‘ocS DA TH OP A P_EsRyS, 
the interefts of the United States 
and of Spain; and he was therefore 
anxious to ‘conceal it from both. 
But when they confidered his at- 
tempt to’ feduce Carey from his 
duty as a faithful interpreter, and 
‘to employ: him as an engine to 
alienate'the aifection and confidence 
of the Indians from the public offi- 
cers of the. United States refiding 
among them; the meafures he has 
propofed to excite a temper which 
muft produce’ the recall or expul- 
fion of our fuperintendent from the 
Creek nation; his infidious advice 
tending to the advancement of his 
own popularity and confequence at 
the expence and hazard of the good 
opinion which the Indians entertain 
of this government, and of the 
treaties fubfifting between us and 
them, —your committee have no 
doubt that Mr. Blount’s conduét 
has been inconfiftent with his pub- 
lic duty, renders him unwotthy of 
a further centinuance of his prefent 
public truft in this body, and 
amounts to a high mifdemeanor. 
—They therefore unanimoufly re- 
commend to the fenate an adoption 
ef the following refolution: 
- Refolyed, That William Blount, 
Efg. one of the fenators of the 
United States, hath been guilty of 
‘a high mifdemeanor, entirely in- 
sconfiftent with his public truft and 
Auty as a fenator of the United 
States. 
On Friday July 7, the following Meffage 
vas received by the Senate from the 
, Houfe of Representatives. 
Mr. Prefident, 
I AM commanded bythe Houfe 
“of Reprefentatives, in their name, 
and in the name of the people of 
the United States, at the bar of 
your houfe, te impeach: William . 
Blount, a member of the fenate, ~ 
and to inform you, that they will 
exhibit, in due time, articles» of 
impeachment again{t him, and make 
good the fame. I am alfo com- 
manded to demand that the faid 
William‘Blount be fequeftered from 
his feat in the fenate, and that or 
ders be taken for his appearance to 
anfwer the charges which they fhall 
bring againft him. 
On Saturday, July 8, a motio 
was put and carried for the expul- 
fion of Mr. Blount. : 
Authentic Documents, laid before Congrefs 
by the Prefident of the United States. 
Note from the Britifh Minifer. 
R. LISTON prefents his refpedts 
to Colonel Pickering, fecretary of 
ftate. 
When you firft mentioned to 
me the fufpicions expreffed by the 
Spanifh minifter refpecting an ex- 
pedition fuppofed to be preparing 
on the Lakes, with a view to attack 
the Spanifh pofts in Louifiana, I 
took the liberty of obferving to you, 
that I had no knowledge of any 
~ fuch preparations, and did not be- 
lieve they exifted. 
I have fince requefted informa- 
tion on the fubject from the gover. 
nor-general of Canada, and his Ma- 
jefty’s fecretary of ftate ; and I have 
authority to affure you, that:no ex- 
pedition of the nature of that al- 
luded to, has been or is intended 
by the Britifh government. Indee 
the impropriety of violating the 
neutral territory of the United 
‘States, is an objection’ of fufficient 
magnitude to induce the King’s 
minifters to reject any fuch plan, 
were it fuggefted to them. « 
Philadeljhia, June 19, ¥197. 
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