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“\Var Department, February 23, 1807. TOTICE is hrrtby given, rbi.i’ fiparate projio .j N fal’ v.’ill be tweiveil at the oifice of tl-e here u: • I. r the Hepir'inen’ of wat, mil n o’ch'ck at r n < the iirll Wnlnrltlay in Jure tiexi, f> r the i ■ ;j , rtf a'i r:• it-1 r, th'it may be required for the i.i. of ii- United State*, from the iirw day of CWto* Irr iSo7.ut.nl the 3’ .h day of September i3cS, hmt lays incliilive, at the following piece*, via. F.rll, At Niagara, Detroit, Michiiimackinac, fort Wayne, Chikago, and at any [ lacs or pit. .% where tr- op* are or may he Rationed, marched or tefniitcd wnhin the Hate of Ohio, and territory of M a and at any tdace or places within the In dirnia ter. i o. y north of the >i!l deg of N li'itndc eeond, At the new rr.i ‘.rary jioft rppo •* the mouth of the HiawlT. e, and within the Cbcrohee na tion between ‘i'ernct'.ea and Get r;:a, and 0:1 the TenmflTee liver, and on the road bet wean laid ri ver and Ma'i.ville, ind at any place or plates where troops ere or may be llationtd, marched or reunited vrithfn the dates of Kentucky nn.l Ten. eliee Third, \t the q rriloti near Vir.cen.ie9 on the river YVabatb, at 1 > ,t Mr. ac, New Madrid, Ginck tlaw li!tills, Arkan'as, Natch; /, and Tort Ad. in', mid at any place or places where troop* art or may lie liatior.cd, marched or recruttid in the Milfiflippi ti irit.ir. . except the county of Wafltington, and at um pla'f t*r phtcea in tfie Indiana territory i'outb of the dign of north latitudo, and ii fly milaseall oi ‘he Milliffi|')i river. p nrih, At St. 1.0-.t's, St. Charles, Kar.kaskia, Celiokia, and at any place or places where troops ar” or nriv he llatioiutd, marched or recruited with i . the ‘eiri o'y of I.outliana norm of New Ma drid, and at anyplace or placer, in the Indiana ter ritor. within fifty miles Kail of the. Mi.Tt.iippi river, : ml iVcjih of the nil degree of north latit .de, Tort hi. flacexcepted. I i‘ It, Ai New Orleans, l’lacquimine:., I’oint Cott |>er, O tcliet a, Natchitoches, Appelotifas, Attakapa, fort t■nltlerr, Fort St. Stephen, and at any place r.r plaits where troepb art) or may he tlationed, marched or ret rutted within the ‘erritory of Or ica. t, or in the county ol Walhiugton in the Miffif- I ipi territory, and at any place or places on the anil fide of the MirtilHippi river below Arkansas. S p.ir.oe propolitls will alio be received as afore fa and for the I'npply of all rations, which may be re -j,.iroil for thp life of the United States, from the I.fltdac f January 1808, to the 31(1 day ofDecem- Ir of the fame year, both days inclullvc, within tie , , ral Itaus hereinafter mentioned, viz. six,h. At the Oakmulgec Old Fields, and at any |,': Ce or plates where troops art or may be llation ed, macited or recruited, within the Uat ol Oei r fji:i, and on rh • Indian boundary between Georgia M ‘hr Uri 11. nation. Seventh, At Chartllon, Rocky Mount, on tha hruil waters of the Santee, an ! a. any plait or pla- II , where troi ps are or may he itatioued, marched or rmuited, within the Hates of Worth and South Carolina. Eighth, At Norfolk, and at any plr.ee or places where ti oops are or may be ftatio.ud, inarched, or minuted. within the Hale of Virginia. Ninth, At Fort M‘Henry, and at ai y place or p air where troop’ ar or may be tlattoncd, march * and or recruited within the (tale oi Man land and dif triH of Columbia Tenth, At F irt M fTiin, Carlifle, and it any place or places, where troops are or may be ffottor.ed, marched or recruited within the llate of I‘enfylvti tiia. eall of rhe mountains,and v.ithin tlte liana ol N< v.'-Jerl’ey and Delaw,’ee. Eleventh, At J'lltl’iurg, ami at any pla “ or places whore troops arc or may be llationcd, marched or rectuited. within the Hate of Fennfylvania welt of the iTV ’iotain*. Twelfth, At fort Jay, Well Foinr, Albany, Schen ei'i.„H, am’ a', any place or plaits where, troops are or iv.uv be llationcd, marched or recruited, within the I’.aw ofNew-York, Niagara and ns dependen cies e\ct|ited. Thirteenth, At fort Trumbull, fort V/olcorr, and M my p!a>v orpines where troops arc or mav be TI • mne cl, man bed or recruited witiint the Hates of I iM-fticut, HhntU lllatul and Vermont. F urteenth, At fort Independence (Rollon harbor) rd at any piece or places where troops arc or may Ii Haiti ned, marched or recruited, within the fiate ol MalT.ichuietts, the town of Springfield and the tldlrii 0 , of Maine excepted. Fit ei iith, At I’ortl'mouth, Portland, and any n'.ree or places, where troops are or be ftalion el, marched or recruited, within lhe Hate of New llainpthire atul the ilillinfi of Maine. Sixteenth, Propoials w ill alio be received as afore. Si and. fur the ftipply of all rations, which ;j> be requir ed bv the r. sum's, for the troops which are or may Vi ftationtd, marched or recruit- l within the town ts Spriuglield in t; ’ Hate of Mahaclnifetu, and for the arm urns and other perlon* emplo; ed in the Vni't’tl States’armory at that place, fri in tiie firlt t! iv . f January 180S, to the 31st day of December 111 the fame year, both davs incliilive. A ration to conliit of one pound and one quarter of beef, or three-ipii'itcrs of a pound of poih, eigh teen ounces of bread or Hour, one gill of rum, \ hif kev or brandy ; and at the rate of two quarts of fait, f. in quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one jo unit and a half of caudles, to every hundred tit t nos. The price-of the leveral comjioinnt partsof the ration Iliad be fpecifiedi but the United Slates yeferve the right of making fueh alterations in tlie ti iee of the component jiartsof the ration aforefaid, ns ilia’ make the price of each part thereof bear a ju.i pr ipuriiou to the propoled price of the who'e lu'inn. ‘i he rations are to iif furoiihcd in such quantities, that there iliaM a 1 all times, during the term of the propoled contract, be futVieient for the f. i-fiirp r'li of the troops at M chtlimacktnac, De- In t u i Chikago, In lix months in advance, and bi cr •. of the other polls on the we Cent waters, for * Ii ill three in milts in advance, of good and v holrlomc pro ilions, if the fame Hull be required It 1 al 1 to he permitted, to all and eT.'ry of the c -us mdarns of fort sud places or ]>o(ts, to call for, at IV.Tons when the fame can he uaidportcd, or at any time, in calc ol urgency, such fupplks of like provdii m in advance, as in the dtl'cie ion of the eommaiiiint Hiail hi deemed proper. Ii is umlerftood titat the contractor ix to be at the ex pence id rd\ us 1 fining t'.te l'uppUes to the troops, * i I .it ah loil'e- futi allied by the depredations of an e rim or by meant* of the troops->f the United States, Hisll l< paid hy the United States at the price of the n'i.'i's cupttifed or dell roved as atorelaid, on the tlepolition of two or more pc Hot is of credible chx racier* nd the cert ideate of a coinrutflioned olficer, ■fl ting the wre tut. fiance ■ of the loss, and the amount of a: 1 n-V* for which compciilatton mall be claimed. Five jiiivdege is underttood to be rti'erved to the United State, of requiring that none of the fuppUv i, rVfi mav l>e farm ied under *ny of the propoled c praAs, (hail he ui.ivd, until the j tipp ie which have bi on or mv be fu• r. t'ii under coiUtsds now In fm,', he’ “ been consumed; and that a iupi I; in al w'a• 11-*.’ c-i'sihva\ required at ativol ihe hxedpoHs m the icabcard, or ludtan frontiir, not . -.creding #ucf rr.oiiihs. ii. DEAKBOHN, bwtrctny oi War. iST.VriIMLNT OF GEN. ADAIR. I WILL make no apology for presenting to the public the iollotving statement of facts. It is a duty I ewe my country, my friends and myself. 1 I left my own house in Kentucky early in | December last, arid travelled the usual road to | the Chickasaw nation, thence thro’ the Choc- I tsw nation to the settlements on Tombigbec. 1 Here 1 spent two or three days looking at lands ■, thence across the country, to the np pe.- settlements on the Chickasaw river and down the river to where it takes the name of I’ascagoohi ; here I left my horses and took a canoe, and after spending several days on the river, and part of two at the house of a gentle man, who shew ed me the papers and Living ston’s address from Ncvv-Orleans, I crossed the lake to the Rayon of St. John's and passed into the city the usual road. I ant Unis particular, that my enemies may retrace my steps il they choose. I rode, for I was unable to walk into New-Orieans between 12 and one o’clock, F. M. and took lodgings at madam Forages board ing-house —I remained in the public room where there were a number of gentlemen un til dinner —at the table, I think about 3 o’clock, I was arrested by col. Kingsbury of the U. S. army, who came attended by five or six officers, having left a guard of 100 men at the door. I was immediately taken to the garnson, and closely confined under a centincJ. About two o’clock the next morning, I was conveyed down the river in a boat about 25 leagues to Fort St. Philip, from thence about the same time the next morning I was conveyed twenty miles further down the river, and kept in the woods until the 22d in the evening ; when L was put on hoard the schooner Thatcher, (cap tain Haws) for If alii mo re. On the evening of the I “ill February I was given in charge to the officer commanding at Fort NlTlcnn—on the lath I was taken before judge Nicholson by a writ of habeas corpus, and discharged. I felt pleased to find myself once more in a country where tjie laws were respected and where there were , men who dared to arrest oppression ; whether it was the act of a petty tyrant, or sanctioned hy the chiefs of the na tion. On the 23d 111 st.. I came to this city, and addressed a note to the Attorney General, let ting him know where I was, and requesting to know whether any and what charges were in his possession against me. The second day after 1 received an answer, telling me, that when the executive should be furnished with sufficient evidence, 1 would be apprized. I conclude then the executive has not yet been furnished with sufficient evidence to warrant an arrest. 1 positively say it cannot lie fur nished—l have committed no crime against the law sos my country ; yet I have been im prisoned, forced from place to place at mid night, sent to sea in a tempestuous season, and carried 1000 miles or more from my business, to the loss of my property, the injury of my health, and the danger of my life. Why has all tins been done ? I have not yet been told. Wilkinson has acted with the honor of a sol dier and the fidelity of a good citizen—and cun the President really approve and justify a venal, petty tyrant in the act of violating the consti tution and laws of his country. He is, howe ver, aware that some apology may be necessa ry for the general—he attempts to make it in the latter part ofhis message of 22d Jaeuary ; he there seems to think it probable, the gene ra! sent us round from motives of humanity, lest an impartial trial might not be had in the agitated city of Ncw-Orleans. In this holy ten miles square, there could he no doubt, where not only the highest judicial authorities were to be assembled, but where the court could he furnished with the aid of executive means What aid? What executive means? Perhaps the senate, can tell. The supreme court did not think it necessary ; it decided w ithout, and consequently has incurred the displeasure cf all who believe in executive infallibility. I have said the senate could probably tell what was meant bv this aid (and that body I highly respect.; Take the following statement—On the 2 .1 January, this all-important message was communicated to the senate ; their doors w ere closed, and in a few hours they passed a bill suspending the power of granting the writ el Habeas Corpus. Thus prostrating at one blow the civil authority, sacrificing the consti tution on the altar of oppression, and subject ing every citizen in the w est to the will of an ambitious unprincipled tyrant. Was this done through the aid of executive means ; or had they just heard the Arabian Nights’ entertain ment of last winter, and shut their doors to keep out Burr and his army, lest they might he tied neck and heels and tumbled into the Potomac—l have said every citizen of the west, because on them xvas this bill intended to operate—My own case may be the case of every individual of that country —imprisoned without having committed, or being charged with any offence, denied the use of pen, ink and paper, 1 might have been sent to die Co lumbia river, and kept there for seven years unheard of by my friends or family—Tyrants never lack the means of destroying the repu tation of those they oppress. Had not the house of representatives spur ned >vith indignation the unconstitutional at tempt to justify the lawless acts of a lawless tyrant, the sufferings of Baron Trenck, would not have been strange in America. And what, let me. ask. is our present secu rity', unless Wilkinson is punished for his da ring outrage on all law ? In the case of Doctor Bollman, we arc told in a newspaper, the writ of Habeas Corpus, granted by judge Bee of South Carolina, was actually served. What vra? the answer of the officer who had him in custody ? Attend to it ye who respect your go j vernment. Altho’ (says he) I respect the ci | vil institutions of my country ; yet 1 must o ’ bey the orders of my supei ; or officer. The pr isoner was not given up. Here then was a denial of this all-important right; no need for the interposition ot the senate. In England, that land of oppression, this officer would have been immediately punished. In our free go vernment, things are ordered otherwise. Un der the administration of .Mr. Adams, there was much grumbling about a gag law, that shut people’s mouths—under the present adminis tration a man may not only be gagged, but his throat cut without any law, and he that docs it will find protectors among the sages of the na tion. Wilkinson tells us he has acted with the ap probation of the governor and judges. If this be true, it is high time these men were remo ved from office. Men placed in the most im portant stations, over a territory respectable for its wealth and population, and over a cily that yields in importance to very few on the conti nent ; sworn to administer justice agreeable to the constitution and la’,vs ; who would cringe to a military tyrant, and suffer him to trample on all law, should not be trusted. Perhaps lire bayonet was at their breast, or the dagger of the assassin at their side ; no less dange rous a situation can plead their excuse. ‘Wil kinson, in telling us this unlikely talc, intends not only an excuse for his own illegal acts, but it is saying to those he has injured, sue me if you dare—l am here entrenched in Nev,-Or leans, in the favor of the executive—the gover nor and judges are my creatures—y ou cannot injure me. How long he will remain thus secure, will rest with the President. Wilkinson, in his long fulsome panegyric on himself, published in the Aurora of the 23d inst. as a letter from Ncw-Orleans (for his tricks of this kind are too well known to pass) has dis covered from his spy, who had it in confidence from the friends of col. Burr, that I was sent to Ncw-Orleans, and was to meet the colonel at Bayou Pierre, on the 12lh January. Unfor tunately for this tale, which seems to have been fabricated after my arrest —major Llovd and Mr. Ralston will declare that they never spoke to me on the subject ; but I scorn to justify myself where I cannot be accused. It was ne cessary to alledge something against me.— Wilkinson and his spies, and other confidential men, have made me a general, and given me an army of 2000 men, (1000 more than 1 could have needed) and this too without consulting me, whilst I was harmlessly diverting myself in the uninhabited swamps in West-Fieri da, three or four hundred miles out of the road leading from Nashville to Orleans. What can they not do ? Bonaparte can conquer armies as fast as his enemies can raise them ; but Wil kinson and his friends can hath raise and contjuer them in the same breath without fiotuder or ball. This charge however cannot be the crime fin which I have suffered, because the discovery has been made since my arrest. It seems I have committed another, .f very great ficrsun age in this city, has declared publicly, that Adair was the most impudent of all the con spirators ; for he said to the first man he met in New-Orleans, that the commander in chief of the army was a villian, and a Spanish spy, and that he, Adair, expected to find the city in possession of his Catholic majesty. With due submission, I will correct this statement, which I presume came from Wil kinson, as I ivas told he repeated it on the same evening I was confined. When I was repeat edly told in the public room, amongst gentle men, acquaintances, & strangers, that Wilkinson had denounced me as traitor, and declared me at the head of an army coming to attack that city, I coolly answered that reports were different in different countries ; that people were more afraid of Wilkinson than Burr, because manv of them believed him to be in Spanish pay. A gentleman (pointing to a small man in the room) observed to me, take care what you say, that man is a spy on you from the general, and I would not be surprised if you are confined for that before night. I answered, with perhaps somewhat warmth, let him coniine me and be and and, I despise his power. For this I have suffered, for this I have been imprisoned ; 1 have been persecuted for saying Mr. dit! not in niy opinion possess more talents than every other man in the United States. I ought to have known the danger of speaking freely of great men. I acknowledge my im prudence ; but I cannot repent of my sins ; I have suffered, but I have done no one act for which 1 am sorry. So far as I know or believe of the intentions of col. Bure (and my enemies xvill agree I am not ignorant on this subject) they were to pre pare and lead an expedition into Mexico pre dicated on a war between the two govern ments ; without a war he knew he could do no thing. On this Yvar taking place he calculated with certainty, as well from policy of the mea sure at this time, ns from the private assurances of Wilkinson, who seems to have the pow er to force it in his own hands. This continued to be the object of col. Burr , until he heard of the venal and shameful bargain tiuide hy li ilkinson at the Sabine river —this information he received soon alter the attempt to arrest him in Frankfort. He then turned his attention altogether towards strengthening himself on Washita and waiting a more favorable crisis. I thought the first of these objects honorable and worthy the attenti on of any man ; but I was not engaged in it— my political as well as private pursuits forbid me from taking a part until it was ove ; nor did I believe, notwithstanding Wilkinson’s swagger ing letters to me on the subject, which may be seen, that a war would take place—this opini on 1 formed last winter in this city. In iiie reccntl object of col. Butt 1 had no interest. 1 have s;iid I was not engaged n el.her. It I had the first step must have been to eng ge nit n—i could do nothing v i hout. I call upon Wilkinson and his friends to produce a single man that T hat c atu nipt to engage in any en terprise whatever, I am not the appoiigist cf col. Burr—he can defend himself; l only speak of his intentions so far as they relate to my self. My business in Ncw-Orleans did not re quire my presence there till the latter part of January, consequently 1 took a circuitous rout. I have before described so lar as his state ment relates, my imprisonment*, lam ready to attest it before any tribunal. It remains with those who have the power to say how long “Wilkinson shall remain secure (as he boas. ) in New-Orleans, or avhen he will be placed within the reach of tire civ i! law. JOHN ADAIR. City of Washington, March 1, 1807". Wc have in our preceding columns, inserted a communication of JOHN ADAIR. M e have considered it an act of justice to Mr. Adair to give his statement to the public ; v. e dso consider it a duty to the nation to give the tie freest admission to whatever tends to en- Kghte'.i the transactions w hich have either oc curred or been meditated in the Western country. At the same time that wc make this declaration, we deem it proper to say, that in our opinion ihe address ol Mr. Adair is, in a high degree intemperate ; and that it is charac terised by a wanton attack upon the character of men high in the‘confidence ol the nation the purity of whose motives cannot be impeach ed, and whose political conduct it becomes the true friend of his country firmly to defend a gainst unfounded aggression. We’ hav| not at present time to add more than that our co lumns shall be open to repel the attacks thus unnecessarily made by Mr. Adair.— Mat. Intel. From the Richmond Enquirer of March 6. There were no Norfolk papers by the last Slight’s mail. We have understood, that in telligence had reached Norfolk, which is cal culated to excite much alarm among our mer chants ; that two or three American vessels bound to or from England, had been captured in the English channel, by French privateers and carried into French ports for adjudication. W hether this is the same report with the one that came via Salem, that three American ves sels had been detained at the Isle of Rhea, on suspicion of being bound to England ; we me unable to pronounce. But if the fact be, as wc have presented, it is impossible to form but one opinion of the cause of this outrageous vio lation of our commerce. That cause is the blockading decree of the 21st of Nov. When that decree first came into our hands we were immediately struck with the studied ambiguity, by which it was distinguished. Had we stopped at tire first article alone, we should not have hesitated to have pronounced it tha most direct proclamation of war against neu tral commerce ; and of course against our own ; for what other nation is at this time neutral, but those which scarce possess any commerce at all; the Moors, the Danes and the Portu guese ? “ The British Islands arc in a state of block ade.” Words would scarcely have been more ex plicit. A blockaded place, is one to or front which no vessel is permitted to sail, with out danger of interruption or seizure. It was impossible to believe, that the French would have put a different construction upon this article.— Talleyrand’s report to the Emperor of tl.o 20th Nov. recommending this measure is strict ly conformable to this construction. In the string of retaliating measures which he recom mends to his master, the first is, “ since Eng land has dared to declare that the whole of Franc e should be in a state of blockade, let Franca declare in her turn that the British islands are blockaded.” In the next paragraph he suggests, that “since England looks on every Frenchman as an enemy, let every Englishman or English subject found in the countries occupied by the French armies, be made prisoners of war.” In the succeeding paragraph, he recom mends other measures, which are carefully followed up bv the other articles of the decree. Why this distinction of measures ; if he had simply recommended the blockade of British ports to be the main principle, of which all the other measures were only to spring out as so many consequences and explanations ? No: the truth is, he intended the blockade to be orfe: distinct specific measure ; the arrest of French men to he another; and so on for every mea sure, which he enumerates. What then is the inference ? If wc adopt Talleyrand’s distinction, we should not hesitate to employ the term blockade used in the first article, in the very same sense in which it is employed by the British cruisers and British courts. We should conceive it to be one complete measure, standing by itseif, and distinct from all the provisions of the arti cles which follow it. In the same manner, we should suppose that every article of the enforces a distinct and specific meat sure of retaliation upon British commerce. Such then is the first and obvious sense in which wc should consider the term “blockade” as employed in the first article ; and as a con-, sequence, we should conclude that very vessel wu. prohibited from sailing to or from an Eng lish port. But how different are the provisions of the dc res itself? line first article seems to lav