him.

Hardinge observing his composure, caught The general lived to hear that the battle was CD, at the hope that the wound might not be mortal," Are the French beaten?" was the question which and said to him, he trusted he would be spared to he repeated to every one who came into his apart the army. Moore turned his head and looking ment; and he expressed how great a satisfaction it stedfastly at the wound for a few seconds, replied, was to him to know that they were defeated. "I "No, Hardinge, feel that to be impossible." He hope," said he "the people of England will be satisthen ordered the captain to report his wound to gene-fied! I hope my country will do me justice.” Then ral Hope, who now assumed the command. As the addressing colonel Anderson, who had been his soldiers were carrying him slowly along, he made friend and companion for one and-twenty years, he them frequently turn round, that he might see the said to him " Anderson, you know I have always field of battle, and listen to the firing; and he was well wished to die this way-you will see my friends as pleased when the sound grew fainter. A spring soon as you can-tel! my mother"--but here his waggon came up, bearing colonel Wynch, who voice quite failed, and he became excessively agiwas wounded the colonel asked who was in the tated, and did not again venture to name her. Someblanket, and being told it was sir John Moore, times he asked to be placed in an easier posture.wished him to be placed in the waggon. Sir John" I feel myself so strong," he said, "I fear I shall asked one of the Highlanders whether he thought be long dying. It is great uneasiness-it is great the waggon or the blanket was better? The man pain." After some interval he said "Stanhope, rereplied that the blanket would not shake him so member me to your sister." Then pressing the much, as he and the other soldiers would keep the hand of colonel Anderson, he died without a strugstep, and carry him easy. "I think so too" said gle, in the 47th year of his age.

his reserve.

the general. So they proceeded with him to his Thus, to employ the language of lieutenant-gequarters at Corunna, the soldiers" says capt. Har-neral Hope, in a despatch which is among the most dinge,"shedding tears as they went " simple, clear, intelligible and interesting composi Many of the soldiers knew that their two chiefs tions of the kind that we have ever seen from the were carried off, yet they continued the fight un- plan of any modern commander, and may even bear daunted. General Paget, hastened to the right with to be compared with those of Julius Cæsar-thus Colonel Beckwith dashed on with the did sir John Moore, after conducting the army rifle corps, repelling the enemy, and advancing on through an arduous retreat with consummate firmtheir flank. They penetrated so far, as nearly to ness, terminate a career of distinguished honor by carry one of their cannon; but were at length for-death that has given the enemy additional reason to ced to retire, before a much superior force, which respect the name of a British soldier. Like the moved up from the valley. Paget then attacked this immortal Wolfe, he was snatched from his councorps with the 52nd and some more of the reserve try at an carly period of a life spent in her service; and quickly repelled it. He pressed on to a great like Wolfe, his last moments were gilded by the distance, dispersing every thing in his iront; till prospect of success, and cheered by the acclamathe enemy perceiving their left wing quite expesed, tion of victory; like Wolfe also his memory will drew it entirely back. The French then advanced ever remain sacred in that,country which he sinupon the centre, where generals Manningham and cerely loved, and which he had so faithfully served. Seith successfully resisted their onset. The ground. The benefits derived to an army from the examthere being more elevated, and favorable for artil ple of a distinguished commander, it was said in the lery, the guns were of great utility. An effort general orders which were issued on this occasion without success was likewise made on the left. But by the duke of York, do not terminate at his death: a corps of French took possession of a village on the road to Batanzos from which they continued to fire. On which lieutenant-colonel Nicholls boldly attacked the village, and beat out the enemy with

Light now began to fail, and the French had fall en back on every side; yet the roaring of cannon and report of musquetry, continued till dark.

his virtues live in the recollection of his associates, and his fame remains the strongest incentive to great and glorious actions.

In this view, the commander in chief, amidst the deep and universal regret, which the death of lieutenant-general sir John Moore occasioned, thought it his duty to recal to the troops the military career of that illustrious officer, for their inThe victory was complete though gained under struction and imitation. Sir John Moore from his great disadvantages. The French force amounted youth, embraced the profession with the feelings tó full 20,000 mer and the British had not 15,000. and sentiments of a soldier, he felt, that a perfect The superiority in artillery was equally great, and, knowledge, and an exact observance of the humbeing planted on the hills, they fired down upon ble, but inportant duties of a subaltern officer, are the British with dreadful effect. The French, the best foundations for subsequent military fame; too, cloathed in the very stores which they had and his ardent mind, while it looked forward to overtaken on the road, elated with a pursuit in those brilliant achievements, for which it was formwhich no man had been forced beyond his strength, ed, applied itself with energy and exemplary assi and hourly receiving reinforcements to their alrea duity, to the duties of that station. In the school dy superior numbers.-The English in a state of of regimental duty, he obtained that correct knowmisery, to which no army perhaps had ever before ledge of his profession so essential to the proper dibeen reduced till after a total defeat; having lost frection of the gallant spirit of the soldier ; and he their military chest, their stores, their baggage, their was enabled to establish a characteristic order, andi horses, their women and children, their sick, their regularity of conduct, because the troops found in wounded-every thing but their innate courage. their leader a striking example of the discipline The loss of the British in killed and wounded was which he enforced in others. Having risen to comabout 800 men, while that of the French, as gen mand, he signalized his name in the West Indies, Napier, while a prisoner, was informed, amounted in Holland and in Egypt. The unremitting atten to 2000. This was ascribed to to the quick firing tion with which he devoted himself to the duties of and steady aim of the British troops; the French every branch of his profession, obtained him the veteran officers declaring that they had never been confidence of sir Ralph Abercombr, and he became in so hot a fire. the companion in arms of that illustrious officer.

General Wilkinson.

INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 1812.

ral Peter Gansevoort is President, convened at Frederick-town, in the state of Maryland, on the 2nd of September, 1811, and continued by adjournments to the 25th of December following, brigadier-general James Wilkinson was tried on the following charges and specifications, viz :

CHARGE I.

That the said James Wilkinson, while in the mi

who fell at the head of his victorious troops, in an [but the rear-guards embarked without the slightest action which maintained the English superiority effort being made by the enemy to interrupt them. over the arms of France. Thus sir John Moore, Thus ended the first British campaign in Spain.at an early period, obtained with general approba-(17th January, 1809.) tion, that conspicuous station, in which he glori ously terminated his useful and honorable life. In a military character, obtained amidst the dangers of climate, the privations incident to service, and the sufferings of repeated wounds, it is difficult to select any one point as a preferable subject for praise; it exhibits however, one feature so particuJarly characteristic of the man, so important to the At a general court martial of which brigadier genebest interest of the service, that the commander in chief marked it with peculiar approbation. The life of sir John Moore was spent among the troops. During the season of repose, his time was devoted to the care and instruction of the officer and soldier; in war, he courted service in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of personal considerations, he esteemed that to which his country called him, the post of honor, and by his undaunted litary service, and holding the commission of brispirit, and unquestionable perseverance, he pointed gadier general in the army of the United States, the way to victory. His country, the object of his did corruptly stipulate to receive, and, by virtue of latest solicitude, will rear a monument to his such stipulation, did actually receive, by way of penlamented memory, and the commander in chief, sion or stipend, divers sums of money from the officers felt that he was paying the best tribute to his fame and agents of a foreign power; that is to say, from the by thus holding him forth as an example to the army Spanish officers and agents concerned in the adHe had often said that if he was killed in battle, ministration of the late provincial government of he wished to be buried where he fell. The body Louisiana and its dependencies, for the intent and was removed at midnight to the citadel of Corunna. A grave was dug for him on the rampart. No coffin Purpose of combining and co operating with that could be procured; and the officers of his staff and hostile to the peace, interests and union of these power, in designs adverse to the laws and policy, wrapped his body, dressed as it was, in a military states; contrary to his duty and allegiance as an eloak and blankets. The interment was hastened; officer and a citizen. for, about eight in the morning, some firing was heard, and the officers feared, that if a serious atSpecification 1. Two mule loads of money, (the tack were made, they should be ordered away, and amount unknown) being received at New Orleans not suffered to pay him their last duty. The offiby one Joseph Ballinger, for the use, and by the cers of his family bore him to his grave; the fune-account of the said pension, and delivered by the authority, of him the said James Wilkinson, on ral service was read by the chaplain; and the corps hands of one John Ballinger to him, the said James was covered with earth. A monument was after Wilkinson, at Frankfort, Kentucky, some time in wards raised on the spot by the marquis Romana; the month of December, 1789.. and in consequence of an address from the house of

pension.

commons to the king, it was ordered that his neof money, (the amount unknown) being received Specification 2. Two other mule or horse-loads mory should be honored in a similar manner, in the by him the said James Wilkinson, assisted by one cathedral church of St. Paul's, London. Upon weighing the circumstances under which autumn of the year 1789, also on account of the Philip Nolan, at New Orleans, some time in the the British army was placed and the reinforcements said pension. which were at hand and would soon reach the French, general Hope, upon whom the command wards, being received by one La Cassagne, at New Specification 3. Four thousand dollars and upnow devolved, considered that it would be impossi Orleans, some time in the year 1793, or in the year ble to retain his position long. A succession of attacks from fresh troops must ultimately over-said James Wilkinson, also on account of the said 1794, for the use, and by the authority, of him the whelm the British. At ten o'clock at night he ordered all the troops, by brigades, to move from the field, and march to Corunna. The boats were all ceived by one Henry Owens, at New Orleans, some Specification 4. Six thousand dollars, being rein 'readiness, and the previous measures had been time in the summer of the year 1794, for the use so well concerted, that nearly the whole army was and by the authority, of him the said James Wilembarked during the night. The piquets were kinson, also on account of the said pension. withdrawn before day-light, and immediately car ried on board the ships, so that nothing remained wards, that is to say, from six thousand three hunSpec fication 5 Six thousand dollars and upon shore but the rear-guard. The French had no dred and thirty three, to eleven thousand dollars, disposition to renew the engagement; but when the morning rose, and they saw that the British were lins, at New Orleans, some time in the summer of or thereabout, being received by one Joseph Colgone, they pushed on their highttroops to St. Lucia. the year 1794, for the use and by the authority, of They created a little alarm among the transports him the said James Wilkinson, also on account of the said pension.

*The whole of this order is so beautiful, says the Specification 6. Six thousand five hundrd and auther of a "Cursory view of the lute administra-ninety dollars, being received for the use, and by tion," that it deserves to be retained in the memory the authority, of him the said James Wilkinson, of every military man. It not only teaches the duty at New-Orleans, by some person unknown, some of a soldier, but inspires a laudable ambition of de-time prior to the date of a letter from the said James erving the same just but simple praise. Wilkinson to one John Adair; in, whigh letter, dan

ted the 7th of August, 1795, the receipt of that the execution of the said unlawful plot and confedsum is mentioned, also on account of said pension. eracy, which correspondence was carried on by Specification 7. Nine thousand six hundred and means of a certain emissary employed by the said forty dollars being sent by the Baron de Carondelet, governor Gayoso, named Thomas Power; and did governor general of Louisiana, from New Orleans, at the same time direct the said Thomas Power to some time in the month of January, 1796, and by lay certain observations verbally before the said gohis direction, deposited at New Madrid for the use, vernor Gayoso and the baron de Carondelet, calcuand subject to the order of him the said James Wil-lated to arrange and settle a plan for continuing a kinson; and afterwards, some in the summer of secret and unlawinl correspondence between him, 1796, taken by one Thomas Power from New Ma- the said James Wilkinson, and the Spanish officers drid to Louisville, and by him delivered over to one and agents in the province of Louisiana; and for Philip Nolan, by the direction and authority and secretly preparing the means necessary to the exefor the use of him the said James Wilkinson, also on cution of the said unlawful plot and confederacy. account of the said pension; he the said Power, Specification 2. He, the said James Wilkinson, retaining out of the said sum of money, six hundred in pursuance of his said unlawful plot and confedeand forty dollars, for defraying his expences, and racy, and in continuation of his said unlawful and receiving the instructions of him the said James treasonable correspondence, on or about the 22d Wilkinson, to secure for him the reimbursement of the same from the Spanish government. Specification 8. Ten thousand dollars, or there about, being received by him the said James Wi! kinson, at New Orleans, some time between the 7th of December, 1803, and the 21st of April, 1804, also on account of the said pension.

day of September, in the year 1796, did send from Fort Washington, a certain letter in cypher, addressed to the said governor Gayoso, for the purpose of further devising ways and means to conceal the treasonable correspondence and confederacy be tween him, the said James Wilkinson, and the Spanish officers and agents in Louisiana, and furSpecification 9. He the said James Wilkinson, ther to advise and devise ways and means to execute (in consideration of having so corruptly engaged the unlawful objects of the same. himself with the Spanish government) receiving at Specification 3. He, the said James Wilkinson, divers other places yet unknown, and on divers in pursuance of his said unlawful plot and confedeother days and times, between the first day of Ja-racy, and in continuation of his said unlawful and nuary, in the year 1789, and the 21st of April, in treasonable correspondence, did cause and procure the year 1804, by divers secret ways and means, a his confidential agent, Philip Nolan, to write cerpension, stipend, or gratuity, from the officers and tain instructions to the said emissary, Thomas Powagents of that government.

Spec fication 10. He the said James Wilkinson, did, some time in the month of October, in the year 1798, at the camp at Loftus' Heights, in a secret conference there with one Daniel Clark, set up a claim to ten thousand dollars as a balance due to

him, the said James Wilkinson, from the Spanish government, on account of his said pension or stipend, and did then and there request the said Daniel Clark, to propose to the Spanish governor Gay Oso, that the latter should, in consideration of the) said balance of ten thousand dollars, due to the said James Wilkinson from the Spanish treasury, transfer to him, the said James Wilkinson, a planta tion near the Natchez, then belonging to the said Gayoso.

CHARGE II.

er, for the prudential government of his, the said Thomas Power's conduct, in performing the part assigned in the said plot and confederacy, and for the purpose of regulating the said Thomas Power's preceedings therein, so as to guard him against detection or mistake.

Specification 4. He, the said James Wilkinson, 1797, at Frankfort, at Cincinnati, at Greenville, on divers days and times, in the year 1795, 1796 and at Detroit and at Fort Washington, did hold divers secret and unlawful conferences and calculations

with the said Spanish emissary, Thomas Power, both by day and by night, for the purpose of advis ing and devising the means of executing his said unlawful plot and confederacy.

Specification 5. He, the said James Wilkinson, That he, the said James Wilkinson, while in at divers other days and times, between the 1st day military service, and holding the commission of of January, 1789, and the 21st day of April, in the brigadier general in the army of the United States, year 1801, at divers places in the United States, and did combine and confederate himself with the offi- at New-Orleans and divers other places in the procers and agents of a foreign power; that is to say, vince of Louisiana, did, in pursuance of the said with the Spanish officers and agents concerned in plot and confederacy, and in further continuation the administration of the late provincial govern- of the said unlawful correspondence, hold and carment of Louisiana, for the purpose of devising and ry on divers other secret, unlawful and treasonable carving into effect certain pernicious and treasona-conferences, correspondence and consultations with ble projects for the dismemberment of the United the said Thomas Power, with one Gilberto Leonard, States, and for an unlawful and treasonable confed. eracy between certain dismembered portions of the United States and the said foreign power; and, for that purpose and intent, did hold divers secret con sultations, and carry on secret and treasonable correspondences with certain officers, agents and emissaries of that power, contrary to his duty and allegiance as an officer and a citizen.

Andres Armesty, the baron de Carondelet and goerror Gayoso, all officers or agents of the provincial government of Louisiana, and with divers other confederates, as yet unknown, engaged on behalî of the said government.

CHARGE III.

That he, the said James Wilkinson, while commanding the army of the United States, by virtue Specification 1. He, the said James Wilkinson, in of his said commission of brigadier general, did pursuance, and in execution of his said unlawful combine and confederate himself with known traipot and confederacy, did, some time in the months tors, or with those known to be conspiring treason of October and November, in the year 1795, at against the United States; with intent to promote Cincinnati, carry on a treasonable correspondence and advance the consummation of such treason, or with the Spanish governors, the baron de Caronde-conspiracy of treason, contrary to his duty and atlet and don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, touching legiance as an officer and a citizen.

Specification. He, the said James Wilkinson, supplying provisions, as provided in the 2d, 4th and combining and confederating with one Aaron Burr 5th articles of said contract.

and his associates and coadjutors, in the years 1805 Specification 2. In not selecting previous to the and 1806, in a certain treasonable conspiracy to removal of the troops to the Mississippi territory, dismember the United States, by affecting a sepa- in September, 1809, and in not leaving at the hosration and division of the states and territories west of the Alleghany, from those to the east, and to set up a separate and independent empire to be composed of such western states and territories.

CHARGE IV.

pital in New Orleans, under the care of proper officers and physicians, such of the sick and convalescent as could not be removed without manifest and increased danger of their lives, and in so distribut ing the men in the transports, when removing, as That he, the said James Wilkinson, while com-to incommode and endanger both the sick and well, manding the army of the United States, by virtue of thereby disregarding and defeating the primary his said commission of brigadier general, and being object of the order for removal. bound by the duties of his office, and by his fidelity Specification 3. In not ordering the military agent as a citizen, to do all that in him lay to discover at New Orleans to make the necessary advances of and frustrate all treasons and conspiracies against money to the brigade and regimental quarter-masthe United States, did, nevertheless, connive at and ters, and in not giving orders for the troops to repermit conspiracies of treason, and did encourage ceive their pay, clothing, medicines and hospital and abet the same, by his countenance, as com- stores, which were in readiness for them in New mander of the army. Orleans at the time of their ascending the river in September, 1809. CHARGE VII. Misapplication and waste of public money andsupplies.

Specification. He, the said James Wilkinson, in the years 1805 and 1806, receiving from the said Aaron Burr and his associates confidential commu nications of their treasonable designs, and permitting their solicitations of his active co-operation in their treason, without his making any timely discovery of their pernicious designs. CHARGE V.

That he, the said James Wilkinson, while commanding the army of the United States, by virtue of his said commission, and being bound by the duties of his office to do all that in him lay to discover and to frustrate all such enormous violations of the law as tended to endanger the peace and tranquility of the United States, did, nevertheless, unlawfully combine and conspire to set on foot a mili tary expedition against the territories of a nation then at peace with the United States.

Specification. He, the said James Wilkinson, in the years 1805 and 1806, combining and conspiring with Aaron Burr and his associates, to set on foot a military expedition against the Spanish provinces and territories in America.

CHARGE VI.

Disobedience of orders.

Specification 1. In that the said general Wilkinson, in May 1805, ordered the assistant military a ent at Pittsburgh to pay for the transportation of his private property from Baltimore, out of the public money" and place the same to the account of public transportation for military service.”

Specification 2. In halting a detachment of the consisting of several companies, which detachment army at Louisville, Kentucky, in February, 1809, was descending the Ohio in transports, and in then and there detaining said detachment to take on board ten horses, the private property of said general Wilkinson, which horses were transported in public boats to New Orleans by his order, and were fed at public expense for several months.

annexed to the provision abstracts of the army con Specification 3. In authorising certificates to be tractor, to enable the contractor to receive from government the full price of good and wholesome provisions, when it was well known to the said general Wilkinson that a great portion of the provisions comprised in those abstracts, so passed in the summer and autumn of 1809, were unmerchantable and unfit for use.

To which charges and specifications general Wilkinson pleaded "Not Guilty."

Specification. In that the said brigadier-general James Wilkinson, being then in command of the troops assembled at New Orleans, was, by written orders and instructions from the war department, dated April 30th, 1809, required and directed to give the necessary orders for the immediate removal of Wednesday, Dec. 25th 1811.-The court being said troops to the high ground in the rear of Fort cleared, proceeded to form and deliver its definitive Adams, and to the high ground in the rear of Nat-sentence as follows, viz: chez, in the Mississippi territory, referring to his On the first charge, and the ten specifications discretion to occupy those stations respectively with attached to that charge, (after hearing all the evisuch portion of troops as he should judge most con-dence both for and against the accused, and due venient and proper; which order and instructions deliberation being had thereon) the court is of apithe said general Wilkinson wholly neglected and nion, that they are not supported, and therefore refused to obey, and did, there-afterwards, in the acquits brigadier general Wilkinson of all and cach month of June following, cause said troops to be removed in a contrary direction to a station called It is due to the nature and magnitude of this trial Terre au Bœuf, below New-Orleans, at which sta- to state, the testimony adduced in support of the tion he formed an encampment and remained until two first charges, and their several specifications, the month of September following. appears to be well calculated to warrant the suspiCHARGE VII. cions which have long prevailed, of a corrupt conNeglect of duty. nexion between said Wilkinson and the late SpanSpecification 1. In that the said general Wilkin-ish provincial government of Louisiana, and fully son permitted bad and unwholesome provisions to to justify a legal inquiry into the grounds of them. be issued to, and consumed by the troops under his The court, to the best of its ability, has pursued command, during the summer and autumn of 1809, this enquiry-which has been the more laborious and did not exercise the right of a commanding offi- and perplexing, from the agreement of the govern cer, in respect to the execution of the contract made ment and accused, to admit, on all the charges and by James Morrison with the war department, for specifications, without discrimination, the docu

of them.

mental testimony, collected and reported to the attached to that charge, (after hearing all evidence, house of representatives by several committees of both for and against the accused, and due delibera that body, as also part of the testimony given on tion being had thereon) the court is of opinion, the trial of Aaron Burr much of which is unes- that said charge and specifications are not supportsential as to matter, and incorrect as to form, and ed, and therefore acquits brigadier-general James inadmissible in judicial proceedings on any other Wilkinson of all and each of them. principle than that above stated.

The evidence adduced in support of said charge Hence the admission of testimony in support of and specifications, appears in a great measure, to the two first specifications to the first charge, grow out of the private correspondence of general though it is within the knowlege of some of the Wilkinson with the Spanish officers and agents, court, that, in 1789, (the time when it is alledged the statement of one witness, and the oral testimothe accused received of the agents of Spain large ny, desposition and narrative of another. sums of money on account of a pension or stipend) It appears evident to the court, that, in 1795, a said Wilkinson did not hold a commission in the considerable sum of money was due to general army of the United States, and therefore is not Wilkinson from the Spanish government at Newamenable to a military tribunal for those alledged Orleans, on account of his commercial transacoffences; nor do the records of this court exhibit tions. This circumstance is deemed sufficient to any evidence in support of them.

son,

account for such parts of said correspondence as In support of the other eight specifications to the preserve the riendship of the officers and agents of has been proved, which was apparently intended to first charge, the evidence arising from said docu the Spanish power; to magnify the importance of mental testimony is mostly relied on; part of which has been confirmed, under oath in open court, by general Wilkinson in their view; to secure his proone of the original deponents. Unquestionable evi-and to facilitate its remittance from that place. perty then under their control at New-Orleans; dence appears on the records of this court, exhibited on the part of the accused, that general Wilkin said to be in cypher, bearing date the 22d of SepThere is no proof before the court, that the letter in the month of August, 1788, obtained of the tember, 1796, was actually written by general Spanish provincial government of Louisiana, the Wilkinson, and forwarded by him to governor privilege of carrying the products of Kentucky to Gayoso, as said letter imports: On the contrary, the New Orleans market; that the said products, the only witness who has testified on this point, thus carried or forwarded by him prior to the year does not pretend to the least knowledge of the fact; 1790, as appears by the several accounts current, and all he pretends to know is, that said letter was sold in said market for more than eighty thousand put into his hands by said Gayoso, who certified it dollars-a sum of greater magnitude than is alledg to be a decyphered copy of one written by general ed, in the specifications to the first charge, to have Wilkinson, addressed to himself. been received by said Wilkinson on account of his pension or stipend; that during the year 1790, the Strong doubts are entertained by the court, wheshipments of said Wilkinson, to a very considera- ther gen. Wilkinson ever directed the emissary, ble amount, appear to have been sold, by particu- mentioned in said specifications, to lay before the lar agreement, to governor Mira, who purchased baron de Carondelet and governor Gayoso the verthem on account of the king of Spain-the pro- bal observations alluded to in the first specification, ceeds of which were subsequently remitted to said because the court has no other proof than the tesWilkinson at various times, and by means of various timony o said emissary, whose general character, persons, and therefore a strong presumption results as to truth and veracity, has been impeached by from the evidence, that the several sums embraced several creditable witnesses, and whose conduct by the several specifications to the first charge, (al- before the court, while under the obligations of an ledged to have been received by said Wilkinson, on oath, was such as to render his allegations suspi. account of his Spanish pension or stipend) were cious-because his testimony, in general, appears part of the avails due to said Wilkinson on account to have been given under the dominion of strong of the several shipments made by him during the prejudices, if not malice-because the testimony period of his commercial transactions at New-Or- of said emissary, so far as it is applicable to the leans. points in issue, is contrary to the most solemn asThe preceding remarks are grounded on proofs, surrances, both written and verbal, previously both direct and collateral; from the whole of which made, and uttered by him to various persons, even a violent presumption arises, that the connexion, so recent as 1807-and because said testimony apformerly subsisting between general Wilkinson and pears to have been voluntarily offered, after a lapse the late Spanish provincial government of Louisiana, of many years; which in any case ought to be adwas exclusively of a commercial nature, which mitted with some caution, and much more so, from was maintained on the part of said Wilkinson, by the character of the witness and emissary in such means as his policy and interest suggested to question.

ensure success, though tending to excite jealousies The court is of opinion that the instructions to and unfavorable suspicions of his views; that said said emissary, alledged to be in the hand-writing of Wilkinson made no shipments, subsequent to the Philip Nolan (if any such were ever authorised by year 1790, and that the avails of said shipments general Wilkinson) were mostly intended to accomwere occasionally remitted to him till the year 1796, plish an object by no means criminal, which grew when the account between general Wilkinson and out of the dispute at that time unfortunately subsistgovernor Miro was finally closed, and balanced by ing between him and the late general Wayne. their respective agents-after which there is no evi- The records of this court will shew that the witdence of the receipt of money by him from said ness first alluded to, by two letters addressed to said Spanish provincial government, or any of its emissary just before he exhibited his statement unagents, except in one instance, by his own volun-der oath, in January, 1808, and in contemplation of tary confession, and that on account of former that statement, manifested such a decided hostility mercantile contracts. to said Wilkinson, as apparently to meditate his On the second charge, and the five specifications ruin without regard to the means.

The mo