The Port-Gibson correspondent., 1843-10-28

bg the Spanish to Tie .4aacrican government
In t798-IIon y. p. III. Clai5orne's Gcrount
i,a The Co,leordia Ipteiligenccr Of the surre1l-
der pfthe post Of Concord 10 ferdinand Leigh
6laidorse, representative of The French Jlc-
public IN 1900 The surrender of Ncw Or
teasts To- TIE american government By tie
! sfreaaet Ia 1803-fnaecuracy Of Francis Xa-
pier .1fcrtin's history of Louisiana IN relation
aotkat eoeat--Dr Wooasou Wrep's recotlec-
ftoas Of circumstance in achich he bore part
The various surrenders of the militia,
Try posfs il this beautiful country from
Spain,to ffe United States--from SPAN
Ito France, and finally from France TO
THE United States, all seemed TO be done
so reluctantIy each time by. the power in
possession, as to convey the idea oflhe
hardship. Of giving up such rich and
pleasant territory. The giving up of
Natehez and Walnut IIils,in particular,
was attended with so much altercailons
land delay that recourse 10 arms seemed
ito be the only means TO enforce the
terms Of the treaty and drive the Span
fiards south Of Col. Ellicot's famous line.
i Governor { don Manual Gayoso de Lemos
commanded the Spanish fortress at.
Natohez, and Cbevalier Carlos Martinez
.jde Yrpio was The Spanish minister al
i Philadelphia, then the seat OF The nation.
al government. The reason which these
4 two funcuonares gave our minisierof
Estate, Hon. Timothy Pickering, for not
surrendering the posts was thatthe Brit
| ish government was preparing an expe
dition on the Canadian lakes to sweep
Idown the Mississippi and wfast Louisan-
ma from Spanish empire, and that Spain
must retain the Nslchez. and Nogales'
I(Walnut Hills garrison Il. cover I4ouisi.
lana They also pretended that sediiion
was attempting, IN the vicinity Of Match
rI ez, to seize. upon the fort by violence.
The Baron de Carondedet commanded at
New Orleans. Don Stephen Minor (fa>
ther Of our fellow citizen WillianJ Mi.
nor) was Captain ia the Royal Armies,
Aid, Major and Governor pro tem., Of
the Natchez, and lis Dependencies, and
Don Joseph Vidal (a(ter whom the beau
iifal village of Vldalia is named) was
Secretary 10 Governor Gayoso de Lee
mos. Andrew Ellicott was citizen and
commissioner of the United States, and
Lieutenant Pierey S. Pope was cor
mandant OF the Z. S., troops Of the MIS-
sissippi,
Pope wrote 10 the War Department
May, 8, 1877, that he had arrived al
Na;chez and that the 'sevaeuation ap,
; Epeared 10 be going on with great lie
when all at once the military stores were
, Immediately ordered back, and their
: troops busily engaged all night IN re-
fmounting cannon The same movement
was effected at the Walnut Hills. This
, kindEed blaze of indignation against the
fSpanish, and the citizens of the district
OF Natchez met, under the protection ol
Lieut.. Pope's forces at Belts, nine miles
from Natchez, and passed strong resolu.
! tions, which were construed by the Span.
ish Governor and Minister into a design
! of forcible rebellion. We find the fol-
lowing names a committee appointed by
Il observation-disclosures of the district TO preserve
the peace and promote the due execution
, tof Justice: A. Hutchins, Bernard Lin,ot
Isaac Guillard, Cato West, William Rat
flif, Gabriel Bonoist and JosephsBernafd
This was in June s2g, l797.
Mr.. Christopher Miller, who now en-
! joys SO happy and 50 green an.oId age in
!, Natchez, was then here,and well remen.
bers seeing one Of Connsandant Pope's
officers, Lieut.. John .McCiary, marching
/ up day by day, with only about thirty
!, lU. S., soldiers, and displaying them each
Il about one rod apart, back of where Mr..
3 Peter Littleas mansion now stands, and
demanding in the name of The United
/ States the surrender Of Fort Rosalie.-
Here this daring band Of yankee soldiers
would stand so stretched as to make as
: long afroht as possible, before The bat
fteries filled with Spanish soldiers and
;. mounted with forty pieces of cannon and
the matches lighted!
The most of the foregoing facts are
! obtained from Stale papers 10 the ar
: chives ofthe General Government.
!, In the Concordia Intelligeneer Of Oc-
/ Etober 9Th, inst, We find a beautiful writ
si ten account ofthe transfer ofthe Post Of
) Concord (now Latinized Concordia) BY
) Don Stephen Minor, agentof Spain, to
] IF. L. Claiborne, represen ntatiVe of the
} French Republic in the year 1900, in
t pursuance ofsthe treaty Of St. Ildefonse
slifhis account is from the ornate and
ID flowing pen Of Hon. j +. H. Claiborne
TT. S., Commissioner on Indian Claims
j Hana son ofthe first Territorial Governor
t lof Mississippi.
2 We now proceed to the surrender Q
!, Louisiana BY France tothe United States
4 three years. afterwards, ia the year 1903
! This was attended with most imminen
g danger tosthe citizens--to both life ani
i property il New Orleans. The French
s government had no armed force, and thl
/, ,IIInited States lraona .af nccnnafian hal