It is no trifling

My lord, to reestablish it in view of fhe expense and labor and the dreadful consequences of a war, absolutely necessary. But, My lord, when we are certain that it is God's business and the

thing,

King's glory that are in question, and that all those to whom they are committed have head and heart occupied only with zeal to perform their duty so as to have nothing wherewith to reproach themselves,

we labour untroubled, confident that Heaven will supply the defects of our understanding and abilities, more especially having you as our Protector near to King with

whom all things are possible,

his piety being the foundation and motive of all his undertakings. I annex to this Memoir, the duplicate of the letter of June last in which I advised My lord of the expedition of the Iroquois against our allies theHurons and Ottawas of Missilimakina in the Saguinan. 1 I have learned since that the English had more to do with that expedition than even the Iroquois who struck the blow. Their intrigues, My lord, reach a point that without doubt it would

better that they should

be much have recourse to open acts of hostility by firing our settlements, than to do

what they are doing through the Iroquois for our destruction.

The Country between Lakes Erie and Huron was thus called.

Paris Doc. iii. 84.

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

I know, beyond a moment's doubt that Mr. Dongan has caused all the Five Iroquois Nations to be collected, this spring, at Orange to tell them publicly, so as to stimulate them against us, that I want