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lately been brought about by the intrigues with the 

 Indians." 28 



At the same time that the bill for these expenses 

 was submitted for audit to the home government 

 the Spanish Governor also submitted his accounts 

 for the expenses in organizing the expedition against 

 the "English adventurer Bowles," and in negotiat- 

 ing with Wilkinson and other Kentucky sepa- 

 ratists, and also in establishing a Spanish post at 

 the Chickasaw Bluffs, for which he had finally ob- 

 tained the permission of the Chickasaws. The 

 Americans of course regarded the establishment 

 both of the fort at the Chickasaw Bluffs and the 

 fort at Nogales as direct challenges; and Caronde- 

 let's accounts show that the frontiersmen were en- 

 tirely justified in their belief that the Spaniards not 

 only supplied the Creeks with arms and munitions 

 of war, but actively interfered to prevent them from 

 keeping faith and carrying out the treaties which 

 they had signed. The Spaniards did not wish the 

 Indians to go to war unless it was necessary as a 

 last resort. They preferred that they should be 

 peaceful, provided always they could prevent the 

 intrusion of the Americans. Carondelet wrote: 

 "We have inspired the Creeks with pacific intentions 

 toward the United States, but with the precise re- 

 striction that there shall be no change of the boun- 

 daries," * 9 and he added that "to sustain our allied 



98 Draper MSS. , Letter of Carondelet, New Orleans, Sept. 



25, 1795- 

 w Draper MSS., Spanish Docs. ; Carondelet's Report, Oct. 



23, 1793- 



