Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1808-01-29

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awaken the suspicion of general Wayne,
who took measures to intercept the cor.
resPondenee of gen. Wilkinson with the
Spanish government, which were not
attended with snccess. :
Collins, the co-agent with Owens,
first attempted to &, gu, asmall vessel in
the port OF New. Orleans, in order to
proceed to some part 10 the Atlantic
states, but she was destroyed BY the bur.
rieare Of the month Of August Of I7s4.
He then fitted out a small vessel in the
0Asou St. John, and shipped in her els-
Ven thousand dsilars, which he took
roundlo Charleston. e -.
This shipment was made under such
peculiar ciscamstances, that it became
known to many, and the destination Of
it was a~fterward, fully disclosed to me
by the officers d the Spanish govern
ment, by Collins and by gen. Wilkinson
himself, who complained that Collins,
instead Of sendink him the money ON his
arrival, had emNoyedit in some wild
speculations to the West. Indies, by
which he had lost a considerable sum-,
and that IN consequence OF the misman-
agGment Of his agfnts, h= had recsi we'd
but little advantagF from the money paid
on his account by the Spanish govern
ment.
Mr.. Power wa1 a Spanish subject, re-
sident in Louisiana, and the object of
his visits to the western country became
known TO Me in 1876 when he embarked
On board the brig Gayoso at New.Or.
leans fr Phiiaa eIphia in company with
Judge Sebastian, In which vessel as she
had been conGgned to myself, l saw.
{ Embarked under a special permission four
thonsand dollars OF thereabout, which I
was infor daea, were for Sebastian's own
account, as one of those: concerned in
the scheme Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
western country.
Mr.. Power, as he afterward informed
ma. on interchangeable western eoun-
Try, saw general Wilkinson at Green.
vile and was the bearer of letter to him
for the secretary of the government OF
Louisiana, dated the 7th or 9Th March,
1896, advising that a sum Of money had
been sent to Don Thomas Por.elI, com.
mandant Of New Msdrid, to be deliver
cd to his ORDER This money Nj. Power
delivered to Mr.. Nolan, By Niikinsou's
dire ctious. What concerned Nj. Nolan's
agency in this business I learned from
himself. when he afterwards visited
Newt Orleans.
In 1897, Power was entrusted with
another mission to Kentucky, and had
directions TO propose certain plans to
effect the st rarstion of the western coun.
try from the United States. These plans
were proposed and rejected, as he ofte.
assured me, through the means Of a
Mr.. George Nicholas, to whom ameag
others they were communicated, who
spurned the idea of receiving foreign
money. Power then proceeded to De.
trois to see general Wilkinson, aud was
n. back by him under guard to New
Madrid from whence he returned to
New-Orleans. Powers secret instruc-
were known to me afterwards, and
1 Am enabled to state that the plan then
contemplated entirely failed.
At the periods spoken of and Tor some
time afterwards, l was resident in the
territory, subject to the Spanish
laws, and without an expectation Of be.
a citizen of the United. States
My obligations were then to conceal and
not t communicate to the government
Of the United States the proiect. and en-.
terprizes which I have mentioned ofgen.
aud the Spanish government.
In the month of October Of 1898, I
gen. Wilkinson, BY his particular
request, at his camp at Loftus's Heights,
where he had shortly before. arrived
The general had heard of remarks made
BY me on the subieet Of his pension,
which had fendered him uneasy, and he
vas DESTROYS Of makingssome arrange
with me on the subject. 1 pass
d three days aud nights in the g~enerat's
tent. The chief subjects Of QUE couver,