From the Declarations & Engagements of the Indians which your Lordships may observe in the Said Proceedings -- from private conferences I had with their leading men, and from a variety of other concurring circumstances, I think I may with great truth give it to your Lordships as my opinion, that not only from the commencement of the present War, but for many years past, His Majestys Indian Interests in this Quarter, hath not wore so favourable a Face nor given such encouraging Prospects. If the operations of His Majestys Arms in these parts, are carried on with Spirit & wear a respectable appearance on the opening of the approaching Campaigne, I persuade myself the conduct of these Indians will be conformable to the Promises they have made, and that they will convince the World by their actions they can be of very considerable Service to the Success of His Majestys Arms.

If an attempt upon Niagara thro Lake Ontario should be a part of the Plan of Operations for this year, and that our Preparations for it, are projected with judgment & carried on with Vigour, I am persuaded I could join His Majestys Troops that way, with the main Body of the Warriors of the 5 Nations together with many others of their Allies & Dependants, and that by taking proper measures, I could not only prevail on those Indians of the 5 Nations, who have been debauched by the French from their respective Settlements to go & live under their Protection at La Galette on the River St. Lawrence, to abandon the French interest & return to their native Towns ; but that I could also prevent many if net most of those Northern & Western Indians who form the Ottoway Confederacy from joining the French against us, & which they have hitherto done.