The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-11-28
@be Gnqulrer.
RICHMOND, asfb NoYEMBER.
AARON BURR.

AARON BURR.
The 1a,nonrs about Co. Burr have received
new direction. 1t is now faid, that his OBJ
jea was not to divide the Weftern from the
Mexieo.
Such conjecture would have had very little
impreflion upon our minds, but for the a6;davit
which is Ezid to have been made by the United
States Attorney for the kentucky diftriet. IT
is impoflible to believe that fuch an affidavit
fhould have been made, but upon the frength
of certain inftruetions from our government,
and that thofe infru6tions were founded upon
fome plauhble, and perhaps satisfactory evil
dence of the exiitence of (ome Eiteb detign.
But the deGgn conlidered in itief, appears 70.
mantle beyond defcription. The Empire of
Mexico is not 70 feeble, as we have generally
inferred from the imbecillisy of the government
which rules over it. Our maps thew it to be
extenfive the accounts of travellers, partcu-
larry of Baron Humboldt, reprefent fome parts
OF IT as popu!ous and able to bring conf
derable force into the field. For the inva-
ion and conquef of fuoh-a country where
are the refources of Col. Burr Where
are his troops? Was he to overrun it by
means of a few defperate .yow,s adventures,
whom he could enlift in few of the towns of
Tenneflee, Kentucky, Ohio or New-York
Did he expe6 to find recruits among the diff
contcn.ed Spanifh and French inhabitants of
Louifiana? Orwas he to march with hand
ful of men into Mexico, under the vain eXpec-
tation of routing its inhabitants to infurre6tion
Were.his rebellious troops, like thofe of Mr..
Bayes, at Brcntford, to fart up when called
for Or is it fuppofed that he was to rea-
life the fable of Pyrrha and Deucalion, and &C.
nerate men by eating tones behind him %
To whatever quarter we direct our eyes, we can
ditcern no fund OF troops, to which Col. Burr
could have reforted, for the invaders Of fuch
an extenGve empire as Mexico. An object OF
this fort is not beyond the attainment of the 60.
vernment of the United States but to any in.
dividual, we fhou!d deem fuch an objec. the
mott impra dicable, that can be conceived.
1t is impoflible not to admit, however, that
there are many circumstances in the conduct
and many traits in the Prefent character of Col
Burr, which excite comfortable fuipiciou
| They evidently befpeak the formation of fome
| ftrange and mylterious project.
Why his frequent Wits to the Wefern
Country?
Whence the POLICY of having hmfelf appoint
| ed PreGdent of company, for ehecting a ma
vigation at the falls of the Ohio River
Could any plan have been better cortrived 70,
conducting illegal G.Egn5 under the affected
| cloke of 6nJfnsG:
! Why his attac hment to the Society of the
| young, the desperate, anu tEc Caring III ALL inc
Weltern towns which he Wits; a trait, 70 Pc
cnHary Grking in the character of Cataline?
! Whence his intimate connection with a rich
Iriihman, who is faid TO inhabit one of the III.
ands Of the Ohio, and to have furniihed hin
Vi principal iuusio Tor purcnang mis- pre-
WEon5'
! Col. Burr has few of thofe checks operating
upon him, which would hold the hand of an
ordinary man. He has forfeited forever the
confidence of his country, by his equivoca
conduit duriHg the Presidential election. II,
Cannot therefore calculate upon rling into pow.
er during peaccabe times and by the contitu
tioaai votes of the people. He NUT either thcr
content to fink at once into obicurty, or h,
mutt cut his way to power by intrigue anc
force. It is almof psgible to believe, thai
the man who was once 70 idiotical as &c
grafp at the preGdential chair by means whic!
were fure of defeating its attainment forever
would even be 70 raih as to have project
ed the deiign of etablilhing new empirs III
the Wet.
Let us then fnlpend our opinions on this fub.
| jcct, until we have more satisfactory evidence
laid before Us. We had fuppoied it mott proba.
bic that Col. Burr had afpred TO nothing higher
than 4 fettlement of land in Ohio or Louia.
ma The reported anertions of Gen. Eaton
s. the reported affidavit of the u. S. attorney fos
Kentucky, have however ihaken our faith
We no longer deem it abfoiutely improbable
that Col. Burr is mailman, and that he has
found Il few aiiocia:es as mad and as criminal
as himieif.