This year, the people of the South-western Territory of the United States were admitted into the Union, as the state of Tennessee, and formed the six. teenth member of the confederacy.

John Adams succeeded General Washington in the presidency of the United States.

Archives-Gazettes-Clark-Wilkinson.

CHAPTER IX.

Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos-Don Carlos de Grandpre-Power's report-General ColletInstructions to commandants-The French princes-Captain Guion brings a reinforcement to Natchez-Line of demarcation-Mississippi territory--Georgia claim-Schedule for the disposal of vacant land-Deposit suspended -Arrangement as to deposit-Land regulations-Death of Gayoso the Marquis de Casa Calvo-Upper Louisiana-Don Ramon de Lopez--Warlike measures of the U. S-Vacant land-Division of the North-western territoryDeposit restored-Louisiana ceded to SpainGrant of land to the city-Thomas JeffersonTreaty between the U. S. and France.

Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, a brigadier-general of the royal armies, who commanded at Natchez, succeeded the Baron de Carondelet, in the government of the provinces of Louisiana and West-Florida, and was succeeded in his former command by Don Carlos de Grandpre. The latter officer, being obnoxious to the people of the district of Natchez, declined going there, and Major Minor, a native of New-Jersey, who came to Louisiana in the year 1778, and had accepted of a commission in the Catholic king's service, acted as commandant, until the

establishment of the government, under the authority of the United States.

Power now returned from the western country, and in his report to Gayoso, which bears date on the fifth of December, stated that he met Sebastian at Louisville, and communicated to him the real and ostensible objects of his mission, when, after confering together, they were of opinion it was indispensable to add four propositions to those the Baron had authorised Power to make. Without the first, neither Sebastian, nor any other person concerned or interested in the important undertaking, would take any step for its success. These propositions were,

that

1. If any person should lose his office, on account of promoting the Baron's views, he should be indemnified by the king of Spain.

2. The northern boundary of the king's dominion should be a line drawn from the mouth of the river Yazoo to the river Tombeckbee; and the northernmost Spanish fort should be six miles below that line.

3. But the king should retain the fort of San Fernando de Barancas (Chickasaw bluffs) with the land around it, ceded to him by the ludians by their treaty with Gayoso.

4. The king should not interfere, directly or indirectly, with the form of government or laws, which the western people should adopt.

Sebastian undertook to communicate the Baron's propositions, with the above amendments, to Innis and Nicholas. To conceal the real object of Power's journey, and avoid the resentment of the people of Louisville, who were enraged at his frequent visits and threatened to tar and feather him, it was agreed

that, after having seen Wilkinson at Detroit, he should return by Greenville, Cincinnati, Newport, Georgetown, and Frankfort, to meet Innis and Nicholas, and be informed of the success of their efforts; and that Sebastian, and another person, should accompany him to New-Orleans. Notwithstanding he (Sebastian) was of opinion that, for the present, all the means and efforts used to stimulate the western people to secede from the union, would be of no avail, he promised that nothing should be wanting, on his part, to obtain what was so much desired.

Power arrived in the neighbourhood of Detroit on the sixteenth of August, and finding that Wilkinson was then at Michilimackinac, he did not enter the fort. The general, immediately after his return, hearing of Power's arrival, had him arrested and brought to the fort, and thus got the Baron's dispatches. He gave a cold reception to the bearer, and informed him that the governor of the NorthWestern territory had orders to arrest and send him to Philadelphia, which could be prevented in no other manner than by sending him, under a strong guard to New-Madrid, without delay. He added, the Baron's project was a chimerical one, impossible to be executed, as the western people, having obtained, by the late treaty, all that they wanted, have no need of any connexion or alliance with Spain, nor any motive for a separation from the Atlantic states, even if France and Spain should make them the most advantageous offers-that the ferment which existed four years ago, had now subsided, and the vexations and depredations which the American commerce had suffered from the privateers of France, created an implacable hatred for that nation. He added that the people of Kentucky had proposed to

him to raise an army of ten thousand men, to take New-Orleans, in case of a rupture with Spain, and the governor of Louisiana had no other measure to pursue, under the present circumstances, than fully to comply with the treaty. He complained that all his plans were overturned, and all his labours for ten years past lost. He added that, he had destroyed all his cyphers and burnt his correspondence with the governors of Louisiana, and duty and honor did not permit him to continue it. The Baron, however, need not apprehend his confidence should be abused

that if Spain surrendered the district of Natchez to the United States, they would probably make him governor, and he should not then lack the opportunity of promoting his political projects. He complained that his connexion with the colonial government had been divulged-that Don Zenon Trudeau, the commandant at St. Louis, had sent emissaries among the Indian nations within the territory of the United States, inviting them to come and settle within that of Spain, as the Spanish king was at war with the British, and would soon be with the French.

On the sixth, Wilkinson delivered his answer, for the Baron, to Power, and immediately compelled the latter to depart for New-Marid, by the way of the Wabash, under a guard commanded by captain Shaumburg. On passing through Vincennes, Power sent an express to Louisville, in order to apprise Sebastian of what happened."

Power concluded his report, by stating that, with regard to the people of Kentucky, Sebastian's opinion differed from Wilkinson's. The former had told him that should war be declared between Spain and the United States, Louisiana would have nothing to fear from the people of Kentucky; and insinutated