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CONTINUED.

letter SAID TO be 8 post markeds1Sth OF
MAY / have said, do not recoiecs
Wheeler / wrote colonel Burr such letter
or nor, and OF cnstse eau have no recol.
lecsioncf the contensss b0ii have said
{ bs!ixsea had written him three letters
after ne lief, ST. Louis, and this was my l.
dss. Dat lrrcoilccs no particulars except
ahe expressioc;relatipg 70 Miranda, though
/ remember perfectly the motives with
which / dsd arite him. now find from
his letter of The 10th of April, that be had
received no letter from me after October
OF November 1906, and therefore CON.
.clsads wrote him but TWO letters, from The
period he lcf, me at ST. Louis 10 the pre-
sent day again require tha, the letter
isDputsd TO me. post marked t5sh OF -Naa
should Be produced. tiiak it was Ii the
lsiter wrote 10 Os-ober or Novem5e.
1905 that / make mention OF Mlranda,
anei nuw, believe il was after the receiP-
Of letter hon him ofthe s+sh eft. Bscem
Der iso5 that I warned the secretary at
fhs naey sgainst him. 4 hes been said by
one cf shx grand jury, that | debated !
had employed language 10 my notes or let
tiers 70 draw from colonel Burf his real OBJ
jecss, that I noighs, in case they were COM
n,eDdatis, partake Of theu,, ard il other.
wise, reports him 10 governments &C
knowledge the first nao,iseesb bur Il do Dot
ec!lees the Alternative. sIs his.plans bad
heen vicious, should have done my du
~; If tlsey had been inaocent, Should noi
base repoFssd him. IsGad by reference 70
S,;.y CORE popdence, thar received no or.
dsrs 10 leave St. Louis until he-1l:h of
lure. fs06--the troops had saRrd the-Sth
of May. and / was Left 10. essrcise The
functions of civil governor, God knows
{ uithous 40 idea ofleaying the country, IN
iii the order arrived, aod the xnuch-,slked
If letter, bears post marx h May" a
rssnfh before irecr. we'd my orders.
AIr. Hs,y. WAL you ssayc what passed
be,wten yorrseif aud major Brnf when
he descended the river 70 mret you onyonr
approach 10 ST. Louisss a I viii. Bot
can state before you. sif,. addressing the.
jpdge) ADD bsfore God, lsurping u2 his
eyes 10 Heaven, aud placing his hands %
his heart thar ais whole narrative is eit;ier
4 vile fabrication, or distortion Of facts !;
asd will shew Why tits man sboYe all O.
,bers 10 the world, should uos be 10 my
.coo65euce. On my arrival as Fort Mas-
sac, net number Of .caicers under or
!. ders 10 atteud a general coart martial AN
Orleans, amorg when was captain Ssod.
dsrr. who had taken possession OF Loaisi.
ana On the part of the II. S. and proceed
I'd major Bruf Ia the command .@ot 81.
I.ouis. and had acted as civil comm andsnt
Of ,har counsry. Till be had been superced-
ed by the appointment of governor Harri-
son. who bad acted as gov, OF Indiana 8
also og Louisiana, uctii was afpoipsed 10
,hatte,r;tory. In the course eft my euqu,.
,;es OF captain S ;oddard relative 10 the state
of The territory he informed me that ma
s;sr BruG had by his conduct made hlnses
<verv unpopular with he iDhabnanss- Ia
ascending the mississippi ] halted AZ kas
kaskia., where Ireceiyed a letter from go
sermon Harrison by the hands OF Mr.
Wallace. or a csptaiD Prince, who were II
company /; Of which letter hold an exsrac
in my hand
THE reading of this extract was oppos
ed bv the counsel of colonel Burr. Ih'
Chef sfusticsa declared that general Wii
k,nson nigh, either read the exsract Q
slate It's con,en.s. Generst Wilkinson rea,
The extract. See. norr (No. Dbl Thelei
Ter is dassd the 9TH Of Jous 1905, and "a
received The 2o,h OF goth of the sam
month, and me, majo, Rr0H on the Sd 6
Tuiy. as The same place Ireceissd BY
.,;soa,ch boa, an invitation 10 dune on IN
dsy Of ny arrival a, ST.. Louis with Nj
Augustus Chouteac, who Understood wa
.he senior magistrate of the district, and 9
good mac ss there is 10 that or any o.hs
country.