Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-06-04

SuiZcns recon were at thar tiinc wnouy
deftitute of cath yet they were prevented from
going abroad to procure reiources by the two
folders who were left as guards over them !;
at one o'clock orders OF imprisonment were IL
fued againIt Citizen Fedon, and the younger
brother was conducted to prifon. The leder
brother, however was the defined victim and,
in confequence thereof, in few minutes after
wards, the former was relealed, and the latter
put into cloie confinement.
1t fhoud be remarked that fimilar demands
were made on other merchants at the fame time,
and they were impriloncd becaule they could
not comply Citizen Fedon the elder was
the only one cofely confined, excepting Citizen
Aard. whole CONTINENT was in confequence
Of improper language, ufed towards the Gen.
eral in Chief. On the forenoon in the follow
| ing day (Od. 24th received information
that the General in Chief had ordered my BROTH
er to be ihot for not having furnihed the fun
required. s..
Although Twas far from believing that
| this EnguiDary order would be carried into ex-
ecution endeavoured to avert it: and finding
| it impoAible to raife; the firm exa6ted, wrote
| to the commune; offering all our property, NOV
ables and mercandize, to be fold at public auc-
| tion.
The general in chief had confantly refufsd
| to receive me into his prefence. The council of
notables waited upon him, and with difficulty
received the refpite Of an hour but during this
| fufpeniion ferjeant of the guard of honor,
who was the bearer Of the order for my broth
ers execution was directed to accompany the
| notables, and to remain with them until the
time limited had expired.
l fuhfr r,NtiOn xuae Immediately opepeJ ~
F, the Office of the notables, and twenty of the
hra merchants in the city haitened to fubfcribe
and to hold themfelves individually relponGblc
in their perfons and their property for the pay
ment of the fun demanded.
dody( accompanied by the ferjeant who carried
the death warranty returned to the houfe of the
general in chief, but were refufed admitance,
and informed that Fedon was executed. They
could not give credit to this knocking intelli-
genee, and haitened to the commandant of the
carlton, bv whom it was confirmed.
The notables were deceived they imagined
my brother was fecure becaufe the ferieant
who attended them was the bearer of the order
for his execution, but another order had been
i1ucd, he was dragged from his prfon, con-
Quoted by bye path to the foot of Fort Be-
lair, where his grave was already dug, and my
unfortunate brother was fhot at ten o'clock in
the morning.
Several hours had elapfed, but contin ued
ignorant of his fate, until the Judges and the
commihary of the army came to execute the
further orders of the general in chief the
former putting feals upon our houfe, and the
latter to convey our merchandise to the flores
of the fate. From this meafurc refulted the
proof that it was impofible for to have COM
piled with the demand of the general, no mon
ey being found in the houie.
| Thus died, at the age of 90, man who
had committed no crime who had broken
no law; who could not even be reproached
with having refufed to comply with the arbi-
| trary demand which had been made upon him /;
and who in fact, could be charged with moth
ing but the impoHibiity Of furnilhing tx thou
! fand dollars in the fpace Of two hours.
! The facts would have been made known
| judicially on the ipot, but the circumstances
of the country prevented It. therefore, now
enter this my proteifation againt the unulf
proceedings to which my unfortunate brother
has fallen victim, and againit all the antece-
dent and fubfequent proceedings relative there
to-; referving to mylelf to per(uea jua VEN
gence whenever the author of them lball be in
my power. Done at the Havana "a FRI
MARIE, December IL. 1903.
(SignedD B.FEDON.
Certified by LAUcHAMP,
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