The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-03
[VoLUME 8.

Judge Innis would anfver us one oueftion
| What were the motives which induced him afA
ter the appearance of the Weitern World, to
| hurry to Lexington, and withdraw feveral old
| letters and papers, which he had given to Mr..
M'Gruder for the purpoic of his compiling his
hiitory OF the Indian wars, and which the lat
ter on bis leaving the Gate OF Kentucky, depo-
iited in the bank IF thofe letters went &c
prove the innocence Of Judge Jnuis, rs we have
been informed he has alierted; why has Re
not given them to the public? We would with
the greatef pleafure afford them a place in one
OF our numbers of the Spauiih couipiracv,
which would much more effeeuallv eftahliiii
the purity and Patriotifm OF his honor, than a.
nv proiecution which he might raifr agaiult the.
Weftern World.
AS our Information was not all before MS, az
the commencement of the invehigation of
me SPaniih contpiracy, we have not been ens-
oied TO write withthat arrangement which ought
10 characterize regular htory but to iketch
the principal features of the plot, and 10 detail
the taets as they come into our pof1tflion.
The following is one which has been COM
munIcated to US lately. a gentleman of Scott
county, having met gen. Wkinfon at one of
the Kentucky elections, at which the general
wasa candidate, entered into a conversation
with him on the iubiee of going under the
Spaniih government, having previoufly under
hood that Wikinion was defirous of this inn
portant change taking place. He therefore
took general Wilkinfon Aide to receive ratis-
factory information as TO his fentiments, before
he would give his vote. The general after
little heiitation confeiTed bis opinion, that it
wouldhe mot for the interet of Kentucky te,
unite with Spain, upon which the gentleman
rom Scott told him he ihould oppofe him iu3
the election. During the conversation, the late
coonei Sanders came up, and attacked general
W itin'o" - .!!:c .,:.';;T-' E tlttlio
General, underftand you are going 10 fell
US TO the Spsniards." Wilkinfon endesvoured
to evade an anfwer; but Sanders having re-
peated the queition in an emphatic manner, he
replied nearly in the affirmative in the prefenc.
OF the gentleman from Scott and feveraI Others.
"A noted agent of Wiknfon was man of
the name OF Joieph Baenger, by character I
deipeTadoe. This man was employed hv hin,
IN various trips down the Mifiiffippi, and in e,
curlions among the Indians, but for what prr-
pole, he and Wilkinfon probably only know.
We can. however, in a degree, Judge of the ma
ture or his embat1ies, from the confequences
wh'ch followed. In the year 1889, iocn after
the treaty which was concluded between the
commihoners from CongrelS, and the feveraE
northern tribes of Indians BaIlencer was E.nt
by Wilkinfon on fome buiinefs to the Eettlrys
on the north WET fide of the Ohio. few
weeks after his return, the Indians from that
quarter, made an incurlion into Kentucky and
ltole number of hories. They were purrnrd
by colonel N*NF@"H who after A purfat of for
" miles, overlook them, killed and wounded
ieveral, and regained about thirty horfes. TboG.
who were taken feemed 10 be PERFECTLY familiar
with the name of Wilkinfon, and regarded him
as the good ebief of Kentucky from whom they
faid they had received many favours, and with
whom they were always upon good terms.