Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-11-16
Faoa 1ax RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
TRIAL
or
COLONEL a. BURR.
MoTroN FOR CoMMlTNEsT.
EXAMINATION OF EVIDENCE
MONDAY, October 8.
MoNpAY, October s.

FSfkl1S Gi71SHa0feS eUfNeUCC tOtCsH11V.J
Col Burr. Did gen Wilkinson offer you a
reward for experimenting me Al think tour
or FIVE thousand dollars were offered on behalf
of the government. q When was that offer
made A Some time in December last, g
Did YOU undertake to effectit? Ibid, as far
as was practicable and expedient. Q Was
that offer predicated on an order OF the govern
ment. or was 1t the fiat Of the general /
do not know. Did he satisfy you that ne
had authority for making the offer !! think
he did. When did you leave New Or
leans On the morning of the 9th or 10th OF
December.
Mr.. Baker: When WAS the offer made a
Just about that time.
Colonel Burr. Did you send an order to
the Choctaws to take me carried myself
the proclamation of governor Williams to the
Upper Choctaws, and employed runners to
carry proclamations, with instructions to IN
tersect the paths in every direction, and wrote
to the agent in the Chickasaw natien to the,
same effect.
MIR. Wiyt. What do you mean by saying
that YOU undertook to arrest colonel Burr as
far as was expedient? meant that if |
should have found him at large, | should have
taken hirl, but not out of the hands of the CT
vii authority. q Were there not officers sent
I'D to take him? Yes, and was instructed
to cooperate with them; but he being exact
" where general Wilkinson wished him, IN
the hands of the civil authority, advised the
officers TO return, and they separated.
Colonel Burr. Were you to seize nae prl-
yately y? Yes; if practicable. Colonel Burr.
Was not reputed to be at the head of an ar
my by general Wilkinson? Yes; and by o.
theirs too. Colonel Burr. How then were
these men to take me! Colonel Burr. When
were those officers sent can inform yoa
when first saw them, which was on the first
of February Colonel Burr. Of the orders
OF the officers you know nothing A Only
what / saw, an order from commodore Shaw
to lieutenant Jones to receive you. Colonel
Burr. You said the officers returned on ysur
advice; did you see them retire; or do you
know when they left that part of the country.
Had they separated before left thetown OF
Washington? can,-ot tell when you lett
there, but the last time saw them was on the
5th of February at Natchez.
Colonel Barr to commodore Sha7v. | UNI
dersteod that you received orders from general
Wilkinson? Were these orders from the GO
yernment A / think they were the result OF
AN arrangement between governor Claiborne
and general Wilkinson did not know at
that time, that Twas subject to The orders of
general Wilkinson; but always understood
that / was to cooperate with him. consi-
dered that as governor Claiborne took the re-
sponsibility / was to cooperate, and that the
orders were given conformity with gen. VIII
kinson.
Colonel Burr to Mr.. Dinsmore. Did gen.
Wilkinson express any doubts of the militia
A He expressed no doubts of the creeles; but
he doubted the homogeneous group which con-
stituted the citizens of New Orleans. Colo
mel Barr. Did he doubt the civil authorities
He did entertain doubts of the Judges.
MIR. Martin. Didhe express any doubts of
governor Claiborne He had no doubt OF
the integrity o. governor Claiborne and of his
attachment to the government He said they
had at one time been on such terms as not to
act together, but he was in hopes they would
unite. Mr.. Martin. DID he doubt governor
Meade A Yes; because he did not co-ope-
rate with the genesal, and refused to furnish
his quota of men.
Mr.. Hay Did general Wilkinson doubt
the patriotism Of governor Claiborne !? A He
was far from doubling his patriotism, but said
he wanted frmness.
Mr.. Marti,s. Did he doubt James Brown
TMr. W7rt objected to such a course of in.
terroration, as indelicate and improper. Mr..
Martin defcnledit on the ground, that, from
the conduct of general Wilkinson, it would
seem that men even high in authority could
not be trusted.
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