The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-10-20

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lug OF gen Jackfou? A know it only by com
PARTON. never faw him write. Mr.. WTekbanr
Did you compare this letter "A My clerk did |;
and he is here. Mr.. l.eRae. Il il not your
oet oei'ef, that this is true copy of the orr.
g,nai 3 A believe it to be a correct cow
Mr.. hieRae. Did not this letter form, the
ground, IN part, OF your conduct a 1t did
certainly influence my conduit. Mr. FIekban
OBJECTED to lite being read, becaufe it was only
proved TO be true copy by the gederal recol-
leetion OF the witnefs. Some deIultory difc uf
non eniued. C6ief Juqiee. Both fides admit,
that Il Is immateriai whether general Wilkin-
ions lmpreiiions of the fate of New-Or,ea
were actually true or falfe. Both iides admit
that he may produce any letter, which is yeri.
he'd 10y himfelf. But this copy is not proved
oy him to be true copy. There is no chico.
uon to gen Wilkinfon's Eating the contents of
tina letter; but that Ratement cannot be con.
hrmed by the copy that is offered.
Mr.. tpiekbam. There is one thing more to
be conlidersd. The court has not come to any
poht'Ve deciiioB as to the letter Of 10Th Nov.
Ii gen Wilkihton does not produce the omitted
parts, by the rules OF evidence, we are at Eber
ty to tate and to uie them, until they are dif.
proved. Cen Wilkinion may, if he pleales pro-
duce the whole letter at any fubfequent period.
AR. Hay. The Prehdent of the United States
has preicribed the courie which fhouid be pur
'ued: 1t is he, and not gen Wiknfon who
withholds the omitted parts. Ia il fair then that
the oppoGse council iioud fupply thefe omit.
Mons as they pleaie, and that their fuppoii,ions
mould be received aa evidence? Cbisf yuaiee.
nave already decided this queltion. II is GER
fanny falr to iupply the omitted parts BY fup
poitions, though fuch ought not to effect gen
| W'lkinion's private character. If this were a
triai IN chief, ihouId perhaps think myfelf
bound to continue the caufe, on account of the
withho'dins the parts of this paper: and GER.
tainly cannot exclude the differences which gen.
tlemen may draw from the omifIions.
GeS. Wilkinfon. / have to offer, fir, letter
from James l.. Donaldfon, which Mr.. Martin
called tor yeherday. Mr.. Martin. This is on.
y IN extract Gen. NIisinfa,7. had no other.
Mr. Mar:in (re;urning the papsr) We take
no extracts. Mr. FIR. {in an under key.) Uu.
LET'S IL be of molaiies.
Gen. RRkinfon. have alto another paper.
II Is the extratt of a letter from Mr.. Covington,
moving that the cypher was invented in 1914
ar fiekha"a.. Did you ever ufe thcfe cyphers
or any OF them or any other cypher, in correr.
pondencs with the Baron Carondole,? A No
put mutt reflect on that queaion before an.
fwer it decidedly.
I COMMODORE SHAW.
l ar Vmksam. For what is Commodore
Shaw introduced? 1Ir. Hay. To autbenti.
cate The copy OF the letter fror. Gen. Jacklon
TO gov. Claiborne, ihown to general WiIkin.
ION. COM. SHAY. I recoleet to have fees the
Original. MIR. WIrkhans. You will pleafe, fir,
to fate its contents. -
Com. Sbn7y. Governor Claiborne fent his
iervant to me with an invitation to dinner {; ad.
ding that he wilhcd to fee me on public buiinefs
was unable to wait upon him that day but
law him on fubtequent day, when he took
letter from his pocket and howed it to me
II was letter from general Jackfon TO himfrlf
ana mad been thrown into the Office by fone a.
nonymous perion. This letter gave gov Clai.
) oornca hrong fnipicion of gen. Wilkinfon and
reminded him of the Ides of March, and inGR.
co upon the neceIiity of placing New-Oriean,
IN itate OF dcfence.-Cbief 'TuRies. When wa,
J TINS Some time in Dece mber. Chief INF
hee. Did report convey any information oil
. troops approaching New Orleans. A Yes
Every day in December and January rumours
were arriving of the movement of troops on our
,. w. frontiers; and my impreiiion was, that
every tnIng ihoud be done for the fafety of the
city and that fgen. WlIkinfon had not taken
the mealures that he did, he would have defery.
cd cenfure.
Mr.. -NeRae Cooking in the letter in his hand
Do you recolled whether general Jackfon re.
commended in his letter, that the governo,
mould uie every poiiible means of defence, Mr.
WffSSa0f objected TO putting queltons from the
letter. CD. J;LFiee. You NUT not, Cir, take
the letter in your hand, and propofe dueRion.
IRON II. Ii is really of no confequence whethe,
the letter was read or not. No doubt the fub
Rance OF 1t has been Gated. Mr.. N.Rse. Have
no right to read over the letter, and after.
wards to interrosate the witnefs as to its fub.
tance ! 1t is my object, confefs, to draw
out The iubitance of the original letter Mr.
Wiekban'. In that letter were there not ftrone
iuipicions exprsfed aganit gen. WnkinGon
There were. Mr. EIek5au. lliould fun
pole then, that gen. Wiikinfon might have Cd
h'yJudged from that crcumfance, of the cor
reetnr!s the rumours which were circulated
about col. Burr.
Mr. AisRae. State, fir, what you know O.
taeie traniactions ? A.. Tie alarm 1T New-Or
leans IN December and January was very con
iiderable. We did not know when the enem,
would advance upon us. There was an aopre
heililon OF an attack by fca, and was then au
thorlied TO purchafe large Rip, to be ftationec
at the Ba'ze. The gun-boats which had beer
ordered TO enter Lake Ponchartain, were com
manded to tase different petition. Some tim;
after, there was report, that a Nrct under En-
) ghih colours were actually cruiZing off tht
n!outh OF the M'iiiiippi, and This eucreaied tn,
aia'm. Mr. Burr. Was it fact or not, tha
TINS heet was there: 4 do not know. Such wa
the report and it was brought up by packe
which comssUp weekly from the Balize IL wa
not lad to be fleet Of merchantmen but Of
ih'ps OF war. The report was, believe, OF
the compting-houfe books. Mr.. Bradford, The
printer, aifo made communication to me or
'ns 9Th OF January, which produced conIlder