The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

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We are et length enabled In startis funs Official
Decla►ation, the motives thnt have -Induced the
Voitell State.' General to take possession of Pensa.
_cols. New York Papers► to the Bth ult. remelted ns
st a Iw►a twor this forenoon, one of which (the New
York Gazette) contains thb follotsing imputing

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OFFICIAL.
GENERAL JACKSON.
Wu have been favoured with a New Orleans
Paper of the 12th ult. containing tire Articles of
Catpitulation of Barrancas, approved at' 'Fort St.
the 'Nth of May, and signed Wy JrotEnt
IlstalloT and AIDREW JACKSON. We have no room
'so-day for these article., but the substance is est.
inaceir iu Ate following
GENERAL ORDER.
Heed-quarters. Division of the South
Pensacola. May 23, Md.
Major-General ANDREW JACCSOII has found it
necessary to take possession of Pensacola. lb has
.not been prompted to this measure from. a Gish to
extend the territorial befits of the United Slates, or
from eny unfriendly feeling on the part of-the Amer
titan Republic to the Spanish Government. The
Seminolian Indians, inhabiting the territories of
Spain, have more than two years past visited our
frontier settlers with all the horrors of savage maie
"acres; helpless women have been %withered, and
the cradles stained with the blood of innocence.-
These atrocities, it was especial, would have early
attracted the attention of the Spanish GOvernment,
And, faithful to existing treaties, speedy measures
adopted for their suppression.
The obligation to restrain them was acknowledged,
but weakness was alleged, with a concession that so far
from being able to cciatrool, the Southern Authorities
'Were often compelled, from policy or necessity, to issue
munitions of war to these savages, thus enabling, if
-not eliciting them to raise the tomahawk against us.
—The 41.mutahle laws of self-defence, therefore,
compelled the American Government to take posses-
*ion of such pacts of the Florida, as the Spanish Au-
thority could not he maintained in. Pensacola was
. • found in this sit unainn, and trill be held until Spain
can furnish military strength sufficient to enforce
The existing. treaties.
Colonel KING will assume the command of Pensa-
&a, as military and Civil Governor.
(Signrd) ANDREW JACKSON.
Major-Gerserni CAtmmai•rt

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It thus appears that the atrocities of the Seminole
Indian;, alit' the unwillingnessor inabilityof the Spa.
inish Government to fulfil its Treaties in adopting
tneASUrPC to repress the outrages of these savages on
their American neighbours, are assigned as the
grounds for this act of the United States. It still
seenn; from the American accounts, that the capture
'um; p:Pcipti by storm. Intelligence .from the Ila-
vattnah, communicated through -tha medium of
the Baltimore Papers, and received this morn.
lug by way of Liverpool, gives reason to es.
pect that the capture of Pensacola would occasion
the detention of American vessels at the Ilaystratah,
*where the Spanish Governor and bis troops had ar-
rived, and a considerable sensation hod been ea.
cited by this event. The following is au extract of
the intelligence thus communicated :
" Office of Baltimore Patriot, Jetty 6. 1 P.M.
" The schooner Colonel George Armstead, GATE-
arrived here from Ibiannah in nine days. The
slay she sailed two cartels arrived there from Pensa.
cola with Spanish troops and the Governor of that
place. It watexpected that American emelt wield
be detained, as a stop was pet to loading them. As
might be expected, this affair created considerable

The Papers from Paris (which we have received I
to the '29th) bring some interesting accounts of the
proceedings of the French Court, bat we have as yet
no notice of the idol of the Royalist Conspirators.—
The day is not even yet named for their
General CAmuct. is still in prison. M. FERRET,
the Editor of a Paper which espoused the cause
of the exiles, and reflected upon CanvEr. some
time ego, for which he received a very severe sen-
tence, has, upon appeal to the Royal Court, had
bis sentence mitigated. His Counsel, In defending
him for taking the part of the exiles of France, said, ,
they were not treated with the same kindness as
exiles from other countries on the French territory,
and that a Treaty (misted between four Powers to
send the French exiles to a small number of towns,
the air, the language, and situation of which were
contrary to their habits, and fatal to their existence.
—The King left St. Cloud on Moeda.), for Ramhouil-
let, a NIRO which he is said not to have visited for
1'.40 years. The P/111C2S had rersored before biol.
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