The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . oachieve the seduction of his result of all this was that Blen-nerhassett lost both wife and prop-erty. The latter was seized by the government onthe charge of Blennerhass
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . oachieve the seduction of his result of all this was that Blen-nerhassett lost both wife and prop-erty. The latter was seized by the government onthe charge of Blennerhassettsconnection with theconspiracy, and was afterward burned, having beenset fire to accidentally. His wife was a very bril-liant and beautiful woman, and a writer of merit; itappears that about 1835 she was with her husbandin Ireland, where he was trying to recover certainestates, in which he was unsuccessful. He died onthe island of Guernsey. His wifes last appearancein the United States was about 1843, when she peti-tioned the U. S. congress, through Henry Clay, fora grant of money to compensate her for the loss ofher property. She failed, however, in this effort,death came to her and she was buried by the Sistersof Charity of New York. The collapse of Burrsgrand project imder the influence of a proclamationby the president, Oct. 27, 1806, made Burr also afugitive, but he was captured and conveyed to Rich-. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. mond, Va., -where he was tried for treason. Thistrial, whicli was a cause celebre, resulted in a verdictof not guilty on the indictment of treason. Itwas particularly notable for the presence and thesplendid eloquence, in behalf of the prosecution, ofWilliam Wirt, well-known author of the Life ofPatrick Henry. Burr had by this time very nearly de-stroyed his reputation in America and he sailed forEngland, which country, also, he was soon obligedto leave, and he traveled through Sweden, Denmark,Germany and France, and in Paris became poverty-stricken
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