Letter from R. M. Patterson

mint of the United States, Dear Sir, may 18, 1840. The proposition made to Gov. Findlay, by Indge Fox, was also made to me in person, and I immediately acceded to is with great cheefulners. He named Mr. English t mr. Kane, m the gentle- men choken on the hant of mr. Benegets friends to wamme his accounts, and certainly two individe nah could not have been Relected more acceptable to me. On recrivingof this proposition from Budge For, to agreed to ask the Secretary that all other proceed. mgs should be suspended, until the examination should be made So this he has consented in a letter of the 15 th, just received mr. English of mm. Kane have fina on the 26th indl. as the day for their exam - nation of the accounts. They desired that gov. Findly should behuscust, a at least, have the appointment of being so will you be so kind as to acquaint him with the circumstance .2 Can you not also be yourself I resent on the 2 I have not acted, in this case, without a the- rough conviction of the justric of my Counde still I may be wrong, and glad shall I be if this can be throw. To/ 12.2. m Putterson besse mitter, Esq-