Western Sun, Volume 6, Number 37, Vincennes, Knox County, 13 May 1815 — Page 3

THE WESTERN SUN.

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rNLEMNES, May 13, 1815,

We liavt to r cord the murder of another of tnn fellow eitiz ih I y our frijctids. tin Indians on S iH tur ! iv lafl rtu Davis, from K nturkv, v.is killed by thein near "V 1 trf H il . '. i ill

yj VV( h vi arnt that th two bo s taken id mc i si bj th in Pome ;

time Bnce on Boueron, nave often murilt n cl i i r I . ( 1 1 - ( Ft cm tbi J tan Stt ; RepuWtcMi Mat i ; 2 5. )

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cetit one f the brigs, and that the faihifs Afe or 1 r rl to Bolton THCahadiah Vfrltigi urs Cfiaf ft. r , Bin I Vo n:' urs, w ere tils, biiii :. 1 the i li Man h. Confklci idle numbers of thefc corps have an i v ed at tikis placet We have been remind d of the prop: ict 8t jiiftice of making itreri lion, at this late period, ol the enterprise Bit braver j of feveral intlividu ds ol v iciniij , during the Invdtioti in S ptembi r lafl. ( )n the i nli Septemb r after the

his fleeve a? to (ear of! the cuff of his coat, and the current took them down llrt am. Major Skinner however, extricated himfelf and fwatn dhore. IiV re lid Me of the port threw down their arms and cried out " For God's Jake (pare our !icsr' The firing ceafed: capt. Aikin brought m federal prifoncrs ; and Major Skinner, whom he refewed from their hands. Maj S v;s previouu) robbed of his horfe equipage, and about too doll irs in money, which he djd not reco iff. On the morning of the i 9th S j tember, two citizens of this town I ALuiekj f I ier oi the Britifh arm5

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they-en- hi a by an ithef citizen, none ofthem had arms : Aboht a quarter i f a mile i . ft of the village they met three Britifh fuldie rs, armed going on to join the army. When Within a few r u es of each other, the citizens Iprang apon the uikU ;s. di farmed and brought them in prifonert. In the iH' :n , Nir. Samuel Norerofs, a refp cla le, itfduftridos ci'izen, w is (hot through the thigh and expired in about two hours. Shelden Durkee 8t Kphratm Rah,

brings a confirmation of the recapture of the Conftitutffon'fi prize. the Levant (loop ol war. She was cut out from under the guns of St. JagO, by the Phoebe. The New caftle and Leander went in.purfuit of the Cciilti union.

fnfportant From M xico. From F Ami des Lois a New Orham paper We have it lafl news from tHs in te re (ling country. I he independents or rev blot tonics never appeared fo formidable We give the following ertracts from Ie'ters which have be en k ;k!J commu Ued to us. and upon which dependence nnv the more readily he pi ace J, as they are Written by roj -alrlls inhere It d to diftimulate r tther than exaggerate their difis-

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Aalapa o no farther than the 5:h ol Novt mber, beeaufe liuce that epoch there: are no communic i lions with Per a Cruz ; th fe bom th lafl place are down to the irih of January M X ilapa November 5 1814.

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OENEB IL ORDER. Fw1 tnslaor General's Oftce. Owar Departmex t April It, $ s fpicpR.who h,v, r.-,vrd81n!;nry inaii.rs ol ettry re lnd Jef -ter .nd .grot. ho may h,v, expended b.Unct Of public monrv, r,,Mvcd froltl tary fcrvice, w,IJ forthwith dtpa6t the (aM inroia. b akin their tic bity, to thr credit of che pym.ttr of the Toy uking tripItcate recripti for focfa depofiti ; oe of which will rraofmnred to mr aecnootont of the wr deptrtmmt, to h.. thr p.- -mftr fid credit the indi sirfJ, one will hi- in mediately frnt to t)P pyv ( , 'I bcrt Brent, rfq. .t thi8 pUre, , . ,.lv hithe rrint.-o! ot the- piymrttl of thr nps, nd one wJ! be kept to- the fecufin f the offieer, in caf- , i , fult ; of i ., f;iC war department teft) be oromi fl I enntradork and nts ma i . Jsr". ana . ( r per i his Wnamfoever, havina nnf, i with the v. if deDtrtment torthwtth ii.tr 10d tranfmit H e f to the jceountant fo. rettlement, and rrport f I tnereol to the Gtcretary of rar. fa r.I! cafes aheee this order ii not , rmpti i wrli in i reafonaM trr, fthi V ps will !,f ' lis n to arcomplift the ol u fit, 1

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Same eiav, during the fi ige, Abrl Chamber U 11, and Kh Lewis, cmlTed the S iranac. and made an

hack. Ha.v n Mooers and Mr. Brooks & Stafford, purfiied a p trty of tle enemy's light troops, double their numbers fornearly two mil s keeping up a conftant lire upon them, which they returned odefionally Atlengththt Bntifli party apparently heiitated about the eourfe they w ere purfuing, and our

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taining i pledge from the militia tn n that they (hould be ucll trea ted. Scarcely had the captors made t In ii difpofition For bringn x in then prifoners, when two other Britifh fo)dter& came hack com nv nci d a fire upon themreproach

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men With five prifoners in cub tidy, who might attempt to r i ike themfelves, encumberetl wi h the (Truji) men ts oi thew captives, and I within i r rifl w ri: 6ager only to set off with the I rw lei s ; but the two iol In rs were fo obflinate in the purfutt, finding no reftllance, that Mr Stafford c ncealed himfell ,and waited their near approah, w he n he gave one ol the fohltera a deadly ihot, b I the other relufquilhed the pur. but. The prifonert, i corporal fk four men were brought into Gen Mooers On the fame day, a few of our militia, conducted by Capt, Aikin, ol ldu County, Overtook a parry who had maj Skinner, w hom th had prifoner the party attempted to Ibrtl the river, and w he n about hall way acrofs, the men whi hi I I the maj'r Were (hot d rwn by his fide -one of them held fo iait to

Britifh ptcl el they took him out at the back door, put one of their Coats upon hifn, and pi! ot :l him through the woods to the upper bridge, and from thence to Salmon Rive r, a diRancc of about J 8 or 14 miles. g--wrrw ta We nnderfland that the firft (quadron, confiding of the frigates Gucrriere, ( onflellation 8c Macedonian, the Ho tpa Ont irio AJert th 1 brig Kpervjer, and th,e light vefTels Fin ft , Flambeau. Spitfire, Spark and l orch, destined to the Mediterranean will be commanded by commodote Decatur and the feeond, to coi fill of the Indc pendence, of leventy-four runs, t w o or three frigates, the Hoop Krie, and feveral fnialhr vefTels, which w ill j ion lollowjby commo ehv e W m. Bainbi idge. On ajunclion ol the two fquadrons, commodore Decatur will, probably, return to the United States. Nat, Intel. Recapture of tbi Levant, Ni ;e- 1 Oi !, April 1 7. By the Britifh brig Hannah, in ten days from Bermuda, we learn, that the (loop of w ar Levant, one ol tl e Conititutions prizes) has been recaptured and arrived at Bermuda a tew houra before the Hannah failed. We alio team, that the Levant was recaptured by a fin gle fhip. No intelligence ol the Couflitution frigate bad reached Bermuda Lost of the J a vant confirmed. The fchooni r Little Bill, capt. Koeck, arrived at this p ut to day. in u days bom St. Bart; and

taay more ;utatii)ie anci more nu Oieroua, oing to the Weaknefs which marks the conduct ol run leaders ; v!:i;l tin fort udatelj there ire among u- too many who be lieving that t: : revqlutionifts will triumph over the ro aldls, t'giv e ihem underhand aid what is molt painful t rent irk is that government know s i and dare not ptioifh pur troops are in want of ever j thing, & are daily d f rting to the enemy; who having poflt ffion oj the interior, want for nothing There is no longer any perceptible remedy to all this, and 1 only wait to have r emitted w hat I have rescu (I from the ruins, to pals to Ku rope M Vera Cruz jfanujry 14, 181 k W'e are here in the greatef) conftemation ; the revolutionilU triumph in (light o! us. ' An fcnglilh Hoop of war has

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nu rfcncjtfc convey .the funds ol indiviypafiRmd ol the government to Europe. We exp et fome other : J'ub veffels. The captain ol the Britifh vtflel, indifferent to our fufierings, exacls from us 2J per cent, for the freight ; and if we add the 25 per cent, which we pay to the infurgents, for the effects which pals through the countn they occupy, & to dollars for each mule of earriage, very little will remain to us." 'January I 7. 11 Of all the ad vant. ge gained by the infurgents, the moil difaftrou fur us is the rout ol .the army destined for the defence of our city nnd( r the orders ol Don Lfu:s Aquila, w ho has jufl be n brought in defperately .wounded in an action which took place on the 1 3th mP.. The infurgents are this moment in fight, alter defeating the royal army, in three desperate battles. We exped to fee tin m enter the city every moment ! !"

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F I f O -v a "VIC ei lai d to t rve during the wir. The re. Cructfig nffkers then join fhrir rt?menta Sc 'nr, with thof noo eomm fr: med I'll ?rs, mutifiins nd privates, wr f . rp of lervice haa not expire d, xcept, wm the regi mr nt or eorpa m y be on riiftant fer vie ; they w in filth r?( fpi'ii to thf nr?e(l ; po C tor iof't uction, rf d!! which, rp rff nd returns wiii forthwith he mad t "hi oflB . Wherever any non commidinned nfHrpr, moHcian, or private, (hall hedtfehar?ed, foprr'e Tom hi,, comp-;V or rle:c! r, having pay, Scr. tiu- h will r r-ivp fnch certificates as will eohte nv Diflric Pvm ifter, or other proper officer, io fettle the fume Recruits enlifl.-d for thr Wlr flifv charired without joining t h- i r rtvt nts .r Corps, will not rrrivr 'hr rrtatned bounty, w By uiJcr ot ihe Secret asry of War, D, PARKER. Adit. & Inspt. General.

To bherifFs. Constables and Ot hers. Sixto two Dollars Reno trd. RAN AWAY from thr fervke i f WiliMm Lamptoti ra Lnoifvitle Ky. o.-i t!ic 12th ol Match laft, my nero man ntrned BEN, In company with another nrgro nann-d. AMBROSE, Brn ii abooi twenty five or fix yrr? of gr, ahout fix feet high, wdl made, vry black, h5 a trrr corn rouutrn ice, when lp kr;, to adunies a laogh. VY .s por h : d h me bom Mr. Riebard H II. nf A -Rncidall c OMDTv. Maryland I cviUgivr f,'-sX dollars fot BEN, it l-currd m aiiy t that I get him iff a in, JAMES E IR1CKSON, JR. N B. The abovrmnud Amhrosr, about the fame asrr 0f BEN, about fivr ret nine inches hih, very Mack, ana pteafant countenance whrn fpoketR to. If (ecu red as above, 1 will re m rive dollars rewar f. WM. LAMPTON April 6tbj 1315.