Star.
London, England, 1807-02-27 00:00:00

CONSPIRACY OF COLONEL BURR.

NEW ORLEANS, DECEMBIR 9.—A Meeting was
yeflerday called of the Merchants and other inhabi
tants of this place in order to prepare for a vigorous
refinance againn the attempts of Burr and hip alio-
ciates, when it was refolred that all the feamen fheuld
be taken from the merchant vat's in the harbour,
and fent on hoard the gun boats to man them.
General Wilkinfon addreired the inhabitants. and
pledged himfelf to repel the enemy, or die in the
defence of New Orleans. He Rated that Burr had
communicated to him in confidence all his defigns, in
the hope that he, General Wilkinfon, would join
him ; and he affured the Meeting, that Burr and his
confederates intended to fall upon New Orleans by
furprize, and after feizing upon all the public and
ptivate treafures, they intended to make themfelves
mailers of Mexico.

New YOR ic, JAN. i 3.—La night, the brig Thetis,
Macnorw.to, arrived from New Orleans; fhe failed
the 9th of December, by permilEon, with Mr. Donald-
fon on board, with difpatches to Government, from
General Wilkinfnn ; an embargo having been laid
the day before on all veffels. The alarm and bufile
at that place is more Wily imagined than defcribed;
Burr was to be at Natchez on the zoth December
with zOOO men, and atoco Kentuckians were to follow
immediately ; his objea the fubjngation of Mexico,
and the feparation of the Wellern from the Ealtern
States. General Wilkinfon was making every pre-
paration to defend the city; every feaman in port
would be put in tequifition.

Jaw. t 7 Auflin, of the fchooner Amelia
and Ann, from Barracoa, which place he left on the
16th December, contradicts the report, received here
a few days fence, via Matanzies, of that place, having
been burned by a Britith fquadron.
Colonel Matthew Lyon paired through Lexington
on the ad intl. on his way to the Federal City. He
Rated, that he believed the rumour refpeEting Colonel
Burr was without foundation ; that Colonel Burr
intended nothing againil the peace and happinefs of
the United States ; and that General Wilkinfon was
firmly attached to the Government of the Union, and
well calculated for the offices he holds. Mr. Lynn
further flated, that Colonel Burr had gone down the
river, and intended going round by water, to call
General Eaton to account, for circulating a report
fo injurious to his charaEler.

Eztradt of a letter to a Member of Confrere, dated Nalhrllle,
Teoneffee, December *7.

" The principal occurrence that feems to agitate
the public mind at this moment is, that Colonel Burr
is here making preparations to defcend the river im•
mediately. It is Rated by Come, that his flotilla on
the Ohio is great, and that a raft number of men are
about to delcend with bim. Conjeflures are various
with refpe& to his obje&."—Aurora.
Another, fame date.—" Colonel Burr has juft ar-
' sited in this place, from Kentucky. His agents are
endeavouring to obtain Spanilb and Britifh gold, for
pal notes ; they are alfo endeavouring to purchafe
up pork, &c. Some boats are built, and others on
the Rocks for him ; all is furmife, with refpeet to his
objea and deßination."—/b.

We are authorifed to Rate from unqueftionable
authority, that James Wilton, who was Secretary to
the Wood County Meeting, laf fall, has been ar-
relied as one of Burr's adherents, was examined before
the Magiftrates, and found guilty. It is alio Rated,
that on the 24th there were between Pittsburg and
Marietta tOOO of Burr's men on the Ohio river.—
Fir. Gas.

There is a report in circulation, which there are
ftrong grounds to believe originates from high au-
thority, that General Wilkinfon has communicated
to the Executive very minute particulars concerning
Mr. Burr's hoftile intentions againft the peace of the
Union.—Bal. Tel.