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Nashville, June 14^th 1816.

D^r sir,

I am again under the necessity of addressing ^remonstrating with you
against pardoning an offender. I am informed that a peti=
tion has been forwarded to you, in favour of atending
money to John Bowden, who was convicted at the late ses=
sion of our Circuit court, of receiving stolen goods, know
ing them to be stolen. If such a petition has been presen
=ted, it was done secretly, in order to prevent the effect of
a counter petition. The facts and circumstances of the case,
are as follows. The stolen goods were found in his possession,
And he confessed that he obtained them from a negro na=
med Sandy, a slave. He had been previously detected in a
familiar correspondence with Sandy, and admonished by the
owner not to have any thing more to do with him, as he was
a notorious villain. He was not at home when the goods
were deposited with him, but he retained them ^under his immediate inspection two weeks
before they were found, and took no measures to have them
advertised; and when charged with having them, he prevari=