" Mr. Ferdinand Lemos, New Orleans, in the "Bee," January 29, 1838.

" Mr. Ferdinand Lemos, New Orleans, in the "Bee," January 29, 1838.

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Baron de Carondelet to Manuel Gayrso de Lemos, Aug. 20, 1794; Carondelet to Duke Alcudia, Sept. 25, 1795; Carondelet's Letter of July 9, 1795; Carondelet's Letter of Sept. 27, 1793.

[Footnote: Do., Carondelet to Don Louis De Las Casas, June 13, 1795, enclosing letter from Don M. G. De Lemos, Governor of Natchez.

[Footnote: Do., Manuel Gayoso De Lemos to Carondelet, Nogales, July 25, 1793.]

" [Footnote: Carondelet to De Lemos, Aug. 15, 1793.]

All this of course was done in the interests of the Spaniards themselves and in accordance with the earnest desire of the United States authorities to prevent any unlawful attack on Louisiana; yet Carondelet actually sent word to Gayoso de Lemos, the Governor of Natchez and the upper part of the river, to persuade the Chickasaws secretly to attack this fort and destroy it.

[Footnote: Draper MSS., Spanish Documents, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos to the Duke de Alcudia, Natchez, Sept. 19, 1794.] Gayoso and Carondelet.

[Footnote: Draper MSS., De Lemos to Carondelet, Dec. 23, 1793.]

The Governor of Natchez, De Lemos, had already established a fort at the Chickasaw Bluffs, where there was danger of armed collision between the Spaniards and either the Cumberland settlers under Robertson or the Federal troops.

[Footnote: Draper MSS., Spanish Documents, Carondelet to Don Louis de Las Casas, June 13, 1795; De Lemos to Carondelet, July 25, 1793.]

[Footnote: Do., De Lemos to Alcudia, Sept. 19, 1794.]

De Lemos was sent to New Madrid in October to begin the direct negotiations with Wilkinson and his allies.

Carondelet was much encouraged as to the outcome by the fact that De Lemos had not been dispossessed by force from the Chickasaw Bluffs.

The first active step taken by Carondelet and De Lemos was to send the twelve thousand dollars to Wilkinson, as the foundation and earnest of the bribery fund.

[Footnote: Do., letters of Carondelet to Alcudia, Oct. 4, 1794, and of De Lemos to Carondelet, Aug. 28, 1795.]

The Spaniards were very nervous about the affair, and were even afraid lest travellers might dig up Owen's body and find the dispatches hidden in his collar; which, said De Lemos, they might send to the President of the United States, who would of course take measures to find out what the money and the ciphers meant.

[Footnote: Do., letter of De Lemos.]

Carondelet, through De Lemos, entered into correspondence with Wayne about the fort built by his orders at the Chickasaw Bluffs.

[Footnote: Do., De Lemos to Carondelet, enclosed in Carondelet's letter of Sept. 26, 1795.

The Posts Surrendered Meanwhile Carondelet and De Lemos had persisted in declining to surrender the posts at the Chickasaw Bluffs and Natchez, on pretexts which were utterly frivolous.