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violently against Mr. PITT. and some irreverence
was shown to .him in the street, That great man's
'mighty rival, Mr. Fox, with tbat 'eantloor which
seemed rooted in his manly nature,-denvera him-
self to the House of Commons -in these
--
To be the subject of comparison with the Hon.
'Gentleman (Mr. PITT), on the score of his genius
and his mental powers, is to me mast flattering;
'but I should not receive it as a compliment to be
likened to the Hon. Gentleman in respect of zeal
for the free principles of the English Constitution.
—Net cribeless, whatever may be my opinion tits
-that regard, I have no hesitation in declaring,
that it the time should ever come when a violent
finger were laid upon the Hon. Gentleman,
shoidd that moment take measute of my own grave
--quite certain that my destiny was fast ap-
itrawhing !"
Mr. LAssarom, (against whose father's son the
Writer of this article would he itl fitted to utter
any harshness) Mr. LAMSTON, whose logical
hardihood, at the late Newcastie celebration of
Mr. Fox's principles, encountered the whole ,host
vtt hil political adversaries; and, at the distance
of 200 miles from each of them, bravely heat the
noble body—Mr. LANtaioN is hereby invited well
in weigh the shove (voted words of Mr. Fox,
and to answer to himself, how long he calculatei.
his noble and accomplished friend and father-in-
law, Lord Gamy, would survive any Member of,
the Government to which he is a constitutional,
wore in,ljorum, opponent, if, in the language of
Mr. Fox, ' a violent finger were laid upon ' any
one of them.

.1 be same merciless, insatiate spite to the me-
mory of Mr. Fox betrayed itself upon the occa-
sion of Lord CAsTLEREAGH'S Vote for Sir MURRAY
MAXWELL at the last election. The pursuivants
born the hustings at his Lordship, ,or rather at
his Lordship's purse and watch, whom d—d day-
light baffled in their objects, are not the chevaliers
here adverted to. These last, good fellows ! like
the professional who levelled Sir MURRAY
MAXWET.L, felt, as Peachum well expresses it,
• malice in the case !" In them it was mere
- busigiesS."lo their impartiality, Trojan or Ty-
- Tian was just alike—Lord CASTLEREAGB, or Sir
NURRAY, aye, or FRANCIS, not a whit embarrass-
ctl-by gratitude that the Baronet (the base Baronet,
as Major ,CARTWRIGIIT' in his 19 pages of minion
vituperates: his late idol) would place those in-
dustrious functionaries upon a _political equality
with—even his venerable father, Mr.. COUTTS.
Not so ingenuous, however, the oratorical and li-
terary anitnadverters upon Lord CAsTLERVAGH's
plumper on the 20th of June last.; nor must his
- L. rdsuip beallowed to monopolize an honour on
which he only divides the crown' with Mr.
Fox;' at whose memory a gash was aimed, as
' well from the hustings' speeches as the newspaper
paragraphs, for every scratch at Lord CASTLE-
BRAGA, on the account of thativote. Those hewers
of the deceased well knew that Lord CASTLSr
REAGH'S official predecessor did not, like Lord
CAsTLEREAGH, content himself with giving his
simple suffrage at a Westminster Election ; but,
with his usual disdain of all subterfuge, was the
very person—the eery Westminster elector—upon,
OA very Covent-Garden hustings, who, in Jung,
1782, proposed, and in bim'self uniting the two-
fold power of government and, of the-Whig party,
carried the election for Westminster of his then
friend Sir CECIL. WRAY—he, Mr. Fox,. filling, ei
that moment, the identical pffice now occupied
by Loud CAsTutintAGtt.
• It is true, Mr. Fox was assailed for that act;'
for who ' though pure as ice can 'scape calumny'
in the exuberance of stricture generated by the'
freedom of the British Constitution ? Mr. Fox
was s,sailed ; and thus to his assailants Mr. Fox
replied It has pleased his MAJESTY to call me
to the honour of serving the public es one of his
Ministers ; but does office divest me of my birth-
right as an Englishman ? I am a Minister to-day;
to-morrow in,y reduce me to my ,former circum-
stances ; hut while I am an Loglishman, within
the protection of those laws that originate liberty,
and have liberty for their object—this first and
greatest privilege must coutinue unalienable.' .
This incidentthis alone, brought down upon'
Lord CASTLAREAGH the shower of Jacubin•cla-1
amour fur which his Westminster vote, in June
last, was Merely a stalking•horse. The • full volley
of Jacobin malevolence was, in reality, fired at the'
flame of hint—who sleeps as quiet as, Duncan,
wholly untouched by this refluence of malice
domestic.'
Thousands of volumes could not display, the
jaenhin .genitssin clearer colours than do their
own public acts—in the present little week.—
Where there is no virtue. there catt.be no prin-
ciple ; and without principle and virtue, friend-
ship is impossible. How the rest of the world
would fare at the hands f,of the Jacobins, is plain
enough from their conduct to each other.
Supposing these terrible people to be quite in.
earnest in their opposition to each other, to;
morrow at Covent-Garden—mark their manoeu-
vres.
Whilst the
_Government which, in less than;
seven years' Ministry of the ;British State, has
dashed in pieces like a potter's vessel' (not to
quote 'the words profanely) the Power that ins-
. mineutly threatened mankind with a second
Western Empire—whilst the Government which
ha's caged in one of its islets the being who kept
England in a 15 years' fever ; for whose ambi-
tion Europe seemed tiao net row ; and who would
have scaled ' heaven itself '--;-whilst. the •Govern-
ment which has so brought peace and good will'
to the earth, that war seems to be cut out of-the
chart Of nations—whilst the Government which
In the matchless vigour of its policy abroad- is
only equalled by its moderation at home ; whose
desire for extra authority for the public safety.
was surpassed by its eagerness to lay down that
authority When the object was attained—whilst
the Government which (as made matter of de-
monstration within the last six days) has nou-
rished the commerce of England into an altitude
unparalleled even in its own annals—whilst,. in
tine, the Government which has crowned the
British name with fame immortal (the Hero who
commanded its warriors—Mr. HURT'S .bloody
butchers of Waterloo inclittled—being at the mo-
ment a constituent part of it)--whilst such a Go-
rernment declines the absolute certainty of suc-
cess in a ‘VeStlllillStCr contest, merely for the
..c 117..trninet•eg trannnillity. these net'. b

verse Jacribln; fall upon each other, like tile
predaturies of the desert ; 'and ni a crisis, whet)
scarcely disguised treas,ou stalks in strews swarms
ing with bands of robbers, are _guing to plunge
this city (to three-fourths of whose electors all
their names are alike loathsome) into fifteen
days agitation; in circumstances under which no
'contest has iti-er before taken phare within it, to
w'it, the depth of winter and the sitting of Par-
liament. •

It a Jacobin poll is opened to-morrow, the
tried temper of Jacobinism makes its duration for
fifteen days an inevitable result. What a prospect
for the peaceful, respectable, really independent
electors of the first city in the empife of Britain! !
February the 12th, Is ia.

AMERICA.

HOME OF REPRESENTATIVES, 'TursDAY, JAN. 12.

THE SEMINOLK WAR, &c.

Mr. T. M. Nelson, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, delivered the following Re-

port :---

" The Committee on Military Affairs" whom
was referred that part.pf the P,resideut's-Message
of the 17th of November, 1818, which relates to
the proceedings of the Court Martial in the trial
of Atbuthnot and Atriblister, and to the CialdOct
of the war against the Seminole Indiana, Re-.
port:
" That after a perusal of the various documents
submitted to Congress, on the sithicct of the Se-
-minole War, they find much difficulty in sepa-
rating the respotObility of_ the Commanding Of-
ficer to his 'Government from the obligations of
the United States to Spain ; but as the occupa-
'ion and capture of Pensacola and of St. Mark's
are subjects of negociation and correspondence at
this time between the two Governments, and as

tlie.Committee on Foreign Relations will pro-
bably consider this pert of the President's Mes-
sage more immediately connected with their
branch of the subject, your Committee will con-
fine themselves in this Report to the trial and ex-
ecution of Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert C.
Ambrister.

" On the 26th April, 1818, a General Order
issued at bead-quarters, Fort St. Maik'4, by Ma-
jor-General Jackurn,' bigned by Colonel Robert
Butler, Adjutant. General, detailing g special
Court Martial, to meet at 12 o'clock, A, M. for the
purpose of investigating charges exhibited against
A. Arbuthnot and It. C. Ambrister, and such
others who are similarly situated as may be
brought before it.'
" Your Committee do not deem it necessary to
attach to 'their Report' the proceedings of that
Court, as every- Member of the :House has been.

furnished with invent! etudes, 10 which reference
can be made.

. .
Your' Committee can find no law of the.
United States. authorising a trial., betore a Milt:"
tary Court, tor
.such offences as are alleged against
Arbutbnot and Ambrister (except so much of the
second charge as 'charges Arbuthnot ' with acting--
as a spy,' of which-part ut the charge the Court
found him not guilty;') nor, in the Opinion of
your Committee, does any. usage authorise, or.
exigency appear frolnAke documents. accompiny-
ing the Report Of theltriat, which can justify the
assumption and. eiertise: of power, by the-Court
Martial and the Commanding 6elicit!l on this
occasion. It is• admitted, as. a maxim :of

the law of nations, that, when the war is
with a savage nation _which .observes
and never gives quarter, we may, punisl,)thein,
in .the person of any of their peOple 'whoin
we may. take (belonging to the number ofiltent)','
and endeavour by this rigorous proceeding th
force thein to respect the ia'ws "of humanity.--•
Whenever severity is, not absolutely necessary,
mercy becomes a duty. In vain has your Cont'
mince sought 'among:the documents on the sub.:
jeer of the Seminole war for a shadow of.necessity
for the death of the prisoners arraigned before'
the'Court. The war was at an end to all in
tents and purposes—the enemy's strongholds had'
been tlestroyed—many of them ,killed or taken
prisoners, and. the remainder, 'a feeble band, (Hs-.
persed and scattered in every 'direction. The
Spanish fort of St. Mark's, which it was sup-
posedland no dotbt,justly). had ;protected them,
was also in our possession, and so entirely was
the war considered to 'be terminated, that the
Georgia militia,. under:! General . Glasscock, had
retailed to their, homes.• Then where was the
absolute necessity, which alone could warrant a de
parture from the exercise of that clemency of
which the United States has heretofore' so justly
boasted ? .
" Your Committee find, in the General Order
of the 29. th April, in which General Jackson or-
ders .the execution. or .A.K1M.10.n0.t.a9(1 A4),lrister,
this remarkable-reason, intended .as .a justification
of the executions, 'principally of Ambrister, but
applying to both Arbethoot, and Ambrister It
is an established principle of the law of nationiT
that any individual of a nation, 'making war'
against the citizens of another nation, they being
at peace, forfeitshis allegiance, and becomes an
outlet, and a pirate.' It may beuaked, by what
'system' of interpretation the offences. charged
could be considered as piracies, :which; imply, in
common acceptation; offences upon thehigh seas,
of which the Court could not assuenecognizance';
and it is equally difficult to .unders,tand, the pro-
priety • of the -application.of the, term outlaw'
to the offenders—a term which applies only to the.
relations of individuals with Mir. own Govern...
ments. It will not be pretended that La Fayette,
who volunteered his services in the cattssof Ame-
rica, in the war which established our intlepend--
ence; forfeited his allegiance, becameau outlaw,
and isUbjected, himself to an ignominious death,
had he fallen into the'hands of the English. Or
can it be believed that one voice would be heard
in justification of Spain, if she were to execute
such of our countrymen as she may make,prisoners,,
while fighting in the armies of the South Ametican.
Patriots ? And if these cases should not be con-
sidered of such a nature as to warrant, a resort to
so severe a measure, while they occurred with a
people in a state of revolution, and considered by
the parent countries to be, in a state of rebellion,
much less could these men (Arbuthnot end Atn-
dater) be considered liable to it, who were acting

With a BMW acknowledged and treated as sore=
reign and independent by us.
" Your Commit tee beg leave to call yotir at-
tention particularly to the case of 11. C. Ambris-
ler, Who, after having been subjected to a trial
before a Court which had no tognieance of inris-
diction over the offences charged against him, was
shot by order. of the Commanding General, con-
trary to the forma and usages of the army, and
withont regard to the finding of that Court, which
had been instituted as a guide for himself.
" Your Committee must here, in justice to
their ()vim feelings, express their extreme regret,
that it tuna become their duty to disapprove the
conduct of one who has, on a former occasion, so
eminently contributed to the honour and defence,
of the nation, as has Major-General Jackson ; but
the more elevated the station, the more exalted
'the character of the individual, the more necessary
is it, by-a reasonable, yet temperate expression
of public opinion, through the constitutional or-
gan, to prevent the recurrence of iocidents at VA.
riairce With the principles of our government snd
laws.

":-Nor can your Committee forbear including
in their strictures the Court Martial who sat on,
the tuba of Arbuthnot. and -Ambrister. A Court
Martial is-a tribunal -invested with limired joris-
diction, hating for its guidance tbesame rules of
evidence which govern Courts of Law : and yet
Arbuthnot is refused by the -Court M,azial, before
whom he was tried for his life, the benefit Of the
testimony of Ambrister,who had not been put upon
his trial at that time, and whose evidence would
have beer, received by any Court of Law as legal,

if not credible. Many other exceptions might be

made to the evidence-recorded in these proceed-
ings ; particularly to the question put to the wit-
ness Humbly, viz. Do you believe the Seminoles
would have commenced the business of murder
and depredwion on the white inblbitants, had
it not been at the instigation of the prisoner
(Arbuthnot), and a promise on'hiS part of British
protection ?'— Answer. I do not believe they
would, without they bad been assured.of British
protection.' A leading question is expressly for-
bidden to be tried by a Court-Martial, by Macomb
on Martial Law, and of which. the Court must
'have been apprized, as it is a work common in ethe
army, and usually referred to by every Court-
Martial when in Session ; and the question was cal-
culated. to elicit an eXpressibn of -opinion and
belief from the witness; rather than a statement of

tacts,,,up,n which .alone could the Court act.—
Hearsay evidence in a case of life and death, your
Cointnittee v. ill veitture to assert, was never be-
fore received against the accused in any Court of
this coot-my,
.and yet on the face of the rec!,rd Of
the proceedings , of the Court Martial, hearsay
testitnony is admitted, which had been r.icerved,
from an Lillian, who, if 'present, would not havei
been. allowed to give evittence,hinisc4.."

After tnathrit deliberation, your Coiumittee beg
%ithinit the folloxing Reiatitimi
'Resolved; That the House of Representatives of the United'
States disapprores•the proceedings. in the trial and execution
of Alexander Arbuthnot aitd Ittibert C:'Atnbrister;
rito-rEsT..
•
Itlr. Johnson, a Kentucky, also of.the Military Cini'Mittee
snbinitttd a paper drawn up iu the shape of, a.ltepurfr 4y7that
Committee, which, by a majority of one vote, that Commit-
tee had refused to accept,• and the said paper was read as
follows : •
[(fere follows a paper in the form • of a Repott of a•Com-,1
wittee, giving a hill history:of the war yvkth the Seminplei:—Gif-
General Jackson's Conduct throuzbOut the whole of it : 'and.
a repetition and enlargement of tltejlelsaad principles ad:
winced in Mr. Adams' celebrated letter on the seiblect,ss'hick.
has recently been given-entire-in-this Paper, and must liee!in
the mcollection of the reader, It OCLUpjes three columns
and' an h4lf, clbSe printed, ref- The :Natioflirt Intellfgenc;er,
Its length, and the circumstances.that its subject matter has
.been ati.ticipated, will no donbtiikOce our Readers to excilie.
the Otnissioh of it this day: li•conelude4 thus:—]

.4. under thin view of thewhole sulljat, the,Cominittec can
discover much which merits appianse, and little that ,deserves
erasure; and, from the illcalculithlc•beriefits resit4ing to lbw
nation,- from the faithfdl Alcii'diAing.iiished services of Gene"-'
msl iThCkSoni and the illficers and men 'who served under his
command, in terminating finally the Seminole w r, are of
.op,i4iinothat they are.entitie4o the thanks of their country."
-,-(Miir'riing •

Front the LONDON GAZ flYrf&of February

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llzar-lVit Fch: 12. ' ' '
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• , • .
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards; Paymaster Rochfort Broom-
'field, from the 20th FoOt, to be Paymaster, viee' GOodwin
deceased. . .

7th Ditto—Ensign 4..1. Brett, from the 51st Foot, to he
Cornet, without Rurchase.
7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain T. W. Robhins
to be Major, by purchase, vice Verner, promoted. Lient.
W. Grenfellth be Captain of a Troop, by porelia,e, vice
Robhins. Cornet J. W. Williams to he Lieutenant, by,
purchase, vice Gvenfell.
11th Ditto• Captain, J. Dubtrly, from the half-pay of •the
Regiment, to be Captain of a Troop, vice T. Crawford,

whu exchanges.
18th Ditto—Cornet Otto Ives, from the half-pay of the 71h
Light Dragoons, to be Cornet,- vice G. Hamilton, Earl of
..Belfast, who exchanges.
19th Ditto—Serjeant-Major J. M‘Lennon to be Regimental
Quarter-Master, vice Gloag, deceased.
-Ist Regiment of Foot GuarrlS—To •be Ensigns and Lii.ute-
!tants, by ponhase—Ensign Joseph-Deane Rourke, b•Mn,
the 9th Foot, vice Law, appointcrl to life lltli. Light
Dragoons Robert Charles Rowley, Gent., vice Arbuthnot,
• appointed to the lith Light Dragoons:
Mb Regiment. of Foot—John Gordan, Hatttm,,Gent., to be
• . Ensign,,by porchase,,vice pXomoted in t he Guth 'Noot.
15th Ditto—Lieiaenant Thithrlasi 'A.--Deonght; trom-the
pay of the Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert Lewis,
who exchanges; receiving the difference.
19th Ditto—. Lieutenant Ronald 111‘Donald, to be Captain of
a CoMpany, without purchase, vice Langton, deceased.
20th Ditto—Lieut. Alexander 'Furey, from tIM• half-pay of
the Regiment,to be Paymaster, vice Bloomfield, appointed
to the 4th Dragoon Guards. ,
21st Ditto—To be Ist Lieutenants—Lieutenant Richard
Rowlands, from the halt pay of the •22il FoOt, vice Rqic;i.
',Mackay, who exchanges, .receiying the difference ;i Lieut.
Alexander Mackenzie, from the half-pay of the "1.4.0i1t;
vice Angiis Mackay, who exchanges, recieiving'• The' dif-

,
' ference.-.
' - .. - • •
49th Ditto—Captain 'l'. B. Ilickin, from the half-pay of the
.. 66th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice J. Br:uce,
who exchanges, receiving the difference. -
33(1 Ditto.—Ensign Duncan Robertson, from the half-pay of
• the 93th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Augustus Gorciwi, wh6
exchanges.
35th Ditto—Lieutenant Edgard Windus, from the half-pay
of the 30th Fout, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Davies,

who exchanges,, receiving the difference.
48th Regiment of FotA—Ensign Thomas Hayes, from the
EfUth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Isl‘Mahon, who exchanges.
51st,-Ditto; Gentreman Cadet William WKay, from the'
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without puichase,
vice Brett, appointed to the 7th Dragoon Guards.
54d Ditto—Crutleman Cadet William H. 'E.,M‘Denriott,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Stapleton, who resigns.
53d Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Maclean, from the
half-pay of the. Regiment, to be assistant-SurgeOn,• vice
William Pollock, who exchanges.
54th Ditto—Captain Thomas Gethen Coote, from the ball-
pay of the 21st Foot, to be Captain of a'CoMpany,. vice
Thomas,Chartres, who exchanges.
55th Ditto—Lieutenant John Blackball, from the half-pay of
the 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Hasher, who
exchanges. Ensign James Ralston, from the half-pay of
the 57th Foot, to ler Ensign, Ties 4clwitril King, who "-
changes.

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'nth billd'-tnslttt tintiobraW Psoll6l Kin?, from t"-.tli
..,,
Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Van Batenbilift'
promoted. _ . .
77th Ditto7-Ensign.Agnew Champion, from the litlf-paY ha
the 104th ro6t; to be Ensign, vice James Crossgrove, '
w"
exchanges, red:king the
Mairis, differento he Lieutenant, by Pt"-
ce. • ,r-
-78th Ditto—Ensign V. H.
Chase, vice Camer(Roben, romoted. Olt
80th Ditto—Eosign prt Andrew M'Makon, from the
Foot, to be Ensign; vice Hayes, who exchanges. tab)
82i/ Ditto-4.ieutenaiit Edward Francis French to be Cap d;
of a Company, by purchase,
Ensign john James Slater to be Lieutenant, by Purchasi'
rice French. Gentleman Cadet Robert Pigott Charletoi:
vice. Mootague, I'
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by Pur
ehase, vice Slater. ur•
Ist West India Reg.ime..t—To lie Lieutenants, without P d,
elitist —Ensign James Peters, vice Pi Ihington, dec.e_39.,evt
Ensign Thomas V. Duren, vice Brown, deceased. 1"57,t,
James Robert Young, from the 3d %Vest India 'ffline-
vice Morgan, deceased:
Gent'
.1; be Ensigns, without purchase—George Johnston, ,
vice Jenks, deceased. Gchtionan Cadet John Magee, that
the Royal 'Military College, vice Peters, promoted. Art"-
Maynard Gray, Gent. vice Durell, prtimoted. the
3d West India Regiment—Corporal Thomas Brunt, frau 0.,
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, to be Ensign, vice Youn°'
promoted in the Ist West Inuia RegiMent. Lied`
Royal %Vest India Rangers—EnNigo. James Kent to be --
tenant, without purchase, vice Studdy, deceased. c ,ott
id Ceylon Regiment—Lieutenant John W. Summerfield.''
the 83d foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase. _.„. of
R. frEVET.—Lieutenant-00lotiel fir Robert Chant bre Ili"!
the Royal. Horse Gnards, to be Coloni in the ArmY• , e-
To he Majors in the Army—Captain IVilliam Gotdoo Cli,
ron, of the Ist Foot Guards; Captain John Browue, °l' -
9id Foot. romotee