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London, England, 1819-01-28 00:00:00

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

The following important Document has beet►
received from a Commerciasi House at Liverpool :

OUR RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.
DOCUMENTS TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS.

THE SECRETARY bP STATE OF THE UNITED STATES

TO THR MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY 01? THR-
UNITED STATES TO SPAIN, AT MADRID, (No.7j
Department of state, Washington, Nor. 28, ISIS.

Sae,--Your Dispatches, to No. 92 inclusive, with their en-.
Ow:lnes, have been received'at this Department. Among
these enclosures are the several notes addressed to, yoli by
Mr. Pizarro, in relation to the transactions during the cam-
paign of General Jackson against the Seminole Indians, and
the handiUi of Negroes combined with them, and particu-
larly to his proceedings in Florida, without the boundaries
of the. United States.

In the fourth and last of those notes of Mr. Pizarro he has
given formal notice, that the King, his master, has issued
orders for the suspension of the negociation, between the
United States and Spain, until satisfaction shall have been
Made by the American Government to hien for these pro-
ceedings of General Jackson, which he considers as acts of
unequivocal hostility against him, and as outrages upon his
honour and dignity; the only acceptable atonement for
which is stated to consist in a disavowal of the acts of the
American General thus complained of, the infliction upon
him of a suitable punishment for his supposed misconduct,
and the restitution of the posts and territories taken by him
from the Spanish authorities, with indemnity for all the pro-
perty taken, and all damages and injuries, public or private,
sustained in consequence of it.
Within a very few days after this notification Mr. Pizarro
must have received, with copies of the Correspondence be-
tween Mr. Onis and this Department, the determination
which
/had been taken by the President to restore 'the place
of Pensacola, with the fort of Barrantas, to any person pro-
perly authorized on the part of Spain to receive them; and
the Fort of St. Mark's to any Spanish force adequate to its
protection against the Indians, by whom its forcible occupa-
tion bad been threatened, for purposes of hostility against
tile United States. The officer comniamUng at the post hiss
been directed to consider 250 men as such adequate force;
and in case of their appearance, with proper authority, to
deliver it up to their Commander accordingly.

:Front the last-mentioned Correspondence, the Spanish:Go-
vernment must likewise have been satisfied that the occupa-.
tion of these places in Spanish Florida, by the Commander of
the American Fcerces,was not by virtue of any order received
by him from this Government to that effect, nor with any
view of wresting the province from the possession of Spain,
nor in any spirit of hostility to the Spanish Government; that
jt arose from incidents which occurred in the prosecution of
the war against the Indians—from the imminent danger in
which the Fort of St. Mark's was of being seized by the In-
dians themselves, and from.the manifestations of hostility to
the United States by the Commandant of St. Mark's and the
Governor of Pensacola, the proofs of which were made known
to General Jackson, and impelled him, from the necessities
of self-defence, to the steps of which the Spanish Government
cum p la ins.

It might be sufficient to leave the-rindication of these mea-
sures upon those grounds, and to furnish, in the enclosed co-
pies of General Jackson's letters, and the vouchers by which
they are supported, the evidence of that hostile spirit on the
part of the Spanish Commanders, ,but for the terms in which
Mr. Pizarro speaks of the execution of two British subjects,
taken, one at the Fort of St. Mark's, and the other at Su-

want', and the intimation that these transactions may lead
to a change in the relations between the two nations, which
is'douhtless intended to be understood as a menace of a war.

It may be, therefore, proper to rersind the Government of
his Catholic Majesty of the incidents in whici this Se:nittole
war originated, as well as of the eireamstaeces connected
with it, in the relations between Spain and her ally, whom
she supposes to have been injured by the proceedings of Ge-
neral Jackson, and to gi,:e to the Spanish Cabinet some pre-
cise information of the nature of the business, peculiarly
interesting to Spain, in which these subjects of her allies, in
whose favour she takes this interest, were engaged, when
their projects of every kind were terminated, in consequence
of their falling into the bands of General Jackson.
'ln the mouth of August, 1 8 i4,while a war existed between
the United States and Great Britain, to which Spain had
formerly declared herself neutral, a British force, not in the
fresh pursuit of a defeated and flying enemy—not overstep-
ping an imaginry and equivocal boundary between their• own
territories and those belonging, in some sort, as much to their
enemy as to Spain, but approaching by sea, and by a broad
and open invasion of the Spanish province, at a thousand
miles, or an ocean's distance from any British territory,
landed in Florida,. took possession of Pensacola and the Fort.
of Barrancas, and invited; by public proclamations, all the
runaway Negroes—all the savage Indians—all the pirates,
and all the traitors to their country, whom they knew or
imagined to exist within reach of their summons, to join
their standard, and wage an exterminating war against the
portion of the United States immediately bordering upon
this neutral and thus violated territory of Spain.. The Land
Commander of this British force was a certain Col. Nicholls,
who, driven from Pensacola by the approach of General
Jackson, actually left, to be blown up, the Spanish Fort of
Barrancas, when he found it could not afford him protection,
and, evacuating that part of the province, landed at another,
established himself on the Appalachicola river, and there
erected a fort, from which to sally forth, with his motley
tribe of black, white, and red combatants, against the de-
fenceless borders of the United States in that vicinity. A
part of this force consisted of a corps of colonial marines,
levied in the British colonies, in which George Woodbine
~wis a Captain, and Robert Chrystie 11-21 Awbrister was
A Lieutenant.

As between the United States and Great Britain, we
LX.] should he willing tobury this transactions in the same
grave of oblivion with other transactions of that war,bad the
hostilities of CoY.- Nicholls tern►iaated with the war. -But he
did not consider the peace which ensued between the United
States and Groat Britain as having pnt an end either to his
military occupations or to his negociations with the Indians,
against the United States. Several month. after the ratifica-
tion of the Treaty of Ghent, he retained his post and !list

p.ory•coloured forces in military array.
11-2.) By the 9th Article of the Treaty, the Vnited States
,tipolated in pot an end, immediately after its ratifica-
tion, to hostilities with all the Tribes or Nations of Indians
Stith Wool!' they might be at war at the time of the rat ifica-
and to restore to them all the possessions which they
enjoyctiin the year 1811. This article had no appiica.