The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-03-30
=, are, at this moment, kept as prisoners in
he W. Indies, on haE ai!ogvanee.
Srn EAi'T.

4 ~ w 1hasAS>t t1 Nd -CssDgCDHCf.
Srd FACT.
Sir John Beresford, "Commodore an,
Commanding the British squadron in th.
Deia"are has addressed mean and me
lhac,nS letter To the people of Lewistown
winch would disgrace tie merest bragga
docio III the world! Mark the. circumstan
ces Ut dis noble act. Lewstown i, a small
village, near the Capes of Delaware; he
huts If poor fish rmen and pilots the Whole
III TIE houses together not worth probably
more than 200 coils. And We this gall.nt
commodore. this generous and ia agnani-
1" u, enemy, has actually threatened
o'o" all their houses about their ears. if
hey do not furnish him with 20 bullocks.
and some vegetables at the Philadelphia
prices. A Notable feat indeed for a beef
stake and few potatoes! \ noble atchieve-
men indeed, TO turn few poor families
upon the word, from such motive
Ath FACT.
we do not intend 10 eXpatiate upon the
ntamv OF their employing the Indians as
her Allies, nor upon all the horrors which
nave been perpetrated in the west. Our
frontier still reeks with the blood of the.
women and the children. Turn to the Xiv
er Kaisln, and let the barbaritiss which
we're Practised upon the unfortunate vic
nuns on that occasion speak for th. rest
Those barbarities have been denied nv
the friends of the Brjtsh-becausc they
were not stated by gen. Winchester in hi,
oniciai letter To the gnvernDent.-Wc have
now before us the official letter of Ensig,
Baker to gen. Winchester, who had ben
ordered by Winchester :" to take charre u,
the American prisoners at Sandwich n the
ooth OF January" The blood almost free
yes at the Sroupe of horrors which it laws
Def re US:
" For the greatest number of our nnfor
.una'e fellow soldiers being sent from DE
troit, we are indebted to the exert;ons ~
our prisoners, tellow-citizens Lhere. who
with an uncXampled generosity, when they
sa" thelr Countrymen driven through the
streets IKE sheep TO market, lavished
them wealth tor their ransom-we had baen
almost stripped of clothes by the Indians {"
On the 9Th Inst. Col. Proc ordered
me to make out return of all the nrison
ers who were killed by the Indians snbse
qucnt to the battle - the return is enclosed
to Gen. Winchester.
Many Ef-tsh Scaihs have been BROUGHT
us since the battle :" these are exclnSive
OF the above report"
Col. Proctor has issued An order on.
joining individuals to purchase no more
priSoners.''
he dead of cur army are still denied
the rights of sepuiture at the time lei,
Sandwich, was told The Hogs were eating
EN- gentleman told me he had seen
tenn running about with souls, arms. Leg
and other parts of the human system in
their mouths The French people on the
river Ra'sin buried Captains Harris, Wool
tolk and some Others, but 1t was more than
ther uves were worth to have been caught
paying this last somary tribute to the
dead several times agitated the subject
of hurying the dead while in company with
British officers, but they always answered
fhGf the Indians wona nor suffer il ."
can we forget these things The SUBJ
iect is TOO full of horrors 10 dwell unon-
but let US hear no more of British Humani-