Star.
London, England, 1818-08-24 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, JULY

The latest accounts we have from Pensacola are
by way of Mobile, under date of the 19th instant.
We are sorry to find it stated in the Mobile Gazette
as a report entitled to some degree of credit, that
there ate many complaints on the part of the Spanish
garrison and subjects in Pensacola that the Articles
of Capitulation have rot been strictly observed on the
part of the Americans.
This complaint may have arisen from a general
feeling on the part of the Spanish inhabitants without
any particularfoundation in fact, or from the diffi-
culty
which may occur from our Officers not actually
discriminating between a possible conquest of the
soil and sovereignty, and a temporary occupation of
it supposed to be made necessary to the protection of
cur frontier by the indisposition or inability of the
Spanish Authorities to cause good faith to the United
States to be observed therLin.

The same paper informs us that Pensacola, if the
information of the Editor of the Gazette be correct,
presents an extraordinary political aspect; that Spa-
nish law prevails as to every thing except the Cus-
tom-house and Revenue ; and as to these, the laws
of the United States are in force ; and that both Spa-
nish and American property had been seized in the
port of Pensacch, and sent to the United States for
adjudication. It is easy to foresee that this state of
things will give suMcient employment to our Courts
in that quarter ; and that although Pensacola has
been occupied by the Military Authorities, nothing
short of an Act of Congress can reconcile the exist-
ing incongruities in the administration of law in
that territory.

While the Americans are exclaiming so loudly
against the British traders among the Indians, for
their alledged attempts to stir up these poor people
against the Republican Authorities, it may be worth
,while to atW.l.l to what an American functionary
says of his own countrymen, who are engaged in the
same tr.dEc. The fuliowing Extract is from a Letter
of the same Mr. O'FALLox of whom we took some
notice in our last, as very grossly calumniating Lord
Betatfur.. The question which every one will natu-
rally ask himself on reading it is, Whether some of
these American traders who are here described as
assuming the character of Americans, Englishmen,
of Frenchmen, just as the pulse of the savage beats,
may not in an English disguise have been guilty of
excesses which have • been falsely imputed to real
English traders ?
" During my tour through my Agency, I have
discovered among the Indian Vii. e. American) traders,
more of systematic villainy than could have been
suspected. I have found these men, generally speak-
ing, indifferent to their country's interests, and en-
grossed in their own. They have destroyed the object
,for which the United States factory was intended._
Yes, Sir, it is a humiliating fact, that most of the
Indian traders will sacrifice their country's honour,
its reputation, fur a single skin. There are certainly
gentlemen among them, but the number is extremely
small. It is not only those who are called British or
Muskinaw traders, that are in the habit of secretly
annoying us—but, Sir, many of those who enjoy the
liberty of our blessed country, and claim the right
of American Citizens ! With us, they are Amercans
—among the Sacks, they are British—and among
the Sioux, they are Frenchmen just as the pulse of
the savage beats."

The United States frigate le Gtierrier, which ar-
rived at Cowes on Saturday, has on board his Excel-
iency Geoltoz WASHINGTON CAMPBELL, Minister
from the United States to the Court of St. Peters-
burgh. The Guerrier is of prodigious size, and has
a most imposing appearance. She has a crew of 400
mer, and can, on an -mergency, mount upwards of
fifty guns being of the same class in point of ton-
rage and dimensions as our English sixty-fours. This