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:13' ?: . S - ', -'"V" - -'..'ST) ' - .-" .-' rv. -.. v:" v ;-.;.r '-.?;' ' "' :' ' " 'i ry f: . 'it'- :,-rCA j'". 'aw : ::Y:U , -vr.T ,,f.' Vol. 16. FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1813.? "x - No 834; X Military I v . GENERALSHIP! &c , ' I XTR ACT' TO THE EDI rOB.bATKD ' " -V Balon Eougp, FeK Sth, " You ask me ".how does col. dishing ?" it is ilifficuU to describe h w is ; for your how is so general; a proposition, that one does not know where' to' begin to answer it. In the first place he remains in chains,: still at this post ; in the Se cond place his health is in.' such a state as thatthej laxpo geweral maj pTo&aMy-getrta-of him' with out, any other outrRe,-should ht be confined to Ims pJace lot the siunmer Some fenqiyrts have been made among the military men here U dis cover who anong them are your correspondents.; for it seems that although yoUj have been consider ed as rather loo sparing'., by fine clqss, vou have been ' considered by much too seve re by ar other Neither of us ts well calculated fur the army as it is at present governed, and we are ne'uher of us Tlie'Corifpiracy J- ttom the BaUimixe'Fei'eul Republican. being unable to form a court, they were arrangements, sold the prize hi"clThe t'uTi ashore ; .on hiway to VWs).'mg.or, hehatl little or no mo. s under the necessity of dispersing, and j on Breton Island, to the. jj. e. of the RdWte ; and ney, but received lpt dollars from his correspond fere incompetent to an. adjournment, the jthe schooner John, c-pain Hopkins, m h captain Idems in New York.- He remained upwards of a go to the eastward, from whence, he has neyer Spanish brig, froni London 'to this port, with a " since returned. The day to w hich the .court ad. cargo amounting to about ,16,000 sterling, and; jounced wastht first of last December, when the. brought the brig to the lialize. The Vengeance,! ; nrisoner anrl a few metnhers of the eoiirt. aV. was then commanded bv a iellow of thename-ofl FrtrnthcB peared, as 1 Itarn, fo-1 v, as loot then at this place Y Dominique Diron ; he came up tere, made his When Mr. Hnrv passed through Baltimore,; .' - -..:- - -' i -- - - i iv-i ,- is 1.:-.....l TT7V. out tney (f course as flier tre court diwi of the furloughs given by the general who had summoned it, to members of the court " Thus you see the' first colonel of the army, who a few months before was Hampton's snperi or officer, and whose services in arms exceed thirty-three years, who has fotrght byland and by wa 'er. who has been wounded and mangled in the public srvicei has been held in durance on the un a holesonie banks of the Mississippi in the worst season, to the loss of his health and to the ruin of his cpnstitution, without a gnmrnering prospect of relif-F hut fmm fVtilh. S Ifi conversing on this subject with a particular! being a favt iiiiiler, was in a vhirt time equipped, that Mr. Madison has wted. forty- eights or fifty-' ; friend of yours who passed through hereabout ten I herself as'a rover, and sent-to- seek her tot tune, j thousand dollars- ofllie people's mom yTo fvirther, days ago on his way to New Orleans, he stated; She however changed owners before .she under-, his own election, and-to reward a r-;itor.tohispwn in th- uowt r of irvihprilf rroatiirc' that Uet , uial 11 vou were tqauuea Willi inese ..jcis, you, wem uus nieiamorpnosis. un nercruic, in tra- "'.t. "m , v-yj- jntn powtroi imncciit. creatures mat re placed A m frt;,. tJiu R,t, .,t e remainini' 50.000 do Pars of secret service moncV V LC IU ' . --.- .... Extract of a letter from WaiVngton, of Feb. 50,'pub!ished in. kell 'i Galeae. , . " Woiild you believe it possible that men who ' 12 mbntlis ago, hiviejhed with so much zeal a- ; painst having secrtts itr ffO-ermtn! sr wou d now o r have been furnished enough fiom Uiis quarter; IrtSi year our colonel of cavalry wasjrlispatched from Washington cantonment, where there were some troops of his regiment, to the M bile dis-rict, in ' charge oi" infantry j.the youngest colonel of infan try was ostrd here in advancevthe po-t ol honor. nVriicoJar, thai an appeal had been long si-nce glad cargo ; tht mat!e to the president, through the regular chan generally belieted. that the- invoice, which they nel of the. war office, and that a lull exposition of purchased, cost in Lu rope thirty thousand dol the eKceSses aed follies of this ignorant and incOm-ilars. 1 . peient general oflicer was also sent j but that in-1 A monsieur -Robert was stated to have been s'ead of evil? beiog corrected;,or the attention bti-coocerned in btijtgittg par of the polacre's cargo to while tbocf lest officer (out of arrest) was placed stored -upon it to which it is entitled, it was ex. this city ; it woltld perhaps have been mote cop itv the command of the cantonment at Washington! P'-sed t0. Hampton himself, and the secretary at rect to have said, that lie had gone with a fleet of in iK rpar ttw rrmirWii-s nf sceral rep-iments warpppears tn tact to have made acomnvn cause canoes anu peutaurs to taso on ooard wnat re- - " .. . , were formed into one corps, and .'placed under (Par nobUefrqtrim-XS arm and Yaxo 1J" mained of -it, whn he was disturbed by henten'ant the command of a Iieut."colonel whidi alter all arbitraiy nabub. for initead. of reniKiidmg C.regoiy, who put an end to all further proceed . was not useless, ss ii-had the efftct of ifuroducin the colonel (Smyih) who was to preside iu the ingsl Hobertr m order to clear himself of tht- ,i -Kiriniin' 'AmAn'o- mmnanU of ,i,t- court.Oyer.Cushing to attend here,; he, as it ap- charge, bungs forward a certain monsieur D Au- a eo d disciDune Among companies f egihretits ; this which was called the cohsoltated regiment, is now broken up, and tiuthing remains bow like it was a. year ao, nor' like, any -.thing In the ridiculous attempt to cover the whole country, when' h,q-U fio-'fict unable to defend a single-point, lJampton has friutred up tlie corps under his comm-nid into detachineiits, and scat tel td them from Mobile via-Oili ans, to this plu.ee ; which if an enemy of any kind were "to attack, would suUect hin to be beaten in detail by a force one third of bis numbers. The constqu-nr.es of stw h lolly art not. ininiediat-. ty f-U by ihe country during the abstn.e ol 3t..iai.kjbi.rj :p Llhose.injht ' army who attend to the principles eC their profes sion, 'he ttftct roust be a total loss of corifidence in an officer who betmys such incapacity peaa. put him in nomination as a membefof the Urive and inoosieur De (iruis, to certify, that he court on Wilkinson.'" 1 ; was rot concerned in smuggling any goods from t' I am irj , possession of dopies'of some orders, the prizes, and particularly from the Fc.rtuguese cutive, and the house are never to know how it is to be used. . " But Mr. Bacon' stated that no secr?t service money (con i.ient fore'g-i ifitercourst fund,' I Oh lieve it 'is nicknamed w unappropriated last year.: on 'acc'iuat f an oersight of caielt-ssness ; and services have been pe" foriiied which' 'tl.go; ern-.. ment are ' boundri justices reward . Mr- Goldiborough as'kedT 'him if any contract had been made- - j Not absolutely contracts, the chancellor replied, but remutieratibri is ''expected. No n-ney hal . bven paid for last year! (services of ti e g ivtnt meot's spies and agents ath )ne sod hroa-l). but the services have b.en rendered with tht CKpccta . . . ... .. rf-.j. .. . ... .... xspr& LsUali suiitLtvnPiic ,?olaerer tl-.t-&kuiknow weilJialMf A W.'P.kUI.A 1 here is some was corcen eci, it is 10 oe noptu me govciniuein ""-f- - r- . ' . . ' norc rogues amoi' nx ituciain.s, l",,,,v i'--- diction that appropr.i.t on ol oi e hundred ihoiu san"(T dollais will not .'l be expended before s.-me of the ' seem'ng pure' will-go over to the sicl of the goats. Some of there will be under cmic- iii-n,. visited by the grace t God in d'jl.ats. This Ltter was daied on (he 20th of F bruary, ind on the day of its date the bill ps ed plariog ore hundrtd "thonsand tklla'S. ycctet senic: mo- -ttty-at-lh-disptsal-of-l--xecuiu-er...IiLs conimoiiication bom riiilocielphM lsrite i the a of I'cbi uary, but he brd Decn at Vahl:ir'on s-'me Vt;nt ht lort, inad.e- his bargain. an: 4 i 000 doll:iis was f enosited to h scier it in a Washington rank I'bat money, bt y.rd all qotsdon, be received fom government. Mr.-Ilacou sti'U d' to the howscjr;n the 20.h of Ft.biuary, thai servces had "been peiTormed, which the government were bound in justice to reward" that services bad been lend r. red with the expectation, if not the '.piomise of t'ernoner.mon Ai.d jhus 50 v 0 d- Hats ate squai.d red away at a single dash, upon a ntuh whom British ministers would not give a single ioue. NayThe) hie even t-iven.n.ore. thfMi dou. ble what heasked of Lore' Liv .rpool, at a n o nent when the people &re io1be4axcd up to their eyes t by the first c' Aain conveyance. thing very mysterious in the connexion between w ill force than to disclose the secret. Hampton, and Eustis both Yazoo men, both old j This is" 'he Robert, whp with others, is accused fiends of Horr but 1 shall close this letter.' alreaTof having fttttc, out lie felucca the Selly, aj,a pti dy too longfc-may pursue and publish only whit.valeer. i his vessel captured it brig from the you think fit. of it ; 1 shall be answerable lor' theicoast of A'rir.a, vith about 130 ntgroi s, ;.id look truth of every word in it." Jurora, Ithtm into the romti.e, wheiv they were soltt a n! distributed through the country. The owners n Extnet of a subsequent letter, dated tlie lth Feb. 3813. 'the brig, informed of the circumstances of the . I have placed in the haiids OfMr. 13. going case, claimed tlie negroes, and some very ludi to Orleans, a letter for you. con;ait.iiig,"lhe pa- crous sctf.es look place in attempting to wren oef ninmised in mv letter Ot last week. Absent thm om these who had puithustd them.; .A tht- four la,l days, I have on'y now to tell you w'h'at monsieur Chaumetie, v ho was supercat gc of thej i i i . t. ii i-. f htirr onn rviiinc inr i mhn -in ' !.i 1 1 -! t Ilrr T . "These extravagancies, um'eo wriytne xyra. j n,t.n. ioI,eu -lhat th Jt 7i!;.SUJt .cir, calkdacon c--i,ld give important inlormation respecting the nv which ht has exercised over meritorious in-i -.-y,,. , ..,,,.,,..,, hrnUen Tin : l.v which owners, commander, crew, and all concerned in dividuals, and he -violation of justice and human ukrtnt Pik wa5 deprived of his com"-' felucat" - - itV in COnttmpl Ol law auu m iiuhui, iJir- . i . ' . ' r u-. u ' ill - in mvi , .-ot-ius rt shoCKlliC S ale . Ol III ii irs iicic, sum luvn heard many ofheers ask now it isf.hat.you confine ;Cali ,a mi Wele ,Vjniotcd aod men of talents ycurself to the notice of abuses iff the -detriment j b f c,T)Stallt tcITor, i ltad vVar.kns this nian hits too much merit and intre for our times, in the times of Neio aod A small Spanish schooner, whose owner was repairing with his family and r-l slaves from lia lacoa to-fome trber part of the island of Cob.-, was met in his passage by a Tittle vessel having at Washington, and ove'-ook-.tho crying mjustice-J tr3fl4lj,io!i o the orauort- -ox Marcus Aurtlius, sorne ! renchmen on board, who had just escaped that "has'been going on in the sou hern proymces..uhich ,ou sent m widi expressible delight J 1 front Jercmie, where they had been endeavoring for in this lespect our condition resembles that couUj an08-t tQ b(. tiat &toic wj10ni the tlo tora;se an insui recTon. Tlie Frenchmen put the of the remote provinces ol a despotism ra her , t . inlI0(luce(1 wi.h Slich hlM)nv tf Sp-miard and his T riTtiy into their ownjprazy and than, of a r.epuMic-nhe.cne ' of the oppressed . c t t. the funeral; but where am I running let , sirking bark, and brought the Spanish vessel into "a"--too remote to w l ll" M"ilS.,nt dl snail. ftr lhe ivnublic. even thouirh knaves ym ot diet mentaur. un arrival, seven throne I wilirthen, wh'le I am tpon iiv givc you a rtoublic. tvcil thouirh knaves l,he U''U of ef Mentaur. O r--,... - --- o j.. r .... ' . ., . . i and fools have disgraced thelvel-ra. .The fifth and l11 XMm arnu ti.intmstives, ana concucieu sixth regiments of United States infantry, are now lhe r egroes to this tlace, where they hnve since petition of what Joii have beard before; bv telling; broken up ; previously some officers and compa bt"en S(J'd: these lellows appear publ.c.yu scarce vouiow coionerCus treated ; he nics of the 3d. wete transferred to the first ; now ! aitimpt to conceal their .robbery . ; i tit enctobeo ,extrsct Horn tne Louisiana w,u n tnnwlcili'e of what I write, nor can he e- tlie'sth anil fiih is r!iss!Ived to be incoi noralt d with ver know who now addresses you ; my name you i the 3d and 7th ; the officers and regimented staff z Uc ( 26ih. April, 18 10, will hew what was ?hen -..-at libtrtv to riive up to any m'on M.cnaranteriofithe- brokon itgimento, I 'uiulerstantl, aie, t0i':M-,na me. same game nas ueui caiiieuw e who asks it; but. the facs are. so notorious, that proceed to the Atlantic slates, to raise ntw tegi no one will ever attempt to bring them into ques. I menu so that last year there was nothing but tion, who has any character to risque, cusning t.ie consolidation ot -. detached companies; now wnoie regiments, ani tnose inat wire me iuuesi and the best in order are dissolved." Ibid. " was arrested on a farrago of charge wholly per sonal and malicious; he had osujv'ed the'Mobile fiomthe sea, and was executing his du'y in con . cert wish the most dider.ti'al and faithful of the Vivil fuiictionaries'of the United States., when an - order for hisarrest "arrived, and in contempt of all i " jght and l'Ule, and m a manner in wnicn none utu .rm nmised of the hisrhest crimes and in the greatest txigenct s, are treated he was plac d as a prisoner under the custody of one of his own subalterns, and hurned overiand this to pla. UA : court martial was jicckcd I say my fiiendnt w as a packed cohrt, because the members were rot ta " - ken in on!crof rank ; and because under a. sh -me-. ful pretext, an i fiicer who was supposed to be on - terms of ii fendship, .,s, put i.nder arrest-merely to kt'ep hill' fr' n.i off that court ; you have I See. Tn one of your papers, published the exception ta. ken to "some members of the court, and Ih U one of them wis'f forced to be taken off the - court upon a chr.rge cVf perjury , the colonel asks sixty days to obtain testimony ; at this moderate " request, such as iheJ jlxitish ourt of Star Cham ber would not refuse, their genet al of a republic raACS74ikeVmadraauanLex.te ndsjthcjpemm Piracy. I -.TV-r-nxrifi 4 li ri.!nml tnPt milt r,iOil SIX uiOlHlls , euiiuiica iiiv .v. - this place, and taking the colonel (Anyth) whom ? he. had appointed president of the court, on a ride Villi him to. Mobile, he gives hrm a furlough to MORE PIRACY AND .SMUGGLING'. Tu lhe Editors of the Baltimore Federal Republican. 1. N. Orl ans, Dec. 28 j 1811. ' The piratical schooner the Vengeance, having been ournt at Savannah, and "a most infamous statement of. that transaction having been forward ed to ibis place by some of the villains concerned in her," which statement was intended to inflame the minds of the people of this country against the government of the United States, Thave thought ihat some mention of what is doing here by the pirates, might be acceptable, and if published, might perhaps induce the government to causj some inquiry into their proceedings.'' , "The Vengeance was some time, ago a Swedish schooner called the Christianstadt, and was. then commanded- by, I believe, a captain Osmond ;.he traded from St. Domingo to N. Orleans. She af terwards was-reported to have beerTsold by)s mon'd, and she then appeared as a French priva. teer, having been equipped' in one.of our ports NeartheT ortugas-sheftlHnrwith and captured a 'slaves, dc Ver since I he other extract is a memorandum'given by a person taken in. the Vclador,atid may be depend ed on. . ; SKETCH OF THE REMARKS Made in the buse of reptese titives, on the do cumtuts rllative lb Mt. lietrry.- The reading occupi d nearly an hour and a half. Amotion was made : to' print the. message -and docuiiien's.- - Mr. Fitkin had r.o obj-c--t oo iQ,the p. inting if th.: bo is? to chus do sod but he should not suppost they would be wd isig. t; print -ell the lies oiid libels of this traitor, or1 to have their character as givtn by him go tothe world with such a sanction. . Mr. Ilibb mov djthat lbeyrbercferred to the cominit'i-e of fort ign relations. , Mr. G'v.dson observed that the correspondence i.:.-! I., rAt .iKIo. t,T. fVi iicirrh frliin A r . . . ... . . wa lUUH t.n.tiiiau,v. v nn, vw-v.x. pnrtuguese brig with 104 slaves prize to the . Hen dtcJarM, 1Mme there would. mnT. trench plotter LiGnilume, captain Launne.j . . h jec (hniIs,hit demonstrates arrived at he Ualize ot, thV 18th ...slant, in nis , Kritish to disfnember the union.- tkkss, ana nas. ueen seized oy lieutenant neea, f 'iKankf,fl. God. that, inhere Tsx? From the Louisiana Gnz'-tte jof the 25th of April, '181). - More pri.alee i indistress-' I of the Vesuvius Le Guilliame, Blossom and Superiofrtiaving, from the best informatipn, made htiacessfdt "CTui. zes, are supposed to be in great distress, and may be daily exptctcd at the lialize. . r I. ATE ARRIVALS I La Fr"anchi5e, jdistrest ,?rfa-indigo and, specie value about eighty or ninety thousand dollars. LTntrepide, distress moderate only 6,000 j specie. - L'Ducde MontebellOji distress extreme full of rich dry goods and fcpecie Le l'ttit Chance,' distress considerable dry goods and mahoganvaugep hole in bottom. L'Epine, distress agreeably to orders goo4s anil specie n dry ibLe GiffUiame, prize, distress extreme j cargo Osmond", the former owner of the Vengeance, week at Washington ar.d in the neighborhood. when called the Christianstadt, sailed to take on j On his return td Baltimore, he called with a friend board the cargo of the prize, which they effected, a bank in this city, and produced a certificate, ; : afier nearly massacreii g i he ci ew of a pilot boat from .an pfticer of a b?nk in Washington, that ron " from the BaliZe.The person who made this pur ty h'ght thousand pollars had been deposit- ' . chase & 'Jtfcnorn, but I forbear to mention his ! ed in said bank to bis crediv On this.certifinat. ,;. name", v v r " . - . :. jtle casbier-of tlie.nahimore bank fave.bimdffts- '-. r( AnofbVr Wise here had likewise made a bar-ona bank in Nej Yok, whereMr. Henry's " gain, "With Di Orr for his prize, and the schooner business lav, arid whence,-he linformed his nc-" Three Friends Was dispatched for the cargo. She quaimance's here, he was to sail to Europe in the, went to sea, but not meeting with the Vengeance Wasp. When we compare these circumstances' ... or her prize, returned a few da) a afterwards ; and wun wnat lonows, me wiiuhimuh i u rcsisuoje tW-who have devoted the be&ive s of thrir lives "Y ,he eye of the execOtive ; I apprised him ni-rd. in the Bayou of St. John, within two-'roiles-' appropriated, Mf-Madton could not mow" appno- toTh7mlhar 1 understood the executive was already in-jof this city, she took the Portuguese or Spanish p-lately use, tlnn by dividing it between himself .S:l , . I IV.rm. d on th RiihWt hut iKHririiFi-oiint to nolacre. whfr.h was carried into Bai'ataria. and be. '.and colonel Monroe ' uie viiiaitucs mat nave oeen going on.nere. ? . , . , . - , ,. Had you published the transactions of which I ' V'" for mf rtp'eatu-g some facts which 1 wrote ing- blorled p there wjh the prize, by lieutenant rave-you on account last year, L think you would concerning, belore ; as I must suppose, since (Jr.gory, of gun hit, No 163, she was burnt by have rendered some service to the eoU;,try ; ty ve not bten-published they have not reach, thsciew to preventall investigation, it you will only recurlo my letters from St, Fr 4-ed,(,u V T',n5r.!lh V?1 P ?lV)rJL - ... r . i .... . i i A i!.,i-.li.-. I lia!i tru to tret rimti liifiwl in fnruf aril nen Rent hv I n inlanrl . navo'ulion to this nlaee. . 18 1 vou will abk u!arsfor such things excite abhorrence rnd and sold by a fellow" of 'be nane of Satte, the a- readily vote to put into the bands of the xe ut.ver tni itarv rev That t,ucb things should otisf, wffl.clifig gnt fof-the pirates, to three mercantile houses, it rie hundred .housaud dol-'ars ofseciet ferv.ee mo- would m-k vri ifllu, m Us os, d hunianity & .damning reproach to the govern is said for thirty thousand dollars? one of them ney, tube ussd for purposes of corrupt .on of h-w rS rhJ'n ih'-t suffer or winks at it f since 1 am too sold out his interest to a considerable prolil, the de.p a dye they probablv , 1 never knew ? 1 his wns ever in Great Britain a belief that we are de sirous of a separation, or that onv part of the peo- pie would at any time look to th.;m, the fallacy of that belief is prvived. Henry it appears, during the time of tlie em iargo, a period if "any, aupi cious to their puilose,' went t" Boston',. the. spot where oppositton was supposed nio.t violent, yet he dare not even to meniion to any n a-, of di&tino lion such a project. . '; tt, -- ; Mr Rhea moved'to print 5000 rrp'es. 'Mr, Wright -thought it would disgust the- pefu. pie ofthe Northern states to give by ptiriting the sarrction-of tht house to a traitor's libels, h would rather refer them to the committee of foreign re lations. . ' ' - -. -.'.' " " M hTTrou psa tdr art nckTicwlerflTand-trfrt- tor has been fruitlessly employ din an fettempt to . separJe the' iinion ; the only .'imp.rtair.e.is.n;. abtainmetitfhebpotiiHa British f I - - If - -. - v. I t i - :'4' '( '. A
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