Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 19, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 February 1812 — Page 2

.hrch, 20 p.rces, 1400 prifcners, and two General, in the b ittle of Oetobet 2 5. At.er taking Saguntum the French march- ( i under IN of Valencia The yel low fever continued to prevail at Carthage, old Spain, and at Mum ia had cic d 600 per Ions. 1 he Spmilh General Lard it abl, 1ms iffuedati indifcreet snanrfefto, clculated toteroduce diflentioni between t ic Bfitifh and Spaniards ; and the Corfet are pro eeum to compete thetr conltitution . Cadiz accounts of Nov. 1 1, via Sale til mention th.it in an attack on the French fort of St. Catatonia, an Engl i ft) gun boat blew up and was deltroyed with its whole ere w Gener al r illefteros deft a tell a French corps unurr general Semele. near VilUmar tin, kilting and taking feveral bun fired5, and has pufhed as far as Utrera, where he is levying contributions and making renuifitiona He has already collected V0O0 men. NORTH OF EUROPE. Bv the Gnges, arrived at Rofton from Tonningtn we Irani th it bufineft at H in burgh Waa ftagtuted, not knowing- what oods to be imported or exported A ton. lertption had been m ide at Hamburgh for about 500 men, and the Hamburghcrs was vrry luh nil (five to eveiy meafure ot Bona pirte. All trade With ronningen entirely and IViclly prohibited The King of Den mark had r-quired a loan frotl the City of Copenhagen tor 4.000,000 mark banco, and required the fame (in proportion) from all the ports of the dominions. Danifh money had depreciated 8 13 for Land was Worth but 1 8th of its nominal v due Th. Swedrs ami Danes had entirely prohibited the importation of Colonial produce. JBoft. Gaz.

TheindeUible Blot. Cnngtefl (faj s the 14 American's" Corftfpondent) were put in poff Ihon 01 Documents to day Thurfday which prove there are 6250 impreflYd American ftamen in the nav.il feivite of Grrat Britain 200 ot whom hrr made applications to our government for the procurement ot their releal'rs fun e the 5th of march 18 10, the date ot the lalt report to Congrefs on the lortject Be (ides this numlirr, there are m .uy poor imprefiYd American tars, who h v never had a chance oi making known thfir deplorable condition to tbr govern ment or thru friends. The ftatemeot of which this paragraph is only fhort epitome, W is communicated to the houfe ot repre jentrtives III compliance with Col. Little, s rcl dution. The bill off red fome vears ago by Mr. Wright in the fen ate, ought to be revivd and im Mediately paffed into a law It is not catalogue after catalogue of infults and robh-rirs we need, but means to avenge or r 1 1 r Is them. The difeafe, God knows, h.is been repeated often enough I Where is the Courage, the energetic iyftematie poll cy to remedy it : Whig

rnerrerial praying Congrefs to admit the j Territory as a free and independent State into the Union ; and alfo their memorial ying the office of Sheriff may be made elective, tor regions therein Hated at large, which memorials were read. On motion of Mr. Wot thington, thefe petitions weie referred to a felrtl committee, to report by bill or other wife ; and Menrs Wortliington, Gregg, Letb, Frarklin and Campbell of Tenntllee were ap

pointed the committee.

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Indian Depn da r ions Ex'raft of a l-tter t . G v. Howard, from genttetmn at Pert Mad if on, dated Jan. 17, 1819. ' I tm lorry to inform yon, that on the HI. infl, a party of PUftnts, ?bout twenty in Dumbr, jtiivr-d at Mi George Hunt's houle v Le id Mines) and ki'lrd two AmerJCans, and robbed Hunt ot al! his goods , 1 Hunt bearing the name of an Englifti mm. faed his life at the fame time an other patty of the fame Indians went to Prvor's houfe to kiil him, and intended to kill etety Imerii ill they c uld come near. Their clue T o!)iVrved that the Americans had kill d a great nunVer of their people at I ipwr i I nor, and tiiat thev intended to kiil all thev faW I rxprjt they went up

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. LeOtrtfe arrived here 1 aft night, hei" he w ? informed bv the

Foe$,that I rtr party oi Ptl nts had let ut for thi place, ami they fhewed reerj difpotition to be friendly, ind promifrd t lave is much of -,s goods it th; v Could.

ne of the F- onhet town which

wab deftroyed by (;v. Harrtfoik The Pren l ni hmmu k ted the memo rial if the H uf f R-prrentalive of In dn a territory, -nor ihatcm V p vi':fr th reappointment o Governor (imifon Wl h w i ie J. Ihc Prciidcuf iiff comn MbtUtcd their

From the Reporter, EARTHQUAKES. Extracts from a letter to a gentleman in Lexington, from his friend lit N. Madrid (U, L.) dated 6th Dec. 1811. About two o'clock this morning we were awakened by a most tremenduous noise, while the house danced about, and seemed as if it would fall on our heads. I soon conjectured the cause of our trouble, and cried out it was an Earthquake, and for the family to leave the house, when we found very difficult to do, owing to its rolling and jostling about. The shock was soon over, and no injury was sustained, except the loss of the chimney, and the exposure of my family to the cold of the night. At the time of this shock the heavens were very clear and serene, not a breath of air stirring : but in five minutes it became very dark, and a vapour which seemed to impregnate the atmosphere, had a disagraceable smell and produced a difficulty of respiration. I knew not how to account for this at the time, but when 1 saw in the morning the situation of my neighbors' houses, all of them more or less injured. I attributed it to the dust and sut &c . which arose from their fall. The darkness continued till day break ; during this time we had eight more shocks, none of them so violent as the first. "At half past six o'clock in the morning it cleared up, and believing the danger over I left home, to see what injury had been experienced by my neighbors. A few minutes alter my departure there was another shock, extremely violent 1 hurried home as fast as I could, but the agitation of the earth was so great that it was with much difficulty I kept my balance-- the motion of the earth was about twelve inches to and fro. 1 cannot give an accurate description of this moment ; the earth seemed convulsed-- the houses shook very much chimnies falling in every direction The loud hoarse roaring which attended the Earthquake, together with the cries and screams and yells-of the people seem still ringing in my ears. 11 Fifteen minutes after 7 o'clock we had mother shock- This was the most severe one we have yet had the darkness returned and the noise was remarkably loud. The first motions of the earth were similar to the preceding shocks, but before it receded we rebounded up and down, and it was with difficulty we kept our seats. At this instant I expected a dreadful catastrophe--the uproar among the people heightened the coloring of the picture. the screams and yells were heard at a great distance. "One gentleman, from whose learning I expected a more confident account, says, that the convulsions are produced by this World and the moon coming in contact and the frequent repetition of the shocks is owing to their rebounding. The appearance of the moon yesterday evening has knocked his system as low as the earthquake has levelled my chimnies. Another person, With a very serious face, told me that when ne was oulted from his bed, he was verily a iiaid the day of judgment had arrived unit he reflected that the day of judgment Ould not come in the night. l Tuefday 1 7:h 1 never before thought the pillion ot fetr fo ftrong as I find it here Olong the people. It is really diverting, r would be lo to a difintereited oblerver, t i fre the rurtul faces ot the different per fons that prefent themlelves at my tent fom fo agitated tint they cannot fpeak uhers Cannot hold their tongues tomr cannot fet 0 ill. but mult be in conftant mo rion, whitfl others cannot walk. Several men I am informed, on the night of the h it (nock defcrted their families, and have ot tren heard of fince. Encampments re formed of thofe that remain in the o pen D'ldsyf 50 and 100 perfons in each. Tn fdiv, DetemWf C4'h The IhockHill crWltii ne we have had eight finteSiordiy 1 i ne of them verv fevere, but not fufficientl fj to do much further injury.

I have heard of no lives being lofi feveral perlons nre WOVnded '1 i.is day 1 tiac heard from the little Prairie a (ettlctncnt on the bank of the Milnllippi, about 30 miles below this place, theic the fcene has been dreadtul indeed the tace of the conn tty has been entirely i bangeti Large lakes have been raifcd ai d become dry laud fields have been converted into pools ofwa ter. Capt. George Ruddcil, a wortliy and relpecatle old gentleman, and who has been the f ather ot that neighborhood, made good his retreat to this place, with about 9 JO louls. He informs me that no material injury waS fuftained irom the firlt (bi ck when the 10th Ihock occurred hiC was ftanding in Ids own yard, fituated on the bank of the Bayou of the big Lake , the bank gave way, and lunk down about 30 yards from the water's and as far as tie could fee up and down the Itream. It uptet his mill and cue end ot his dwelling houle funk down confiderably ; the furface on the oppoiite Tide of the bayou, whic h before wvs a fwamp, became dry land ; the fide he was on became lower. His family at this time were running away from the houle towards the woods ; a large crack in tht ground preventtd their retreat into the open ti.-Id. They had jult afTcmbled together when tl eele venth (hock came on after which there was perhaps not a fquare acre of ground unbroken in the neighbor hood, and about 15 minutes after this fl-.oc k the water rofe round them waift deep. The old gentleman in leading his family, endeavoring to find highei laud, would tometimes be precipitated headlong into one of thofe cracks in the earth which were concealed from the eye by the muddy water through which they were wading As they proceeded the earth continued to but ft open, and mud, water, and ft one coal were thrown up the diftance of thirty yards frequently trees of a large fize were fpht open 15 or 20 feet up. After wading 8 miles, he came to dry land. I have heard of no white perfon being loft as yet Seven Indians were lwallowtd up ; one of them elcaped ; he fays he was taken into the ground the depth of two trees in length ; that the water came under him and threw him out again he had to wade and fwirn four miles before he reached dry land. The Indian fays the Shdwanof Prophet has caufed the Earthquake, to deftroy the whites. M Saturday 28th Dec We have had a f w more teeble fhocks, in all fixty ieven." Or the reigning Sovereigns at the period of the Fiench Revolution, George III alone remains in poflcflion of his throne, if a monarch in his deplorable fituation can be fa id to poflVfs any thing ; of the thirteen other fovereigns who then fwayed the fceptre of FAirope, fix have been de throned, be one of that number j noli I) executed ; three of them have been afTiiiinated, and the remaining four have funk to their graves under the p elTure of foreign and domeftic nn, fortunes. The caufe of all this is principally to be found the crooked and holtilf fyftem of policy purlued by the minliters of thefe ill f.itet? monarch. I fyftem whereby the ftability of their own thrones has been fhaken, and the blood and treaf ores of their fubjects fqu.mdered in purluit of a phantom, under the fpecioUS name of the " deliverance of Europe." London paper.

The fortifications belonging'to the U Statea, exdufive of the forts ?t the Nar" rows, and immediately attached to tbc city .re as f - li o ws :

City Battery North do. On P diow'a Iiland, On Ella's do. At Caftlc Williams,

Fort Columbir,

Total

28 52 pounders. 1 6 do. 0 twenty four;. 1 4 thirty two's.

forty two's thirty two's Sc fifty's. twenty four's eighteen- refidei field pieces.

26 26 50 43 57

Columbian.

DEFENCE OF NEW YORK. In th.s feafon of agitation and alarm, when the " hufy note of preparation" is at lead talked of in ccne;refs and when in our folemn Opinion nothing but actnal and efficient preparation can prevent war, . is uT- ful and will he iatif ctory to know tomething of the force appropriated to the defence of New. York, the commercial em porium of the United Statt.,, the richeft nd moft populous and important city in America. The militia of the city and county confift of ten regiments of infantry, one battallton of riflemen, one fquadron of cavalry, three regiments of artillery, one company of flying do. and one company of veteran volunteers. The fi-ld pieces are of brafs. in r omplete carder f ir frrvice, and well provided with am munition Exelufire of thefe, the heavy iron nrces mousited on travelling carnage?, and the Pmall arms ?nd acroutnments In the arfenal under COmmiflTary M'Lean are numcroiu Sc in perfeA readinefs, but to what amount wc arc Dot prccifely iiifu. nied.

INDIANA TERBITORY. SPECIAL COURT OF CHANCKRY, Ztcptember, 8 1 . John Holkerl vs. K, In Chancery, John Edgar. J jN Chancery on bills original and amen . datory, on motion ot the ComplaiJkQa by ins Counfel. It is ordeied that Wan Prince be appointed and he is hereby ap pointed a c omnjifTioner in fuid caufe, and is ordered that the laid commifiioner, having given notice to the parties, by adverlifcment previc-uUy pubiithcd three weeks ucceflively in the Wtftern Sun, cf the time when he will attend a proceed at tho lerks office of this court, to tranliate into EiigliHi, all papers filed as exhibits in tl.ia caule, and that he annex a column to the translation of every account, invoice, Sec. exprtfled in Itvrcs or other foreign coin, for tiic infertion ot the amount m current;

I money of the United SttfS, ar.d that tho " f: j r : ir. j- .i j- . l

laia v..ouiuiiinouer as ice uon in lucn column, the amount in current money of thei United States, of every turn ftated in foreign coin, and that he make Rattments oi;' the ann unt due to the Complainant at the clofe of the three years, in the articles ct' the copartnery mentioned on each of tho following principles. Firlt, by calculating the profit made on the goods from fuch data as arc fumifhed by Edgar himfelf. . Secondly, by calculating the profit at fus hundred per cent, without deducting therc from the ialary of Tournier. In both eftimates, intercft muft be calculated on the balance one calculation at the rate of five per cent, and another calculation a: the rate of fix per cent, per annum, from the period of one year after the expiration of the three years in the ar. tides of copartnery mentioned, until tho time of filing the original bill. And it ic further ordered that the faid CommilTioners atter lie has commenced the bufiuefs, con tinue the fame by regular adjournment un til it fliall be gone through, and that he give notice to the parties or their ent attorney, at the time of each adjournment, when he will attend ag'ain, and it is ordered that he report lpecially, any matter ct t ivf which either party may requeft to hava reported not embraced in this order, whicU can be collected fom or fupported by aay document in the caufe, and that he report to the Court at their next term his whotc proceedings under this order accompanied with a regular jouTnal of times of meetinfg and adjoui nm'-nts, and that when he fhall report any facl fpecially as above, he ftatO at whofe requeft it was fo reported. A true Copy, Test, H. HURST, c.c.c, NOW NOTICE IS hereby jiven, t1, at in conformity tc the above order, I will attend at the clerks r fTice of faid court, at Viawennet, on the 15th day of January n?xt, at ten o'clock, A. M. to peif. the articles by the faid order required, and that my fitting fliall continue from tin e to time by regular adj urnments, until the buGnefs is comr pleated, cf which ;:iace, day and time the parties will pleaie take notice. PRIH CE, Com. in Chancery, Dec. P. IS 1 1. 1 1 3t. NOTICE. I INTEND to pp to the next Marcb term of the Court cf Common Pleat, tor the county of Kr.ox and Inotuna Territory for lesve to rfUbiifh a Ferry on the Wabalb, about five miles it fH e 'mcennes, from my land on the Nor:i. ;'de of the fairi river to the oppofite fhore. A. F. Snappm January 3rd, ISP