Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-09-08

hcers OF his government, TO WIZ.
request of Wilkinson he had AVN a
a declaration under oath Of II. a -, & !
action. Though taken evilrn S,,n0leaa
purpose of favoring Wilkinson " ~! ia AZ
ton would throw light on the i, ' .', tshr
it will never appear for Collins I ~ gu
ed that, as far asst went it CONTAIN, as : ds
The gentleman who called on c, @sa
tanned from him verbally sta,em uls
following facts-That he was ssa4 s1 u.
kinson in the year 1894, with Om ' oy&
Orleans, with sealed packet fo "saS as
Carondelet. That in eonseuus y' gown, y
orders contained in this letter Con-
were delivered to Owens, and s so dols
(Collins) with which he embs, Jss bin
Bayou St. Johns, went to Cba,1S,sa ID
in August, 1895, delivered HI, 1 .ss ad
general Wilkinson at Cincinnati; -, ."a'E N
hio. He asked tor receipt. " T 'as
refused; but he (Wilkinson) ca1].d iaA !, va
John Brown. of Kentucky, WIN t ~ 20 Nj
TO be there, to Witness that he had r ,.a
his accounts with Collins, and that sI l. aas
him nothing. These facts arr ....' sOst
lettertrom general Adair to me-. INV
and the evidence is corrobora,ed Sv ~ :. y
of the receipt which Collins o,,s! J. !, sep
money, to the contedor of q .Ilsni,b" =
tory, in these words: /" r aeefysd han w.t. ..
bert Leonard, 633a de pnars, for n. Injury
general James Wilkinson, which ,, use
to deliver to him, the risk Of ,b rV sas
&c. excepted" It may be obi,,, s I
this is only heresay testimony. ~.
but it may be rendered au,heute r1..
ever general Wilkinson shall n.,. a'0
publish the affidavit taken at h,
quest before governor Folch, or WHENCE.
our government takes measures IL am
pei the attendance of witnesses, IN A,
mean time, it is corroborated BY The f.,
that Collins was the known agent Of vi
kinson; by the positive TESTIMONY vbl
has been already detailed in that par, # IN
story which relates to the division # n
sum between him and Owens and BY II
following statements: First, the dtpsiic
OF MIR. Miller, very respectable and int
ligent planter on the Red river, whom h
deposition (No. ~ states tina, he saw Ca
Inns at the time OF his en,barkation from \
Orleans, who had then jus, returned fra |
Ohio; that he soU tie m0aeu Put on bari
that Collins mentioned the sum and told hi
it was for Wilkinson, and that BY va
extraordinary favor of government it VS.
suffered to be embarked openly. Second,
by the certificate of captain Sienett, late !
the y. S. army, who status that Collins gaF'
him, at another period, the most mlmt4
details OF the difficulties he had to encoln|
ter in the transportation of tins sum. (Ss|
No. 12.) Here is then positive teslimonI
of the delivery of this sum to an agent d
gen. Wilkinson, and the strongest clrcun1
stantial presumptiye evidence of its BENG
for his use.
The evidence on which the next pa!nen1
rests, would, [ confess, be weak in aE o
Their case. Itis ,ha; of the general himself
In letter dated August 7, 1895, to E.a|
Adair, No. IS, he Gays, "of $3.50 SS@
received for me in New Orleans, l749 %.
ly lave reached my hand, this Mdfo"@1a
Of boor Owen's loss. The whole Of this la'
sum is not lost, but is not within my e~l
troll, and will not be for 4 or 6 months
Here then is a fourth payment from Nc
Orleans confessed, which does not 'sfssI']
amount or circumstance with either o. III
others. The fist sum it will be ren'enpa
ed, was carried up by himself six ysa' "a
fore the second is condled to Owens %
is expressly excepted the third was s S.m
70 Collins, was different amount, anu ." ~
safely to his hands. This, then, "a'a az,
and an additional payment but now f, m
The general so communicative nc W. n III
part of the letter gives the reason ~ -. ~ FL
Just risen from " coil Made'ra, div .,.,.
ruth which is in wine had tor once W,
ID the habitual falsi!v of his language