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Even vcsb -i, boat, barge, raft or Fo
tilla, DESCKNDOING the Mississippi with
any of the aforesaid military or naval
stores, together with the person or per
sons on board, will be taken charge of by
the squadron in advance, and sent to
N. Orleans, for the further considera
tion au l decision of his excellence gov.
Claiborne. JOHN SHAW,
Commandingthe U. naval force.”
[/Vow the National Intelligencer.']
A letter has been received from gen
eral Adair addressed to the Kentucky
delegation, stating the circumstances of
his arrest at New-Orleans, the harsh
treatment which lie says he has experi
enced, and declaring himseif innocent
of all participation in any scheme hostile !
to the United States. Iu this letter
(which we had expected to have given
in this paper) general Adair represents
that while in Kenriukv, he received
some time in November a lettei from
general Wilkinson, dated Sept. 20th,
inviting him to come to New-Orleans,
and join him in an attack on and con
quest ot the Spanish possessions ; and
that lie immediately answered it, declin
ing all participation in the plan propos
ed to him. He adds that his purpose in
going to New-Orleans was entirely to
make purchase of lands.
V/ASH INC i TON CITY, ITU. 14.
On 1'ridav the Court admitted Mi ssrs.
Boll m an and Swartv/out to bail, in six
thousand dollars, until they would re
port their iinal decision on Saturclav :
on which day the Prisoners were dis
charged by tlie unanimous voice of all
the judges who were present.
^ “ Nfav*()rt.k \\s, Januan 11.
“ The Speaker laid,before the house a
letter irom the honorable James Work
man, Judge ol the count) court of Or
leans county, covering sundrv docu
m. nts, informing the house ol repre
sentatives that he had adjourned his
court .sine die, and explaining his rea
sons therefor. Tilt illegal arrest and
Iv.a spoliation of certain persons, l>\ or
c r oi (b n. Wilkinson, the overthrow
ol the civil authoritv, E<c was also an
riounced. '1 he letter and part of the
O' vur.ients \ re read, and the whole re
fin d to a select committee, composed
fd JNiessrs. Donaldson, \ illar, Atulrv,
A man id and Hughes.'’
(COPY)
Condon, I)i comber 27 1 GOG.
<; r is
o * Is,
W .■ haw the pleasure to acquaint vc e,
Ou.l ivc ha\ e this day agreed with the
V
British commissioners, to conclude a
treaty on all the points which have form
ed the object of our negociation, and
on terms which we trust our govern
ment will approve. It will require un
it a fetv days to reduce it to form.
When that is done, tve shall transmit
it to von Ijy a special messenger. \\ c
hasten to communicate to you this in
teresting intelligence, i or the informa
ton and guidance of our government,
in such measures as mat have reference
to the subject.
We have the honor to be, with great
consideration and esteem, Sir,
Your most obedient servants,
CSsgned) | A M KS MON ROE,
\Vm. PINKNEY.
J am r.s M a em son, Secretary of 1
Stale, Washington. J
l’xtract of a letter horn Cowles Mead,
• ecretarv and acting governor ot the
Mississippi territory, to the depart
ment of war, dated
“ l! us hin if ton, T. Jan. 19.
“ SIR,
In obedience to tour instructions
by express, ot tin 2()th ot December
last, 1 immediately, after proroguing
the legislature, pros ■ eded to put the ter
ritory in a state of preparation for the
arrestaiion ot the suspicious persons,
and boat-, which were contemplated
there in. My i liiitia were collecting at
particular point , on the river, when I
received a letter from col. Burr, who
had landed at Bayou, Pierre, with nine
boats and about one hundred me n.
i Ir.s lettei went loan avowal ofkis in
nocent ot the charges which rumor and
pi Vic apprehension had announced a- [
gain t him, an 1 solicited me to appease
the tears \\ hic h his appro c li had begot
ten; at the same tine he guarded me a
gainst tile horrors ol i i\ il tvar,cx the e\ ils i
resultin'; from such n slat • of things ; !
this seeming; threat, indm <1 m, to adopt |
a difterent modi" oi conduct, from v. h it
the colonel mi du hate expected ; and.
instead oi adopting his pacific admoni
tion, I ord -red verv large portion of
the n did i of the terri orv to rend,/to* is
at certain points, and wait further or
ders—-.v ith t'l promptitude oi Spartans,
our 1 'dotv citi'/.ens shoulder d tiieir
firelocks, and in twenty four hours, I
had the honor to review .,7.) men at
Natches, prepared to clef*-nil th. ir coun
try* 1 hey were ordered under the
command oi colonel ( 1 dhome, to a
point on the riyi r, alio it 21 mil. s above
the city, there to remain to guard the ti
ver, and intercept, for inspection, all
boats that might descend the river. On
the lfth, I dispatched two ol my aids
to col. Durr, who had tendered his re
spect to the civil authority ; these gen
tlemen engaged on my part to give the
colonel an interview in the neighbor
hood of the detachment stationed at the
mouth ol Cole’s creek—conformable
thereto I met the colonel on the 17th,
and after a lengthy interview, he offer
ed his boats to be searched—on tilt:
lHth, col* Burr, accompanied by my
aids, majors Shields and Poindexter*
rode down to the place, and was com
mute d to the highest tribunal of the civil
authoritv, where he now remains for
trial.
“ Four gentlemen oi unquestionable
rcspectabiliiv, with a detachment of 30
men, are now in the act of making the
search of the boats, and to morrow I
expect tile ir • i port.
“ Thus, sir, this mighty alarm, with
all its exaggi rations, has eventuated in
nine boats, end one hundred men, and
the major part of these are bows, or
young mi-n just from school. Many ol
their di jx; .ui -ns have been taken before
judge Rodney, hut they bespeak igno
rance of the '.iews or designs of the
colonel ; I believe them really ignorant
and deluded ; I believe that they are the
dupea of stratagem, it th< asseverations
oi generals baton and Wilkinson,, arc
to be accredited.
(COPY.)
WasiiO' .ton, l-’cb. 2vl, 1807.
SI K,
The pressure ol business dining :i
session ol the legislature, lias rendered
me more tardy in a Idressing vou than it
was my avinil to have been. That our
fellow riti/.v.'s ol the west would need
only to be inionm 1 ol criminal machi
nations against the public safotv, to
crush them at once, I never entertained
a doubt. I have seen, with the gl ean st
satisfaction, that among those who hate
distinguished themselves by their fill -li
ly lo tneir countrv, on the occasion of
the enterprise of ,Mr. Hurr, \ ourself
and the legislature of Ohio have been
tin- most einiiv ft : the prompiilu ! • and
energy displat <d hv \ our stale has been
as I o iorablo to its- If, ns salutarv to its
sister ut». s ; aval in declaring that vou
h '.Vi des :vid well of t our countrt, I
do but express the grat la! s -ntim nt
of out faithful citi/.-n it is. The
hand of the people has : iten th • mortal
i blow to a conspiracy, which in in other
I countr'es would bat e called for an ap
pcul to ar:m, and has prov\ 1 that gov