Sir-- The Council convoked at Onnontague was, at length, held on the 16^ and 17*h of July. You will see by the memoir I enclose in this letter what you said to the Onnontagues and what they reply by three Belts. Since you spoke, or I have made you speak to the Senecas assembled here in a body, Chiefs and Warriors, and their answer, we have spoken to them by three Belts and they have answered you by nine. These are twelve Belts which your ambassadors take to you. trifling

pains

I know not if you will accept the we have taken to cause satisfaction to be given you, and to extricate you from the

fatigues, the embarrassments and consequences of a disastrous

freedom of trade

;

war, and procure at the same time

for the Senecas informed me at night, by express, that they would give you more

satisfaction than you expected, because

they wished through respect for you, not to wage war any

more against the Oumiamis, if you so wish it, and even any other nation if you insist on it.

In fine,

they do not wage war save but to secure a good peace.

They return without striking a blow, withThe Seneca Iroquois offer you more than you would have believed.

out shedding blood, etc.

The Onnontagues considered their honour engaged to this meeting, and have put all sorts of machinery in motion to induce the Senecas to condescend to place their affairs in their hands. On the first day of the Council every thing was almost despaired of, and the plenipotentiaries all excited