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London, England, 1819-01-29 00:00:00

THE THEATRES;

Denny-LANE.---The success which has attend,.
ed the Tragedy of Brutus at this Theatre dors not
appear to abate, but the piece continues to be so
attractive that it bids fair to rival the first seasons
of The Beggar's Opera and Pizarro. It is a prize
for Mr. KEAN, as 'well as for the Theatre, as it
gives him a double salary every week. There
was last night a crowded Hoosei and the ap-
plause Was as vehement as ever.

OLYMPIC THEAtIlE.—Last night a humourous
piece, similar to that In which MATHEWS appeared
at the Haymarket Theatre, was represented at
this place, under the title of The Actress of All
Work. This piece gave Mrs. Ebwirs an opportu-
nity of displaying the veiiWlity of l►er talents in
the assomption of six different characters, in all
of which she appeared to gre6t advantage, and
received very warm and well-merited applause
from a numerous audience. The piece itself is
ingeniously constructed, in affording so much
scope for this animated Actress ; and Mr. ELLIs-
TON, on its conclusion, announced it for this
evening with the hearty concurrence of the
dience.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, 2S.

•
Saturday last being Bachelors of Arts' Com.-
meneement, the following lb 3 Gentlemen Were
.admitted to that Degree •
[Note—'-;..The Names are arranged alphabeiottly.]
iin 's College.,—Me. Roberts ...
1r r:nity College.—Nlessrs. Anis worth, Applebee, thawes,
Bayne, Blunt, Bradney, Browne) Campbell, Clarkson,
Dighy, Drewe) Egreruont, Elmsley, Glennie, Hastings,
Hodgson, Holroyd, Hope, Major, Maltby, Manse), sea.
Manse), jun. Owen, Palk, W. H. Parry, nipple. Pyw,
Richards, Sanipson„Southern, St, Mawe, U. B. Tavler,
Thorp, 'Totten, Valpy, Way, %%Talker, Ward, Wood,
Wright • • • • • 40
St. John's College.—Messrs.Botittivwer, Browne, Bull,
Bulmer, Cooper, Craven, Covey, Downward, 'Earle,
Godtery, Harrison, Haylock, Helyar) Housman, Hurt,
Knott, Lonsdale, Little, Lockett, Lunib, Marshall, Mil-
ford, Pearse, Pease, Praed, Richardson, Smith, Sunder-
land, Thursfield, Wale, Wright ...
St. Peter's College.—Messrs. Bushby,- Leslie, Lewin, Ro-
berts, Smith ... . , 5
Clare Ilall.—Messrs. Beresford, Cape, Clissold, Cooper)
Fawsset, Jefferson, Kitchener, Mocire, Saxton • , 9
Pembroke Hall.-a-- Messrs. Alt, Evans, Turner, Wyatt, 4
Caius College.—Messrs. harmer, Lamb, Porter, Potts,
Shaw, Wolston
Trin(ty Itycvoft
Bene t College.—Mtssrs. Corbould, Gilbert, Flowman,
Kent, Litistone, Porter, White, Wilhingon
Queen's College.—Messrs. Arden, Dewe, Edelsnann, King,
. Mills, Rabett, Remington, Simpson, Walker 9
Catharine Hall.—Messrs. Egremonti Harrison, Jones,
Hewitt, Upton ...
Jesus College.—Messrs. Bradfield, Brougham, Farquhar,
Forge, Godsell, Hamontl, Harrison, Newman, Pryce,
Walker •
Christ College.—Messrs. Adam, Ash, airmen, Goodrich,
•Had wen' ?Harbnr, Norton, Pedder, Rolls, Williams !0
MagdalcnCollege.—Mr. Sandford
Emanuel College.—Messrs. Drage, -Gurdori, Hammond,
Wade, Gery
Sidney Sussex College --Messrs. Boteler, Clay, Collett,
Fisher, sen. Fisher, jun. Rhodes, Savigny, Stewart,
Trot man • • . . 9

The following Gentlemen obtained Academical
Honour's on the above occasion

WRANGLERS.

Drs. King,
cooper,
Porter,

Qu.
.10h.

Drs. Bushby,
Evans,
Baylie,
Cravea,
Ash,
Wale,
Ilatnorid,
\Vat Let,
Hodgson,

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Pe ni b.
Trin.
Juh.
Cur.
Joh.
Jes.

Cape,
Hal ruyd,
BroWue,
Dewe,
Thorpe,
Turner,
Wilkinson,

Drs. Rltodei
Brougham,
Smith,
Buteler,
Richardson,
Bout flower,
Porter

Caius.
ClAre.

Prard,
Snit l►,
Bull)

Trin.
Job.
Trin.
Pont).
Bene't.

SENIOR
Sid.
Joh.
Sid.
Joh.
Joh.
1' i us.
Bene't.
Joh
Pet.
Trio.
Joh.

OPTIM ES.
Drs. Pearce, ktoh.
Major, l'rin.
Wyatt, Peinb.
ILidwen,
Shaw, Canis.
Earle, Job.
Popple,
liastings,
Cooper, . Clare.
Soot hull,
Jefferson, Clare.

PTIMPS.
Potts, , Gains. Drs. Harrison) Lath.
Lewin, Pet. Valt4, Trio.
\V hit r, Bene't. Drage, Emn►.
Moore, Clare. Hattnond, Emu►.
Howrnan) Bene't. 'lotion, Trio.
Lonsdale, Joh. Parry, 'rt.; 11.
Lomb, Joh. Athawes, Trio.
The subjects for Sir William Browhe's gold
medals fur the present year are—
For the Greek Ode :—Regince epicedium.
For the Latin Ode :—Thebte 14gyptiacce.
yuf the Lpieraut4 ;--" Discriwn obrcurelm,"

JUNIOR

Drs.

LONDON JOURNALS.

[Morning Chronicle.]

The following is an Extract of a Letter, dated
Madrid, the I2th inst. It shows how enviable
the situation of King Ferdinand is :

Every day the probability appears greal.er of an early
overthrow of the present. Order of things, or, more properly
speaking, of the preSent disorder. By one. of th,,e casual-
ties which are not (infrequent in a country where the
Catholic religion is tlee Only One allowed, discovery' has
just been made of a conspiracy, at the very moment it
was about to explode—a conspiracy which,, according to
what it said in these moments of general 'consterMitlini,
will cover many distinguished families with mourning, as it
is said that the whole of the plan; and channels of communi-
cation have been seized. It is said, that this censpiracy
would have been ettremely bloody if it had been cart-lea
into effect on the arrangeMents Made. According to there-
stilt of the dikovcry made, it would stem that the King was
to have been 'declared by the conspirators the first traitor to
the nation, and that a large reWard was to have been offerea
for his head. Such is the report of the affair here among
those who dare to speak .shout this tremendous affair. The
Guerillas go on incteaSing; and the rust from Andalusia it
occasionally interrupted, notwithstanding a strong escort.
This new conspiracy has entirely done away with the vague
but general rumour of causes to which the death of the
Queen has been ascribed. English Newspapers are now the
subject of more persecution than any work contained in the
black list of the Inquisition."

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

OUR RELATIONS Wrrui SPAIN.
DOCUMENTS TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS.

THE SECRETARY OD STATE OF THE UNITED STATES

TO TH MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE
UNITED STATES TO SPAIN, AT MADRID, (N 0.7.)
(Concluded from Sesterday's Paper.)

Let us come to the case of Ambrister. He was taken in
arms, leading and commanding the Indians in the war against
the American troops ; and to that charge, upon his trial,
pleading guilty. But the pi imary object of his coming tht4e
was still more hostile to Spain than to the United -States.
!.VIII.] You find that he told three of the witnesses who tes-
tiled at his trial, that he had come to this country upon Mr.
Woodbine's business at Tampa Bay, to see the Negroes right-
ed ; and one of them, that he had a commission in the Pa-
trio 'Piny under AP Gregor, and that he had expected a
Captaincy. And what was the intended business of M'Gre-
gor and IVoodbine at Tampa Bay ? -It was the conquest of
Florida from Spain, by the use of those very Indians and Ne-
groes whom the Commandant of St. Mark's was so ready to
aid and support in war against the United States. The chain
of proof that establishes this fact is contained in the docu-
ments communicated by the President to Congress at their
last session, relating to the occupation of Amelia island
by M'Gregor. FroM these • documents you will find, that
LVI.] while M'Gregor was there, IVoodbine went from New
Providence, in a schooner of his own, to join him ; that he
arrired at Amelia island just as M'Gregor, abandoning the
companions of his achievement there, was leaving it;' that
M'Gregor, quitting the vessel in which lie bad embarked at
Amelia, went on board that of Woodbine, and returned with
. him to New Providence ; that Woodbine had persuaded him
they could yet accomplish the conquest of Florida, with sol-
diers to be recruited at Nassau, from the corps of Colonial
Marines, which had served under Nicholls during the late
war with the United States, which corps had been lately dis-
banded; and with Negroes to be found at Tampa Bay, and
1,500 Indians, already then engaged to Woodbine, who pre-
tended that they had made a grant of all their lands there to
him. Among the papers, the original of which are in our
LVII. a. b.] possession, in M'Gregor's own band-writing, are
instructions forsailing into Tampa Bay,with the assertion that
he calculated to be there by the last of April or first of May,
d ] of the present year ; a letter, dated 27th December last,
• to one of his acquaintance in this country, disclosing the same
e ] intention; and the extract of a proclamation which was
to have been issued at Tampa Bay, to the inhabitants of
Florida, by the person charged with making the settlement
there, before his arrival, announcing his approach, for the
purpose of liberating them from the despotism of Spain, and
of enabling theta to form a Government for themselves. He
bud persuaded those who would listen to him here, that his
ultimate object was to sell the Floridas to the United States.
. There is some reason to suppose that be had made indirect
overtures, of a similar nature, to the British Government.
This was Ambrister's business in Florida. He arrived there
ILEX.] in March, the precursor of M'Gregor and Wood-
bine ; and immediately upon his arrival, he is found seizing
upon Arbuthnoes goods, and distributing them among the
Negroes and Indians ; seizing upon his vessel, and compelling
its.waster to pilot him. with a body of armed Negroes, to-
wards the fort of St. Mark's, with the declared purpose of
taking it by surprise, in the night. ; writing letters to Go-
vernor Cameron, of New Providence, urgently calling for
suppliel of munitions of war, and of caution, for the war
against the Americans; and letters to Colonel Nicholls, re-
newing the same demands of supplies; informing him that
he is with 300 Negroes, 'A few of our Bluff people,' who had
stuck to the 'cause' and were relying upon the faith of Ni-
cholls's promises. Our Bluff people were the people of the
Negro fort, collected by Nicholls's and Woodbine's prochi-
Matioris; during the- American and F.oglisli sat ; and the
• cruise to which they stuck, was the savage, servile, externii-
•• stating war against the United States.
Among the agents and ;Actors of such virtuous enterprises
as are here unveiled, it was hardly expected that there would
be found reoiarkable evidences of their respect, confidence,
• and good faith towards one another. Accordingly, besides
the violent seizure and distribution, by Ambrister, of Arbuth-
not's property', his letttrs to Governor Cameron, and to Ni-
-chollS, are filled with the distrust anti suspicions of the In-
•• •dians, that they acre deceived and betrayed by Arbuthnot;
while in Arhutioroes letters to the same Nicholls, lie accuses
XLIX. Woridbiue of having taken charge of poor Francis
-the priipbet,•or Hid/is•Hadjo, upon -his return from England
• to New Providence; and under pretence of taking care.of him

and. his affairs-7a having defrauded him of a large portion
of the presents which had been delivered out from the King's
XLVIL a.l Stares to 'hiM, for Francis's use.--,This is one
of the passages of Arbuthnot's Letter to Nicholls, (war-
ted in the publication of it last August in the London
Newepa pers.
Is this narrative of dark and complicated depravity.; this
creeping and insidious .war„, both against Spain and the
United States; •this 'mockery Of patriotism; these political
plilters to fugitive slaves and Indian outlaws ; these perfidies
and treacheries of! viltaius incapable of keeping. their faith
even to each other, all in the name of South-American
olthe'rights of runaway Negroes,-and the wrongs of
savage murderers—all combined and ;projected to plunder
Spain of her provinces, 'arid to spread' massacre and devasta-
tion along the borders of the l'nited States;—is all ;11-t.-i suf-
ficient to cool the sympathies of his Catholic Majesty's tio-
verrituent, exCited by the execution of these two " subjects
of a power in amity with the King 1" The Spanish Govern-
ment not at this day to be informed, that cruel as war in
its anildest forms must be', .it is, stud .necessarily twist he,
doubly mite], when waged With savages; that savages make
•no prisoners; but teetorture them ;-that they give
_nu quar-
ter ; that they put to death, without discrimination of age
or's'ex; that these ordinary tharacteristicsof Indian warfare
have been applicable, in their must heart-sickening horrors,
to that war, left tis by NichollS, as his legacy, reitntigated I,y
Woodbine, Arbuthnot, and Ambrister, and stimulated by the
approbation, enCouragelnent, and' Itid of the Spanish Com- ,
macdant at St. Mark's. Is proof required ? f_;utreat the
Spanish Minister of- State, for a moment, to oeeieo'o,,e the
feelings which details like theSe must excite, ausl to reflect,
if possible, with composure, upon the facts statist in the fol-
lowing extracts from the documents .enclosed
Letter frost Sailing-master Jairus Loorhis. to ComModiire
Daniel T. Patterson, lath August, ial 6, reporting the de-
Xst ruction of the Negro Fort.
" On examining the prisoners, they stated that Edward Da-
niels, 0. S. who was made prisoner in the boat ran the 17th

July, was tarred and barni
Letter froni Archil,ald Clarke to General Gaines, 4t;th Fe-
bruary, 1817. (Message of the President uf the United States

'to ('tinzrreis, 26th ISIS, p. 9.) •
" On the 44th inst. the house of Mr. Garrett, residing in.
the upper part of this County, near the houudary of Wayne
County,Georgia, was attacked, during:kis absense,' near
. .

the niiddle of the day, by this party (441—Indians), consisting

of about fifteen, who shot Mrs. Garrett in twutia.c.es, an.i then

dispatched her by stabbing and scalping. tier two children,
one about three rears, and the other two months; were also
murdered, llid the eldest scalped : the house was then plun-
dered of retry article of value,. and set on tire."
• LXI.I Letter from. Peter B. Cook (Arkmthnot's cleikj to
Eliz. A. Carney, at Nassau, dated Suwahnee, 19th lanuxry,
1818; giving an =mint of their operations with the Indians
against the Anierieans,'and their massacre of Lieutenant

Scott and his party.
" There was a boat that was tatren by the (ndians, that had
'in 10. men. 7 Woinen, 4 stnall children. There were 6of the

.. .. ,
men got clear,. and .1 woman saved, and all the rest of them
got killed. The children were took by the leg, and their
brains dashed out against the boat." • ,
• If the bare - recital of scenes like these cannot be perused
without'sbuddering, what must -he the agonized feelings of
those.whose wives and children arc, from day to day, and

fr►un night to night, exposed to be the victims of the same
barbarity ? Has ►mercy It voice to plead fur the perpetrators
at►d instigators of Ards libe these ? Should in►luiry hereafter
be n►nd►, 'why, within three months after.this event, the
•savage Haniathli Micco, upon being taken by the AMerican
troops; was: Iry i'irder'of their Commander, in►mical ttely bong,
Let it. Le xi.4J that that savage was the Commander of the

party by which thole women were butchered, and those help-
less infants were thus dashed against the boat. Contending
with such enemies, although humanity revolts at entire reta-
liation upon:them, and spares the lives of their feeble and
defenceless women and children, yet mercy herself surrenders
to retribittive justice the lives of their leading warriors taken
in arnis—and still more the lives of the foreign white incen-
diaries, who, ditewned •bys'their -own Governments, and dis-
owning their own natures,. degrade themselves beneath the
savage character, by voluntarily descending to its level. Is
not this the dictate of common sense ?' Is it not the usage of
legitimate warfare ? it not Consonant to the soundest au-
thorities of national law ? " When at war (says Vattel) with
a ferocious nation, which observes no rules and grants no
quarter, they may be chastised in the persons of those.of
them who may he taken ; they are of the number of the
guilty ; and by this rigour the attempt may be made of bring-
ing them to a sense of the laws of humanity." And again :
" As a General has the right of sacrificing the lives of his
enemies to his own safety or that of his people, if he has to
contend with an itifitiman enemy, often guilty of such ex-
cesses, he may take the lives of some of his prisoners, and
treat them as his own people have been treated." Thejusti-
fication of these principles is found in their salutary efficacy,
for terror and for example. It is thus only that the barbari-
ties of Indians can be sinccessfully encountered. It is thus
only that the worse than Indian barbarities of European im-
postots, pretending authority from their Governments, but
always disavowed, can be punished and arrested. Great
Britain yet engages the alliance and eu:Stperation of savages
in war. But her Government has invariably disclaimed all
eounstenance or authorization to her subjects to institts,ate them
against us in time of peace. Yet so it has happened, that.
frosts the peririd of our established' independence to this day,
all the Indian wars with which we hate been afflicted have
been distinctly traceable to the instigation of English Traders
or Agents, always disavowed, net always felt, more than once
detected, I:nut-Hever before punished. Two of them, offenders
of the deepest dye, after solemn warning to their Govern-
ment, and. individually to one of them, have fallen, flassa'ante
&diet°, into the hands of an Arnerican General; and the pu-
nishment inflicted upon them has fixed them on high as an
example, awful in its exhibition, but, we trust, auspicious in
its results, of that which awaits unauthorized pretenders of
European agency, to stimulate and interpose in wars be-
tween the United States and the Indians within their control.
This exposition of the origin, the causes, and the character
of the War With the Seminole Indians and part of the Creeks,
conilsincd with M`Gregor's mockliatriots and Nicholls's Ne-
groes, which necessarily led our troops into Florida, and gave
rise to all those incidents of which Mr. Pizarro so vehemently
complains, will, it is hoped, enable you to present other and
sounder views of the subject to his Catholic Majesty's Go•
vrrninent. It will enable you to show that the occupation
of Pen;aeola and St. Mark's was occasioned neither by a
spirit of hostility to Spain, nor with a view to extort,
prematurely, the province front her possession; that it
was rendered necessary by the neglect' of Spain to per-
form her engagements of restraining the Indians from
hostilities against the United States, and by the culpable
countenance, eneouragosent,' and assistance given to those
Indians, in their hostilitiet,' by the Spanish Governor and
Commandant at those places : that the •United States
have a right to demand, as the President does demand, of
Spain, the puttisinnerit Of those Officers for their misconduct;
and he norther demands 'of Spain a just and reasonable in-
demnity to the United States for the heavy and necessary
expeuces which they have been compelled to incur, by the
failure of Spain to perfortni her engagement, to restrain the
Indians, aggravated by this demonstrated complicity of her
commanding officers with them, in their hostilities against
the United States: that the two Englishmen executed by
order of General Jackson were mit only identified with the
savages with whom they were carrying on the war against
the United Statet, but that one of them was the mover and
fomenter of the war, which, without his interference•and
false promises to the Indians of support from the British Go-
vernment, never would have happened—that the other was
the instrument of war against Spain as welt as the United
States, commissioned by M`Gregor, and expedited by Wood-
bine., upon their project of conquering Florida with these
Indians and Negroes: 'that, as accomplices of the savages,
and, sinning agaitist their better knowledge, worse than sa-
vages, Generahlackson, possessed of their persons and of
the proofs of theirguilf, 'might, by the lawful arid ordinary
usages of war, hate' hung theM both.without the formality
of a trial; that to allow then, every possible opportunity of re-
fitting the proofs or of showing any circumstance in extenua-
tion of their crime's, he gave them the benefit of a trial by a
court-martial of highly respectable officers : that the defence
of one consisted solely and exclusively of technical cavils at
the nature of part of the evidence against him, and the other
confessed his guilt. Finally, that in restoring Pensacola and
St. Mark's to Spain, the President gives the most signal proof
of his confidence, that hereafter her engagement to restrain,
by force, the Indians-Of Florida fronts all hostilities against
the United States, will be effectually fulfilled; that there
Will be no more murders, no more robberies within our bor-
ders, by savages prowling along the 'Spanish line, and seek-
Mg shelter within it, to display its the villages the scalps of
our women and children, their victims, and to sell, with
shameless effrontery, the'Plunder from our citizens in Spas
nish forts and cities ; that we shall hear no more apologies
from Spanish Governors and' Commandants, of their inabi-
lity to perform the duties of their office and the solemn con-
tracts of their country; no more-excuses for compliances to
the savage enemies of the United States, from the dread of
their attacks upon themselves; uo more harbouring of fos
reign impostors, upon compulsion; that a strength' sufficient
will be kept in the province to restrain the, Indians by force,
and officers empowered and instructed to employ it effectually
to maintain the good faith of the nations by the effective fill,
fitment of the Treaty. The duty of this Government to pro-
tect the persons and property of our fellow-citizens tan the
borders of the United States is imperative—it must be dis-
charged : and if, after all the warnings that Spain has had—
if, after the prostration of all her territorial 'rights and neu-
tral obligations,' by'Nichoils and inis• -banditti during sitar,
and of ail Inerareatystipulations, by Arbuthnot and Anibris=
ter, abetted by het. own Commanding Officers,-Attring peace,
to the cruel anintiyance of the United States—if the neeessis
ties of self-slefenee should again compel the United Slates to
take possession of the Spanisli'forts and places in Florida;
declare, with the candour and- frankness 'that becomes us,
that another uncooditional restoration of them must not be
expected; that even the President's confidence in the good
faith and ultimate justice of the Spanish Government
yield to the painful expeilenee of continual disappoitstment ;
and that, after unwearied and almost it tintimbered appeals to
them,' for the per flirt/sauce of their stipulated duties, in vain,
the United States will he reluctantly compelled to rely, for
thkprotectimi of their holders, upon themselves alone.

You are authorized to communicate the whole of this let-
ter, awl the aocompanying documents, to the Spanish Go-
vernment. i have the honour, &c.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.