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Extract of a letter from gen. James Wilkinson, dated,

NEW ORLEANS, December 14, 1806.

AFTER several consultations with the governor
and judges, touching the arrest and confinement of
certain known agents and emissaries of colonel Burr,
in this city and territory, whose intrigues and machi-
nations were to be apprehended, it is with their privity
and approbation that I have caused three of then to
be arrested, viz. doctor Errick Bollman, Samuel
Swartwout and Peter V. Ogden, against whom I pos-
sess strong facts, and I have recommended to the go-
vernor to have James Alexander, esq. taken up on
the grounds of strong suspicion. These persons
and all others who, by their character and deportment,
may be considered hostile to the interests of the
United States, or dangerous to this feeble frontier un-
der the menacing aspect of things from above, will, if
my influence can prevail, be seized and sent by sea to
the United States, subject to the disposition of the
government, and accompanied by such information
as may justify their confinement, and furnish a clue
to the development of the grounds, progress and
projectors of the treasonable enterprize in which
they are engaged

This letter will accompany doctor Bollman, who is
to be this day embarked in a vessel bound for Charles-
ton, under the charge of lieutenant Wilson of the
artillery, who has orders to land with his prisoner at
for Johnston or fort Moultrie, to forward this dis-
patch by mail, and to wait the orders of the executive.
Mr. Swartwout will be sent to Baltimore by a vessel
which will sail some time in the ensuing week, in
custody of another subaltern, who will be the bearer
of strong testimony against him and also colonel
Burr, and the others will follow under due precau-
tions, by the earliest opportunities which may pre-
sent.