Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-09-20
From the Charleston Patriot, Sept. /;
NEWS FROM The SOUTH.

From the Charleston Patriot, Sept. IL.
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
lust as our paper was going 10 press
we were politely favor, d with the follow
ihg extract Of le; ,,r, received this morn
ing from St. Mary, dated the 5th Sept.
al had some business which called ne
to Fernandina this morning On nv ar
| ivol there, I was sorry 10 find the place
10 the greatest possible state Of confusion,
Colonels Posey ard Parker had resigned
their commissions two lays ago, and last
evesiDg general M'Gregor resigned his
command onthat station. and re -emb,rk
ed on board his brig, with his family and
furniture. Colonel Erwin has been ap-
pointed to the temporary command, and a
council OF officers was 10 take place to
determine whether to risque battle or
TO abandon e place peaceably The
Morsiana's men aud guns have arrived.
They have now three armed brigS, and
three sChoouers besides about aO men.
exclusive of officer, making "a in all ;
aud military and naval stores arrived at
ST. Mary tips morning in the ship Mar
garet from New-York SO that if the Pa
triots consider the place worth holding.
their force is certainly more than sufi-
cent for that object.
The Spaniards are said to be in con-
siderable force at Cedar Point, about %
miles TO the southwark. Of Fernandna.
waiting tor some transports with ord.
nance and military store. from St Au-
justine. A few Florida militia are en-.
camped at the Orange Grove, Un the
Man, in view Of Fernandna, waiting to
join the Spanish forces 1t is said, aud
generally believed, that governor Cop
piDger will command in person.
The UnIred states brig Saranac
came in yesterday. a2d, ! understand,
will remain on this station"
Extract Of a letter to the editors Of TIE
Savannah Republican, daied st. .Nary's,
September =, 1917.
"The Perusal of correspondence from
this place, in the National Inteliigenccr,
gave Use to the following remarks:
when we speak Of the ienity of Spain
towards such as were engaged in the
former instruction, let US consider that
it was providentiaI event Oil which tina,
amnesty was granted. At that juoclure
the queen was delivered ~ twins when,
according TO Spanish customs, all the
criminals in the kingdom were parGoned
aud liberated. They should then view
their exemption from punishment as ell
tirely accidental, and not owing to a par
ticular mercl(al dispensation in their Ia
vor.
But the United States, that cOmbaited
tyranny for independence, will never be
the nation to strike at any country's
struggle for emancipation, nor riyet the
chains of desPotism harder on the Recks
OF men who are fighting far their freedom.
"The people Of East Florida certainly
owe great deal OF respect to the humane
disposition of their present governor and
could he assimiIate the policy of his
country to the benignity OF his own dis.
postum, they could not justifably join in
the present INVASION. When Spain, irou'
her present enfeebled situation, can nei.
ther quell discussions, nor relieve dis
tresscs at the door of he's capitol, it can
not be supposed that in distant provinces
she can project her subjects. A,respect.
able Spanish gentleman states, shat dis
tress prevailed 10 such degree in that
country that he has been stopped aud his
money demanded in the vicinity Of Ma
drid, by men formerly officers Of high
rank in the Spanish army. Tie inabiliiy
of !the Spanish gover,Sient to afford pro-