The conduct of Judge Innes is difficult to explain on any ground consistent with his integrity and with the official propriety of his actions.

He may not have been a party to Wilkinson's conspiracy, but he must certainly have known that Wilkinson was engaged in negotiations with the Spaniards so corrupt that they would not bear the light of exposure, or else he would never have behaved toward the murderers in the way that he did behave.

[Footnote: Marshall, II., 155; Green, p.328.Even recently defenders of Wilkinson and Innes have asserted, in accordance with Wilkinson's explanations, that the money forwarded him was due him from tobacco contracts entered into some years previously with Miro.

Carondelet in his letters above quoted, however, declares outright that the money was advanced to begin negotiations in Kentucky, through Wilkinson and others, for the pensioning of Kentuckians in the interests of Spain and the severance of the Western States from the Union.] Carondelet Refuses to Give up the Posts.
Carondelet, through De Lemos, entered into correspondence with Wayne about the fort built by his orders at the Chickasaw Bluffs.

He refused to give up this fort; and as Wayne became more urgent in his demands, he continually responded with new excuses for delay.