Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-05-27

Ia. Giss. With respect 70 him there were
two causes, The first Of which was Of pubs
Ilic notoriety. MIR. Giles while = member
Of the senate had voted for suspensisn
Eofs.he gwrit of isabeas corpus. Ihe con.
sti,usion had declared that = suspension of
{this writ could only be warranted in ex-
-,remr cases; aud that by pronoancing on
Eahe ez3edisucy of that measure, Mr.. Giles
| had inevitably formed az opinion as1lo the
Edesigns impatrd 20 him. 8 Fny,her, he
would endsavor 10 establish by testimony,
I ila, since tha. time Mr.. Giles had said that
fshe documents furnished evidence Of his
fBarr's gna., and guilt s:of the highest
HgsaSss
Mr.. Bots added q few observations ex-
planatory Of the law, and Expressed q firm
conviction. that from the sintelligsnce, the
virtue and patriotism ot IN Silks, be
would not suppose that the objections were
made with view to wound his feelings. a
Mr., Hay observed that if the geDtlemcn.
objecledto were willing 70 be withdrawn,
he had no objection. Here Mr.. Giles
made very handsome and impressivea d
dress to the eourr, which neither our limits
nor present plan. will permit Us, at this
time, TO insert. We will, however, briefly
remark, that he said, il had been an uni.
form rule with him neither to solicit nor
refsss an appointment TO any office which
Sis counsry thought him quds6edto ILL. II
was . very unpleasant thingfor him TO be
summoned as grand juror at the present
term. bat having been summopsd, he had
wave an objections Of person
al aassrs. He regretted that there had NOT
besnenergy enough in the house OF repre-.
sensat:vss Ia congtess TO suarend the writ
of 6a6eas corpus, measure WHICH ne then.
thought and SILL thinks the state OF The
country required. Upon this case he was
about TO pronounce his real Impressions
Es mean; ultimately e. Withdraw, but wish
ed TO remove certain Impressions which
had besnmade. 4.
TIE chief justice observed that two cireunl-
stances must occur, in order to disqpaIlfy him
as a Juror, the one was, that he must have
made up an opinion on the case, the other
was, that he had declared thaS opinion.
Mr.. Giles wished to explain the state Tof
his own mind. He had made UP no opinion.
Hcwished indeed that the public mind should
be satisfied, and that the true character OF Cos
lionel Burr's transactions should be ascertain
ed Sc
Colonel 5tFlsou Cary Nicholas was also ob-
jessed to by colonel Burr, OH the ground ola
personal cnmity, sufficient he presumed to
blind the Judgment of the wistest men. .s,ss
S. Colonet Nicholas observed, that upon being
summoned BY the marshal, he had pressed
him in the most fofcible manner to. release
him. He doubted the propriety Of his sery-
ing In this particular case,sas the various rela-
tons in which he had stood as pubic chsrac-
fer to colonel Burr, might create some bias or.
his mind. That he was in Cong resse with CO.,
lionel Burr when the nomination of President
and Vice President was. made, which terminal
ed in an election that presented Mr. j jefferson,
and colonel Burr with an equal number OF suf-
frages for the decision of Congress. When
colonel Burr went to the western country his
suspicious were excited. He gave, perhaps
too ready credit to the evidence which had
TRANSFERRED ;sbut which was not sufficient to
form a conclusive opinion. The marshal re-
4fusing TO excuse him, he was obliged to at
tend. He did not choose that wrong impress
sions should be made, with respect to his mo-
ives, had he been absent. Attempts, he said,
had been made to- intimidate him. He had
been told that if he attended as juror, suck
representation would. be made of his public
conduct as would be highly injurious to his
feelings Under all these circumstance he
felt some difficulty He had consulted lave
yefs of the first talents, who informed him
that the court would not fer such causes ex-
} cuse him. He felt ernbarrass ment from two
considerations !; the one was that his retiring
might have sanctioned those obi ections !; the
other was that he did not wish to shrink from
the performance of-a public duty. But he
consented toretire.
COL Barr remarked, that the circumstance