prisoner doth appeare, who was sent with four other french & ffonr Indianes which had been carried captives to france in tyme of peace & now returned to Albany, otherwayes to treat them as enimies to the croun of England, which as soon as they came was eflected with all imaginable vigor, the five nationes being mett by their chiftaines togither at onondago afore s'l which is their court seized them & bound them instantly spoiling them of all their moneys presents & what they had, dividing four frenchmen amongst them to be treated in their barbarous manner & the knight being prin'i agent with his papers was sent to us, we found a Jesuite letter to a prisoner Jesuit amongst the Indianes wherein we discover treasonable correspondance is keept by some at Albany with fi-ench, our ship brigantine & sloope of warre is departed one month agoe & have been at Boston to visite them, who I understand makes great preparationes for Canada, M"* Blackinstone will acquaint your honor of the success they had at port royall, they gott about 30,000: lb about our messinger from England who was onely sent to deliver my letters in the hand of his Ma^ie which was effected & caused great alteratione in the proceedings of our enimies, of which Mr Blackinston hes a full accompt & hes promised to participate your honor with, to which I refere you, yesterday we have sent M"^ Benjamin Blagg for our agent to his Ma^ie & within a weeke we shall send Major Jacob Millborne for another to joine the former, we are of your opinion of the necessity there of our adversaries aryving before our messinger, made their advantages our former pacquets being taken per the french, I desire you to take notice what hes passed, newes arryves here King James forces in Ireland hold ground, his Ma*ie dissolving the parliament &c, too many evill mynded persones prevaill therein had given such unexpected life & vigour to the party within this citty, that on the sixth day of June instant a rout of thirty odd persones appeared in the street & assaulted my persone, one particularly striking at me with a coopers adze refusing to pay the tax which was laid by an assembly fairly elected to maintaine & support the charges of this warre, demanding certane malefactors to be released from prisone in a most audacious maner, but I striking with the head of my cane in the