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-BRITISH OFFICERS AND SPANISH PATRIOTS.PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 3.We have taken some pains to ascertain the precise slate of circumstances in the case of the ten Britisn officers on Friday committed for trial, by the judges of, the Circuit Court now in session ; and offer the following outline as one which we beiieve may be relied on as far as it goes. Colonel John D. Needham, captain John D. Perkins, captain J. IT Holland, (apt.—Ferrier,lieutenants Richard Stacey, James Stacy and Charles Webster ; Surgeon Robert Fry, Serjeant-Major Benjamin Parkcs, and Frederick Beix, said to be a Cossaque Nobleman, arc the persons implicated in the alleged misdemeanors. The substance of the charge was, that they made arrangements last summer in Brussels to combine and create a regiment of Cavalry with which to join the Patriots in South America. With this design they embarked at Antwerp on board the American ship Parnasso and arrived at New-London a few weeks ago. From there they came to Philadelphia and took their passages on 'board the brig Ellen of tais port, which vessel cleared out last week for Surinam. They were accompanied by John Williams and Peter Hogan, who were to have served in the capacities of Serjeants or Commissaries, and by whose information to the Spanish Consul, the intended expedition was discovered and interrupted. It appeals that
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Lexington Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Kentucky, US
Sat, Nov 29, 1817
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