The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-12 00:00:00

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~,aiwatctof ths.Defendant, as Pmts.'s' of the Manor
*lid Borough of Fowey, a verdict was returned for
the Defendant, subject to the decision of the Court
above, as tb whether Mr. Lucy, who has purchased
the property of the Rashleigh family in Pommy,
holds that property In fee or only for life. After
' the cause Lane v. Rashleigh had proceeded for some
time, the Counsel for the Plaintiff finding that the
meaning of the' Defendant hod been completely mis-
taken, in a conversation which he had had with a
person who wen at his house in the ihiVacter of a
Mead, and in which the name of the Plaintiff was
mentioned, offered to withdraw a Juror, which pro-
posal meeting the approbation of the Judge, was
accepted by the Defendant, who authorised bis
Counsel to declare that he never intended to cast any
such aspersion on the Plaintiff as that which had been
put on the record.—The business at Nisi Prins was
concluded about three o'clock on Thursday (yester-
day) evening.

Tar GASE.or Mit. ARBUTHNOT.

Of this case a cotemporary Journal gives the sub-
joined statement :
" Arbothoot was a native of Montrose, in Scot-
land, and was some years resident in London as a
merchant. He appears to bare been well known in
the City.
" Mr. Arbothnot was long In the territory of the
• Seminole Indians as a private trader, and from the
extent of his dealings, and a character naturally cal-
culated to Inspire respect, bad acquired considerable
• Influence among them.
"'The Indian., kept out of certain lands which
the Americans had, by treaty with Great Britain,
the ally of the Indians, solemnly stipulated to re.
Store to them, and constantly harassed by new in-
roads on the part of the
Americans,
applied to Mr.
Arbuthnot, as a respectable British subject, to. solicit
the British Goverament to obtain from the Ameri-
cans the fulfilment of that treaty, and the observance
of relations of justice and amity towards the Indians.
A commission to this effect, signed by all the prin-
cipal Seminole Chieftains, was delivered to Mr. Ar-
buthuot.
" Mr. Arbuthnot transmitted the representation
which he was thus commissioned by the Indians to
snake, to the proper British Authorities. He was re-
cognized in his character of Commissioner or Agent
for the Indians, and desired from time to time to
; anemorielize the British Government with respect to
tiny further facts which might come under his ob-
eervation respecting the points at issue.
4° While resident among the Seminole Indians,
with these lawful and recognized objecti, and pulse-
big, at the same time, his speculations as a private
trader, Mr. Arbuthnot received a letter from a cer.
tale Mr. Ilambly, who had, in the time of the war
!between Britain and the United States, been employ.
"titd as a British agent among the Indians, and at the
'tonclesion of the war been left among the Indians to
s attend to their interests, but had since gone over to
sthe Americans—which letter intimated to Mr. Ar-
!instboot, that the Americans, assuming that the whole
cause of complaint was on their side against the Se-
minole Indians, had resolved upon a complete pro.
acription or extermination of the whole tribe, as the
shortest way of determining the troth and justice of
the case, and warning Mr. Arbuthnot to get out of
. the-way of the signal vengeance which was speedily
"to fall on the Indians end all their abettors.
" Mr. Arbuthnot disregarded the warning: con-
fiding in the protection of a neutral territory—con-
fiding iu the inviolability of his person as a British
subject—confiding in the perfect propriety sod fair.
mess of the whole of his proceedings—he remained et
Lie settlement, true to his friendship to the Indians,
and tree to the fealty which he owed to his own
Gauntry, as at peace with the United States.
" The Americans did accordingly send an armed
force, under General Jackson, into the Seminole ter.
titory, to carry into execution the barbarous edict of
proscription which they had pronounced—to • put
to death every hostile warrior'—to spare none but
the women and children:—And in this their course
of massacre they found this British subject and agent,
bit. Arbuthnot, living peaceably at his trading settle-
ment in the woods; they seized him as a friend and
ally of the Indians—they tried him (if such proceed-
ing trial ran be called), for the alleged crime of assist.
log an oppressed People in the vindication of their
tight., and assisting in the vindication of the charac-
ter of hie own country, which had guaranteed these
sight.--they found him guilty of this, in which there
wax no guilt—and, with nothing hurrying them to
the deed but a savage thirst for extermination, with
every good motive to induce them to refer a case of
this kind to the deliberative disposal of the Govern.
scents of the two parties—they condemned this Bri-
tish subject, an authorized British agent, to suffer
Instant death) as a felon and an outlaw !! !"

THE PROPHET FRANCIS.

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The following is a copy of a letter transmitted to
one of the Governmen► Offices, on the arrival of the
intelligence in this country of the execution of the
Indian Chief, Hidlis Hadgo (the Prophet Francis),
and of the violent seizure and putting in irons of the
unfortunate Arbuthnot, at the capture of St. Mark's,
by General Jackson. This spirited representation
is made by a Gentleman well acquainted with the
Florida', and who has ever taken a lively interest in
the welfare of the oppressed Indian nations
June 1818.
" I have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter
sent to this coentry by Mr. Arbuthnot, a British
merchant of Nassau, New Providence, but lately
trading with the Creek Indians, in the Florida', by
which you will see that he appeals to us in behalf of
the Indian Chiefs, 'and requests, in the strongest
manner, that their deplorable case may be laid before
his Majesty's Government. The Americans have
most certainly broken the 9th article of the Treaty
of Ghent, and are now carrying on a war of ex-
termination against the Indians. They have also by
en act of the most abominable treachery got into their
power the Chief Hidlis Hadgo (Franci'), who came
to England at the termination of the last war with
the United States, and cruelly murdered him, to-
gether with another Chief. They have taken Mr.
Arbuthnot prisoner, and he is confined in irons—an
act of abalone which is madestill wore flagrant by his