The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-06-17
MONDAY. Iune L..

Mr.. Hay dirstted the Deputy Martial to rcquea
Gen. WikinioH to come into court. Ia few mi
nutes, Cen. w entered with firm ani disniiied car
rage, and gracefully bowling the bench, aud fur
rounding spectators, took his Rand behind Col. B's
council. How replete with feeling and intareR.
the cene before US IL was the fro oscafon ON
which theie two dfinguibed individuals had met
nce the exploion OF theis intereRing trauiaeiiens
which have 10 irongy agitated country and With
which both of them have been 70 deeply come q ed
Col. burrs countenance was marked by a naughty
contempt The enuntenance of Gen. Wilkinfon, was
calm, dgnifed and commanding.
After Gen. Wiikinfon had taken the oath at the
clerks able; Mr.. Hay enquired of the Court whe-
ther ne was at Liberty to communicate to the Grand
Jury through the Tarhal, that their mne diate ex-
animation OF Gen. w. might perhaps facilitate their
enqulries.-And then Gen. w. attended the Mar
fha to the Jury
Mr. Hay. The oppofte cotnfel have obieeed
to the tenouS of the DARN, which had been admin
iiered TO the witnsies. Will the Court inlrua the
Clerl. On the fubje6i
Mr. BOh5 itated, he did not approve of the form
IN which Re oath was administered {; that this OBJ
lection, however, did not come from Col B. that
mere was ione variation between the preien aud o.
ther forms but that if the A for the u S. WAS IA
tshed Nth the form, Col BIS council would acqui-
eiee' m. Hay. There are four indictments
before the q. Jury two of them againa A. Burr
Herman B'annerhahet for the fame offences and it
was this Circumstance, which dislsted the general
form OF she osth.-fhe Oh: Jus prcfurned that
this form was not les obligatory than if all the in
dlemen!s had been particularly enumerated.-Mr
Hay. It IS the general form, fir to give true an
liver TO iueh quefions as the Grand Jury may ak
mr.. RNh6am ftated, that as the indictments were
now pending before the c. I. it was necenary TO re-
call to the memory of the court, cireumnarce
which had been early fuggened that a number of
improper rAFERs might be exhbityd before the c. l.
he Attorney for the U. s. had indeed pledged him
ie to lend up no papers, which had not previouGy
paiied The INFECTION of the court; but it had ince
occurred to COL BIS Counel, that the witneIes them
isye' might carry uP fucA papers. The objea of
THIS pTon'ie would be entirely defeated, If papers
were thus to be carried, ihaead of being fen up It
would be changing too the very GunStio' of a wit
nsis; Whole buGnels it was give teinony, and
not to carry papers Finding At nothing could be
done without al application to the court, MIR. w.
unlimited 1t 20 them, whether they ought not 20 in
hrucs The O. J. to receive no papers, but through
the medium OF the court.
Mr. Hay hoped, that the cour, would no; act
upon mere iufPitisn that witnefIss will carry up
improper papers it extremely probable, that
Gen. w III delivering his evidence before the G. 7.
may have location to refor certain letters that he
has received and to certain documsuts which would
aiiit TO give the hiftory Of thefe tranfaaions.--
Tie would not produce thefe as Jifina and fubRan-
TIVE evidence but as 70 many private memoranda
which Ouch wssthe nature OF the human Irind) he
ought aud muh reiort to, make his narrative moro
connected and ditinct-Mr. II. hopsd, that after
the ipisnsid example OF patience which the g. Jury