Star.
London, England, 1807-10-09 00:00:00

BAYONNE, SEP F. 7.

His Excellency the Governor of Paris, General in
Chief of the army of La Gironde, who has taken up
Eris cantonments in nor department, received on the
4.ih the civil and military authorities, the tribunals,
and the chamber of commerce.

On the 5 h the merchaws were prefented to him.
M. Caharru• addreflrd his Excellency in the follow.
fpeech : •

" Monfrigreur—The merchants of a city, diftinguilhed for
!I.:racy to its Sovereigns, come to prefent their hr.mage to your
Excellency. The high confidence which his Imperial and Royal
Nlajelly has long pined in your Excellency, indicates the impor-
tarce of the commiffion which you are about to execute. With-
Mit reeking to divine the fccret, we indulge the hope that its refults
%viU be favourable to commerce.

" It will be highly flitteritig to the illuftrious co-operators, fuch
as your f xeellency, in the vidlories of the Hero who governs us,
to be affociated with him in the benefits be difpen(es, after having
been the companions of his,glory, and to (hare the bettedidtiona re-
!cr wed for the Pacificator of Europe.
" If the ezercife of the fundtions entrufted to your Eze llency
required the concurrence of commerce, you might be affured,
hionfeigneur, of the devotion of the citizens of Bayonne. Your
Eaccileney has perfonal claims upon it, for the prole. Lion which
you gratitcd it, during the period of your erobalTy at Li(bon. We
eagerly embrace this opportunity of czpreßing our thanks fur it to
your Excellency."

Monfeigneur. the G )vernor, replied, that he felt
g7eat fatisfaelion at teeing the body of Merchants al
rembled on the t,ccAftnn ; 1114 be wiltlitappy in hay.
wg been able to render let vtce to the commerce of
3ayoune, in a particwlar circumliance, during his di.
,2lomatic million in Puttugal, and promifed to con.
:Moe his proteßion, if new opportunities thould
;relent themfelves.
HIS Escellency let out on the 6th, on a little tour
through the places where the troops, who yeiler day
adr +need towards Outthes, and other pasts a the
,:epat tmtut, art to be cantor:rd.

AIfERICA
Subftance of a Talk delivered at Le Maiouinoug,entranv of Lake
Michigan, by the Indian Chief I.IC- MAIGOUIS, nn the Trolitt.
May 4, as coming from the firft man whom Con treated: tali
to be now in theSkaivanefe Country, addrtifed to all the diffyresk.
tribes of Indians.
miaGnuis HOLDING IN HIS HAND riCHT STRINGS
OF OLD WAMPUM,- FOUR WHITE AND FOUR IS LUZ,
spoicg AS FOLLOWS

" Brothers!—Tbefe ftrings of Wampum cotre from
the GREAT SPIRIT. Do nor defpile them, fur he
knows every thing. They are to gn all round the
earth till they are loft. They were fent to you by
the Ftitsr MAN he created, with thefe words :

"Children I I was afleep when the GREAT SPIRIT
addrefling himfelf to another Spirit, fait! : I have
doled my book of account: with man, and am going
to deflroy the earth ; but firft I will awaken from
the fleep of the dead, the EA man I created : he is
wife, and let us hear if he has aught to Ny. He
then awoke me, and told me what he was about to do.
—I looked round the world and faw my RED CHIL-
DREN had greatly degenerated ; that they bad be-
come fcattered and miferable. When I law this I
was grieved on their account, and alked leave of the
Gam SPIRIT to come and fee if I could reclaim
them. I requefled the GREAT SPIRIT to grant, in
cafe they fhould Mien to my voice, that the world
might yet fubfifl for the period of their full lives, and
my requea was granted.
" Now, theref, re, my children Mien to my voice, it
is that of the GREAT SPIRIT !—lf you hearken to my
counfel, and follow my infirudions for four years,
there will then be two days of darknef:, &ring .which
I fluff travel unfeen through the land, and caufe the
animals, fuch as they were formerly when I created
them, to come firth out of the earth. Tlre GREAT
SPIRIT bids me agdrefs you in his owH words, which
are thefe :

" My Children !—You are to have very little in-
tercourfe with the IVhites They are not your/,/hers,
RS you call them, but your brethreff. IAM YOUlt FA
THER. When you call me fo you ri _sr well ; I am
the Father of the Englith, of the French, of the Spa-
niards, and of the Indians. I created the firli man,
who was the common father of all thefe people, as
well as yourfelves, and it is through him whom I
have awaked from his fldep, that I now addrefs you.
But the Americans I did not make. They are not
my children, but the children of the Evil Spirit
7hey grew from the limn of the great water, when it
nuns troubled by the Evil and the froth was driven
into the woods by a flrong eel wind ; they are numerous,
but I hate them ; they have taken away your lands, which
were not made for them.
"My Child-en—The Whites I placed on the other
fide of the Green Lake, that they might be a leparate
people. To them I gave alifferent manners, cultoms,
animals, vegetables, for their ufe. To them I
have given cattle, Bleep, fwine, and poultry, for
thernfr.tves rnly. You are not to keep any of firth
animals, nor to eat of their meat. To you I have
given the deer, the bear, and all wild animals, and
the HI that !stint in the river, and the corn that
°rows in the fields, for your own de ; and you are not
to give your meat or your corn to the Whites to eat.
" My Children—Yon may falute the Whites when
you meet them, but mutt not flake hands. You
muff not get drunk ; it is a great fin: Your old men
and chiefs may drink a lirie pure fpirits, inch as
comes from Montreal—but you mutt not drink one
drop of whiskey ! It is the drink of the Evil Spirit.—
It was not made by me, hut by the. Americans. It
is a roifon ; it makes you lick : it burns your infides.
Neither are you on any account to eat bread, it is the
food of the Whites.

" My Children—You mufk plant cam for your-
feves for your wives, ard for your children, and
when you do it, you air to help each other ; but
plant no more than is neceffary for your own ute.—
You mull not fell it to ihe Whites. It was not made
for them I made all the trees of the forell for
your ore, but the map ;e I love bell, becatife it y ields
lugat t for your little ones. You mull make it only
for them, but fell none to the Whites.• They have
another fugar which was made expielAy for them ;
befidet, by making too much, you (poil the trees, and
give them pain by cutting and hacking them, for
they have a feeling like yomfelves. It you make
more than is neciesry for your own tile, you
die, and the maple will yield no more water. If a
white man is Wareing, you may fell him a very little
corn, or a very little fugar, but it mull be by mea-
lure and by weight.
" My Children—You are indebted to the traders,
hut you mull pay them no more than half their credit:,
lecaufe they lave cleated you. You mull pay them in
fkins, gums, canoes, tke. but not in meat, corn, or
fugar. You mull not drefs like the IVhites, nor wear
hats like them, brit pluck out your hair as in ancient
times, and wear the feathers of the eagle on your
heads ; and when the weather is not fevere, you mull
go naked, excering the breech cloth—and when you
are clothed, it mut. be iu fkins or leather of your
own drilling.
" My Children—You complain that the animals of
the (melt 'are few and fcattered. How Ihould it be
otherwife ? You deftroy them yourfelves for their
Ikins only, and leave their bodies to rnt, and give chi
belt pieces to the whites. I am dif?leafed when I
fee this, and take them bath to the earth, that they
may not come to you again. You mull kill trdmore
animals than are neceffary to feed and clothe you ;
and you are to keep but one dog, becaufe by keep
ing too many, you llarve them.'
" My Children.—Your women mull not live with
the traders or other white men, unlefs they are law-
fully matri:d. Thit Ido not like even this ; becaufe
my WHITS and ern children were thus marked
with different colours that they might be a feparate
people.
[Here follow certain regulations rcfpeEling court-
fhip and marriage ; as alfo telpee.ing the purifita-
Lion of women, at cettaili periods, which are ton mi-
nutely detailed to be repeated. The Great Spirit
alfo direes them all to bathe at certain periods, to

• Vait quantities of letlian Corn are reared by the Indiana of
CI • the, a •illage ten mile► in length, lying on Lake Michi-
gan, at the diftanee of nine leagues from MR hillmaekinac. I( is
purehafcti by the traders, and is the principal food of their men
umployed in the fur trade.

Stizar is alfn made by them in great abundance. A fingle fa.
mtly make* tram ten to thirty moLuki (as they tail them) con•
tattling on an avtrare, about aslbs. each. It iq fold to the traders,
and it worth from ten to twelve cents. per lb. It i• often rupertor
in whitener' .o the belt Mut-condo rope.

wofh away theirine ; upon the obfervance of which
regulations, they are to be pardoned four times for
the fame offence ; filch as Reeling, getting drunk, or
the like ; but the fifth time, lays the Great Spirit,
'; ragjhall Are& ale r,)
' Your wife men (or Conjurors) have had medicines
in their bags. They mutt throw away their medicine'
bags, and when the medicine is in bloffom, colic& it
hen) and pure. You mull make no leans to the evil
434464 the earth ; but only to The good (pinks of the
air. You are no more to dance the WARANO nor
the POIGAN or pipe dance. 1 did not put you on the
earth to dance thole dances, but you are to dance naked
with your bodies painted, and with the .Hioauntakfunt
(war club) in your hands. You mutt all ''have this
weapon, and never leave it behind you. When you
dance this, I (ball always look on with pleafwe.—
You are to make yourfelves Pala touance (or crnffes)
which you muff always carry with you, and amufe
youifelves often with that game (a kind of bat hall
common among the ravages, which requires great
agilityt). Your women muff have alto handfome
fte guomaltli, that they may play alto ; for I made
you to amufe yourfelvec, and I am delighted when I
fee you happy. You are, however, tinter logo to war
agoinfl each other, but to cultivate peace between your
different tribes, that they may become one Great
People.
" My Children.—No Indiainmtift ever fell rum to
Indians. It makes him rich, but when he dies he
becomes very wretched. You bury him with all his
wealth and ornaments •abeut•bim, and as he goes
along the path of the dead, they fall off from him ;
he flops to take them up, and they become deli He
at lett arrives almntt at the place of tell, and then
crumbles into dull himfeif. But thole wits), by their
tabour furnifh themfelves with neceffaries only, when
they die, are happy ; and when they arrive at the
Land of the Dead, will find their wigwam turnilhed
with every thing they find on earth."
[Thus far the Great Spirit ]
N.iw my Children, laid the fief created man, lillen
h what I ant about to add. The Great Spirit then
opened a door, Chewing me a bear and a deer, both
very Intell and very lean, and laid : Look here, my
Snn, tl.afe are the animals that are now on the earth;
the Red people have fpoiled them by killing them
too young, and giving their meat to the whites, and]
WO by greeting themfelves with their far, which is
very wrong. The women, when they greafe their
bodies or their hair, Mould da it only with the fat of
the (mailer animals : of racoons, of otters, of fisaker,
&c. The Great Spirit then opened another door,
and (hewed me a bear and a deer, extremely fat, and
of a very extraordinary lize, laying, Look here,
my Son ! Thole are the animals I placed on the
earth when I created you."
Now, my Children, Mien to what I fay, and let
it fink into your ears—it is the orders of the Great
Spirit
My Children—Ycu mull not (peak of this TALK
to the Whites. It mull he hidden from them. I
am now on the earth, fent by the Great Spirit to iii.
tiro& you. Each village mull fend me two or more
principal Chiefs to reprefent to you, in order that
you may be taught. The bearer of this Talk will
point nut to you the path to my wigwam. I could
not come myfelf to Altillte CILOCHE, becaufe the
world is changed from what it was ; it is broken and
leans down ; and as it declines, the Chippewas and
all beyond will fall off and die : therefore you mutt
come to fee me and be inftrufted in order to prevent
it. Thole villages which do not linen to this Talk,
and fend me two deputies, will be cut off from the
face of the earth.

I The game at which they crere playing, when nlil Macana,
their Chief, was taken boy Itratagem, and killed by the Americans.
II Another game for the amufement of the Indian women.—
Two li tle halls are dal trgether by a thong 11l inches in length,
ar...1 thrown with a flick.

TRIAL. OF AARON BURR.-TENTH DAY.

RICHMOND, AOGUST 23.

This day Simeon Poole, Maurice 13 Belknap, and
Edmund B. Dana, all of whom refided in the Rate
of Ohio, in the neighbourhood of Blennerhaffet's
Ifland, were examined as to the aftemblage of wen
at that place.
From all the evidence hitherto introduced it hay.
ing appeared that Col. Burr was not on the Mold at
the time when the overt aft of treafon was charged
to have been there committed ; and it being acknow-
ledged on the part of the United States. that he was
not prefent, Colonel Burr and his Coutitel objetied
to the admi(Tibility of any further evidence, on the
ground that the proof of any connexion between
him and the men affembled on the ifland, or of his
having contrived or procured them to a (limbic, would
not be fufficient, (even on the fuppofiti m that they
were guilty of treafon,) to convift him of an overt aft
of treafon in levying war againft the United States.
This objeflion gave rife to a moll important de.
bate, on the event of which the ultimate fate of the
trial in a great degree depends.
It was opened by Mr. Wickham, in a learned, in-
genious, and elaborate fpeech, which failed full five
hours, and cunfumed the Tea of the time allowed to
the fcCaJn of the Court.

• ELEVENTH DAY..-.-AVGLIST 2E.
Mr. Wickham continued his argument ( which was
not finlihed yelierday,) and concluded about twelve
n'cl ; the lefEon of the Court having commenced
at ten.

The points of law contended for by him, in the
courfe of his long and interetting dilcourfe, were, ge-
nerally, that treaft.n in levying war againft the
United States cannot be committed without the em-
ployment of afloat force ; that, under the definition
of treafon, in the Conllitution of the United States,
acerfarier (who would he fo denominated in cafes of
felony) are not to be confidered as prinsifrala, in cafe
of treqlim ; that no perfon can be charged with trea-
fon in levying war againft the United States,
upon the ground of his counfelling or procuring
the overt ad of treafon, or being acceffary thereto,
either before or after the fad ; and that a perfon ac-
cured of accelfotial or derivating treafon, cannot be
tried and convicted without producing a record of
the eonviaion of the principal agent in the overt a&.
He alto entered into an examination of the evi-
dence, fo far as it had been introduced, and endea-
voured to flies./ that no aCt of levying war againit the
United Stares was proved to have bun committed at
Birttnerhaft% la and.
The Counfel for the United States objected to
his arguing on this part of the inquiry, fioce the
jury 4:0n.:, and not the C.ourto wtr: to judge.of the

weight of the evidence ; hut the Court declared,
that whether the argument was corred or incorral,
they wete compelled by their duty to hear it.
After Mr. Wickham had finifhed, two witneffes
were introduced on the part of the United States
(mad Miller and Turley Howe), for the yurpore of
completing the evidence relcive to the affemblage of
men on Blennerhafrett's Ifland.

Mr. Randolph then continued the debate on the
part of Col. Burr, until near three o'clock.
Mr. Hay then moved the Court to allow the Coon.
fel for the United States time until Monday next, to
enable them to make the necelary prcparatiins to
anfwer the great variety of arguments that had beta
adduced.

On this motion a defultory converfation took place,
in which a number of curious and Come ludicrous
remarks were made. The Court at length decidedis
favour of the motion. The argurucnt, therefore,
will be reissued on Monday.

The Court is to fit on ti.is day (Saturday) at 11
o'clock, for the purpofe of arraigning Mr. Blennec.
half at.

More legal knowledge, more ingentity, and more
fubtlety were, perhaps, never before witneffed is
any Court. The mufty records of three centuries
were unfolded, and thole almoft forgitten authoritio
were introduced to decide fate of Aaron Burr.

It is underftond that Mr. Hay will, on Monday,
follow Meffrs. Wickham and Randolph—who will
be followed by the Counfel for. the priforter—and
thus continue, until the whole arcane of law 6111
be explored in the dircutlion of there impoitant point;.
From the courfe purfued by Mr. Wic'liham, it is
the opinion of many, that Blennerhateyif tile Coun.
fel for Burr fhould be driven to.the lea extremity,
will be ficrificed to rave the neck of the traitor.
Throughout his arguments, he reprefented Blamer-
hetet as the principal ; and as the law will admit of
no acceffary in treafon, Burr .not being. prefent at
the cotnmition of the overt ad, they contended• that
he cannot be guilty. Commm kale revolts at this
monarous abfurdity.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY-AT ONE O'CLOCK
Confols, money, 6t#}—bfor acc.6ll-oinnium, dif.
Exchequer Bills, par to is. dlr. •
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
3 pt-r Car. Rect. Run India Bonds, is. diC
3 per Cent. Confols 6e#}l Enke. Bills. is dif • •
5 per Cent. Navy phi Engliih Tickets la
India Stock t I Conf. for acc. 6at

A Proclamation has been ifrued at Memel, by the
Court of Admiralty and Commerce at that place,
dated sd September, by which all: Englifh Vet&
are forbid to enter that or. any' Pruflian Port, and'
even Neutral Vefrels, coming from a Baal Port,
are included in this prohibition.—The Letters from
Memel, which tranfmitted the Proclamation to thii"
Country, (tate, that BOMA rmtra has nude a Requi.
fition to the Court of Peterlburgh ft./hut her Pert:
again) all Conunerciallniercourfe with this Country.

We.long looked for littera from our able 'COrrt•
fpandent with General WMITILOCIC't army : though
not killed, he was feverely wounded in this difallrous
bulinefs. His letter, though (hart, has at length
utilised : it is dated Monte Video, 22d July. After
informing us of the extreme difficulty an officer had
in getting a letter fent home, and the caution requi.
red in writing.—" The difalirous accounts from this
quarter will be fully detailed in the public journals,
and you will from them learn my fate. Here we
cannot and dare not judge of the moll unexpected
event of the Expedition. Depend on it, the old
Regiment has 101 l no part of that high fpirit they
acquired on other equally hot, theugh more form.
nate days. We were more fortunate than many of
our neighbours; one regiment, the 88th, who entered
the town with about Soo men, 101 l soo men, and 17
officers, in killed and wounded : moll of the wounded
were in the end killed. The troops all behaved well.
My intimate friend ---, was a prifoner for tome
time : he Pays, the better fort of Spaniards treated
them well ; but the common foldiery, in the mot
beatify and brutal manner. The officers loft every
'thing they had, poor fellows, even their watches, hats,
I and bpots. The troops already embarked are the
4sth, 88th, and 95th ; thefe regiments will, it is fup.
paid, fail immediately, and that welhall
The 47th and 87th go to the Cape and India.
"The churches and private houfes in Buenos Ayres
are filled with wounded, which the enemy attacked
. .
from the Rivets. The eeelefiallics, as well as the gen.
tell part of the inhabitants here, have hearts7'of the
fineß humanity and genernfiry.
44 The enemy, in point of difcipline and appeeratue,
.
are the moll pedal rabble you can eoostive."

Private letters Rate, that all the vefrels detainel
in the Texel were, on the asth, ordered to fail op to
Amfterdam. Next morning, however, frith orders
arrived refpeiling them, and the Dutch naval Com•
mander directed them to remain where they were.--
It is believed that they would at laft be permitted to
fail to their refpeeli7e deltinations.
The Archbilhop of ToLEDdo and fuite, who landed
laft Mcnday week at Filey Bay, near Scarborough,
proceeded by York and Barnfley to Wentworth
Cattle. The Bilhnp, a fine old man, was accom•
partied by Admiral GoscHoctua, a Pricfl, and Sc•
cretary. The niece of the Archbilhop accomPothl
his Grace alfo. The Archltillaop intends to pals this
winter in the North of England.
RICHARD FakWIN, Efq. chairman of the Hon.
Board r,f Cuiloms, has been at Neweafile, and all
the neighbouring ports, examining the officers of
cunoms, as to their fees and emoluments, preparr
tory to eitablifhing &ivies in lien thereof.