Captain Lewis, of the steamship Creole, is the author and originator of a charge, that I, at Cardenas, in Cuba, ordered him to put out ot sea with that vessel, leaving a portion of the expedition up in that town to Spanish mercy. He did not dare to make it until after I had gone away from Key West; and when I fist heard it in Mississippi, it had been generally circulated over the country as true.
    I pronounce the charge an infamous and malicious lie, conceived and circulated by Lewis to revenge himself on me for saying to him, on the voyage over to Cuba, in the presence of Col. Wheat, that he was a scoundrel. The country has learned what have been the consequences to Captain Lewis for conceiving and circulating this slander; and I now state, that I shall endeavor to make the same kind of settlement with all future vouchers for the truth of the charge, provided the community regards them as honorable and respectable men.
    I presume there is no member of the Mississippi battalion, commanded by me at Cardenas, who will deny that I did my duty to the expedition and to my command
in the storming of that town. I do not know of but one member of the battalion who did not fight, and he was not a Mississippian. My command was not in the battle of the evening with the Lancers, because they were on duty at the steamship by General Lopez's orders; but when the gunsof the battle of the evening were heard, without orders, I march the battalion towards the scene of action and joined it in the streets to the left of the Louisiana regiment, having then and there reported my men and self for duty to Col. Bell as my senior officer. After all anticipation of another attack had passed away the different corps of the expedition were simultaneously re-embarked.
    The editor of the Louisville Kentucky Democrat, (newspaper) applies to my name, almost every term of abuse which has malicious mind is capable of conceiving, but the gravamen of his gratuitous editorial is the tryth of Lewis' charge. Accompanied by a friend, I was proceeding to Louisville to hold this man personally responsible for the article, when I learned from reliable sources, that he is a member of some church and is known to be of that most despicable class of human beings--a coward. I could not see the good sense of hunting up a coward to get a fight, and hence I did not go to Louisville.
    This editor says I never was in a battle until the storming of Cardenas occurred. I fought with the regiment of Kentucky cavalry at Buena Vista, and if any officer of that regiment will state that I did not fight in that battle, in a manner worthy of the day and the occasion, then I am willing to be branded as being as great a coward
as the editor of the Louisville Democrat.
    Statements from my commanding officers of my conduct at Buena Vista, can be seen at the office of the Mississippian.
                                                                                                                M. J. BUNCH.
                                                                                              JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 6th 1850.