allowance of the Indians should be augmented in times of plenty, as they are reduced in those of scarcity.

others you will hereafter Your remarks upon the rank of the naval officers former arrrangement was

The Fall Fleet not arriving and the possibility of supplies being intercepted on their way to us in the Spring is very distressing and makes a rigid Economy absolutely necessary without considering the expediency of it in another view equally urgent. The probability of the Enemy directing their views against this Province which my letter of this date and receive will more fully explain. to you. obstructions to the service by the divided are very just and shall be rectified, the merely to make matters easy to Capt. La Force, and at the same time to carry on the active service to the best advantage under Capt. Andrews. I have for the present appointed the former to the command it was unavoidable, but I fear that altho' a worthy good man, his time of life will render him unfit to carry on a service which requires unremitting activity and attention.

I received the Papers &o taken at the Miamis and forwarded by you to Major De Peyster. The miscarriage of that Enterprize was a most fortunate event, as it has put us on our guard against one of greater consequence, frustrated the hopes of the disaffected Canadians and confirmed the wavering Miamis Indians in our Interest.

You will of course communicate to Major De Peyster every piece of Intelligence you may hear, that can in any shape concern that quarter with whatever orders you may in Consequence think necessary. Inclosed is a letter for him which you will forward by the first opportunity.

(Signed)

I am &c

FRED HALDIMAND

To Brig. Genl. Powell Commanding at Niagara of the 6th January.

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS.-BRITISH MUSEUM.

LETTER TO THE EARL OF SHELBURNE.

QUEBEC 12th Nov. 1784. To The Right Honble. the Earl of Shelburne Original p the Atalanta. Duplicate p the

MY LORD,

Lieut Governor Hay's situation is such, that I must be insensible to the sufferings of a very deserving man, a vigilant and capable servant of the Crown, did I omit laying it with submission before Your Lordship. This Gentleman was a Lieut in the 60th Regt in 1756, was under the orders of Colonel Gladwin when the Indian war broke out, after the Peace of 1763 when Detroit was invested by the Savages under Ponteach-was appointed a deputy under Sir William Johnson for Indian affairs-he acted as assistant engineer, and for three years of my residence in that settlement, I found him active intelligent and zealous. His desire of being serviceable engaged him to go with me to St. Vincennes: his captivity, impris onment and absence for four years from a numerous family at a great expense and inconvenience he thought fully compensated by his appointment to the Lieut Government of Detroit, but on his arrival here, he was detained month after month and has experienced the diasdvantages of every kind instead of reaping the advantages wh. he might presume Your Lordship intended as a reward for past services. His salary of £200 pr. ann. in a country where provisions and all necessarys are at an exhorbitant price is all his resource, and tho by His commission of Lt. Governor and Superintendant he might expect to direct the management of the Indians

of that district (under the Supt. Genl. Sir John Johnson) he is literally disabled from rewarding an Indian who should be employed to carry an Express or in any other manner from directing the Indian affairs in his Government.

As I have never missed any occasion of expressing how much I have been indebted to Mr. Hay while he acted under my orders, Your Lordship will I hope pardon my representing the situation of a person whom Your Lordship had honored with your protection and who received his Commission from Your Lordship's hand. I have the honor to be with a true sense of obligation

My Lord

Your Lordship's
most obliged

and faithfully devoted
humble servant

Endorsed: To the Right Honble The Earl of Shelburne, 12th Nov. 1784.
Original p. the Atalanta. Duplicate p. Nancy Paterson sailed at the same time.
To be ent'd in the fair book.

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En'd H. F.

LETTER FROM GENERAL BARRY ST. LEGER.

MONTREAL, Decr. 29th 1784.

Private.

DEAR SIR,

I am favoured with yours of the 19th and 23rd Insts; your enclosures are expedited to Lieut Govr. Hay in the manner you desired by a letter of mine.

Sorenesses and Jealousies between individuals, arising from causes unknown to me; or rather guessed at only from surmises I have formed from anecdotes that have occasionally met my ear (I should not I believe be far short of my mark if I were to ascribe the principal cause, derived from extraordinary predilections to particulars & as unwarrantable antipathies to others), however this much is certain; from some cause or other, the paths of the Upper Regions are shewn with so many thorns and Briars that the greatest caution and delicacy is required for so sickly and circumscribed a Being as I am to get on with any degree of safety.

I respect Mr. Hay much; and have felt for him under instances of harsh treatment he had met with more than upon one occasion; and I declare I heartily feel for him at this Inst., that so glaringly apparent share of confidence should have been withheld from him (for I am not without my suspicions that orders similar to those sent to Niagara, Cataraqui and Oswego, have not been communicated to him; or if, peradventure they have, he may probably have considered them as passed to him through a very mortifying medium) while I am restricted and fettered in such a manner as not to be able to restore him to that footing his activity & zeal for the service and scavoir faire in the different walks he has been employed, so justly merit.

I have done for him all that lays in my power, and in as liberal a way as I thought myself authorised to do. He is furnished with all the orders from Home relative to Lieut Governors and their line of Command; likewise those framed by General Haldimand respecting the powers of Military Commandrs. of Districts-Their Power of moving Troops, and responsibility for the propriety and necessity of such movement to the Commander in Chief for the time being: likewise the disposing of the vessels, as they in their discretion shall think the service requires for the defence of the Upper Country upon the same principles.

I have transmitted to him copies of His Excellency's letters to Colo. Depeyster and Major Ross directing the mode they should govern themselves by, to defend their respective Posts, in case, impatience or any other motives should induce the Americans to assure themselves of them, with some hints of our own with respect to Detroit, to obtain all the intelligence from Fort Pitt, Redstone and Westmoreland as one or all of those places must be from whence an enemy marching through the Indian Country to attack his Post must draw their resources. I have likewise given him certain discretionary powers in respect to the mode of defence, repairs &c in case of an emergency, the responsibility for the necessity of which will certainly lay with him.

Mr. Lauzans correspondence with the Genl in order to obtain permission to visit Niagara &c has been a matter that never reached my knowledge; and if such a correspondence did exist, I think it may be imagined, at that period it was an even chance, whether it proceeded from speculative and philosophic curiosity or or any intriguing designs. The Americans had ways and means less alarm

ing and suspicious to come at local knowledge of those places than through a French resident; but however to decide with any degree of Judgment one must know the Resident's character and turn of mind. Baron de Steuben, as you will perceive by the enclosed No 1 made a demand for delivering up the Posts which was politely refused him and afterwards beg'd for permission to visit the Upper Country with Colo. Fish an Engineer, this was also refused.

The great retreat for the Artillery Stores &c is Cataraqui to be conveyed in the King's Vessels. Genl. Haldimand informed me that I should have most pointed orders from the minister on this head. I have not a vestage of instructions for the reception and encouragement of Emigrants nor do I think it would be prudent if there were to give such emigration encouragement unless our Magazines were better stored with Provisions The instructions are more full with regard to the Indians, as every comfort is to be held out and refuge given to them, should a passage across the Lakes be the party they might choose to adopt No 1 but in these arrangements I must call in the ability and local knowledge of Governors Hamilton and Hay with the able assistance of Colo. Hope.

New fortifications are peremptorily prohibited without an order from the King. Your passes by this day's post are arrived for the three Loyalist officers but too late for the Gentlemen to avail themselves thereof as you apprehended.

I have the Honour to be with perfect regard.

Your most obedt. &

most Humble Servant

BARRY ST. LEGER.

N. B. Four enclosures. No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4.

Endorsed: From Genl. St. Leger, Decr. 29th, 1784.
Relative to Lt. Gov. Hay, Loyalists & Indians.

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ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE INDIANS.

Articles of Agreement concluded on at Fort McIntosh the 21st day of January 1785, between the Commissioner Plenipotentiary of the United States of America of the one part, & the Sachems and Warriors of the Windott, Delaware, Chippaway & Ottawa Nations of the other Part: