my
surplice to Mr. Cowles, that he, (Cowles) Ketchum and Gardner
should lend their names to an instrument denying the
conversation above alluded to, when he Cowles, Ketchum and
Gardner, knew they had not only complained to Bunce and
Palmer, but to myself and others. To which he answered, that
the certificate given by them was not given meaning to deny
any thing that had been said as respected ill-treatment, &c.
of Mr. Young, but only to re-but other things which the
gentlemen who called for the certificate, (among whom were
James Thompson, Esq.) represented to have been said. On which
I suggested the propriety of his calling on Bunce and Palmer,
at the Springs; and immediately getting his colleagues to
meet them, and have the thing explained, and prevent improper
use being made of their certificate; to which preposition he,
after expressing his regret that it had become public,
cordially acceded. I then parted with him on my way to
New-York.--AMOS ALLCOTT, _Ballston Spa, March 1816_."

"I certify, that Mr. Cowles did on that day, (20th April)
call on Mr. Bunce as mentioned in the above certificate of
Mr. Allcott he had agreed to do, and after some conversation
on the subject, in which he admitted that he, Gardner and
Ketchum, had complained of Young's ill treatment and
haughtiness to them, and their expressing their opinion
against his being nominated as a candidate for that election
&c. he strongly solicited Mr. Bunce to have nothing published
in his paper on the subject, till he could go and see his
colleagues, Mr. Gardner and Ketchum, and get them to meet and
have the affair explained and reconciled, which he said he
would at all events endeavor to do before the next paper
should come out, [this being _Thursday_, and the paper not to
appear before the next _Wednesday_,] that he was then in a
great hurry, and must get home that night, but he would make
it his business to immediately attend to it; to which
proposition Mr. Bunce readily agreed, and promised Mr. Cowles
accordingly. This conversation was in the office of the
Saratoga Journal, in the room in which I was at work. The
next day however, information was brought to Mr. Bunce in the
office, that the certificate of the said Cowles, Gardner and
Ketchum, denying the conv