The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

CONCORD.
NASSAU, (New-Providence) April 19.

Extract of a letter from Colonel ALEXANDER M'GILLEVRAY, Chief of the Creek Indians, dated Little Tallafsee, Jan. 9.

"In my last I informed you, that the Georgians had barbarously murdered eleven of my people on the hunting grounds, for which we demanded satisfaction in form. Instead of complying with this our just demand, they returned us a defiance, conceived in the most insolent terms, and threatened to drive us over the Mississippi. I came then to the determination to accept the alternative of compelling them to take refuge on the sea islands, or being forced to the threatened extremity. In consequence of having decided in this manner, our warriors turned out, spread devastation on all the frontiers, and excited a general panic and consternation throughout the whole state. You must be sensible, my friend, and so must every dispassionate man be, that the obstinate perseverance of the Georgians in acts of injustice, barbarity and oppression, obliged us to have recourse to such desperate resolves. Self-preservation, the love of country, and every other sentiment that dignifies human nature, dictated them: nor will we throw aside the bloody hatchet, until our enemies desist from their encroachment on our territory, and give such assurances as we can rely on, for their never being renewed in future times."

Extract of a letter from West-Florida dated February 24, 1788.

"The newspapers you sent, inform us that the Georgians are alarmed.-- Those vaunting folks had better regulate their conduct towards the Indians by plain common honesty: then they would have no cause of fear or alarm. Clark's affair, by the accounts we have, can be deemed nothing more than a smart skirmish, in which the Georgians, notwithstanding their boasted booty of a few brass kettles, were woefully worsted although they were thrice the number of the Creeks, and had into the bargain the advantage of surprising the Indians while they were cooking their broth.

In a variety of other little actions since then, victory has been uniformly in favour of the Red men. Here the generally received opinion is, that the ruin of Georgia might have been, ere this, effected, had not M'Gillevray restrained the Indians from going beyond the boundaries of their own lands. The territory, the original cause of dispute, is effectually cleared of intruders; and if the Georgians are wise enough to keep within their own limits and promise better behaviour in future, the horrors of war will soon cease. It will afford you satisfaction to learn that on the part of the Creeks, acts of cruelty, hitherto characteristic of Indian warfare, are, in a great degree, if not altogether, discontinued. We have not known an instance of prisoners having suffered after action; but several of them being brought into the nation and treated with humanity-- a striking contrast this, to the barbarous murders committed last summer, by the Georgians, on the unfortunate Cushaws."