The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-02

In place of contracting with French peafantry
to purchafe the Ohio lands, the only clafs of
people whom they would have fuitcd; he con-
trived to perfuade about twelve hundred of the
lower clafs of Parifisns. competed Of BARRIERS,
hddlers, and bakers, aud iuch as he knew were
leaft acquainted with agriculture, to take flares
at fifty guineas each for which they were to
receive fpecified number of acres and their
patiage to America. Having embarked this
motley aud frivolous company on board ofthree
seiiels bound for Alexandria Playfair pocket
ed their money and fet off FOR England, leaving
Joel Barlow to account to his employers for the
purchafe money, and the Frenchmen to feek
for the acres where they comid be found.-The
unhappy Foreigners landed at the defined port.
and were conducted by perfon of the name of
lie Turck to the mouth of the Kenhawa. In
fead Of rich fields and vineyards, which thew
had figured to their Imagination, they found
thcmielves in the midi of immeafurahle woods,
expoird to the inroads of the f,vages and to the
wants OF nature. Discouraged with their fitua-
ton and feeling no other profpett more ffatter-
ing, the greater number embarked for New-Or-
leans, and Tins d(concerted the original views
of the company.
Returning from this difgrefIion to General
Wilkinfon, we flal next confider his agency in
the confpiracy, until the death of Gen. Wayne,
in 100. General Waihincton being convinced
eX'tence of Spaniih afIociation in Kentucky,
and OF the frength of the party, adopted
policy which may be cenfured by few, but
winch, owing TO the circumstances Of the times,
was certainly the mott prudent which he could
purdue, after the committee of enquiry il Con-
grefs had quaihed the nveftigaton. He ap-
pointed Wilknfcn, in l79l, TO colone's com.
milton at Fort Wilmington. under Gen. Wayne;
having inftrneted Gen. Wayne, of his char
as al
bic endeavour to procure all documents which
would tend to deveope the plans of the con-
ipira,ors. The correfpondence between Waih-
ineton and Wayne on the fuhjeet, with all the
documents which Wayne procured, and which
fufflcicntly explain the views of the affocation,
we are informed are now in the poTeiIion of the
Ion of Gen. Wayne, viz. Ifaac Wayne, Efu.
attorney at law, in Chelter county, Pennlylva-
MIA.
The enmity which Wi!kiuf,n and his friends
bore to the citizens of Kentucky, who oppofed
their views, cannot he better ufrated, than
by citing the death of the unfortunate Col. H4r-
din. This brave officer and patriotic citizen
had uniformly oppofed the views of Gen. Viii
kinfoD, and was mott active in detetfin the
ichemes otthe con!pirators. Toget rid of fuch
y formidable opponent, was, therefore, the
garnet with ofthe party. Charges of cowar-
dice were purpoftly whfpered abou, and pre-
fered againf him, particularly by Gen. Wikin-
fNn, who publicly arr9igned his conduct under
Gen. Harmer. An occalion afterwards occur.
red, which gave Wkinfon, as he fad, an op-
portunity ofpu.tinE Hardin's hrav,rv to the
teh. treaty was required to he effected with
the Indian tribes, and IVknion fixed upon
Hardin for this purpofe, TO carry hag of truce
from Cincinnati to the Sandulki villages, with.
out adopting any previous means o. apnrizing
the iavages of the peaceable intentions of Ken
fucky. The event was, as might have been ey-
petted poor Hardin was m7facred by the fra
p7rtyhe met and thus WAS powerful obficle
to the views of the Kentucky a(Tociation, trea-
cherouilv and bafty removed.
circnmftance happened in the fall of 1873,
which afforded the people the firft proofs of the
importation of Spanifh gold among the party.
This was the murder of a man ofthe name of
carrying from the Spanifl governor at New.
Orleans, the fun of fix thoufand dollars in fpe-
Gle, to Wiknfon. The crew, who were four
Spanilh folders, after killing Owens, made tn eir
elcape but two OF them were taken and bro't
before judge lnnis, who remanded them to
Gen. Wilkinfon, then at Fort Warrington,
The latter, although the murder was commit
ted within the American territories attcmpted
to return the prifoners to 6iozo at Na.chez.
But major Doyle, who commanded at Fort Maj
lac, knowing his duty, took them into cuftody,
and ordered them for Lexington, where they
underwent trial, but were acquitted, from the
want ct iu!ticent evidence. The particulars of
the 'x thoufand dollars were, however. fully
authenticated on the trial; which would never
have been heard IF, if the murderers had not
been carried TO Lexington; and he concealmen,
mott probably WiIkinfon's motive for or
dering them TO New. Orleans. Gen. Wafh;nc-
ton having been informed of the circumfance.
demanded an explanation from Wilkinfon. who
IN vIndicati alIcdged, that the fix thoufand
dollars were fent as tomprnfation from the
Spanilh government to him for the trouble he
had taken and the expsnce he had incurred in
ehabh'hIng tobacco trade between Kentucky
and New-OrIeans. That he had prefented to
the SpanI''i court a memorial for that parDoGe.
letting forth that his loifcs were equivalent 10
twenty thoufand dollars, and the tx tbourand Of
which he had been robbed were the ONLY remu.
neration yet granted
The importation Of another conGderable fun
to the party in 1906, was afcertained nv the
oflcer tent by General WAYNE to take po(T.f.
non or the Spsniih forts Of Walnut Hills. Nat
chez and Chck7faw Bluffs, in corfeoncnce of
an agreement TO that effect entered into he
tween Gen. Wayne and the Baron de Coron.
duhfe, Governor General Of Louifiana. The
latter had agreed that they fhoud be delivered
up IN Octoher, 1898, in confrqrence of which
captain - was ordered to take ponefion.
IN defending the Ohio he fell in with Alfred
SebaitIan, a fon Of judge Seballian, and At pre-
lent an officer under Wilhinfon. This Young