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THE WrSTFET WOW T D.
Tk” Kmturht Spanish assort”
tim. P’emt's rontpirnru, &
pmrvttf fifivtivdd’s expedition
{Ct timed from nvr ’ant )
k < vrrnn't'>p' , e happen rl t
fH, r.p of 17*?, wMrh
tl?<> nopf'lp the ffrt proofs of <Hp
inrnor*w*'*n of ■ c: P''’ r '' , -h edd ?
rrrrr<hi- p-*v. This was ‘the
.jyii'rrtp)- sis 1) irflll flf'tJie Tl^tT) 1 ’ (f
I’M ir>t>rran* of Wifki'--
l |>. pi p w?> caHiirg from fi e
eovernireijr at f'v.Or.
jf.Tr,. f ,V ( . mm of six thousand
ffr>!’ . r . in specie, to WTineon.
~Th rr/>wwho wer*- four Spanish
so’d’n ri, af'or ki'ling Fwenw,
Wade fhe*r •nr ; but two of
tT>--n> wer’ Gm n and brought be
fb’t Jnf!<re lon’s, who remanded
’ rr o per l . V’dk ©son. then at
ypn V/fld irpton. The latter A
th< upfe ‘he nmrrler was rnmmit
ted v itltin die American tern’o
rief , afetrpted to return the pri
t, net s to Gi t Nat'r he /. Hut
I'itjnt Do’ le, who (.ommAniled at
Tert .Massac, knowing Irs duty,
ten!- them into custody, and or
thred them for Lexington,
\vh~re they underwent a trial, but
were acquitted, from the want of
snflr tent evidence, Tl'C particu
lars of the six thousand dollars
vtte however folly substantiated
© the trial ; which would never
have been heard of, if the mur
derers had not been carried to
Lexington ; and the concealment
•nost probably was VV dkinron's
nutivJ for ordering them to New
Orleans. General Washington
having been informed of the cir.
Cnmstances, demanded ati expla.
nmion from Wilkinson, who in
■vindication alledged, that the six
thousand dollars were sent as a
conipensation from the Spanish
gote nnunt t’ h'in fo’ tli c j rou .
l)ic he had taken and the t xjtcnce
he tnepr ed in estahli-hinp a to
-bacro trade between Kn “ut 1: > &
I>e\t Orleans. That he had pre
sent’ dto the Spann-It four a nie
morittl lor that purpose ol setting
forth that in-. losses were epitita
lin to twenty thousand dbliars,
and ih mx ihousai tl t • which he
had < <> libbed <>t-re tie only
rm m ~tktn yet gi anted.
I c importation of another
cm sitlerai'le Mim to the party in
was ascertain’ <1 b\ the offi
ci pent by generalWWa n e to
take p ‘s-esslon of the Spanish
-dori *s ~J W nnut Hill*., N T at c he Z
acit Cli tkasaw Hi alls, in cn ., se _
tp'encc ol an aguett'em t 0 that
*ihc entered into between pen.
“Havne uud the baron de ("oron.
and” it, governor g neral of Loin
siaiu. The latter had agreed tltat
they should be deliveied up in
Gcti her. 1796, in consequence
t f which captain was or
dered to take p> session. In de
scending the Ohio he fell in witli-
AUrt-d Sebastian, a son of judge
‘bastian, :>n<l at present an offi
cer under \Vi‘kinson. Thisyoung
associate had been sent express
svitii private dispatches from
•y 1 kinson to Giozo, hut his
6*'iff ha ring been sieve near tlie
mouth of the Ohio, capt.
took him on board his boat and
landed him at New Madrid. AU
fred expressed great uneasiness
at first Jest captain- should
seize his dispatches, and was com
mencing an earnest supplication
for their preservation, yvhen capt.
intentions, but if his orders hail
been sucli. Ins entreaties should
be of no ava : l. At New Madrid
young Alfred was met bv a doc
tor Poi’ ei s, who had in charge a
sun. of money for Wilkinson,
This Powers was a native of
Great Britain, ;<nd had been cm*
fdev-'d for sevi ral wars as the
mutual efymt es Ginro and Wii
k ii'-oiT. Alfred-et (ft’ unmediAie
ly ‘1 dll Ids dispatches, upon the
Jtce pt of which by Girtiso, laitl
ligence w.-s for wauled to Nov
I* ndrni from the governor gtUtr
-1 ouiaiauj. that the tor s
il if i. ■ ,
~ , , •*en up, CS halt
could not be g e
been agreid upon, foe r
offered ‘as that the river was too
low aud tl>o arii!l n co dd nut
be floated off. To this circum
stance president A'dam- ;*1 md s
tained an fSpecfStios that it
i,ouhl have been in my power, at
he opening of the session, to
have communicated to you the
~„reeahle information of the due
evecution of our treaty yvitli his
la'holic majesty, respecting the
witlidrawmg of his troops irom
our territory, and the dejwarCa
ion of the line of limits. Hut by
he latest authentic intelligence,
Spanish garrisons yveie siill con
tinued within our country and tire
running of tin boundary line had
not been commenced. These cir
cumstances are the more to be re
grafted, as they cannot fail to af
lcct the Indians in a manner in
jnriousto the United Slates. Still
hoyvever indulging the hope that
the a usurers which have been giv
en will rimove the objection of
fered by the Spanish officers to
the immediate execution of rhe
irrati , i judged it proper thai we
should continue in a state of r<*a
dtness to receive the posts, and to
| run the line of limits.”
Alfred Sebasiian did not return
[ for two years but is said during
: liis absetico to have acted as an
officer in the Spanish horse at
Ncvv-Oileane. An:ong the va
i rion s ddcumer.ts v/lnch were ccl
lected by general \lf.ivne, rota
rive to the conspiracy, is a Inter
from major Green, of Natchez,
proving in the most satisfactory
manlier, that Wilkinson durinir
Ins command at port Washing,
ton, aiso heicl general’s com.
mis ion in the* Spanish service.
Mr. Eilicot wtio was employed
to run the line procured docu
ments of the like import, which
were delivered to the executive.
The death of general Way lie,
which happened in the end of
1796, and the expiration of the
presidency of general Washing
ton alone prevented the trial ol
Wilkinson on charges of treason.
No sooner was Mr. id.mis elect
ed than general Wiikinson hur
ried to Philadelphia to übtuin the
favor ot Hie new president. The
pomp, parade, and artful address
of Wi km son soon gained upon
John ,'d ms. lie caused the pre
suit n in believe that many of the
machinations of hims< If and Ins
parts, were the attempts of fo
reign agents io all nato die uSec
u us f in- Indian nations and to
excite thiiu to actual hostilities
again,i tin United States.
It will b re collected tltat the
Indians at this period were work
ed upon and tampered with by
m-ny different parties. There
Hire a,-cut, among them front
Hie Ken ucky association, pio
cuiiiig the interest ot tln-se in fa
vor of Spain. General How Its was
active among the Creeks and
( herokees, as likewise were the
partizuns of goiernor Hlo-nnt,
lor the purpose of exciting them
to commence hostilities <■ gainst
the sobjccis ot Spain in the kbo
nd as and Louisiana. Ihe em ssa
i ies of Gi net were eijiially busy,
but with contrary views.
1 iie several interests of these
parties in kongtess, suificientiy
explain the long my discussion
“■hith mek place m the session of
1 7 y7 ( on the motion ot Mr. liar
pci lor an address to tue pi t si
dent. Several days were takan op
in yverumg the fulls wing pa:a
graph .
“ The X T 'i:ted States have
been faithful in the performance
of their obligations to Spai-i, and
had reason to expect a compliance
equally prompt on t'lepait of that
power. We rtiil, however, in
dulge the hope that the coovinc
ills; an towers yvhich have b~en uiv
en to the objections stated by the
Spanish otficers to the immedia e
execution ol the treaty, will have
tl't ir proper effect, and that this
treaty, so mutually beneficial to
r e contracting parties, will be
finally ob-eiveii with good faith.
We therefore entirely approve
“I your determination to conti
nue in readiness to secure the
‘t'stv, and to run the line of par
tition between our territory and
t ji of ;he king of Spain.— At
t mpts to alienate the affections
o, Ah Indians, to form thi ni into
ideal u ’sulitv against the U. r S.
l;etber mad; by foreign agents
.1 ii.-i,, ar-’ -a tujnyjocs t .-,
human with respect to omr Citi
zens inhabiting the adjacent ter
ritory, as to deset ve the most ex
emplary punishment, and we will
che< rfully aff'-rd our aid in fram
ing a law wlt'ch may prescribe a
punishment adequate to the com
mission of crimes so heinous.
To be Cot. nued.
Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, June 10.
The Mortimer contains the fol
lowing Note upon that passage
of Mr. Fox’s spiifch of May 30,
yvherein he exposed hi3 opinion
that, ‘hould a favourable oppor
tunitv occur, he would not object
to risk a part of our militaiy force
in receiving for Europe what had
been last in the last campaign.
“ This passage in Mr. Fox’s
speech is -really extraordinary.
What does he mean bv act mg
offensively on ihe continent }
Who are the allies of England in
the war !Is it Prussia ? Hut if
■we rigntly read the declaration
ot England,die has ordered the
Prussian ve-,els to be detained,
and that if we cannot recognise a
stipulation of alliance. Is it Aus
iria ? Bur betore we can sup
pose Mr. Fox thinks so, we must
*(*i him down iguorant of the
treat) ol Presburg. Is ic Russia?
We must also suppose Mr. Fox
does not k ‘o> dial wtiicli is
known to almost all Europe at
tiiis day. Li t him be weii per
suaded that the couit ol St, Pe
does not know rvhat
she herself i as to fear from Eng
land oil die seas and in too east;
and tout she is ignorant that the
offront winch has been offered to
her ambassador jn China, has
been produced by the intriguis
ot the i.nglisli factory. We must
suppose, intact, that Mr. Fox
is ignorant that t ie mouth of the
Caitoro have been restored to
Austria, that Brannan is only in
consequence restored to ihe Em
peror of Germany, and that the
grand army, in the course of a
lew weeks, wid be united at Pa
ris lor tne leies which were in
tended to take place in the month
ot May. It is true, that the in
trigues of the English retarded
these letes these three months;
but it wouid be easy tor ns to
prove, that the power ol France
has been increased by the delay,
olid that her system has been coa
suhd.uoid.—lt is thus that tlie ef
toruoi England always turn to
her advantage.
“ f* she will oni make peac'*
when she shall have rtcovered ail
’ ihai she lus tost on ihe continent,
j which probably means when she
shall have tliecied die rc-estab
lisiiirtvui of the Stadtholder in
rioUud, of Austria Belgium, of
l ilie UiiyCs at Venice and Genoa,
and ot in r victim at Napt., this
declaration is by no means con
soling for the creditors ol the
Engli-h deb*.
tdr. V\ indhum himself, excellent
an officer a, tie is, knows that it
wui require twenty campaigns
k ° suci.e,a to tins extern ; aud
tlie re-ebtablishmem ot the priti
ees ho owe thst fall to nothing
eEe th.in England, dors offer
a vtiy encouraging prospect to
‘ c nt - . allies who would engage
,a Hits fourth ccaii.ion.
But; it we are to believe
those Orators, their Military
system is jo change every thing
What iionseriCfi At imperial
have arnjtes purely English ever
rendered themselves conspicuous
on tite continent.—Thus the
tioap-.Ci the black prince were
composed of Bretons, Gascons,
Normans, (.harles the Bad, the
Dcker o| Burgundy, the great
j feudatories who betrayed their
Pr.nee, produced the success of
ol England, Thus the armies of
Marlbrougii consisted of Dutch
and Germans, and only a small
number v s English. It is true
that the Duke of York command,
td au arniv wholly English,
v nen h c appeared in our days
before Duukiik ; but xve knew
the J esuit of tlie batde of lionds-
C J ? tc ‘ it \s true, that this same
i unr c , commanded an arm} en
- ftteiy l’.iiglish, when he landed a
Holland ; huf the retreat of Aik
that of the Ten Thousand, ft Is
true, that more lately also, and in
the last war, the English landed
in Naples, but they ©nly appear
ed there to overturn the throne;
aud after having thus destroyed
it, they d'd not honour its fail
with a drop of their blood.
“ The y hr ve also appeared to
Hanover ; but here ’their tri
umphs were lirnitted to thepow
er of re-embarking—an advan
tage which they owed solelv to
the Kmg of Prussia, that Prince
whom they treat at this moment
with so little consideration.
“ Should it even be true, that
England had considerable ar
mies te the time of Louis XlV
and XV. we are to draw a con
clusion from that, respecting her
actual military powers. She had
not then the great extent of pos
sessions which now belong to her.
Were her army as great as it has
been, it would be annihilated by
the establishments which these
detachments require. Thu* she
is obliged to keep forty regiments
in the East-Indies, lo in the West,
two at Malta, two at Gibraltar,
S<c. A nation of nine millions of
people, which before it can have
a man for its own defence, is, ob
liged to semi fifty regiments to
the East and West Indies, toop’
pose the entire Indian population,
tlie negroes, the Canadians, and
the yellow fever, can .never be a
military power in Europe; and
it is in these circumstances that
England has lost twenty.feve
tin usaud Hanoverian soldiers—a
loss which she will never repair.
Ihe English are laughing at the
I’linces ot Europe, when they
suppose that governments art
weak enough not to mike these
calculations ; and not to see tha
a nation, which has orcasio.i fo
fifty regiments to defend its colo
nies, and one hundred and (fifty
thousand sailors to protect its
commerce & maintain its 9quad
iom, incapable of any effort in
Continental ufiairs. Besides
these fine speeches of England)
when she widies to seduce Ca
binets and form Coalitions, have
never been justified by facts. Let
us recal to our recollection what
Ministers did a: ttie time of tlie
first coalition. Instead of em- I
ploying these means, winch ap- I
pear so powerful and formidable
in the mouth of iheir speakers, or
Uien emissaries, the English at
tacked St. Domingo, Porto-Rico,
Guadaloupe, Martinique, and
seeoieu to nave no ether anx ety
tiiau to plunder toe- commerce of
their friends, as well as their one.
mics. in the second coalition
u*ey went ta Egypt, in place of
fighting with their allies on the
plams of St. Domingo. In the
third, they went to tho Cape of
Good-Hope, instead of throwing
t> n uiousand m n more into the
kingdom of Naples i and when
England acted thus, no one can
say that she acted ill,fcr she could
not act otherwise. As she is o
bliged to pay considerable sums
tolar allies, she has no other
means of doing it than by plun
dering the trade of other powers.
“ Ihe English nation b brave;
but it cannot he denied that Uie
French nation has al-o its war
like bent. The armies hf those
two countries must be in propor
tion f> their respective populati
ons ; ;tnd upon this basis it is
cka., that the English army can
only be to the French army m
proportion of one to three- Re
sides, to preserve this portion, it
would be necessary that England
should abandon the idea of keep,
ing up fifty regiments in both tlie
Indies, and reduce, by one hall,
tile hundred aud liliy thousand
saiiors who aie en boaid her
fleets. But with all Mr. Fox’s
eloquence, he will find it difficult
to persuade the Bank, the Indian
Company, and the Chancellor ot
the that this reduett
ou ot military lorce is a good cal
culation.”
New Government of
HOi. i. Nl),
1 HE CGtfSTi I UnONAL
LAW.
GtnercJ Deposit ions.
al laws aQually inforce, efJ
dally the constitution of iB O J
as the civil political, and re]
ligious laws, the exercise J
which is conformable to tJ
regulations of the treaty coil
eluded on the 14th of M av 1
the present year, {ball he pJ
served inviolate, with the el
cepti(;i of thole only whij
shall be abolished by the col
stitutional laws. 1
2. The adtniniftration J
the Dutch Colonies is re-I
lated by particular laws, J
the expenles of the colon!
(hall beeflimated as a part !
the revenues of the Rate. I
3. The public debt is gJ
renteed by the present la\y,.|
4. The Dutch language iM
coutinue to be employed*
cluiively in the laws, the pul
lications, ordinances, juaß
ments, and all the public an
without dilfinction. I
5. There shall be no c J
ges mad? in the name of
present current coin unlefl
ihall be authorized by api
ttcular law. 9
6. TKe ancient colours]
the (late lhail be prelerved,]
7. The counfeiof Rate I
be compoted cl thirteen n)|
bers. The mimfters Ihall 1
their rank, their liuum I
their votes of deliberauoil
the Idti council. i
OF RELIGION- i
■i. T'tie Kmg Ktiu thcl
grant equal protecaon. >1
religions which are ptofc 111
the Raie. by their auu.J
every thing necefi ry h-J
organization, the pioteal
and theejterciic oi nu-1
A worth ip is to be detc; 9
I he exeicifc ot every ; 9
icligion is to be c0r.8r.9
the interior of the ch.i9
belonging to the d-E ” :::'9
mununs. 9
e The king fliall edcl
public cxercife of his re|
m his palace, and i:i r-cl
tber palace lie shall rdid-l
OF THE KING. |
1. The King Ihati hav9
clufively and without re.i9
on, the complete exei 9
the government, and -9
power necefFary to lcc
execution of the laws, al
caule them to be ref.il
Me has the nomination I
the charges and oltices, cl
military, which accord:®
Anterior laws, were veil
the Grand Penfiouary.l
Itkewtfe enjoys the pij
nence and ttie pretog-.tl
therto attached to that I
The coin of the It ate Ihl
his image. juflicc 1-9
admiriiitered in his nain9
hasthe right of granncl
don, abolition, or the I
lion of ttie pains*'piocl
judiciary awaids ; it|
ids, he lhali not be auil
to exeicjfe this r ; ?E- ■
ter having heard t f
of the National I
Privy Council, I
2. Upon the uvui'ij
King, tiie office to th
dlai: of the minor M
be vefled in the queeij
ger, and m taie 01 her!
in that perlon who ihal
initiated for the purpvj
Emperor of the r rencl
3. The regent ihaij
fated by a council of fl
the qualifications and I
gea of whom lhall bcl
mined by a particular*
regent shall not be p’l
rel'ponfible lor the “1
governments, I
The- government ('I
lonics, and every tin*
live to liieir internal I
rnv. oHgnu exciusiiiiaß
