Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1821-11-03

vernment to deliver up the province to
the United States, ia conformity to the
treaty cpncladed at Washington. on the
9Sd OF February, 1919, feeling DESTROYS
TO crafty the public expectation upon
the faet Of his having been forcibiy de-
prived Of tho ,~.srnment archives.
which were under his cnA-.a. together
with his private papers, aud the ar.
chiyes Of the Eseribano, which last.
acctfdins to the stipulatious catered
iutowith Col. Robert Butler, Commits
siouer on the part Of the United States,
remained subject to the future aud con-
veutional decision Of the two cabinets,
would wish to make known, tina, he
will not be permitted, by the short stay
he intends to make in this city, to lay
befors4he world a statement of facts
in hissswn Qualification, supported by
proper documents, which should con-
vince all men Of the outrage committed
by the immediate orders Of the Secre-
tary, acting as Governor Of st. Angus
tine, w. q. ID. Worthingtoo, and
which orders, as he was Informed,
emanate from General Jackson. This
exposition or manifesto he designs to
make as soon as he reaches the point
for which he will shortly set out and
IN the Interim, in order that some idea
may be formed of the above mentioned
occurrence, he publishes the solemn
protest which he made on the spot. no
ping, that if any doubts shonld still be
entertained by those unacquainted with
the p,r',eulars, they will be cleared
mp aud removed when his manifesto
shall appear.
lcoPH.]
United States Of .america,
City Of ST. augustine
BY this public instrument Of DECLARE.
lion and protest, Be il known. that, N
this second day of October, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand eigh. hun
dred aud twenty one, before mt, Tho
mas II. Penn, Of St Augustine, Notary
Public, personally came and app a, ed
the spanish Colonel, Don Joseph Cop
pinger, Commissioner on the part ,f
his government for the delivery If the
province Of East Florida 10 she United
Stats OF America, conformabiy TO the
trea,y of cession concluded upon b.
TWEEN both nations, WIN being duiy
swof on the holy evsnSelists of Al
mighty God, did depose and say, tina.
this lay, at four o'clock p. N. there
presaated themselves at his dwelling
house, the Mayor Col. Forbes, The Al.
torney General john g. Bird, and he
Sheriff john Hanham, who made a de
manl Of the archives and papers which
remained in his possession, they being
as they stated, commissioned by the;,
government /; and that they were an.
swsred that in no wise could the afare
said delivery be acceded to, because the
archives remaining in his charge were
those containing the correspondence IF
his government, which had been CARR
sd on by himself and the preceding
Governors. relative TO the employs iili-
cd by the respective missionaries and
persons that he had no documents
which had any relation, directly or in
directly. with the property or sove-
reignty Of the nation aud in one word.
that the said archives were par,icu-
lar property, which he was bound to
deliver to his Captain General, and
positively excluded by the Treaty; that
there were also some of his own papers
amongst them therefore, he repeated,
that in no wise could he deliver the
said archives T; that the archives of the
Notary remained subject TO the respec.
tive decision Of both Governments, as
had been stipulated with the American
Commissioners, Col. Butler, as appears
by the correspondence end agreement
which both made, and most positively
expressed in tile aeknowiedg meut OF
the delivery, fer which reasons he
ought to continue in the same sprci.
~ he now holds, until the conclu.ion Of
the aforesaid determination aah that
the aforesaid Colonel Forbes INSISTED
upon the delivery Of the arcf,ves, as
he had positive orders. watch he mus,
fulfil. The depobept again
repeats, that hS would not in any
wise do so voluntarily aud If the A.
merican government, contrary to the
rights OF nations. against the inviola-
bility Of his house, and the particular
property Of his nation, aud of himself,
ahould take by force, by which mode
alone they could obtain then, that hc
protested solemuly against such an al,
rempt, costrary TO the laws of patious,
tbs protection of individual security
and property, aud more especially in
the present case, wherein the sggrey-
sion was directed against the righss of
his person, in which he represented his
government, by virtue OF his office as