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doping the companions of his achievement there, was
'Wring it : that M'Gregor, quitting the vessel in
is which he had embarked at Amelia, went on board
,that of Woodbine, and returned with him to New
Providence : that Woodbine had persuaded him they
could yet accomplish the conquest of Florida, with
soldiers to be recruited at Nassau, from the ccrps of
Colonial Marines, which had served under Nidiolls
during the late war with the United States, which
corps had been lately disbanded ; and with Negroes
to be found at Tampa Bay, and 1500 Indians, already'
then engaged to Woodbine, who pretended that they
had made a grant of all their lands to him. Among
the papers, the originals of which are in our posses-
sion, in *Gregor s own hand-writing, instructions
for sailing into Tampa Bay, with the assertion that
he calculated to be iliere by the last of April or first
of May, of the present year ; a letter, dated the 27th
of December last, to one of his acquaintance in this
country, disclosing the same intention ; and the ex-
tract of a Proclamation which was to have been
issued at Tampa hay, to the inhabitants of Florida,
by the person charged with 'making the settlement
there, before his arrival, announcing his approach, for
the purpose of liberating them from the despotism of
Spain, and. of enabling them to form a Goverment
for themselves. He bad persuaded those who would
listen to him here, that his ultimate object was to sell
the Floridas to the United States. There is some
reason to suppose that he had made indirect over-
tures, of a similar nature, to the British Government.
—This was Ambrister's business in Florida. He
arrived there in March, the precursor of MtGregor
and Woodbine : and immediately upon his arrival,
be is found seizing upon Arbuthnot's goods, and dis-
tributing them among the Negroes and Indians—.
seizing upon his vessel-, and compelling its master to
pilot him, with a body of armed Negroes, towards
the fort of St. Maik's, with the declared purpose of
taking it by surprise, in the night : writing letters to
Governor Cameron, of New Providence, urgently
calling for supplies of munitions of war, and of can-
non, for the war against the Americans : and letters
to Colonel Nicholls, renewing the same demands of
supplies ; informing him that he is with 300 Negroes,
a few of our Bluff people,' who had stuck to the
cause, and were relying upon the faith of Nicholls's
promises. Our Bluff people were the people of the
Negro Fort, collected by Nicholls and Woodbine's Pro-
clamations, during the American and English war ;
and the cause to which they stuck, was the savage,
servile, exterminating war against the United States.
te Among the agents and actors of such virtuous
enterprises as are here unveiled, it was hardly ex-
pected that there would be found remarkable evi-
dences of their respect, confidence, and good faith
towards one another. Accordingly, besides the vio-
lent seizure and distribution, by Ambrister, of Ar-
buthnot's property, his letters to Governor Cameron, ,
and to 'Nicholls, are filled with the distrust and sus-
picions of the Indians, that they were deceived and
'betrayed by Arbuthnot ; while in Arbuthnot's letters'
to the Aisne Nicholls, he accuses Woodbine of having'
taken charge of poor Francis the Prophet, or Ilidhsl
Radio, upon-his return from England to New Pro-
vident:4l'nd under pretence of taking care of him and
his afeits—of having defrauded him of a large por-
tion of the presents which had been delivered out
from the King's stores to him for Francis's use. This
tiboneofthe passages of Arbuthnot's letter to Nicholls,
emitted in' the publication of it last August in the
London Newspapers.
" Is this narrative of dark and complicated de-
pravity; this creeping and insidious war, both against
Spain and the United States; this mockery of pa-
triotism ; these political philters to fugitive slaves and
Indian outlaws ; these perfidies and treacheries of
inespable of ke*ng their faith eves to each other,
all in the name of Send: American liberty, of the rights of
runaway Negroes., and the wrongs of savage murderers—all
combined and projected to phmder Spain of her provinces, and
to spread massacre and devastation along the borders of the
United States ; is all this sufficient to cool the sympathies of his
Catholic Majesty's Government, excited by the execution of
these two' subjects of a Power In amity with the King?' The
Spanish Government is not stills day to be informed that, cruel
as warJs its mildest forms must be, it is, and necessarily muss
be. doubly cruel, when waged with savages ; that savages make
no prisoners, but to torture them ; that they give no quarter;
that they put to death without discrimination of age or sex;
that these ordinary characteristics of Indian warfare have bee
applleable in their most heart-sickening horrors, to that war left
at by Nicholls, as his legacy, reinstigated by Woodbine,' Ar-
buthnot, and Ambrister, and stimulated by the approbation, en.
eeuripetnent, and aid of the'Spaaish Commandant at St. Marks.
Is proof required ? Entreat the Spanish Minister of State, for a
moment, to overcome the feelings which details like these must
ezdte, and to reflect, if possible, with composure, upon the races
stated in the following extracts from the documents inclosed:
" Letter from Sailing-master Jalrus Loomis to Commodes-,
Daniel T. Patterson, 13th August, 1816, repoeting the destruc-
!don of the Negro Fort :

On examining the prisoners. they stated that Edward Da-
nte* 0. & who was made prisoner in the boat on the 17th July,
sms tarred axd burst alive.'

" Letter from Archibald Clarke to General Gaines, 18th Fe-
bruary, 1817. (Message of the President of the Caked States
to Congress, 25th March, 1818, p. 9.)
On the 24th instant, the house of Mr. Garrett, residing in
the upper part of this cennty, near the boundary of Wayne
county, Georgia, was attacked, during his absence, near the mid-
dle nf the day, by this party (of Indians), consisting of about 15,
who shot Mrs. Garrett in two places, and then dispatched her by
stabbing and Scalping. Her two children, one about three years,
and the other two months, were also murdered, and the West
%Mpg :The bean was thingdondered of every article dill*
and la on Are
Letter from Peter B. Cook (Artnithnot's clerk) to Blis. A.
Carney, at Nassau, dated &trance. 19th January, l eta, giving
an account of their operators with the Indians, against the Am.
deans, and their massacre of Lieutenant Scott and. his. PAY:
' Thaw was a boat that was taken by the Indians, that had is
it SO men, sewn women, 4 small children, Thee* were ass
the men got Hear, and one woman saved, and all the rest eases
gothilk4 The children were tea by the leg, sad dole, hake
dashed oat ;gain* the boat.'
" If the bare recital of Kona like these canna be pentad
without shuddering, what must be the agonized feelings of
time whose wives and children are, from day to day, and from
rilight to ,tight, expend to be the victims of the same barbarity
Hu mercy a voice to plead for the perpetrators and instigators
of deeds. like these? Should inquiry hereafter be made. why,
within three months after this event, the savage Hamatidi
issiogtaltat by the American troops, was, by order
of OM; , tftsnediately hung, let it be told that that
savage was the Commander of the party by which those women
were butchered. and Shoes helpless infests were thus dashed
Nowt the beM.
' . " Contending with such enemies, although humanity revolts
at auks teediativa upon them, and spares the lives of their
feeble yrd defenceless women and children, yet mercy herself
to ietnibutive justice the lives of their leading war-
t}Msteken anns--and still more the lives of the foreign white
who, disowned by their own governments, and
dhawalag their own natures, degrade themselves beneath the
ern r, by voluntarily descending to its level. Is not
ais the dictate of ammo* sense? Is it not the usage of legi-
ideate warfare? Is it not consonant to the soundest authorities
'ef notional law? M When at war (says Vaw:l) witli aft victim:
.111111014 which observes no rule* and grants no it:Arter, they may
•

be chaetisedM the persons of those of them who May le
they are of the number of the guilty ; and by this ritr,;,,
tempt may be made of bringing them to a uni^ of the
humanity." And again, "As a General has th,
right
'ficing the lives of his enemies to his own safety or tie;
people, if he has to. contend with an inhumat,
guilty of such excesses, he may take the Fires of
loners, and treat them as his own people have hs to reel.
The justification of these principles is found in their eel,.
racy, for terror and fur example. It it thus citl7
barities of Indians can be successfully encounter.,:, !ti;
only that the worse than Indian barbarities of .
,tit
tors, pretending authority from their governments, h,,.
disavowed, can be punished and art; stud.
" Great Britain yet engages the alliance and
savages in war. But het 'Government has inv•tri. b! sissy,
all countenance or authorisation to her subjects to , ;,et
against us in time of peace. )'et so it has happenee,
the period (dour established Independence to slits eze
Indian ware with which we have been affilted haeL.4:
tMctly tractable to tho instigation of English reelres or
always disavowed, yet always felt, more th.:n
but never before punished.
"Two of chant, offenders of the deepest dye. af.,i
waning to their government, and individual/7 to 0,. • „f
have fallen, fiagronte delicto, into the bends of
General ; and the punishment inflicted upon th,•tn t
them on high as an example, awful in its clbibitt,
trust, auspicious in its results, of that which
pretenders of European agency, to Eimulat • a•-a. :•••
w.us between the United States and the Indians w;
controuL
" This exposition of the origin, the causes, and the L.
of the war with the Seminole Indians and part of the ('
combined with M'Gregor's mo:k patriots and Nicholis's.t
which necessarily led our troops into Florida, and gave
all.those incidents of which Mr. Pizarro so veitee.,n,
plains, will, It is hoped, enable you to presant ether a-4 me
views of the subject to his Catholic Majetty's Govaarmiett
will enable you to thew that, the occupaiion of Pr
and St. Mark's was occasioned nettle r by a spirit of
to Spain, nor with a view to extort, prematurely, the
from her possession—that it was rendered nrcessar; by tat
glees of Spain to perform her engagements of restrainin • the
Mans from hostilities against the United Sues, and h; thee
pable countenance, encouragement, and assistance give; eel,
Indi.eits, in their laortilities by the Spanish Gpvt•in yr and Ca
mandant of thus: places : that the United Stateshase
nand, as the President does demand, of Spain, the
of those officers for this misconduct ; and he further ,
Spain a just and reasonable indemnity to the United
the heavy and necessary expenses which they have been
pelled to incurs by the failure of Spain to perform h-
aunt, to restrain the Indians, aggravated by this demo.
complicity of her commanding officers with them, in their
Slides against the United States—that the two
cuted by order of General Jackson were not
the savages with whom they were carrying on the war
the United States, but that one of them was the mover
menter of the war, which, without his interference and
promises to the Indians of support from "le !knish goers.,
never would have happened—that the other was the iner
of war against Spain as well as the United ,:rates, commix
by 31'Gregor, and egpedited by Woodbine, upon their
of conquering Florida, with these Indians and Nelms—the.
accomplices of the savages, and openly sinning against t'
better knowledge, worse than savages, General Jackson,
sensed of thelrpersons and of the proofs of their guilt, mighl
the lawful and ordinary usages of war, have hung them
without the formality of a trial—that to allow them
sible opportunity of refuting the proofs or of shelving any
stance in extenuation of their crimes, he gave them
of a trial by a Court-martial, of highly respect-
the defence of one consisted, solely wad 011:111! .4y, of
cavil. at the nature of part of the evidence against hint, az,
other confessed his guilt.
" Finally, that.in restoring Pensacola and St. :dark's to
the President gives the most signal proof of Ws confident
hereafter her engagement to restrain, by force, the Indians
Florida from all hostilities against the United States, will be
factually fulfilled; that there will be no more murders, no .
robberies within our borders, by s. 1•: 'get prowling aleteg
Spanish line, and seeking shelter within it, to display in the
lages the scalps of our women and children, their
to sell, with shameless effrontery, the plunder ;rem .•ar cr
in Spanish forts and cities; that we shall bear no nose..
from Spanish Governors and Commandants, of their
perform the duties of their office and the solemn contracts
their country; no more excuses for cotnpliances to the
enemies of the United States, from the dread of their
upon themselves ; no more harbouring of foreign imp iton
upon compulsion; that a strength sufficient will be kept it the
Province to restrain the Indians by force, and Officers ens
powered and instructed to employ it effectually to maintain the
good faith of the nation by the effective fulfilment of the Treaty.
The duty of this Government to protect the persons ani pro-
petty of our fellow-citizens on the borders of the United Smells
Imperative—it must be discharged; and if, after all the warnings
that Spain has had—if, after the prostration of all her terrrito-
rial rights and neutral obligations, by Nicholls and his bandiai
during war, and of all her treaty stipulations, by Arbuthnot:oil
Ambrister, abetted by her own Commanding (Mere, dun-se
peaces to the creel annoyance of the United States—if the sum-
' skies of self-defence should again compel the United States
take possession of the Spanish forts and places in Lerida, de.
Blare, with the candour and frankness that becorn s Um,
Cher unconditional restoration of them must not be
that even the President's confidence in the good faith and Lilo.
mate justice of the Spanish Government will yield to the e-*
ful experience of continual disappointment; and that, after a:-
wearied and almost unnumbered appeals to them, for the t-
formance of their stipulated duties, in vain, the United
we'll be reluctantly compelled to rely, for the protection
orders, upon themselves alone. .
" You are authorized to communicate the whole cf
and the accompanying documents, to the Spanish
I bare the honour, dean. " JOHN QUINCY AD.

MS

BIRTH.
Lately, at the Parsonage, Roshall, Wilts, the Lady of the Be.
William Ramsden, of a daughter.

DI A RR lED.
Lately, at Larnberton Park, Ireland, Captain W. Perot, lel
Lancers, to Eliza, eldest daughtki of the llon.Juldee hoot..
Tuesday, at Sts Pancras, Sir John Maclean, C.B. to I
rah, only child of llenj. Price, Esq. of Ilizhgato.

• DIVA).
Jan. 15, at Ayr, Mr. Alex. Temple, surveyor of the
at the port of Ayr, in bis 45th year.
Jan. 21, at Itockvale, (Torrybutn), Walter 7.117:134.!1, 7.1+
late of the Island of Jamaica.
Saturday, after a short illness, Miss Lewes, or.ly daughter of
Mr Watkiu:Lewea, Kat.
Dee. se, at Nagpore, from excessive fatigue, hfajor C. Atig•
son, of the lion. East-India Carman., 'a Second Regime:it, :s
Madras Presidency.
Mr. Thonias Washington Kershaw, a passenger on board is:
ship 'Jane, returning from Jamaica, which eve; -:nforunatcly
in the gale of Sunday week, off Wales. The (..hptain tti
whole of the crew also perked- The anly two licali3 watts"
ashore were those of Mr. Kershaw and the Captain, whi:h -AO
interred in the Church-yard near Ifolyhead. • -
Lately; at Nutter, near Landrake, Licut. Col. aDcglinTl
of the Royal Marines, one of the mss: eccentric charnCteri,r.
haps, in England, who, for More than. SO p:ari, oczcsimill
visited Plymouth market on an cud white hors:, Len as Ettnt
pante, whose lank appearance, combined his ~Wl2 slag .
habiliments, formed together a spectacle of wretchedness Mk'
equal td any thing described of the cejebratesl Elwes. In his bit
visit to Plymouth, a few weeks since be *rated himself as the
app. of Tlie Pisnamatle nkgrope Office to eat an app:e. 110
dhas then consisted, of a nirty night cap round his head, I'l'
daunted by the poll of an old hat -.I ithu.:t a brim, a roogii
waistcoat, patchod sdl over, greasy leather small-clothes, kirt
up by listing braces, outside the waistcoat, with wads of gnaw
round the bottoms of his legs. In his hand lie wielded a Isrfe
hedge-stick. „Irtidst ail tisis teeming penury, he possessed vet"
very excellent treeheld ll4Lalee in the above parish, well stocked;
yet, he chose to quit the Latily nsaresioe, and lived in a cr.l
cottage in its vicinity, without a pane of gla,4 in the windows !
be nightly entered it by a ladder, Which be crew after him, ;leg
slept in a corner of one of the rows— - wretched patlet,
Rich *A.r.;•-

;GII ATEAat LOIWON
Idt.rting
Alterussua •

R' noes a.tiV
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LONDON : And published by L 1.% L: K 1 vr,
nate, '4l.envic-b.a.

hose of thee who May k .
uOty; and by den riyurett.
; them to a settee of the '
a General has :b. right of •
to his own sat l•
ort
with an inhuman, .;.;LP
take the lines of olneoi;oi.
vn people have been trte
ales is found in their 5a1e,•,...4`
le. It it thus nisi" ti.
tssfully encoonter.i:.
as barbarities of blare7e7e
their governments, 11.4 •
d art; steel.
the alliance and co.opereo,„
-nment has invacably
to her subjects to ,:iot
tso it hash appeneti, u* .
lependence to shit tile,
eve been alEitted hate.otei
ion of Engl;sh milers or
felt, more th.m on.:a
the deepest r!. ye. abet,.
.nd iadiviilualiy to m. • ofa
ito the bends of tit •Ari.rl.
inflicted upon them 1.•
iwful in its
if that which aw.lits iinarthoe
,to Eimular • ir:. rr•-o
:s and the Indians wieor.a.
n, the causes, and the char
Indians and par of the Cro*
k patriots and Nichol:s's.!, .
as into florid?, and gay.,
S. PiVtro so yekter.orts
'oar to presmt other a
olio Majesty's fioe.-rtrnet
, the occupaion of Pin
neith. r by a spirit of ho.. '
oft, prematurely, the 7 • • .
rendered necessar; by the t.
;ageirents of restraitrz the I-
; United Stan s, and thee.
a:, aild assistance give: totix
he Spanish Gowan and C.
United States lam e aright:o
nand, of Spain, die pull:shin.
et ; and hr further deinan s
nnity to the Coated Statist
s which they have been
Spain to perform her eroo-
ggravated by this demonarr.
Seers with them, in :heir
-that the two Etiglishm,
in were not only identified
e carrying on the war ag •
g them was the mover ane
out his interference Al:d
a front 'lle liritiih lover nt
t the other was the ins:rur
c United Starts, commis
Woodbine, upon their
Indians and Negros-oitata
I openly sinning agairst tier
wages, General Jackson, you.
proofs of their guilt. tnight,hy
f war, have hung them ton
that to allow them every**
•oofsor of shelving any circts
les, he gave them the knelt
ighly respectable ofFeers-tha
v and ezehisively, of technical
evidence against him, .us the
?cola andSt.Aark's to Spin,
d proof of his confident*, the
ant, by force, the hauls
the United States, wile be
be no more murders, no . •
r (get prowling aloe g tie
eithin it, to display in the na.
1 children, their victims, ani
the plunder iron) wizen
e shall bear no nu we apt*,
mandants, of their inabiktys
and the solemn contracts d
sr compliances to the imp
n the dread of their mach
staring of foreign improse
sufficient still be kept in the
by force, and Officers se.
it effectually to maintain the
:five fulfilment of the Treaty.
rotect the persons ani pr►
orders of the United Staudt
and if, after all the warn*
rostratlon of all her terrrite.
Sy Nicholls and his banslial
pulatiors, by Arbuthnotunt
ummantang (Mere, dieing
United States—if the fleCs
ompel the United States*
and places in Florida, do
is that beccon s us, that ac►
em
must not be expected:
e in the good faith and tan.
meat will yield to the pair*
ntrnent ; and that, after ...a.
peals to them, for the pa-
in vain, the United State
, for the protection of :heir
irate the whole cf this lett%
o the Spanish Got:enure%
:N QUINCY ADAMS."
Wilts, the Lady of the Re•
1.
ad, Captain W. Pert*, lei
the 11on.J9dee Moore.
.7.laclean, C.B. to err
of Ilizlagisto.
t •
•
tle. surveyor of the arma
t'l, Walter Munisse,
ss Leaves, or.ly daughter
we fatigue, leajor C.
s Second Regime:it, -`
r, a passenger on bear.l fir
high was unately
is. The (....ptain at.l tht
he anly two 1)(141i3
d the Coptahe, whi,Ph Ce
yhead. • -
, Li t. Col. aDc.,thets
eccentric gum:J...l3,r'
han Sto years, 04.N:skill!
white hors:, lean as Itt'fris
fined ~Wl2
Mat of wretchedness felty
jebrated Elwcs. In bin hie
, be seated himself sea the
heft to eat an app:e. Ilia
tap round his head, 1"•/-
tnitho.rt a brim. a routh
:tither small-clothes, kirt
tcoat, with wads of draw
s hand lie %yielded a ISM
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