Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 December 1811 — Page 2
Opon the Englifh, and took feverl pieces Of cannon ; but that afterwards the En ghlh were r.-inforced and thr French were Obliged to retreat with confidrrable- lois. This could rot have been an arFnr ot much coulcqu--nee, as theie is no difpatcb from Lord : cllington to the 16th, ana not a word of the event under the Liibor. head, . Under the head of Valencia de Alcantra, Od 4, is the following artie Ic. , A convoy of provilions to fin cour Cin dad Rodrigo, entered that fortrefs on thr 524th u!t. gu irderi by 50.000 men won derful guard commanded by Marihal Mar mont, Duke of Raguf. The Engli!h army made a retrog.de movement, to occupy the heights of B Hon, with a battery of 7 pieces of artillery, two Euglifh regiments and 500 horfe. On the 25th, 12000 French, of whom 3 or 4 000 were, cavalry, made a delay of two hours, dividing thcrnfelves into two columns, rufhed upon the battery and took it . Lord Wellington now advanced with 400 horfe, fupportid by a body of mfanm , recovered his artillery and drove the enemy back to their lines. Capt. S. adds that thr Britifh reinforce jnencs continued to arrive almoft daily at Lfbon from England, provilions low and plenty. Extradl of a letter to a gentleman in New York, dated Martinique,, Oflobsr 17, 1811. l On the tenth inft. were executed at Polrnce a PAnglois, fifteen principals (1 1 jnulattoes, two of whom Haytian generals, and four negroes) in a plot formed for the firing of the town, and defhu&ion of all thr ?htte men, and fuch of tin- white ladies a? "Were not dtfliiied to a wm f- fate. Others of the chiefs were in pnfon, and fome fe "of the fame are rtjt yet taken, fo that 1 am in hop-s of feeing another Jon, firing pf fuch " Djkes" and ' Genrrals foon tucked up. The plot had long, fince been forming, and was on the point of commencing when it ws accident lly c:ifcovered by 'an old mulattress ennf-ffing to her prieft. The nme is reli4'uGy krpt ficrei. Some )f the chiefs had indeed, adully commenced demanding and feizing upon the arms of the 'neighboring planters ; and but for the timely infoi motion received, and the activity Ihewn by th" troops which checked the brigands in the commencement of their horrid career, there would not prihaps, in one half hour, have been o?e white- man a"live to tell the difmal tle ! Menial law has been prodaimrd, though from ?b rrf. toratioo of tranquilityi it is confidcrcd hardly neccfiary. Insurrection at Guadeloupe. By the arrival of the brig AIjcoiU, capt. "W:fon, in 18 days from St. Croix, we have received toe, following intelligence, dated, v rn St. Croix O Pl . 3 1 . The St. Thomas packet h s jiiil arrived here and brings news4if ih difcovery ot an intended n. Correction at P'.itr Prtre Guadaloiip-. In- Al was ddtovcrrd about an hour before it wis tofo tvc i rru put in cx ut by difpute b-twern the t svtl and milit ry governors, it is rrno ted that the inlu'fenrs hd been iupj' fd Mti. 7GC0 (hands of arms, from merchants .it St. B ttholo-.n-ws. Thr r'ni;!--rs had Orrn fecured. The man lo was t hive bmi
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the civil governor w A Mou
ITi-rcha.it of co::fiJeiab!r nrie at Point IV tie. The ;uilitry uMiimiKlrr w .s one of Krv.'Hil'o ai i, and formerly n nfflirr i t .Engineers, namr link ov . B-ih tbb JTJv-:i have brn alhvvru to remain on th illt.ri on parol- ; lbry h.d t-ik-n thr oa', cf allegiance to the lintilh gov-r;.mint. .V. Turk juicer. Frin the N- r. Gaz'tte.1 iN I LH !-.wVl iN(i. Extna of Utv-, fio;n K i,:'inn. Jimii , to a ''" lMii in this xitv,Uatn 0;. 20. 18 1 1. ..nnrtime o fulp rious Fr.r!itn-w-s -k - n u; I ! r, u I 0 miU rue hut Vm;' f' i ;i( ' "Ui't r,i :,i.nt It, mil who w-
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L i -tut, A Frc;.. ! K i, .:
' vice th- l.ft r. 1 hi Mrs.-rr tv lot.-ic iud iiiit c it th: LLi.j a:. J Cu
3e a prifoner In Ms pUcf ! KNE ply this that Mr. hii.w UJ me
nel Ls Point made a prlfoner In Ms pUff ! TNE us will Hart to Philadelphia on tiislio.y is (imply tins that Mr. hii.w UJ Ute firit Uy of Fehru .ry next. We mrrchant of this iilaitd lately teturncd tberrfoie wifh thole indebted to us o irom Lnilnd, aporifed him. La Point tht cill and fettle tluir accounts br that time.
ne ws authorifrd ty Lord Liverpool to concert tnr lmrs with thr heds of the factions in St. Domingo to induce them to pUce then.ftlvrs unuer the protc cTion of G. Britain. L Point accordingly wiote at Mr. Shaw's iniUnce to Hiaud to feud a . oiifidciitial perfou hither that was the peifon tkcn up, and now fent off. A
Cjcjs. Smith i Co. Decemher 25, IS II.
NO IICK.
Co-prtnerGiip of Hclgen and
Holms, expired on the fat it day o!
D-i ember inft. We tl)ereforr earneflly
to
I
t iimiiial orofrrntinn U it.ltitntrd atrainll ' rronrll all oerfons indebtrd to laid turn,
Mr. Shaw in the courts of juflice here, for mme forward and fettl- l y the firll day ot chudeltine conrfpondcncc in offers of gov .- January thofe who fail to comply wdl eminent unuthmifed bv the executive find their accounts -after thn time, in the
power of this colony ; and La Point i kept hands of an cfher for cull-dion.
JAMES HODGF.N, WILLIAM H. HOLMS.
Dec,20trt 1811.
NO
RE exifts an obligntion puffed by
e to Daniel Hz-lton, lor 106
a prifoner till the caufe is determined.' I
offer no comments on this.' The fme Irtter contains the following: u Our prelrnt Lieutrn mt Governor Gen. Morrifou, in his capacity of Cfnncrllor,
hs givtn general fatistcion by his deci- j lions, except in one calV. whiih has prcw
duced a v'erv (Iron accuf-tion and in the dolUrH payable the 111 of. January 1812,
opinion of many, will deflroy J1 confidence , in Pork or Beef at the tri.dii g price, to be between the merchant and planter. A delivered to fiid HaZrlton at my own mercantile houfe who hd advanced large . houfe on the above day. Undemanding funis of monty to a planter, on a mortgage that he-Has parted with Paid note St 1 know of his eftate (to the' amount it is faid of! not to whom, 1 do hereby warn him or 30,0001. ftcrling) took the Kal meafures any other perfon having it in pofiVifion, to efiVc?. the payment of their ciaims. The tlm the pork or beef will be ready cn the defendant, in arreft of judgment, put in a day fpecified for delivery according to conplea, that the trafa&ion was ufurous, in : trad, and I wifh if to .be on the fame day lb far as the terms cf the mortgage bound received and taken off, otherwife the fubthe planter to fend the produce of the cf. fcribrr will hold himfelf no longer refpon-
tate to the mercantile houfe for file, by which they had their commifiion on the faleS, and above their legal inteitfl of their loans. The chancellor has admitted the plea, nd declared the tranfaAion ufurous. Pliiiuiffnonfuited, and all bis, advances to ffiA tlltllfr l.'n . U irl.r !- l-kAtni f i I r t K .
rendered liable to a profecution in a crim- i inal court for nfury. The additional for- i friture in fuch a cafe, is a penalty of treble ;
d-mrid. Phis is
fible for it. J NO. F. THOMPSON.
Bufron Towufhip, 16th, 1811.
fat
MM
will add heavily to the burdens of the plan
trrs. Will the mercantile monied interefl afTifl the planter with the means of cultivat ing his lands, unlefs the planter in his turn employs the merchant, and ronOgns his produce to the houfe that afliQcd him rather than to another
notice: HE Sulf riber informs bis friends and the public, that he will ive cafli or
ats in exchange for Lambs Wool, or fe-
cond (hearing -he' alfo has on hand a well a (Tor ted afibrtment of Potters ware, which
frrious dt c lion, and ! he will exchange for Wool or Fur. He
wifhes all thofe indebted to him to call and
pay their accounts, and their compliance will much oblige thir humble fefvant, WILSON L.AGOW December 4th, 1811. ;
! Take Notice. lj BAY Mare, 14 I 3 hands high, no ZjL brands perceivable. Saddle fpots on
Icn, white mark in her foiehead rather o-
ver the ner ey fome white hairs, mixed p
on her fi nks, lln.d brfore, fuppofed to be
worth thirty dollars, and fuppofed to he
years old next fpring. 1 he above mare was -dlray at Shake riown, and was given to a wounded man to lid, on the return of
thr t-xprduirn . from the Prophet's town, and it was bclieVrd that the above Mare belonged to fjme peifon in the army, and it w.is thought the beft method to get his Mare, to h.vc her fent on l)y ti e wounded nunhut no owner being found it is thought to be proper for to (late the above cirv umfi inces, that the owner m.y know where to find his M-re. The gentleman who g-ve the Mair to the wounded man, is n ini'il William H 11, and lives near Mr. Gills at Sh ikfrtowii if the owner lives near that he can be informed by Mr. Hill of the p irtii uUrs of the M are. Shr is now dr liverr d to me fr the purpofe of m kiog the in'timO -tnecs knovi n I will take care of the Mrc until the ov nrr t ?n t;et ber. SdViUf I ll Wls. Jtff-rfon county, Ken. feven milts boe Louiiv ill. December 12, 1811.
NOTICE.
T7IIEHEAS my wife Mary Hardrn
has ahfr nteil herfrlf from my hrd ml hoard, and dt frrtcd her infant children, i U i thrrrlore to forewarii all p-rlons 'ron hror-!ri:uj hrr, or dealing with her, . any vii-. ;is thrv are riTurrd it is f.ot
NOTICE.
E earneflly folicit all thofe indebt. ed to us, to make payment by the
rfl of January, as one of us intend fetting
j out for Philadelphia on that day.
JONES If DUBOIS.
NCKNNKS LODGE,-
ttfnberlJ, A. L. 5811, 1811, A D
'Resolved unanimously, .That the Mein-
rs of this Lode wear Crape on their left
5rm for the fpace of one month, as a teflimonial of the refpeft in which this lodge hold our late M. W. Grand Mafter, Jo fr-ph H. Daviefs. And the fincere regret the Lodsrr feel at the untimely and unfor tunate fall of the faid Jofeph H. Daveifs, togethrr with brothers Thomas R mdolph and Ifaac White; who were killed in thr battle with tho Savages on the morning of the 7th ult. By order of the Lodge. ROPiT. HUNTlN,jr.c P. T.
MANA T EH HIT OH Y.
COURT OF CHANCKKY. Special court Sep. 9, 1811.
John llolker
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Joh
n lioiker 1 vs. I IN CHANCEHY, n Ldvar, J
y m:-i tion to i!i barge any d-hts ot l.rr ontraCling until lhe rrturn tf her duty. Thomas IlanL n. OoS-r 9, 1811.
NOTICE. f- mdel'ted to
l.L t' fr mtiel ted to the efUte 0f
. Samurl Murphy deceafed, arc drfjred me t-ouard iif' py up their refp-cft--bal..icrb, and 11 perfns having any w iii's g4in!i iiJ e(tte, are dchred to g tt.rm tcrward pro-eily authenticated i fettlrtne.it G'pr'jt: IIumphrcijLt Exec.
I "His uay came the Complainant by X. his Cuviitfel, and it appearing to the faticfjettion cf the court that the defendant refides out of thr Territory and he having fulcd to anfwer the plaintiff's orifjial bill. Herein on motion cf the complainant by his conlel it is ordeied that unit Is the derVndatit appear and file hs anfwer to the oriiial af'ii amendatory bill will be taken
! pro t ojifr tfo, aud it is further oidtrrd that
a copy rt tins order be puhhfhcd for three wt-k- focttllively in the nrfpaper Called thr Weficrn Sun, publillird in faid territory, the I a ft publication to he thirty days at lealt before the faid brfl Monday in Fcbru ary. Attcfl. H. HURST, c. e. r-
Daci
CASH FOR WHEAT. r I" ' HE Subfcribrr will give Seventy Jive J c-nts per buflirl for good merchant able Wheat, delivered at his Mill, on Maria creek. THOMAS EM MI SON. Diccmicr 4th, 181 1.
INDIANA TERRITORY. SPECIAL COURT OF CHANCKRT, September 1311. John Holker") vs. Lin Chancery. John Edgnr. J I N Chaucciy on bills original and amen
J. datory, on motion of the Complainant ty his counfel. It is ordered that Wiiliarrt Piince be appointed and he is hereby ap pointed a conmnUicncr in faid caufe, and is ordered that the fiid comtnilTiot.er . hav. ing given notice to the parties, by adver. tilcment previoufly pubhllud thicc wcek'3 ticceluvcly in tho Wcftern Sun, of the time when he will attend a proceed at the cleiks office of this court, to tranflate into Enghlh, all papers filed as exhibits itrthis caufe, and that he annex a column to the
tramution ol every account, invoice, ic
exprrfled in livres or other foreign coin, for the infertion of the amount in current money of the United States, and that the faid Commillioner as fet down in fuch column, the amount in current money of the United States, of every-fum fi tted in foreign coin, and that he make Uattmentsof the am unt due to the Complainant at the ' clofe of the three years, in the articles of the copartnery mentioned on each of the following principles. Fit 11, by calculating the profit made on the goods from fucli data as are furnifhed by Edgar himfelf. -Secondly, by calculating the profit at fix hundred per cent, without deducing there from the falary of Tburnier. t In both eftimates, intereH.muft be calculated cn the balance ; one calculation at the rate of five per cent, and another caT
culatiou at the rate ot fix pet cent, per
annum, from the period ot one year alter the expiration of the three years in the ar
ticles of copartnery mentioned until thq
time oi filing the original hill. And it is further ordered that the faid Commifiioners
fter he has commenced the bufiuefs, con
tinue the fame by regular adjournment un
til it (hall be gone through, and that he
give notice to the parties or their agent at
torney, at the time of each adjournment, when he will attend again, and it is order
ed that he report fpecially, any matter of
tatt which either party may rrqueft to have ieported not embraced in this ordr4 which
can be collected from or fupported by any document in the caufe, and that he report
to the (urt at their next term his whole
proceedings under this order accompanied
with a regular journal of times of meeting and adjournments, and that whejv he fh'al! report any fa 61 fpecially as above, he flato at whofe requeft it ws fo reported. A true Cofy, Test, H. HURST, c.c.c. NOW NOTICE "3 IS hereby given, that in conformity to the above order, I will attend at the cleiks office of faid court, at Vincennes, on the 1 5th day of January ntxt, at ten o'clock, A. M. to peiform the articles by the faid order required, and that my fittings fhall continue from time to time by regular adjournments,' until the bnfinefs is, crm pleated, of which place, day and time the parties will pleafe take notice. W. PRINCE, Cum. in Chancery. Dec. 8, 1811. 1 1 3t.
NOTICE, THE fubferiber intends to fet out from this place on the 1 5th of Decemher next, for Philadelphia, le therefore requefl? thofe indebted to him, will pay their accounts beforr that time -any perfon hav ing claims aga'mit him will pleafe to pre-, fent them fot payment. George Wallace, jr. Vincenner, 4th Nov. 1811.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS NEATLY AND ACCURATKI.Y PR 1 NTfeJI A T T H IS O F t' I CE. "blank deeds, For sale at this Office.
FROM THE rn FSS OF E. STOUT. PRl.VTFIt TO TIIK Ti.r.UITOItY AND CIT THK LAWS OK THK UNI T K D STATF.S.