Notes for Regarding a Spanish Spy: Page #2

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Lexington, Virginia Augt 9, 797--

Sir,

I fell in with two Pennsylvanians to day who had left Natchez the ninth of June, almost a month later than I had left it. They tell me that nothing had been done, or even said upon the subject of the line, & that the Govr had not attempted any violence with the Inhabitants. They further add that when they had got two or three days journey into the wilderness, they were overtaken by a Doctor Powers who came with them to Cumberland, that a Mr. Allen from the Chickasaws, who went in Compy from that place, upon their arrival at Nashville made information to the Magistrates, that he had reason to believe Mr. Powers to be a Spy & emissary of the Spaniards, that he had had much conversation with Wolf’s friend, & that from innumerable expressions which he had left drop on the road he was led to this conclusion. He was accordingly taken into custody, & after having kept him for five days, under the fullest conviction of his being guilty of the charge imputed to him, yet his address, his oratory, his rascallity prevailed. He frightened them