Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-05-24

New York, was. on Wednesday, adjourned
70 the 9th July, in order to obtain the testi-
mony, in writing, Of Mr.. Clay Of Kentucky
and other witnesses residing at a great dis
taBce. :.
Indian Outrage.-About the 1st Of April,
az Messrs. John w. Starr, James Smith. and
John d. Watson were travelling through the
Choctaw nation, they were apprehended by
some drunken Indians. They stopped them
on the road, and took Smith and Starr Oh
their horses and tied them fast, and went to
take Watson, when he pulled out a pistol
and shot one Indian dead, and made his Is.
cape. They gave Smith and Starr about 81
lashes each, and let them loose, and put OH
after Watson.
The Legislature Of Georgia commenced
ia session on the 3Oth April. The following
is the concluding part of the governors ao'
dress on that occasion:
"Iavail myself Of this occasion, fellow G..
,;zer,. to congratulate you on the esssion OF
the Floridas to the United States. Although
the anticipated fortunes may never De July
realised 10 them, yet their acquisition to the
Union. and to THE state in particular. Is OF
vast importance. They will no longer be
the rendezvous or asylum for the ~smuggllny*
p~;r,ticical advsnturer Of every nation, nor
IN. secure retreat for the lawless and ungo-
ser,able of our state. A further cause OF
generalization is, that Gen. Andrew Jackson,
the man Of all others who should have been
preferred, has the government OF that terri
tury. While his name carries terror to the
lavles, and disaaected. it Insures safety and
nro,ec,iou TO the orderly and well disposed
From ts Louisiana Gazette.
Den Joseph Felix Trespelacios, lieste'
osut general oil the Mexican armies, and
President of the Supreme Junta established
al Texas, in bis own lame, and in that Of all
The Patriots Of New Spain, IN arms, and OF
those, who, for want Of opportunity or pre-.
vented by oppression, have been unable to
procure them, but all united in the same
grand object Of liberating their Countrywide
ing well assured Of their just and upright
intentions, most soIemnly declare before the
Great God Of Truth, and in the face Of the
world, that they have burst asunder, and dis.
solved forever, the bonds by which they
were united to European Spain.
The ~iodignities and injuries which have
been heaped upon them in consequence Of
this determination, are already known to the
world-what will then be their glory when
they shall have surmo united their sufferings.
For a long time we have spoken Of recon-
citation aud peace, but at the same time We
have always been opposed with the scaffold,
the execu:ioner, and letters the most oppres-
siye.
Never can any peace or amity exist be.
tween Old and New Spain-the former can
never have any confidence in the latter, nor
can the latter allow the opportunity to es-
cape which presents itself OF revenging the
injuries she has suffered.
Though the blood which has flowed from
the veins OF our parents and friends should
be ~revenged, and all our difficulties aud dan.
gers be rewarded, our grand object is ae-
eomplished only in our entire liberty! This
We wea TO obtain or die.
Post Of Casa', LIST March.
By the following extract froln the Diary
of the Spanish Cortes, it will be seen that
the Holy Alliance is not in the odour of
sanetity with the populace Of Madrid:
nrrIso OF II coRrEs, Madrid, March s..
A communication was read from the Min.
S.er cd interim of the home department, in
which il WIS stated that information having
been received by him Of a plan to stone the
houses of the ministers plsnipotentiary Of
Russia aud Prussia, beginning With the lat.
ter) Of which plan a certain Damian de San.
tiago, 4 master shoemaker. was the prici.
pal author. measures were taken to prevent
It and a~pprehend the delinquents; they bad
been seized opposite to the dwelling II the
Russian minister, conducted to prison and
indicted.
A mechanic has invented a machine for
ssminaries, which, by means of steam
not only warns the room, but fogs ua
the boys, on q general scale,-Eag. nan.
The greatest discovery of the age has
inst been made inthe world of fashion.
4 laundress, Of the most splendid talents
has inveaeed the stiiftning Of seckeoths
upith isi.giass. This renders them elias