Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1817-07-29
BY THE mills.
cBARLEsToN, Is c.) JULY Is,
fPTURE or AA1ELIA, sc.

SDaN1So AONS 70 ~ JoLi )
CAPTURE OF AMELIA, sc.
We lave all the particulars of the
capture of amelia IRand, by he patriot
forces under Gen GREGoR Mac GREG
OK, and OF their Interior proceedings.
His force landed at dlRancc from the
fort Of Ferdinanda ION Anella) waded
through morals up TO their waits, and
summoned the fort to furrenaer. The
summons was complied with without
a gun being fired
The equalization is dated z9th June,
1917, in Ferdinanda, 1t ftipulates, in
four articles, That the gayriion fhall be
priloners of war, and with all their bag
gage, &c lhalI be fent to Augufine, or
Havana THAT alithe arms, munitions,
&c. ihall be delivered to the Indepen-
dents ;-That private perfons and prop
erty llsll be confder,d facred and invio,
Liable THAT all who do NOT choofe 10
Join the ftandard of the Independents
fhall have six months in which TO fell
their properly. and remove and that
the General { Mc'Gregor) offers to the
inhabitants, whether friends or foes, the
privilege of returning, and enjoying all
the benefits of the capitulation, as private
perfons Signed by Francisco Morales,
and Joieph De Yribarres and approved
by Gregor Mc'Gregor.
A Proclamation in the fplrjt Of the
equalization was if1ned on the goth and
an Address on the 1T July, thanking his
troops FOR their iervices
From ST. Mary's We Learn, that on the
9th July the Spaniards evacuated a fmall
out poit on St. Johns river, called Fort
Nicbofa, and efoaped in two gun boat,
after having fpiked their cannon and de-
itroytd their arms and fmall flores. This
10 faid TO have been done in dread OF
M'Gregor's forces but may have been
in conlequence of orders from the com
mander at St. AugnfiEe to concentrate
ali his forces there
ST. Ausnfme will be the next object
of M'Gregor's attention; but he will
not make an attempt upon it until he is
reinforced from the North and he is
in daily expectation Of fhiP Of 28 guns
and 900 men, from Nezv Icrt
In the mean time, the Spanifh Cover
nor (Coppinger) is making preparations
for ffout areGlfance. The city of St.
bugufine (the capital of Ealf Florida) is
we'll fortified and beGde, the ufual
Spsnifh garrifon can furnith conGdera-
bic force from population of 1900 in
habitants, if they can be prevailed upon
70 defend their city.
Gen. MGregor exercifes foyereign
authority over the conquered parts of the
island. He has power to do this. by his
commiflion from " The Supreme Director
ef Mexico, Somb hnerica:" and as Gen.
eral in Chief of the armies of the two
FIoridas. A Prize Court has bean elab
lifhed, of which d. Heath Efq of
Charleaon is Judge poa office erected
and newlpaper, printed in Englifh,to be
iaue6. .
MCregor, in his addresses, fpeaks
much of $. Sous IF Freedm !" the Zines
Unable gift of nature" but like many
others,
Makes IIsrsTE IN his own by fenfe.
/" For blsckeii crime the fafsss Eseues -
And therefore it is, that We find tha,
he has announced that forty Africans,
taken stsFerrardiii, have been condemn
ed, and are to be Told at public auction
for the benefit Of the faf,isfic captors.
In the fame fpirits the Savannah Re
subliean, in an article called Calir1ag
rzt1sffd." has pronounced the report, shat
Gen. M'Gsegor had adopted the fyilem
OF universal emancipation i &c. 10 be
a mott lcandalous talhood and could