The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-01-27

'iuSu lot INC cntSrPfIIt, 10 1treU ms i,tTibns
concerneds aud to furptfs efeetnll!y the
further progref; of the cntcrpr'Ze. A little
before the receipt of ,hsie orders in the Rate of
Ohio, our confidential agent, who had been
diligently employed in ioveitigating the con-
ipiracy, had acquired fuffcent informal ion to
open himfelf to the governor OF that Rate, and
TO apply for the immediate exertion of the
authority and power Of the fate, To cruni the
continuation. Governor Tiffin and the iegifla-
ture, with promptitude, IN energy, and pa
triotio zeal, which entite them to a tiftingufli-
ed place in the affection OF their filter itates,
effected the feizure Of all the boats, prov:ions,
and other preparations within their reach ;
and thus gave fira blow, materially ditab!ing
the enterprise in its outlet.
In kentucky premature attempt to bring
Burr to juftice, without fufficieRt evidence for
his conviction, had produced popular inn
prefhon in his favor, and general diibrlief of
his guilt. This gave him an unfortunate op-
portunity of haltening his equipments. The
arrival of the proc lamation and orders, and the
application aud Information Of our confidential
agent, at length awakened the authorities of
that tate to the truth. and then produced the
fame promptiiudc and energy OF which the
ncighboring fate. had fst the example. Under
an act of their legislature of Dec. .wen;y-lhird,
militia was n!lantly ordered to different iaipor-
tant points, and nleafures taken for doing what
ever could yet &c done. Some boats (accounts
vary from FIVE 10 double or treble that number)
and perfons differently eftimated from one to
three hundred had in TIE mean time pafftd the
tails OF Ohio, to rendezvous at the mouth of
Cumberland, with others expected down that
river.
Not apprized, till very late, that any boats
were building on Cumberland, the effect of the
proclamation had been trulted to for fome time
in the Rate of Tenne0te but on the nineteenth
OF Dec. hmiiar communications and inaru6ti-
ons, with thofe 10 the neighboring 1dtes, were
diipatched by exprefs, to the governor, and a
general officer of the weltern dvfion of the
fate; and on the twenty-third of Dec our con.
hdential agent left Frankfort for Nalhville, to
put into activity, the means of that Rate alto.
But by information received yeferday, ! learn
that on the twenty fecond ofDec. Mr.. Burr de-
tended the Cumberland, with two boats mere
ly OF accommodation, carrying from that fa,e
no quota towards his unlawful enterprise.
Whether after the arrival of the proclamation,
or the orders, or of our agent, any exertion
which could be made by that fate, or the or
ders OF the governor of Kentucky for calling out
the militia at the mouth of Cumberland, would
be in time to arrcf thefe boats, and thofc from
the falls of Ohio, is fill doubtful.
On the whole, the fugiiives from the Ohio,
with their affociates from Cumberland, or any
other place in that quarter, cannot threaten fe-
rious danger to the city of New Orleans.
BY the fame exprefs of December nineteenth,
orders were fent to the governors of Orleans
and Miflifiippi, supplementary to thofe which
had been given on the twenty fifth of November,
to hold the militia of their territories in readi-
nefs to cooperate for their defence with the
regular troops and armed vefIels then under
command of general Wilkinfon. Great alarm
indeed was excited at New. Orleans, by the ex-
aggerated accounts of Mr.. Burr, Gineminated
through his emifiaries, of the armies and nayies
he was to afiemble there. General Wilkinfon
had arrived there hmfeIf on the twenty-fourth
of November, and had Immediately put into
- 'sf'"'..v ~ si'- P!"~., f,r th. pun
pole or Its defence and on the tenth of De-
cember, he was joined by his troops from the
Sabine. Great zeal was ihewn by the inhabi-
tants generally the merchants of the place
readily agreeing to the moi IaudabIe exertions
and facrIfices for manning the armed vefIeIs
with their feamen and the other citizens ma
nifefting unequivocal fidelity to the union, and
fpirlt of determined reliftance to their expect.
ed af1ailants.
Surmies have been hazarded that this enter
prize 10 to receive aid from certain foreign pow.
ers. But thefe furmifes are without proof or
probability. The wifdom of the meafures fame
toned by Congrefs at its Taft FELTON,, has placed
US IN the paths of peace and juftice, with the on.
W powers with whom we had any differences:
and nothing has happened fince which m axes it
either their interelt or ours to purfue another
courte. No change of meafures has taken
place on our part none ought to take place at
this time. With the one, friendly arrangement
was then propofed, and the law, deemed ne
cefiary on failure of that, was fufpended to
give time for fair trial of the if1ue. With the
lame power friendly arrangement is now pro-
ceedlng, under good expectations, and the fame
law, deemed necenary on failure of that, is
itlli fuipended to give time for fair trial of the
Hue. With the other, negotiation was in like
manner then preferred, and provifional inca.
lures only taken to meet the event of rupture
with the fame power, negotiation is Till pre-
ferred, and Proyilional meafures only are necef-
larry to meet the event of rupture. While there.
lore we do no defect in the nighteft degree
from the courfe we then afumed, and are Till
purifying, with mutual content, to reftore
good understanding, we are not to mpute to
them practices as irreconcilable to interet as to
good faith, and changing necenariy the rela-
tions OF peace and juaIee between as to thofe
OF war. Thefe furmifes are therefore to be i'm
Puted to the yauntiDgs of the author of this en-
terPrize to multiply his partizans by magnify
ing the belief of his profp, Cts and fupport.
BY letters from gen. Wilkinfon, of the four
teenth and eighteenth of December, which
came to hand two days after the date of the re-
ioiutioD the Iloufe of Representatives, that is
to FAY, on the morning OF the eighteenth infant,
/ received the iunp r