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Show 40l! '1.~0TES. own -countryme11; n,o~cven an enemy will an Indian tmt to death, except resist'mg in ; rms; and as for injuring helpless women and children, the red men, by their good conduct, and treatment to them, will (if it be possible,) make the Americans blush for their more inhuman conduct, lately on the Escambia, and within a neutral territory. Inhabitants of Kentucky, you have too long borne with griev· ous impositions-the whole brunt of the war has fallen on your brave sons; be imposed on no longer, but either range yourselves under the standard of your forefathers, or observe a strict neu· trality. If you comply with either of these olfers, whatever provisions you send down, will be paid for in dollars, and the safety of the person$ bringing it, as well as the free navigation of the Mississippi, guaranteed to you. Men of Kentucky, let me call to your view, (and I trust to your abhorrence) the conduct of those factions, which)lllrried you into this civil, unjust, and unnatural war, at a time when Gr.eat Britain was straining every nerve, in defence of her own, and the liberties of the world-when the bravest of her sons were fighting and bleeding in so sacred a cause-when she was spending millions of her treasure, in endeavouring to pull down one of the 1nost formidable and dangerous tyrants, that ever disgraced the form of man-when o-roaning Europe was almost in her last gasp -when Britons alo~e showed an undaunted front-basely did tltose assassins endeavour to stab h;r from the rear; she has turned on them, renovated from the bloody, but successful struggleEurope is happy and free,. ~nd she now hastens, justly, to av_enge the unprovoked insult. Sl1ow them that you are not collectively unjust: leave tlJat contemptible few to shift for themselves: let those slaves -of the tyrant send an embassy to Elba, and impl~re his aid; but let every honest, upright American spurn them wtth unitf:d contempt. After the experience of twenty-one ye~rs, can you loj•ger support those brawlers for liberty, wh~ cal\. Jt freedom, when themselves arc free ? Be no longer thetr dupes-accept of my olfers-every thing I have promise~ in this paper, I guarantee to you, on the sacnd honour of a British officer. Giren under my hand, at my head quarters, · • Pensacola, this l!9th day of August, 1814. EDWARD NICHOLLS. NOTES." .406 Note B-page l!55. Letter to commodore Daniel T. Patterson. Pensacola, 4th December, 1814. Sm,-I feel it a duty to apprize you of a very large force of the enemy oft' this port, and it is generally understood New Orleans is the object of attack. It amounts, at present, to about eighty vessels, and more than double that number are momentarily looked for, to form a junction ; when an immediate commencement of their operations wi1l take place. I am not able to learn, how, when, or where the attack will be made; but 1 understand that they have vessels of all de•criptions, and a large body of troops. Admiral Cochrane commaJJds; and his ship, the Tonnant, lie~, at this moment, just outside the bar. They certainly appear to have swept the 'Vest Indies of troops, and probably no means will be left untried to obtain their object.-'the admiral arrived onl.v yesterday noon. I am yours, &c. N*.,.•. Note C-page S2S. Letter f•·om Charles K. Blcmcha•·d to general Jackson. JV'ew Ol"leans, JJ[m·ch 20, IS 14. S1n,-l have the honour, agreeably to your request, to state to your excellency, in writing, the substance of a conversation that occurred between quarter master Peddie, of the British army, and myself, on the 11th instant, on board his Britannic Majesty's ship Herald. Quarter-maste1· Peddie observed, that the commanding officers of the British fore;es were daily in the receipt of every information from the city of New Orleans, which they might require, in aid of their operations, for the completion of the objects of the expedition ;-that they were perfectly acquainted with the situation of every part of our forces, the manner in which the same was sit~ated, the number of our fortifications, their strength, position, &c. As to the battery on the left bauk of the Mississippi, he described its situation, its di stance from the main post, and promptly offered me a plan of the works. He futthermore stated, that the above information was received from seven or eight persons, in the city of New Odeans, from wl~om he couhl, at any hour, procure every information necessary to promote his majesty's inter('st., |