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The rest has charged him with obstinately refusing to give his testimony; but, if Capt Thomas would condescend to make a statement of the facts as the really occured [sic], it would cover the Gov. with shame & confusion, is he his capable of feeling either one or the other. But Capt Thomas is diffident and unasuming [sic], and the Gov.,presuming upon that, and an intimacy of long standing between himself and the family of Capt Thomas, he thought he could manage the Capt as he pleases, by dictating to him the testimony he should give. his first effort was, to draw from the Capt. a declaration that he knew nothing about my transactions with the africans, but finding that the Capt was not to be surprised into an assertion of a falsehood, he then changed his tone and endeavoured to dragoon him into his measures. The integrity of Capt Thomas however baffled all the acts of his Excell'y, and he then thought it necessary to endeavour to throw a shade over his testimony. with respect to the Gov. objection of want of sufficient notice in the case of the taking of James Erwins testimony, I think that also without sufficient reason; at least if the Notice was short it was Nevertheless as long as I would with safety make it. James Erwin had been at Washington, and in Tennessee, and in short all over the Southern States, and it was with much difficulty I could find him located in any one place for a sufficient length of time for me to procure his Evidence. Seeing that he had arrived in Savannah from Washington, and that he would remain there for a short tie only,