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vernor for calling out the militia to arrest him. Burr spoke bitterly of Wilkinson as a traitor. and, fearing to fall into his hands, he resolved to disband his men and fly. He told them to sell what provisions they had, and, if they chose, to settle on his Washita lands. They dispersed through the Mississippi Territory, and furnished an abundant supply of school-masters. singing-masters, dancing-masters, and doctors. A reward was offered for the capture of Burr, and he was arrested (Feb. 19. 1807) by the Register of the Land-office, assisted by Lieut. (afterwards Maj.-Gen.) Edmund P. Gaines, near Fort Stoddart, on the Tombigbee River, in eastern Mississippi. An indictment for high treason was found Against Burr by a grand jury for the District of Virginia. He was charged with levying war, by the collection of armed men at Blennerhassett's Island, within the dominion of Virginia. He was also charged with concocting a scheme for the overthrow of the national authority in the We
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Britain issues an Order in council declaring the whole coast of Europe, from the Elbe to Brest, in France, under blockade......May 16, 1806 Napoleon issues the Berlin Decree......Nov. 21, 1806 Second session convenes......Dec. 1, 1806 Treaty with Great Britain signed by commissioners, but the President did not even send it to the Senate......Dec. 3, 1806 Aaron Burr's supposed conspiracy culminates......1806 Burr arrested by Lieutenant Gaines, near Fort Stoddart, Ala.......Feb. 19, 1807 Act to prohibit import of slaves from Jan. 1, 1808, passes the House, Feb. 7, 1807, by 113 to 5; approved......March 2, 1807 Duty on salt repealed......March 3, 1807 Ninth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1807 Burr brought to Richmond, Va., early in......March, 1807 His trial for treason begins there......May 22, 1807 British frigate Leopard, fifty guns, Captain Humphreys, fires into the United States frigate Chesapeake, Commodore Barron, off Chesapeake Bay, killing thre