२ Joslyn who gave me a certificate of which the enclosed is a copy : for what I said of Mr. Claiborne a candidate for an office in the state of which I am a citizen, I certainly can be accountable only to him, not to the government that has since clothed him with the mantle of its power. If I had learned ornate et polite dicere to a man whose head and heart were neither of them formed to my tase on the scale of great Mingo's, perhaps I might have been fitted with an office e'er this; however; nil desperandum, Teucro duce. I'll remain here 'till X'mas. The Choctaw treaty I fear will fall through this season and that will not be among my least disappointments, for I had some expectation of procuring at it a tract of land for my young Choctaw. It is reported here from Cumberland that the Secretary of war has written that if the Choctaws wish to sell land they must send deputies to Washington. Cressite, &c, is very catholic, but when I proceeded farther to "bleach high" I blushed to the finger's ends, but why, I would not tell you for all my hopes in the government, on paper I mean. With sincere respect and esteem I have the honor to be, Your excellency's obedient servant, His excellency General Wilkinson. JOHN M.KEE. The irregularity of the mail carriers occasioned this to be a mail later than I expected. I am now informed by a letter from Mr. Dinsmoore that the commissioners will meet the Choctaws about the 1st of November, and this morning I set out with your friend General W. Colbert to Mount Dexter to attend the treaty. J. M.K. DEAR GENERAL, CHICKASAW BLUERS, December 26, 1806. So many opportunities present themselves here for conveying a letter towards Orleans that I would be ungrateful to leave this without at least offering you the compliments of the season, and my hearty prayers for the success of your bark on this tempestuous sea of liberty; for with all my confidence in her staunchness I cannot help feeling some anxiety on account of sunken rocks and the cursed pirates that infest her track. I set out to-morrow morning for the Chickasaws, and if you should have liesure to inform me of your health by post I will remain there long enough to receive it, and I hope not much longer. I have the honor to be With very sincere respect and esteem, His excellency General Wilkinson. DEAR GENERAL, NATCHEZ, January 26, 1807. I wrote you a note from the Chickasaw Bluffs about X'mas. Soon after I set out for this place, where I have been for ten days and will yet remain perhaps two weeks longer; just to laugh at the ridiculous scenes that are passing before us. There is a wide field for conjecture and every man takes his own direction. The little mingo here has assumed a military attitude to defend the altar and the throne as well against Colonel Burr as the encroachments of the army. I have little doubt that ere this you will have set me down as a Burrite and as little that you will believe me, when I assure; that as yet I am not and must know the object and the means better than I do, before I can be. "Tis true, that having nothing to do, and hearing that some great enterprize was on foot, patronized by many great men, and wink'd at by the government, I came here to profit of any opportunity that might offer of bettering my situation by honorable enterprize. As yet I see no way open, but in the face of my country's laws, and desperate as my fortune is, I will never deliberately do an act that will prevent me from returning to the spot where I was born. I have lately received a letter from Mr. Simpson, saying, your friend General W. wishes you were here, as he has it now in his power to serve you. This to me, just now, is very interesting information and by return of the mail will be glad to hear from you. Need I tell you, that considerable pains are taken and taking here, to render you name unpopular; and by persons too I am informed who speak much of the laws and constituted authorities of the country. Your friends, Dinsmore, Freeman and M'Kee, occupy a room here, and laugh at this puddle in a storm. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your excellency's obedient servant, His Excellency, General Wilkinson. HUNSTON, February 16, 1807. DEAR GENERAL-I received a few days ago at Natchez your favor of the 8th instant, and nothing could have given me more pleasure for the strange distant reserve of some of my friends in this quarter, and an observation from Dr. Carmichael, that my note from the Bluffs had excited some supicions of me in a breast which shall never be justified in harboring any, had mortified me sorely, read that note again, and if it does not speak the language of a heart that loves you, I must have been very unfortunate in expressing myself. I never was a Burrite, nor can I ever give up myself to schemes of lawless plunder. It is certain that in my present situation I might have engaged in any honorable enterprize, however hazardous; but the late one, such as it has been represented, is such as I hope no friend of mine will ever surpect me of favoring. I have not the means, and if I had, I have not at this moment the time to give you much information of the state of things in this country. May your purse keep pace with your heart, and may you live a thousand years Your affectionate friend, His excellency General Wilkinson. JOHN M.KEE. G Personally appeared before me, one of the justices of the peace of the United States, in and for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, John Smith, chief clerk in the war office, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that having searched the records and papers in the war office, there are no records of proceedings of Courts Martial, or any papers or proceedings relative to the same, previous to the year one thousand eight hundred and one, and that he hath understood and verily believes, that all records and proceedings of Courts Martial, which were deposited in said office previous to the day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, were burned with the office and a number of other papers on that day. That having come into the office since the above date, he never saw any records or proceedings of a Court martial held on William Eaton, and that there is no record or proceeding of any such Court Martial now in the war office to the best of this deponent's knowledge and belief. Sworn before me this 24th day of September, A. D. 1807. RICHARD PARROTT. [Annexed is a certificate of James Madison, Secretary of State, that the above R. Parrott, is a justice of the peace as above stat ed.] FINIS. [The following Index comprizes the whole of the volumes of this Of Aaron Burr to procure p. 45, v. 1. (part 1.) ATTACHMENT-Motion for one to be served on General Wilkinson. p. 65, v. 1. (part 1.) p. 48, v. 1. (part 2.) ADDRESS from the officers to the President, p. 344, BURR (Aaron), his Counsel, B. Addresses the Court on the V. 3. P. 3, v. 1. (part 1.) pannel of the Grand Jury p. 3,7,9,11. v.1, (part1.) p. 59, v. 1. (part 1.) His motion to be admitted to His motion to precure certain His motion for an attachment p. 119, v. 1, (part 2.) p. 61, v. 1, (part 1.) to be served on Gen. Wilkinson p. 50. v. 1,(part 2.) of treason. p. 28, v. 1. (part 2.) for treason, His motion to procure certain BOLLMAN (Erick), would not accept of the pardon sent him by the p. 20, v. 3. p. 21, v. 3. President, and remarks thereon, p. 142, v. 1. (part1.) C. CONVERSATIONS-Objections to the admission of, and the argument thereupon, p. 55, v. 3. COMMITMENT. A. Burr committed to gaol p. 123, v. 1, (part 2.) Motion to remove him, p. 127, 134, v. 3. (part 2.) ther district, p. 111, 123, v. 3. EVIDENCE, Eaton (Gen. Wm.) his evidence, p. 124, v. 2. Evidence, routine of How far a man is bound to give p. 40, v. 1, (part 1.) p. 95. v. 2. p. 142 & 144, v. 1. (part 2.) . p. 136, v. 1, part 2. Suitable to be admitted to a Motion to stop it, p. 195, 186, 217, v. 2-and p. 55, v 3. Peter Taylor, Gen. John Morgan, Col. George Morgan, p. 143, v. 2. p. 153, v. 2. p. 157, v. 2. p. 158, v. 2. p. 165, v. 2. and p. 153, 191, v. 3. p. 184, v. 2. and p. 50, v. 3. p. 216, v. 2. p. 55, 210, v, 3. p. 113, 152, 184, v. 3. p. 156, 160, 175, 185, 189, v. 3. p. 186, v. 3. p. 189, 220, v. 3. p. 192, y: 3. p. 192, 224, v. 3. p. 195, v. 3. p. 199, v. 3. p. 202, v. 3. p. 207, v. 3. p. 211. 232, 247, v. 3. p. 220, v. 3. Gen. James Wilkin- son, p. 236, 249, 261, 281, 294, 360, 364, v. 3. A. L. Duncan's affidavit, Capt. J. B. Walbeck's deposition, Com. John Shaw, Lemuel Henry, Edmund P. Gaines, Lieut. Clarence Mulford, Samuel Swartwout, Lieut. Jacob Jackson, Col. Cushing, p. p. 345, v. 3. p. 250, v. 3. p. 269, v. 3. 272, 287, 382, v.3. p. 284, 352, v. 3, p. 335, 389, v. 3. |