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-J j;Y GKAiNTuA.NL> & uRMH. MililiKiKiKVIliliE, GEOKCilA, SATURDAY, 1EHKUARY 28, 1329. No. 5 or Vo). X. 1 Th ,• Rue rot, brfwcr p»*r iinnmn. Ah' au’?, )R!)K!l 1? HUM Wn \ \ HI 1 bcl )ie tlio «*i»<! li r I - F MINTS (THU<|li(TIUUS*ly *n 'Pliose sent without a .«;»■ ublislieti wn Uy u* an.l Ji'Cvshu ■ in tnlvinrr, >r •lid (’I - the M ar. 1 at the usit- ition of the Dol- iiiniDcr of insertions, w ill I* • { mt. an I cliai irecl ncconliiijl}. s of lau l ami nenroes, hv Admin 1 Iw >h the hr*l J r!—-Not ( i 11 i * ■ V ul III ; of the s; 'IM Y d l' i d iv of >•; a ?me of i SOU! ( tw St 1)0 • til , att< pub. |S V. aj.'plica hja\C to s It s, SS in tlm o' <^1 at il n- (on Imsii. rOR I V -I IV'.* |>|V\ s< lot!., delft.ns mill is'i/.J f.r joh ry d radon will he mu ! Il land, mii-t I the property is s:- mu.-t ho tyivFii in a »roua forty days, ■ per’v muT ho g’.\ - tioti': to the d.iv ol id ere lit.i;r, of no a court of law. This, sir, is not tin 1 up of Priini’iq, ill ItECOUDKK > 'i css) must In' |iu-t on Ban-1 work ; Haro sitting coolly by. rvnil tiva women, on ■it Three i bearing the fir't suffocating stream, running out into the parage, cither from un instinctive horror of blood, nr, ivhat ij not lc«s piolmble, from a de sign to prevent any one from catering till the tnur- il until end rni 'ler " completed. WIipii il was so, the body was iuvnetli.itely stripped miked, mol being doubled up. rotors, r.xe- ivus thrust under some straw which lay on the lo be held ground, ut the foot of an oil 'll tied. Those facts are sworn to by Hare, m hu binied King’s evidence, Opinion us mi l w ’re fully confirmed by several persons who satlie murdered person well ul Burke's house our evening and u corpse the next day. Hugh Al ston n (srocer, ivho ivus passing Burke’s house on the t'.-t of (t.'tob -r, tlie niclit of the murder, about It o’o.oeh, heard .i node ol quarreling, and soon afterwards a sound like that of a woman being strii'ipled—David I'otlerson, the keeper of Dr... Knox’s museum, deposed, dmt on the 31st Ovtober, |j l| dgiucnl <>i nil mruniiul postctitv about l'J o’clock a- night, he found Burke knock-1 the Sentence wlncll we have quoted e a' his iloor, and at Burko’s request, urcompii-j l;Ull8 Die assertion of a distinct tact, d him home, where he oas shown the straw tin-1 ,, • _ , , »\r,, one within vourown knowledge. We ii is milled, ‘ That their object was, nntl Imtl whom a Iona:, nnd on my part nnintcr-1 of failing & of treaelirrotis memories', tnnyj given him informution of facts, which in- be;*n for sevt ml years, n dissolution of the ‘ ruptrd lrifiul.~!n|», has survived all the bit- they not have forgot fen that any such cor-! tluced 11ml lo consent to the sulnslitutioA Union, and the establishment of a sepu-' terness of political dissension, it would 1 respondonec ever existed? And liuve yon j of the non-intercourse fipr the embargo; rate Confederation, lie knew from nnetpii- [ Imvc afforded me pleasure to answer I any guarantee to oiler, thut I should uotjund that j, had apprised him of this trea- vocul evidence, although not pmveublu in with explicit ness and candor not only those j he called hy a summons more imperative suitable negotiation by citizens of Alassa- ' - ' thtutetts, to secede rom the. Union during the war, and perhaps rejoin after the pence. to tin 'nature a n-1 tendency of; subject matter of vmir letter, winch us men j or be branded for n ton! and malignant Now, the substitution of the lion-intcr il meet W.til 1 ‘ _ attssoaanawrsf. T > A Lib A It MT l.R BOV," Ai’Tklt TilltVAL Of’ ABSi.NCK, (1- r the !)0i1. r»t\:l give.) 1 had “ procured soinetl’’ which Ite understood a b was in tin* presence ol \ 't understand thut Kir z tor the doctor ” dy for direction. T urko, aiuthor man, <t i* nre | llu % miv tcelin^, [ iN I?i atiu .title is: lid.*, BY Al.ARIC Prom lhr New X mi ■ that iV'jm my .*> Wild thy merry ey Prom 111/ crib fit mot* {>i> in curtains peeping thro ;.!1 «!ie ki v’S not a few, Tli ju v eil wool ta ?;»vc m< !•: t|)V sl.Tpy sari aduM. WtikMi ’nut :' turn; for bed a< I in* - d,ie rt frrtia my c i<l\ Nv’ljt'ii tii j dinner hustle's o \x;,cu the or:v.i^ l divide. (,).■ extract the apple's core Waal avails my horded st »n Oj b»r]'*y su^ar. comfits sw Tmoii art by my side no tno.’i Vaeanlis thy wonted seta 1 i miss ih m* from my side, U’j^000?<\iH'vy oft repeat. 1 u tr.de. ’5 Gift. |lA.) women. The body whs brought the t. | in:; niqht to Or. Knox's doubled up iu an o.i che-d. by Burke. Ilare, and a porter 1 i Chi.l-'ch, who had assisted in the pack:*." i:n 1 rieje ot tlf h >dy. 'ind received As. t’oi hntr - [They received C 5, which li like an i Hut Ided between them. The pric rt tob.» paid w; | dtM>lOi)d lo be Jl H, and on Ifond iy tMev vv*: receive the balance. On SUn/dav morning j t°rso;i opened the box in pr» -".'ire ol t*ie poh It was roped, and in the ^tate in \\ Inch it hud be j brought t.he preceding evening, and the body v j found fee i in? bei«n ■ hav- Ihirkc i h rt}';H u admitlc enealli my lal lc -ec.fed. Or when tired, nnd ns: cheated With a .sumfiler-da v'* dcii^lit, Many achddidi aim'd iheaed, .Sioep hath overpou ■ i 1 i!i ic rpiite. I miss thee from my side When brisk Tuneh is at the uoor; Vainly pummels he lii> bridle,— Judy’s wrongs can charm no more! He may heal her till she’s sore, She may die, and he may tlee; Though I loved their squalls of yore. What’s the pageant now to me ! I miss iherL'rom my side, When the light of day grows pale, When with eyelid* open wide. Thou wouhl-t liM the oft-! >ld talc. And tlie murdered babes bewail! Vot so erreedy of thy pain. That, when all my lore would fad, 1 must needs begin again. I ir.Ws thee from my side In the haunts that late were tii’nc ; When thy tinkling feet would glide, ^ And thy clasping lingers twine, Hen* arc chequered tumblers nine,— Silent rulerts of thy play : Here the mimic tea-things shine Thou wouldsl wash the live long day ! Tny drum hangs on the wall; Thy bird-organs sounds are o'er : Dogs and horses great and small— Wanting some n leg or more ; Cows nnd sheep—a mot I \ Flore, All are stabled ’neath thy bed. And not one but can iv.«tor rt Memories sweet of him that’s fied ' .1 m’os thee from my side, I’iitliu cricket of my hearth ! Oil in secret have I sighed For thy chirping v.».*v of mirth ; W hen the low born cares of earth Chill my heart or dun my eye, Grief is stilled in its birth, If my ii!Uo prattle/.* nig!) J l miss thee from my side, With thy bright ingemimi* smile ; With thy glance ot infant pride, And the. liieu no tears d.-iiio» {Stay, and other hearts beguile, Hearts p'uze thee fondly too : I mint spare thy pranks awhile ; C l.cke; of my hearth adieu ! and with the appe .ram I m. nvd, and all il: * macks <>■ having da d tion. If- h '•! fc'ijutnlly Iri l tlmlint!.* tiul JIrrt, who'll ml oflei: brought hodir.. red net to hare l:n n interred. Hare’s d that she had witnessed many “tricks’* j of the .vim/ kind; a id Hare hbiwlf, when under- i going the s'-irchin; cross-examination of Mr., It-orkburn, durst not deny mat he had Ixvmi ron- f CCi tiCd ie. oilier murders besides t hat ot Docherty ; i that a number had ban cmniniited in hi* own | house in the month Of ;T‘' < ob» , r last ; that he him- l self was a mur! *rer, and his Hands steeped in | blood and .‘•laughter; and took mV r « in “def.lin- | ing to an-n cr" the question put to him, w'H’ich ^iie (Court, ot course, appri^etl him he was enti.’ba, J " Ido, in r< gard to questions that went to criminate himodf. I>0It Jamie wa- murdered in this ini-w.c- ant’s house. The iact. li ivingbeen proved at great length, so i a* to put an end to all doubt as to the guilt of j liarke, e nd the trial having lusted all the night, r.s ■ well ns all day,the Jury was charged by the l/ml (Justice Clerk, at t» o'clock on Thursday morning. At half past eight the jury retired, and after an ab- • jence of r,t) minutes, returned a verdict finding J William Ihirke run.ty ofthe charge, ami in iv ::».r:l ' to ileler? .Mcl>oug: , !l. found the charge Not Prorrr. I The Lord Justice Clerk then “.acsed ~entemc on j Burke, commenting in su'tal.'m term*, cm |i;e at . tr<.ci!y ol ills crime, ami emidemnnig him to be '|ilio nirfiiHur.-H ut tli.it tiint! I'ulilidy mloptod or ms n! .m i s I can ncknnvvlcdgc jour 1 slanderer of (.pollcss &, pmcnitcd virtue ! or proposed, liy tlie part)' prcvnilina; in right to risk ; nam'Iv, wlirtlirr tlio iulor- Us it not besides, iinngiiiolilc that persons the State of Massachusetts. Even- eiti- ro'pitor was himself one of the persons, may exist, who though twenty-live yours zen was at hhertv to form liis own opiainns telended hv mein the extrucl winch you j since driven in the desperation of disup- on that siihjcct ; and we cheerfullv h'uhnnt have fiiven, from a statement authorize.! po' utinciil, to the intuiilntiou mid prepa- the propriety of those measures to ilir by me nnd published in the National Intel*. 1‘atjon ot meusures tending to the dissoln- Ilut lifiencer of 21st October last. tion of the 1'nion, perceived nficrwards the ■on-1 Had von, or either of you, t hone lit pro-1 error ol i heir ways, and would now "Iml- per to ask me this ipu . tion, it would have I iy wash out from their own memories their hern more sufisfue.lnry to me to receive I participation in projects, upon which the the inrpiirv separitelv from each individu- stamp ol indelible rcprohnlimi hits pnst ) nl, than arrayed iu.sehd [dialmv, each re- Is it not possible that some of thecoaspi- reat [ailiti- ' sponsible not only for hims-M’ hat for all' rators have been called to uceoimt before have clap- 1 others. Tlie reasons foi must be so ail higher than earthly tribunal for all the obvious to persons of jom- i iit.-llioenci', fijond mid uvil of their lives ; and whose re- tliut I trust llint you will spare me tin; pain I put..turns l.utfht now sutler iTee.llesslv by of ilctailiiijr them. |‘.lie disclosure of their names 1 Iputtl.ese Hat, (Ieat!i■ m. ■., tills is not all. Yon cases to yon jjentleinen, ns possibl^z to jenr ie.jiiisition, mit in your show you that neither my sense of justice alone; but e.s tlie representa- nor iny self-ri sped does re.ptire of me to tiv.-s of a p-eiii iu.d powerful party, dts-! produce the evitleiice for vvliicli you call, pelted fm'migao it ilnm 'iates of Massa-j or to disclose the names of persons, for chusiitts ami Maine: A party eoiiiiniuiil- whom you liuvo and can have no right to i a a. at tlie time to v. hieh \ our ii.qtliries re- i speak. fer, a devoted majority in the IiCtrislature | These considerations appear indeed to oi’ the then Cubed (’onimon\v eallli; and j mo so forcible, llint it is not without sui 1 - >t permitted lo consul, r it a f-.b itarjed expression of irritated I ust.lv itrteivd at a tunc of , c.al excitement. 'Twenty ye. \; sed since this charuc vv-.m tiist made, m pri- a.-j vale correspoudeiii c with ef'itain meinhers j of Congress; «ml it n ltmv .l. l bcratelv 'j,,,.fpeated and liio:i:'ht bef.ire the 1’nhlie ■ .,> j under the sanction of vour name, as being j mi lertak •’at- | on mild on uneq.nvocul evidence, within! own mm I your iitunvlcdpe. 11iv« s m’ ; 1 We do not edaim for ourselves, nor ev pro the arftli ' iled j a l die least oiMiiti'i.’i bat (lie "■ <>maii wus ai c ;i'iei-'\ . (tne pail. Jtlo' IioitIiI nOmr, is ■ tin- mp.dical men. wli receiving bodies fmin tlcsc mon-’ci'- I never intern'd, without tlie Iced atlo i mode in vviii, ii lijey were p-nr ceil ':i:11 tile subject will uot be S'lli’.'ie I . !e:t w ill iindertro n tin,mil ii \ cMi. tticke i iciee’s : a:' i -!i • U| ddiy r. ■vinci'c ddl'O.SS i! terns III.U'kllMt! of ■a'ii.eess of tile ii: Iiil apparently . tion 1 o tlie YV e luipt i doai iicro, for those deceased li tatives join in tins aduDv», the ti tiers of any party in iMnssuelni we were msoemied in politics party pivvadinc here at the period rcler- { eien now, if judged .1 to m tlie Mat. meet above mentioned ; j of its volunteer tic ley line of us concuiTLu in all tlie measures j cure and rcspictubih lull tlie course for the embargo, took place twelve months after this interview, and tit a suc ceeding session of Congress, when I wns not even a member of that body. The negotiation for seceding front the Union "'•ill a view to-rejoin it afterwards, if it fi ve r existed, mutt have been during the war. 1 linil no knowledge of such negotiation, or even of such a design. I could there fore have given no such information. But in giving tin unqualified denial tA this statement of Mr. Jefferson, mid in showing that upon the face of the letter itsi II it could not be correct, it was due to bitn to show, that the tnissta.cineiit on big part was not intentional; flint if nrosu from an infirmity of memory, which tho letter itself candidly acknowledged ; that it blended together in one distinct mass, the information which 1 had given him in Mareli l —Or- 1 , with the purport of confiden tial letters, which i had written to his and tnv friends in Congress a year after, and with events, projects, and perhaps mere suspicion, natural enough us eAnsequcn- ees of tin- preceding times, hut which oc- l,y the character Iptise, that I am compelled to hi lieve they etirred, if at nil, from three to six years la- ,f great itiflu- (had escaped your observation. I cannot j tor, and of which lie could not have had in- j believe of any of you, that which I am | formation from tne. The simple fact of adopted by that party, and w e all warmly! I cannot recognize \ mt, on tiiis occa- j sure never entered the hearts of some of j which l apprized Mr. JtflerHOM was, that, approved and support! d those measures.! mod as the representatives of that party,, yon, thut you should have selected the pre-1 hi the summer ot 1807, about the time of* Many of our associates u ho still survive, j fur two reasons—first, been use you lime | sent moment, for the purpose of drawing what was sometimes called fbe affair ot re dispersed throughout Massachusetts ueithi r produce, ul Maine, and could not easilv be eon- i settling votirsi !\ yum cn FOLXT: CAL. 'u]!iti;.<i’u.\in’.v'.. i Kit.N I t’.DKRAI.I.S ' ..at;' i ',V.'.,..\ I’ll (•, Mm'- t.Mt .UK. ADAMS. The ciirrespmideiie: between several distinguished imi v idiiuls of the Federal I party m .Massachusetts and Mr. Adams, jcalling on him for the mimes of those whom lie has charged with a eoiispir.icx against the general government, and forji the evidence upon ivlueli bis charge ua>,n;sp j founded, has lx eii pitlilislied. Me havejposs j been politely t mired v, ith a copy from the ; A j editor of tlie 15o-ton Daily Advertiser.— t,|(ie= I The coatei.ts oi' the pamphlet are, first,' 'the statement of Mr. Adams, which ap- oe;ired in the Nat mi ml liitcli.gcnecr ofthe yened to join as on tlie present occasion. We trust, however, that jnu will not ques tion our right, if not for ourselves alone, nt least in hehe.lfof the highly valued friends with w hom we acted at that time, and es pecially of those ol them vv ho are now de ceased, respect fully to ask from you such a full and precise nt,Cement of the facts and evidence relating to this accasatton, as may enable ns fairly to meet ami answer it. The object of this letter, therefore, is, to r- quest vou to state, First, Who nre the permits, designated as leaders of toe pariv pn vailing in Mas sachusetts in the year 180D, whose object, 'j.jjou assert, was and hud been for severed ’ v ears, a dissolution ut’ the I'nioti, nnd the establishment of n separate (’onfederation ? and, t-ecoudlv, The whole evidence on which that charge is founded 1 It is admitted in the statement of the charge, that it is not proveable in a court of Jaw, and of eottr.-.e that you are not in possession of miv legal < vidence by which to maintain it. 'The evidence, however, must have lici n such as in vour opitiiou would have h.-en pronou:i"ed unequivocal ■ iv iiprigli’ aa I honor.bde men of decrimi- assigneri •-"tislatnrv naisons f r presenting yottvsi’lve - without tin in. Hut, secondly, and cliieily, hccausu your introduction of that party Into tiiis question is entirely gratuitous. Yuursolcinn declaration that you do not know that the federal, or any other party, at the time of which my state ment refers, intended to produce the dis solution of the Union, nnd the formation of a new confederacy, does not take the isstm, which vour ow n statement of my charge (as vou are ph ased to consider it) had tend; led. The statement authorized hv me, spoke, not of the federal party, hut of a,lam hatters of that parly, lo own letters to the Members of (’mi- 'dee.tials for pre- toe into n controversy not only with your- h impious, nor selves, hut w ith others,you know not whom of daring me to the denouncement ol names, which twenty years since I declin ed committing to tlie ear of confidential friendship ; uml lo the production of evi dence winch, though perfectly satisfacto ry to my own mind, and perfectly compe tent for the foundation of honest nnd pa the Ueophrd and Chesapeake, I had seen a letter from the governor of Nova Scotia to a person in Massachusetts,' affirming' thut the British government had certain information of a plan by thiU of France, to conquer the British poss<n»(iioiis and ef fect a revolution in the United States, by means of a war with Great Britain. Ks the United Staten and Great Britain were triotie public conduct, was adequate in a j 111 1807 nt peace, a correspondence with court of law neither to the conviction of the governor of Nova Scotia, held by any the guilty, nor to the justification of tho I citizen of the United States, imported no accuser, and so explicitly pronounced hv ! violation of Jaw ; nor could the correspon- myself. ) dent lie responsible for any thing which You eay that you have no design nor the governor might write. Butmvinfer- u i-li to produce an effect on anv political j ''net's from tins fact were, that there exist- party or question whatever,—nor to enter' ed between tlie British government and tho mto a vindication of the mensiires public- j party in Massachusetts opposed to Mr. tress, who did mo the honor nt that ago-jly adopted a ml mowed by the persons, Jefferson, a channel of communication against w hom the above charge Inis been j through the governor of N. Scotia, w inch made. But ran you believe ih.it tins sub-; hr was exercising to infinme their hatred jcgt cou'.d he discussed between you and ! against France and their jealousies against me, as you propose, when calling upon their ow n government. The letter wat# me for a statement, with the avowed in- I not to any leader of the federal party ; hut tention of refuting it, mid net produce an j l had no doubt it had been shown to some effect on any political patty nr question t j of them, u« it had been to me, without in- With regard to the public measures of| junction of aecfecy; nnd, ns I supposed* I well know- that the party were not pre- (those times and tlie succeeding, which you j " >h o view to convince me that this con- pared for that convulsion, 1o which the I declare to have li.ad your sanction and tip- ( “piracy between Napoleon und Mr, Joffer- mensures mid designs of their leaders were I probation, it needs no disclosure now, that ! >on really existed. Ilbw that channel of instigating them ; and my extreme auxi- 11 radical mid irTtconcileable difference of communication might he further used was < tv for t!:i subst'tution of the nou-inter- opi'dou between most of yourselves and I matter of conjecture; for the mission of nizing crisis to our National Union, of so- lintingmy confidential opinions upon mea sures iind'W deliberation, I expressly ac quitted the great body of the federal party, not only of participating in the seer t designs of those leaders, hut even of lin ing privy to, or believing in their existence. I now cheerfully repeat that declaration. ids; and vc may certainly e.x- t from v our scit-'c oi justice end sclf- , ;. Full diocl-i.-.irc of all th .t vou a it "f this Hatin',■ the .hall Alrurii'. Alfred Watts, aged t!:r i'erpwtl Mem 21st of October, m v.-his-ii the eha treason was advaurei!-—and readers have ahead letter from several leaders of the fed, r.J party m 1; 18,)8, and from the ..mis of sev( fa who are now dead, calling oil Mr. Adam lor the particulars of a charge winch so ncarlv concerns them—the names of the i tli.s coiis[ii|-acy and the proofs of As existence, 't ins letter we gi\e below. Th.rdly, an an-wer from Mr. Vilnius, de clining to comply with the request con tained ia the letter, inasmuch os none of cntlemen wlio signed it were concern- ns the evidence not mnountiiig to strict legul proof, its . - , I'uhlication might expose liim to a public ./w r .u ! ’ d,> i ibt fviaains of the liomdiWt, j p.-osecutioa, with other reasons ; but re- in,lk nialo prisoner and his associates have » , i .... yoaviiitted i.nny murders of a similar kind, it In- ; "t the s me time, lit as strong ing his occupation to far ijslnhcsnr^oiis with suH | terms ks ueloro, tli« charge of n plot form je-'t*, and murder being .he means he resorted to, cd by the federal leaders I'Wricare them wlicn others tailed. Tiic follow-, States to dissolve the Uni ln s 18 nn outline in the ' :il, from the SJnotch pa-1 pura winch are ncar'y filled with the subject : ( H dlinm fiurhc and 'le’en McDougall, v.'ko ar - Wu.-ir... ,vUo liven together i: uiaii nd wife wrrj cl F , toes t rom 11 ion, acqo I cannot afij- • which u e e. ■ of j \S our ! t-> i then f. I t. hv a com'.c for t’iie embargo arose from the im minent d.'.':: . r, tlitii the continuance and fiiiforreim'iit of tiiis latter measure would pminote the. views of those haulers, bv - i '. !ia r ' a majoritv of tile people and of the legi-la.'ure to the pitch of physical re- stance, hv State anthnrity, against the execiitain of the laws ot the Union: the o.'dy effectual nieiuis hy wiiich the Union couhi lie ,ii.--i.'lvcd. tour modesty has prompted vou to d.scla'.ui tlie eharucter of hi Frcm !he 2.ieerpnol Mern/n/, .January ii. IIOlUtlBLIi MUIU)-”dlS IN t.DINliUdGlI ,oj The trial ot \V it limn Burke and Helen McDou-1 actors HjgRail, in to- lii-ii Do'.iil ot Juslieary. 1 idinlitirgli, on t As eXi ^^■the ‘J4ili nit. tor murder, makes ii tint lo i evident i that li'iinan lie.no, iiave !,ee:i found hardf'iwd u:id | ftdudlike r-noa/h I , des roy tiicir It-llow-ercaturos. in cold Id ,,* !, t.,r the Mere par,lose of selloii; the [ bodies of t'm.r vie;inis for d.-.-vtiim. Pu incredu-1 th lous '.u■ u c oi the possibility of st atrocious , ■ , . , " I od in the constnracy, and ., t oar lieliel, tnr.tthe ivlio.e was 1 ■ ' if lit.lie the pr >r11i;iI of bodies in ! it, from the evid ace nddneed j do ilit remains oi the h irnd fact, j prisoner und Lis associates have oi d ' -u;r mvi and ] i hat w e Inn e nrv< r hers | that the parte v, 111> ehusetts i:; the yi party in this spite, sign to produce a '. ul" tile establish]- federation. Ft other manner t ibis charge, UeA.I v. e x ticulariv stated, rind lui which it i> to I e maiut: I D irty h;;'!i said ' the Eastern mon. This donn- meat tvs also publitli to-day. It is foi- (lowed tke paninliiet 1 ;y an Appeal” (of the writers of tlie fir.-t letter, “to the inr; j citizens’of the Uuitul States.” In this appeal the answer of Mr. Adams is can coming as it :i■ ■■ rale of the nn- irtance winch we nd; und it is mu ■lie lili.a iV wired, amed, I iy a regard and to onr ie ofwh.it is due tu ;ah • s ol the icclel' lemidv to (ieeittre. ti’ I am to eousiih r this vn, nor susp"Cted. i mere disavowal of form, prevailed in Mns-t- : ihc charge, which I lime • 1S98, or any other I cited ro nmeli of vour sc r entertained the d. -1 refereiiee to anv of yon. olution of the F'nioii,I Your avowed objeel i, t of a separate (.'on- I Ton call fora | impo.-xible fur as in anv | evidence, not aliecting so i elate, or c ven to answer any one of von, hut to <-i we si e it fullv and par- to meet and to answer it. •v the evidence hy I And you demand, ned. 1 I. Who are tlie pi rso. at tunt tune, more than a must s-iy that e has < X' ;von know, you fairly ,Tned think it (i.ae to them- lenders of the parly pr thati ■ ing this a|vji! indictment, Burke with the murder of Mary Put lllo v «» tei-son, or Mitchell, in April la ? t, of James Wil.st-n, 11 , ( , ■ i l-.- call,.,! Daft Jamie, who is said to have maintained j vu-sed severely indeed, but WIt I a (I gill R deadly itrugglo with tha murrlorur, in October, tv wortliy of t! 10 writers?, .'Hici t.ic roi iisiil and Burke and McDougall with the murder of of Mr. Adams to state the evidence on - lauery Docherty, also in October. I he '""f" which his ticcnsation is founded, is placed Mere were de«rnbed ns committed by Burkes , . , throwing himself upon his victims, and strangling | "P°" » •»'« " <’ hnvc no doubt will gene, ll- th"m. The object of tlie murders was, thut the Iy lie considered its true ground—namely, bodies might be sold to the surgeons for dissection. : that hr. hull no rnieinicr that wriu/el hear Th" last case only was gone into. The following | t(j he su f mitu . ( i tu an impartial one! in tell i- I \ gent community.—JY. I. Lie. I'ust. CORRESPONDENCE. Boston, Nov. 2l>, 1628. To the Hon. John Quincy Adams. Sib: The undersigned, citizens of Mas- The undei selves to add lion to vou, t to produce ai or question whatever. Neither is it their purpose to enter into uvmd.c iUo'1 or dis cussion of tlio tnLa-.stires i"'h|jo] v adopted At::, avowed \,j 'ipp persons against wliom the above charge I. is he, ,: made. Our sole object is lo draw i’ortli nl! the evidence designated as .ling in Miissa- in tne vci design nor wish j assert was, and had been, for several y i am j■ *i! lieuJ party i -t dissolution of the Union, noil thee.stah- lis|iiaci:t of ti rgjc rr.to 2. The whole ovidet charge is founded ! Y ou oiiserved that it st itciuaut of the elm proveable in a eourt of law, and your in- for the purpose of expressly disavowing a ferenci! is, that 1 am of ( nurse not in pos- j charge, which was hefol-o tlie public, 6 tion and its ue ; ght. Wn a'c, Sir, w Your existed. Andean you suppose that I Mr. John Henry was nine mouths after in disclosing names &. stut.i :r facts, known j mv interview with Mr. Jefferson; and pre- perhaps only to myself, I could consent cisely nt the time w hen I was writing to my to separate them from those publ <• men-! friends in fVingress the letters urging tlie snres winch you so cordial}- nppiovrd and i snhst.tulion of the non-intercourse for which I so deeply lamented I Mu.-I your j (be enilmrgn. <)J' Mr. Henry’s mission X own defence against these clungts Forever! knew nothing till il was disclosed by him- rest exclusivkly upon a solemn protestn- sell in 1^12. tion against the natural infeirnce from the! U VVIIH in these letters of I ,"08 nnd 1809, irresistible tendency of net ion to the secret ' at I mentioned tlm desicn ol certain !ea- ileis<t' Die federal party to cl Feet n (li-solu- i o'- 'Ii- Union, and the establishment of a Northern ( onfetloritry. Thin d.-si n hurl bet n formed, in the winter of IH(!. r f-4. im mediately after, nnd hh n consequence of ■ lie nequisilion of Uoiiii.iniiB. Ip jus! d\ ng causes in those who eeierlainftf) it. were, that the aiinexntion cf lamis'imn to the Uni on irtmseenrleri the consiitutioni'l powers of the government of the Uniled Soites. Tlior ii funned in fiici n new confederacy to w hii Ji the Slates-, united liy tlie former com pact, were not hound to adhere. That it waHoppressivo ti the interests,nnd destruc tive to the iidliieucfi of the Northern secti on of the confederacy, whose right itnd du ty it tin refore was to secede from the new body politic, and to constitute otio of thefr own. Tins plan was so far matured, that 111C proposal had been mode to an individu al to permit himself, nt tliu proper (into, to he placed in tii head of the military move ments, which it was foreseen would lie ne cessary for carrying it into execution. Iir nil this, there w ns no overt net of treason In tlie abstract theory' of our government* tliu obedience of Die citizen is not. due to an niiconstitutinmU law. lie may lawfully resi-t its cxeriition. If a single individual | undertakes this resistance, nor cniistitut)- intent of the actor? That a statesman who believes in human virtue should he slew to draw this inference against such solemn asseverations, I readily admit: hut for the regulation of the conduct of hu- bilit.-, had no man life, tlie rules of evidence are widclj |different from those, which receive or ex- is controversy. elude testimony in a court of law. Even state ni' facts and | there, you know, that violent presumption is equivalent, m eases aH'ceting life itself, to positive proof; nnd in a succession of political in'ensures through n series of years, all tending to the same result, there is an internal evidence against w hich mere denial, however solemn,’ct*n i,candy claim winjsc object I I *hc credence even of tin; charity that bc- .1 ......1 hoi cth all things. ^ Let me add that the statement nuihori- confei’er icy ? and izcd hy me, as published in the National In- ec on which that j tclligenccf, was made, not only without I the intention, hut williout tlie most distant is admitted, in tlie [imagination of offending you or of injur- ;e that it is not ing nnv one of you. But, on the contrary, 11. •acts were detailed in evidence :—Mary Campbell, or Docherty, had come to F.dinburgb, from tilns- to sec her son in October last, and, both be- in- very poor, she was asking charity in a grocer's shop when she wns seen by Biuke, who, repre- jvnting himself us also a Docherty and a relative, invited her to his house, where -he got breakfast, and her other meats during the day, and was offer- j «d a nieht’s lodcinc. Burke. McDotiaalL and night's lodging. Burke, McDougall, and a sachusfitts, residing in Boston and its vi- ■nan named William Hare, and his wife, and other . m ' ! n nnd women, spent the early part ofthe even- ,n p" dancing, drinking and singing. Tiie deceas ed was lilientlly supplied with whiskey, and she Was known to the parties named, as, according to lp ir own phrase, “a shat fur the itoclors;" which, according to their own interpretation, means a petson who is to be murdered and sold for dissec- ion. Accordingly, in the latter part of the even- "1 a re 'd or pretended scuffle betw ixt Burke to " Hre > during which their victim endeavored n „?« e tliem, the poor deluded wretch was her, over, and Burke, in presence of the parties ti'rM’ threw himself upon her, anil es- tion "w ‘do speedily, by throttling or strangula- lihern. ‘v® deed was perpetrated in the most de- Oo-i t an . s ^ entiGc ""'oner by Burke, who took ten to mteen minutes (o make sure of his cinitv, take the liberty of niidressing you on the subject of a statement published iti the National Intelligencer of tlie 21st of October, and which purports to have been communicated, or authorised by you. In this statement, after speaking of those individuals in this State, whom tlie writer designates as ‘ certain leaders of the party which had the management of the State Legislature in their hands, in the year 1808,’and saying, that in the event of a civil war, he (Mr. Adams) * had no doubt the leaders of the party would secure the on which tint clinrgt: is founded, m or.... , , . - . . that the public m;;v judge of applied-1 session of anv legal evidence, bv which to tinned with the name of the late Mr. Jcf- i maintain it. Yet you call upon mw to ilerson, imputing tncertain citizens of Mas-1 ollS) both of the United BtMc«"nnd of "eaoft I name the persons nffeeted hv tl:e cinirge ; saclinsett.- ti'ea.'.ouqble negoliutiuns with j separata State, have provided, a judieiarjr I a charge in vonr esl'.i.i .'e Dei plv stignai- the Britisli gnvcrninent during the war, power, judges, and juries, to decide between t,..':ng upon those pvta'ins ; and vou por-j and expressly slutiiiu that ho had receiv- i the individual and the legislative net, wliicb J i-I. Miursehesio remind im that mv sense 'crl information of tins from me. On tho he Inis resisted n» imronsi jfutlona). Dm let of justice and self-respect oblige me to dis- I publication of this letter, I deemed it m-l" B ‘"■IM'oe" the eftse that legislative acts of i-in.-e till that t do possess. Mv souse oftdespcnsahly due to myself, and to nil tlie I justice to you, goailei/iei’, induces me to citizen.* of Mass.-i'chusetts, not only to<|e- I remark, that ‘ ie-ivc your self-respect to i nv having ever given such information, but the nmr/d influence of vour own minds, ail knowledge of such a fact. And the I williout prcMiming to tut cure it by the more so, because that letter hud been pub- I dictation of mine. I fished, though without my knowledge* yet Suppose, then, that in compliance with I was well assured, from motives of jus- | yrmi-eiill,! should name one, two, or throe ' lice and kindness to me. It contained n ! persons, its intended to lie included in the j declaration by Mr. Jefferson himself, frank, ! charge. Suppose neither of those persons explicit, nnd true, of the character of the to he one of vou. You, however, have.| motives of my conduct, in all the irtmsac- given them notice, that I have no evidence tirins of my intercourse with him, during against them, bv which the charge is the period of the embargo. This was a i due respect, bcd.ieiit servants, (,’. < i l’l«, frUiAKI. TliOl’VDINK, T. li BUKKI \'6. V. 11,1.1AM PKU-COTT, 1)ANT El, S MMJENT, ,M)i!N I.OW ]’,!,l„ WTI.I.I \ \1 Sl’U.IV.W, ('ll \KLEri JACW60\, UMRUE.V DUTTON, BEN.I PICK DAN, HENRY CABOT, Son ul’ tii.i late (i(!'ii ge Cabot. C. C. P \K80\S, Soitof Thcopldhi- Parsons, E-q. dcceascJ FRANK!,IN DEXTF.il, Son ofthe hue Samuel Dexter. MR. ADAMS’ 1?F.PIiY TO THE PRE CEDING BETTER. Washington, ilOth Dec. 1823. Jlcssrs. II. G. Otis, Israel Thorndike, T. II. Perkins, William Prescott, Daniel Sargent, John Lowel, William Sullivan, Charles Jackson, M arren Dut'ou, Ben jamin Pickm^n, Henry Cabot, C. C. Parsons, nnd Franklin Dexter— Gentlemen—I have received your letter of the 2(ith nit. and recognizing among p liveable in n court of law—and you know that I, as well as yourselves, am u- toenable to the laws of the land. Does your self-respect convince you that the per sons so named, if guilty, would furnish the evidence against themselves, which they have been notified that I do not pos sess ? Are you sure that the correspon dence, which would prove their guilt, may not in the lapse of 25 years, h ive been point upon which his memory could not deceive him, a point upon which he was the best of witnesses ; mid his testimony was the more decisive because given at a moment, as it would seem, of great excite ment against me upon different views of public policy even then in conflict and produciuggreat exacerbation, in his mind. The letter contained also a narative of a personal interview between himself &. me co-operation with them of Great Britain,’' the signatures to it, names of persons for committed to the tinmen'! In these days in March 1808, and stated that I had then one or more Stans of this Union ore past, conflicting with nt-N of Congress, and eein- tnomJing the resistance of tlnur citizens against them, amt what o]se eon be tha re- tnit Gut war,—civil war? and is not that, de facto, a dissolution ofthe Union, so far as Die resisting States nre concerned ? and vvliat would he the condition of every Citi zen in Dio resisting States r Bound hy tho double duty of alli'ginnoe to tlie Union, and io the State, he would be crushed between tlie upper and the nether millstone, with the performance of every civic duty converted into a crime, nnd guilty of treason, by every net of obedience to the law. That the power of annexing Louisiana m this Union, hail not been delegated to Con gress. by the Constitution of the U. States, wns my own opinion ; and it is recorded upon the journals of the Senate, of whichl was then u member. But far from think ing the act itself a justifying cause for se- ee-sion from tlie Union. I regarded it as one i f the happiest events, which bad occur red since the adoption of the Constituti on. I ri gretted that an accidental illneag in my family which detaiogd rue on nf^