Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-10-07

internal and external IaVOfS VH VIcW--nd.
val protection of England is secured.-
Truxon is going Jamaica, to arrange with
the admiral there, and will meer rs at Mis-
sissippi England--a navy of the United
States ready TO join, and final orders are
given to my friends and followers. II will
be an host of choice spirits. Wilkinson
shall be second to Burr only, and Wilkin-
son shall dictate the rank & promotion
of his officers. Burr will proceed west
ward 1st August, never to return ; with
him go his daughter and grandson. The
husband will follow in October, with acorps
.ofworthies. Send forthwith an intelligent
and confidential friends, with whom Burr
NAV confer he stall return immediately
with further interesting details this is es-
sential to concert and harmony OF move
ment. Send list Of all persons known to
Wilkinson, westward of the mountains, who
could be useful, with note delineating
their character. BY your messenger send
me four or FIVE of the commissions OF your
officers which you can borrow under any
pretence you please; they shall be.returned
faithfully. Already o. an order to the
contractor to forward six months provisions
to points you may name this shall not be
used until the last moment, and then under
proper injunctions. Orr project, Co my
2 dear friend, is brought TO the point SO long
desired. l guarantee the result with my
life and honor, with the lives, the honor and
the fortunes of hundreds, the best blood OF
our country. Burr's plan oforeratlon IS,
to move down rapidly from the falls on the
18th November, with the FIRST 500 or 1000
men in light boats, now constructing for that
purpose, to be at Natchez between the 5th
and 18th December; there to meet you,
there to determine whether it will be exPe-
dient in the first instance to seize or pass
by Baton Rouge. On the receipt OF this,
send me an answer draw on me tor all
expence. The people of the country which
we are going to, areprepared to receive U.s.;
their agents now with ,ne say, that it We will
protect their religion, and will not subject
them to a foreign power, that in three weeks
all will be settled. The gods invite us 10
glory and fortune it remains to tie seen
whether We deserve the boon. The bearer
of this goes express to you, he will hand
formal letter of introduction from me. lie
is a man of inviolable honor and Perfec. dis
cretion, lormedt to execute rather than PROJECT.
yet capable of relating facts with fidelity,
sna fh5foughy informed the plans and
intentions of -, and will disclose to you
as far as you enquire, and no further. lie
has imbibed a reverence for your character,
and may be embarrassed in your presence
put him at ease, and he will satisfy you.
d1uly.
Doctor Bolman, equally confidential be-
ter Informed on the subject, and more en-
llghtcned will hand this duplicate.
2sth July.
Can any man read this letter, and say
that he thinks the person to whom it was
addressed had no previous knowledge of
the plan? Without such previous knowledge
the letter itself must have been unintelligi-
bic. Nor can it be considered as propo
sal to seduce the general from his allegiance
because the disclosure which it makes is
not of the plan, but of the meaps to effect
it. Every thing relative to the project is
spoken OF as resting already in the know
ledge OF his correspondents and it men
tons only such details as were necessary
still to be arranged. in order to ensure its
success. Examine it more in detail. II
begins with acknowledging the receipt of a
letter, post marked 18th May, and then
immediately enters on the business-"I
have at length obtained !" funds and have
already commenced" Funds for what!
What is commenced These would be the
natural exclamasiors of a person who had
been, as the general pretends he was, to-
tally in the dark an to his correspondents
plans. From the wording ofthis letter is it
not plain, that the want of funds had been
90 Already an order to the controctor,"