"j-ct. you fay, 4 '..That-when after a mixed an J difultory
converfation upon various fubje&s, you had collected
and methodized your ideas,' andcommitted them to
writing, my anfwer and obfervations ought to have
been confined to the written communicatiou." This
obferVation, fir, is inaccurate.
It may, however, be applied to a former part of
. your letter. ::You fay , that in out conference on the
27th of Febnvary,"e"M0P' 't0 mc the railing of
men at Montreal that your informer faw them
paftRToug
Tim aggfft8''''Mu treated wmriTOrTrw-lffaMiTTiag-tions
concerninii an expedition preparing on, the lakes.
But in your letter of the 2d. of March, , 'ir. which
you were " to colled and methodize your ideas' on
the fubjccY of your fufpicions, you do not introduce
one of thofe fufpicions : of courfe, on your own prin
ciples, I ought, if they ever , had, been mentioned, to
have confidered them as nullities.
In the 8th paragraph of your letter, you obfervc
that my proof obtained from Mr. Ellicott's mell'cn
gers, that he did not attempt to get polTefliort of the
Nar-he Torti)vjfurDrize. is inerelv neffative. I of-
- - --- r (t
fered it only as fuch. But the negative tefttmony of
TwTTneiTeT"
-jmcere. likt-ty ,tq,'be acquainted with, if it gxiIUdv and
whofc exiitence other circilmllances rendered impro.
bable, and the aflertion of wliicK is inihgled wuh af-
Telnl!7hyffiy
conhderatiori. T here is, h9wever, further evidence
applicable to this cafe. In the letter dated-, at the
Natchez the 5th of May, from Lieutenant Pope to
Governor Gayofo, you will fee that the Governor had
made the like accufation azainft, the Lieutenant. ' A
gentleman had informed him (the Governor ) tint the
Lieutenant intended to attack the garrifon at that
!Jl'"x' . -nt Pope, iuilly hart by the ground-
leu allertion) uetireB the in a-,.. ... !
required to acquit bimfclf or his afTertion,. or, be pu
nilut'd as a falfe accufer.. The Governor's anfwer the
next day, fpeaka of the information as communicat
ed to Lieutenant Pope in familiar converfation ; and
,,add.s, . that, the informer was to be difpifed. YctT4rom
" the pointed manner in which Lieutenant Pobe made
the demand, it is evidtnt that the information was pre
ftnted to him as a. ferious accufation. After this detail.
will it not be cunjeCUii ed, that the Governor's " do
cuments" reflecting Mr. Ellicott's ' attempt", are of
a piece witlihis familiar conversation wjtb Lieut?
rope concerning his " intended attack J" ....
in the 9th paragraph of your letter, you fay ilia t
V after having difcuffed the hiltory -of thefe traiifactions,
'with all the force and accuracy which rcfult from thefe
obfervations, I alTure, with a very ill grounded conn
deuce, that upon a view of the whole it appears, that
Jiia jnajeity's-goyernors, on the Miffifippi iave op.va
rious pretences, poftpoHed the running of the bounda
ry line and the evacuation of the polls." I mull here
alfo complain of mifir prefentation. I did not in my
report draw my conclufions from the hiltory of thefe
tranfacrions-r-that is, of the tranfaclioris 1 which you
have previoufly mentioned in your letter, and which T
, feave already noticed in this anfwer :'but " Upou a
view of the whole correfpondencc then'and "before fub
uiitted to the Preiident"''' This correfpondence I will
now! examine, to fee whether thet caufes afligned by
the. Spanifli goverhorsr-,for poftponing the running of
the boundary line and evacuating tfye polls, merit the
name of rcafons, or of pretences . '
Governor Gayofo being informed of Mr. Ellicott's
defee'nding the Mifiifippi, wrote tO-him on the 27th of
February, dciuing hi'm to leave his cfcort at-Bayon
Pierrr-Q'TOilesorettearcht -Yet-the treaty
prefctibed a military efcort on each fide, to attend the
commiflioners in running the bouudaryline and the
Natchez as the; place of their firlt meeting. The
chiefTrafo
" milunderllandings,'' might ar'ife between them.
Yet itSfc "treaty required their coming together to at
tend the corrvii.iiBoners when they were, jointly running
the boundary line. And the oidy feafon 'the. gover
nor affigned.for, not evacuating the poits, was "The,
wanof velfeis," but which he, expedited would Toon
arpve.
latter eo J of April, after the arrival of Lieutenant
Pope arid his troops at thgNatchez. - " The evacii.
ation (fays he) ; appeared! tc be 'going on witlt great
life ; when all at once the military Itorcs were ordered
back, their troops bulily engaged all nigl'tc taking
back and remounting the canuonTOTHere eVery
naturally exprelfes his furprife 14 Tin's kind of con
duct (fays he) appeara drange' ,,
March i$d, the Qovenior mentions that orders had
been eiven by the eeDeral in chief of ttt niovJnfcc. to
w , w ' , ' '
demolifli the polls at the Walnut Hills becaufc their
ofo) had fince been informed of their unfettled dilrJo
iitioris; he had ft lit counter 6f
tifications being injured fugVelting at the fame, time
that the moving of the ftores, Sec. was fufpehded only
until the arrival of the American troops to take pof
feffion of the polli. """" ;r''
In this letter the Governor informs Mr. tllicott
that lieutenant colonel Guillemard was far on his way
up ; and on his arrival, the running of the boundary
line mould begin. The governor adds this affuraiice
" that ther'e is nothing that can prevent the religious
compliance with t he treaty."
On the "2 8th aiid ioth of Sfarch, Governor Gayofo
iffued two-proclamations both" bearing da.tq Uie atjtfay
taking new ground for retaining the polls, viz Until
tlie right of the inhabitants 0 the real property js af
certained; TheGcnrtnroH'tplcafcd ttiw
was then cariyiric: on
Q theph'&fiFruark
ivii. luicott uxei on trie lour or iviarcn 10.
dovvn the' rivei to CWrkfville, near which it wa's fup':
pofed the homui.iry line would cammence. ,
On the 9th of March Governor Gayofo informed
'Mr. ElliGott that the Baron de Carondelet could not
attend the running of the,line in perfon, and that the
whole bnfiifefs haj,,develo"pedon h ini, the governor ;
but he feard fie Ihould not be ready on the 19th. And
then he endcavuurts.1 to draw Mr. Ellicott fronv his"
propeTl!aT
the. Baron; at New-Orleans, . "
MJinvh-iatli; the" GoVfr
endeavoured lttr
riibr agauv
draw Mr. Ellicott from the Natchez, and recommend
ed Loftus' ClifTs near Clarkfville as the point of rs
uniting ; and by way of induceineflt, faid that the
geometer and 01 her officers to be "employed on the
boundary line would Hop at-Clarkfville. - -
On the.-15th. of March, the principal part of tlie
artillery was taken out of the fort, and every appear-
Spain & the United Statis, to fee u re to the iiaabitants
of the Natchez the. rijfht to their real property ; that
that right- could not be lecurei? but by
3fl additional or
tide to the late treaty ; and that he mould keep pof
feflion of the'eountry until that article flidnld be offi
cially communicated to him ; and until they were fure
that the Indians would be pacific "This tail reafon
pafticulatly warrants my afTertion- that the gover
nor meant tor an indefinite period to avoid the' evacua
tion of the polls ;.'-lor-'wbttfratribe. of; -Jjidtans.-iCJtilU-d
in that quarter, the governor's qould, not he fure that
they would be pacifici And-as to their real property,
feeing the great body of the inhabitants appear not
to delrrt ttie patronage of the Spanim gf)V.c7nmeirt to j
iecure-it : As the government of the United States
mull be at leaft as anxious as that of Spain to protect
the inhabitants in Ureir rightSj wlu-n heconc citizeiib.
of the United States : I belitve there can be no difii
cult y in deciding whether thi s ia a reafon or a "pre
tence, llclides, the negociat.'on mentior ed .hy.thc go
yemor abont the real property of the inhabitahVs, has
never e::i!led ; nor even been propefed or hinted,
either to or by the governiTieiit of the UniteflrStates".
I ioopd therefore) if will not be tu emed harfii, or uii
becomiirg in a letter of this kind, to fay, that this mo
tive for fufpending the evacuation of ihe polls that
a negocfation was trien on loot to 'ecuie the real pro
perty of the inhabitantsdoes not merit the title even
of a pretence. , J ',',......,', '..,.....-.,...
So foon as the governor discovered trint liis procla- 1
mations, HUlead of quieting the. minds of the inhabi
tants produced a contrary effect, he fent two gentle
men of the fettlement to inform Mr. Ellicott J hat he,
the governor, had received directions . from the': Karon-
de. Carondelet to have the artillery and military ucres
expeditiouily removed from the fotts, which were to
be gifren up to the troops of the' United StattS imme
diately on their atrival. As this information did not
remove fufpicions, Mr. Ellicott wrote the eovernor on
the 3 flVof March, atind iH-rj'iift3161' . wJhlcb
(lill kept thpfe fufpicions alive; The governor an
ftverecl oh the fame day in du-eft contradiclion to the
information given by the gentlemen, his agents, to
Iltcotf , attd (Sohtirming. ,tbe declaration's MH&e'xt
his proclamation's. . He added' alio a new , motive or
rctaimn'gthc poftsjviThat' the treaty 'eft it doiiEtfvfl
whether, befl' the polts. thould be evacuated the
wwkrwtre-ta be-k
"wnc1efntrtg"whTcin
obliged to confult ,his Catholic majefty ; and hid giv
en the eovemor pofitive . orders to fu'fpend lhc evaeti-
. A rr - M . r . ' i tit ' , '
ations ot tne poits until ttie matter mould oe amicaoty
fettled between the two governments. , ;? -
Oh the id of May,, another rflot(ve( lVafl&gned for re
taining the poll sTFie Ciixpy of his Catholic majefty
itf the United States had informed the governor jgene-.''
ral of an 'attack propofed a'gaifill the Spaniih part of
Illinois (the upper part of JLouifiana) by the Briti'fh
fr6ni Canada, and,UHGrefore,jhe p61l&.at-the
Hills and the Natchez mull t;e kept for the defence. of
lower Louidaua. :
This lafl motive is alfb offered as a reafon why, the
running of the boundary Iineis poltpo'ned; as all their
attention was drawn towards the defence'of the pro
vince, againft an invatibn whicn, as I have already
mown,' was never contemplated. v .-j, ' -
Jj'IV-aJlhcfe (zCiiy'l have taadd the decfaratTon of
GcitJWdkinfon, hi hi3 lettei; of June id, to the feJ
PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) C ci v
We are autho'Viled by a coricfpondent to 'fay,
l!TJiat a fcwdays pievious to. the-1 ribaJkatitrr,of
S A NT HON AX from St. Ucrru'iigo", a r.un.ber of A-
inericans, merchants and captains, ligncd a llatteiing"
"addrtfs i to htm of thariks for his particiiTar and kiiid
atttnt.ion to the Americans in general, tor the benefit
tbey Ji"ad.derJWd
abilities. This rafcah'y petition was figged by twenty
ftlf atknowledgtd Amtricans, who by thisacl the
gieater part may be called ljdtcj
and by luch elleemcd by the few remaining hoi. ell A
meiicans. The addiefs was. wrote J n Fit rich, and pte
fented to the Americans to figh, by Mr. Wilfon (Bar
ney's Agent) fuppofed to be prppofed by Santhbnax.
;,We learn that Santhonak carried with him, frcm
St. Dorningo, Five Millions flerliiig, in cafh.
Aru'ved here the brig Brothers, Captt Kennavd, irt
23 days from Grenada, who has handed Us the follow
ing for publication. .
Capt.; Kennard, of theA brig Brothers, on his paf
fage form Grenada to Portfroouth, (N.'H.) in lat. i
19, 20, N long. 63, 307 W. Sept. 1 3, was boarded
-by--a4'ia-r-ivf'ccr fclwonier) one caulage gunjj 30
rtien, 6 whites," the reft, coloured ; under Engliih co-40orsy-btitaftcrwraTd8.
hoifted .French. They fjffrauT"
ately carried Capt. Kennard,'with two of his people,
on board the fchooner there the Capt ainijf. the pi
iJalcsfo negroes ta - llrip Capt.K. whiclv-tbeydidKA'Eiji
mirtV while the .Kft flood with naked fwords at hia
breaft, threatentd him if he made any lefiflance. They
lObWtl him of his pocket bnolC containing: fciUs of :
exchange to the ambuht .of I350I. and feveral other
papers of conftderable .value, took his watch from his '
pocket, but that they returned with great leluclan'ce,
abufing him to the laft degree, telling him "that they
would fet fucyto his brig if he did not tell where his
-money was. While that was doing, about 8 or 10
of Thepifaffe
ed every neceiTary article they could put their hands on,
took froro the cabin 3 or 4 dozen of wiiie : arid "porter,""
1, Cafe fpirits, abott 1 2lb, ; fugarand fome "coffee which
waTall '2apta-Jn"'ltt'had ; the 'kfatiTBcggrn.lhem to
be honourable enough to leave them part , but to no
pUrpofc ; they alfo took forne crockery waie, the
Captain's quadrant, which he fet great (lore by, the
mate's daily afillleut,. and fundry other articles, link
ing the mate 00 the breaifT and poijitiW their fwoidj
at binrrif- . ( " '
.They bkewife took out of the bri 1 barrel of
beef,; i do.. biead,;.2..c:dlc6 of. water, 2 ceils of rope,
1. Coil ratline, 1 bundle of points, t hammer, 1 plainj
I hand pump, giniblets, tiails of different kinds, rfee
ral blocks, feveral hooks.and, thimbles 1 royal, 1 i1eer
ing-fail-boom, balls of fpu'n- yam, hmp black, firi
wood, &c. &.c They robbed fap.tain Kenuard's peo
ple of fome fca ftort s and clothes ; fiich piiatical pio
ceeduigs thele . vilhiinswere guilty ofv ......y i. .1.
By this lime: it growing dark they ordered the
remaining crew on boardthe brig toaffift thcm in hoiH
ing oni the' long boat, threatening them with inflant
death if they, offered to refnfe., ( They unbent the
img Vmain top
together with all their plunder ) at 8 o'clock in the
evening they, gave the Captain his. two people, and
they "cameon board; bi3,?vtflM; in a -diftreffing fituationl
The compliment fro'i UieirTwas--- Dam"y.Qilr-Firp-fident,
Congiefi, aiid all America, for making a treaty
wireat-Jitain., x-.j . d
Capt. Kennard hoiffed in his boat with adeal pf
trouble,' and f proceeded on his, paffage to lament hiV
crtiel'tife.: v - ' .-:v;".. - v ;
Jyathantel Kennard, rtiqler,
H'trm Cqflin, mates
zm Cole, feaman.
ncr-:L'',::i rHU'tn : rr" ..r :"i,ni.'i
Theecir6f ViH
ij confirmed by letters from Guadalqupei.
idor Hughes, in May lad, demanded of the Go
vernor of. the Havanna; the 'liberation of Mr. Muirj
the perfecuted Caletlonian, but he had previoiifly fail.
1 ed for Spain.. . , . v- : . "
Subfcriptions for. the relief of the poorof Philadel
phia are carnellly folicited by the ComroifTioners, who
have;aheady expended ihe 1 o.oco 66hrs granted by"
the legiflatare. ';v ''We .hope the citizens of Bofton will
not forget the fufFcring-iiihabitaiit ;
but that a fubfeription will be opened this day for .,
their relief.
crctary -"f war- " 1 have (fays he) informatforf thro.J
a contidential cnahnef, that it was determined as early
as September laft, not to give up the polls oil the'Mif-ftTipfti.-"
If thia. information he correct, no other proof
"is' neceiTary to (Tiew thata?! the reaf'on9 fromtTme to
time fugelled for not evacuating the pofttf vcre mere
prtttnees. " .-.
us "e conttnuca tn our J
NEW-YORK, Oaober 14.
The following afraieinents, we are infornicd, are"
made for the reception of the Prcfident of, the Unit
ed StatfSj vvho is expected in town onMoiday next
Brigadier-General Hughes, with ,two troops of
liiitriVi flip xi.flirrtr h rif f t? a A t aim, Gitrt.tii T iC -
"anrre niadr- uf afjjfedy evaenstron ;' "bttt on 2H7fticy
were carried bac1 "to ' the4 fort " and immediately
ictaouatcd. - A pHiiiar moYCiauit -tcyk-pbic it the
A Vkriery of BLANKS fo'r.falcat the
back and iti carriaffes, will leave Hnnters hotel at
half pad n?ne o'eloek, and proceed tohe bridge-at-
Haerlem, whete they wdl receive Jhe rretident on : K
-hiVfirft-arrival in the-cotrnty, and-will efcort him to'l
the city. ,' m
The grenadiers and infantry of the brigade .under
the cpmm'and of Colonel Morton will be ilatiohed at A
nhrittTijsTTtirarhiif
rival of the Prefident the troops will wheel by pla .
toon's, and theproceffion will, mo.ve down Broadway;