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

To an IDLE hour
Gen. Wi'kinfor and Burr began fheir e,rrsfpon-
derce in cypber about the wear 1900 or 1901 and
near the period ich the atrer aft -nded III. chair
OF the We Proficiency For his plrpoie they ador,-
ed three fit'vrens cyphers Ihe fif4 Of tasf- is c-
ed the Di-'eS is ytbs, and was invented by,geDe-
raj Wiki'icn aud captain Csrpbell So,,h n. ioo,,
ago as the year 1894 1885, or so for rheinr,cfe IS
communicating conhdentally y iIh Gen W's,ct;ce,s
an me "etsTn cou'try-( Ano;her cypber Of fon,e
Wnat iinHr esa'.ruciion was Gevcd by '4pt Smith
IN 79i IN which ne hieroglyphics sprefe,i,irg the
Fre1dent and Vice Prefdsntsrr the fame with fhol-
nivd M The cypher with col. Burr --rhe fsoorl is
'en'pinsted tie d'bisery ai51a5ef ey65ey and was
Il rF'ed b, Burr and WLiinion in the wear 1913 .r
500. The third 'tyled f6t Dictionary eytLsy and
was adorred BY them IN rhe year 500 The lannon's
letter from Burr TO gen. Wlkinion of ezd lulvIs0
de!v'rsd by Swart'gout Nstch;toches, and its du
lpic'te oi 29th OF the fame month"; conveyed by Bolt
man. We're written partly il each OF thoie cyphers
and PARTLY III Engh;h
55s ,0hoeDisg il isesen e,' he l.r2sly,Jsk cy55.,
Vice PrsEdent, q
repref r o. ,i S.a,e &c, Thee Characters
III letter
ih4 arbitrary Alphabet CIPHER was in facl, no
thing more than faalti.u;on o5 other characters in
the place OF 'he el'ers, which actu.y compof. IN.
alphabet and inilead Of the figures from 70 10.
'rnvs: G d E. 81
\. = o'r 0S'
With thefe new iigns words were coz,poCpd am,
numbers rePrefen,ed, at difcretion.
Inc Dictionary CIPHER. was of the following def.
eripuon The Wilmington edition of the year 1900
ci Eotcks Poke, Dictionary, lsrvsd as III. kew h.,
winch iuth parts Of the letters as we're written in IL
CURES were TO - Interpreted For example If the
hsufes ., 4; were uied the figure pointed to the
fIasr he hr.rT. IL.
word intended, counting down from the tor, 10 IT..
iirt or lecond column on die page which E.te- c-
cumiianee was alto Indicated by Fight MARI. above
or below the 4.
Cen Dayton's LETTERS of Ion aud 24tr Tuly. which
were iorw arded in company with Burrs by S,.ar.-
won't and boiimat' were written party in the hiero-
glyphitk and arbitrary alphabet cyphers. sbove.d,t
cribed, partly in Englih, bl; principally IN Dsv,o,'.
own CIPHER called the cyPher OF which, the Key
Word is Frunce.
1t competed in the following manner: The let
tiers OF the hlPhabsr aTe nunibet,d thus:
es.
In order to deeypher letter or paGsges OF letter
written III this cyPher; take the firh LETTER of The key
word F fix that letter ~ the ferris Of the alpha
bets count forv ard from that letter as many letter,
as are quail to the iicf figure in the cypherI letter
A. for Example which vii give T and will be the
fri letter Of the Gr1 word Then take Ie feeond-t
tT II the key ord, r. and 10 the fame manner adj
IN he fri Indaocc. uptforwsFd, many letters -
are equal to the ieound figure as = which will p;ve
the fcond letter, which completes the frff word r.
Continue in the fame way, with the erfuin, Ief
tiers Of the key word t they are 6hihed aud then
begin again: thus gong thro the key-w ord again 8.
again tili the letter is completed.
IN the oyphered letter the figures, aggregates Of
figures repreeuting words leparated by Commas.
There another cpher in ufe among fone az
the aceomPlces in this enerPrze, the lev 7ro,d Of
ehch was CUBA. The uie this cypher may he
dndernood from the following iehene aud elpiaus-
tons: