The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-11-03

NE OF CIPHER. H. a9vifed me no. 10 REIGN,
but TO wait events, for the Secretary at war had
Informed him that /! was the only Republican
held officer In the fervice, and that pubic OPT
mon was very hutaoating and whindcai.
After this had conversation with tire Sc
csetary at War and the Attorney General toge-
ther. thins that Capt. Clark, thr companion
of LcSsiswas alto prefrnt. The Secretary at
War hut he doors. We had fome previous
conversation, as alter the Attorney General
came m, The Secretary at War irtroiuced it
again, by osferving, tina, he had been Informed
col. Hurr had accompanied gen. Wikinion to
the Wehern Country, fpent fevcral days with
him ut Mafac, and then furni;hca the colonel
with barge aud men 10 defend the MfiiiI;p-
2i 10 Mew-Orlesns; replied that this wsso one
among fnany reafons to iufpeet good, under
Handing, connection and CO operation between
the general and eoiopeI--Tbat imagined both
of them were ~eii-informed OF the old plan ar
tributed to the general aud his ailoci,tes, 10
form ieparate government Wee of the Ale
ghany under the apfpicss of Spain or Engisnd !;
OF his fatnous memorial, which it i. isid pro-
cured him executive privileges from the Spanilh
government, and the extraordinary vilit colonel
Connolly from Canada paid him in Kentucky !;
hut that there were recent events which were
not without fufpicion.. Such as his having fpent
the latt winter of col. Bnrrs vicc-prefidency at
Wilmington their great intimacy, the interee
made TO get gen. Wilkipfon appointed aud con-
frmed governor of Upper Louiiiaaa, with
Burr's brother-in- law, Secretary to the Terri.
tory, and mspy Of his friends, to places OF truR
and Influence Gen. Wikinion's drawing e.
verai hundred troops into cantonmeut near
the month OF the Miflouri; his connections
with col. Burr, gen. Adair, John Brown of Ken
lucky, John Smith of Ohio, and fevcral others
ince implicated or fuipseted OF being concern
ed with col. Burr, TO procure 4 charter for cut
ting Canal on the Indiana Eide of Ohio, on
which charter hank was ingrafted, and would
have produced thoir funds, the want of which
fsems hrft To have made the general to hslitate
-a'luding to paragraph in the cyphered let.
ter. then Gated colonel Burr's yiht to New
Orleans in a barge furDithed by General vii.
knion; and that after WHITING the lower coun-
try, he came TO ST. Louis. then Gated ths
conversation with Judge Eaton. as before men
toned, and the Intimacy of thofe three perfons,
and that when col. Burr was about leaving ST.
Louis, the general had barge got ready with
much parade 10 put him over the Milfiiiippi !:
that iorne time after COZ. Burr's return TO the
Atlantic States, Miranda's expedition got ready
and failed, which gentleman promirtt,, if cali.
ed on, to come forward and prove general vii,
kiofon to be the protector Of; (that gentleman
is Judge Eaton.) then obierved that it was
not eaiv to fuppofe, that Colonel Burr, who
knew Wilkinfon's character, his former at
tempts and desperate fortune, ihould fpend 70
much time with him AT Warrington, where the
fcherne feems to have been firf protected; pats
through The country where COL Borr NUT com
mence his enterpriZc, where Wilkiniou WIS
well acquainted. and where Burr wanted agents
(alluding 10 the Oho), and partiZans; vet ne
yer found him to. make propofaIs, but wait till
al! was ready, aud then make his firit overtu-es
by letter and before he knew the ia crfs of
that letter in converting patriot general into a
traitor, ihou!d throw hmielf & his 5cft friends,
his eboiee I5iriis, into the power of general he
had 10 much infuted; that the general's mea-
lures in Upper Louihana certainly had a ten
dency to difguit the people with the change Of
government, and to prepare them for res OH /;
that did not koow the generals attempts up
on other officers, but he certainly had tried ne
but if on the contrary col. Burr did communi-
cate his plans TO the een. either at Wilmington,
At MaTac, or at ST. Louis, and the general did
not Immediately Inform his government, he has
not only grossly impoied on them, and the pub
lie at large; bat has been guilty of mifpriiion
OF treaion and perjury. The Attorney General,
after had gone through my tstement and in.
formation, in fu6ftance and order nearly as re.
lated, aA;ed me what would be the reiult if ali
this fhould BIZ proven why jof what the fe-
dsra'i!ts and the enemies of the preient admi-
nftrstiun whit would turn the Indignation
of the people from Durr on Wilkinfon Burr
would etcape and WiIkinion take his place. ]
ohfrrved that it politely might be the event,
bot jafice and honor required that the whole
truth ihould be known, let it operate as it might.
(McJor BrHG's 7oRimony, to be continued.