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Mount unclear 12th Nov. 1819 Sir, General Clarke with the true spirit of his usual malignity deemed it necessary for the sweep of his Election to the Government. to combine with a villain by the name of Moore who had been employed at the Agency as a Blacksmith to rob my Desk as he says which by this bye of some letters were now in it supposed to have been written by Wm. Bowen to me on the subject of the africans which he had at the agency and by which he thinks he has proven that I was concerned in their introduction. I was at the agency when this attack was made, I have not had time to do mock than by a short statements of some affidavits expose the villany of the attempt which you will see