Please describe the Burr intrigue.

We know from reading certain accounts that Aaron Burr, former Vice President of the United States, was disliked and distrusted by most other Founding Fathers. He is also lowly regarded by most historians for his constant intrigues that served his own self-interest. At the top of the list was a conspiracy to found his own country while hoping to provoke a war between the US and Spain.
Burr conspired with General James Wilkinson, commander of the US Army just below President Jefferson, who was also Governor of the new Louisiana Territory just purchased from France. Wilkinson was also a paid agent of Spain for many years, a spy for them and thus a traitor. Burr then went to the British government and asked for a half-million dollars as well as weapons to take the Louisiana Territory away from the US. Burr and Wilkinson started to gather a private army and set out for Louisiana.
The two intended to declare the new nation independent with themselves as leaders. They hoped that, being on the border between the US and Spain, one of the nations would agree to back them against the other as a buffer. If not, they hoped that one of them would fear the new nation enough to send an army and thus be occupied enough with a war that it would allow the new nation could emerge.
But word of what they were planning became public. State militia seized many of their weapons. Most of their army deserted. Wilkinson turned evidence over to Jefferson. US troops arrested Burr and he was charged with treason. He only escaped conviction because the courts needed evidence of that treason, and Jefferson argued for executive privilege.
Burr fled to England and tried to get them to back the overthrow of the Spanish government in their colony (Mexico). He tried the same with France. They also refused. Both nations kicked him out. He fled back to the US and married a widow who left him after four months. He changed his name to avoid creditors and died after his divorce.