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og the 7th August last, with that silent contempt which the pitiful insinuation it contains deserve. To avoid now even a charge? of disrespect where none is meant or intended, I will make a few remarks upon his excellency ingenuous epistle. In observing upon Col. Erwins? testimony the Gov. seems to have discovered, some secret or mystery, in the circumstance of Col. Erwins? having made an affidavit before a Magistrate of Augusta, before he had received Notice; and also mentions, the receipt of two Notices for the taking of Col. [Erwins?]] testimony afterwards; but he appears studiously to have avoided in this, or in several other cases which I shall have occasion to advert to, a statement of facts which were familiar to him and which would have made the matter perfectly plain. In the case of Col. Erwin? the facts are there. When that gentleman came to Milledgeville in April last, he sent me a written Notice of his arrival, and of his intention to go before a Magistrate of that place, and make an affidavit of all he knew about the affairs?; and that he had also Notified Gov. Clark. I waited upon him accordingly in the day named, and was informed by him that Gov. Clark, whom he had seen the evening before, had declined attending, and had said to him