Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-12-13
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Bv nv communication Of the 18th uls.
5vou were informed Of some outrages com.
mitted within this territory near lhs Span
isl line, and of the steps had taken in re.
slation thereto.
now have the honor to inclose for yorr
further Information, governor Grand Pres
letter IN answer to nine of the 9th ut. and
my reply 10 him marked and numbered 1
and 2, also the documents marked /, and
{ 8, which will inform you OF the further
steps taken in this affair.
The military patrole which / ordered
cut on the line, were organized and dis.
banded, on holding themselves ia readi.
ness, and places appointed to rendezvous,
under standing orderto tie officers com.
manding, 10 cheek any disorders that might
appear.
have the satisfaction to inform you that
things in thar quarter have become very
quiet and settled, whiel, 1 believe would
not have been the case bur for the measures
which were pursued.
Some of our citizens we're concerned 10
this business, and are bound over to court
for prosecutions.
Enclosures accompanying the above.
GoVernor Grand Pre-, to Governor Will.
ans.
My dear sir,
have received your letter dated the
sixth instant relative to the extraordinary
event which happened at Pinckneyyille, on
the third instant. viz. the assault on ihe3
brothers, Kempers. By persons unknowa,
and disguised it is said in black, who con.
Quoted them on that part of sia territory
which ithas pleased his majesty to commit
to my charge. The occurrence is singular
and of which had no information till the
night between the seventh and eighth, by
one Of The commanders of the patroles who
since the inroads committed by that tir.
boent bandit,i headed by the Kempers,
have been stationed near the frontiers, and
within the interior settle n,ent of FelicIana,
the first gave me information under date OF
the fifth, that by night he met with party
Of men disguised and armed who were con.
Quoting three others, whom they immedi.
atsly abandoned and retired with precipita.
ton the same way they appeared to have
come, without u.tering single word his
FIRST care was to secure the person OF the
three men, whom hes found TO be the Ken-
pers, and immediately had them conducted
To Bayou 1onnea, there to be embarked IN.
der an escort and delivered at my disposal;
he added that on the the escort was
stopped BY actual force ON the river very
near the eastern shore by captain Wilsoa,
military commander as Point Coupe:
where it is said the escort is detained ard
also the Kempers. The commander OF the
patrole also declares that il was impossible
for him to know any one of the persons who
brought and abandoned the said Kempers,
owing to the obscurity of the night, their
disguise and their very prompt departure.
This is all the information / have as yet,
bntta dispatched an express to procure
more ample knowledge respecting this
strange aad mysterious violation.
Il is not necessary, Aatter myself, that
n should express what pains cur govern
E,ent has taken and how Increasingly
scropalous il has been to maintain and con.
ssantly to preserve with that Of the United
States, that good understanding and haF'
mony which it ought to be impossible tor
few intriguing, perhdions. adventures
thirstisg, after revenge for privatcanimosi'
ties to interrupt. Ofthis hope your eS'
cellency is fully convinced, and upon this
principle you will approve the eficaelou'
MEASURE | am about TO take for the extirpa-
ton Of this disorder which has risen to It's /
full height on the territory ofthis govern
meat, disorder, confusion, violations, OUT ]
RACES, plumber, insult to the magistrate
dragging him by rope round the neck, az
temp;s on the flag OF the king my master
and now the violation committed with tho
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