Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 29 April 1809 — Page 2

t'OcLlllhltioH of fioUClpilVt to the sV tranquility throughout all the provin- Having Hated my opinion as to fome of Si) inUh tuition. Cr!J e T tic P-cbas in obedience, jthe qualifications neccflaiy to be (7-iTru , i ' w relied from the Janiifarie s, who had foiby the reprefrntative of a frre people, I am

djhltliarttSi . tv it often arrogared to themfelves the rijht ofifree to declare th.t I believe thofe qualifi

. , , j railmtr and denoting the Sultans at their cations to he centeicd in an eminent denerfYdious men. i hry nave seduced you! , ? . . . .... , , -tM n , . . Pcrir ii i i tplcature, their ancient pnvih jcs ; and he;gree, in Ihomas Handolph, who i? a can

to tale 1113 arms, tnn uiw uu nut) t iioi- r i r i t . t t i r i - i

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i urKiin oy degrees upon me tooting ot tne greis oi me uinteu otates.

I have, however, leen in the I a ft vv ef-

ifli and fetisIels waifare. Is there one a-

mong you who o i refining for a moment upon what has p rifled will not foon be convinced that you have been the tools of the eternal enemy of the continent and who rejoice to fee and flied the blood of the Spanifh and the blood of the French ? "What will be the refill t of a protracted campaign ( And .unfimflied war in the Jcingdom ; and a long anxiety as to UKfate of your property and your live?. In lefi than a month you been delivered lip to all the anguifii ofc a popular faction. The defeat of your armies has been ar. affdr of foine marches only. I have entered into Madrid. The rights of war will authorife im? to give terible example, and to wain in your bio id the outrage a. gain ft me and my nation. I have only liftentd to forgive nefs. Thofe men that are inventors of all our evils fhall be puniflied. I will foon chac from the Peninfula the Englifh army vhr have been fent to Spain not for your aid but to influence you with a false confidence and to miflead you. I have told you in my proclamation of the fecond of June, that I would be your regenerator.

To the lights that have been ceded to

me by the princes of the laft dynafty, you

linve adJed to me the rights of ronqueft.

IScthing will change my difpofition. I will approve of what have been your generous efforts. 1 would tell you that your ememles have not confulted your intereft ; they have diflimubted to vou the trur ftate of things. Spaniards, your deftmy is in your own hind?. Throw awy the poifon that the JE:igli(h have flattered amongll you, that

European troops, by draughting them into the Nizam gedid. The difficult and dan. gercus part of reformer among a people who deteft all novelty and every thing foreign, has coft him his life. A courier who arrived here on the 8th, from Conllinople, has brought the following news. " On the 14th of November all the orts

i regiments) of the JanifTaries, reinforced by

tern Sun, over the fignature of 4 A Citizen of Vincennes,' an attack upon the character of that gentleman which is urqueftionably as vile, as it is falfe and malicious, and is worthy only of the junto from which it emanated, than whom, there are none more defpicable. Mr. Ranholph's character is

as pure and unfullied, as their hearts are

thof? which were encamped in the environs'diabolical and depraved. His integrity whs

if flonftantinople, rofe and fell upon the

Scnnensand partizans of the Grand Vizer. They fought in all the ftreets of Conftantinople. The Seimens for a long timemade a vigorous refiftance but at length were overcome The next day the JanifTaries foiled the high walls of the Seraglio the Grand Vizir caufed Muftapha IV, who

was confined, in it to be ftrangled ; and in:

order not to fall alive into the hands of his enemies he blew himfelf up with gun powder, of which he always kept a large provi(ion in his Palace. 4 The 1 6th, when the courier fet off from Conftantinople, every thing was in the reateft confufion ; a violent conflagration was fpread throughout the city ; and during the whole of the following night, the courier perceived a light in the horizon from wnich it might be concluded that even at that time the fire w as not yet extingui filed. 4 It is not pofitively known what is be come of the Sultan Miahmud ; on the fixteenth different rumors were afloat concerning him.M

This news immediately raifed the price of cotton, becaufe it is pofiible and even

likely, that under the prefent circumducts

FOR THE WESTERN SUN.

your ivmg may or certain or your iove,;mchapls wi no ,D tie fdm, and confidence, and you (lull be- Rjliherty as formerly for the 'conveyance of

auu npjjcr n:an vou imvc cvrr uecn ; v"'rrnnd thofe who oppofe your prifperity and youri

grandurr, I hive deftrnyed, and broken the lhatkles which weighed down the people, 1 have given you a liberal conftru&ton, in thv- ro ni rf w absolute mon-rchv. I give y hi our fmp-rytr and fuitablr to your habits. I:d p ii'ls on you to f y whether th-it co 1 ' ft i t :i 1 1 ;5 : j flitll be your 1 w. Bit if .ill my efforts are in-ff du d, but

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TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIANA, Fellow Citizens YOU are called upon to exertife on the 22d of May next, one of tiir

moll glorous privileges that was ev-r exer

a free nroule

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'ii Ull i 1 1. -1 a I'll inril,' i , , n , 1 . .jyourown law gners. ana pnee my 15 other on another throne, I ' , , . . . J . . . a .

tlit! crown ot Spun on mv own .r .i i r i ' ,

will pi are

head and I vil be r-f()-Ctrd rve-i by t'e

lout for the man who is, from his knowledge,

lor Lt has i ivc:i the n nver and th'-l p ' , i r r. 1 n , ,i pielentior you one to whom you can iJitpjli'ion neceiury to lu.in ju:it all oblti , r n r 1 i ' cheTtully touuJe your every right one T T '.whom you are confident will not from liIn our ImtKii? Lamn at .MaariJ lth.

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of December, 1808.

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ui.drrllandiiu' enough to know he is acVinp I r the community, not for himfelf, or

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tute the complete law giver ; among ft them is talents, honelly, fidelity, and a fulHcien: 'rrrec of indrp-ndence to do his duty. He inufl not Ihriisk from tl.e duty his Itatirn 0

if quires of him ; Itn h perfons Mi are fet k ing pnjudarity, and jt? af 'id to do thi?, r.r that, leall it (houl l ri-udrr tln-m unp piiL. . are not worthy your i onfilt i ce. 1 l.c dr tinguilhin cliar .cttrrdic of inch p- if-; ?

an unrmnued endeavor to plefr, ut mi" ter how mm h lus own conli ir:ce is ro.uln 1 ' th'- r-lTirt. Sin h prifons. f-llow citizens. re not to be tinted ; h alTured tli v w d d:teive y.o. w hi ne ver tl.ey have an rp;i"r tunit) ol iiou g f wkli.;ut drtr-cYio:). Ti

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Iiitr I B rilh forces in Sp:in, irul b en attik d :y :!- F" i.ch ivd totally d-f-ated. i'hr ,Mrtinl i s ar not nieotivTied, fin i h' i thu 15 ()':') 4 The Bn!:;h t ,rcr Wr-ri ll ,i , on f'.r held of oattlr, and the rciidu-j taken prifouei s.

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and his word once given, was never iwrrved from his manners are as free from being lordly or afiuming, as they are from

the cringing fervility of the pretended au-j

ther of the charge, or any of the tadious junto of which he is a member. I am told, fellow citizens, that for the ant of a better, a certain party in this place, have ftarted J. Jennings, oi famous memory, as a candidate to reprt-fent the territory in the congrefs of the U. S. it becomes rrquifite, therefore, for you to know as well the qualifications, as the character of this Cicero of the. Clan. In regard to his talents, much might be faidto prove his total deficiency in that refpecA ; but it is certainly unnecefTary, as you have had oc cular demonflration at the bar of our court, of his profound ignorance ; or, if it is not ignorance, his want of powers to convey his ideas, if any fuch dangerous things as ideas he hath. As to his character it will be fufficiently devdoprd by his amfwer to the following queftions, if indeed, he fiiould not be abandoned ennui; h to deny them affirmative ones. Did you not, in one or two inliances, pending the f!e of the public lands ai d when you were employed and ptiid by the U. S- as cleric of the board of fuperintend. ants, bid up traces of land (in oppolicion to aftiral fettlers) to an amount higher than you were either willing or able to pay, for the sole purpofe of extorting money from the hard hands of thofe inOullrious prople ? Did you not, after having had a trad Oruck off to you at 8 or 9 dollars, forfeit the f.ime by neglrtfing to pay the depofit money, and then fuffer your fubfrquent for bearanre to be purch ft (i with the contemp tible fum of 20 or 25 dollars ? Have you not, in the W. Sun, threaten ed to give a correct ftatemrnt of the trartf actions pending the fale of the public lands, and in doing that, would you not become the publifher of your own fhame ? Did you not, upon your folemn oath, caufe a profecution to be infiituttd againh J. R. Jones, the circumll mces attending which luppofed criminal act took j late at lell 3 years before you ever heard of the man, or law the country where the tranfaction happened ? On the trial of the indictment were you not called upon by the at toruey general to fubftantiate the c barge, & did you not upon your oath declare yout entire inorante of the fads ? D d not the court pronounce the prote eution groundlefs, and compel you to pay the colt ? What were your motives for lodging tiir complaint, were you governed by an nxi Oiis lolicitude fi r the public good, or Ij the more noble principle of rtvcngel Allthtf qu-Hiuns n'nlt be anfwered bv J. j renin;' s in the fi m.itive, if hnwr ei oe fii old aniVtr th-m in the tifi mvt th-y can befuhiltnti.it:!. Such, frllow ci iz.-ns, "k th- man wh widirs to or yf;li. reprelrr.tative in tl r iu mr c nunc il of i!.atio. -n yiu l'!iftr UM-nvrnt w!..-

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Have a poition ol ycur imcnlt

eemmitted to my charge. I little thright that I (houM ;e obliged tf) flcp forward in fence of my chancier which 1 fondly hoped was known to you all. It feems however that or.c event of my life has been toi tu:cd by perfonal malice and privaic onimolity into a crime winch my fctil abhors. Fellow citizens I am no lawj er, nor yet a proR fled writer. I am not able therefore if I had the wifh to drefs my narrative with the graces of compoluion, " w Inch often rather perplexes than elucidates a Wiby c, hear then if you pleafe a plain unv arnifhed tale fupported by teflimony which no one will dare to que: ion. In the fall of 1806 I was fpoken to by a perlon who laid he was authorised by col Rurr to engage men forlm enterprise againll tlie J Spanifh , province of Mexico,

with which power it was hud the United States were about to go to war, and that Burr was'authoritd. to prepare for an expedition agamft their polleflions. Being perfectly unacquainted with Burr's character' and knowing him only as having been vice prefidenn of the U S and as I fuppoied poffelling the confidence of the government, 1 agrtedto go with the expedition upon the pofitive provifo however that it fhould be fancTioned by the govtniment, to afcertain this I immediately repaired to Vincennes, communicated what I had heard to gov. Harrifon, through ;udge Taylor, and Geo. Wallace efqr. and afterwards to the Gov. in perfon, I was informed by the Gov. that he knew nothing of the enterprize fpoken of, excepting fotue information which he had that day received from "St. Lotlts, and which had caufed an examination of a mr. Wellcot then in this town on his way to St. Loiiis befoie judge Taylor and Jiimfllf That he belcied that if the govrnmer.t realb fanclionecl the propoled enterprize it would have been communicated to him, and advifed me to take no decifive, -Heps, tunil he could hear from 'he prefidtnt, to whom he was hen writing on the fubjecl. At the Gov. rcqueil I related every particular which 1 had heard concerning the intended expedition, and gave him the names of thofe ho 1 had heard were concerned. All this was fent on to the prelilent about the 7h of Nov. i had afterwards an interview with col. Hurra! lefl: rlbnvilie, in-which he gave me the moll folemn afluraucesthat he had the fanclion of the government lor the armament he was prcp.uing, atid judge Davis iliertecl politiely that he had fcen a h ttcr to Burr, jrom the Secretary of war declaring the p'clh!ents t;j)r)bitH)n. Burr at my n -quell a rote a lettr to gov. Harrifon in 'vliich he gave hi honor to tlu ahi e part.cuiai s file Gov. lent this leper aifo tf the pr-fi-?cnt, and s he h.;ii recMver no anlwer to the u 11 he ad tied ine to uait until he .id. Sme tur.e alu-r it was ie:ti( (laie! uit'iit the prclidents

. i:i iuu;i, w nt n i mu tnuy aaudonefl every idea of leaving v.:ne No a feilow citii'.rns under !k le eircuuillances wh.it eould I i ave d ne inort ; W hat could I iVedone h Is ; I w ;is 1'diei'e.l to Join in w eiitei jTiZw rantious in he e:trenn- 1 determined not to do it. until I was lure it was fa net. ioncd by the :;o t nr.ient ot my ountry. I then nie c immunica- ' d all I knew to the Chief la. : ilu:te of t!:e nnitorv. byv.Iiom I was fent to the pr lidenf. The fubioincd certificate till prove what i e advanced A-