The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-02
FROM THE WESTERN WORLD.
TIE Kentucky Sbani6 A95ciatiov. Bionrf5 Cor
Lpir0C, and General Miyaada' 5 expedition.
MO


gwen OF the commencement Of the fra of thefc
traltorous fchencs, has, we expected, drawn
!, upon us the avowed enmty of fsveral indiviiu.
ais, who, although not named BY us, vet con-
fclous of the part they acted in the negotiation
with Gardoquc, felt their minds routed 70 the
memory OF guilt and the b!ackrft treafou. But
1t is with the mott lively fatisfa6tion we learn.
that we have received in general the thanks of
o'lrfeilow citizens, AVID profcrs Of the war,nelt
Rapport in the arduous TX we have undertaken.
or dragging before the public the enemies Of
oar country whether guarded nv the enfyps
OF military power, reclined at cafe in manfons
erected upon Spani!h brides, or protected by the
feat of iultce.
1t was our intention and is fill our deiign, Ia
touch merely upon thcfe characters who are
aht"luielv necelTarv to be named, in order TO
explain the hitory OF this confDracy. We were
inclined TO allow many others, equally guilty.
10 pats the remainder OF their profituted DAYS
unnoticed believing thar the recollection of
! The early period of their life being devoted to
irard and treafon. would in the deciiue OF aye he
lttelt iuificient punihment.
bus whenever any individual, relying uoon
ms wealth, upon the fuppefrd refpetiabity of
ms Character, noon the imaginary Influence he
J mas among the citizens of the fate, or upop IN.
more FENDER protection of venerable t.eport.
ment, volunteers himfelf TO be called forward
let hm recoleSt, that Kentucky is no, vet a
opanih province that We have neither dukes.
m"qu'ies, or dons among us, to confign au-
thors To the dungeons of the inouiition, or Cend
Pr,nfers in chains to the row-gaeys
80 = s; i'se odisnIr, ii mis- reaIon had
ever Trfen 10 par with his pafIions, would
nave ierlou'ly reflected upon thefe circumfan-
cee, before he pronounced a few DAYS lince his
nh'iipP'c againG the editors of the WeRern
world. Ii his prudence had not entirely de-
ierted nm, he would have remembered the
od vulgar proverb; " Tb2je qv5o -Iizv in el9G,
D''fe5 ought NOT TO tbr0zv tones" He would
'aVc recoeeted the name of the gentleman who
was appointed by the oonfprators their e,n-
"'iNoner at tbe court Of Madrid and nnt frri
Gully would he have pondered on that part of ,
toalt given at Frankfort the Fourth of iniv Il:
" 1b9fe J14dses Of tie kentucky courts, evboi.
integrity bas merer been Rained By SbaniD go!d."
win this niemento TO judge SebaRian, we
now proceed with aur narration. After Gener-
al warrington was acquainted by Coll MdrhaII
with the feveral particulars of he propoCal mad.
oy Gardoque and Col. Connolly, and the pames
OF their partitans ia Kentucky, he caufed Dr..
S.ewars OF Alexandria, the fon-in-law of Mrs.
w abingdon, to addrefs letter to the {nea.er
OF the hcufe of representatives on the fnh;.fl
Il committee of enquiry was in coniequence
agents. but the artfa maRpeE Wish
aiioci1tion in Congrefs, we decline mentioning,
tween General Wilmington and Col. Marfha,i,
with Dr.. Stuar's letter and the fpeaker's an
liver, which we are in hopes of having before
our hiaory of the confpiracy be concluded.
On ConoIly's arrival in Canada, the celebrat
ed General Bowles, then at Montreal, was FIX
ed upon by lord Dorchefter. as the mott pro
per perion TO carry his fchsme into execution
In Kentucky and the wcftsrn territory Under
the fictitious name Of Drummond, he came in
to Kentucky in the fall of 1879 Raid frveral
weeks ar Lexington and Loui.v;lle, and after
wards proceeded down the MifiiiIippi to ,b.
Cherokee and Creek nations, in order TO with.
draw their attachment from the Spanih govern
ment, and transfer their iDtereft 10 the filpport
OF u. Is. thinking that theft favage tribes
would b. powerful infrument to fublue the
party IN Kentucky inimical TO the Biitiff inter-
eft. With this view he carried nine or eleven
of the principal chiefs to London in 1890,
where they remained about fix months. Here
Bowles and Miranda were Introduced to each
other. Miranda had been alternately between
Paris and London for (everal years previous to
this period, counting both the revolutions of
France and the miEl0er of G B for employ
mcnt. Had the affair of Nootki Sound not been
tettled, he probably would have been landed in
California or New Mexico with Britin, arcv;
but this commercial difpute having been adj
Jnited, ali expectations of rupture with Spain
were terminated. we nave not learned the
particulars which finally determined him at this
time TO accept of command in the French ar
my, and to abandon his idea Of conduering
Spain but certain it is he lift the Britfh
court in dilguf and came TO Paris, where he
became known to Joel Barlow, then an agent
| for the Ohio Land Company. Many of the
members OF the Ohio land Company were active
leaders in the Kentucky Spanifh a1ociation
but we have froug reafons for believing that
Barlow himiclf was entirely a Granger to the
conipiracy. The mind of this gentleman is too
much occupied with poetical reveries and poll
teal diIquiiitions ever to make a confidential
confPirator or good ntriguer. It was, howe
yer, the with of many of his employers that the
Oaio fate ihould I've peopled with Frenchmen,
thinking that thoie people being preiudiced a.
galnit American manners aad cuGoms, thew
would more eafiy he induced to take part A.
gainit the citizens Of the union. But Barlow,
in place ofattending to the obje6t of his mi f1ion,
fet off on revouioniiing expedition to the
mountains of Savoy,s aud left the affairs of the
Ohio Company in the hands Of a Scotchrnan of
the name of William Playfair, author of work
entitled The Hapry Of ti-Jacobiniftn."
PIayfair had been employed for feveral years in
France as Britijh fpy, and therefore was ac-
qUainted by the mniter of his court how to
conduct himielf in every cafe. lie acquitted
himieIf on this location in manner, though
not the mott honorable, that completely de-
fsateI T. ,Ib fha 81, of T., fl na.t 4.