ou to hand to Mr. Fry the enclosed five dollar
note, and request him to forward the National Gazette to William
Wilson (Chief Justice of the State), Carmi, White county,
Illinois.

I beg you to present my kind regards to Mrs. Vaux, and to accept
my grateful acknowledgments for your very kind and truly friendly
attentions to me while in Philadelphia; and permit me again to
renew to you the assurance of my obligations to you for the
services rendered to humanity and to Illinois during the late
vile effort to prostitute their rights and character and to
repeat that the virtuous and benevolent interest you evinced on
that occasion will ever endear you to

EDWARD COLES.

GOVERNOR COLES TO A. COWLES

_Dear Sir_:--Believing that I should have been able to prove that
I had not libeled Judge McRoberts, and explain how the Grand Jury
had been induced to present me for so doing, it was with great
regret that I heard you had thought proper to dismiss the
prosecution. Fearing that some malicious person may misrepresent
this transaction at some future day, when those who now
understand it may have forgotten many of the details in relation
to it, or perhaps be dead, or have removed from the country, I
have determined to ask the favor of you to give me a written
answer to the following questions:

Did you summon or request Judge McRoberts to appear before the
Grand Jury, which presented me for libeling him?

Did not Judge McRoberts request to see the indictment before it
was delivered to the Grand Jury, and did he not examine and alter
it, and if so what were the alterations made by him?

Did you ask Mr. Blackwell to aid you in the prosecution of me,
and do you know whether he was employed by Judge McRoberts to do
so?

As you have expressed the opinion verbally to several persons,
that I had not libeled Judge McRoberts, I ask the favor of you to
give me your opinion in writing, whether the matter contained in
the indictment was a libel?

With great respect, I am &c., &c.,
EDWARD COLES.

A. COWLES, ESQ.,
Circuit Attorney,
Edwardsville.

P. S.--Why was not Judge McRoberts returned as a witness, on the
back of the indictment?

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