The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-10-16
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DUPLICATE.
DEAR SIR,
WAsHiNoroN, Jan. 8, OF.


DUPLICATE.
WAsHINoroN, Jan. 8, OF.
had intended ye0erday to recommend to
Gen. Dearborne the writing you weekly by poft.
to convey inflammation of We1ern affairs as long
as they are inere0ing becaufe is poibe tho not
probable you might fometimes get the information
quicker this way than down the river, bur the Cens
raj received yeiserday Information of the death Of his
Ion IN the t. INDIES, and of corre cannot now attend
to buiineis. ] therefore wrie YOU haiy line for
the Preient week, and fend in duplicate BY the A.
,hens and the Naihyi,le routes
The information in the encofed paper As to pro-
eeeairg' IN the flare OF Ohio is correct Bennerhaf.
ietts Ha,ia of boats aud 600 barrels of proviops
IS ei&ed and there be doubt that Tylers flo-
ta is aio taken, becanfe on the 18th Dec we know
there was iuicisnt force affembled at Cincipnati
20 intercePt there, and another party was in purluit
oil 1t on the river above. We are aured that thefe
NO hotiiias competed the whole of the boats pro-
vihed Blennerhaflett and Tyler had fed down m.
river. do not believe thar the number of perlons
engaged Tor Burr has ever amounted to 5oo though
LONE nave carried them TO 1000 or 500 A par, of
tneie were engaged as fetters of Batrops land bu,
'he part were engaged under the exprefs au-
rance that the projected enterprze was aeainR Mex.
'eo ana ieerety authorized By this government Ma
ny were expressly entitled in the name of the u. ;
ihe Proclamation which reached Pie, fburp Dee.
ana the other parts OF the river ucce iveIy undece-
yea ooth thele caiies and of courfe drew them off
"u nave never ieen any proof of their having az.
ieH,oed more than 10 men in two boats from Beaver
oo IN yier shotilla, and the boatmen of Benncr-
he.' s. oeheve therefore that the enterprise may
De coniidered as cruhed, but we are no, to relay in
our attentons until we hear what has paiTed ar Ion
nViie. u every thing from that place upward, he
iueeesiuiiy arretted there is nothing from below tina,
Qs) to be feared Be aflured that Tennefye.. and
particularly Gen Jaekfon faithful The order.
lodged a, Maac & the Chickafaw. Bluffs will probably
ieeure the interrogation of fuch fupi,ves from ;u;ee
may eieape from Loaiive, 70 that think YOU
wnl never Zee one of them. Still would nor viii,
TIL we hear from Louifvii'e, that th. information
houid relax your preparations in the lea except Ia
lar as TO dhPene with the militia of MifIinppi and
Orleans leaving their homes, under our order, of
Nv' 20. Only let them eonfider thsmfeves under re.
qu'h'ion' and be In fate Of readncis, mould any
o7ee' too great for your regulars eicape down ,be
riVeT You will have been fenfbe, that ho(e order,
were gwen while we fuppofed you were on the sa.
ons and the fuppoed criiis did not ADMIT the for.
maiity OF their being Paaed through YOU We had
eonhdered Fort Adams the place to make fland.
peeauie 1t covered the mouth of Red River. You
ave P'e'erred n. Orleans, on the apprehension of
meet from the w nsies Be aliured, there ia NOT A.
ny foundation for fueh expe Station, but the WING
1Sasgerations OF theie traitors mpofe OH Others
aud iweli their pretended means. The very man
whom they repreiented to you gone to Jamaica and
TO bring the feet has been from home and ba.
regularly communicated to every thing which had
Paiied between Burr and him. No fuch pronoG,;on
was ever hazarded to him. France or Spain would
not lend fleet to take Vera Cruz; and tho nm.
OF the expeditions, now near arriving from ENGLAND
Is probably Tor Vera Cruz, & perhaps already there.
YET the itate OF things between renders it impo(i
o'e they mould countenance enterprze unauthorized
oy us. Still repeat that thefe grounds of fecur,v
mutt not top our proceedings or preparations yptI
they are further confirmed. Co on therefore viii
your works for the defence of NJ Orleans. beeanC.
they VIII always be ufeful, only looking to what
mould be permanent rather than means merely tenn,
Porary. You may expect further Information as ".
receivs.It; and tho expect it will be fuch as will
place us at our eaie, Yet nun not place ourrelve,
io' uht we be certain bur af the peiibilry thar
the reiourees OF our enemy may be greater and deeper
than we are yet Informed.
Your two confidential neGengers delivered ,bs;-
charges lately One arrived yelerday only with yopr
letter OF Nov IL. The oral commune atoms he mad.
me are truly important. beieech you to take the
mott iPeoial care of the letters which he menti
oned to me- the one in CIPHER, the other from another
oil the coniPrators of high Handing, and lend them to
ME by the hrit conveyance you can truR. 1t is ne
esiiary that all important teimony fould be brougbt
to one centre, in order that the guilty may be con-
vlcted, and the innocent left untroubled Accom- m,
friendly iautatons and aurances of great eaeem and
reipctt. N
TIL: JEFFERSON.