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the United &WA and Mark 4v ty AM*, '
blood of their defenceless e,isiaens,
" He tool possession, therefore, of Penuctla 2
of the fort of Barrancas, as he had done of e.
Mari's, not in a spirit of hostility to Spain, but a,
necessary measure of self-defence; giving noti,
that they should be restored whenever Spain shnifi
place Commanders and a force there, able and ,
ling to fulfil the engagements of Spain towards,4
United States, of restraining by force the 1107.41
Indians from hostilities against their citizens.
" That the purpnses, as well of the Negro LA. •1
banditti, with whom we have been contending,
the British invaders of Florida, who first assscrSia
and employed them, and'of the British intredirlaa
pretending trader; since the peace, who Lave iagt
gated and betrayed them to destruction, lsz7c
not less hostile to Spain than to the Vaited F:44
the proofs contained in the documents here,;.;
closed are conclusive. Mr. Pizarro's note cf
August speaks of his Catholic Majesty's profcm
indignation at the " sanguinary executions, es* j
Spanish soil, of the subjects of Powers in amity y. j .
the King"—meaning Arbuthnot and Ambrister.
Mr. Pizarro's successor take the trouble of newer:
the enclosed documents, and he will discover al
Arbuthnot and Ambrister were, and what weietl,
purposes : that Arbuthnot was only the successor
Nicholls, and Ambrister the agent of Woodbine, •
the subaltern of M,Gregor. Mr. Pizarro qu.11;.%
General Jackson's necessary pursuit of a derma
savage enemy beyond the Spanish Florida line as
shanufid invasion of his Majolg's territory; yet tl
territory was the territory also c•f the savage ewer.,
and Spain was bound to restrain them by force ft d
hostilities against the United States ; and it was :1 k,
failure of Spain to fulfil this ena:lgernont which h..
made it necessary for Genetal lackscn to ptasue
savaae across the line. What then ;:-",,s
Tit
of Nicholles invasion of his Majesty's territory? ar,
where was his Majesty's profound in digr.at'xr,
Mr. Pizarro says, his Majesty's forts and pass ine
been violently seized on by Gcncral 1.•
they not been seized on, nay, had not the prisci.
t 1
of his forts been blown up by Nicholls, and a Bs',
ute
fort on the same Spanish territory been erectsd d
ing the war, and left standing as a li;ero for,
defiance of? Spanish authority, af.er the ileacc;
sot
Where was his Majesty's profound indignaticr.,
that? Has his Majesty suYpeinled formally
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gociation with the Sovereign, of Colonel Nicholls,
the shameful invasion of his territory without c.'.
of provocation, without pretence of necessity,
out the shadow or even avowal of a pretext ?
" Has his Majesty given solemn warning to
British Government, that these were incidents
transcendent moment, capable of producing an es .
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tial and thorough change in the political relations
the two countries?" Nicholls and Woodbine, in 4,
invitations and promises to the slaves to run acv.
from their ma:aers and join them, did not con:
themselves to the slaves of the United States; tt
received with as hearty a welcome, and employ -
with equal readiness, the fugitives from their inn
in Florida, as those from Georgia. Against this st
vial injury the Governor of Pensacola did earner .
remonstrate with the British Admiral Cocklatra, •
the document marked 25) ; but against the Arm.
invasion of the territory—against the violent 5e;..., *ze
of the forts and places—against the blowing up .w
the Barrancas, and the erection and tnaintcn:::
'under British banners, of the Negro fort on Spr vt
soil—against the negotiation, by a itritich Officer.
the midst of peace, of pretended treaties, oar, 'a
and defensive, and of navigation and commerce 01
Spanish territory, between Great Britain and
nish Indians, whom Spain was bound to cony
and restrain—if a whisper of expostulation vas c s:
wafted from Madrid to London, it was notle-
enough to be heard across the Atlantic, nor merge
enough to transpire beyond the walls of the Pal
from which it issued, and to which it was borne.
la The connexion between Arbuthnot and N4'
and between Ambrister, Woodbine, and Isl,Gr
'is established beyond all question, by the evid
produced at the trials before the Court Martial.
have already remarked to you on the very extra.
nary circumstance, that a British trader, from A
the sea, should be permitted by the Spanish An
rities to trade with the Indians of Florida. From
letter to Hambly, dated May 3,1817, (see the d, 6
ments marked G, in the proceedings of the C...
Martial) it appears that his trading was but a I
tence ; and that his principal purpose was to act •
the Agent of the Indians of Florida. and outlaws
the Creeks, to obtain the aid of the British Go
ment in their hostilities against the United Stat
He expressly tells Hambly there, that the Chief du
those outlaws was the principal cause of his, A .
not's, being in the country • and that he had c.
with an answer from Earl iathurst, delivered to •
by Governor Cameron, of New Providence, to .
tain Indian talks, in which the aid of the British
vernment bad been solicited.
" Hambly himself had been left by Nicholls as
agent between the Indians and the British Go - I
'went; but having found that Nicholls had failed
his attempt to prevail upon the British Gov .
to pursue this clandestine war, in the midst of
and that they were not prepared to support his
tence ; that half a dozen outlawed fugitives from
Creeks were the Cree': nation—when Arbuthrot
incendiary came, and was instigating them, by
mises of support from Great Britain, to con
their murderous incursions into the United M ,
Hambly, at the request of the Creeks them',
wrote to him, warning him to withdraw from ^^ '
that band of outlaws, and giving him a solemn
boding of the doom that awaited him, from the At •
of justice, if he prsevered the course that he p.
sued. Arbuthnot, nevertheless, persisted ; ands dl
he was deluding the wretched Indians with the
mice of support from England, he was writing
terefor them to the British Minister in the U'
States, to Governor Cameron of New Providena
Colonel Nicholls, to be laid before the British
vernment ; and even to the Spanish Govern,.
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St. Augustine, and the Governor-General of the
vannab, soliciting, in all quarters, aid and )up. Nc
arms and ammunition,. far the In:dians, against Os
United States, bewailing the destruction of the
fort, and charging the British Government with h.
drawn the Indians into war with the Uhited r
and deserting them after the be cor—
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