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river." An old Pottawatomie, who has abandoned
_ ____ his tribe.nnd resides near this place (St. Louis) says,
,—,..--. . that his son has jest returned from the Prophet's
fsEW YORK, JULY 2r,-.27. Town, and the numerous Indian villages on the sou-
Aii,! poor i:e&radt-..! America. \ • - them borders of the lakes. The Prophet •calculates
The Nation2l Intelligencer contains a tale told by one on being able to collect all the Pottawatornies and
u J. B. Colvin," which shews the condition of the Saukies, two thirds of the Kickapoos, a considerable
Administration much more wretchedly degraded number of the Ortoways, and a proportion of' the
than ever John Adams anticipated it would be. This Sliewances. .Two or three hundred of these Indians
Colvin has had the impudence and arrogance to pub. have gone, by invitation, to Fort Maiden, for alms
. lash, through the Presidential trumpet in Washing- and ammunition.
tin, that he (Colvin) was the writer of the official Since writing the above, we are told that a small
dispatch to Mr. Armstrotg, which bears the signa- party, sent in pursuit of the Indians who committed
ttare of Robert Smith, and has been published in the the murder on Clinton-hill, hive returned ; they over-
Ex-Secretary's book ; and also the letter to Whiske- took them on the road to their villitge, in a prairie,
rondos Turreau, likewise signed and published by the three days north of the scene of bl.od. The savages
said Robert Smith ; and moreover, that he the said fled towards a grove, but their prisoner, seeing relief
Colvin did indite both these letters (excepting one so near, jumped off her horse, and ran to meet her
paragraph, which he says was interpolated by Presi- friends—as soon as this was observed by her captors,
dent Madison) without any particular dictation of they wheeled, and one of them endeavoured to dis-
atch her by sinking his war hatchet in her neck and
Mr: Smith. What a precious controversy. 1 Although P
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as it relates to the confession between Madison and back the girl dodged at each blow, and came off
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Smith, it is not a feather's weight, what must foreign with flesh-wounds—very deep gashes
nations think of the Administration of the Govern- We understand that on of the white men was shot
silent of a nation when an insignificant and irrespon-
through the thigh in the attack--of five men who pur-
sible unde7strapper in a public office claims to be the sued only two came into action ; the other three, it
writer of public dispatches to foreign Ministers and is said, behaved in the moit
national agents? Well may the much so, that three or four Pdastardly manner—so
ottawatomies kept the
world say, , Alas, America ! how fallen from thy field, and called out in their mode of defiance—
proud pert in the days of Washington ft And yet
" Will you swap a fight." The taking a prisoner has
all this marks the weak and jarring Administration
alarmed the frontier extremely, as it is a sure indica-
which the enlightened American people are called lion of war.
upon to harmonize with ; and for opposing and ex- It is said that the young woman above mentioned,
posing whose folly, madness, and tyranny, a great has demanded rifle and pantaloons of one of the men'
portion of the true Americans, the disciples of Wa- who refused to fight the Indians, justly concluding
shington, are made the subjects of the most execrable he had no farther occasion for either.
abuse which the most abandoned hirelings and ;sere- On Saturday last the inhabitants residing onWood
sites of the Administration can utter or publish. River, were thrown into consternation by another
(PROM A BALTIMORE PAPBR, JULY 23.) murder being perpetrated within the sound of the
The gross and degrading abuse of our neutral drum of Belle Fountaine.
character, by the comfort, protection, and encourage- As a Mr. Price and another man were ploughing
ment afforded to the privateers of France in Amen- on his farm, a little distance above the mouth of the
can ports, cannot be overlooked by England, unless, . Missouri, on the east-side of the Mississippi, they
observed three or four Indians enter the field. Not
inked, as Jefferson and his tool have so long and so
often .predicted, she is on her last legs, and must, liking their appearance they prepared to return to
shortly bend beneath the power of the enemy. yr their family—in this Price was prevented by one
we are not misled by erroneous assurances, the Bri- of the Indians getting between him and his horse,
tish Ambassador has already remonstrated, in the who came up, crying "Bonjour, Bonjour." The sa-
strongest terms, against an abuse which must be dis- I vage stretched out his hand, and Price gave him his,
avowed and corrected, or retaliation will be inevita- who grasped it fast, whilst, with the other, he seized
bly resorted to. Nor is this the only preliminary his gun. Price, at this moment, stood gazing at the
point of adjustment to which the attention of the ghastly savage in stupitied herror, without. attempting
Executive has been called. The secret proceedings to recover his gun, but was relieved from further
of Congress have constituted another distinct and anxiety, by another Indian shooting him through the
difficult point of negociatien, What representations! heart. His companion, being unarmed, mounted
Mr. Foster has been enabled to make to his Govern- i his horse and fled, nut without receiving a severe
ment, will be seasonably known. Positive we are,i
wound by a shot from one of these infernal, banditti.
that both those subjects have been pressed upon the The party which was collected to protect the neigh,
coesideration of Mr. Madison, but with what pro-' bourhood, found Price's body much mangled, with
sp:cts of a successful issue, all are competent to de- i three scalps taken from his head.
termine, who .are not ignorant of the uniform and I Yesterday another account reached town, of there
systematic partiality to France, and hostility to Eng- i being found in the lower extremity of Clinton-hill, the
land, evinced by every act of the American Govern-ibody of a white man cut in pieced, and a number of
menr. horses stolen from that quarter. i
EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS•.—It is no longer clues- Surely these transactions should impel the Cover-
tionahle, flat Mr. Rodney is to be raised to the nors of, these territories to provide against the intpen-
Bench of the United States ; and Mr. Pinkney is to ding, storm. Block-houses are erecting on the frontier
succeed him as Attorney General of the United States. settlements of Illinois, and the people have eh=
tained the loan of fifty muskets from this town. We
NEVI YORK, JULY 30. expect to hear of prompt measures being immediately
Captain Wardell, from Gibraltar, on the 16th of
July, fell in with and took three men from the wreck
RUiSEUVILLE, (PEN.) JULY 5. _
of the Erig Almira, of Warren, (R. I.) '1 he three
It appears by a letter received from the United
men were preserved by lashing themselves to the taf.
States, Saline, that there have been several depreda.
fared, on which they had remained four days. One
tions committed in the Illinois territory, by different
man h: d etriebed i n the wreck ; the cabin beer was
tribes of Indians, and that the Covet nment has in con-
washed off and drowned ; the two mates and one
sequence issued orders to the Officers of the different
man took to the jolly-boat ; it is uncertain whe-
corps of Militia in that quarter, to hold themselves in
then they were drowned or picked up by some vessel,
readiness to march at a moment's warning.
as the men from the wreck saw the boat drift past
them the next day. PORTSMOUTH, (N.H.) JULY le.
Onto knionee.—The Legislature of Ohio, by An unhappy affair is said to have taken place at
some blunders in new-modelling the Judiciary, have Bath, (Mass.) on Tuesday, the 18th ult. A number'
occasioned the issuing of conflictive; commissions to, of sailors, &c. collected before the house of Captain
Judges. This has given rise to the following dis- . Trefethen, and insulted him, by throwing stones, &c.
graceful scene in one of the counties in that Stater' at his windows. Similar insults had been several times
—" The Court commenced its Session on Tuesday, offered him, as was said, for abusing his wife. On the
and pr. ceedcd without interruption until Thursday night above-mentioned Captain T. after submitting
morning, when Judge Snowden appeared and took some time totheabuseof those who had collected before
his se .t. The Court was not yet opened. A warm his door, fired a gun from his window, and killed one
alterca ion immediately took place between Judge man on the spot. The mob, ignorant of the fact, cone
Snowden and the President, Judge Dunlevy, respect- , tinued their depredations. He fired a second time,
ing Snowden's right. which was terminated by an i and gave another man a wound, which the Physicians
order to-the Sheriff for the removal and confinement '
say is mortal.
of Mr. Snowden for disturbing the Court. The She- ISLES OF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA.
riff did not obey. The President called for the Co- We lately gave the Manifesto or Sovereign Edict
roner, and ordered him to commit the Sheriff lor this- " isened by Jonathan Lambert, the Chief of the Am.-
• obedience. After the Coroner had committed the ! rican settlers, who sailed from Boston the end of last
Sheriff, and returned to Court, lie was ordered to I year, and took ppssession of the islands of Tristan
take Mr. Snowden into custody, and if necessary to ! d'Acunha. The following miscellaneous memoranda
command assistance. Judge Snowden refusing to
relating to these islands have been collected under
leave the Bench, the Coroner commanded four of one point of view ;
the bye-standees to assist him ; two of them utterly . Alter a long chasm in the annals of navigation,
refused their aid, and were fined three dollars each, Tristan d'Acunha has of late years been frequently
by the Court ; the third was excused on account of mentioned in the journals of ships bound to India,
his age; the fourth obeyed his summons, and the which steered southward, after losing the S. E. trade-
Judge, after much violent exertion, was dragged from wind, with a view to profit by westerly winds in high
the Bench and taken to a place of confinement." i latitudes. The discovery was made by the Portu-
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CONCINNATI, JULY 20. • guese ; from whom the northernmost or largest of the
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A gentleman of veracity arrived in this town yes. three islands received the name they now collectively
terday directly from Fort Maiden, Upper Canada, bear. They were next explored by the Dutch ; and
via Sandusky, who informs, that he saw a lerae num_ in September, 1767, by the French under M. D'Et-
ber of Indians from the Mississippi, collected at the chevery, in the ship Etoile-du-matin, who distil).
Former place, receiving presents from the British ; and guished the southermost or smallest as Rossignol, or'
at Sandusky, a white man had just been, found in the Nightingale lsie, and the westernmost as Inaccessible
woods near the United States Store, murdered, strip.. Isle. This group has afterwards been visited, or
red, and scalped. Three strokes of a tomahawk had more particularly noticed, by the following vessels :'
penetrated his skull. Industry, of Philadelphia, PP 0; his Majesty's ship
$l-. LOUIS, JUNE s 7„ gl..ion, and East India ship General Elliott, 1792;
• e East India ships, Essex, 1'74.j Thames, 1801 ;
j)IDIAN DEPREDATIONS,....Per ape some of our
Northampton, Europe, Earl Howe, Hugh Inglis,
Readers will imetone, n nen tarry teed the following
1803 ; and his Majesty's ship Nereus, 1811.
eta is, that bite sae ihel.kertPs boy in the fable,
When near these islands sea.weed is generally ob-
we are it clined to cry 4. Wolf ! %roll !" win n no
served doatino on the water •; and patches of it some.
danger is near ; um alarm has cot tainly been given . 6
several times before, and measures have been taken to times extend to a very considerable distance. Inac-
frighten the wolves from the told with effect.. But in
cessible Isle is about nine miles in circuit. and dis-
elle present. instance, they baste burst the inclosure, cernible 16 leagues. Nightingale is seven or eight
miles round, end may be jest seen from the deck of
and immolated bOrnevictim‘ ; this wellepe willawaken
a Loge ship 18 leagues. Tristan d'Acunha, proper,
the shepherds-to a sense re. danger.
is of A Sila ire form, five or •ix miles in extent, and
Mr. Laline, Indi .n interpreter of Chicago, informs
as many leagues in circumfsrence. Phis Island serves
that "the seveges are preparing for hostilities; that
Two bro. as pedestal to a high mountain, wit, .se summit is gee :
war is the language or. all the red people.
therapy covered wall snow when the sun is in the
thers of the wife of Main P ic, with a small patty, therapy
hemisphere. Some observers have estuneted
seized about twenty horses on the Kaskaskia river—
tlit height of this m iuntaia at eleven thousand feet,
these robbers are Puttawatomies, and live in the
'WO; du Cyan% ucac the rivrivb pa ax moil yhich is somcvniat excessive ; but it certainly cannot.

IIifEI2ICAN PAPERS.

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be less than eight thousand, as it can be seen near
one hundred miles : when observed in June, 1792,
then distant 27 leagues, it had a singular and beau-
tiful appearance fiom the snow enveloping its sum•
mit. On the north side this island rises perpendicular i
from the sea, hardly less than 1000 feet ; it has thenl
a gentle acclivity to the base of the peaked mountain,
Iwhich rises majestically over the table land. There
are trees of a moderate size growing on abrupt ridges
teivards.the central mountains, the branches spread.
ing, and hanging low ; they burn well. Plenty of
Water. Abundance of wild celery, wild parsley, and
sorrel was found. Seals are numerous ; and there
are a few wild goats and hogs. The interior much
resembles the Island of St. Helena.
i The true situation of the Peak, according to an
1 approximation of eight observations, is in latitude S. Letters to the 9th were yesterday received fmn
37 dae. longitude W. 12 deg. Captain Gower, in
French coast, which mention the arrival of La.
his Majesty'sa' ship Lion, anchored at the north end
iof Tristan d'Acunha in 30 fathoms, black sand and 1 PARE at Boulogne. In the course of bi, tour ..i. r.„
slime, off shore one mile, a small rock off the westernlthe coast, he is expected to visit the fleet at Antwerp,
•point, S.W. by S. just open with the extreme of the ! where a ship of the lice is to be launched on the (e-
-land ; and a cascade of water falling on beach, S. by aeon tc • 1 . Report also adds, that after Bost/stern has
E.—Landing safe ; and, with a long hose, water , .
inspected this fleet, it will receive immediate orders
may be filled into casks in the boat, Shore steep and
bold, except the west part, where breakers project for sailing. Should it venture to leave the ScbeLia
half a mile. Variation in 1792, 7 deg. W. ; in 1811, it is evident that its only course must be north-about,
I 9 deg. 20 min. A regular tide. Prevalent winds for an attempt to pass down Channel would be too
S.W. to N.W. the latter with occasional storms,
rash to be hazarded. Government, it is said, are
I mostly in winter: early winds seldom continue much
aware of the intentions of the enemy to put to sea
above twenty-four hours at a time. Inaccessible Isle
has a rock detached from its South end, lat. 37. 19. and from the disposal of our cruisers off Loughswilly,
S. long. 11. 50. W. Nightingale has some rocky and the north-west coast of Ireland, it is interred that
islets at its S. point, and is in lat. 37. 'l9. and long. an attempt upon that portion of the Empire is sus-
-11. 48.—1 t appears that King Jonathan I. is not the •
petted.
first occupant ; for Captain J. Patten, of the ship .
Industry, before-mentioned, with part of its crew, The following letter from Cork seems en laneile
remained on the main island from August 1790, to that Government have received some intelligence of
April 1791, and procured 5800 seal skins: he says the above description:
they could have loaded his ship with oil in three " COVE, SIiPTEMBER 4.
weeks. 0 Monday arrived his Majesty's ship Deusreve.
18 guns, Captain Besiege, from Loughswilly. She
left cruizing off there, his Majesty's ships Esorslion.
ROME, AUGUST en. Captain Sir W. Loosen+ ; Semmes, Captain Maros;
All travellers have accused the Romans of a want BRISK, Captain Mummies', and Teosior, Captain
of industry ; they have all reproached this ingenious Atm.
people with a love of idleness, and particularly for a The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered an
leaving their fertile fields without cultivation, and
their populous cities without industry. There was, eztra number of men of war to be kept constantly
perhaps, some foundation for such reproachea, but the cruizing on the I..,..tgliswilly station, more iotortna.
people were not to blame ; it was the Government, tion said to lie received, that the enemy . &et at
which left agriculture and industry without encou- Antwerp and adjoining ports, amountaig to twenty.
ragement ; which, in short, placed in the first rank
five sail of the line, and a great number of frigates,
of society that state in which idleness was consecrated
by vows. It is to Rome—to Rome French—that Sec: intended to make a dash north about into those
we must go in order to observe the influence of Go- ' seas,"
' vernments. This city has been scarcely two years a
part of the empire, and already an extreme difference : Every thing seems to concur in verifying the ac.
is perceived in the state of its agriculturaLand menu- ';
coleus we have received from the army of Lord Wits
sfacturine industry. The suppression of the barriers .
which sapareted the Roman State from Upper Italy teticeoe, that the French ara making most formitia-
and France, has opened new channels to commerce. ble preparations for the r:newal of offensive war. The
When part of a little State, Rome had scarcely any diversion attempted by Lord Wtourvorox on the side
other market but her own ; united to a great empire, of Ciudad Rodrigo has not had the effect of changing
she may send her commodities, exempt from duties,
even to the extremities of Europe. The effects of this in the slightest degree the plan of the French. A.
enlargement of markethave already been sensibly felt. single battalion has not been detached from Maas
The grain, which the department produces in great movr's army on the Tagus to the supp-rt of Ciudai
abundance, had been for many years at so low a Rodrigo. His army remains unbroken ; and it is
price, that more than a third of the best land was
now sufficiently manifest that a combined movemerl
abandoned. Since 1810, the ports of Legh .rn,
Genoa, and Marseilles, leaving afforded advent igetins is to be made against our lines in Portugal, both from
openings, its price has rapidly risen, and the pro. the South and North. The preparati.s..s are mighty
prietors thus acquiring greater capitals, will be able Wive may trust to the reports even from Spain. Those
the better to cultivate their fields. The trade in kelp from France the public have heard: and they will be
has for the last two years been very favourable to
complete by the time that the very warm weadrer shall
Rome • and Marseilles is almost entirely supplied
from this country with that article, so indispensable abate, and make.it convenient for the troops to move,
inher soap-works. The encouragement given by Even the fleets of B ,NAPARTE,we learn, are to co.
Government has introduced the cultivation of cotton, opeoite ; and we fear this is the only part of his effort
and in the first year, 16,000 kilogrammes of that in which his hopes will be disappointed. •
valuable commodity were raised i the Roman
a
territory. This year more than a housand acres
have been planted with it, and otwithstandieg
the unfavourable season, it promises •a very consider-
able produce.
While new articles of cultivation promise addi-
tional wealth to Rome, the exportation of oils, wool,
silk, wood, sulphur, and alum, increases in proportion
to the enlargement of the market, and gives addl.,'
tional stimulus to agricultural industry. Govern-I
ment, on its part, is giving it the best possible direct.
lion : a flock of merinos is on its way for the purpose
of improving our breed of sheep : a number of agri-
cultural instruments have reached us, with which we
were previously unacquainted, and which will teach
us to bring our own to perfection : a skilful cultivaa
for has come to take the direction of a farm of im.
provement : already some agriculturists, distinguish.
ed for their information, have surveyed the depart-
mere, and enlightened Government with regard to
its resources and its wants : in short, if nothing is;
' neglected which can giae activity to agriculture, it'
may be said that the cultivators are not deficient on
their part ; and this mutual concert has already pro-
duced the most happy effects.
Nor. satisfied that this country should merely pro-
duce the raw material, Government has also wished
that Rome should work it up, and that it should not
become an article of commerce till it has received'
all the value of which it is susceptible. Cotton fiitt
drew its attention. A spinning establishment was
..2_ r ected ; but from want of capital, it was in danger
of tailing ; a very large sum has just been granted
to it as a gratuitous loan; the first commercial houses
in Rome,' animated by a true spirit of patriotism,
have patronised it ; and already the cotton gathered
in our fields receives at the manufacture of Therm
41 the preparation which precedes its use.
• The manufactoria hitherto existing were ignorant
of the new processes, and were destitute both of good
workmen and improved machinery. M. Calizzi, a
Roman, distipguished for his knowledge in mecha.
nits, and all the manufacturing processes, was, fort,
nine months, visiting all the workshops in the empire, '
at the expense of Government, and has brought beck
valuable knowledge to his fellow.citizens ; a colony
of skilful workmen is to follotv him, and to com-
municate to all the manufactories a knowledge of
the processes so usefully employ, d in France : in
• short, machines for the spinning of wool, and weav-
ing
of cloth, for all the operations on silk, flax,
• hemp, ece. have been purchased, and will speedily
arnve iii a city astonished at receiving such acciiii•
.4 MMUS,
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LONDON.

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A letter from an Officer on board the Po;
gate, now in the Me litir-anean, :tame. that s
to sail next day from tiAlta to Constantin%
bring a Turkish Ambassador to this country.

FRENCH PAPERS.

We are acquainted with no subject connected with
the affairs of Europe of equal interest with that which
respects our t ut.are relations with the American reputo
lic. We yesterday were favoured with a fie ci
ladelphia pipers, and some Naticnal Intillizegen, but
not of later dates than those before obwined. Thl
following important paragraph is extracted from di;
latter, which, 'rom ( tficial character of the pros
duction, deserves particul attention I

We challenge any one to produce an instanee of a cooderatte
tion in France of an American yew' seinen under the herb:land
Milan Decrees, subsequently to the let November last. Out of
all the vessels provisionally sequestrated Sit** the Ist Nov.titaer,
and lately released, we know of one only. via, the Orleans paaet,
the circumstances of whose voyage might have subjected it to the
operation of t' ese decrees, it having touched at Gibraltar ; and
this vessel has been released with all the others. We pity the
infatuation of risme is he endeavour to mislead the putac mind
en this subject."
We likeitise select the following from 0-rt same
paper, on account of its application to the principle
of impressment :
a In the Providence (Rhode Island) Paper, appears a state neat
of a Mr. Smith, torninrly JAati- of the ship Nancy of ILittimoies
which was captured by a French privateer. carried Into so. n-
kirk, the Mate sad four seamen being conveyed to ('a': hey
were imprisomet7 dungeons, marched across t country, 'el
only on a few ounces et black bread In r day, and 'hunt daily
I urged to enter on board p.nrateers. They eh at first refund to
enter, bet pressed by suffering and !ankle, the resin• n esniu con-
! sented. The Mate .-rst-ted in r- until his :filiation be.
came desperate irons fikh, fat. gue, and hunger. If tie st.uemeot of
this person be true, tie prir.cipir us sn,h r,ssment, or furniste
sei-
sure of seamen is no longer co .fined to une of the Bellierreets,
for there is no ess-t.tisi dlflrrer.cr. between seising a min without
his consent, to serve on leiari: a toeeign armed vessel, and torture
ing hint until consent is furc.,.-si in in hint."

The followirr; !'tier c &woe to cur hands yesterday.
written by a Gentleman who has resided during five
years it St.ll,ln, anti who is petfe.itly acquainted
with the merits and demerits ot the respective compei,
t tor. tor peiscra n the eland : .
• " AUX CAVGC, JULY 17.
" I am EMT to Inform you, tat the ineettamties awl h zrril
which hang over us lii every guar, ,er, render the situattun of this
c-, atry every day more alarstorg. The foreignets here tan
scarcely rats, a 'Mile dollar; and by the last accounts from ..,rt