I suspect it so ordered from home & that the Ohio Faction are pushing a Plan for settling their Great Patent, but if this is pursued without the previous concurrence & liking of the Indians, I fear it will give them a general Disgust & Jealousy of us & be hereafter attended with ill consequences. I think if you have grounds for it & are of this opinion, you should not only mention it to tlie General but remonstrate against it to the Board of Trade in your Letter, which with the Proceedings I hope you are getting ready as I think it ought to go by the first Packet.

I am greatly Pleased Gen. Amherst behaved so poUtely to yoa & tho he has not done so by me,l yet have a good opinion of him

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 787

& wish you may harmonize together, let him pass the Rubicon & then we may fix his character,

I hear you were at Albany & hoped to have had a Letter from you, perhaps I may by the Post to night or to morrow Morning

We hear the Preparations & Troops are Moving to Lake Ontario & that Brad street commands that way. I always wished you to Figure in that route as I think it will be in all respects be more agreeable &. advantageous to Yi^ Ciiaracter in Indian Affairs &. I imagine you would be pretty sure of success against Niagara the conquast of which in its consequences would I believe be of more real Importance than what perhaps M*" Amherst may be able to compass. Should the French receive the succors they want, & it is not impossible they may, I dont think Campaign will answer the sanguine Expectations of the public & that the conquest of Niagara in such case, will greatly carry the Ballance of honour &. advantage --