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  OUTLINE. 
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  patch 
  an 
  emissary, 
  an 
  intelligent 
  Englishman 
  named 
  

   Power, 
  to 
  Kentucky, 
  to 
  confer 
  secretly 
  with 
  the 
  most 
  

   influential 
  individuals 
  who 
  were 
  disposed 
  to 
  a 
  separation 
  

   from 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  States, 
  and 
  an 
  alliance 
  with 
  Spain; 
  

   to 
  give 
  assurances 
  of 
  the 
  concurrence 
  of 
  the 
  government 
  

   of 
  Louisiana, 
  and 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  tender 
  of 
  arms, 
  ammuni- 
  

   tion, 
  and 
  money. 
  

  

  The 
  affairs 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  were 
  further 
  complicated 
  

   by 
  the 
  demand 
  made 
  by 
  Georgia, 
  through 
  her 
  commis- 
  

   sioner 
  Colonel 
  Thomas 
  Green, 
  for 
  the 
  surrender 
  of 
  that 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  lying 
  north 
  of 
  latitude 
  31°, 
  as 
  being 
  

   within 
  her 
  chartered 
  limits. 
  

  

  The 
  demand 
  was 
  treated 
  with 
  derision, 
  but 
  this 
  bold 
  

   assumption 
  of 
  Colonel 
  Green, 
  a 
  Spanish 
  subject, 
  who 
  

   had 
  but 
  recently 
  emigrated 
  from 
  Tennessee, 
  rendered 
  

   him 
  an 
  object 
  of 
  suspicion, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  first 
  plausible 
  

   pretext 
  he 
  was 
  placed 
  in 
  confinement. 
  

  

  The 
  vigilance 
  of 
  the 
  government 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   rendered 
  Genet's 
  scheme 
  abortive, 
  and 
  his 
  agents 
  in 
  the 
  

   south 
  were 
  arrested 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  measures 
  taken 
  

   by 
  the 
  legislature 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina. 
  

  

  Power, 
  on 
  his 
  return, 
  having 
  recommended 
  that 
  an 
  

   officer 
  of 
  rank 
  should 
  be 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  

   to 
  meet 
  with 
  several 
  influential 
  individuals 
  of 
  Kentucky 
  

   whom 
  he 
  had 
  visited, 
  and 
  who 
  still 
  entertained 
  the 
  de- 
  

   sign 
  of 
  a 
  separation 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  people 
  from 
  the 
  

   Union, 
  Don 
  Manuel 
  Gayoso 
  de 
  Lemos, 
  then 
  the 
  com- 
  

   mandant 
  at 
  Natchez, 
  was 
  accordingly 
  dispatched 
  by 
  

   Baron 
  de 
  Carondelet, 
  early 
  in 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1795, 
  on 
  

   this 
  mission, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  ostensible 
  object 
  of 
  erecting 
  a 
  

   fort 
  at 
  the 
  Chickasaw 
  Bluffs. 
  

  

  Power, 
  sent 
  by 
  Gayoso 
  for 
  the 
  purpose, 
  met 
  with 
  Se- 
  

   bastian 
  at 
  the 
  Red 
  Banks. 
  Innis, 
  Nicholas, 
  and 
  others 
  

   expected, 
  were 
  prevented 
  by 
  various 
  causes 
  from 
  being 
  

  

  