The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-01

|of having stood as high as Mr.. Jefferson in
the estimation of the (republican) party. %
2.231. The assertion stands in evidence
on the face of the election for President, O.,
which nndeniabte test. they had the very
same number of voices" .' He was acquit-
ted, by the solemn verdict of Jury. which
while 1t liberated him, affixed OH the Pre-
sident's sentence of guilty, given into Cop-
fatshood." 246. Is there then man impu-
dent enough to give such colouring to the
sheciai verdict of that jury?
- The two following extracts from the same
trial, are however conclusive proofs OF this
mans determination to lie in the very face
Qf the most notorious facts.
abe his motives what they might, his ear
nestness and zeal were excessive, even to
ndecency. Heawrote letter to Mr.. Giles,
whom he knew to be summoned as Juror ON
the trial, in which he pledged him his assn
rance that Col. Burr was guilty. This would
never have come to light had Giles known
the great crminaity of the act But not be-
ing as well learned in the good old laws OF
the good times and nations, as in the code of
France and the cant of the Rights Of Man,
he thought there was no harm in prejudica-
ting man to he tried for life or death, upon
the mere saying of another, and inconsider-
ately disclosed that he had got such a letter,
declared that he was convinced by Mr. JEFF
ferson's assertion in it that the charges aginst
Burr were founded in truth, or Go use the
words of Mr. Jefferson's own Message) that
Burr's guilt was placed beyond question:
This being fortunately related to Col. Burr.
he challenged Mr.. Giles, and offered to prove
the facts. Every impartial man present was
struck with horror. THE Jeffersonians
trowned ; but were not abashed-Giles, him
self, was Confused
"a young man from the State of Tennes-
see having been induced by menaces or by
money, or by some of those willy stratagems
which are ever ready at the hands of the
wicked, to make false affidavit, the purport
OF which was to prove the guilt of Colonel
Burr, in order to justify Wilkinson in hisu
lawful arrest of him, being sifted on his ex-
animation as witness on the trial before
the Chief Justice, contradcted point blank
his own affidavit, in every material circum
stance it contained. Horror-struck at the
wickedness displayed, (not 50 much by him
as by the villain who suborned him,) Judge
Marshal silenced the unhappy man, and by
way of warning to him and others, said to
hi", Never open YOUR mouth again in
court of justice" What honest man can re-
strain his Indignation at the prosecution when
he reads the sequeli What heart informed
ny 'hO c"u'hoil SPIRIT oi humanity out must
he shocked. The unfortunate young fellow
overwhelmed with shame and remorse and
rnaddened with dispair. put an end to his
life with laudanum."
! But we have done.--In one word, this nj
ous missionary will not answer the purposes
OF hrs masters, for the very self-same rea-
son, that disquallfes e. ]. Stuart, author of
the Court of St. Cloud pushes his
misrepresentation too far-ever to be believ-
ed---he caricatures too much, even to con
veyth slightest resemblance to the truth.
| tie is too great bung,er for his business,
and must be dismissed.
Let American FederaliSts ponder on these
things.