The part, which some Members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania appear to have had in the transactions with the Indians in July and August 1757, does, in our opinion, seem to be of this kind, and to have been one principal cause of the failure of those measures which were taken to examine into and redress the Complaints of the Indians at this meeting, Jealousys and suspicions appear to have been raised and excited in the minds of the Indians, and in lieu of that examination and redress, which might have been expected from the disposition that appeared in all parties at the opening of the Conferences, no one essential point was settled, and the whole result of the Treaty was a proposition made and assented to, that the deeds and writmgs concerning the Lands should be transmitted to Great Britain to be laid before His Majesty for his determination.

It is difficult to conceive what Idea the Indians (unacquainted as they are with the forms of business,) might have of the efficacy and propriety of this proposition. Bat it is impossible, that either the Deputy Governor or the members of the Assembly, who assisted at the Conferences should not know, that the proposition of sending over the Deeds was irregular as the Examination of and decision upon them here was impracticable.

The circumstances of fraud suggested by the Indians are, that m some cases the Lands were purchased by Persons who had no rifht to sell ; and in other cases, that greater quantity s of Land had been surveyed and taken up than was expressed in the Deeds, which are circunistances that can only be judged of upon the spot, and 6y those who are well acquainted with the persons and claims of different Indians ; and it is as impossible in the nature of things, as it would be irregular in the course of business for the Crown to iudge of a matter of this kind in the first instance, and before a regular examination, and report, in consequence of such examination, had been made by the proper officer.