the sheriff, the _posse comitatus_, unless it were done
with the assurance of being supported by the governor in an
efficient manner.

"The letter concluded by requesting a precise and speedy answer
to the preceding inquiries, and an assurance that, if certain
of the governor's support, the judge should forthwith punish,
as the law directs, the contempt offered to his court: on the
other hand, should the governor not think it practicable or
proper to afford his aid, the court and its officers would no
longer remain exposed to the contempt or insults of a man, whom
they were unable to punish or resist.

"The legislature met on the twelfth of January. Two days after,
General Adair arrived in the city, from Tennessee, and reported
he had left Burr at Nashville, on the twenty-second of
December, with two flat boats, destined for New-Orleans. In the
afternoon of the day of Adair's arrival, the hotel at which he
had stopped was invested by one hundred and twenty men, under
Lieutenant Colonel Kingsbury, accompanied by one of Wilkinson's
aids. Adair was dragged from the dining table, and conducted to
head quarters, where he was put in confinement. They beat to
arms through the streets; the battalion of the volunteers of
Orleans, and a part of the regular troops, paraded through the
city, and Workman, Kerr, and Bradford, were arrested and
confined. Wilkinson ordered the latter to be released, and the
two former were liberated on the following day, on a writ of
habeas corpus, issued by the district judge of the United
States. Adair was secreted until an opportunity offered to ship
him away."

We approach a very interesting portion of our history, in which certain
transactions are detailed, with great precision, for some of which
General Jackson has obtained, and deserved, a brilliant crown of
military glory, and for others has been visited with deep and indignant
reproaches; whether justly or not, the reader will decide by the facts
of the case.

On the 2d of December 1814, General Jackson reached New-Orleans; and on
the next day commenced his operations to put the city in a state of
defence against the attack expected to be made upon it. A large naval
force of the enemy was off the port of Pensacola; and it was understood
that New-Orleans was their object. The force in New-Orleans consisted