The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-30 00:00:00

• $1144111 was so ready to old end support is war were also murdered, and the eldest , the
nosiest the United States. The chain of proof that 1 beau was then pleadered of every - -of value,
eseeblishes this fact is contained in the documents and set on fire."
coMinunicsled by the Pres.desit to Congress at their' [LXI.] Letter from Peter H. Cook (Arbethnet%
last Session, relating to the occupation of Amelia clerk) to Elia. A. Carney. at Nassau, dated Se.
Isiellitity M'Cuttgor.[LVl.] From these documents , walleye, 19th of January, 1818, giving pen wastrel
yore will find, that while M'Greger was there,Wood.! of their operations with the Indians, against the
bins went from New Providence, iu • schooner of Americans, and their massacre of Ueetenant Scott
his own, to jolts him; that he strived at Amelia and his party.
bland jest es 11•Gtegor, abeedoning the comps. " There was a boat that was takes by the Indium,
nioos of his achieeenwat there, was leaving it s that that had in it 30 men, seven women, foot small chil.l
Irl'Gregor, quitting the sestet in whitish,. had embark. dren. There were six of the men got deer, end one
ed et Amelia, went es board that of Woodbine, and woman saved, and all the rest of them got killed.—
returned with him to New Proeideace; that Woodbine The children were took by the leg, and their brains
had provided hint they could yet accomplish the dashed out splint the boat."
conquest of Florida, with soldiers to be recruited et If the bare recital of seen., like thew coulee be
Nemo, hoes the corps of ColoolelMariees,which had primed without shuddering, what must be the ago.
served ender Nicholls during the late war with the sited feelings of those whose wises and children ark,
Visited Suits, which corps had beets lately disband. from day to day, and from night to pleb', exposed
ed; aril with Negroes to be foond at Tamps Bay, to be the victims of the same barbarity ? Has
Sod ISO lodises* already then engaged to Wood. mercy a voice to plead for the perpetrators end in.
bole, who pretended that they had made a greet of stlpters of deeds like thee'? Should eneleiry here.
all their lands there to him.--(LVII. a. b.)—Ameog ghee be made, why, wields three months after this
the Papers, thoorigioals of which are in oar posses. event, the nesse Hatesildi Mice., epee being taken
Ilion, In 111• Gregor's own band-writing, instroctions by the American troops, was, by order of their Cue.
In sailing into Tamps Bay. with the assertion that wander, immediately bong, let It be told that that
lucalmslased to be there by [d.] the last of April or muge was the commander of the party by which
list of May, of the resew year; a letter, dated 27th those women were butchered, and these helpless in.
December last, to one of his acquaintance in this tints were this dashed *gales' the beat. Contend.
country, [e.] disclosing the same intention ; and the lug with ascii enemies, altheegh humanity revelry at
satract of a Preelagestiow which was to have boos astire retaliation open the., and spares the lives of
Issued at 'ramps Hey, to the inhabitants of Florida, their feeble and defenceless women and children, yet
by tie person charged with making the settlement mercy herself surrenders to retributive justice the
there, before his 'rural, announcing his spores, h, fee lives of their leading warriors taken in arms--end
the purposeof liberating them from the despotism ei still mere the lives of the foreign whhe incendiaries.
Spam, and of enablioe them to form aGoverement for who, diftwoed by their own Goterements, end din.
themselves. Ile had persearled those who 'Geld listen •uidsg their owe estates, degrade theeseelinra beneath
to him heir, thst•his vitiate, object was to sell the tie lenge character, by voluntarily descending
Florida* to the United Suites. There 14 same res. to Its level. Is net this the dictate of common seem!
.• sou to suppose dist he had made indirect overtures, Is it *et the usage of legitimate warfare ? Is it net
of a similar nature, to the British Goverseneet.-- cousonaet to the soundest authorities of *stimuli
This *es A mbrister's business in Florida. He ar. law 1' " When et war (soya Vogel) with a foredoom
sired there I. March [XLIX..], the pricer*** sullies, which obsesses no roles and grants or quite
, of MiLiirrgor and Woodbine: sod immediately spin ter, they may be chastised In the persons efibeeePbel
.. his arrival, he is Greed misting upon Arbothuors them who may be taken ; they are of the nailed M
goods, end distributing thews asioug the Negroes end ,th silty ; and by this rigour the attempt wee be
ledisee; seising epos his yesse i
l and compelling Ps bringing geese them to a of the lane of he.
master to pilot him, with a hod of armed Negro**, I . ' Asa, again t66As a Omura, has the right
towards the Fort of St. Mar with the du!erml i • ificing the litres of his asensiee to his oun
PirP6se of taking it by sever**, I. the night : writ. I safety or that of his people, if he bus to contend with
I,g letters to Governor Cameron, at New Neel- !an isthmus enemy, often guilty of each melees. be
doses, urgently rallies for supplies of nsenitioos of may take the lives of some aide prisoners, and trust
war, sad of connive, 'for the war against the Aomori.! them es his owe people have been treated." The
cans t and letters to Colonel Nicholls, renewing the I justification of these principles is foetid in their sr
nee demands of 'applies ; informing him that he is letary ellicacy, for terror and for example. II le
with 300 Negroes, " a few of oar Bleff pelvis," I thus wily that the barbarities of Indians cen be we.
who isediellwsk i• the cause, sad who were relying I cessfelly enenentered. It is thee oily that the Mem
spas the tat* it. Nicholleg preasis•s. Our Banff! them Indian barbarities of &trepan impostors, Fe.
' Goverer

people were the people of the Negro Fort, collected by
Nicholls's and IVoodbine's proclamation+, during the t
America', and English 04f ; end the noise to which
they stock,was the savage, 'pettily, ostorminating war
*gains' the United Slates. •
Among the agents sod actors of such virtuosi en.
uprises as are hero unveiled, it was hardly eapectad
Mott there world be hood retwarkohle •vidstices of
their respect, cosfidettoo, and good faith towards
our another. Accordiogly, besides that violent 'Moore
sad distribotioo, by Ambrister, of Arbothoot's pro-
pony. his litters to Governor Cameron, and to
Nicholls are Riled with the distrust sod esspicioss
of the Indians, that they wore demoted and betrayed
by Arbuthnot; while iss Arbuthnot's letters to the
41.1110 Niebolla, he [XLIX. f] scans* Woodbine of
basing taken' sharp of poor Francis the Prophet, or
Iludlis !IWO, spits his retorts hew England to New
Prolidesse, and under pretence of taking ass of
him and his allairs—of horsing &hooded bins of
largo portion of the presents which hod hoe, delivered
root from the ILtog's stores to bins, foe [XI.VII. a.]
Francis's are. This le moo of the peu.gus ei At-
bothrol'a loiter to Nichols, *miffed in the polstico.
lion of it last Atagssi in that Lewdest Newspaprre.
Is this 'Tomtits of dark and compliceted depts.
pity ; this remelting and insidious oar, both against
Spain and the Ultima Snit's; this mockery of pa.
- @Sodom; the.. poliolcol philters to fegitive gam sod
Indian outlaws ; these peridies and treecherb a ~1 vil-
lains incapable of Unpin their faith eves to each
other, all in theories of South America, liberty, of
the rights of runaway Negroes. and the wrongs of
sass,' murderers—all combined and projected to
plinth's Spain of her provinces, and to spread mas-
sacre anti devastation along the borders of the United
!tales;—is all 'hit sollcient hp cool the sympa•
tides of his Catholic Majesty's Goverommit, en-
cited by the esmotion of Stems two *6 subjects of a
Poser in amity with the King?" The Spanish (30.
yrroonent is nut at this Clay to be informed that, creel
as war in its mildest forms must be, it is, sad ISM
ressarily moat be, doubly cruel, when staged' with
savages ; that savors make no prisoners, but to tors
tare 'Iwo; that they gise no quarter ; that they pot
to death witlrivt discrimination ef age or sea ; that
these ordiwary ettaricteristics of Indian warfare have
been applisible, in their mom heart-sickening her:
tote to that war, left as by Nicholls, es his legacy,
reinstigetert by •Worerthine, Artmihnot, and Am-
• baster, and stloolstrd by the approbation. encou-
regomoot. sod aid of the Spanish Commandant at
S'. Is ;hoof required ? Entreat the' panish
P. hiller of Stare, for a mdosent, to overcome the
fret hp which details like, these in es' ratite, end to
pet! c., if proisihle, %jib Composite, upon lbs facts.

toodiog authority from their imetts, bet al-
ways disavowed, can be penished sad arrested.—
Great Britain yet engages the allele* and co.opera.
%ion of savages in war. Bet hoe Competent has In.
variably disclaimed all coostenanee or authorisation
to her subjects to tredve thee against es its time
of peace. Yet so it has happened, that free the
period of our established independence to the day,
ell the Indies wars with which we howbeit sfilicted
bare been distinctly traceable to the Indignation of
English traders or agents, always disavowed, yet
Carey, felt, more then once detected, bat never be.
fore punished. Two of them, offenders of thedepest
dye, after solemn warning to their Goverment, sod
individually to one Ira them, have fallenfiagranle
*NM, into the hands of an American General ; and
IMP pooishsent inflicted span them has feed them
on high se an crumple, aorta in its trahibition, but,
see trust, auspicious in its remelts, of that which
'waits unauthorised pretenders of Ferropose Money.
to stimulate end interpose in wars between the United
States and the Indians within their congenial.
This tapelike of the origin, the cams, and the
character Otte war with the Seettinote !adieus and
post of the Creeks, combined with M'Grogor'e mock I
Patriots and Nichelt's Negroes, whick 'bees.'
sadly, led our troops into Florida, and gave rho to
ell these incidents of which Mr. Pizarro so vs-
honestly complaint, will, it is hoped, enable yea to
present other end sounder views of the sehjett to
his Catholic Majesty's Governmeat. It will enable
yes to show that the occupation of Pensacola and
St. Mark's was occasioned neither by • spirit of
hostility to Spain, nor with a view to cline, pie,
maturely, the province from her possession ; that it'
was rendered necessary by the neglect of Spain to
perform her engagements of engraining the Indians
from hostilities egaitet the United States, and by the
celpeble countenance, escoursgement. and assist.
once Oren to those Indians, in their hostilities, by
the Spanish Governor sod Commandant at those
places; that the United States bate a right to de.
mind, as the ?resident does demand, of Spain, the
punishment of those Offices far this misconduct;
sod 'se farther demands ..f Spain s jest end reasons.
ble indemnity to the Units.' State, for the beery
and wecessary espetaces which they have been con.
pelted to incur, by I! P failure of Spain I. perform
her oegsgement, to restrain the Indians, aggravated
by this demnnetrated complicity of her Cool.
1
minding Officers with them, in their imolai.
ties against the Unified States ; that the ten
Englishmen parceled by order of General Jackson
were not duly identified •ith the moles with whom
they were carrying on. the war against the Unit-
at States, but that one of theta was the sorer and fo.