Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-07-22
PENSACOLA.


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PENSACOLA.
The following originating in the official
gazette Of our country, is worthy Of notice.
Much may he drawn from the language Of
the National Intelligencer:-fN. Y. Gaz.
The latest accounts we have from PEN
sacola are by way of Mobile, under date
of the 18th ultimo. We are sorry to find il
stated, in the Mobile Gazette, as report
entitled to some degree of credit, that there
are many complaints on the part of the
Spanish garrison and subjects in Pensacola,
that the articles of capitulation have not
been strictly observed on the part of the A.
mericans.'
"This complaint may have arisen from
general feeling on the part of the Spanish
inhabitants, without any particular foupda-
ton in fact; or from the difficulty which
may occur from our officers not accurately
discriminating between apositive conquest
of the soil and sovereignty, and tempo
rary occupation oft, supposed to be made
necessary to the safety of our frontier, by
the indisposition or inability Of the Spanish
authorities, TO cause good faith to the Uni
ted States TO be observed therein.
The same paper informs us, that Pen.
sacola, if the information Of the editor of
the Gazette be correct, presents an extra
ordinary political aspect I; that Spanish law
prevails as to every thing except the Gus
tom House and Revenue Laws, and as to
those the laws Of the United States are in
force and that both Spanish and American
property had been seized in the port Of
Pensacola and sent to the United States for
adjudication II is easy to foresee that
this state Of things will give sufficient EN-.
ployment 10 the courts in that quarter; and
that, although Pensacola basbeen occupied
by the military authority, nothing short Of
an act Of Congress can reconcile the exist
ing incongruities in the administration of
law in that territory.
With respect 10 the occupation Of that
post, we are yet without any other infor-
nation than that afforded by the two gene
raj orders of the General commanding the
Southern Division, already published
The dispatches received the other day by
express, and which were reported to con-
tain an ample justification Of Gen. jack
sons conduct, the public have NOT yet seen.
II is presumed they will be made public
when the Executive shall have acted upon
|, them.
"The conduct of the Executive and of
general Jackson, in the occupation Of PEN.
sacola, had been arraigned by writers in
The Georgia Journal, and one or two other
respectable papers, not to notice the gri-
maces Of some habitual snarler, directed
against the former exclusively. The Exc
cutive is blamed for what is termed an in
direct war on Spain,, il the measure should
have been authorised and Gen. Jackson
is censured, if, without such authority, it
shall appear that he has assumed the res
possibility Of this act. These are points,
in attempting to investigate either Of which
we find ourselves stopt, in Emine, BY the
question, what were the Instructions of Ge-
neral Jackson?, When that fact is ascer-
tanned, we shall not be so entirely at sea as
at present: we shall have some landmark
to. guide us in the pursuit of correct con-
clusion, which we now seek in vain.