Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability in Hampshire county, (Mass.) to his friend in the vicinity of Amherst. N. H. dated in September last.

"Gen. Eaton, is now in this town; and he says, that he has seen a letter but a few days from Marietta, (Ohio) which informed, that Col. Burr was there, and was undertaking or endeavoring to undertake, an expedition-that he had actually engaged some Boats, and offered commissions to a number of young gentlemen in those parts, to engage with him in what he (Burr) said "would be a laudable and honorable undertaking." Gen. E. has no doubt that Burr's intent is to erect a separate government west of the Alleghanies, and probably make himself either a sovereign, or be viceroy to some foreign prince. The latter I am inclined to think, cannot be the motive. Spain will not be in a condition to support such a colony as perhaps France may. Should Burr raise an insurrection, many things will be necessary, which we little think of."