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33’ Come and See
The NEVV GOODS, just received by
Williani J. Street.
They were bought at .3-action, and will be
'so1d,(when Cash is ofI‘ercd,) something cheap-
er than
./Imong the articles added to his stock, may
‘ be fomul,
Superfine Broad Cloths,of various colours
An assortment of common Navy Blues, niixt,
8:c. 81c. ' ,
Black, blue, mixt, and brown Cassimeres
Fine Pelisse,Cloths,low priced brown do.
ted, white, and yellow Flaunels
Black, brown, and scarlet Bombazetts
Blue, green, orange, and crimson do.
Black and figured Rattinett _
Anelegant assortment Ribbons _
Silk stripe toilnet Vesting
Marseilles and swansddwn do.
Black Florentine do. \
Best Carlisle, pink, and buff Gingham:
American do.
Cambric, book, and India Muslins
Bleached and unbleached American Shirting
Furniture and other Calicoes
Black tabby and Manchester Velvet
Best Italian Crapes, Merino Shawls
Imitation Shawls, new style-—-dark purple do.
Canton, flag, and bandanoe Handkerchiefs
Flag, and Madrassjcotton do.
Stout India I-lkdfs'.' and Shawls, I2 I-2cts. each
Purple and white Kid Gloves
Black and white silk do. '
Gentlemens Beaver do.
Common undi't:ss’(l Ladies do. at 18 cts. pr.pair
20 doz. map’d and i\‘l-adrass Hdkfs. 6 cts. each
--i.n<r.\v1si-2-—
.9 new supply of GROCERIES <5” II./.lRD-
WARE, consisting of
Rum, Brandy, Gin, VViues, Molassess, Sugars,
Teas, Spices, box and keg Raisins, 8cc.——Cutlery,
Butts, Hinges, Locks, Screws, Norfolk & Tliunib
Latches, and good brass balled Candlesticks, at
3.2 l-2 cents. ' '
—.ItLso-—-
.97: 87.?lC?2.Sé’.’:e assortment of CRflCl'{’EZi’f._
Bought at a Sheril‘1"’s sale, for half its valiu-.,"ax;u
will be sold accordin9.'lv. Dec. 15.
Cheap Cash Store.
BENEZER STEVENS and EDVVARD
H. STREET, have connected themselves
in business, under the firm of
STEVENS <3‘ STREET,
And have taken the store directly under Mr.
Jnssn CURTIS’ shop, west side of the Bridge,
where they offer for sale a general assortment of
genuine GROCERIES, and fresh 19'1~2U1T:—-the
followiug are a part--
Jamaica Spirits, by tlie‘Po“-'de!‘ and S1101:
barrel Vv'lieat, Rye, and Buck-
St. Croix Rum do. \Vheat Flour
Sugar do. Smoked lierring
Molasses do. Codfish, Scc. Stc.
Hollalid Sr. Pierpont Gin 1"r1u'r.
X-‘Vines Oranges, Limes
Cordials, of all kinds Madeira Nuts, Peanuts
Teas do. Almonds, Prunes
Loaf and lump sugar Drum Raisins
Coffee and Choccolatc Figs, Cocoanuts
Pepper, Allspice, Ging- . Dried Currants
er [cotliox and keg Raisins,
Hand and paper Tobac-i 32c. 52c. &c.
The above articles are all of a superior quali-
ty, and will be sold on terms which will render it
an object for their friends to call.
Norwalk, Nov. 3. 97
ii33°New_iCasli Store.
Eli B. Bennett,
Has just returned from New-York, with a
new supply of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hated-
ware, cmcl Crockery,
Purchased at very reduced prices, and together
with his former assortment, will be sold accord-
inglv. ——ALSO—- _-. '
CUDFISH and SA LT;=of superior‘ qualities.
Being determined to sell CHEAP, it will be
for the _interest of those who “are desirous of
purchasing, to call.
./V'or'wal/C, a'_)‘c"w rods east
aft/zc Bridge, Dec. 1. l
31
To be sold at private sale,
BOU l‘ forty acres of LAND, handsomely
situated on Belden’s I-lill, about 3 miles
from Norwalk Bridge. The above Land is of
an excellent quality, and under good improve-
ment. An indisputable title andimmediate pos-
session will be given. For terms, apply to
HANNAH B. SKIDDY, or
SAMUEL BURRALL.
.Norwalk, Oct. 13. ' 24
N0
:3:
at : m
: t: . ‘ ' A 2:
Winter Establishment.
ACCOIVIMODATIONT PACKETS,
To sail on Tuesdays and Sa.tm'd(t_1/s, from El-
enezer D. -?Hoyt’s Laiidjiigr at J\"or~walI;,
for Peck Slip, New-Yorlr.
SLOOP ELIZA, Pmzuovnn, l\’la3te1_‘_,
ILL commence sailing from the above
- landing, on Saturday.the 3 1st day z~fir.-st,
October, and return on Saturday following-,.
Sloop '§-MECII.£lJV'IC, Bryrmt, niaster,
VVill sailpon Tuesday, 3d of l‘ioveni‘.ic:, and
return on Tuesday.following.
Sloop U.iV°I0.’V', Brojwn, master,
VVill sail on Saturclay, 7th of N0\'(ml)¢.'T, ant?
l'ctt1t'n the Saturday followiiig; and so in 1':vl'.‘:--
tion through the season. a j '
F01‘ freiglit or passage applytothe subscril rr,
E. D. HOYT.
as
spective vessels.
_l_\l_o_i‘Mu;z:lk,_()ct. 27.
" _ ,
W inter Arrangement.
_ ' PACKETS, _
To Sail every Tuesday, from B1ti'7'all<§~ Hui}-
beli’3 Lanrhng at .N‘orwallr_.for .'IV‘e7t=-
Fork, Peel;-Slip, “viz. ,
HE newand very fast sailing sloop OItlOl\"
B.KEELER,ITi';1slel‘, liaving 16 supe.iio:- and
elegantbirths, leaves Norwalk T/its Drzy, (Tues-
Claf |Oth inst.) and will return from New-Yoik
' on Thursday, (19th) of the \-.'c-cl; folloniat-g.
SloopC()MET,(}.\V:.'i‘iinBURr.master, will
leave Norwalk on Tuesday, the 17th inst. iind
l‘<-turn on Thursday of the week follruxxiivg. d.':(l
so alternately, through the season. For ll-ti-rhfi
o'r passage, apply to tliesubsci-ibers, 01' lo tin‘
Captains on board their VcS:;(:‘lS'.-'
EC?“ Every attention will be paid to
commoclation i.)fP€lSSt:nf;‘L'l‘5.
. BURR'Al.i, 8:. IfUBBEl'.L.
Norwalk,Nov. lo. ‘28
Cheap Cash Store.
BETT S & CANJNON,
Havejust received a frcsli supply of
Fall 8,“ W7£7eter Goods,‘
Wvhich makes.their assortment equal, if not sit-
P‘3U0|'a 10 any in IOWD, which they are selling er
3 n
1’ tit.“
ing are a small part :—
Black, blue,bottlegreen,dr2.b and mix’. Brc;~'.‘z
cloths .
Black, blue, drab and inixt Cassimcres,
Pelisse Clotlis,_Sattinmis ,.
' ~- rzosc l_>l'dl‘:i’.(':(;’-
.-,waiisdo',i'n and Lei‘;-
I,von—_.=.ltiti‘:7‘*"‘*“E»j P W
[“l0I‘t3lT['Il1€‘~, Merscillcs,
net Vcstings
i\’laiichc':;tei‘ V».t.l'.*r.-'.s and Curtis
Red, white, yellow, blue and black Fir-nnels
Figurctl and plain lionilrizctts, assorted colors
Italian and French Crapc, fi§~vv.i'e<l Rauicctt
lack and cliaiigealile l5'lorc-r.i:o ;:.r.d L-evantines
Fi;_rurefd I.evuntines, \Vhite S-attin
V‘Vliite and green Sarccnct
Cotton wedding, for 1,.-adies’ Croat Coats
I\'Ierino, silk, and cotton imitation Shawls
Leno, book, camliiick, and mulmul Muslins
Cambric Dimitics, sarcenet Cambrico
Corded Carnbrics
VVire Cotton and Floss '1‘ broads
Silk, cotton, and worsted Hosiery
English and French silk Cloves
VVashed Leather, ~i.’-eaver, and Kid Gloves
Men’s Deer-skin Gloves and Mittens
_Merino Trimmings, Irish Linens
‘American St India cotton Sheeting 8: Shirting
Linen and cotton Bedticking
American and English Check
Cotton Candlewick 4
.8-ii assortment gfII.dRDWJ1RE and CROOK-
EHI7. ‘=
-—ALso-—
Jamaica and St. Croix Rum,
American and French Brandy
Do. and Holland Gin
Madeira,Tencriffe, EVVINES.
American and Port
Hyson, Young Hyson,
Hyson Skin, and
TEAS.
Souchong
Loaf and Lump Sugar
Muscovado do. by the barrel,or retail
Coffee and Spices
Indigo and Dye VVoods
Cotton, of superior,and ordinary qualities
Salt, 8<c.
Noi'walk,'Oct. 27.
E the subscribers, being by the Hon. Gen-
eral Assembly, at their session holden at
New-I-Iaven, in and for the state of Connecticut,
on the second Thursday of October, l8l8,'ap-
pointed Commissioners on the estate of Ste]:/zen
Abbott, of said Norwalk, an insolvent debtor, and
having accepted our said appointment, and taken
an assignment under oath, of the said Abbott’s
estate : hereby give notice, that we will meet to
receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the
creditors, of him, the said Abbott, at the dwelling-
houseof lsaac,Arnold, inn-keeper in, said Nor-
walkfon the first Tuesdays of February and A-
pril next, at one o’clock in the afternoon on each
of said days. i
26
Commis-
sioners.
HENRY BELDEN,
Bi«:ivJ’N Isaacs,
if . Norwalk, Dec. 26, 1818.
W.&LK'i (ComL._)_ FVED
or to either the Captains on board of Illcil‘ rc— 1..-
BL-“CK’R°CK PR1”-'5: and of wliiclh, the follow ;
‘ I .',~.~:' the (l'cSll'C of conquest nor hostility to Spain,
' ‘-;.d {filly inf‘;ner.ce in the councils of the U. States,
,,~»-
N'E
I)OCUMEI\"1‘3 TRAI\7SMI'I‘TED T0 CONGRESS.
C./__'lie Secretary rgfStaIc oft/ur United States, to the
1l'lz'm'stcr Plem'f2otc7ztirz7'y Q/z/ic United States to
I 5’/zaivz, ar i"vIatl7‘z'rl.
[coNcLi_JnEu.]
Iacltsoii,indispensably necessary to take from the’
his threat into execution. Before the forces un-
appczuctl.
forces should be disbanded, if sheltered by Span-
35“ ll-‘l‘U‘<:5S€Sa if furnished with arnmunitions and
T“-‘t‘:l'l‘,‘»llCS by Spanisli ofiicers, and if aided and
~: ..[.gi='>1‘lr.(l by the instigation of Spanish encour-
‘-Wfit, as he had every reason to expect they
"‘-"'-_'.lrl be, they would reappear, and fired, in ad-
*..'~_l';n:-rc for the cliasiiscment they had so recently
1:;-.::«A.ivetl, wmilrl again rush with the war hatchet
xralping itnife, into the borders of the United
.~= a:-.~ :-n'.(l mark every foot-step with the blood of
t_§'.t:i:* (lt;‘l-t“llCt;'lt.'SS citizens. So far as all the na-
tive re:-touiccs of the savage extended, the war
was at all end, and Con. Jackson was about to re-
store to l.llt‘ll' homes the brave volunteers who
had follows-.d liis~sl'andard, and who had constitu-
ted the principal part of his force. This could
be (lone with safety, leaving the regular portion
"l l1'S tmups to garrison his line of forts, and
two 5‘.i‘.‘luil detachments of volunteer cavalry, to
:-.rf.i,ii- the country around Pensacola, and sweep
oil the remnant of savages, who had been scat-
‘”e‘;~.il and dispersed before hiin. This was suf-
i'-cit.-iit to keep in check the remnant of the ban-
r.%'it‘,i. against whom he had marched, so long as
they should be destitute of further aid and sup-
;.ort. It was, in his judgernnt, not sufficient, if
‘.l‘.t'_V should he suffered to rally their numbers
nndt-r the protection of Spanish forts, and to do-_'
ll\‘C new strength from the impotence or the ill_-
will against the United States of the Spanish an-'.
thorities. '.
He took possession, therefore, of Pensacola
andof the ‘Fort of Barr-ancas, as he had done of
ST. Marlts, not in a spirit of hostility to Spain,
but as a necessary measure of self-defence ; giv-
ing notice that they should be restored whenev-
cl‘ Spain should place commanders and a force
here able and willing to fulfil the engagements
ol Sp-.-in tnwartls the U. States, of restraining by
Zr-rec, the Florida Indians from hostilities against
their citizx-~ns. The President of the U. States,
:0 give a signal manifestation of his confidence
as the di-position of the King of Spain, to per-
min uiili good faith this indispensable engage-
:''cm, and to demonstrate to the world that nei-
V‘-as (ll5't’(:'.t;(l the uncoiiditional restoration to any
~3l’-Wlsll «fficer, duly authorised to receive them,
.:;_|,. gi,-)5;-5$509.15-}.=»5/‘;1:El‘::%:Iibliignggrs, and that of St.
r
fence zigzxitist the attack oftne s‘2i:l‘.lg12‘.C.fi‘»¥;)'£:‘»,—€lt;.:.
l)lCSl(l.(‘llt uiil neither inflict punishment, nor
pass ii censure upon Gen. Jackson for that con-
duct, the motives for \'»hich, were founded in the
purest patriotism, of the necessity for which he
l‘.l‘.(i the most immediate and effectual means of
lot Ining a judgcment,and the vindication ofwhich
is written in every page of the law of nations,
as \\'(‘ll as in the first law of nature, self-defence.
He thinks it, on the contrary, due to the justice,
which the United States have a right to claim
from .‘~‘.p-ain; and you are accordingly instructed
to demand of the Spanish government, that in-
quiry shall be instituted into the conduct of Don
Jose Mazoi, Governor of Pensacola, and of Don
Frrincisco C. Luengo, commandant of St. Marks,
and a suitable punishment inflicted upon them
for liaxing, in defiance and violation of the en-
giegcnieiits of Spain with the United States, aid-
ed and assisted these hordes of savages in those
very hostilities against the United States, w'hic_h'
it was their official duty to restrain. This inqui-
ry is due to the characters of those officers them-_'
selves, and to the honor of the Spanish govern-
ment. The obligation of Spain to restrain by
force, the Indians of Florida from hostilities a-
gainst the U. States and their citizens is explicit,
is‘ positive, is unqualified. The fact, that for a
series of years, they have received shelter, as-
sistance, supplies and protection, in the practice
of such hostilities from the Spanish command-
ers in Florida, is clear and unequivocal. If, as
the commanders both at Pensacola and St.
- Marks have alledged, this has been the result of
their weakness rather than their will, if they have
assisted the Indians against the United States to
avert their hostilities from the province, which
they had not sufficient force to defend against
them, it may serve, in some measiire, to excul-
pate, individually, those ofiicers, but it must car-
ry demonstration irresistible to the Spanish gov-
ernment, that the rights of the United States can
as little compound with impotence as with perti-
dy, and that Spain must immediately make her
election, either to place a force in Florida ade-
quate at once to the protection of her territory
and to the fulfilment of her engagements, or code
to the United States a province,’ of which she re-
tains nothing but the nominal possession; but
which is in fact, a derelict open to the occupancy
of every enemy, civilized or savage, of the Uni-
ted States, and serving no other earthly purpose
than as a post of annoyance to them. _
That the purposes, as well of the NegroAIn-
dian banditti, with whom we have been contend-
ing, as of the British invaders of Florida, who
first assembled and employed them, and of the
British intruding and pretending traders, since
the peace who have instigated and betrayed them
to destruction, have been not less hostile to Spain
than to the United States, the proofs contained
.3 It became, therefore, in the opinion of Gen.~
Go'.'erncr of Pensacola, the means of carrying‘
der his command, the savage enemy had dis»
But he knew that the moment those-
"T2-’-ll to their ordinary ferocious-ness, with re-_
[VUL. I.+N . 38.‘ '
—., - . ' ' _§
in the documents herewith enclosed, are conclu-
‘sive. Mr. Pizarro’s note of 29241 of August,
speaks of his Catholic Majesty's profound indig-
nation at the ‘ sanguinary executions, on the
Spanish soil, of the subjects of powers in amity
with the King’—-meaning Arbuthnot and Am-
-brister. Let Mr. Pizarro’s successor take the
trouble of reading the enclosed documents, and
‘he will discover who Arbutlmot and Ambrister
‘were, and what were their purposes : That Ar-
-buthnot was only the successor of Nicholls, and
«Ambrister the agent of \Voodbiue, and the sub-
altern of McGregor. ’fr. P'i‘2arro qualifies Gen.
Jackson’s necessary pursuit of a defeated savage
enemy beyond the Spanish Florida line, as a
s/zamqfu! z'n'uasz'on cy" /ifs fl/[rIjesty’.v terr:'i'ory-——yet,
that territory was the territory also of the szivaige
enemy, and Spain was bound to restrain them, by
force from -hostilities against the United States,
and it was the failure of Spain to fulfil this en-
gagjement, which had made it necessary for Gen."
Jackson to pursue the savage across the line.-—-
VVhat then was the character of Nicholl’s inva-
sion of his Majesty’s territory, and where was
his Majcsty’s profound iridignation at that ? Mr.
Pizarro says, his Majesty's forts and places have
been violently seized on by Gen. Jackson. Had
they not been seized on, nay, had not the princi-
pal of his forts been blown up by Nicholls, and a
British fort on the same Spanish territory been
erected during the war, and left standing as a
Negro-fort, in defiance of Spanish authority, af-
ter the peace ? Where was his Majesty’s pro-
found indignation at that? Has his Majesty sus-
pended formally all negociation with the sove-
reign of Col. Nicholls, for the shameful invasion
of his territory without color of provocation,
without pretence of necessity, without the shad-
ow or even avowal of a pretext? Has his Majes-
ty given solemn warning to_the British govern-
jment, that there were incidents ‘of transcend-
;ant moment capable of producing an essential
'_and thorough change in the political relations of
the two countries?’ Nicholls and W'oodbine in
their invitations and promises to the slaves to
runaway from their masters and join them, did
not confine themselves to the slaves of the Uni-
ted States—-they received with as hearty a wel-
come, _and employed with equal readiness, the
fugitives from their masters in Florida, as those
from Georgia. Against this special injury, the
Governor of\Pensacola did earnestly remonstr-ate
with the British Admiral Cockburn ; but against -
the shameful z'nz'asz'on of the territory-—-against
the violent seizure of the forts and places-—a-
gainst the blowing up of the Barrancas, and the
erection and maintainance under the British ban-
ners, of the Negro fort on Spanish soil—against
the negociation by a Brixish officer in the midst
of peace, of pretended treaties, offensive and de-
fensive, and of navigation and commerce upon
Spanish territory, between Great Britain and
Spanish Indians, whom Spain was bound to con-
_!.'.‘el. and t’,~':§t_ra,iii,-_-_‘_-_i_f'_g_vv_'l;ispgggt: Vf_3_)§Q_Q_3ll'.ll3ll0Tl
not loud enough to he wafted across the Atlan-
tic, nor energetic enough to transpire beyond the
walls of the palaces from which it issued, and to
which it was borne.
The connection between Arbutlinot and Nich-
olls, and between Ambrister, ‘vVoodbine and Mc-
Gregor, is established beyond all question, by
the evidence produced at the trials, before the
court martial. I have already remarked to you
on the very extraordinary circumstance, that a
British officer from beyond the site should be
permitted, by the Spanish authorities, to trade
with the Indians of Florida. From his letter to
Hambly, dated Sd May, l8l7,it appears that his
trading was but a pi-eterice ; and that his princi-
pal purpose was to act as the agent of the In-
dians of Florida, and out-1 aws from the Creeks,
to obtain the aid of the British government, in
their hostilities against the United States. He
expressly tells Hambly there, ‘that the chief of
those out-laws was the princpal cause of his, Ar-
buthnot’s, being in the country ; and than he had
come with an answer from Earl Bathurst, deliv-
ered him by Gov. Cameron, of New Providence,
to certain Indian talks, in which this aid of the
Britisli government had been solicited. Ham-
bly, himself, had been left by Nicholls, as the a-
gent between the Indians and the British govern-
ment ; but having found that Nicholls had fail-
ed in his attempt to prevail upon the British gov-
ernment to pursue this clandestine war, in the
midst of peace; and that they were not prepa-
red to support his pretence, that halfa dozen out-
lawed fugitives from the Creeks were the Creek
nation ;—-when Arbuthnot, the incendiary came,
and was insligating them, by promises of sup-
port from Great'Britain, to commence their mur-
derous incursions into the U. States, I-Iambly,
at the request of the Creeks themselves, wrote
to him, warning him to withdraw from among
that band of outlaws, and giving him a solemn
foreboding of the doom that awaited him, from
the hand of justice, if he persevered in the
course that he pursued. Arbuthnot, neverthe-
less, persisted; and while he was tlcludiug the
wretched Indians with thejfpromiso of support
from England, lie waswriting letters for them to
the British minister in the United States, to Gov.
Cameron, of New Povidence, to C01. Nicholls;
to be laid before the British government; and
even to the Spanish governor of St. Augustine,
and the governor general of the Havanna, solicit-
ing, in all quarters, ‘aid and support, arms and
ammunition, for the Indians, against the United
States; bewailing the destruction of the Negro
Fort,-and charging the British government with
having drawn the Indians into war with the U.
States, and deserting them after the peace.
You will remark among the papers produced
on his trial, a power of attorney, dated 17th June,
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