The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-01-08

This iePonent having detailed every thing which
occurred within mas knowledge refPeang Mt. Sc
baftan's receiving penion, ard th. obje9 which
had induced, him to defend the Mlidippi in
the latter end Of 1895 or beginning OF 1896, ad-
dreiied this committee and ffated that he going
to make communication which was not pertinent
to ts fubiee Of the teimony he had already given,
but had relation to the fame na.ter--that he was
induced do it in coniequence Of the flanders which
had been faely and lawfully heaped upon him by the
publications in the Wetrn World-thsr he had been
charged diforgauizer of the governn,entthat he
had been charged in an indirect manner as having
improperly received Spaniih money, account of
his intimacy wi,., and friendly agency towards gene
raj Wilkinlon after he joined the arrny.--To make
this communication was duty he owed to his own
character, and to the memory of the late Col Nieho
las, whole character has alto beer attacked by the
publications in the Wehern World--,hat he made
folemn appeal the chairman of the committee, to
his country and his God, that the accufa.sns
falfe--that the communication he was about to make
of delicate nature as related this deponent
beeaufe from the circumstances which attended it,
much mutt depend upon his veraeity, as he could
only prove the fa&s by circumfantial evidence, to
wit rhc declarations of Col Nicholas IN his lifetime
| on the fame fubjeet.
This deponent then proceeded to ftate that GER
| tain Thomas Power, who this deponent never iaw,
came from Louilians in the funimer 1872 and made
communication to Mr.. Sebaiiian in writing, which
has reference to the fame characters that MANI
ed in the letter of the Baron of CaronGeet, herein
before inferted-that Mr. Sebaitian to this de-
ponen;s houlc lome fhort time after receiving the
| communication and fhewed it to him, upon which
this deponent obferved that it dangerous pro-
je9 and ought TO be eountenanced, the welern
people had now obtained the navigation Of the Mil
iifiipp by which all their wifhes grathed. MIR.
Sebaitian coneurred in fentiment but ob(erved that
Power wiaed written anfwer, and requefted me to
| fee Col Nicholas. laying that whatever we did he
would concur in. promifed to Witt the Col. in two
or three days. This deponent never had any COM
muncation with Mr.. Murray upon the bufnefs, nor
does he know that MIR. Sebaiian did inform MIR.
| Murray of it..
| This deponent rode to Lexington and had confer
enee with Col. Nicholas respecting the eomlmunca-
ton from Power, who agreeing with this deponent
that the propolitien ought be rejected: he, Col.
! Nicholas inaantly wrote anfwer, which was teo-
ed by this deponent, fgned by both of US, and dire
ed BY me; that the copy of our aniwer was taken
poeiion of by me, and has been inee in my poi
FELTON,, except for fort time that left it in the
hands of Mr.. Morrfon in AuguR lait, TO have eopi-
ed, as being the executor and friend of COL Nicholas,
he wifhed to have copy; Mr.. M0rrifon having
previouly informed that Col Nicholas in his life
time had related all the circumstances to him, and
that he had communicated it to James Rofs, Efq of
nniyvana, when in this country, i'll believe 1913,
who then fenator in the eongref, Of the United
| States. -
ITO be Continued.