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Sir:—The malignant attack which my character has sustained in an anonymous hand-bill, to which your letter of the 21st inst. directed to the Chairman of the Federal Electioneering Committee of this city is annexed, and in which you contradict certain facts contained in a letter, said to have been written by me to Andrew Brown, Esq., of Bern, will be my apology for repelling the unfounded aspersions which have been thus dishonorably obtruded on the public.

Admitting the letter published to be an exact transcript of the one intended for Mr. Brown, I aver, that the assertions therein contained are substantially true, and that I can prove them by the most unquestionable testimony. I assert that Gen. Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared, in substance, that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous