Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-01-16
From the National htelligencer.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, JAN. IL.
SEMINOLE WAR, SC.
Continued.

SEMINOLE WAX, NC.
Continusd.
These facts being ascertaned by general
Jackson from unquestionable authority, he
immediately took up his line of march to.
wards Pensacola, at the head of detach-
ment of about I s00men, for the purpose o.
counteracting The views of the enemy, and
to execute his orders from tie war depart
ment. by terminating the war speedily, and
with exemplary punishment for hostilities
so unproyoked. On the 10th May, he cross
ell the Appalachieola at the Ochsese vii
lage, with the view of securing the country
ives. Of that river; and, on the 23d Of the
same month, he received a communication
FROM the governor OF West Florida, protest
Ing againS, his entrance into that province,
commanding him to retire from it, and de-
clagng. that he would repel force by force,
provided he should not obey. This COM
manication, together with the evident indi-
cations Of hostility in the governor, who had
been well advised of the object Of general
Jack,6n's operations, determined the mea-
sures which he pursued. Accordingly ne
marched directly TO Pensacola, and with
bu, the shadow Of opposition took posses
sion of that place the following day, the 60
vernon having fed to fort Carlos de Barrsn-
cas- which post, after feeble resistance,
was also surrendered to gen. Jackson on
the cath by which the Indians and fugi-
tive negroes were efectually deprived of
all possible means of continuing their dep
relations, or screening themselves from the
arm oijusiice. Thus glorieusly terminated
the Seminole war a war reluctantly enter
ed into, but urged by dire necessity, to pro-
tect from the tumahawk and scalping knife
of the most ruthless savages our peaceful
frontier settlers, who, from decrepid age to
helpless infancy, for more than two years,
had been exposed 20 their cruelties-a war
in which our citizens and soldiers, with their
usual fortitu,'e and valor under their perse-
yering and determined commander, endu-
red long and difficult marcbes--submitted
to painful privations, subdued brave and
merciicss enemy, without suffering one de-
feat, or brsrayirg q solitary mark of dislnay
10 tarnish the lus,re of their country's glory,
A variety Of circumstances convinced gen.
jackson that the savages had commenced
this war, and persisted in their barbarilies,
under the influence of some foreign incen-
diaries, more criminal than the unciviiized
natives. Alexander Arbuthnot, who avow-
ell himself British subject and resided
among the savages as an Indian trader, WIS
taken at ST. Marks. to which place he had
withdrawn as danger approached, and was
living as an inmate in the family of the
commandan;. Ii appearing that be had
been Jealous advocate for the pretended
rights ofthe savages. and III this respect the
successor Of the notorious col. Nichols, of
the British colonial marines, in the late war
with Great Britain; that he had repeatedly
written in their behalf to the Spanish CO.
vernon of ST. Augustine, the governor the
Bahamas, the British minister in The United
States, and TO COZ. Nichols, endeayoring TO
procure all from both those governments
against the United States; that he had re-
peatedly advised the Indians not to comply
with the treaty of fort Jackson, assuring
them that the lands coded to the Y States
By them in 1914 were to be restored by
virtue Of the treaty of peace with Great
Britain; general Jackson ordered him to be
tried By a court martial, consisting of Is re-
spectacle officers with maj gen. Gaines ,pre-
sident. The court was directed to decide
upon the fact of his guilt or'nnocence :: and
if guilty, what punishment should be in
ficted Upon satisfactory testimony, he
was convicted ofinciing AMI stirring up the
hostile Creeks To war against the United
States and her citizens aud of aiding ,abet-
ting and comforting the enemy. supplying
them with The means of war, and by the
court sentenced to be hung. Robert c.
Ambrister, late lieutenant of the British
marine corps, and with the hostile lndians
and fugitive negroes the successor Of W ood-
bine, OF notorious memory, was taken near
the mouth Of Suwaney river. 1t being well
known that he had been leader and COM
maudrr of the hostile Indians and fugitive
slaves, gen. Jackson also directed him TO be
tried hv the same court marfiai IInnn sa-