Whether this should be invested in lOne Man or in Commissions to several in those provinces which from their sittuation are & always will be more immediately connected with the Indian Regulations & Trade, is submitted to his Majestys Wisdom & Pleasure ; -- but I beg leave to suggest to Your Lordships, that the management herein on the pa it of the Crown, upon the system I am pointing out, will in my opinion be to great a weight &, of too diffusive a nature lor any on'! Person duly" to inspect & preside over.

Whilst we have Rivals in the Trade, I conceive it ought to be ex )nnerated from all those Duties or Imposts which may enable thi se Rivals to undeisel us. And therefore a sufficient Fund shi uld be appropriated for supporting the Inaian Establishment on thi, part of the Crow'n, not to arise from that Trade, until at least it js fixed on a sure & solid Foundation.

Whilst I am upon this subject, I must beg leave to mention my own management to your Lordships in the Character I have & am stiJi acting in under His Majesty.

riiat tho very considerable sums have been expended in the Indian service, I have & I shall act with all the ecconomy & fru:5ality, W^^ prudence & the Circumstances of affairs admit; if I ha^e failed herein, it has been rather on the saving side, & if the assistance His Majestys arms have received from the Indians, has not answered Expectation or been adequate to the Expences, I must take the Liberty to say, it has in a great measure been owing to the ill success of our military operations this way, hence tho the Indians of the Six Nations amongst whom the moneys wl ch have past through my hands have been chiefly confined, have not seconded our Enterprizes so universaly as they might have done, yet numbers of them have every Campaign joined His Mejestys Troops & some or other of them been constantly upon service, however had the Expence, which hath already accrued, served only to prevent the Six Nations as a Body from going over to he French & acting with them against us, which I am vain encugh to think I have had some share in preventing, the moneys laid out have not been uselessly expended.