I tell you nothing, Your Traders at Orange either, of all your intrigues to engage the Iroquois to declare war against us. have made noise enough about it, and your presents of munitions of war made, with this view, last year and this, are convictions sufficiently conclusive not to entertain a doubt of it, even were there not proofs at hand of your wicked designs against the subjects of the King whose bread you have eaten long enough and by whom you have been sufficiently well entertained to cause you to have more regard for His Majesty, though you had not all the orders from his Brittanic Majesty that you have to live well with all the subjects of the King, his antient friend. What have you not done, Sir, to prevent the Senecas surrendering to me the Outaouas and Huron prisoners of Missillimaquina whom they treacherously captured last year, and how many goings and coinings have there not been to the Senecas on your part and that of your traders who do nothing that decision to our Masters.

but by your orders, to prevent the restitution of the said prisoners bj, the said Senecas who were solicited at the village of the Onontagues to give

me satisfaction.

I avow to you, Sir, that I should never have expected such proceedings on your part, which without doubt will not please the King your Master, who will never approve your so strenuously opposing

by threats of chastisement the Iroquois coming to me, when I invited them to visit me to arrange Three years ago, Sir,