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.

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 185

To conclude, I am persuaded (from what passed at this Treaty & ye knowledge I have of these sort of People) to have great confidence in their behaviour this Campaign.

I fear I have trespassed to much on your Lordships Patience, which I hope you will pardon as my motive is the good of the service. & your Lordships may be assured that there shall be nothing wanting in me either in precept or example to urge them to the utmost. I have the honour to be &c.