Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 10, Number 43, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 October 1819 — Page 2

WKSTEUX SUN. VINCBNNB8; SATURDAY i OCTOBER 23.

v J7 T -morrow there will be a ser- " mon delivered In th- Roman Catholic chap 1, by the rev. A. Blanc, at .3 o'clock P. M. immediately after evening divine service.

44 Corrector," the bank stickler at Vcvay appears to feel much war, nth at the idea of receiving a little correction, but we hope he may get his mind collected before the second production of Q. arrives : otherwise his passions may become so he ited as to consume t ie precious tabernacle which they animate.

The Texas expedition. We would be led to suppose, from the pompous letters from the adventurers in this enterprise, that their numbers at least were respectable, and their prospects brilliant We have authentic accounts from that quarter, which represent them to be directly the reverse. They have not the least prospect of succeeding m obtaining possession of the territory they are so liberal in offering; to dispose of to re

cruits and proselytes. Their actual

numb rs, as late as the middle oi August, did not exceed one hundred, and

x they were said to be without funds, and ill supplied with provisions. The province in which they have raised the standard of liberty, with the exception of Labahie and St. Antonio, contains not many more than a score of families, and they are chiefly Americans, who migrated thither about a year ago. The very persons who have issued a proclamation of Independence, from which one would suppose they, with thousands of others,

were groaning under the lash of Spanish tyranny, whilst the United States had failed in its du'y to pro:e t them have themselves just renounced all the advantages of American citizenship, and engaged in a revolutionary project, the principal object of which is personal agrandizement, though some may possibly have embarked in it under the influence of higher motives. We warn the young men of the United States against being seduced into this scheme by such highly colored statements as those which the above may in some degree serve to expose arid correct. Jt is not by hostile invasion, nor yet by conquest, of foreign countries, that t; e principles of free government are disseminated. National Int. The frigate Constellation) capt. Wads worth, got und r weigh yesterday, from her anchorage in the iiite of Craney Island, and came too at Hampton Roads, w here, we suppose she will wait for further orders iiom Washington, in consequence of the arrival of the John Adams. Ib.

Painju Intelligence. Wc received last evening, by the hands of licut commandant Claxton9 just f, oiu Norfolk, the Norfolk Beacon of Saturday, which communicates the following melancholy intelligence. A at. Intel. Norfolk Sept. 25. HIGHLY IMPOR i ANT ! The hero of Lake in, the gallant O. H. Perry in no more. The United States' corvette John Adams arrived in Hampton Roads on yesteiday afternoon about 2 o'clock, from I'ott Spain (Trinidad) from w hich place she sailed the last day of August. From lieutenant commandant Claxton, who at present commands that ship, we hove received the following communication respecting the death of this distinguished officer. COM MUltIC AT ED. DIED On the 23 1 August, on board the United States schoom r Nonsuch, at the moment of her an ival at Port Spain, in the island of Trinidad, commodore OLIVER H. PERRY. He was taken with the yellow lever on his passage from the town of Angostura, and, although he was attended by twoable physicians, he was reduced to t! e greatest extremity on the fourth day of his illness. Sensible of his approaching dissolution, he called his officers together, and communicated his last wishes. He retained his faculties to the last was perfectly collected and resigned, and submitted to his fate with great resolution and fortitude. His remains were interred at Port Spain on the 24th August, with naval and military honors. The troops of the island, a great concourse of citizens, together with the officers and crews of the John Adams and "Nonsuch, formed the procession. The fui'e al was splendid and imposing) ami there appeared to be but one sent'tment of mournful regret among all w ho assembled to witness this nu lancho'y spectacle. The conduct of the governor sir Ralph Woodfork, on this occasion, was marked with i.iotinguished respect towards the deceased, and every American should be grateful to him lor the honors which he paid to the remains of their gallant countryman. It was the wish of the officers of the squadron that the body should be immediatelyconveyed to the U. States, but the surgeons were of opinion that it would have been utterly impracticable.

which many of the mo distinguished civil and military officers were present. On the following day the new constitution of the republic was signed, amidst the roar of artillery and the acclamations of the people. The U S. schooner Nonsuch, under command of lieutenai t Turner, late ot the John Adams, had po: c to Rfo dc la Plata, to convey thcfmelancholy intelligence of the death of commodore Perry, to the frigate t onstellation, expected at that port, where the squadron was to pun her. We regret to add that the Nonsuch lost, w hile at Angostura, midshipmen Juiicn, Depeyster, and four men, of yellow fever, with w hich a majority of her officers and ciew suffered most sevet eiy. On the !4th inst. off Cape Ilattcras, the John Adams experienced a most tremendous gale of wind, which lasted eight days, during which the ship spi ting h( r mizen mast, and sustained other damages in her spars.

General D'Evereux, the commandant of tie Irish Legion destined for South America, was a few years since in this city, Noi folk, Baltimore, kr. lie was an United Irishman and fled to this country for relief from oppre: sion. Perhaps he is about "0 or 32 of a bold and ardent turn of mind. Eng.

Extract of a letter to a gentlemen in jVew York, dated Aew Or bang August 6. " The fever has commenced amongst the shipping, and God know s where its ravages w ill end. On boat I the steam boat Alabama the captain mate, and strwaid, died within two das, and the Vesuvius has lot one man to-day. The physh ians say that the yellow fever of this car is the most virulent they have seen here. Report says 3o have died to-day. Fear is apt to exagerate, and I would fain hope that it is not so lad as reported." . Post.

GENERAL M'GREGOR.

We arc requested, from a respectable quarter, to state that the c is no foundation for the paragraph extracted from a Boston paper into toe daaette of this morning, respecting the at rest of Don J.ouis de Onis in Spain. The last information of htm was as late as Jury 23d, when he w as at his estates, waiting for the arrival oi the king at Madrid, to present bin self at court A. yr. Lv. Pst.

From Venezuela. Norfolk, September 25. We are happy to learn by this arrival of the John Adams' that the affairs of the patriots in Venezuela are i i a most prosperous and flout ishing condiiicn. General Bolivar had seized upon a pass communicating with New Grenada, from w hich section of country he expected great support. Barcelona had fallen into their hands, and trocps to "reinforce them were constantly arriving iiom England. General Arismendi, the distinguished defender of Margaretta, h?d la"fely been tried at Angostura by a court martial. The result had not transpired. Two davs before the Nonsuch sailed from Angostura, for Trinidad, a sp en li . public dinner was given to commodore Perry and his officers, at

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTHERN PATRIOT. Aux Cayes, Aug. 8, 1819. " Annexed veu have the details of events relative to Macgregor's expedition, since the last communication on the subject. M On the 14th July, the brigs Til Macgregor and Tarantula, left their moorings and anchored off the isle of Nache, when a dreadful malady taged on board both vessels, carry it e off 4 or 5 men per day. On the Oth the Macgregor got under way, and coming in ran aground a little to wind ward oi Turtle Forte ; and on the 23d she bilged and fell over on her larboaid side, when the Creoles commenced plundeiing her of sales, rigging: etc. and soon U ft her perfectly stript of every thine; ; and her patriotic cuw plundered one another such a scene of i':laiy and distress, has perhaps never before bc n wknesscd When tic brig fell oei there were in our cabin, gun icons etc. ibeut C5 Mck men aid women; who were suffered to drown wit! i ut a single effort to save them ; i-nv the number was a French major. Since the distressing circumstance, several dead bonus hac Boated ashore in the harbor, almost oppositi