The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-10-30

Spain. Mr.. 2ersoie5. Have you got the letter a.
do no, know. have !evetal letters from General
Wilsinion, which / have OH file, but have
anncd whether this particular is among then,
not. Mr.. 1Rsad,ie6. VIVA, is the date Of iii. letter
a 1905. . What incueed you to fuppoie that Their.
/ was probability of with Spain ~ that time /?
from interviews with the geneTa in the year So3
and fubisouene correiPondence with him till 1905.
The hrlt oocaiioued BIZ the doubtful care Of our
negotiations with Spain; Tie ierud from the deser-
ton OF part OF the coded territory From many cir
| cumiiances is was fuppeicd rupture inevitable
MIR. RgnS,p6. What was the ipace nj the territory
in d,iputc From the parallel of latitude 81 d-gre.
north, TO the Gulph OF Florida, and from the M,-
iitfpp; TO the river Perdido. Col. B.y~. Did Ger
Wikin!on offer you a reward for experimenting me
think four or five thouIand dollars offered in
behalf OF the government. . When that offer
made Some time in December laA. o Did YOU
undertake to efec :, did, asi FAR as was praeti-
cable and expedieut. = Was tina, offer predica,c on
al order OF the government, 1t the Et Of tho
general | do not know. . Did he iotisly you
that he had authority for making the offer? y think
ne did. 2 When did you leave New Orleans! a
On the morning Of the 9th or 10th of December. Mr.
Baksr. Whsn was the offer made Jun about that
time. Col. Barr. Did YOU lend an order TO the
Cheaa"s to take me : 4 carried nyfelf the prog
lamauon OF governor Williams to the Upper Choc-
Jaws, and employed runners to carry procamatians
with mrutlons to in;eriec tine paths in every direc-
ton, and wrote "a the agent in the Chckaaw nation
to the lame etfece. Mr.. Wirt. What do YOU mean
by yng that you undertook to arrea col Burr as far
as was expedient4 meant tina, If ihouli have
found HIN, at large, ihoud have taken him, but not
out OF the hands OF the civil authority. Were there
not officers fent up to take him a Yes, and was
'nructcd to cooperate with them; but he being ex
attly where Gen. Wiknfon wiihe, hum, in IT,. hands
OF the civil authority, adyiied the officers to return
| and they feparated.
Col Barr. Were you to feze me privately A.
Yes; fpra2ieahle. Col. Barr. Was not reput-
ed to be at the head o! an army by gen. Wknfon /?
4. Yes; ard by others too. Col. Btyy. How then
were thete men to take me Go Burr When were
thoe officers lent /! can inform you when
tir:t Ilw them, which was on the irlt Of February
Col. Err. OF the orders OF the officer. YOU know
nothing! i. oniy wha, l faw, an order from Com
modore Shaw to Lieutenant Jones to receive you
Col. Dur. ion ta'd the officers returned on your
acViee; did you lee them retire; or do you know
when they !c.t that part of the country. Had they
ieparated before ie!t the town of Warrington
cannot tell when you left there, but the lat time
law them was on the 5th OF February at Natchez
Gel. Brrr to Commodore S6a,y. I underRood
that you received ordersfrom gen. Wilkinfon were
thee orders from the government A. think they
were the rcut oil an arrangement between governor
Claiborne and gen. Wiikinion. did not know at
that time, that was ubjea to the orders nf general
NHE'Hiou; sat always underisood that was TO CO.
Claiborne took the reiPonGbiii,y to co operate
and that the orders given eoujointly with gen
Wiikin.un.
Col. BRrr to Mr.. Dinsnore. Did gen. Wiikin.
ION exprels any doubts OF the militia a. He ey.
prciied no doubts of the Creoles but he doubted
the ineongruors group which contributed the citizens
OF New-Orleans Col. Burr. lid he dnub, the ci
VII authorities a. He did entertain doubt, OF the
jndGes. Mr.. Martin. Did he exprsfs any doubt.
OF go''rnoT Claiborne! A.. He had 10 doubt of the
integrity OF governor Claiborne and OF his attachments
to the government. He fad they had at one time
been on iGeh terms as not to ACT together but he was
III hopes they would unite. MIR. afzr.ia Did he
doubt governor Meade /! a, Yes. Becauie he did
not cooperate with the General and refufed 20 fur
Min his quota Of men. MIR. Hay. Did gen. W,,kn-
ion doub: the patrioti!m of governor Claiborne A.
lie was tar from doubling his patrioin bur aii ne
wanted Grnine.s. MIR. Martin. Did he douht
James Brown? Mr.. Writ bje0ed to luch eoutie
o. Interrogation, as indelicate and improper. Mr.
Martin defended it the ground, that from the
conduct of gen. Wiikinf-n, it would iecu that men
even nigh III authority could not be trnGsd.
LrMufL Henry
lnfrasSsd settings 'is part Of TIE u Statts.
On the fra evening of the arrival of col. Burr at
the town OF Wellington, after his fubmi.ion to MFR.
Meade. was introduced 20 him by col. Mckee
Col Burr, col. Mckee, lanes Caller and n,yie!f,
were the only pe.i1ns preent. Soon after my intro
duSion, the iubjeG ofh. expedition was introduced
on the carpet. In the courle Of concentration, Mr..
Caller my'elf ohterveJ, that it ne (zol. b. had
gone over TO Wilmington courty on the Mobile, and
mprehed mpon the minds of the people there that
his enterpriie iccret one aganii the Spauiard,
and with he iancti"n OF our government, ne might
hare procured snj yeiies enough to have
taken the Of Mobile, at which place he would
have gct Efficiency 81 and ammunition to
have kept poiglioa, armed velsls TO convey his
trooPs to whatever place he pleafed Col. Burr
thsn began ~ enquire into the lituaton Of the Mo-
, 5ie, aud o! Warrington COUNTY and perhaps of Pen
iacoia; hut dwell upon the difficulties hch the
people OF W arlington county bjetfed hor the
cXat;ions OF the SpaiGrds and their unfrendy di!po
iHon towards u.s. To which col Burr m.de this re-
Ply that he furprifed that III: people had never
attempted to- 90 hemfeves jultice; that he had ieen
with regret their memorials Conerefs read with
| contempt and neglect; While they were reading the
members would be craping th.ir feet and they were
no iooner read chan the houie paiied fone other
bni'neis. nc thcn laid, that the government having
neglected them, it a natural right and ingra;ed
ON the oon,litutio; for the people either ereG
government of thtir own, 10 take protcS Sion IN
der iueh otner gogerureat as would promiis them ?
happier iituaiIoh he was fuTgriied that the peo-
| PIE 81 Washington county had not done i before.
! Mr.. HIsRae. Had Eurr prsviouhy informed you
ofthe nature Of The entsrPriie which nc going
81 He had NOT. But t tie gsn4ral rutnour, tl.at
lac wasEo;ng againH the Ssh colonies. Some of
his partizans LEAH held th9r idea and declared
that tfe'e was nothing medi;ated againG the u. s.
/ Mr. Hey. Did Burr ezpreis hmfrif with any ear
ae9ucis IT this converlatcu \. He did, with great
| en,phatis. Mr.. Tay Are Won q n,ei1,ber of the