Star.
London, England, 1823-10-02 00:00:00

LOGAN

In the spring of 1774, says Jefferson in his notes on
Virginia, a robbery and murder werescommitted on an
inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia by two Indians of
the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring Whites, accord-,'
ing to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in
a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous
for the many murders he had committed on those much
injured people, collected a party and proceeded down
the Kanhaway in quest of vengeance; unfortunately a
canoe with women and children, with one man only,
was seen coming from the opposite shore unarmed, and
unsuspecting an attack from the Whites. Cresap and
his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river,
and the moment the canoe reached the shore singled
out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in
it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had
long been distinguished as a friend of the Whiten. This
unworthy return provoked his vengeance; he accord—
ingly distinguished himself in the war which ensiled.—
In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was,
fought at the mouth of the great Kanhaway, in which
the collected force of the Shawanees, Mingoes, and the
Delawares, were defeated by a detachment of t! le Vir-
gieia militia. The Indians sued • for peace. Logan,
however, disdained to be.seen among the supplicants;
but lest the sincerity of the treaty should be distrusted
from which so distinguished a Chief abstracted himself,
he sent, by a messenger, the following speech, to be de-
livered to Lord Dunmore:

" I appeal to any white man if he ever entered • Logan's cabin
hungry and he gave him not to eat, if he ever came cold and naked
and he clothed him not ? During the course of the last long and
bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for
peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen
pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the friend of white men.
I had even thought to have lived with you buc for the injuries of
one man. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, murdered
all the relations of Logan, even my women and children. There
runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature.—
This called on me for revenge. I have fought for it. I have killed
many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I re-
joice at the bea.ms of peace; but do not harbour a thought that mine
is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel
to sive his life. Who is there to mourn fur Logan? Not one!"

Yesterday afternoon, as a man was driving down
Di ury-lane with a horse and cart, in which were two
children, one of the wheels got into a rut in the street,
and the concussion threw both the children out. A
man passing at the time fortunately caught one of them
in his arms; the other's head was shockingly cut, and
the right arm broke: it was carried to the Hospital.

DUELLlNG.—Commodore Decatur fell in a duel, he
having killed five men in the same way himself. He
swore shamefully at the Doctors while dying, because
they could not extract the fatal ball from his bowels.
He is called by the National Intelligencer, " one of the
bright stars of Colombia, set for ever !" and the country
is summoned to mourn for him. The President and
the heads of departments, with military and naval of-
ficers and citizens, walked in procession at his funeral.
" The laws of HEAVEN and earth on this subject," says
Mr. Faux, " are here quite insulted, by common con-
sent. —A Lady, hearing that her husband was gone to
fight a duel, sent an express, charging that he should
be brought home a corpse rather than disgraced."—
Lady's Magazine. •

INDIAN GREATNESS OP MiND.--In the year 1781,
when almost all the Indian nations were in the British
interest, except a part of the Delawares, among whom
were the Christian Indians, between two and three hun-
dred in number, the British Indian Agent at Detroit
applied to the Great Council of the Six Nations at Nia-
gara, to t emove those Christian Indians out oldie coun-
try. The Iroquois, upon this, sent a war message to
the Chippewa% and Ottawas to this effect:—" We here-
with make you a present of the Christian Indians to
make soup of;" which, in the war language of the In-
dians, is saying, " We deliver these people to you to be
murdered r These brave and magnanimous Indians
sent the messenger immediately back again with this
reply, "We have no cause for doing this!"
At the late Confirmation in Exeter, one of the young
persons who knelt at the altar for episcopal benediction,
was observed by th? Bishop to laugh just as his hands
were extended over him : his Lordship paused, and after
addressing a few words of admonition to the indifferent
youth, on the impropriety of hypocritically presenting
himself before the DEITY with his lips, while his heart
was far from Gun, passed him ht without admitting
the ratification of his baptismal vows.
DEATH BY FlGHTlNG.—Thursday, an Inquest was
held at Yarm-uth, before E. PRESTON, Esq. Coroner, on
the body of Thomas Pile, about seventeen years of age,
who, in a pugilistic contest with Richard Tennant. on
the Tuesday previous, received two viclent blows on
the stomach and throat, and being removed from the
ground in a senseless state, expired on Thursday after-
noon. The Inquest was adjourned till the following
morning, when the Jury returned a verdict of Man-
slaughter against Tennant and the two seconds, C.
Parker and B. Paul, jun. who are committed for trial.

A man who described himself as William Snell, a
machine•maker, travelling in search of employment,,
was found on Sunday morning, lying senseless and
bleeding, on the highway about a mile eastward of Truro.
Being relieved, he told his tale—that he had been robbed,
and beaten by some foot passengers, &c. He was takenl
care of; and some men apprehended on suspicion
when, lo! Snell himself absconded! and the hue and
cry of the neighbourhood are gone in search of him.
Monday several favourite tunes were played on the
bells of St. George's, Camberwell, by three of tbe So-
ciety of St. James's Youths, and, being the first tunes
' ever played on those bells, excited surprise, and af-
forded much pleasure to the inhabitants.
It is a constant practice with the Wine-merchants
who supply inns, says a Correspondent, to make " Inn-
keepers dozens" of from fifteen to eighteen bottles each;
and allowing from each of these lit& quarts the esta-
bli.hed perquisite of a top and bottom glass, before and
after decanting, to the waiter, the thirsty guest need not
be much afraid of intoxication.

There are already eighty•seven prisoners for trial at
the Michaelmas Old Bailey Sessions, which will commence on
Wednesday fortnight.

The superstitions respecting the moon are without
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-

BOW-STRERT.

GDOSN MISCONDUCT or • Paraca..--Yestesday a complaint was
made before the sitting Magistrate, by a Medical Gentleman of the
name of Wilson, residing at Park-place, Brixton, against Andrew
Lloyd and his partner, two of the patrol belonging to this office.
Mr. Wilson stated, that having lately removed to Brixton from
the neighbourhood of Blackheath, he had employed himself in anist-
ing in putting up some shelves, &c. in his new habitation ; after
which, having occasion to call on a relation close by, be did not
stop to change the old clothes he had purposely put on, but merely
throwing a plaid round him, proceeded towards her residence.—
Having been much afflicted with the rheumatism in his knees, he
had occasion to stop repeatedly on the road, when he was at length
challenged by the patrol, who not only used the most offensive ex-
pressions towards him, but even thrust violently against him with
the intention, as he imagined, of provoking a quarrel, and not only
persisted in such improper conduct after he had given him his ad-
dress, but threatened to lock him up if ever he caught him out at
that time of the evening again. The hour was bitween seven
and eight o'clock.

Mr.-111iNsaum. assured him this case should be carefully inquired
into ; adding, that as Lloyd had been many years attached to the
of and had ever borne a good character, it was but fair he should
have ab opportunity of making his defence. He therefore gave or-
ders that the two patio' should attend to.mort ow, when the affair
would undergo a further investigation.