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Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser 1807/01-1807/06 msa_sc3722_2_6_1-0023 Enlarge and print image (4M) |
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Frotn the Palladium Extra. December
8, 1806.
LEGISLATURE OF KENTUCKY.
In the House of RhpresekTatifes.
Tuesday, Dec 2.
Deposition of Harry Innes, continued.
, New-Orleans, July J6ih, 1795.
«SlRv
The confidence reposed in you by my
predecessor, bWRadier general Miio, and
your
former cjorrespoudence with hirn,
have induced me to make* a communica-
tion to you, highly interesting to the coun-
try in which you live,, and to Louisiana.'
ft.'« His majesty being willing to open the
navigation of the Mississippi,to the people
0f the Western country ; and being also
desirpua t° establish certain regulations,
r ciprocally beneficial to the commerce of
botii countries, has ordered me to proceed
on the business, and to effect in a way the
most satisfactory to the people of the Wes-
tern country, his benevolent det-'vn.
« I have therefore, made this.commu.ni
cation to you, in expectation that you will
procure agents'to be chosen, and fully em
powered by the people or your country, to
ne-^ociate with Col- Gayoso on the Subject,
at Kew-Madrid, whom 1 shall send (here
in October next, properly authorised for
that purpose, with directions to continue
at that place, cr its vicinity until the arrival
of your agents.
" I am by information we!) acquainted
with the character of some of the most
respectable inhabitants of Kentucky, par-J
tieulaily of lnr.es, Nicholas, and Murray,'
tD whom I wish you to communicate the
purport of this address; and should you
r.ad those gentlemen, think the object of it
as important as 1 do, you will doubtless
accede, -without hesitation to the proposi-
ti©)* 1 bavc made, of sending a delegation
of your countiymen, sufficiently authoris-
ed to treat on a subject which so deeply
iuvi.hea the interest of both our coun-
tries.
'• I remain with every esteem £c regard,
'¦ Ycur most'obedient,
"Humble servant,
TllK E-A11CN OF CA!iC^'L'F.t.KT.•,
This deponent further states, that after
deliberating on the contents of the letter,
it was the unanimous opinion of the four
person* n.h-iiod to in the letter, that from
the situatifcn oi the pending treaty between
the United States and Spain, of which no
cattirrrutricatibn had been received for neat
twelve months, and the uncertainty when
it would U' nnna'e,th.u as it was a subject
in which ajj the Western people; were
s..;veatlv interested—that as.it had-excited
jritat heat in the minds of the- people of
this country—that as we had no power to
appoint agents, to meet Col Gayoso, as
was requested, that under these existing
circumstances, it would not be prudent to
communicate the subject matter of the 1st
ter, yet, that it was advisable to know what
was the effect of the Spanish government
upoti that important subject. To accom-
plish this object it was thought advisable
that as the communication was made to
Ivlr. Sebastian, he ought to meet Col. Gay-
oso ; add Li consequence of this opinion,
]vlr. Sebisti.ni dscer.ded. the Ohio. On
Mr. Sebastian's return from New-Orleans
in ir&<3, he informed this deponent, Col,
(iayoso was at the mouth of the Ohio ri
ver.- ..vaiting for an answer, to the Baron's
letter, that the severity of the weather in-
duced them to go to New-Madrid, where
* conference took place oq the subject of
the ie-r.er, that among the concessions
•which were stipulated, Gayoso proposed
to reduce the dun ol six per cent import,
ibiid six per cent export, amounting to
twelve per cent, to four per cent—that he,
Mr. Sebastian, insisted that as the Spanish
j-oveiiiment had come forward upon the
principle - of conciliating the people of
the Western country,, that no duly
ought to be exacted from them be-
cause they claimed as a right the free and
tmdis'-urbed navigation of the Missisippi
i iver. Finding Gayoso fixed and immove-
«,bie on that point, he proposed to go to
2veW Orleans, and refer the point in dis-
pute to the governor general ;. which be-
ing acceded to he descended the river to
Hew Orleans, with sol. Gayoso. Upon
their arrival at New Orleans, the governor
had a private interview with Mr. Sebas-
tian, and requested information as to the
point in dispute between lum uhd colonel
Gayoso. Mr. Sebastian stated the de-
mand of four per cent, impost ; to which
the governor replied that colonel Gayoso
Was wrong, unci that he would release it,
toS the plan was altogether conciliatory ;
hut observed that he was then pressed by
public business, yet would attend to him
on a particular day, which he named—
that a day or two preceding the time, fixed
for the interview he received a message
to immediately wait on the governor—up-
on repairing to the government house,
the governor informed him that a courier
had arrived from the IIavanna informing
that a treaty of friendship, limits, and na-
vigation had been entered into by his ca-
tholic majesty and the United States,
which put an end to their business. That
Mr. Sebastian then shewed this deponent
n paper in his hand wrj ing- containing
the concessions wheh hadbeen stipulated
by Gayoso, and which lie believes is the
wiiii' paper now in his hands, and here
presented to the committee, which is in
the words and figures following :
'¦ II!- ca'vhoik rjnaje ity 1 tvir.g
Lit < coiisuleiatiun the relative situation of
Ids provij.ee of Louisiana a;.:' its depen-
dencies, and that part cf the U. States of-
America lying vest of the ApaU.hun
mountains, and being of opinion that a
commercial intercourse between the two
countries, will be productive cf the har-
mony and reciprocal interest thereof, lias
beenpleased to concede to the people of
the said western country, during his plea-
sure, the following privileges :
" 1st. The people of the western coun-
try shall henceforth freely use and exclu
siveiy enjoy fort! e purpose of commerce,
the navigation of the river Mississippi,
and all the ports and places thereof under
the government of his catholic majesty,
subject to the same regulations and re-
strictions, and no other, by which the
commerce of the subjects of his catholic
majesty is now governed. And whereas
the people of the said western country are
now subject to the payment of six per
centum, ad valorem on all the produce of
the said western countiy, imported into
the government of Louisiana and its de-
pendencies, and also to. the payment of the
same duty on the exportation thereof, and
his majesty being willing to remove every
obstacle to that friendly intercourse which
he is desirous to establish and maintain
with the said western people, does hereby
concede that the-said western people shall
hereafter be subject to the payment of a
duty of four per centum only, whether the
produce imported be disposed of in the
markets of Louisiana, or exported to fo-
reign markets ; and that the duty to be
thus paid by the said western people shall
be regulated by the va.ua.tion. of their pro-
duce hereto annexed.
•'• 2d. That there may be no impedi-
ment or obstruction to the fullest and most
advantageous enjoyment of the privileges
hereby granted to the people of the said
western country by his catholic majesty,
sued of the western people as may chuse
to reside in the government of Louisiana,
forthepur|X)se of carrying on commerce,.
Stall henceforth be permitted to acquire
by purchase or otherwise both real and
personal property in any p.vrt or place on
ihe said.River Mississippi, or at any other
place within the government of the said
province of Louisiana and its dependencies,
and shall be protected by the said govern-
ment in the enjoyment thereof, the said
residents,being amenable during then re-
sidence, to the same laws and regulation's
by which the subjects of the said province
are governed ; and should the said resi-
dents or any of them die in. the said
province-., iu. ibink proper to remove to
the United. States, or elsewhere, tiieir
property both,realand»petsonal, shall in the
first case be disposedmf according to the
will cf the decedent, and where no will has
b en made, sliali descend to, and be dis
ttibufed among the legal representatives of
the deceased, agreeable to the laws of the
said p.'oviiiee ; and in (lie last case the re
ru< vuig resident shall have the liberty ol
disposing of the absolute estate, in the
whole or in part of Hie properly which he
has either carried to, or acquired hi the
said province, and to transport the pro-
ceeds thereof free from duty to any part
ofthe world.
" 3d, His Catholic majesty to evince to
the said western people his disposition to
encourage the commerce of their coun-
,tiy, hereby permits them when they can-
not gel a satisfactory market for their pro-
duce in,the province of Louisiana, or its
dependencies., to, export the same to the
Havanna,.
or any other port or place, either in. the.
United States or Europe-; and the said
produce being exported to, the Havanna,
or to any of the said ports in ibu Spanish
dominions, having paid the duty in the
province ofLouis.iana, and the proprietor
thereof taking from the proper officer in
the said province, autht ntic documents of
the payment, ahallnot again be subject to
the payment of any duty in any port or
place in toe said Spanish dominions, to
winch the said produce shall be exported,
but the same may be diposed of in such
Deri oi place under the same rules and re-
gulations Which at present govern the dis-
posal of. the produce oi Louisiana.
" 4th, To prevent any misconstruction
or improper use of the privileges hereby
granted, it is explicitly declared that the
importation of all articles of commerce, of
what nature or description soever wdiich
are not actually the production of the said
western countiy, is absolutely prohibited,
and if any person shall hereafter attempt
under any pretext whatsoever, to intro-
duce into the province of Louisiana or its
dependencies down the Mississippi the
products or. manufactures of any other
country (unless specially permitted by the
government) the same are hereby declar-
ed to.be contraband and liable to seizure.
": 5th, As the commutation ofthe pro-
ducts of one country for those &£. another,
is the foundation of commerce, his majes-
ty in order to establish that reciprocity of
interest between his dominions ana the
said western country, without which no
commercial intercourse can be perma-
nent, will cause a preference to be always
given/m his markets to the products, of the
said western country, and tbciefore ex-
pects that the people of the said western
country-acting under the influence of the
same principle,, will in the purchase of
such articles of commerce as they may
need, whether foreign or domestic, prefer
his markets to any other- And asa far-
ther inducement thereto, his'majesty con-
trary to a Song established mie of his go-
vernment, docs henceforth permit the peo-
ple of the said western country, to carry
out of his dominions whatever money may
remain to them after completing their
purchases', free from any duty or impost
whatsoever."
i his deponent having detailed every
thing which occurred within his know-
ledge respecting:, Mr fi^basttan's reoefwri^
a pension, and the object which hud induc-
ed him to desc'pn'd the MJssftsippi in the
latter end of 179$ i-r beginning of 1796,
addressed this comrtutlee and Stated tljat
he was going to make a communication
which was not pertinent to the subject Of
the testimony he hud-' ttlready given, hut
had relation to the same matter—that he
was induced to do.it ill consequence of the
slanders which had been falsely and lavish
ly heaped upon him by the publications ill
the Western World—that Irt had been
charged as a disorganize? of the govern-
ment—that he had 'oven charged in a.ri in-
direct manner as having improperly re-
ceived Spanish-money, on account of his
intimacy with and friendly agency to-
wards general Wilkinson after he joined
the army. To make this communication
was a duty he owed his own character, and
to the memory ofthe late Colo. Ni< :
whose character has also been attacked by
the publication^ in die Western World--
that hemr.de a solemn appeal to the chair-
man of the committee, to his country and
to Iiis God, that the accusations werefalse;
that the communication he was, about to
make was of a delicate nature as it related
to this deponeneut ; because from the cir-
cumstances wdiich attended it, much must
depend upon his own veracity, as he could
only prove the facts by circumstantial evi-
dence, to Wit : the declarations of Colo.
Nicholas in his life time on the same sub-
ject.
This deponent then proceeded to state
that a certain Thomas Power, who,this
deponent never saw, came from Louisiana
in the summer 1797 and made a commu-
nication to judge Sebastian in writing,
which has a reference to the same charact-
ers that are named in the letter of the
baron of Carondelet, herein before inserted
—that Mr. Sebastian'came to this depo-
nent's house some short lime after ivciving
the communicatio'i and shewed it to him,
upon which this deponent obseived that
it \*as a dangerous project and ought not
t% be countenanced, as the Western people-
had now obtained, the navigation of the
Mississippi by which all their wishes were
gratified. Mr. Sebastian concuired in
sentiment but observed that Power wished
a written answer, and requested me to see
Colo. Nicholas, saying that whatever we
did he would concur in. 1 promised to
visit the colonel in 2 or 3 days. This de-
ponent never had any communication with
Mr. Murray upon the business, nor does
he know that Mr. Sebastian ever did in
form Mr. Murray of it.
The deponent rude to Lexington and
had a conference with col. Nicholas res-
pecting the communication from Power,
who agrqeing with this deponent thai the
proposition ought to be rejected.; he, colon-
el Nicholas instantly wrote an answer.
which was copied by this deponent sign-
ed by both of us, Sc directed by me; that the
copy of our answer was taken possession
of by me, 8c has been ever since in my pos-
session, except for a short time that 1 left
it in the hands of Mr. Morrison in August
last, to have copied as being the executor
and friend of col. Nicholas, he wished to
have a copy; Mr. Morrison having pre-
viously informed me that colonel Nichol-
as in his lifetime- had related1 all the cir-
cumstances to him, and that he had eom-
munioated it to James Ross, esq. of Penn.
sylvania, when in tnis country., in 1 believe
1798, who was then a senator in the con-
gress of the U- States.
(To be Continued1.'}
ALBANY, December 22.
RUB BURY .1.
A correspondent has politely favored us
with the following particulars of a most
daring robbery, attempted early yester-
day morning, at the house of Mr. John
P"ye, inn-keener, in the village of Wash-
ington. /
Yesterday morniag between the hours of
three and four o'clock, a person lately from
the province of LTpper Canada, who calls
himself Robert Johnson,, entered through
a window, into the dwelling-house of John
Pye, about four miles above this city, aim-
ed with two or three loaded pistols, and
after lighting a lahthoni, went to the bed-
side of Mr. Pye, and demanded his money,
threatening instantly to take his life if he
made any resistance. Pye arose from his
bed, and went with the robber into the bar
room, in order to get his money out of the
bar ; but when he came to the bar, disco-
vered that Mrs. Pye had the keys. His.
Pye in the mean time alarmed two strangers,
who slept iii the other part of the house,
and got a loaded gun—Pye went back
from the bar, followed by the robber to ob-
tain the keys froaa his wife, and coming
near the door where the strangers slept, the
robber perceived they were alarmed, threat-
ened to shoot them in case they should
come out of the room. Daring this time
Pye went up to his wife for the keys of the
bar, when she presented him the gun,
which the robber-perceiving, fired and.shot
Pye through the body—Pye instantly, re-
turned the fire, and wounded the robber in
the head. The robber fell, but soon re-
covered, and the lights being extinguished,
p-ot out of the house to a hay-stack, where
he, had left his horse, and made off towards
this city. His wounds bled so profusely,
that he was constrained to stop by the way,
a little off the road, where lie was passed by
one of Pye's people,.who came for Dr.
j WiHard. Soon alter the robber came thro'
i the colony into the city, and was attempted
I to be stopped by Mr. Ayling, at wh-»m he
¦ fired a pistol. He then escaped through
I the upper end of Market-street to Colum.
I bia-stse?t, and down the same to, the rivet,
I whici he crossed. A uvgibtr oC persons
SOQT) pur-iied, and hewaj overtaken a short
distance from the river, by Mr. Winne, the
penny-post., who kept him engaged, until
Mr. Evert Van Aleti and Mr. Robert Aus-
tin, came to his assistance and secured the
robber. He appears to be a smart, active
man, of ab >ut 33 or 34 years of age, ©fa
good persos, about 5 feet 10 inches high,
dark brown hair and eye-brows. He had a
counterfeit twenty dollar bill of the bank of
the United States, besides some gold and
silver, and a few bank hills. His pistols
were rifle barrels and of the largest si/.e.—
He had a small steel saw and other imple-
ments for breaking open houses. When bro't
to town, and previous to commitment he
underwent an examination before the re-
corder. We are happy to learn that Mr.
Pye, though severely wounded, is out of dan-
ger. Great praise is due to the citizens of
the Colony, Albany, Bath and Greenbush,
who, on the alarm being given, turned out
in great numbers to apprehend the robber.
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FEDERAL GAXETTfc.
WEDNESDAY, JAUVARY7.
NEWLONDON, December 24.
Considerable alarm has been excited iu
some of the neighboring towns, we are
toll, by the appearance of mad dogs. Some
individuals and several cattle have been bit-
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