The Kentucky gazette — Lexington [Ky.], 1792-04-07 00:00:00, page 2

Concluded from our lad
AT th:s peiioJ under thefe cir
'cumilsncer and fubjefl to this conven
tional agreement anJ accommodation
of the inter elled parties was I unani
mous elcfted bp thefe eenlemen
amlllionijly invited to the acceptance
of this important but difficult office
Soon after this unanimous choice was
ratified by the mafs of the company
The appointment with a’l irs ha
zards were ultimitetv accepted of by
me and my c'tniniffi ii had been
mide out in am ie diplomatic fern
under which (with unrevokeJ pow
eit) I dill aft as ‘General not
for a part— but for the whilt Compa
ny My exertions mv pafimnv
my arrangements and my addiets in
the difeharec of the arduous bufinefi
I undertook are graphically applau-
ded and thanked bvle'te'f now
vifible- Irom the foard-and my fru
gality as to my piiva:e expences held
in honor
The goods and thefr proceeds com
- mi ted to Col Holder's care wee at
this time made over to ihe
Company- and ihe Co mpany afium
ed and equally divided their lofi a
- urellas theirpiofi’s They a e expit (T-
- ly mentioned as tht Company's and ai'
at the Company's jalnt rifqut in my
commisfion in mv general irftruftions
-mvfecet inlbuftiona and in all the
fubiVquentriSciai and credential
communications' of iheHoard There
' any man may fee Nor Maj Sn’pcs
nor any othei member of the Compi
ny had in iheir individual capacties
(as far as my documents from the com
pany will go) any thing to do with
-that cargo or its proceeds after rh'S
period- They were alTumed by the
whole company as a parmf char gene
V ral and common fund or (lock which
was intended for liquidating all ex
pepec incurred by the fettlement— —
and Jii fuch Iiecoaervd as fuch I
held and yer ho!dr and as fuch (unim-
paired untouched and unified) have
Iilepofitedat Frankfort that remnant 4
of the good which had beCrt furren
dered to me by Col- flolder and keep
fubjefttomy difpofai by fpecial in
dorfements the indrument which isto
make good the remainder of them
frum that gentleman
lhave now continued upwards of
two yeai fli the cwhoany's fervice
— end-al-thgheadif all their weftern af
fairs as Agent General - with pow- '
es undirt oifbed and unrecalled-—
With reiterated thanks for my efforts—
and without the intimation of one fyt
labletrum the proprietory hoaidihat
their right of common propen y in the
goods had been tkansfeed alienated
or altered — their Uft communica
tion" having only direfted me to fuf
fer the fettlement of the7 company 1
territory to lie by— until their re
fpeftfve contributions and refourcca
(hall have been called in and properly
funded for thd ulterior prog'efi of that
bufinefi The goods and other pro
perty of the company in my hands
ere likewife liable to other claims as
Jegally obligatory as jhofeof the very
proprietors I have large claim on
lieo-myfdf (Giuaced as ibcii&ffaiii
aftually are thro M Springs ope
rationr) for'lervices infairfiel ft un-
- paid— fur my'comm Ci jrson'h’rrre
covery— and for thofe untune fled en
gagements which 1 have entered into
ftr ike Company- -cla ms which I ne
ver mean to relinqu fh— cla ms to fe
cute -which I now propufe to keep
what of the Company rr rf any in
dividual of the Cmjipa'ny’s eCYcls re
main In my hands until all o( hem
fit 11 have heenexonea’eJ and every
Individual 1 have thus engaged with
fully (a-isfied and I I tuft that all
men and every peifon with me mtc
refted in particular' will lend their
-honed aid m fupnof r me My only
1 e four fiiallhe'oiiielaws of my coun
try and mv appeal to be lentiments
of all good then wtb wilt impartially
place Micmfclves in my fitOitKip In
my effoi’i 10 do this— ! fh all pnferve
a me a fined piuJciceand itic tTenfive
piogiefiion For ihe Company for
myfe'f and for thofe whom I havb
coni raffed wih in hehali cf my con
fiiUe’'ist ftali fei'u'ouflv labour to
"thelaft- Should the lws of 'he land
find me In il 'e wiong (wha'aslam
advifed eannotbe the cafe) I 0 all
peaceably and wih an cderly de
" ponment o! mi 10 rhe fiar of juftice
Thee claim alone feven bad my pow
ers of Acercy been revoked) would
- Jurt'fv me In the me-fu:e For nre'O
aft othei wife in rhe p-efcm cr’fis--I “
' (honld be un'fghteis to others and
a Felt air ft 10 myfefi- Thofe who
held- or do ho:d n of my own or
of the cnmpany’a property in ehfk
'country did anddoftifi hold itfub
)eft to my order— to the order a
lone oi jrm whb had placed inhere
anJer under tome’ iismii order
or puwer (at I am told) ficm Major
Snipes or Gen Huge' or ho b ok
tHbni has Mr Spring coilufively ob
tamed pofftflion of the remnant ok
rmuarvs goods our of tht
hands of Mr Alexandef of trank
fort in whofe cae I left them — and
’ this (as Alexander telli me) by advice
of the gen'lemen under whofe roof
they had by me been confidentially
depnfi ed To me the then legal
po(Teff-r no application was made
ho order piefen'ed or f-om ihe Com
pany or even from Mefiis Snipes uc
Hugei f r their funerder Thislr
renular mode of cundnd has on the
full afpeft of the piocredmg a veiy
"daiKl'glonmy and fufWciout-fcauiie
But it all gvents the goods ought
not to have been thus clandeftinelf
- and furreptitiouflv garbled up -v-bea
foie hey had paid theta Quarentine
-befoie 'bey had hbndtanlv purged
themfelvcs of the comm filons ando
I her dams writing on their recovery
’Ihe Comnany as fuch would never
aft fj The mafs of them aiewife
honouhle and judicious I afted
not in this manner by Coll Holder
: 1 was ordered by the board to have
allowed him for hit cbm millions and
trouble and 1 liberally did fo 1
would fcorn to do othcryrifa The
- manner of feizng the goods has been
unpiecedenred Aconfideiablepot
don of the Company's goods have (as
mr Alexander iefoims me) beta
ly -snfj and liberally gifted awiy fa prt
fo foon as they had been ibyi
furirndeied— and ftr what this wan
Ion wade f Their amount ard invoi
ces as coming out of M’Cleod and
Company's S'uie and as in pan fur
-been rendeted 10 me by Col Holder have
rut iA cetnptny (and not by
Mefli Snipes 01 Huger) into my bands
—and they yet icma-mheie HuW
come all this If the Company hadpof
TcfleJ no piopeny in them? it is a
myfieiy inexplicable Irt 'this eaily
fiage of the bufinefs I fliallnotjndei
unfeemlnglyof any ratty concerned
Time will unfold the fecret and du
ly ppiy it
Had the company direfted me to
furrender the propei iy I hid been
po defied ol an their errsunf 10 Ms
Snipes or to ary ipm— could I pof
Iiby have rrfufed' their Older after
having fi ft fecuied my own claims a
tairfi them for er mm fliors if fo in
clined— for my pad fc'victs fill un
prd— and for indemnification of ail
thrfe I had on their accoun's engag
ed with 7 1 could not ’Ihii right
cf coveting them and of fecunng my
own petfonal dams (even al hough
my co miflion had been revoked)
- yet remains legally in me— no mat
er hee the goods exifis or maybe
fecieted— ard this riht wdl le sf
fcited My fi’tiariofaas the Compa
ny's old frivaht would othciwifele
pitlfbld — -and the board ror only
unjufli bur uhgra'tFul "But the Com
panv as fuch ran have no urgetie
-tons defien of 1 hjs kind This jetty
piece f bufinefi feme to have bub
furtively fianraAed— tranfafted in the
dark— and unknown to the Compa
ny It was tranfafted furtively and
in the dak-or finely the Company
would have writen fomething to m
- on the fiibjeft for my goverrmem &
officially Inform me: 1 bar their right
had been ie!inqu:Oicdto Maf Solpes
But Mr Syrrlng Anew er vu ttvght
fa knur that wi'houtfuch intimauow
from 1 he board he goods (houldhave
never been fat rendered on an Older
or power of Attorney from one or two
(out of twenty) of (he Company X
would not anfwef for the faetmsUty
of the ferrender My own claims
as welt ss thofe if heneft per font I
bad entered into engagements with
and yet pending in behalf of theccm
pany accelerated tbemeifiiie Tbefe
additional claims of mine would like
wife prove unfinmountable bats to the
defigoed projefts of dindeftine pofiefli-
on A ttgufar mode of getting at the
goods was therefore deemed jmpof
fible Nothing regular waa done
no form obferved —no cuftumary
meafure adopted Ic fs therefore
that felt-piefervation eorft rains me
(as the law fully authorizes jne) to
letain afrer all that Mr Sptlrg and
andh's principals have done what is
now Idt in my hands not only of
tba company’s property but of indi
vlduals'of the company yunnl fuch
time a my private demands and pub
lic official engagements for them (hall
have been fully fatisfied and compli
edwith 1 owe this 10 niyfelfi I
owe ft "id alT thofc I