Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-01-20

Had be stopped at the torders OF the two
territories, the Indians would at this day
be playing at their accustomed game will,
our citizens on tl,eir frontiers, and per-
4; haps even returning the good Offices OF Mr..
I Cobb on his fellow citizens in Georgia in
their usual style OF gratitude. and in The way
most suitable TO their gentle and bencro-
! lent hearts. And would il not be sirgu-
; lar exhibition 10 see the Indians drawn up
OH one side of the river that served az
! boundary, and Gen. Jackson and his army
ON the Other, parlyihg or mehacing, shak-
ing their fists at each other IN defiance,
while neither could move towards the o.
Their till after two or tl,ce months de.
bate and oratory, a mandate should be
sent to general Jackson either to move
forward or come backward, as the tide Of
votes might run, without cfrcting any thing
for the preservation of our citizens from the
scalping knife and tomahawk.
Mr. Cobb was extremely severe upon the
conduct of Gen. Jackson in regard TO tie
execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrisier-he
SAID, thai, neither in the laws of nations,
nor in the code of the United States. could
be found any law 10 justify that terrible
transaction. He dwelt with great feeling
and earnestness on the injustice as well as
inhumanity of refusing from the court mar
tial the mitigation they proposed ofsuls,tu
ting corporal whipping for death IN the case
Of Ambrister. If The court martial he said
had a right to reconsider their sentence and
that they had could not be denied) ten had
Gen. Jackson in refusing the alteration of
the sentence wrested from the court their
right and put the man TO death without their
assent on his bare fat.
Mr.. Cobb concluded by moving to re-
port bill prohibiting the execution Of any
captive taken by the Y. States without The
appreciation Of the executive. Also disap-
proving the SEIZURE of St. Marks, Persaco-
la and Barancas as contrary TO orders, and
a violation of The constitution. Also prohi!
biting the march of any troops of the United
States into foreign country without the aui
tlority of congress, unless in fresh pursuit
of an enemy Of The U. States, taking refuge
in foreign territory.
Mr.. Holmes made a few remarks in an.
swer TO Nj. Cobb, and was proceeding
with more, wnen he was interrupted by the
committee rising.
From the N. Y. Commercial .qdv. Jan. 16.
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
! By the arrival this morning Of the elegant
line packet ship Amity, capt. Maxwell, in
AS days from Liverpool, we have received
from our London and Liverpool correspon-
dents, London papers TO the 29th Of No
vember, Lloyd lists 10 the eth, the gene!
raj shipping and commercial list to the 28th
and Liverpool dates to the lst Of Decem
Der, all inclusive. Extracts from the whole
will be found under their respective heads.
The line packet ship Courier arrived at
Liverpool in the remarkable short passage
of l9 days from this port. The Telegraph
from Philadelphia, which arrived there
about the same time, also made her passage
in the same number of days.
The most interesting articles in our Lon
don papers relate to the termination of the
congress al Aix-la- Chapelle. We have on
hand four documents, which are considered
as the most important results Of the deibe.
rations of that body. These documents
shall be given in our next. They are ne.
cessarily omitted TO day, on account Of the
great length of the interesting reports in
congress on the subject Of the Seminole
war.
Great preparations were making in Lon.
don for the interment Of the queen, which
was TO take place on the End Of Dec.
AGenoa paper states, that on the. lOth of
September, Mr.. Jones, the American con-
sui general al Tripoli, went out to hunt
with his secretary, the Danish consul, and
a Janissary. Being separated from bis com.
panions, he was attacked by three Moors of
the Admiral Mourat- Rails, who struck him
several times with the but.ends of their mus
kets, knocked him down, and would have
murdered him, had it not been for the re-
turn of his companions. The consul was
conveyed, covered with blood, to the pa.
! Lace of the Parha wha nromised every re-.