Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-09-18

s4t oe Wcll dS kuc ONtlcT spanish co
lonies, are wretehe,lly governed, subject to
martiallaw, and 20 be drained by governors,
who go TO squeeze fortunes out OF them.-
" Public opin.ou, ofwhich the COuiier talks,
is known to be 50 diseontenled there, that when
the NeneZuCliauS declared themselves indie
pendent, they appealed 10 II as on their side.
From The London Morning Chronicle.
In addition To the adireSS uf Gen. jackson,
or the occupation OF Pensacola, wc have now
a proclamation from the American adjutant
general. In tli'S proclamation he states, Your
general anticipated i close ut the campaign on
his return 10 fort Gaiss Ken, nnd hailed the
hour with feelings It gratitude to heaven
at the prospect ot relieving YOU fiOm your
labonrs, 10y placing YOU in quarters or return
ing you to your homes bnt how great
the Gisapi Outmert, when h. heard of the re
cent murders committed on iGc Alabama, by
il party nttle enemy trUm Pensacola, where
they were furnished with provisions aud ann
muuiiiun by a friendly power From Tie fe-
roclous disposition uniformly shewn by the
IauiaiI, tribes OF North America Whenever,
sron thCiv numbcIS or Otuer circumstances,
Giey are embolIULcd 10 throw OF restraint, il
requires no great stretch Of fai;h 20 believe
tH@i they have or this occ"Sion been guilty OF
IL. r1yagGs aid their chGge. The Greeks,
SemnuleS, and some other powerful aud war
| like tribes, roam Vi. and down the provinces
o. tioriua, OF which Span has nothing more
| tnao u nominal possession. Ii can hardly well
be any very great reproach TO Spain, tha, the
garrison CT Pensacola furnished ammunition
| 10 Ire Indians; for II Is not impossible that
taelr own existence depended on compliance
! with the Indian demands. Her weaAueSs
must, IN 50 Tar. be her excuse. Dut II pam
sln such state OF weakness that her neigh
| bois are exposed 10 hostile ay.reSsons from
her provinces, weapprcheuo That the lass OF
self defence, thonsl II may not justify the
absolute and Unconstitutional occupation vt any
| province, from wh;ch the Eruption is made,
| will Al least, warrant the occupation OF it,,
| tor the purpose OF depressing aggression, til
| the riglHiui owner IL enabed To DO so. so far
! II is hardly possible 10 view the conduct of Tie
| American officers as Liable TO objection.
| But we are ware that the American govern
ment has long had " isii 10 occupy the FiC ri.
das uhcoDdti0nai.y, aud We suspect il will
not easily he Induced to re,inauiSh possession
| which concerns Spain immediately, and our.
| selves IN no very remote degree j; for il will
give me L. States most powerful prepUnde-
rance in our neishbO.hood, which, they may
one day make use of against Ms. The crafty
| Americans viii, however, we have no doubt
| contrIve means to pacify ippov erished Spain,
and 1t that power is satisfied, il will not be AN
| easy matter Tor any other 10 interfere with
| enect. We shall nOw soon hear what the
| Washington government says on the subject,
| tai wien, 1t may he advisable to postpone any
! further discussion on ii.
From the London Courier.
We have received American papers 10 the
lth uit. THIS morning, containing the articles
of capituation agreed upsn between General
jackson and the governor OF Pensacola. By
these articles (aS we mentioned in our paper
OF Monday iasu II is stipulated that the !sarr
son ana some persons connected with the civil
administration Of Pensacola, shall be conveyed
to Havana, the troops lie march out with all
| the lIonors of war. With respect 20 The causes
OF ths capture, we are at length provided with
some explanation, which will throw a little
| lghi upon the subject.
IL appears from proclamation issued by
Ten. sac son, dated the 18th of May, that the
depredatiOns of the Seminole Indians upon
the frontier settlements of the United States,
have occaSioned this proceeding. Spain was
not able TO restrain these incursions, therefore
Pensacola was seized, and is 10 be held by
America till Ike former power " can furnish
| military strength sufficient to enforce existing
treaties. TINS condition is probably one of
those referred 10 in the 18th article of the
capItuiat:cn. ItiS evident however both from
the terms ofthis proclamation, aud the tenor
OF The capitulation, that the seizure OF Pensa.
cora has not arisen, as some UfOHr c0ntempo-
| rarles have supposed, from any diplomatic
arrangements between the two governments
Ii such had been the case, a quiet and formal
| surrender would have been made on the part
! oi the Spanish authorities. Instead of hostile
| attack by The American General asd suisse
| quent military capitulation.
| whether the proceedings of an Indian tribe
! were really the exclusive motives for tins step
on the part OF the United States lime Will shew.
| Tie National Intel .encer OF The iih July
talks OF rnmour, which, il true, would tend
greatly 10 dscredit these motives. This ruinor
is, that General jackson was " proceeding to
capture the almost impregnah,e fortress of ST.
Augustine, the =" IN of which consisted
only Of about ." - st. Augustine is Ike
capita! of .ensacola is of West Florida,
and t., lesson of those two places would
render the ultimate acquisition OF the Floridas
themselves of easy perf0rmauce-Un QuesIon-
ably the operations of America in that quarter,
ought not 10 be viewed with indifference
Spain is the country which would be least at.
iected, with regard 10 national interests, py the
loss of tie Fioridas
The following letter cannot be read without
great interest by our medical men and natural
ists.-E. Post
PARIS, June /.
" Dear Sir-I now transmit you several late
journals and medical publications. in which
much interesting matter il offered for Dhiloso
phical enquiry. The sudden change of the
color OF The skin from white 10 black in the
person OF Mary GdiHard, is trHiy astonishing
and invites new cOnieCtures and controversies
The reporter Of the case to the facultv Of me-
dicine has attempted TO explain this pienome
non, from disease OF The liver and from bile
Dnt THINK that neither have any thing 10 DO
with 1t. | have seen the woman before she
died, aud il is a fact, that her change of color
took place In The night, after she was inform.
ed OF the tragical death of her children Il IA
also true That she continued eighteen months
III the same color, and until she died but size
was observed to grow paler half an hour only
before her Doay was opened. l hope YOU will
not leave the subJeCt without further enuuiTy
whoever could satisfactorily account for this
rnetamorFhosiS, would certainly OK plain or dis
close the true cause of the black color of the
African race.
You NiIuO be less astonished by the opera.
ton ton Tor cancer, as performed by Richerand.-