Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

SCANDALOUS DESERTION.

The success of the Seneca Indians, who lately exhibited themselves in this country, induced a citizen of the state of Georgia, named David Jones, to try to engage some Indians to accompany him to England, for a like purpose. After considerable difficulty, and much persuasion, he prevailed upon six Indians of the Cherokee nation, living near Fort Armstrong, to accompany him; promising them that if they did not succeed here, they should have a free passage home again. They embarked at Charleston, and after a voyage of twenty-five days, arrived at this port. Here they performed two evenings. They then went to St. Helen's, where they performed on the evenings of Friday and Saturday. On the Sunday morning their conductor left them, directing them to proceed to Wigan, and promising to meet them there. After performing at Wigan a week, they received a letter from Jones, in which he desired them to proceed to Warrington, saying he would rejoin them at that place. They accordingly went to Warrington; but he did not fulfill his promise. The poor fellows, after stopping there till they had spent all their money, resolved to return to Liverpool to enquire what had become of their employer.—When they arrived here, they found him just on the point of embarking for America. He had sailed, and basely abandoned these unfortunate men to a state of destitution in a strange country, far from their families and their native land.

Of such conduct we cannot speak in terms of adequate detestation. Our object in thus minutely narrating the circumstances in this case is, to promote a subscription to enable the unhappy sufferers to return to their homes. The Indians may be seen at their lodgings in Liver-street.
[London paper.