Virginia Statesman

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30.

[Fragmentary text, low confidence, appears garbled and unrelated to main narrative.]

FROM THE KNOXVILLE REGISTER.

We learn from a gentleman who arrived in this place a few days since from East Tennessee, that a letter has been received there from a highly honorable citizen of Virginia, who was a member of Congress during Mr. Jefferson's administration, stating that in a conversation with Aaron Burr, the author of the treasonable projects of 1806, he cannot be mistaken about--they say a good many things in relation to Captain in Burr's army of treason. I even get commissions if I wanted to accept. And then the fact he said to one, in the presence of Judge who thoroughly understands he does a tenth it, departed against or gentlemen, the commander of the United States thinks you deep truth. You are all to find a member of the Senate and a number the cabinet of the House of Representatives are deeply involved in the scheme.

I am not certain that the above was contained in a private letter to Mr. Nathaniel Herr but as I make these statements privately, it is but that I do not aid now avow them.

I am in hopes, sir, that this letter will be altogether satisfactory to you, for, (Gen. Jackson may be read (the presidential question aside) no man in Tennessee more bound to Gen. Jackson than myself, for the great honor conferred by him on my country.

NATH W. WILLIAMS.

Gen. Andrew Jackson

Under the belief that it is my duty to make the following statement. I make it. I moved to Nashville from the County of Pittsylvania, Va. in the fall of the year 1804 at the age of twenty five that as I moved from Virginia, in 1805 to Hawkins Courthouse, East Tennessee. In 1806 from there I moved to Nashville. In 1806 of the Burr matters transpired. I, before protesting against the proceedings of Burr, had been frequently employed in Gen. Jackson's collecting business and other suits of his. I think in the spring or fall of 1806, in riding from the General's house to Nashville, near the Clover Bottom, he spoke to me in relation to a Commission in Burr's army. And in the same year, at Gallatin he made the declaration in relation to the dissolution of the Union, as stated in our correspondence. I was only then determined that I would not agree to what I believed to be Burr's schemes but that I would oppose him as far as I could.

Either before or after Mr. Jefferson's proclamation, it was, as I thought, intended to impress the public mind with the belief that a ball, then on foot in Nashville, was intended as a mark of respect to Col. Burr. A number of gentlemen in Nashville, to destroy this impression, and to show their disapprobation of Burr, determined that Col. Burr should not attend the ball, and so informed Col. Burr through Judge John Overton, who returned with the information, as he told me, from Burr that Col. Burr had declined coming to the ball. With this we were satisfied. About the time the ball was half over, I was standing against the wall opposite the door of entrance in the room, and saw Gen. Jackson lead Burr by the arm into the room, and introduce him, with considerable form, to the ladies and gentlemen then present. I do not recollect at this time that Mr. Jefferson's proclamation had any effect on the persons then about Nashville, who were, from their conduct, justly liable to our suspicions, and I think I took some pains to enquire into that circumstance.

Some time afterwards, our party, to show their further indignation, burnt Burr publicly in effigy. I have always believed that during this Burr matter, that Major Tillman Dixon informed by letter, that Gen. Coffee had been engaged in purchasing beef and provisions for Burr on the Cumberland. Though the letter, if there was one, I cannot now find and I have examined for it. It is a pretty understanding at the time, that Col. Daniel Smith went off as one of Burr's men in his boat and I have never heard it disputed. Mr. Hays as a nephew of Mrs. Jackson. Although I twice was at Gen. Jackson's house with Burr yet I am tolerably well satisfied, according to my recollection at this time of occurrences then that in the fall of 1806 and winter of 1807, Burr and Gen. Jackson were very intimate and that Burr was frequently at the Gen. house. The above is a statement of the most prominent facts as they are fixed on my recollection. If I am mistaken about any thing about dates, and about them I do not give much credit to memory.

NATH W. WILLIAMS

A List of the gentlemen in the ball room at the time, and who were present in the public gathering of Nashville, when Burr was burnt in effigy, as well as now recollected

Geo. W.L. Marr, Esq. attorney at Law
Wm. Smith, attorney at law, and now Clerk of the Circuit Court of Williamson County.
Thos. Swan, of Va attorney at Law. (dead.)
Doct. Watkins of E. Tennessee.
John E. Blount of N. C
Judge Porter of Louisiana
V. Tunstall, of Pittsylvania County, Va

I am not certain that the gentlemen referred to were present. if not they can say the greater part were. I am pretty confident were present. I state not there were at the burning of the effigy from one to two hundred individuals

N.W. WILLIAMS.