The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-09-12


deritandmg ;he evidence, it impoiiibie Tor him TO
fate the fubiance- of each wienel.s tsiimony. He
believed that ME-. GrahA II would prove the fstinr
on loot OF military expedition MIR. Ear. In the
di0ri9 of Virginia - Mr.. Hey. Yes :--beyun in
tire dioriet Of Virginia.
MIR Burr conceived that the oppo5ic council fioui
either reiiri themfeyes the bringing out the evi
dencs in the order which they propofed on former a
occaiions, that they houd be called upon 10 prove
fra the faa laid in the indictment.
Mr.. Wir. Part OF the fa6t laid III the Indictment
is the detinaton of this very entcrptisc.
Mr.. Pa.ts When wihed them on former
location to begin with the proof of the over, at
they urged that their coure the lucid order of
ture. Viii! the gentlemen then depart from it in the
preIent nlsance3 It is either RICH. to purdue this
courIe, which they themfelves Recommended or to
prove fr2 the al laid in the indictment. Rather
than diiurb them in the courie which we had iuppo
fed they had ieleaed, We had maze up mind &.
iubmie all its Inconvenience The gentlemen had
furely better begin at the Ilaud itfelf ant, after
they have proved the exiilence of their military cx-
petition, they may then fearch all the world over
for Cuff and nonisnte enough to fill up the vacuum
which they have imagined
Mr.. Hay then obierved that he would not wafle
the time c the in u!elsls dputatioK; that he
would take the 9 ntencn their word and begin
at the Aand and then he would look on. for other
nonlenie as the gentleman called il, to Fill up the
chain Of his lory.
Mr.. Hay then called up PETER TAYLOR, III
DannerhaGett's gartner,) whole tehimony We have
already rubfhed in more expanded form the
trial for treafon lie a,ed that there were,aho so
Of the party who landed on the iidRd that Comfort
Tyler as he had unJert ood had had the direction OF
them, before they arrived there, that Bannerhsett
and Love the only perions whom ne rccol, aed
that ,hrv had taken with them from the Hand that
he had fen few arms and ALTO powder. bullets and
Provicns he recited his interview with DR. Bennett
(~hon Mar. Hay fa,ed had departed from Richmond
III fpite of all his adnouit:ons he repeated i'll the
mott conilen, Blaunerhanett's commune
cations To him how they were going to take Mex
leo and make Burr it. King and his daughter be
his iuccsiior; alio his conversation with Aaron
Burr Lexington He fated that he faw no APP
pearance of any preparations to iettle land; that
BaDaerhaae,t, it true had orr ginally held cut
the gilt of certain number of acres to every lively
and orderly young who would accompany him
without their families women but that he had
afterwards avowed the capture Of Mexico as the OBJ
js9 Of th-te preparations.
After Peter Taylor had delivered his teaimony,
Morris E. Beknap was called in and fsgorn. The
reader will rceoilea that Mr. Belknap OF
thofe witneles who were examined on the trial for
treafnn; bur that his telfimony that location
confined to the overt al on the iiland, where he
had not arrived before or o'clock on the night OH
which the expedition had defended the river. His
teanony therefore necenLrily fhort, and perfect
ly d,ifnSa from the evidence which he gave on the
Preient occafion.
MIR. Bar" obferved, that the gentlemen were a
bout depart from their uual method of introducing
the evidence. They going from the l.
laDd.
Some defultcry conversation enlued, when MIR
Hay oberves that he wilied to prove by Mr.. Bek
Zap that he had conveyed letter from Aaron Burr
to the party the i1and, which had produced their
precpitate departure. II he not nli(taken, this
leaf great poin, in Mr. Belknap's teAino-
ny, and il would necellarily prove how much the par
ty the inaud under the direction and agency
Of the accufed.
MIR. Burr ob!trved, that il they were to thew his
aGs done without the diari6f Of Virginia, he N oud
objea 70 it that he was willing that the whole of
theteairrony exhibited on the former cafe houd be
geas through and fave the time of the court that
the whole of il might be read from the udge notes
but now it ieenreI. they proceeding to an emu
Jncratinn ofthoe as which done Of the DIFF
ria lie ihould ALTO pro,cR agsihft the right which
gentlemen abous aiume, Of bringing the
atts and faygs Of o'!sr people any line aud place.
sssevidrrce sgainh hmlef
Mr. Hay wilhed to prove by Mr. Beknsp an aa
thar was done, it i. true, without the daria Of Vr
ginia but vhrh was confumma;ed in that diitra
He win.ed to prove that Mr. Burr had apprfed the
party in the fland Of his apprehenliens that he
had conveyed his dpatches by Mr. BeIkuap and that
they had produced the Precipitate departure of his
men.
Mir. Bur- will permit the gentlemen to 20 on
with Mr.. Belknaps elimony, although is right
TO produce it, bceauie lasislied that MIR b. is
incapable Of proving any fuch orcuai0ance they
kte.
MopRI, D. BELKNA7
Mr.. Hey. Were yos not the inand on the
night Of BlanncrhsGctts departure A.. was; dc
night Of the Ioth Of December. Mr.. Hay. State the
eaue and consequences Of lonr going.
Mr.. Ss!tagp had been employed by MIR. Blan-
Berha!istt TO tsrry letter to John Jourtan at Lex
ington Kentucky. (Mr. Hay. Jourdan is here.) In
that letter, was one cnelofed for Col. Burr. Some
time previous to his alsng go to Lexington,
had hatedto him III converiatiun certain rumor5
were a6oat calculated thew the unawfu!1efs Of bis
expedition. He declared ne that hi; expedition
was not unlawful, and he read TO hisletter adj
drefed 20 Col Burr. | do not particularly reeoe5l
the coateus OF this letter. but this the Iubhanee
oi it: He cosgratUates Col. b. on his acquitta III
kentufkY and that the grand jury did not frd bill
ayslnii hun he mentioned tie Gate Of the boats
building Oh the Mulsingum, though DO not partieu
larry reooec hat he fsd about them. %. At What
time wasthis a. About the middle Of November
1850 He likewile meHtioned the quantity Of pro-
v,ions, that he lhehld probably have to take down
the river with him particularly recolle9 corn meal,
as of the articles lie mentioned that lie fhould
probably take his family down with him. The letter
was long and occupied about pages Of common
paper delivered Mr.. Jourdan the letter ajdfsf-
ie 10 him. He broke the zeal aud refleled me to
carr tie srcioiure Col. Burr at Frankfort, did
carry Frankfort and delivered to Col, Burr.
returned then to the iland, and took back with me
a '.ttcr from oil Burr MIR Elaunprhafisft