Western Sun, Volume 5, Number 41, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 April 1814 — Page 4

AWFUL CALAMITY. Extract cf a Utter horn Smyrna 14 V. g have received imel ligeoce of a dreadful calamity hd v inrr ovcrtak' 1 the larrlt caraval ol the feafon, on its route from Mecca to Aleppo. The caravan confifted of 2000 fouls ; merchants and travel lers from the Ked fea and Per (i an gulph ; pilgrims recurniio hum perfortningthcir devotions at Mecca, and a numerous train of attendants, the whole cfcorted by 400 military The march was in three columns On the 15th of Aiigufl iaft they entered tho great Arabian defert, in which they journeyed 7 days, 6c were already approaching its edge, A few hours more would have placed them be ond danger ; nur, alas ! they were not permuted to return in fafety. On the morning of ihe 23 d, jdfl ss they had (truck their tents and commenced their tnarch, a wind role trcm the feortheafi, and blew with tre mendioys violence. They incrcaf d 1 lie rapidity of their inarch to efcape the threat-

ening danger ; out tne ratal Kamfm had let in. Qn a fudden, denfe clouds were obferved, whofe extremity obfeured the horizon & fwept the face or the deferc. They approaclied the columns and obfeured the line of march Both men and beads, (truck by a fenfe cf common danger, uuered loud cries T he next moment they fell beneath its pefliferious influence lifelefs corpfes. Of 1000 fouls com poling the caravan, not more than 20 eft aped this calamity. They owed th ir fafety to the fvvifmefi oi their dromeda ries. Nat. Int. WAYS AND ME NS, W e ad vile the friends of the government throughout the ltates to be under no fort of apprehenfion about tne Ways and means necefl iry to fupport the government in the prefer ution of the war

The ways of obtaining means j are plain and obvious; the means within the reach ot the government are as abun datit as the ways of obt lining them are obvious. We i've fcen, indeed, much exultation in the party prints, and, we regret to 1 1 . no liti le ill

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luppreueu latisraciioii tiionj the oppofition members 01

either floor of congrefs, at the idea of the failure of the loan Lull about to Le authoiifed by

communication we havepub-

lifhed, which, as far as that idea was encouraged met our eotire-difapprobation and un belief. There is net the leaf doubt but the government will obtain, on rcafonable terms, every cent it wants indeed, we entertain no doubt but than, even though the bill has not yet paiTed autborifing the loan, the government has already received propofals for a large ponion, if not the whole of the !o2n, which it is at prefent neceflary to afk for. .Although the amount of the loan is propofed to be twenty five milhonsof dollars an authority is already given to fubftitute five millions of that amount by treafury notes and as to the remainder, with neceffary care and rigid economy, the expenfes will be fo far limited as to reduce the loan far below twenty itiilli ons, which, together with the ten millions of treafury notes, it will Iti ike every reader, were calculated 23 the ex treme amount, which in any event, the government could have occasion f or. There can. be no doubt, we repeat,' but fo much money as the government will actually want, need only be afked for to be obtained.

congrefs ; & it has been he! ! vyhicti the refult gives to the

out too, in more than one ; hopes of thole w hjf would re

joice in the bankruptcy cf the government, and conkquem ruin of the country. Nat. Int. Copy of a letter from lieut Creighton, commanding the U. States' blip Rattle fnake, to the fecretary ot the navy. U., S. Brig Rattle fnake, at St a, 21 st Fib. 1 813. sir Having tins moment brought to an American pri

vatcer, afltf a long and anxi

on s

hate mi z hours, I avail

myfelf of f he opportunity flic affords of giving you the ear liefl information of the vpffels under my command. I have lent in two neutrals which 1 trelt you will approve cf, when I have time to make known to you particulars ret pecWng them--the firft, a brig harJ 4b board a Britifh officer and nine men, which now have in charge. Off Cape Francois on the 17th mil. 1 captured and destroyed an Englifli brig with a cargo of coffee. We have been chafed by a frigate and a line of battle Chip, both of w hich the Jiattlefnake avoided by her fuperior lading, and the En terpriie by her ifual good fortune ; in the firit inftance wefeparated, but joined com

! pany again five days after.

no probability of the 74 gun hip's bearing down to engage the Prefident, crave her a ihot o windward and hcifled cur colors When (he bore up for ns reluctantly when within aali gun (hot, backed his main opiail. At this moment, all hands were called to mufler aft ; and the commodore faid a few but imprtfiive words; though it was unneceflary for what other (Hmolant could true Americans want, than fighting glorioufiy in fight of i heir native fhoi e, where iiun dreds were aflembled to vvitnefs the engagement? Wore ihip to c'g.ige, but at this moment the Cutter beino; dif covered con. it. f off, backed again to take in a pilot ; and the britifh 74 ttrmge a ic mull appeat making fail to the fouthward and eaflivard orders were given to haul aboar d the foreek main tacks, to run in ; there being then in light from our deck, a frigate and gun brig. "The commodore of the 74 had it in his power for rive hours to bi ing us, at any moment, to an engagement ; our main topfail to the mart; during that time.

F" mm f v1mv :r until nr- r

.1 1 , I nrav vou. fir. to pardon m

faction are premature. Ha- ! u.0i Be,n8 1,u,c omniunica

tive, as tne commander ot

ving predicted only what they wlfli, they will find themfelves as wide cf the faci in their predictions as mr. Pickering did, and perhaps be as much aftonifhed as he was, when he found the ai loan -died up without any of that difficulty which he had foretold The government, we have no doubt, fully appreciates the views of thofe who artificially deprefs the price of public (locks, and magnify the difficulty of obtaining money, rhofe who fhall have ioll the opportunity of veiling their money to advantage, in the hope ol obtaining better terms from t he neceflities of jhero-

vernment than it volurrfrrily

the privateer is extremely anxious to make fail in pur fir t of a large convoy, in all ic tail, tiiat left Havanna eight days fince. 1 hope to give a good account of them myfelf I have the honor to be, with high confederation and

! reipeel, your obt. fervt.

J. O. CREIGHTON. Hon. JV. Jonsr sec. iVuvr. Providknce, Feb. 26. Extracl of a letter dated Feb 22d, infide ,he Light, San uy Hook, from aw officer of the frigate prefideot, to his friend in this town, filiations in which we have oee n placed this cruife,

will, 1 think, add luftre to the

offered, will doubtleA find well eftablifhcd charadcr ot themfelves wofully difappoin- com. Kodgers. iclJ-t m After puffing the light, We mud avow that the ( faw feveral fail, one large fail fatisfadion afforded us b) an to the wind ward backed cur enquiry into the financial j main topfail and cleared fliip profpeftl oi the nation, tho' Tor a At on The ilrange fail it is principally derived iro n Arde down within gun hot the confidence it infpire! in hauled her wind on the larthe refources and ability of board tack. V e continued the nation, is not all leflened with our maintopfail to the by the Violence of the blow; malt three hours, and feein I

The brave co!. Johnfon, who commanded the mounted regiment ar the defeat of I roctnr, and was tl en fo feverely wounded, anived in this city yefterday, and took '.is ie u as a reprefentative from Kentucky. Altho' he received feveral wounds in various parts of his boy, it gives us great pleafure to (late that his general health is per fedly re cfla'ilifijed, and he has the happy profpeel of entirely recov ering the ufc of hia left arm & hand w hich were much (battered Nat. Int. Daniel Biflell, col. of the 5th infty. Edmund P Gaines, cel. of the 27th infty. and Wingfield Scorr, col. of the 2d artillery, have been refpeclivrly promoted by the prefrdent, with the advice !c confent of the (enate, to the rsnk of brigadier generals in the fervice or the U. S lb.

HEREAS my viiV Sarh h?s left

my bed an. I board without ai v "m(

r-juif, rf;isi3 mcrciore to torrwarn all v r 1 ' 1 1 . . .

" i c' kixuiurg nc r on my ar count as will pay u0 debts oi bet tonutfl

1 ing a iter this date.

March 28:h, ItU1

FROM THE PRTCS OF . STOUT. PRINTER OP TBI I.wvs OF TEE V91 Tfc-D STATE.