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founded, to apply to the governors of the western states to take steps to cut short his career.

On the 27th of November, two days after he had received Wilkinson's despatches from Natchitoches, the president issued a proclamation denouncing the project of Burr, warning all good citizens against it, and calling upon those in authority to exert themselves in suppressing the enterprise and arresting all concerned in it.

Previous to this, Graham had met with Blennerhasset at Marietta, and obtained from him such intelligence concerning the enterprise as warranted an immediate application to the Governor of Ohio for authority to seize the boats on the Muskingum, then nearly completed.

The legislature of Ohio, which was then in session, after debating the question with closed doors, promptly authorized the seizure to be made.

During the same week that Burr was feasted and caressed at Frankfort, as an innocent and much-injured man, ten of his boats, laden with provisions and warlike stores, were captured on the Muskingum.

Five other boats, filled with volunteers from the neighbourhood of Beaver, reached Blennerhasset's Island about the 10th of December. This flotilla was commanded by Colonel Tyler, who took possession of the island and posted sentinels to prevent any communication with the river banks. He had scarcely done so, before

Blennerhasset received information of the seizure of his boats on the Muskingum, and the approach of the militia ordered out by the Governor of Ohio. Hastily abandoning the place, he embarked in the boats of Tyler, and with a few of his followers descended the river, passed the falls of the Ohio about the 20th of the month, and reached the point of rendezvous, the mouth of the Cumberland River, two days afterward.

Leaving Frankfort on the 7th of December, Burr hastened to Nashville. From the latter place he descended the Cumberland with two boats, and on an island at its mouth was introduced to such of his adherents as yet clung to his desperate fortunes. Desertion had already thinned their ranks to less than two hundred men.

Breaking up his encampment at this place, Burr proceeded to New Madrid, gathering slender reinforcements as he went along. Bitterly disappointed at finding his schemes thus suddenly baffled at the very moment of fruition, the last hope of Burr rested upon the city of New Orleans and the surrounding territory. Bayou Peirre was named as 'a point of reunion; and the party dispersed.

When he reached the first settlement on the left bank of the Mississippi, Burr became acquainted with the revelations made by Wilkinson, and foreseeing at once the danger of an arrest, he ordered his boats to withdraw from the juris

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diction of the Mississippi Territory. An encampment was accordingly formed some thirty miles above Natchez, and a piece of ground cleared on which to exercise the men.

Even here, he soon found himself equally insecure. The president's proclamation having already reached the Mississippi Territory, the acting governor at once raised a body of four hundred militia for the purpose of arresting Burr.

While those troops were collecting on the opposite side of the river, several militia officers were sent to Burr to induce him to submit. After some little delay, a written agreement was entered into, which resulted in an unconditional surrender to the civil authorities.

Previous to this, however, the chests of arms on board the boats were thrown secretly into the creek, so that when a search took place none were found in sufficient quantities to justify their detention.

The subsequent history of Burr, his arrest and acquittal, his wandering life, the extraordinary sensation created throughout the country by his trial at Richmond, his wanderings in Europe, and his death in extreme old age at New York, belong rather to the history of the United States, than to any single member of the confederation.

The authentication of Burr's conspiracy by the government agent, Graham, created an immediate and violent reaction in the minds of the

people of Kentucky. The legislature, then in session, immediately passed an act similar to that of Ohio, and under it some seizures were made. An examination of the charges preferred against Judge Sebastian was ordered and pressed with so much determination that, notwithstanding the opposition of many whose interest it was that the affair should remain concealed, the whole of his mysterious intrigues with Spain were exposed, and conclusive evidence brought forward to prove his receipt of an annual pensionof two thousand dollars from the court of Madrid up to the period of his trial. Sebastian, finding all other efforts vain, attempted to stifle the inquiry by resigning his seat upon the bench, but the legislature persevered until a thorough investigation had taken place. Judge Innis, the principal witness against Sebastian, was also believed to be deeply implicated, and as he held office under the general government, a resolution was passed at the succeeding session requesting Congress to order an inquiry into his conduct. It was accordingly instituted soon after and resulted in his acquittal.

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CHAPTER XX.

Critical foreign relations with the United States-Berlin decrees -Restraint upon commercial enterprise-Attack upon the Chesapeake - Great excitement throughout the UnionEmbargo-One hundred thousand militia called for-Resolutions passed in Kentucky-Declaration of war-Indian difficulties-Tecumseh-His attempts to form a confederation of the tribes-Assembling of warriors at TippecanoeMarch of Harrison-Battle of Tippecanoe-Death of Joseph H. Daviess-Return of Tecumseh-His interview with Harrison-Hull appointed to command the northwestern army -Invades Canada-Returns-General Brock summons Detroit-Surrender of Hull-Indignation of the states-Volunteers from Kentucky-Hopkins marches against the Illinois Indians-Is deserted by his men-A second northwestern army organized-Harrison commissioned a brigadier-general -Appointed commander-in-chief.

THE war which had been so long raging on the continent of Europe, was now to have its effect upon the foreign relations of the United States. In order to counteract the naval supremacy of Great Britain, Bonaparte, after humbling the power of Austria, dissolving the German empire, and overturning by a single blow the kingdom of Prussia, issued from the battle-field of Jena, on the 21st of November, 1806, his famous Berlin decree.

By this decree all the British islands were declared in a state of blockade, and all trade in English merchandize was forbidden. The neutrality of a nation was not respected, and Ameri