The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-29 00:00:00

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f Cnnrinnerl from nor Praiser of eetlerrials.)
II bottom., therefore. in the opinion of Gen. Jock.
isolint.no.al IV lIPCPVIIIIII y to tek• from the Cm.
u•ti...r or i.1,l V ] Peosacolo the means of yarning
Li. threat ;Iwo eloetsiioos. Bernre the forme ender
his cotoso•ool. the .rage enemies of his mutates bid
slitiiipp•••• d ; but he keew that the moment Anse
fogies .liaeld be disbanded, if sheltered be 514111611
let • :rav,i, If for-..bed with ametunitlons and sup.
Om. or Spanish Officers. sod if aided and supported
het t: • inatigatioo by Spanish encooragetnent, as he
Lai! r.er• teases* to espect they would be, they
i•o',' •• appear, soul bred, in addition to their or.
(Vfi.Cl..ll/11.26. with revenge for the chastise.
Loot( they had so recently received, would again rush
%bill she sir hatchet and scalping knife into the
borders of the United States, and mark every foot.
step oith the blood of their defenceless citisens. lle
far as ali Il.e suite resumes of the sassy. esteswitils
*Lc • ir was elan end ; sod General 'leeks." was 'bast
to re.tore to their families and their homes, the brave
vblouteers who had followed his standard, and who
had 101..1011,0d 6110 ptioripal past of his force. This
toola he Ilrm. with safety, lettior she regvbir pot.
liout el his tramps to gersisee his line of forts, sod
two small dtptechewot. of velentmtr cavalry to scoot
the rotentry rowed Pensacola, end sweep off the
lorkitig routines+ of sates.. *ha had been scattered
and dispersed Itefore him. 'lbis was soffirier4 to keep
in check the moment of the hoodirti against whom he
bed marrhod, 'so long oe they shookl he destitute of
other sof seal support. It est. in his Lodgment, not
beffirival, if tt.e, should be suffered to rally their
weasbesis *odor she perinection of Stasahh forts, end
to derive vow strength from the isepritmthe or the 111.
will .gsinss the United States of the Spanish Au-
thorities.

lie took possrarsion, therefore, of Penisesla, and
of ii • Fort of Bensons, as he hod deer of St.
Mark's, sot is a spirit of hostility to Sprats, bet as
I net /Ivory anesere of ralf•defenoe; giving entice.
that it ..) rh, old be restored wheeever Spain should
place C. meanders esti a form there, able and will-
ing to ft"' IM •mesittmestis of Spain towels the
of restraioing by force the Florida
intliaas from bosiltithes against their citizens. 'the
P!esident of the United States, fogies a areal essni.
gestation of his conideace in lite dispositiose of the
*log of Spoils to perform with good faith this India.
preasahle regagemest, lad to demerastrate to the
world, that neither the desire of conquest nor hosii-
lii) to hpaia had say 'deities is the Councils of the
• 1 wird Sloes, has directed the uocoodilional mato-
ID SD) :;1.&01{111 011effy duly authorized to re.
arise Morn. of Protocol* and the Barrancas, sad
that of St. Alta's, to say Spasish force •adraeete
for its defireca against the attack, of the savages. Bat
the President will neither iallict paoishaseat, our
pas a censure upon General Jacksoo, for that con.
duct, the motives for *hide were foureded he the
purest patriotism, of the necessity for which he had
,the meet immediate sod effectual means of forming a
judiment, and the vindication uf which is written is
every page of the tan of naliooll. 4111.1111 Min Übe first I
Is,' of suture, self defeats. He thick, it, on the
cootraty, doe to the jestke whit* theldnited Stems
base • train to claim from Spoie: sad you are sc.
cordiagly Mistreated to dimmed ef the Speleish Go.
ammeter, that enquiry shall he beetitoted rate the
connect of Den Jose Maar, Gamma of Pensacola.
and of liars Francisco C. Leap, Cemoseedeet
St. filaik's, and s suitable peeisherset irshicsed epee '
them for having, in &lases and enthrals* et the
euispeonents of Belo with the Golfed Gilt% aided
and assisted three hordes of savages is these very be..
011ie@ stalest the United finites which it was their
inibrial defy to restrain. 'this enquiry is dee to the
character of thou officers thossoleve. and to the bo-
som of the Spanish Goverment. The obliaation of
Spain to restrain by here the lodises of Deride
from hostilities spina the Mated Sid es and their
citizens, is asplicit, is posiriee, is enqoslifir.l. The
fact, that for a eerier of years they hate reneived abet.
ter, assistance, supplies, mod praelection. in the prat-
lice of smell hnstitities from the Spanish Comma.
dere in Florida, is demoted [X3E]AI.I ou•sjoiveratil.
V, as :she Comosneders both et Permeate sad St,
1L11.3 Mask's hare allerd, this Isis bees the re.
Mlt of Beak vreskoiras tether then of their will--if
they have assisted the Indishs ageism the United
States to avert their bertillties from the province,
rakish they had tint sufficient force to defied against
them, It say serve in some measure to Piceloste, in•
onedually, those ()dicers; bet it mom carry demon-
stration irresistihire to the Spanish Gosernarrisrt, that
the right of the United States tau as tittle composed
with impotence as with perfi.ly ; and that Spain seat
immedistely make her election, either to place a force
its Florida adequate at ogee to the protection of her
terlit•ty and to the fulfilment of her migeg•nients,
or cede so the United Stales • prosince, of which she
retains teething but the nominal possession; bet
which is, in fact, a derelict open to the ocreponey of
retry enemy, civilized or savage, of the United States,'
and serving no other earthly popes* thaw as a post
of sonny Inge to them.
That the purposes, as well of the Negro Indian
berteisti. with whom we have been eenreadips, as of I
the British invaders of Florida, who first assembled
end employed than, and of the British introding
and preteeding traders, since the vetoes who have in.
migited and betrayed them to destruction, hate been
not less hostile to Snide than to the United Stetes„
the proofs contained in the decomeois herewith en.'
Mo.") en conclusive. Mr. l'issree's note et the VIA
of speak. of his Catholic Majesty's profaned
irdignatiou at the " sanguinary esmitions. on tb.
Spinish soil, of the subjects of Powers in amityi
with the Bing,'—meaning Arbuthnot and
tee. Let Mr. P•sarro'i surcease, take the trouble of
reeding the enclosed documents, sod he will discover
who Arbuthnot and Ambritter were, and what
it Y. were their purposes : "that Arbotheet was
LV I 11. only the successor of Nicholls, and Am-
leri.ra• the agent of liieedbloe, tied the subtitle/le
of ill . ego r. Mr. Pizarro qualifies Gen. Jackson's
F crusty pursuit of a defeated_savego easy beyond
tt e Spanish Florida tiaras a shameful iambs of Ms
Plojeety's territory; 'et that tinnier, wen the
territory also of the wage seemy sad Spin
•ss bound to restrsia them by jczcs Los hostilities