Read it well, Sir, if you please, and you will there remark how strongly their Majesties have it at heart to preserve their subjects in good union and understanding, so that their Majesties understand that the enemies of one are the enemies of the other. If the avarice of your merchants influenced you less than the desire to execute the orders of the King your master, doubtless, Sir, I should already have had proofs

of your good disposition to execute the said treaty, according to which you ought not to afford either refuge or protection to the savages, enemies of the French Colony, much less assist them with ammunition to wage war against it.

Nevertheless, I assert positively that

of said treaty of neutrality, contravened

ment save by your orders.

it in

you have, since the publication your governthis particular, since nothing is done in

DENONVILLE'S EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA. After that, judge,

Sir,

what just grounds I have to^cornplain of, and be on my guard against,

you.

On my return from the campaign which I just made against the Senecas, I received the letter that you took the trouble to write me, Sir, on the 11 th (20 th ) June of this year. You send me copy of the Treaty of Neutrality entered into between our masters of which I also transmitted you a copy as I had rec J it from the King and it was published in this country.

Nothing more is required therein,