Indiana Republican, Volume 3, Number 112, Madison, Jefferson County, 30 January 1819 — Page 1

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S li r i Lie rr -' ' ' r , f . .. .?: i o .:Jvar.:c ; if I- -:t ' t x i i ' . .-f cr.'hi : -ci't-A ? i,icoin-' ; '. ' it :' ; s ft paid within f j i hi It' ) ' f O , . v '. ' 7 . , v v. itit;rni tin ft! ... . , 7 i - ,...Wv 0 i ' r. 'i ' ' ' ,! ' v O i :? ' ? US ta the I '.'".tor. r - RTLXTIONS WITH SPAIN. I SI' hrC'JMi.NT- r.lANMlTTED TO T Dr..irtiii :r.t o St.it with uici: cnii -u;?, h.ivc. bcrn receive-1 .u th:.- deiiarrnicnr. Airo! thec t'.'.s. . - re- a: : eT;u! n c k-,vi Mr. P.z.irrv, i.:C: - J, j i.t i C i . tr i::v r.r.s z:v: j.ick-n;i a.ur.st the Scinin In ..; .;: inP the handiai (t K;(;rec ccmli'ine'.l with V nut pariicuh.irly to his p. in i'.' n-id i, with- ! U lit b: ?tfi. In or r-;- note: ot Mr. Po'irrn, he i u,iv:n lortn.il no'ie th.c t::: Kiive;, his m-tcr, lus is:o." -r.vrs i'r the stiner.si.on ft' t?;e T-e-ociuion between the Pr.itcJ Sotv- and Sp.iin, until ro:i;0Kt(.n -hail have been nooie h- the American governir.ent to him tor tlicsc procccdir. ct i;cn. Jackson, which he considers as acts of unequivocal hcouiity against him, and uutrares uoan lii; honor and ii.::etv; the only acceptable atoacnient (or which, is stated to consist in a disavowal of the 2 els of the American general, thus complained ot the inilicti'.r linon him of a suitable i nnent for hii supposed -r-'Uciucr, ana tne resiuu- " '-Vof tie posts and territories g 'en by him Irom the Spanish 1J -th.orities, with indemnity for I - the property taken, N: all daI injuries, public or prif Vl':- sustained in consequence ? cl h. J W ithin a very few days after J iH)tiiication, Mr. Pizarro

il ut itave received, with coy j pxof tjiC correspondence beVtcri Mr. Onis and this tie r ,l,rUll"nt, the determination T "l-l-h h ui been taken by the t1 I' :.? ...

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fort of Barrancas, to any person prrperly authorized, on the part of Spain, to receive them, and the to-t of St. Marks to ir.'.y Spanish force adetpiate U its protection against the Indians, bv whom its forcible occiiprinn had been threatened, tor purposes v,( hostility ag liust the bhiitcvl States. The otlicer commanding at t!ic post, has been dircctod to consider C50 roen as such adequate foice; and, in ca?e o their appearance, with proper authority, to deliver it up to their commander accordingly. Worn the last mentioned correspondence, the Spanish government must likewise have b; n s ni-iied tliat theoecupa-ti.-n of these places in Spanish Hot id 1, bv the commander of the American forces, was not bv vb tuc of anv order received x hu train this government tti h ,t cibct, nor with any viev; -ot wresting the province from the po.-.vsdnn ct Spain ; in .r in anv ri: it r.f Iiosiisity to

the s e v ernment that it ay. tr to . u'dents w hichoe-cio-reti in ihe p4. vjuti i ( i the u ir against thr 1 i i!t 1 1 ' - m 1 ooo'.i.Hicnt Ot in wtuCii h.,- . rr i t St, r. 1 .; i iv was ot n seized by the dians themselves, and irom the oianikstni;r.s of h.o-ti::' y tt the to -ite J. States hy the cooo.i.;aio'aol of St. Maik. and i.oe governor of iensacii, the proofs of uhich were made known to gen. Jackson, and impe'.L-u him, from the i.r;-s. bitie of Nvdt-defeiice, to the ttepo: which the Spanish govl i Oi u .eut complains. U mig!'t b: ulicieot to leave the vh.dic.uion of tlie measures lipoid t:o) .e gr ou od and to turn. 5b, in the enclosed copies of g ''ocral J a:l;-on letter , a no. t oe v. uehers by which thee are supported, the cvidence o that hostile spirit on the part or the Spanish commanders, bat for the terms in which Mr. Pizuro speaks or th.e execu-ion o: two Bri'.ish Gubjects, taken, one at the fort of t-t. Jdarks, and the "other at Suwany, and th.e intimation that these transactions may lead to a change in the relations between the two nations, which is doubtless intended to be understood as a menace of war. It maybe, therefore, proper to remind the iiovernment of his Catholic majesty of the incidents in which this Seminole war originated, as w ell as the circumstances connected with ir, in the relations between Spain and her ally, whom she supposes to have been injured by t lie proceedings of general Jackson, Si to give to the Spanish cabinet some precise information of the nature of the business, peculiarly interesting to Spain, in which these subjects of her allies, in whose favor she takes this interest, were engaged, when their projects of every kind were terminated, in conquence of their falling into the the hands of general Jackson. hi the month of August, 1014, w hile a war existed between the United States and Grut Britain, to which Spain

hid formally declared herself ted to consider it as applying government had refused to ratneutral, a British force, not in to the Seminoles of Florida, i;y that ticaty, and would send the fresh pursuit of a defeated and the outlawed Red Sticks, bickthe Indians whom ichand Hying enemy not over- whom he had induced to join oils had brought with him, stepping an imaginary and e- him there, but actually pcrsu ui- with advice to make their peace quivocal boundary 'between ed them that they were entitled, on such terms as they could their own territories and those by virtue ot the treaty of obtain. Lord Castlercagh conbelonging, in some sort, as Ghent, to all the lands which firmed the assurance that the muJi to tlieireuemyasto Spain, had belonged to the Creek na- treaty would not be ratified; but approaching by sea, and tion, within the United Stau s, and if at the same time that bv a broad and 'open invasion in the year tC t t, and that the theic ns.urances were given, of the Spanish province, at a government of Great Britain certain distinctions of public thousand miles, or an. ocean's would support them in that pre- notoriety, were shewn to the distance from any British ter- tension. 1 Ie asserted ab,o this Prophet Uiilis Uadjo, ana he ritorv, landed in Florida, took, doctrine in a correspondence wa actually honored with a possession of Pensacoia and the with col. Hawkins, then the a- commission, as a British oflicer, Fort of Barrancas, and invited, gent of the United Starrs with it is to be presumed that these by public proclamations, all the the Creeks, and gave him no- favors were granted him as rerunaway Negroes all the sav- ticc, in their name, with a wards of ptst services, and not age Indiansall the pirates, mockery of solemnity, that as encouragement to expect and all the traitors to their the had concluded a treaty of any support from Great Britcountry, whom they knew or alliance, offensive and deien- am, in 1 continuance of savage imagined to exist within reach sive, and a treaty of navigation hostilities against the United of their summons, to join thrir and commerce villi Great Bri- Sta.es, all intention of giving J ...... ! .1-1

standard, and wage an exter minating war against the portion of tiie United States immediately bordering upon thi neutral, and thus violated, territory ot Spain. The land commander or thh Briti2i for e, wes a certain Co l. Nkholi;, who, driven from Pcosice'a by the appto is li ot Geo.c; -al j ivhson, actmhy let: to be b'own up-, the Sp.od-h Fo't ot B rrr.inc , when !o: lound it could i.ota'Merd .him p'ote, tion, and, e .'a uatine to a pert ot tie: orK0, !ao d a: ainSau', ibh-!.l iron -jo on the AopaU; h o.ola icr, eod th.:e reeicda I on, tromwhieh to s.olv torth with Ins motley trine (;f black, whie, and red coo.i-b-atantS, ag.tino the deico ehss borders or the United State.-, in t h it vicinity. A pen this i oice tsmso.:d ot t on-p vl t'ji iUal mu iu'.wS, ;evid ;n the Bntish collide-, in w hLh Cjeorge Woodbir.e was a Cap. t.om and Robut Ciirvdie v Armbiister ve.ie f ! .MO 'UtCiiani.

As between tiie United States Baker, the British Charged'Ar- admitv that ttiis fort, c null d Great Britain, we siiould fair, at Wadnnrton, como'ain- structed oy Nicholls, in viola-

be willing to bury this trans- ing of Nicholl's conduct, and tion both of the territory and action in the same grave of o- shewing that h.is pretence that neutrality oi Spain, was still blivion with other transactions the otli article of the treaty of :m less obnoxious to his governed t'nat war, had the hostilities Ghent, could have any appliea- rncnt than to the Uoi ed states; of Col. Nichods terminated tion to his Indians, was utterly but that he had neither smiiwitu the war. But he did not destitute of f oundation. Co- cient force nor authority, withconsider the peace which en- pie ot the same correspondence out orders from th.e Governor sued between the United States were transmitted to the Mir:- General or the H lvana, to deand Great Britain, as having Fter of the United States, then stroy it. It vas afterwards on put an end either to his mhiia- in hi gland, with instrucdons the 27th July, 1 8 1 6, destroyed 1 y occupations or to his nego- to remonstrate with the British by a cannon shotfroma gun cstiations with the Indians, a- goves nrnent agaiiist these piu. sel ot the United States, which, oainst tiie United States. Sev- ceeditigs of Nicholls, to chew in its passage up the river, was eral months atter the ratiltea- how incompatible they were fired upon from it. It was tion or the treaty of Ghent, he with the peace which had been blown up, with an English flag retained his post and his party- concluded between the two na- still Hying as its standard, and colored forces, in military ar- tions. These remonstrances immediately after the barbarous ray. were accordingly made, tirat in murder of a boats crew beBy the 9th article of that personal interview with Earl longing to the navy of the U. treat's, the United States had Bathurst and Lord Castlcreagh, States, bv the banditti left in it stipulated to put an end, im- and afterwards in written notes, by Nicholls. mediately atter its ratification, addressed successively to them, In the year 18 17, Alexander to hostilities with ail the tribes (copies of which, together with Arburthnot, oJ the Island of or nations ot Indians with whom extracts from the dispatches of New Providence, a British subthey might be at war at ttie the American Minister to the ject, first appeared, as an Indian time ot the ratification, and to Secretary ot State, reporting trader in Spanish Florid 1; and

restore Greek nation, with whom the United States had already made peace, by a treaty concluded on the 9th day of August, 1 8 14, more than torn moans before the treaty of Ghent was signed, Yet, col. Nicholls not unlailcc-

to them all the posses- what' passed at those inter- as the successor or Colonel

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SIOIIS V niCil lliev iu.i l.iiv.iv:u liiu.u. y jl.vm i j.utuiu, m v.iv, in the year 18 n. This a'rti- Bat hurst, in the most uneipaiv- instigating the Seminole and cle had no anniication to the oeal manner, confirmed the outlawed Red Stick Indians to

tarn, ct which more was to be ucn support navmg oeen reheard af ter it should he 1 atified peatedly and earnestly disavowin Knland. C'oh Nicholh cd.

teen evacuated h.is tort, whieu, in some of the enclosed papers, i-, called the fort at Proved Bin If, but which he had de.nomioated the iiri:i:b p st on the An : d iv hit o:a; took with him thcVhito p ret ion o, hU force, ae an" ii n .r' t i r ' 1 1 : O with e eral ot the wretched 1 i' 1 OlY s vehom so de hiding to t.ivii- fare among v :u;:a was toe nrofwvtt 1 i .ok . 1, or I ii::: li td jo----a 10. 1 ' It the io'l eomo v :omo.:e. . woo nan t 1 . te.r' "tores and aoatioooih :a, to the !-e:jrro oeoertuoot ot his . . 1 v. " b- t o eot r-.v.O '. : '. nauo: Oi TO C- ' -n. 1 i .'e.v. hms n ..i.v .Mtelv esiaasnioik ! to this ge- ernment the eorresnOTaiense hetveeen mm anu . O II - j I referrevl to. ; e'O.p-;. or 111. tiLca e a, 1 m .0 e with enclosed,) up n which Mr. I!onroe, then .vecretarv ot s'.ue, adilreed ale' ter to Mr. facts, and disavowed the misconduct of Nicholls; declared his disapprobation of the pretended treaty of Alliance, oifensive and defensive, which he had made ; assured the American Minister that the British

I he Negro fort, however 3.bandoned by Col. Nicholls remained on the Spanish territory occupied by the banditti to whom he had left it, and held bv them as a post, from

vvhence to commit depredations, ou; rages and murders, and as a rec.-ptade for fugitive slaves and malefactors, to tne great annoyance of the United States jnd ot Spanish Florida. In April, General Uhson wrote a letter the Govern or of Pensacoh, calling upon him fo put down this common nui ,ayre to the peaceable inhabitants of both countries. i hat letter together with the an iwer ... t ' , l Ll. Governor ot Pen r.coia, hsve already been communtcat e I n tne v am-u otmo-oer hcrc, and bv him, doiV)tIcs, to r ms iroverninco.t. copies 01 now aised ; orrtKUi u r as tne letter the Governor, expl.cltly hostilities againsi tiie United States, by reviving the preteo.ee that they were entitled to all the lands which had been cc ded 10 the Creek Nation by dho United Slates, in August iSio. As a mere Indian trader, the.

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