Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 21 December 1816 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN.

From the Pre&s of EUIW STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of the United States. Vol. 8. VLNCENNfcS, (Lnd.) SATURDAY. DECEMBER SI, isiO. No. 3.

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. Pr m the Washington City Gazette, Under the head ot London, September wc find the following : il On Saturday we alluded to certain plans formed by Bonaparte for the effctlual eradication of piracy on the Prlideterr.mean coaft of Barbary, 8c from an official lource we are enabled to add fome further particulars on the fubjeft. In the time of Louis XIV. two projects were depohted in the public archives, one for the feizure and colonization of Egypt, and the other for doing the fame with that long (trip of coaft contiguous to the fes, and extending from Sallee to Tunis. Thefe project were found during the convention, and it is well remembered that the firft was attempted, but failed through the valor of our fea and land commanders. When Napoleon found France deprived of colonies, he turned his attention to the execution of the fecond project, and concerted the means whereby he might obtain pofleffion of the above mentioned range of country capable of growing all colonial productions, and by many pronounced congenial to the fpices of the Eaft Indies. Spain bad agreed to co operate, aadgive up Ceuta ; the troop under Junot, which after, wards went to Portugal, were underftood to be deft'med for the enterprise, and in fail thev firft took the rout to Cadiz, and one of the general's aid de camps arrived there to make preparations. The balis of this plan was to give freedom to the Arabian and Moorifh inhabitants, allow them to choofe their own form of government, and expel the Turks, hold the commanding points, encourage colonization, and lay a baiis of induftry, which would change the puiiuits cf the inhabitants, and eventually redound to the benefits of France, by fupplying her with the colonial produce (lie could only obtain from the growth of her enemies. From the time of Selim Eutemi, the laft Arabian prince, the government of Algiers has been ufurped and transferred to the Ottoman Porte, merely to give flrength to this ufurpation. The purfuits of the inhabitants are agriculture, and the care of flocks ; piracy is exclufively in the hands of the Turk;. It is not the former, then, but the latter, we mutt feck to punifh, humble and reform ; and we would again afk, can this be done by alone bombarding Algiers ? The chief inhabitants of this place are Jews, Moors or Coulolis ; to them the greater part of the houles and (hops belong. The harricks, arfenals, Dcy's palace, and dwellings of the chief officers are nearly all the Turks poflefs within the walls ; their great wealth is in country villas. No fooncr is the town threatened by an enemy, than thev fend their riches into the interior, and their chnftian Haves, chained two and two, go w ith them. There they remain till the dinger has fubfided. The city is only left with bare walls, and the necefliary men to defend it. But even the (tate reaps profits from a bombardment, if it is attended with no other conferences. All houles JemoliQicd belonging to Jews or Moors, if not rebuilt within a year, bv law are fold for the benefit ot the regepcy. The bombardment of the French twice produced a new Dey, but Hill the piratical fyttem WU unchanged Hence then are we inJuced to think, that other more cxttnfive mcauircs, combined

with local circumltances, are neceffary to prevent the Algennes from again infultmg chrifHan fligs, and carrying away the crews of captured and llrandcd veTels to llavery. An af to fupprefs Duelling, paned the Iegiflature of New York on the 5th Nov. which enacls that if any perfon (hall fend or carry a challenge the probable ifluc of which may or might reiult in the death of the ch illenger or challenged, fuch perfon (hall be deemed guilty of a public offence, and be incapable of holding any office, civil or military, under this flate. It obliges every perfon who may hereafter be elected a member of the fenate or aflembly of the ftate, and after the firft of July next, every perfon who (hall be elected or appointed to any office under the ftate, civil ;or military to make oath that they have never been engaged in any manner in violation of the a to fupprefs duelling, pafTed on the firft of July, 1815. Nat. Int. A writ of election, was ifTueJ foon after the preicnt feffion of the Virginia legifl-i-ture commenced, for a vacancy occafioned by the refufal of Thos. Welti, a delegate from Nottoway, to take the oath required by the anti duelling law. Ibid. NE vV-YORK, November 15. A London Mornir.g Chronicle, of Sep. tember 24, mentions that thecourt of Naples has received the anfwer of the French government to its application for advice on the fubjeft of American claims. The above informatioti is faid to have been received from a gentleman who dined on board the U. States fhlp Washington, and who LaM he obtained it from Commodore Chauncey, and was further informed, the commodore intended to remain tdl the afiirwas terminate J. Capt. Gardner, a. ived at Boflon from Malaga, informs that the American fquadron failed from Naples about the Uft of Augud, where mr. Pinkney remained, in a bad ftate tf health ; and that he had receiv. ed no conclufive n-ply relative to his claims upon the government of Maples SAG-HARBOR, November 2. On Thurfday morning latt, a brig came afhore on the foUth fide of Long I Hand, near Southampton, with a pirt of her fails Handing, having no per fori on board ; (he was boarded about 9 o'clock the fame morning, and from papers found on board it is fuppofed that (he is a Spatiifb v-ffc!, and lias been captured by a Carthagenian privateer, it is prefumed that Ok had fpecie on board, as there were three dollars found on her tranfum and one among her baiiafl, Her lockers Sec. hid been torn up, and it is expected that money w n tken from them. .Several barrels of coffee and provifions were found en board of her, llfo a number of maflcs. She has bilged, and will in all probability go to pieces. Further particulars have not yet come to hand. N. B.- Since the a'oove wis in type wc have learnt that the Crew of the brig that i amorc at Southampton, were all drowned. General Rraver, one of the generals of the imperial guard, whofe name had been inferted in the firft liir of ptofcriptioftf as being one of the mod diftinguifUrd characters of the French armies, arrived here yefterday in this citv, from Europe, and not gen. Livalette, as reported. Bait. Patriot. From t!ie Louisiana Gazette, Naval Court MttrtiaL The court being now cleared took into mature confiueration the evidence on the part of the profecutor, alfo that introduced bv the accufed ; after due deliberation thereupon, the court pronounce lieut. comdt. Thos. S. Cunningham, not guilty of a breach of the 6th article of the ad for the better goverment of the U. S. navy, or any part thereof ; and the court do now, unanimously, honorably acquit It. com. T. S. Cunningham, and free him from any the flighted imputation of impropriety of conduft during the whole cruize commencing on the 13th Aug. and ending on the 7th Sept. ot the prefent year, and particularly on the 2Tth Aug, in the rencounter with the Spanifh (hip Diana and the brig CaiTador ; the court are in juftice bourd to the feelings of this injured officer to fiate that his conduct throughout the whole of the affair with this overwhelming force, has been highly honorable to bimfclf and to the riag under which he ferved ; nor can the coutt refrain from olicrvirg that tbc unex

pected and dafrard attack made by his Catholic majefty's fhip Diana Sc the br;g Caffador has proved an unparalleled, r.njnditiable and unprovoked iuiult and outrage upon the flag of the U. S. The court now requeft that the fword may be rettored to this officer, from whom it lias ui.juftly and without caufe been taken. B. V. HOFFMAN, 1. M'KEEVER, CHAs. E. CRAWLEY, G. HAMERSLY, WM. A. WEAVER. J. NiCH.or.sov, Judge Adv. New-Orleans, November 2, 1816. The commanding officer feels great fathfacYion in confirming the full and honorable acquittal thus pronounced by the court martial before which It. com. T. S. Cunningham has been arraigned, and which, while itplaces his conduct in an highly ereditahle point of view, alto refit &s honor on the court. The fentence of the court martial, of which It. com. B. V. Hoffman is prefiJent being thus confirmed, i hereby difTolved, and it. com. Cunningham will realTume the command of the U. S. fchooner Firebrand. (Signed) DANl. T. PAT PERSON, Commanding U, States Naval for.es, New Orleans station. New Orleans, Nov. 3, 1813. The state of England By all the late accounts, appears dillreffing beyond what imagination can picture. The nation loaded with debt, and on the verge of bankruptcy ; a holt of penfioncrs, like fo nuny blood fuckers, preying upon her viuls ; a debauched anb profligate nobility ; the peo pie borne down to the earth with taxation in every poffible fiiape ; pauperifm eiu rcafing to an extent beyond example in any country ; her manufs&urers and artizana thrown out of employment and begging their bread ; and, to cap the climnx of public diftrefs and ruin, her harveHs failing, and the horrors of flarvation, every where prefenting themfelves ! Such is proud and haughty EngUr.d, amidlt all her triumphs! Whilft wc fi.icerely fympathife with a fjfferinq; peoole, it is impoffible not to view with the deep"fl deteftation thofe who have brought the freeft country it) Europe to unparalleled diflrcfs and ruin. The petition from Cambridgefhire to the houfe of commons, 4 (tates a f.tft to which all the former expnf.rions of diftrefs afford no parallel, viz : that in one paiifb, every proprietor and tenant being ruined, with a fiogle exception, the whole poor rates of the parifii, thus wholly inhabited by paupers are now paid by an individual, whofe fortune, once ample, is thus fwept entirely away. Pitt. Mercury. Latest from the Mediterranean squadron, Capt. Allen, of the fchr. Morgiana, of New Bedford, who arrived this morning in 39 days from Palermo, informs us that the American fquadron of eight fail under com. Chauncey, had left Naples & gone to MefUna The Ontario (loop cf war failed from Palermo for Mrilim to join the fquadron about the middle of September. Mr. Pinkney had clofed his negotiations at Naples, and proceeded on his miffion to Ruffia. Nothing certain was known as to the refult of his negociations. It was, however reported and believed, that he had brot' the qutition at lfTue to fuccefsful and amicable adjuftmcnt. It was alfo reported but not believed, that he had demanded nine millions of dollars, that he had already received a part of the fum finally agreed upon ; and that the refidue is to be paid in inftalments. We regret to learn by cap:. Allen, that one of our navy captains had died on board the fquadron. The name of the deceafed officer he does not recollect.

From the X. York Commercial Advertiser, November 19. By the arrival on Saturday evening from South America, we have received the Buenos Ayres Gazette to Sept. sth. TRANSLATED. ACT The general session of congress closed in the general worthy city of Saint del Tueuman, on the 9th of July, 1816. The congress of the United Provinces resumed its previous dis

cussions, on the great and august subject of the independence of the people which compose them. The voice of the whole territory wns universally constant and decisive for solemn emancipation from the despotic power of the king of Spain. Notwithstanding that their representatives devoted so arduous a task all the energy of their talents, the uprightness of their intentions, and the interest which the -auction of their fate require from the representatives of the people and their posterity ; and at the closing of their sessions, they were asked if they wished that the provinces of the Union might he a free nation, & independent of the kings of spain and their metropolis, they immediately cried out, full of the holy order of justice and one after another, repeated successively, their unanimous and spontaneous decision for the independence of the country, in virtue of which they decreed tile following. DECLARATION. We, the Representatives of the United Provinces of South America, in General Congress assembled, invoking that eternal power who presides over the universe, in the name and by the authority of the people whom we represent, protest ing to 1 eaen, to all nations, and to all men the justice which rules our decisions, solemnly declare, in the ace of the whole world, that it i- the unanimous and unquestionable will of these provinces, to break the burthensome chains which unite them to the King of Spain, to resume the right of which they have been dispossessed, and invest themselves with the high character of a free nation and independent of king Ferdiliand the 7th, his successors and their metropolis ; to remain consequently in truth and of right, with an ample and full power to give to themselves the form of government which justice dictates, and the increase of their actual circumstance demand : thus all and each of them publish, declare, and confirm, obliging themselves through us, to the fulfilment and maintenance of this their will, pledging as security and guarantee, their lives, fortunes and honors. The pre sent declaration shall be communicated to all whom it may concern ; for its publication and in virtue of the respect dy to all nation---let Jliem explain by a manifesto the great motives which have given place to this solemn declaration. Pa-t in the. Hall of Sessions Signed with our hands, sealed with the seal of Congress, and certified by our SecretaryHere follows the names of the deputies of the different States x Provinces LOXf)0. October 18. A vessel arrived lat week from St. Helena, which was put under embargo for some time. c an officer brought dispatches up to government. The nature of theru hus not transpired, but they