The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-31
"a III GnQuIrer.
RICHMOND, slf MARCH.
ARREST OF AARON BURR.

We have taken particular pains to afcertaiu
the correctness Of the account of Col. BIS. arref
which we detailed in our lat paper. We have
converted with bis Efcort, and ii is with pleaiure
that we have Uncovered the firft account to be
e. much more accurate than we could have dar.
ed to expect. The following latement is howe
yer more complete, more correct more fatisfac-
tory.
He was arrehed on the morning of the 10th OF
February, in!tead of the the srd of March.
We have obtained a fSetch of that part of
the country, from the hands of one of the ef.
cois; from which the eye can at once under.
0and the relative lituatiou of places, to each
other, to the Spaniih line, and to the road lead
ing to the Atlantic Gates. II is certainly i'm
poffh'e bv any kind of dcfcription in word s
tn lay theie particulars before the readers; but
few remarks may at leaf eiucidate the mott
intertiting points: particularly if they will &C.
company thefe remarks by reference TO Brad
ley's lateit Edition of his map of the u. s.
The town of Matches, in the Mifilfippi Ter
rtory, where a Bur's boats were depofted, is
On the river Mlilihippi.
About two hundred miles 20 the eaft of this
river is the 'rombigbee river; which with the
Alabama river, confpire to form the Mobile
The Tombiehee is the weftsrn the Alabama,
the ea!tern branch.-Fuur miles below the
point of confluence, is Fort Stoddart itnated
or the Mobile; and about / 9 miles above the
Spanjil ;-Piorda linc.-.A body of water con-
meets the Tonbigbee and Alabama branches at a
certain dittance above their point of confuenc.
and forms All illind or as it has been called, A
orois cut.
ferry leads over the Tombgbee, into this
iil'nd; through this illapd the road runs to A
ferry over the Alabama +; thence the road leads
to the eat of the Alabama to certain point {;
xyb IL, Il
The ore road leads to the eait through the
Creek Country, over the limits OF Georgia, in
to the Atlantic oates. The other fweeps TO
the fouh, crofIrs the Spaniih line, and thence
advances to Peniacoa.
AID here is the principal point in difpute.
A. Burr is faid to have ancrttd that his route
lay through the Creek country Into Georgia |:
Some people fufped that his route was through
the fouihern road. According to his own re-
puted representation, he intended to remain
within the jurif1ittiou of the U. States. Ac.
cording TO the fufpicions Of certain people, it
was his intention to ieek all afyium in the Spa
niiA poHeffions.
Mr.. Perkins is the rcgiftsr of the Land. Of
fee, in the part of the Mu1ifiippi Territory
which is to the eat of Pearl Rver.-He keeps
he Office at the court-houie Of the county of
Wa!hi2gton. His own lodgin.s are at Fort St.
-
MIR. Ptrkins was in his office, about ~ or I
o'clock of the night &C the 18th of February,
when Aaron Burr and AGIey appeared before
him. The fcene which enitied Between them
IS not materially difimiar from the one whic h
was iketched in our Ian paper.
The reflections which followed it in Mr..
Pe'kins's mind, were in one refped different
from what we had Rated. IL was not alone as
midnight robbers, that thefe myRerious nran-
gers appeared 10 his imagination the idea alto
otcurted to him, that one of them might be
col. Bnh. This idea was the refult of let
ter, which he had received from member of
the legislative council at Natchez, Rating The
ticape Of col. Burr, and the probability that
exilted OF his paliiug through Mr.. P's village.
but whether they were robbers or one of
them was col. Burr, il fecmcd ~ him TOO inn
pouan' matter To be p7G:d into rcpk &
he determined to repair 10 major Ilnien's
houfe: He was accompanied by his friend the
berIif OF the county. They reached the ma.