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NAtiricAL livl-ALLIGENCE. MAILS—WiodW. ARR. ARR. Doi: o Gottenburgh o 4 s I Litboai 0 -DubUn Waterfed OM.M. , MIMMOD tOREAT. OCTOBER 6. Arrived his Majetty's thip Hisaamia, from Ply. Mouth, and remains with the Channel Fleet .under the command of Lord GAIDNII.—Wind S. W. PLYMOUI H. OCTOBER 6. Came in the Galen, Captain STEnsrAw, from *II rnington, with naval tiores for the dock yard ; Speed. well, Capt. LE AKE a, from Cork f and the SCOR of 18 guns, from a cruize. Sailed the RALEIGH, br 18 guns, on a cruize; Sanfon, —, from America. PORTSMOU IV. OCTOBER y. Arrived the Jane, GoTr (an American), from Lifbon,for London; his M 41 mRESIST•NCE and Limner r, from a cruize ; alio The American brig Unity, ; the had been captured by the French Tchooner privateer Veptur, which - 1s alfo captured by his Majetty's (hip Boa liatS, off this port—fle had been oit from Sr. Malnes 36 hours, and only made the above capture.—Wind S. W. DOVER, OCTOBER 7. 1 Palled by yell erda y the (hip Bonafide, Captain I Jursam, from Rriterdam for Ireland ; and the chip Mercury, Captain Rocha*, from Charleflon hound to London. The Kniphaufen hoy Die Cute &Ole, Captain Simians, from Rotterdam hound to Dublin, with a caw) of bark, unfhrtunaraly Hoick againil the South Pier Head, in cc tiny; f.r our harbour this afternoon, and received Co much damage as to cattle b:r to fink immediately ; (he wai hauled in. Her cargo, it is foppofed, will be entirely fpoilt. Paired by this day a fleet cf coatlers from the weflward, hound to the River. Wind S. W. by W. and blows • ft Tong. DEAL, OCTOt'ER 7. Arrived his Majetty's (hip Qusser, from the Northward, and remains in the Dawns v.ich the (hips as per lati.—Wind S. W. YAP MOUTH, OCTOBER 7. Arrived tl.is mooning the 3tvaN cutter, with dir. patches fr , •tn At!mital GAMBIER, which were imme4 diately fotwarrlrd for London. Yefietday, P. M. paired to the Eanward, a fleet o f tre nfpoits, with llotts from Copenhagen ; alto [mut metchantmen from the Baltic. The Pdaluc, Rubinfon, from the Baltic for Lon• don, *as captured on the 28th tilt. retaken the next day by the Arbiable frigate, and carried into Yar• mouth. The Corcordia, jAppie, from Leghorn for Lon don, is 101 l on the &Imes, and three of the crew drowned. _ _ _ The Friencifhip, Miller, from Briflol and Sr. Tho. bias's f Jamaica, has been captured by a French privateer, And carried into Cuba, and condemned, but is fince arrived at Jamaica. The John At kinc —, from New Orleans for Liverpool, is put into New York leaky. The General Miranda, —, from Jamaica, is on fhore .near Blackwall. A new fbip, of 74. guns, to be called the America, is to be built at Deptford. A frigate r:f 38 guns, to be called the HAMADRYAD. into be built at Woolwich. The LEON toAs,"a fine new frigate, is commifiloned it Chatham by Captain DUNBAR, and is taken into dock to be coppered and fitted immediately. The TRIDENT,6.4., is commiflio,ed as a guard fhip, to lie at Malta, by captain CAMPBELL. The NAUTILUS oop was commitlioned lag week. The TARTAR frigate is to undergo a complTre re• pair at Chatham, previous to being put in commiflion. The Wt YMOUTH fhip is, to proceed to Malta immedively, with a fipply of naval flores for the ;hips on that Ration. Yeßerday a Court of Dit eaors was held at the EaR India Honk, when the following Capt:iins were fworn inte the command of their lel - Naive (hips L Dona,iNalmer Cattle, St. Wow., Bcncoolen, and Cbina. W. TVforrai•. and. M. CRAIG. L . ./philid.Ol.e, Bombay, znd China. The mails, and other (hip•timber, to he hrottn • ht florn Copenhagen, ate ordered by the Navy Board to be feeured in-the canal apptoptiated to that pulp 4 - e at Chatham. The United States American fchooner, Of !4. gone, Captain Kt th, is not It ing in Cowes itoadl, wailing the anfwer of Gpei no:lent to the remonarances fent over in laid vele!, refp::.ling the affair of the Leo. pard ar.d Chefapeake. . TAR Saturday, one of the feaMen, deferred from the fchooncr, and en'ered for the Navy, with Capt. littts, the ltegulitinir, Officer, at Welk Ci.wes. He Rates himfelf to het native of Plyrronth, and lays Ile laved feveral years in a Chip from Newcattle. It appears I>i , the French Journals, that the two Btigc, met.ti, , ned in the STAR of the zoth of la:1 mouth, to be captured r ff Dunnore, at the back of the l!le, of Wight, in pretence of , numbers of the in• habitants ; vcre the William and litoribuinterland, laden with groceries, &c. both of which had left Portf mouth not more than two hours, when the logger privateer, (that had been laying to all the morning in difguife, with her falls lowered) captured them. What is very remarkable, not a tingle cruizer was in sight; though there are an immenfe number of hired alined (tips and tendt.rs, and not lefs than eighty Revenue cutter', Rationed to guard the coalts.—A Cr,trefpondent fuggetis, by way of affording im proved fectuity to the revenue, and to trading veffels coaflway—that the Boards of Cuftoms and Excite ihoold contraa and narrow the limits of their mi. ters; the commanders of which fhould have pofitive injunetions not to quit their retpettive Rations, till re- lieved by another cutter ; thus keeping the coat con- Andy guarded. At prefent many of the cruizers have a ditirid allotted them, of Go leagues, to cruize in, a fpact quite impalible to be watched with effi ciency —was it reduced to 3o leagues, a Commander mightfulfil the intentions of his employer, and prove hinafelf effentially serviceable to the country. The rage for favourite Numbers is full as great, if not more as, in taNew and Great Lottery Plan, which be g in s D raw i ng on the aoth infant, as in any !irmer Lottery. Can this be wondered at, when the 4 , ,c001. Prize alone, that heads its numerous other mmetife Capitals, is alone fufficient to ereetiify the whole world of Fortune's votaries AMERICA. id itieti theii tote debit Will decide b'prip it" Mr. Eaton.—.” Concething say Overt ad,' which goes to prove Aaron Burr guilty of rreafon, I know nothing. Concerning certain tranfadions which are laid to have happened at Blannetbarret'sland, or ate..agency which Aaron Burr •may he fuppiled to have,haii in them, I know nothing. But Conretning Colonel B.'s exprefflons of treafonable intentions, I know much, and it is to theie chat my evidence re IitIAL AARON BURR.-EIGHTH DAY. 11101510 ND, AVGI.Ir.T 17. - After much previous debate upon challenges to the Jurors, the names of the felt led Jnrc.rs.. and the venire, were then called over. After which J.ho M. Sheppard and Richard Curd wete felefted to cortplete the panneli and (worn. The following is, therefore, a complete lilt of the Petit Jury. : Edward Carrington Reuben Blakey Wes 4 ' David Lambert Benjamin Gravel M Richard E. Parker • Miles Botts M. Martin.--‘ 4 I know not how far the Court's Co ry leman c. n i ts txtends " Hugh Mercer Hen • Chriltopher Anthony John M.:Sheppard Chief Jultice.—" It is this : that any proof of Jame: Sheppard Richard Curd intentir•n homed before the ad itfelf, if relevant to Proclamation then having been made in due foto% that aa, may be admitted. One witnefs may prove the prifnner (landing up, the Clerk read the copy of the ; intention at one time, d prove ass anoth er may it the indidment, and afterwards addreffed the Jury in. at ano t h e r ; f o as to prove the c minor:ince of the the ufual form. • . intent on throughout the whole tranfeaim.; and The indiament contained two counts t • ' therefore the pool of very remote intentions may be - • The first charged the faid Aaron Burr. late ofthe city of New relevant to this particular ad." York, A ttorney at Law. with having, on the loth day of Decem ber in the year of Chrift, Illc 6, at a certain place called Meitner- Mr. Mai tili • 4l I croft, that when he fpeak4 of a haffit's !nand, in the county of Wood and dittridt of Virginia Ireatonable intention not applicable to this ad, the aforefald, unlawfully. falfely, matieinufly, and traitornufly. did Court will (top him." compafs imagine, and intend to raife and levy war, infurredtion 14‘ . ••••• , .e. • and rebellio:., againft the faid U it: •I St it: s ; and, in order to fulfil ! and bring to effiet the laid traitorous compaffings, If . r- Ann.— 4 laming the winter or ific4 6, I he the raid cannot to: p•ritiVe as to the dittina oniat f time, yet, Aaron Romeo the laid icth day of December. at the laid Wand, 1 during that winter, at the city of Wathingtor, Aaron called Bennerhaff is Wand, with a great multitude of periling : Burr fignified t o me that he was organizing an whofenames at prefent are unknown, to wit ; to the number of . on the ra dir'` obe moved againit the Spatting provinces thirty perfnus an- d upward., armed and arratcd in a warlike man. I eX • e i '" l t nes, with guns, fwords and dirk., and isklier warlike weapons, South Weller!' frontiers of the United unlawfully. nialkioufly tad trait..rotilly alTembled and gathered States ; I it ndetlincid tinder the authority of the ge together, did fa:fely and tretnrottfly affimble anti join thenifelves - nee4.Goeeroment. From our exiaing controverfies together aaainft the Laid linitt-d States, and did rarely and fray will 52 .tin, and from the tenor of the P , clident's ica Watley. and In a waitttee and indite manner, array and d c ifpare . • mm . 4 .un. • ' tions thcmrriVes 3 0 1 ^ 11 111 , bid noted State ., and, at the Mend vow- . In both 11 , ufes• of Congrels, a laid, in purfuance of fuck chair traitorous Intentinna and porpar, s, 6:lei ti lion! was naturally drawn, that war with be the laid Aaron Burr, with the laid perfons fo as aforefaid trai- that Pow* was inevitable. I had pit the) rettotc,ed tornufly nth milled and armed and arrayed in manner aforcfaid, from the coal{ of Africa, and having been for many molt wirke•ny, rraleint.fli, and trairoroully, did ordain, pr,pare and levy war .1g irft the United sow,. .; years employed on your frontieri, or on a coati mote In the cord count, be was charged with air,•mhling as a f ro ,. ' barliarnus and obfcure, I was ignorant of the eflima• laid. at the place afureLid, nn the 1 ith of December, in laid year, ! lion in which the r.-rfons armed as aforefaid tenni : Co lonel B. was he'd by his cr.untry. — and that he did proceed with The eiiliinguifhed rank he had held in fociety, and the faid Mind down the river Ohio in the county afore:dd. with : the 1 1 r ,,,,„ the wicked and traitorous intention to defend the laid river and m atks ~ ......, of confidence which he had received to take , i ' ' front the river hliffifiippi, and by force and arms traitornuily his fallow citizens, did not per mit me ta doobt rahltien of a city commonly ealkd New Orleans, in the teeritt)ry i of his ratt int din. As a mili:at y char-141o', I ad been of 01 lears.! , ,i-rging to the United States. Mr. HAY urea role to open the cafe, on the part 1 made acquainted with one within the United. States of the profecution. His fpeech was unc mintonly ! under whole direaions a foldier might with great iodic it) , confide his honour. In c, le of my c , untry's luminous and inllruaive. He fpoke upwards of two i hours. He !fated that it WAS: incumbant upon him 1 dut y . t ., o b ey being involved in a war, I Mould have thought it my fo honourable a call as was propofed to to thew, in, That there had been a treafonable de. fign ; and Idly, a meeting to effea that defign ;' i me. Under imprclfinns like their, I did engage to that it would he proved to the Jury • embark in the enterprize, and pledged myfelt to that it was the deign of the paifuner, not only to wage war upon Colonel B.'s confidence. At feveral iaterviews, it the Spanifh Territories, bin to take poffeffion of apreared to be his intention to convince me , by maps and New Orleans, other documents , of the fearibility of penetrating w ith a view of eireaki g that "hii!al to Mexico. At length. from cei rain indiltina expref arid with a further view of difmembering the Union; tfigns. he had fpoken dif lions and inuendoes, 1 admitted a lnfpicion that Co. hat to facilitate his own deli(;nr, lonel B. had other projeEts. He tiled. nrong tepid . - refpeafully of the government of his country, where li ons of re p r o ac h s pina the• admininration.of the ever he went : to the Perrone in the Atlantic States, he had denounced the want of energy in the adminif. Government ; accuted them of wart[ of ch ataaer, on, and affected the facility wirlywhich the prefent want of energy, want of gratitude. He teemed de trati thous of itritating my refentmenr , by dilat in g on government and liberties of the people might be over. thrown ; to the re role in the well he had 'denounced I certain injurious Itt iatires 1 had rece ived on the fl o or 1 of Congrefo on account of certain tranfaCtions nn the the exigence of that holy union which hound them i coafte of "Tripoli; and alto on the delays in adj ullin g to their brethren in the call ; that wherever he went j my fatter difafft aion ; that lie had not accounts, for advances of money on account of he attempted to only fpoken in this (pint to the people of the left, mode; the United States; and talked of pointing out t o me bet that writings had been publilhed by one onis mode; of honourable indemnity. I will not a unseal ffociates to diffatiafy that gallant people and prepare here, that Colonel Burr had good grounds of teafon a them for his plans : that to accomplith thefe plans, for fuppofing me diffatisfledtowarels the Government in the rummer and fall of 1806, men were *CNA!) , ma i nta i n i ng shill{ I was Conful at Tunis, and for the expence of called, boats built, proviiions to an ennemirus the war with Tripe lie I had but a limit amount purchafed, and ammunition laid in ; that time b e f ore beesceompelled inglorioufly to Nrike the flag of my country on the hamparts of a defected about forty men had aflembled at Blennethaffet's been compelled to abandon my comrade s i n war on e nemy, where it had flown for forty - five days. I had Nand ; that Burr was not there, becaufe he had I been warned not to go, although fetch had been his I intention ; that lie had joined them when they had de- I the fields where they had fought our batt l e s. I had I fcended to the mouth of Corned river ; that this joint feen calls offered to the half vanquiffied Ch i e f of Tri. I ;soli (as he himfelf acknowledged) as the p rice of p a force of about ico men had then defended the river command oaf Burr and Blennerhaffett to a I cification— [Mr . — " By whom: " A. " B y under the command 1 our Negociator."]—:-when as yet no exertion had point, perhaps Bayou Pierre, where he firti underflood been made by our navalfquadron to coerce t h at e nem y t that all his preparations had milcarried through the i —I had feen the condoet of the au thor of thefe ble meant of the Commander in Chief ; his letter put Mats on our then proud national c harader, if not into the hands of the Prefident ; and it was then that I commended, not confuted; whilfi my own sonde- Ire had expreffed his fur prize and indignation to a perlon at having been thus betrayed. 11 I citrate efforts to lupport that charafler were attempt certain':l4t iedto he thrown into fh,rde. 'En feelings naturally chimetical as !lick prrjeffs may appear. there was : arlfing out of citcumflances like there, I did" give only one thing w awing to their accomplifhment, the 1 a roog co-operation of the Commander in Chief and ot the exprctlion. Here I beg leave to ° Verve, in j u ttice to myfelf, that however fir o ng th efe ex p tef- American arroy, and that it was to his exertions. that I i , 1 li o ns, however harfh the language I employed , they the country is indebted for the didipation of tnis 1 impending form, would not jollity the inference , that I was p re p ared to dip my fabre in the blood of my countrymen; A thou time after Mr. Illy had concluded, has much Ids of their childretn which I believe would have was about to proceed to the examination of the wit- I been the cafe, had this confpiracy been carried into neffes ; General Leton was (worn ; when Mr. Burr et r e& [Mr. Martin obj:Cled to this language.] J role and ebjtaed to this order of examining the wit. refits. An argitrnent then enfued upon this queflion, lillened to Co). B.'s mode of ind em n it y ; and as I had by this time begun to fufpea, that the military expe which detained the Court till feven o'clock at night. Isleirrs. Bolts, Wickham, Lee, and Martin advocated dition he had on foot was unlawful , I permi tted him to believe mvfelf reigned to his influence, that I the anceflity ref proving the overt aft fen. Mr. Wirt oppofed the Motion. might underhand the extent and motive of his ar rangements. Colonel Burr now laid ()I:en his . Adjourned till to-morrow ten o'clock. NINTH DAY...—THISDAY , AUGUS T iB. projea of revolutinnifing the territory Well of the Allegbany ; eflablinting an independent empire TheJudg e havin g argued yeller Jay, arrangements were made for the delivered his opinion on the point . there, New Orleans to be the capital, and he him. 1 fclf to be the Chief ; or g anizin g a military force accommodation of theJtit y ; that they were to occupy 1 MOMS its the capitol; that, for the fake on the, waters of the Miffi li pp i, and carr y in g two or more concpiell. to Mexico. After muds cenverfation of exercife, they might walk out in a body, or fepa• • ( w hi c h De- I Ido not particulatly rec ollea ) Yelped rately, if accompanied by the Matfhal , or his ! ing the•feafitailiry of the prajea, as was natural, I puty ; and that they might fend or receive letters, if i the fuperfcriptions were fhewn to the Mattbal. It flatedimpediments to his operat ions ; fuch as the re. publican habits of the citizens of that country, their was underllood, that they were to lay all letters be fore the Corn t, which fhould appear to touch on the attachment to the prefent adminin rarion of Govern. ment, the want of funds, the oppofitiun he would trial, defignedly fent to influence their verdia. The hours of the Court are fixed from nine till four. expetience from, the regular army of the United States (tenoned on their frontier, and the refinance William Eaton was then called in for Ili exa mination. to be expeded from Miranda , in cafe he fhould Inca seed in republicanifing the Mexicans. Colonel B. Mr. Eaton enquired whether he might be permitted Teemed to have no difficulty in removin g thefe °brie• to have recurrence to his notes ? elee. He (fated to me, that he had in perfon (I think Chief Jufliee.—" Were they written by yourfelf?" the - preceding feafon) m ade a tour through that Mr. Eaton.—" They were." Mr. Wickham.—" At • country ; that he had tecured to his interelts, and what time ?" Mr. E.—" At different times." Mr' attac h e d to his perfun, the moll dittinguithed citizens Burr.—" What is the nature of them ?" A.—" They o f •I• enne ff ee , Kentucky, and the territory of Orleans are nothing- but memorandums taken from notes, —that he had ineahauttible r efources and funds ; which I made of the converfations bet ween y ou and that the army.of the United States w uld ad with tnylelf, at the times that they palled:" him ; that it would be re inforced b y ten or twelve ' The Court decided that they were not admiffible. thoufand men from the abo v e mentioned Nate. and • Mr: Eaton.—" May I ark one further indulgence territory ; that he had power f u l a g ents i n the S p a. from the Court ? I have been long have palled upon before the public. ni(h territory ; and "as fur Miranda , (lard Mr. Burr Much flridure and Crime feierity • facetiodly), we mull hang Mir anda." In the courfe me. May I, in Rating my evidence, 'so permitted ' o f re p ea ted converfations on this fubje a, he p ro p ofed to give me a diftinguffhed to make Come explanations abo ut the t notives of my • command in his army—l _ ea him, Chief conduit 1" I onderflood the fecond in command. of Chief Jullice.—" Perhaps it would be more cor• rea for the Court to decide up on the p ro p riety of the .tierilki r d o b. I ved that it was fi ngular hethould (shier 1 . . nfon, who would command in chief' ? He faid, General count upon General Walkl itlin Act! the d gu e xplanation, When the particula r cafe occurs.— Some cafes may require it ; and if objedion is made - ----- - • command and high Knit he had under dnvernmeni; as the Commander in Chief of our army & aid as Governor of a Province, he winuld'hot be apt - to put at hazard for any preca ions projegls f aggrandizement. Colonel B. flared that General Wilkie frill balanced in :he confidence of his country ; that it was douht ful whether he would much Innger retain the dif tinetion and confidence he now enj eyed ; and that he was prepared to fecure to himfelf a permanency. aflced Colonel B. if he knew General IVitkitilon ? he Paid yes ; and echoed the queltion. I ti.ld him, that twelve years ago, I was at the fame titre a captain in his wing of the legion of the United States, his afting brigade major and aid de camp ; and that I. thought I knew him Well. He alked me %that I knew of General W I I laid I knew General W. would all as Lieutenant to no moth in etifience.--n gi You are in an error Void Mr. B ) Wilkinfon will aft as Lienter.ant to me." From the tenor of much cnnverfation nn this fithjeft, I was prevailed on to believe that the plan of reinlution meditated by Co lonel B. and communicated to me, had been concer ted with General W. and would have his cil nperan lion ; for Colonel B. repeatedly and re• y confi lent!? expreffed his belief, that the influence of General W. with hi army, the promife of double pay and rations. the ambition of his officers, and the pfofpeß of phut der and military atchievemenrs, would bring the army generally into the meafure. I pals over here a COllVOlfiltilln which took ;he: between C .1 mel B. • • and myfelf, refpeCling a central revolution, as it i s . decided in be irrelevant by the opinion of the bench. —Mr. Hay. You allude to a revolution for over. throwing the Government at Wafhinglon i and of re volutionizing the Einem lilies ?—A. I was palling over that to come dawn to the period when 1 fup- • poled he had relinquifhed that defign, and returned to his pinjeet in the %vett. I was thoroughly con.; winced myielf, that inch a projeCt was already fn far organized as to be dangerous, and that it would re quire an effort to fupprefs . it. For in addition to pa. hive affurances that Colonel B. had of affitlance and co operation, he fail that the volt extent of territory of the United Stares beyond the mountains which offered to adventurers, together with a view on the mines of Mexico, would bring adherents to him from all quarters of the Uaion. The fituali in in which thefe comminicat inns and the impreflions they made upon me, pl iced me ia, was peculiarly delicate. I had no overt aR to p•oduce againfl Colonel B. He had given me nothing °pan piper ; nor did I know f any pufon in the e7cniity who had received fimi. tar communiel'ians, and whole tellimony might lap. port mine. He had mentioned to me Tillie, as prin cipally and decidedly engaged with him, but Gene ral Wilkinfon ; a Mr. Alston, who • I afterwards learnt was his fon in law ; and a Mr. Ephraim Kibby, who I learnt was late a Captain of Rangers Wayne's army. Of Gen. Wilkinfon, Burr laid much, as I have Rated ; of Mr. Anion very little, but enough to fatisfy me that he was engaged in the prnjeel ; and of Kibby he Paid, that he was Brigade Major in the vicinity of Cincinnati, (whether in Ohio or in Kentucky, I know not) who had much Witt. ence with the militia, and had already engaged the majority of the brigade to which he belonged, who were ready to march at Mr. Bun's fiend. Mr. B. talked of this revolution ate s matter of right inherent in the people, and connitutinnal 4 a revolution which' would rather be advantageous than detrimental to the Atlantic States; a revolution which mall even tually rake place, and for the operation of whiehnhe prefent crifis wa- pecttliarly favourable; that there end no energy to be dreaded in the general government; and his converfations denrettd a tonfidenne, that his arrangements were fo well made, that he lhould meet with no oppofirion at New Orleans; for the army and the chief citizens df tbe place were ready to receive him. On the folitary ground on which I flood, I was at a lots how to conduit myfelf, though at no lots as refpeeted my duty. I durfl not place my , lonely tettimony in the balance against fire weight of Col. B,'s charaßer, for by turning the tables upon me, which I thought any man capable of fuch a pro. jeet might very cunfcientioufly do, I fhould link under the weight. I refolved therefore with myfelf to obn taro the removal of Mr. B. from this country, in a way honourable to him, and on this I did consult him without his knowing my motive. Accordingly, I waited on the Ptefident of the United States, and after a defultm y converfatinn, in which I aimed to draw his attention to the Well, I Paid to him (I took the liberty of fpggelling to the P.) that I thought Col. B. ought to be removed from the country, ben caufe 1 confidered him dangerous in it. The Pre& dent :liked where we fhould fend him. I laid to Eng. land or Madrid, though it had het n laid in fome pub lications that I laid Cadiz. The Prefident, without any pofitive expreffion, in fuch a matter of delicacy, feemed to thin?. the hull too important, and expref fed fomethit g like a doubt about the integrity of Mr. B. I frankly told the Prefident, that perhaps no per. fon had ftronger grnnnds to furpeel his integrity than I had, but . that I believed his pride 'of ambition had fo predominated over his other paffions, that when on an• eminence, and' put on his honour, a refpeel to himfelf would feeure his fidelity. I perceived that the fubjeet was difagreeable to the Prefident, and to bring him on my point in .the Iliorteß mode, and in a Manner that would point to the dangkr, I laid unto him, if Col. B. was difpofed of, we timid, in thirteen months, have an infuntßion, if not a revo. lution, on the waters of the Miffiffippi. The Prefi dent laid he had too much confidence in the inform:in tion, integrity, and attachment of the people of that country to the Union to admit anyapprehenfionsofthat kind. The circumflance of no interrogatories being made to me, I thought, impeded Silence upon me at that time and place. Here, Sir, I beg indulgence to declare my motives for recommending that Gen• deman to a foreign . miffion at that time ; and in the folemnity with which I Rand here, I declare that Colonel B. was neutral in my feelings ; that it was through no attachment to him that I made that fug -1 geßion, but to avert a great national calamity which few approaching, to anvil a tempeß which feemed luring in the weft, ;ad to divert into a channel of ufefultafs thofe confummate talents, which were to mount the whirlwind and dived tbe florm."—• About the time of my having waited on the Prell. dent, or a little before, I determined at alt events to have fome evidence of the nprightnefs of my inten tions, and to fortify myfelf by the advice of more experienced Men, . I waited upon two members of the Hoare of Reprefentatives, whofe friendfhtp I had the honour to mein, and in whole wifdom and in- / h• le ir- P' ta lis