ains due_, is altogether
immaterial, so long as an answer is substantially made out to a
question raised by his _good friends_, and to which the public may
expect a reply: The following certificate is therefore given without
comment.

"I certify, that a day or two previous to Samuel Young's
accompanying his excellency the Governor to New-York, in
conversation with Mr. Young at his house, he informed me that
while he was at Albany, from where he had but just returned,
he called on his excellency, who then informed him of his
intended expedition to New-York, and pressed him, Mr. Young
to accompany him; that he objected, and said that he should
be much pleased with the jaunt, but his business was such, as
to render it impossible; that the Governor urged him still
stronger, and he replied that he was wholly unprepared for
leaving home any length of time, and the Governor calculated
to go the next day or day but one--that the Governor told him
if he would accompany him, he would make him _an aid_ with
the _pay_ of a _colonel_, and _bear his expences_, and that
he would defer going until the next steam boat; that he
wished to take time to consider the Governor's proposals as
he informed the Governor--and soon after told him he would
accompany him.--SETH C. BALDWIN, Junior. _Warren County,
March 1816_."

The Journal never charged Young with having informed Merrill that he
"was not now Secretary, but should be to-morrow." At it again Merrill.
Will you certify that you did not give a friendly hint to a gentleman
who was going to Albany, that you had a connexion who would make an
excellent clerk in the Secretary's office, and request his name to be
given to Mr. Young, to whom Young replied, _I am not now Secretary but
shall be to-morrow_? I believe an intimation to this effect was given
in the Journal, which you blink with as much ingenuity as though you
had been bred in the same school with Mr. Young's colleagues. Amongst
the great number to whom Mr. Young _did give_ the information that he
was shortly to be Secretary, _you_, then it seems were omitted!

The facts disclosed in the following certificate, cannot fail to remind
one of the fable of the "Country maid, and her milk pail."

"I hereby certify, that while riding in company with Samuel
Young from Ballston to Albany, when going to the _winter
session_ of 1815