The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-01-22
ONE OF TIE PEOPLE.

ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
BURR's CoNSPIRAcY.
ne toi'owing letter CATS more Pure light upon
the coutpiracy of A. Burr, than any com.
munica,ian which has yet been publifI,rd.
Ii is derived from The fame f." bieb aufb0yify.'
as the letter, which appeared two weeks
hnce IN the Enquirer, on the fame ilibjee.
WASHING TON, janis
haten to communicate to You the inforna-
ton brought from Kentucky aud New Orleans
10y mail which arrived here yefterday. 1t
mas taken me half day to collect from the
different PerfonS who have received letters, the
in,ei'lgence contained in them. ihslI not
take time to dgcf it into any order, but 7 am
iatished i need not heftate to rely on the inte
reit 1t will excite, for the command of your
attention.
mere is no account of any feizures having
been made upon the Ohio, fiucc that of.the
Muikingum fiotiIla, nor can it be faid with GER
tainty, that the boats under BlannerhaIet and
Tyler which left the neighborhood of Marietta
with grsat preciPitance, upon the firft alarm
gwen them by the government of Ohio, have
not Pahed CINCINNATI, notwithstanding the
prompt and Deceive meafures taken by govern
or i INN to intercept them there, and COM
MIR. Graham after having given the information
he had collected to the Legislature of Ohio
which received him and then clofed its doors.
and after having witneiied the prompt and vi
gorous meatures both legislative and executive
which his diiclofures produced, immediately
repaired to Kentucky, the legislature of which
tate was in fefon at his arrival. II. was al
united TO private meeting of that body, TO
which he made the fame discoveries. The fame
meaiures followed, with equal zeal and diff
patch. Preciieiy the fame law paiTed without
ueia!' ana parties oil militia were Immediately
ordered to Louiive, to the mouth of trade
water and the mouth Of Cumberland river and
Iennehee, for the purpoie of Popping and de-
tanning all boats and all perfons paflinc down
wards. The militia moved with aiacrity, and
the loyalty OF the fate became at once as ma.
nteft asst was before at1ertcd by its Renrefen-
tatives here TO be fteady and frong. NOTHING
OF the operations of thefe parties has vet reach
cd this place.
The name of Graham being me uioned, it
is requiilte TO give you fome information about
mat perion. He is the fame who was formerly
lecretary of legation to Spain, and is now fe
crctary to the territorial government of Or
leans. Being accidentally in this place during
the hrit days of November lalf, he received
from the Executive, which had full confidence
in his integrity, diicretion and conAancy, pri-
Vate lnitructiops, with a fecret authority and
credentials, to follow the fotfleps OF Col. Burr
and his leading partiZans, to notice their mea-
furcs, TO endcavor to difcover their views. aud
u Poiibe, to get full pofIeliion Of their plan of
operations. Such was his prudence and dex-
terity that he was never fufpeGed, and over
lures were even made to him by BlannerhaGct
ana others to join them in the fcheme The re-
iult of his labors and the fubftance of his COM
munication to the legifl4tures of Ohio and Ken.
lucky IS, that the armament was defined in the
hrt place againit New Orleans, the wealth of
which wa. to be frZed and made ufe of TO al
lure adventures from ali parts for an expedition
aSain!t Mexico, which Col. Burr hoped TO o.
verrun, and 10y the Influence of the gold and
FLYER he would acquire over the needy and the
bold III the u. STATES, in the ifldnds and in the
country oi Mexico itlelf, cfTeaually TO fubdue
and tnaiiy to convert into a kingdom for him
felf.
The fuccefs of The Freebooters in their re-.
peated incuronsinto The weathieR parts Of the
Spaniih territories on either fide of the Inhmus
ABOUT the clofe of the seventeenth century wa
iuihc'ent to infpire with iuch delirn, a mind
10 daring, 10 lofty and TO desperate rs that nf
Col. Burr. lie no doubt believed, that if Nor.
gan had been tuch man himfelf he would ne.
yer have Quilted Panama, but would have ex.
| tended ard organized his conaueTs and ena-
ollined Welih Dynany in the ric hen country
of America.
That this was his ultimate deGgn, and was
the real line TO his followers, there can be no
quettion. In order to mah the grand fcheme.
he aiiumed ievfraI Iefftr plans, which were per.
haps altogether feigned. He held out To tho
psriizans of Spain, that his view vas to rci}ote
Louliidna TO its ancient proprictors, and he had
commenced deep intrigue upon the MiF,uri.
to ALLEVIATE the people of that territory, from
the U. s. Of which there is proof in depoG.
ton Of the fherilf of St. Charles, tranrmitted
to me by a friend in that coustry, and now in
my pohenion.
| He aiiured the people of the Ohio river
when he did not exptd to engage them in his
terVice, that his dedgn was 20 COLOMBO the
traet Of country IS miles fquare uaon The
| Waihita and Red river, which had been Grant.
ed by Spaniih governor to German in the
Spanlfh iervice and had been purchafed, he f4id
by himfelt in partnerfhip with Others. II,
obieryed that the perfous he had engaged were
bound to perform military Cervice, 5ecanfe wal
with Spain was inevitable: That he had fol
that reaion directed them to leave behind fo
] one year, all iheir female connexions, and hat