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Government. The Creeks never had till this year a national government & Law. Every thing of a general tendency was left to the care & management of the public agents, who heretofore used temporary expedients only & amongst the most powerful & persuasive was the pressure of fear from without & presents. The attempt in the course? of the last & present year to establish a national council to meet annually to make general regulations for the welfare of the nation promises to succeed. The laws passed at the first meeting to punish thieves & mischief makers has been carried into effect in a few instances where the personal influence of the Agent for Indian Affairs was greatly exerted. On a trying occasion the chiefs were called on to turn out the Warriors & the punish the Leaders of the banditti who insulted the Commissioners of Spain & the United States on the 17th September. After this was repeatedly urged & the Agent agreed to be responsible for all the consequences, the Chiefs turned out the Warriors & executed the law on the leader & a few of his associates, in an exemplary manner. While this transaction was fresh in the minds of the Indians, the Agent for Indian Affairs convened the National Council, & made a report on the state of the nation to them, accompanied with his opinion of the plan indispensably necessary to carry the laws of the nation into effect. The Council after mature deliberation, determined that the safety of the nation was at stake; that having a