242 The Winning of the West 



itude from the Mississippi to the Chattahoochee, 

 down it to the Flint, thence to the head of the St. 

 Mary's, and down it to the ocean. The Spanish 

 troops were to be withdrawn from this territory 

 within the space of six months. The Westerners 

 were granted for three years the right of deposit 

 at New Orleans; after three years either the right 

 was to be continued, or another equivalent port of 

 deposit was to be granted somewhere on the banks 

 of the Mississippi. The right of deposit carried 

 with it the right to export goods from the place of 

 deposit free from any but an inconsiderable duty. 42 

 The treaty was ratified in 1796, but with astonish- 

 ing bad faith the Spaniards refused to carry out its 

 provisions. At this time Carondelet was in the midst 

 of his negotiations with Wilkinson for the secession 

 of the West, and had high hopes that he could bring 

 it about. He had chosen as his agent an English- 

 man, named Thomas Power, who was a naturalized 

 Spanish subject, and very zealous in the service of 

 Spain. 43 Power went to Kentucky, where he com- 

 municated with Wilkinson, Sebastian, Innes, and one 

 or two others, and submitted to them a letter from 

 Carondelet. This letter proposed a treaty, of which 

 the first article was that Wilkinson and his associates 

 should exert themselves to bring about a separation 

 of the Western country and its formation into an 

 independent government wholly unconnected with 



48 American State Papers, Foreign Relations, I, p. 533, etc. ; 

 Pinckney to Secretary of State, Aug. n, 1795; to Godoy (Al- 

 cudia), Oct. 24, 1795; copy of treaty, Oct. 27th, etc. 



48 Gayarre, III, 345. Wilkinson's Memoirs, II, 225. 



