon army, there-
fore, even should it be allowed that it preserves
peace in the Peninsula, occasions the continuance
of bloodshed in South America. It is our duty,
therefore, to urge the return of this army to its
own country. We ought to be able to recog-
nize the independence of Old Spain (which we
cannot do while it is held by the foreigner)—the
independence of New Spain will follow of course.
The inhabitants of this latter country will then
settle into tranquillity, and conform with more
readiness to the new order of things, which they
will perceive to be irreversible. For ourselves,
we shall consider every sanguinary tumult, every
disturbance or commotion, in the trans-Atlantic
States, as occasioned by the continuance of the
French in Old Spain.