Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-01-07

- III,
Ia and Robert Chrystie Anbrister
was a Lieutenant.
LINZ As between the United States
In and Great Britain, we should be
~illingto bury this transaction in the same
grave of oblivion will, other transa lions
OF that war, had the hostilities of Col.
Nichols terminated With the war. But
he did not consider the peace which en-
sued betwe The United States and CIR, al
Britain as having put an end either TO his
iniiiiary occupations, or 10 liis DrSotia
tions wifi, the Indians against the United
states. Several months after the raiiica-
ton OF The treaty of Client. be retained
his post and his Iiarty-colorcd forces in
military array.
ll-2.1 By the 9th article Of thai treaty.
The United States had stipulated Ia pui
an end, Immediately after lis ratification
10 hos'iiitis with alifhc tribes er nations
OF Indians With whom they might be at
war attl,e time Of The ratification, and 10
restore 10 them all tie possessions which
they had enjoyed in the year 1911. This
article had no appIicaiion To the Creek
nation, with whom the United States had
already made peace, by treaty concIud-
ed on the 9th day of August, 1914, more
than four months before the ir, ATTY of
Client was signed. Yet Col. Nichols
moi only affected 10 consider il as apply
ing. to The Seninoles OF Florida, and the
ouilawed RI d Sticks, whom he hat induc-
Ell 10 JOIN him there, but actually persua-
ded them that Heg were entitled, by vir-
tue OF the treaty of Client, 10 all the lands
which had belonged 10 tue Greek nation,
within the United States, in the wear 1911,
aud tina, the government of Great Britain
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preienslon. He asserted also this doc
trIne III &C ~ "spondemce with Col. Haw-
kns. then the Agent of the u States with
the Greeks, and gave him notice, in their
name, with a mockery Of solemniiy, that
they had concluded treaty Of alliance,
offensive and deiensive, and treaty OF
IA.J navigation and commerce with Grea.
Britain, ct which more vas 10 lie heard
alter il should he ratified in England.
Col. Nichols then evacuated his Fort,
winch, IN some OF the ent losed papers, is
called the Fort at Prospect Bluff, but
winch he had deBominated the British
post OH the Appaiachicola took with
HIM The white portion of his force, and
embarked for England will, several of The
wrefcied savages whom he was thus de-
luding TO their fate-amnng whom was
the Prophet Francis, or Hills Hadio-
amt left The Fort amply supplied with
military stores and ammunition, 10 the
Negro department OF lis allies. 1t after
Nv. VI wards was known b, the name
of Negro Fort. Col Hawkins immediate
~ communicated 10 this government the
correspondence between him and Nj
cholls, here referred 10, (copies of which,
marked No. to 5, are herewith en-
riosed,) upon which MIR. Monroe,
NJ then Secretary OF State, address
ed letter, copy marked o. To Mr..
Baker, the British Charge d'Affaires,
at Washington, complaining of Nj
ciiolTs conduct, an shelving that his
preiencr that the OH article of The treaty
OF Client. could have any application
10 his Indians, was utterly destitute of
XII foundation. Copies of The same
correspondence were Transmitted 10 the
Minister of The United States, then in
England, with instructions 10 demonstrate
with the British government against these
proceedings of Nichols, and to sbew how
incompatible they were with the peace
which had been concluded between the
XII. a. b. two nations. These remon-
strances were accordingly
made, first in personal inter
Alil. alb. view with Earl Bathurst and
Lord Cas,lcreagh, and after
wards IN written notes, add essed sue
cesslvely to them, COPIES Of which, to-
gether with extracts from the dispatches
of The American Minister to the Secreta
ry OF State, reporting what passed al those
interviews, are eDcloscd.) Lord Bathurst,
III The most unequivocal manner, confirm
ed the facts, and disavowed the miscon-
duct of Nichols declared his disappro-
baton of the pretended treaty of Ali.
ance, offensive and defensive, which he
had made assured the American Minis
ter that the British government had re-
fused 20 ratify that treaty, and would
send back ii,e indians " HON Nichols had
brought with him, with advice to make
their peace on such terms as they could
obtain. Lord CastIereagb confirmed The
assurance that The treaty would not be
ratified and if, al the same time that
these assurances we're given, certain Ills
iinctleps of public notorleiy, were sliewn
to Tie Prophet Hills HadjO, and I've was
actually hon0red with commission, as a
British oihcer, il is 10 be presumed that
these favors were granted him as rewards
of past services, and not as encourage
meni TO expect any support from Great
Britain, IN "a continuance OF savage hos
liiiiies against The United States, all in
teniion OF giving any such support iIav
ing beeh repeatedly aud earnestly disa-
vowed.
The Negro fort, however, abandoned
by Col. Nichols, remained on The Span
isb territory, occupied by Tire bandiiii "a
whom he bad lrii IL, and held by them as
a post, from whence io commit ,lepreda
lions, ouiragcs ana murders, and as q re
cepiacic Tor iuglIvr slaves aud nialrlac
nv. tors, To The great ammo, ance boil
Of The United States aud OF Spanish Flo.
rida. In April, 1916, General Jackson
"r"ie letter 90 the Governor % Prnsa