The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-27

| ION can conceive, -covered with the mott odious
iufpicions his reputation at it's lalt gafp his
very life endangered.
| He might ba4e teen IL IS
! Pssftst ar ne a. Slater. 4 e,iyoaer.
| Dtcked with the wreath Covered with a crown
| of glory. of thorns.
Elevated by plans Degraded by plots Of
| of beu.Gcrnoe. trcatun.
Truaed by all. Subjected by all.
Self iatisfied. His confidence,
| re-eehoiug the deciiions
of the world.
Whence this change of deRiny?
Men borne down with adverfty, are apt to
impute al! their miieries to the dominion of
fortune. Why, they aGs, mould 4 man be prl-
dent why contrive his plans with the mott
iAgacious intuition why prepare a train of
cauies TO conduct us TO wealth. or reputation (;
when there is a blind dtGiny continually in
tsrpofing in the affairs of man and turning his
wifet refolutions into fport? The merchant
lays down the chart Of a moi profitable voyage
the winds and waves defroy his !hip. The
warrior marlhas his army with the mon adj
! rnirabie kil every thing fcems to promi!e him
, the laurel of victory; when fome wandering
ball feils him to the duff. The wheel of fortune
is for ever rolling on that which is the top to
day, fhal be down tomorrow and the man
| who is this day the favourite idol of nation,
and fauted by the appaufes of a world, may
in the very next moment be s2nk into the foulef
ard mof unremitted diigrace.
1sthis picture appetite in the prefent cafe ,
No, Aaron Burr was not one of the niggard
fons of fortune. She had never been to him
"relentlefs power" whole torturirg lafh had
| maddened and prepared him for deeds of def
peration and power. She had been an indul-
gent mother, ut whole exuberant bofom
| he had Partaken of the ci;eriihng and iuvigora-
ting draughts of hope. PROPERTY had crown
| ed his previous efforts with fuccels and had
| he poiieiicd but moderated and patient ambi-
ton, there was not beam in hopes fairy
circle, which would not have silded and re-
| lrelhed the remainder of his days.
No man could boat of an intellect hyperion to
his own; penetrating the bottom of a fuhjeet at
! glance practiied in the lore of the law ac-
| qHainted with the world, and not through
the fPeGtacle of books :" bold in argument, G.
loquent in debate, and of a fpirit to work won
ders in the cabinet or in the field. He was
high in the confidence of his country. He was
placed in the fecnnd Office of the union, and
various circumstances had given him kind of
presumption right to the Rrft. 1t was not the
leait Of his recommendations, that he was alrea
! dy the Vice Prefiient of the United States !;
| that he was from the fate of New-York, one
| OF the mott powerful in the union that he was
from diftrict of the country which had az
| pred to the honor of giving PRECEDENT, &
would have backed him with all its interelt.
| No. 1t was NOT mi5fortuve, which has involv-
| ed the ruin of Col. Burr 1t was not that
blind goddefs, which fometimes mars the de-
| fgns of the bet and wifcit of men. 1t WAS his
own imprudence it was his own want of vir-
tue. 1t is true that he was once near the top,
and is now at the bottom of the wheel but it
was not the revolution of Fortunes wheel,
which is the caule of this vici1itude. 1t was
the coniequcnce of that vicious indifcretion,
which knows not how to regulate it's wfhes by
its means, nor TO wait with patience, till time
ittelf ihal have prepared the means of crafty
ng its defres
Was Col. Burr i'll treated, during the pref
Dental contelt in 1901? Were his fervices
or talents unrewarded ? Was there any thing to
| make him complain OF the dipeniations or for
| tune! Far from it Fortune had fcarce ever
| done more for any of our citizens and no
citizen had received more from his country.
| 1t was his ambition that ruined him. Although
| 1T was well known to him that his country had
never dehgned him obethe competitor Of JefFer-
| fon |; that it was mere chance which gave him
an equal number of votes yet fill he afpired
to fupPlant Mr.. J. in the presidential chair.
He was indifferent to the acknowledged voice
| of his country; and he was prepared to prof
| tratc it at the feet of his own ambition.
The coniequence is universally known. His
| fate, as public man, was fealed for ever.
And noaV behold the fame vicious propenfty
is burltins once more into action. He fanGs
charged as a Traitor !
| Come hither, ye men of ambition ! and be-
hold this melancholy example
Come, and confefS, that as Republic refts
upon virtue only:
So undera virtuous Republic, the political
PROPERTY of individuals NUT repofe upon the
fame BATS.
1t is underfood that the Prefident will not
Lrnd 6nek the Britifh treaty. Gas fome have az