The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

INTERESTING.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman, dated at Fort Wilkinson on the frontiers of Georgia, the 27th of July, 1801, to a correspondent in Philadelphia.

"I left Col. Hawkins's establishment, near Tookaubatchee, on the 19th inst. The Col. was in very ill health, being much afflicted with the gout. He being one of the Commissioners lately appointed to treat with the Southern Indians, had just received notice to be at S.W. Point, state of Tennessee, on the first of August, to meet the other Commissioners, Gens. Davie and Wilkinson, and intended setting off for that purpose on the 22d, three days after I left him.

"Bowles's vessel which arrived from Providence in April, was before it had finished discharging its cargo, compelled to cut cable and clear itself. He still continues to give the Indians assurances, or rather to make them promises, that his other vessels will shortly arrive. He and his associates are in a state of starvation, and still keep on the Spanish side of the line.

"About the last of June, a British ship of war sailed over the bar of Pensacola Bay, took a brig laden with flour, fired at the fort at the Barranco, and sailed off unmolested with its prize. The consternation of the Spaniards in the town of Pensacola on this occasion was great; some fled to the fort, whilst others were preparing to take to the woods.

"The Indian reports at Cowetaulauhau were, that the firing of cannon had been heard towards St. Marks and St. Augustine, which gave hopes to some of them that Bowles's vessel had arrived; but the large majority of the nation are of opinion that they had better mind their farms and hunting, and leave the white people to fight their own battles. They continue to make settlements nearer the state of Georgia; this year they are making corn at several places on the Flint river, which, several years ago, through dread of the white people, they had deserted, and which, in consequence of the fertility of the soil and the good understanding that has subsisted between them for a few years past, they have been induced to settle.

"The Citizens of Georgia are very anxious for an extension of Territory. The magnetic charm of the "promised land," has drawn to the frontiers, people from all parts of the United States, some of whom this year have had the boldness to violate the intercourse laws, by planting on the Indian side of the line, which must be immediately put a stop to, or we shall forfeit the friendship of these injured people."