Spain yielded, because she felt that not to do so would involve the loss of all Louisiana.

[Footnote: Gayarre, 413, 418; Pontalba's Memoir, Sept.

15, 1800.] The country was organized as the Mississippi Territory in June, 1798.

[Footnote: American State Papers, Public Lands, I., p.

209.] Blount's Extraordinary Scheme.
There was one incident, curious rather than important, but characteristic in its way, which marked the close of the transactions of the Western Americans with Spain at this time.