Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 47, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 October 1812 — Page 2

t i tht klapida imwaedUtely, wifc iiii lap ji.Uv. will lad ea ! Utlpetfe" ibid. 1 of a Iritn U n ntTicer III tlie N. W nny to las tnetl in tins place, dated, Gimp at Defiant 3J0iUlilt You will have heard that an tritiy of Ittdiettl llld Britlfh Wtfl here hrlxir u V knew tor days that a bnciy w9 ahead ot tia, out e Could not iftertiin thea lice or nutation. Wt hid out IO 10 nor(tfj ol rata titiidi out foot fpiea loft five vh til ahead oi tht otneri htl battle ftftd them on thr 35ta mid retreated. Capt. Ballard defervi much tredtl toi hia retreat i hi iieut. Mondy who had parted vitl I. m m tl in ii ... .Ili effV&ed a lunvii !)( icrrrat, I y ..tl ding a ftoit&deitCt taid charging on thi Indiana l fore they afcartained hit nuuibera, and thtn difliing to cmp. Not a mm xvav Iiuhi m eithei ot thole two affaha. l'hr neat day the fpitt hid in ctoii .hid one wounded mii Uw 1 ver.tl India ut full I tie fucceerting day the Indians ihovvpj in t ont ol ttlt linrs, k fnappt d t o e t 'Mir i;i' n a fi.e ta le turned which Irtt blood whnc the Ii.J.wu s ttood. I n In lian fpie areri onborfeback. TlflV thingi r ndered ii difficult to afceefaln then rUmnon. O.u Ipus cuulci not with nr"pMty gu lariioin it a nil we could atv.mc lint,. is the ground h If t be Itconttoltered a we w: t on. A llno-t tvirn to the r' ht t ' I i tl ,; the fiver, vr c. uur t'xwn ('- Nliatntl it in unexpected place np, tented thttn evei getting n t adif. acivaut re. Aftci crofli the rivet we fat

U&ed (which !t il fuppofed tillJ he near f republicans, whofe c ontintiilty Intfflfing lo.cj o men) that ha a ill invade Upper Ca. numoaei have enabled him to take the above nada. Vary i nfive magtainaa are to I important poft, w here MagtaJ VM daily ex hr ,m, x dad- 7 oi U i muii oi-ii lUtt nl.ceH t join him,

i ne i imf gentleman conarma the intei. Iigenee of thr adTMItagei abtainad o-rr thf pjpMi (I;-, hy thr Indians ik province ot St. Atulie, wh iiil daclared for the repub Ikioi-wtlieir vicinity to Van Ciua adda

in rr iniportatKe to the I'm tots nh they promife

A i:nt-m m from Prnf co wMth place

ho !-( on Fi. !.iy I .(I, r-j cuts, that tl I'm tilh il - p wai Hr zrn, had anived there

undei urymiili Several trinfport vcffela fr-un hivanra had arnved wiMi trrojv-.,

chiefly men of colour the number ia tUtrd to be 700. PITTSBURGH, Oohrr 9. Hy the exprela polt, we are happy in hiVu r m mir p . rt M i o; tii'iv! r rrpoit in naiil ,titii f the defeat and rnalVaire oi a detn hmant from ,en. Pi tkims's command at tl e river 1 lu-on. i he circumftancea re-hit-il u' which may hr depended upon are as t How, : gent Parkini had detached C pt. Cotton( v ith a party ot 90 men to the Peninfula ol Sai di Iky, to fecura fome fait ia.il to hr there on the an ival cf thr p.u ty thev il Icovprrd fome Indi in, whom they immediately attackedthe Indians retrc.t ed until th wrie joined by mother party whrn : hiifk !i 'h took place and liad it not been for lome ni'fondrril.mtlii i- id rl r cudf$ it is piohaSh' th wlnde of the Indians aroul 1 hive baan killed o tken us nnr men had outflanked and nearly Pur rounded them it is fatitifactory to add, thit the Indians were heaten, feveril fcalps taken and altho' thru nun.ti.Ms kdiri could not be exacfllv aiVcrt i.i it no d mM rxrredi, oiu rreatly

tint the enemy hid irtillery f wre ahed we had 6 men killed and ten wounded,

none uanronly.

el ua

r we i w ! ' t ' i r tn.les ot lien

jm r it wia vary bruihy t-1 mora thin a

mile before we ipp 0 i

am

W e conclti t mot ning Bi

1 w

lat the enrn

It

lc nt out Ipies in r very returned they rq ji ted Bone off do urn tl i n

late a- to he .! : - . t v tut ifttrnoon JT own op tIk e w ii From I ' Q 8( J B it l i !- ;a-cs of artillfv. S: ' lodti n . The ... l Hi I .

brought up hy watei to thia place, wnd re i-inii .t' c.l hre aoanj. 1 heir ohirCt mute

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ha C U.ll L:i i. N I'f

GENEVA, (N. Y.) Sept. 16. At a merlin (or convention) of tlie

whan they I chiefs and principal wartmrs of tbr five na

lit d tiona of Indiana lately held at FrnfTdoe, it

i io j waa a( reed to take up irmi in defence ot f. ' th- I ,i Srates aoamll Great Britain, that I I l.y would n )t content to nut themfelvaa

ti

C t' I C 1 1

niy

ua, ta m if n arc i .i Lanier

I)AYTON a? Indian All

.' U:i future! y

ffitU, the ue 1 4 ind the other i i a , i, thr daughter! of Win. Vvtifou, . red within lu 1 1 a n tie ol tne ;tV of GreanvtlUi whera d compantei ned under the command oi majoi

i he i weir out garnering & iu o with the n brothi t a boy of . w aia, not more than yards Iron it ickade, where they were Uii iv J iui I . ill Delaware Indiai .

under the command of an oncer appointed b) the V. Stntes, hut would he led by their OWn chiefs, Ik cany on their own mode of welfare, ind are to be furnished by the U. Statf.s with rations for tin ir wafMcrs, ami a place of lecutity for th-ir women and ch.il-dren

BLANK DEEDS.

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without eftcdt c .rncd to oc lI ey both fell a k. '1 ha bi i

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C.: mi hi

U fu vl ty on

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iping

uovi; : in.. I i 4 1 . i

i no luui ''! hud v t u) dii harged v. i ! . i Tor o. i ,v too tnu abh tvi in k-" t h ii th victim! to the lavage t had a ill ' . . i 1

pigeou iliot , he wa

Jmli ma ii tned w

knife, i'sl'ar ii mr Tarry 'a mill pond, which lv betwatn th m the -.kade ; he there wiMel d and pre fen ted it the Indian, who lot . Iv rctrea'.cd ; thia enabled the biy ro f tun che pond and reach the ftockade in fafi ty. The alum waa Co foon given that the fava lei fufceeded in fcalping only one of t ic gh .' tl t i Wefl ; they cut acu fa the head ol the othar, but did not p,ct the fcalp Thm Indian! are a li invcllinir tort

, i e. i til .e k.iled three ibldicrs who i

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1 i RHITORY OF INDIANA.

IfilAItY's OFFICE, : rmes Au ;. 4h iai2. information ol tlmlc

:d, i iblilh, fubjoined at- io orticrb rci m ii. ' partment of ftatc i ol Congrcls, Uil- one enAn aCt re fpt fling alien enLipprovccl fixth July, one i ic c i hundred and ninety he other "An act lupple.

nicntary to the at entitled an ;ict, relpt clit g alia n enemit s,M approved lixth July, eighteen hundred and twelve it is moreover n quired by theft i lers that all Britilh lubjels u ithin this territory make, forthwith, to the mult i ... it tl, their reipt&ive

ions n. vi itin c, in w hich Hi.iii

in. re io CCJIV Ctl It,' - . ft l ' I vlC titled ' t nn i, in (uiai ciuin

ir age , tiic t inn

(Were out hunting beev:!

n:.v.( RLEANS, Sept. 19. lllc-s havt een in the United States 5";. Antonio takei A gentleman arriv. j or in thlS territory ; the pepfoilS

t from Nacoardochea, intorma , COiODohnK tneir iamiiics : the ol i.

v i ...c n nh nee, ..nci their ipa u ns an : pufiuits, and at

can : that Si chaca a he m the fran in r

o wrt. tur,i by cap'. Man

.c hr ad of a corpi ot republicans p I men o; all the officera ha in,, eluding Saicedo, captain ge e interior provinces.

Cpt Maoa laea ia an old officer, who commanded a p'ty of infurgenta on the Sabine. Hi w. $ i nticd to St. Antonio i ij tlie tre f herons promifea of thr partiiani of Spain . be w.. there put in nous and feotprifoner : C i juaga, but having found ieaus of efleding hia ri.jpr, th another c' icf confined ta a neighboring prcGdency, lucj pat tbcmfalvei V. the he aw u. a party

what tUIlc , il c v c i , tin .. ptiiied to tlie courts parafory uj their naturalization. For tlie county ol Knox, theie icori mull be made personally to ilic undci Bik d : But k,r the accommodation ol thole who refide at a diftance, I h ie appointed tin following pcrfons to receive theta.

R) i

1 1 House

For the county of Han ifon, John Hurft, For the county of C'laik, James I temorii rir the county of Jefferfon, John Paul. For tlie county of Dearborn, James Dill. For the county of Franklin, Jas. Noble. 1 'i the county of W.iJ no, G 0. Hunt. Their gentlemen w ill pleafc tranfiv.it to this office, every week by mail, the reports which they may receive, carefully retaining pi jh i c of.

JOHN GIBSPN;

'AH ACT

t;lnig Alie n linemies.

it emu t a! by the Senate and

of licjn'cuntatmcs oj the

United States oj America in Con gress assembled, That whenever the re lh;ill be a declared w iw between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invalion or predatory incurlion (hall be perpetrated, attempted or threatened agamlt the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and ihr prefident of the United States fhall make public proclamation of the event., all natives, citizens, denizens, er iubjefils to the hoftile nation oi govei nment, being males of thr at'.e ot fourteen years and upwards, who fhall be within the I ) i . iic d Stati s, and not acluaily naturalized, (hall be liable to be apprehended, retrained, fecured and removed, as alien enemies. And the preiident ol the United States

(hall be, and he is hereby autho-

rifed, in any event, asaforefaid, by

his proclamation thereof, or oth

er public aei, to direel the con

duct to be obferved, on the part

Ol the United Stales, towards the

aliens who (hall become liable, as

aforelaid ; the manner and degree

oi the- reftraint to which they ibail be fubject, and in what rates, and upon wiiat (iecurity, their reiidence

iii. ill lu permitted, and to provide

tor the removal ol thole, who, not being permitted to rtlide within

the United States, (hall refufe oi neglect to depart therefrom; and

to eltabiiin any oilier regulations which ihali be found necelfary, in the premifes, and for the public (afety : Provided, I hat aliens, re lident Within the United Slates, who lhall in come liable as enemies, m the manner aforefaid, and who lhall not be chargeable with iCtual hottility, or other crime againlt the public falety, Ihali be allowed for the dilcovery, difpoial and removal ol tneir jjooUs and e tl cts, ana for their departure, the lull time which is, or Ihali be itipulated by any treaty, where an lhall have been between the United Slates, and tlie hoHilc nation or government, i which they lhall be names, citizens, denizens oi fubjects ; an i where no fuch treatv lhall have exifted, the preiident of the United States may afcertatn and declare Inch reafonabie time .is may be coniillent with tJie public fatet) , and according to the dietates ol humamtv and national holpiuhty.

Sec. 2. And be it further enact cL lhat after any proclamation (hall Ik- i ade as aforesaid, it fhall be tin duty ol ihi leveral courts of the United St ites, and ol each Hate, having nminal jurilUiclion, aal ol thr fc veral judge s and juftiecs of the courts of the United States, and thev (hall be. and are

hereby refpeclively authorifed up

on complaint, againfl any alien, r-r alien enemies, as aforefaid, who lhall be relidrnt and at large within fuch juriclion or diftritf, to the danger of the public peace or fafety, and contrary to the tenor or intent of fuch proclamation, or othei regulations which thr prefident ol the United States fhall and may ( Rablilh in the premift s, to caufe Inch alien or aliens to be removed out i the territory of the United States, or to give lurches lor their k'ood behaviour, or to be other w ife re (trained, conformably to the proclamation, or regulations which Ihali and may be eftablilhed as aforefaid, and may imprifon or oth erw ile fee lire inch aiic n or aliens, until the order w Inch fhall and may be- made, as aforelaid, Ihali be per. loi cu d. Sec. 3. And be it further enact ed, That it (hall be the duty ofthfj marfhal ol the diflricl in which any alien enemy Ihali he apprehended, who, by the pre iident of the United States, or by order of any court, judge or juftice, as aforefaid, fhall be required to depart and to be removed, as aforefaid, to provide therefor, and io execute fuch order, by himfelf or his dep. uty, or other difcreet perfon or pei lens, to be mployed by him

oy cauJun; a removal of fuch alien out ol the territory of the United States ; and for fuch removal, the m rfhal fhall have the warrant of the preiident of the U. States, or of the court, judge or juftice ordering the lame, as the cafe may be. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Rcprescn. tatives. THKODORE SEDGWICK, President oj the Senate pro tempore. July 6th, i;-'J8. Approved, JOHN ADAMS, President of the Unite a States. AN ACT " ' Supplementary to the aft, entitled "An ac refpeding alien enemies.'1 BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the Lrnited States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing in the provifo contained in the act entitled k An act refpecling alien enemies," approved on the fixth d iy oi July, one ihoufand feven hundred and ninety eight, lliall be extended or conftrued to extend io any treaty, or to any article of any treaty, which fhall have exi i rd

or which (hall not be in force, at

he time when hr proclamation of

the preiident lliall ifl'ue.

H. CLAY, penker of thr Hoofe of R-prrfrntatives Wm. II. CRAWFORD, Prefident ol tbe Senate pro tempore.

July 6, 1312. approved.

JAMU MADISQN.