Star.
London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The following account of some hostile proceedings
against the Indians is taken from the. New York Ga-
zette of the 31st ultimo :

COPY OF A LETTUR FROM JOHN MiNEIL 10 fIR WAX

DEPARTMENT.
" River Black Warrior. Tusksloom City. Alabama
Terri .Se amber
mber 9.2.
a HONOV tonRED SIR-4 hasten to lay befbre yourde-
partment some statements relative to the late battle
fought with a band of Indians, Consisting of seventy
warriors, and theliwomen and children. From the
best information I have received, they are a remnant
of the hostile Creeks, who, on finding they could no
longer be protected in- Florida, lately applied to the
Chickasaw tribe for land, to settle on ; but being de-
nied,
they formed a resolution to fight their way A Dutch Mail has arrived to-day, with Papers 1W
through our settlements over the Mississippi, where the 28th instant.
they were told by the Chickasaws they could not get An Antwerp Journal, of the 24th November, says,
land. In order tp execute their design, they crossed
" A report has been circulated tp-day at Change,:
the rivers Alabama and Catsba ; and on their way
to the Warrior, they killed two white men and three that his Majesty, to remove the scarcity of money
Choctaws. Oa reaching this river, at a place called that has for some time garalised the trade of this'
Cornel's Settlement, they committed several outrages place, has just remitted to one of our commercial
on our citizens, and murdered some of the family of Houses the sum of Three Millions, to discount bills,
a Mr. Hall their this They then steered course for n
or to take bills on foreign countries, for which there
place.' Having received intelligence of their AO=
proach on the inst. 16 of our most enterprising has been no demand for some days past, for want of
men armed themsels es, and chose Major S. Taylor cash. This news has already had a beneficial influ-
and myself to command them. - We were joined by ence on the course of Exchange, and the Public
Captain Bacon and 14 men. Being thus united, we ,
e unds."
went in pursuit, and having met with their track, we
followed it through swamps and cane-brakes, here-
some Members of the Order of St. John of Jeru-
tofore thought to he impenetrable,• until we found salem have, it seems, actually addressed to the Sove-
where they had crossed this Warrior, eight miles be- reigns, at Aix-la-Chapelle, a remonstrance on the
low the falls. subject of their projected "resuscitation." The fol-
the
" most horrid s After crossin
andg
swamps:—"
separated from Captain Bacon's command, we dis- was this Order, so ancient, so absolute, and so re-
covered the enemy encamped in a beaver dam, well spected, suddenly deprived, in 1800, of Malta, and
fortified by nature, there being a thick cane-brake on afterwards stripped of all its territorial possessions.
the right and a high bluff on the left. They no sooner
There is not one of your Majesties who doubts, but
saw us than they raised the war-whoop, and prepared ,
that it is
for action. We then gave orders to charge on them, to be solely attributed to the French Rev°.
which was done with the spirit of true Americans, lution, and to the perfidy of those who conducted it. ,
and eight or ten of their warriors were laid dead on Malta was not conquered; it was revolutionized !
the ground. We then retreated and loaded our guns,
and having formed again csi the entrance of the en-
An insurrection basely fomented—treason opened it
to him ;that is to say, the Order of St. John is de-
campment, we were .reinfin ced by Captain Bacon
and part of his men. A smart skirmish was kept up spoiled precisely by the same -cause, which has in-
for a 0 minutes, during which time we killed six or duced the Allied Powers at length to stop the de-
eight more of the enemy ; but finding they were en- vastating torrent, and to restore every where those
deavouring to out-flank us, a retreat was ordered,
who have been its victims. By what act, above all,
which was effected without any molestation. We. is the Order presumed to have abdicated its power
lost two brave men, killed in the contest, and had
one badly wounded ; the loss of the enemy was not at Malta?" The Memorial concludes as follows ' :
less than 15 killed, and several wounded. " Justice to all, is the noble task which the Con-
" On the 17th, eighteen of us went to the battle- federation has imposed on itself. It has resolved to
ground to bury our dead ; but on finding that the
enemy had not left their strong-holci, we withdrew. - ' a
replace things 'n'Europe on their ancient footing; to
re-constitute all the foreign Powers; in a word, to re-
" On the 19th, with a more formidable force, we
again proceeded in quest of our enemy, and after establish the rights of Legitimacy !"
patrolling the swamps and cane-brakes it was disco- It must be satisfactory to the friends of things as
I•ered they had--ted - towards the Sipsy river. W. they-ought to be, to learn that this foolish Memorial -
then buried our dead, and returned to our respective h
abodes. On the same day, Colonel T. Hunter, with as not been able to excite any attention or interest
110 mounted men, set off in pursuit of them, and whatever in the Illustrious Individuals to whom it is
coming up with their rear, killed one of their war- addressed.
riors. They have taken their flight towards the bor- Alluding to the report which has been lately cur-
ders of the Choctaws, who are apprised of their ap- rent,
of the Emperor ALexastrien having proposed
proach, and will, I treat, soon give a good account
to th
'of them. My reasons for making this communication 'e Congress to remove BONAPARTE front St.
to your department, is in consequence of our having Helena, and to send him to Casan, where he would
acted without any kind of orders, but vilely from be under the surveillance sf Russia, the Papers now
self-preservation. Should it meet the approbation of received remark, that " this ,fable has met with some
Government, I shall feel happy in having rendered credulous persons to believe i but it is wholly un-
s.
my country the smallest service; if not, I hope it founded.
it-
seal be attributed to my want of skill, and not the There has been no question about NAPO-
„Lick of good will to be of service to my fellow citi- LION in the conferences of the Congress. His fate
seas in general." seems to be irrevocably fixed. Whatever may be
An article from Martinique mentions the appre-
ipread on this subject in future, must be considered
hension of a Frenchman, named Cater Fouraier,
as the dark mancettvres of a party which is in despair
charged with having, while in the command of a
South American privateer, put to death the whole of ! at seeing peace re-established in Europe, and the new
the crew of a Spanish schooner, on the coast of Africa, !constitution of its nations become every day mom
and with having committed various murders in the I and more consolidated."
United States, and one at Trieste. He was, at the ! An article from Leyden states that, " for some
time of his being taken into custody, acting as the ' time past there have existed between the Students of
pretendedew supercargo of the Louisiana, a New Or-
that University, disputes which seemed to destroy all
vessel, the Captain and crew of which were
Asmericans. They had left New Orleans, as regular
ancient friendships, and even were injurious to the
trains, for the Brazils, and had taken on board nine . progress of he studies; and it was feared that*this
MIIMENUMNOMMINNEMMOINIMMSOMMINIMMINOIMMIIIIIMI

The Emperor of AUSTRIA Strived at Frankfort on
the 20th, and the Emperor ALEXANDER at Cologne
on the eid instant.

French 5 per Cents. Wednesday, 69 f. Thursday;
69 f. SO c.