The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-05 00:00:00

MORE JACKSONS.

An order was recently issued in Florida, by Co-
lonel King, to put to instant death, without
or form of a trial, any deserter that was
taken. In consequence, a party under the com-
mand of Lieut. -, went in pursuit of a man
Of this...de.scription, whom they overtook ; they
infotmed the prisoner of the nature of their
orders, and their readiness to execute them. He
firmly expostulated with the officer ; demanded a
trial, claiming his rights as a man and an Ame-
rican citizen. But finding his expostulations
vain, he kneeled down and received the fatal bul-
let in his breast !

111 Another instance, it is reported, that, in the
Alabatna territory, a soldier was condemned by
his officer,, as plillishment for intoxication, to be
ducked ; which was executed on the spot, and
carried to that excess that the man was literally
drowned. This order was also issued without the
fonts of trial.

At Greenbay, on the western side of Lake Mi-
chigan, the military, as the same report stilt, s,
have assumed a complete controul over the civil
authority. Citizens have been taken up for real
or pretended offences, been tried by courts-mar-
tial, and the punishment of what is called picket-
iing inflicted upon them. That is, by placing the
culprit on four wooden pins, drove firmly in the
ground, with the points exposed above the ground
a half or quarter of an inch; over these he is sus-
pended by cords fastened to the thumbs, and when
he can no longer sustain himself in the air, he must
let himself down ors the pins.

HURON, OHIO, APRIL 29.---MESSRS. WEB•
STERS AND SKIN NERs.—A murder was perpetrated
a few days since, which alarms the people : some
are led to apprehend an Indian war ; the terror,
I presume, will spread far and wide.
On Saturday list, the dead bodies of Mr. John
Wood and Mr. tieorge Bishop were discovered in
their hunting camp, about twelve miles up the
*Carrying River. On examination the bodies
were found mangled in the most shocking man-
ner, apparently done by the Indians. From the
,position in which they were found, they were
probably tomahawlied while asleep, and no re-
sistance made. Strong suspicious rest on three
Indians of the Ottowa or Pottowatomi tribe, who
had been lurking .about their camp for some time.
Since the murder they have not been seen. The.
camp was pillaged of ten traps, and cooking
utensils, &c.

* N. 13. The Carrying Myer Emptiesinto Lake Me, about
three miles from the head of Sandusky Bay.

MAZEPPA.—Of Mazeiva, the hero of Lord BIT.•
RON7d new Poem, M. LESUR gives an interesting
account in his Histoire des Kosaques He was
born in the Palatinate of Podolia, of a good fa-
mily, and was Page to Jean Casimer, King of
Poland. He bad received at the' Court of thke
!Prince sonic knowledge of the Beres Lott-, a ;
the graces of his manners and of his per-
son introduced him to the house of a man of
rank, whose wife became enamoured of him.—
The husband • having surprised then), scourged
Nlazeppa cruelly, tied him on a wild horse, and
let him loose among the Steppes of Ukraine ;
and thus this unfortunate yoling criminal was
carried off into the desert: A peasant came to his
assistance ; his health, broken down by fatigue,
Was re-established, and he enrolled himself among
the Cossacks. Ile was soon distinguished by his
bravery, and still more by his intelligence. Ma-
zeppa took part with CharlesXll . in the war against
Peter the Great was r‘resent with a small troop of
Cossacks at the battli'of Pultowa ; and after that
celebrated. defeat, retired with the Swedish mo-
narch to Bender. It is doubtful whetherhe poison-
ed himself or died of sorrow, whie in the Turkish
dominions. The story of the Poem embraces the
principal incidents of Mazeppa's eventful life, as
related by himself on the evening of the fatal bat-
tle of Pultowa.

SUDDEN DEATH —On Saturday last a Coroner's
Inquest was held on the body of Mr. ALEXANDER
WILsoN, gunsmith, ot Sherrard-street,
who died suddenly on Friday •It ap-
peared, by the evidence, that the deceased, after
his shop hail been shot up for the evening, went
out with an intention ot taking. a walk in the
REGENT'S Park ; when he reach( d Oxtord-street,
he was seized with a pain in the head, and sat down
on a step of a shop--ti coachman on the stand ob-
serving his situation,immediately went towardshim,
and asked hint if he was unwell ? The deceased re-
plied, that he was very ill, and begged the coach-
man to drive him to his family Doctor, who lived
in the oeighbourhood, which he accordingly did,
bin the Doctor was not at home. The deceased
then requested the coachman to drive hint to his
own house in Sherrard-street. On the arrival of
the coach at the deceased's house, the coach-
man knocked at the door ; Mrs. WILsoN
came out, when the coachman told her that a
Gentleman was in his coach extremely ill. Mrs.
W. immediately exclaitned, " My God 1. I hope
ii is not my husband." Si,e opened the coach-
door, 4inl, shocking to relate, found her htt.iband,
lyeless, sittiiig upon the seat, with his head re-
(dined against the back of the coach. The feel-
ings of Mrs. W. can more he imagined than de-
scribed. Mr. SIIAW, a professional Gentleman,
opened the body of the deceased, and also the
scull, when a suffusion of water was found on the
brain, Which undoubtedly occasioned Mr. WIL-
SON'S immediate death. The Verdict of the Jury
was, " Died by the Visitation of God." Mr.
WILsoN was highly respected in private life, u
well US eminent in his business.

Cowes, JULY 2.—A sailing match of consider-
able interest to the amateurs of sailing, is spoken
of to take place on Saturday, the 10th instant, for
a eweepstakes purse of 50 guineas each. The
yachts already named for the match are, the liar•
guess of ANGLESEA'S Emerald, 75 tons ; Mr,
IVELD's Charlotte, 66, and Mr. BARING'S Irk, 70
tons. The course will probably he front Cowes to
the Needles, to a 110;.-ystaff stationed between Lul.
worth Castle (at a good offing) and Swanile; the
time e( %toning from Cowes, six o'clock, A. M.