Mr. Blair tells me that a very respectable friend of yours, (a neighbor of Genl. McKean's) informed him that McKean, in his conversations endeavors to support the public letter he wrote against you, by pretending that you <illegible> interfered, when Bernard & himself was spoken of for the nomination of Governor of Pennsylvania. He says you wrote an anonymous article in the Albany Argus against him & ^in^ favor of Bernard, that circumstances left no doubt that you were the author, & that in consequence he enclosed the paper to you with the piece marked in it, & that you never denied what he thus left you to infer, he ascribed to you.

McKean's object is turn from himself, the suspicion that he is actuated in hostility to you, by hostility to me, & to conceal the fact that he is operated on by his connexion with Ingham & Calhoun. Would it not to write me a contradiction of this story of McKeans, if the <illegible> truth is, as I suppose that you had nothing to do with McKean's Canvass or the piece in the Argus. Mr. Blair could then write to Mr. Salisbury the fact & enable him to say & shew, that McKean's storry was merely trumped up, to countenance his attacks on you & enlist the feelings of his personal friends among the Democrats to espouse his personal quarrel & give it political effect hereafter.