Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-09-14

Wilkinson's Heterogeneous were
exclusively with the Spanish government ct
Louisiana, after his first voyage OF course
the cash he received was from the govern
ment of the country, and this he received
in person, on his bills or by remittance thro'
various channels. The last payment was
made him in the year 1889, through his a
gent Philip Nolan, being balance which
had arisen on the recovery OF some tobacco,
which after it had been delivered was da-
mayed and lost in the year 1888. lhis IS
the only passage Of his justification IN which
he even alludes to any sums received, or
endeavors to give any account OF the consi-
Iteration for which they were paid. II he
received money as he says IN person, ne
can tell the amount. 1.-The drew bills, the
sums and the parties may be shown.t II he
received rtmittances, there can be no dlth-
Guilty in designating them, and showing by
the other side of the account the consldera-
ton for which they ere paid. These
vouchers would be infinitely more salts
factory to the public than general Knox's
letters, or than my memoue to the secretary
of state with which he has enriched his de-
fence.
General Wilkinson didnot do this because
HE DID NOT DARE TO EXHIBIT HIS &C
COUNT. He knew the original accounts
were in my hands, and that they were sign
ed by him and his agents, and that the re-
suit of their examination would destroy
him forever. 1t appears, however, that
before the court of enquiry ne aid produce
some accounts which have been carefully
kept from the public eve. But the result
is stated in the sentence and is extremely
important in this investigation. The SEN
tence (No. 26) states, 1st. " hat 1t does
not appear that he received any money
from the Spanish government, or any OF lts
officers. since the year 1871.
Cd. That it does appear by the generals
statement, that his agents several years at
ter 'e1, received and RENTED to him seve-
| raj sums for tobacco, which had been sto,-
ed as damaged in the year 1889" 1t is TO
be rsme nbered that the court ct inquiry
did not think proper to state the amount Of
these seperal sums, or to designate at least
! the a,eays in which they were paid, that we
have compared them with other pay ments.
| Not having the aid which the account exhi-
bited to the court of inquiry would have af-
| forded, | must use the materials have; ;
they will, I believe, be amply sufficient
| We have it from the generals admission, as
stated in the sentence, that be received no
| money from the government or any q ats
!. o8scers TOR tobacco or other produce, since
| the wear '91. But have incontrovertib!y
| shown. that the sum of COCO dollars by Ow-
ems, of 6sss by Collins, and OF 9e4o by
| Powers, were all received from the govern
ment or its officers long after the year 1891.
| They were then by his own confession, not
| received for tobacco, On what account
then were they paid? 1T does not appear
from whom the sum of 65So dollars, men
t;one in the letter to Adsir, was received,
whether from his agent Nolan, or from the
| officers of government. Go no not there
! fore include it in the above calculation, but
added to those three sums, they form total
| Of %, 500 dollars, which were all received
! after 'o1. Now admitting them to be the
[ produce of the damaged tobacco, and that
| this damaged tobacco had sold az well as
tia, which was merchantable, there must
have been at least $40 hogeheads: an ex-
| traordinary quantity to have laid forgotten
50 many years. But l do not rely, though
l safely might, on the evident absurdity OF
this poor excuse; have promised to leave
no doubt on this point, and | hasten to tui-
FL my engagement.
We have seen that the general came down
| with small cargo in 1887, and that IN Au-
gust, 1888, he entered into partnership with
| my kinsnaan Daniel Clark, who had been
his agent for the disposal OF all the property
he sent down previous to the partnership.
| The day after that connection was formed,