Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-05-22

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hundred liyres IN each Ton,ine. ant! in III,
last gear oi her life, sac had for her annui-
ty seventy three thousand FIVE hundred L.
vres, for about one hundred and lweIye
dollars and half.
Nsw-Ycrk. Nay 10.
A letter from o6r correspondent; at Can.
ton, dated the Cd Of January, (received by
the Hope) states, that The captain of an A.
merican ship arrived that moroing from the
Sandwich Islands, who informed him tia.
he left at the islands Russian frgate tina:
had been on the coast of Calilornia-lhe
capt. of the frigate said that the Spaniards
mad coded that country to the Russi n.
who would shortly take possession. The
frigate was expected at Macao in few
days, and from thence goes to Manila.
[G0zeue.
II is with sensations of deep regret we
have perused the statement contained III
the following paragraphs from the New.
York Evening Post OF the l4th inst. No.
to copy them would not be TO suppress the
rumors which this publication has already
made sufficiently notorious. We will, fer
the present, only express cur hope that the
reports will prove, as the Post supposes pos
sibIe, to be false and slanderouS," and
that "the contradiction may be as public as
the charges 1t will give US sincere sa-
tisfaction to be authorized to contradict
them, and put their authors to shame.
National lnfeihgencsr.
From TIL" .New- York EUening Post.
Report states that an order was recently
issued in Florida, by colone! Kings to put
to instant death, without the delay or form
of trial, any descrter that was taken
That, in consequence, party under The
command Of Lieutenant -, went in pur.
suit of a man of this description, whom they
overlook; that they informed the prisoner
of the nature OF their orders, and their rea-
disess to execute them. He firmly expos
tula,ed with The ofiicer-demanded trial.
claiming his rights as man and an Anne.
rican citizen but, finding his expostula-
tons vain, he kneIt down and received the
fatal bullet in bis breast.
In an, her instance, j! is reported that,
in the Alabama territory, soldier was
condemned by his officer, as punishment
for intoxication, to be ducked (which was
executed on The spot, and carried to that
excess that the man was literally drowned.
This order was also issued without the form
of trial.
At Greenbay, on the western side OF
Lake Michigan, the military, as the same
report states, has assumed complete con-
troll over the civil authority. Citizens have
been taken up for real or pretended often
ces, been tried by courts martial, and the
punishment of what is called p,eketting in
Aicted upon them; that is, by placing the
cuIprits on four wooden pins, drove firmly
in the ground, with the points exposed a
bove the ground half or quarter Of inch
over these he is suspended by cords ta''
tened to the thumbs, and when he can no
longer sustain himself in the air, he mus;
let his weight down on the pin.
As, however, we have no positive evil.
dence that the above reports are true in all
their enormity, We shall not, at present,
make any further comments on them, nor
add any reflections on the parties implica.
ted. We would hope for the honor Of Our
country and the reputation Of our army,
that they prove to be unfounded hut
we cannot refrain from saying, in conclu-
sion, we have strong forbodings to the con-
trary.
y This is the gentleman TO whom Gen.
eral Jackson assigned the command Of Pen
sacola and its dependencies.
Boston, (!Mas,.) May Is.
THE SEASON.
M1u Time Ear hos heen cold boisteroIrs