You have proposed, Sir, to submit every thing to the decision of our Masters, yet your emissary to the Onnontagues, told all the nations in your name to pillage and to make war on us.

This is so

notorious a matter that it cannot be doubted, and it will be maintained before your emissary ; whether

he acted by your order, or at the suggestion of your merchants at Orange, it has been said and done.

You are not ignorant of the expedition of your merchants against Michilimaquina.

I ask

you, Sir,

what do you wish that I should think of all this, and if this behaviour accord with the letter which you did me the honour to write on the 27 th July filled with courtesies and friendly expressions as well regarding Religion as the good understanding and friendship existing between our Masters which

ought to be imitated in this country in token of our respect and obedience to them.

You had the civility to tell me that you would give me up all the deserters, who to escape the chastisement of their knaveries, take refuge with you; yet you, Sir, cannot be ignorant of those who are there, but as all these are for the major part bankrupts and thieves I trust they will finally give

you reason to repent of having given them shelter, and that your merchants who employ them will

DENONVILLE'S EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

be punished for having confided in rogues who will not be more faithful to them than they have been to us.