The Enquirer

MILITARY REWARDS!

We have at length obtained a circumstantial narrative, on the part of General Wilkinson, of so much as concerns the imputations and surmises laid against him before Congress, & which have been supported by Mr. John Randolph and others. It is drawn up with the temper of a man, tranquilized by the consciousness of persecution and of innocence; it is manly, temperate, unincumbered by artifice or rhetorical ornament; and places the man and his conduct on such a station, as will assure him the applause, and commisseration of every man of integrity and honor; and without any attempt in the narrative to recriminate on his vile persecutors, he places them in such a light of shame, as no time nor artifice can remove. It is accompanied by an appendix, containing voluminous evidence, copies of official documents, letters from numerous persons, in relation to Burr's conspiracy, and particularly all those letters, which the general required of Burr to produce in open court of Richmond, but to which Burr would not assent; but which the demands of defence now imperiously draws forth. These papers make a volume, and we understand form only the second volume of the series which as a reward for saving his country, he is obliged to print at an enormous expence, out of his ample pay of brigadier general. The whole is to consist of four volumes, as we infer from another still more voluminous appendix to vol. IV. which embraces about 200 pages, and from its contents, appears to be the history of the campaign at Terre au Boeuf. The narrative part of this volume, nor what is contained in the first and third, we have not seen nor learned: but presume the first will consist of a general historical memoir of the public life of the general, and perhaps the third volume may contain the narrative in reply to the imputations on the Spanish business. The Burr conspiracy being the only part perfectly before us, we should wish to enter into a developement of the subject, for the information of the country, immediately; but we apprehend it would not be acceptable to the victim of villany, himself, to interfere with a particular discussion, while a committee of Congress think it fit to keep the subject before them. We do not wish to be the means of enlisting the angry resentment of men who may at least question the propriety of the course which they have been led into against this injured man; because very probably, the eagerness which we confess we feel, to present the whole proceeding to the public, might be attributed to his solicitation, or as the term is-his influence-than to the feelings of indignation and shame which the whole transactions are calculated to excite-and will excite whenever they shall come, as they shall come before the nation. When the public shall have seen these papers, when they shall have pointed out to them the simple elements of these transactions-we cannot hesitate to assert, that a more unjustifiable persecution, or a persecution founded on circumstances so unwarrantable as matters of accusation, on an officer of such high trust, were never before exhibited.-Aurora.