Col Gladwin for a Character during the late Indian War -- this is really Extraordinary as no Gentleman was more acquainted with or discovered more resentment at their Conduct of which he was daily transmitting proofs, -- I have now just rec*^. a Copy of a Letter from M^ Carleton to some Traders, wherein he Expresses his Astonishment that the Commiss^^. sho^. have any thing to do with tliem sends them passes to Trade wherever it is convenient observing however that he cannot yet dispense with the Regulates adds that he has wrote to the Secy of State &c about it, with many other particulars which from my Letters appear contrary to the Sense of the Government who first created these appointments & sho'i. Annihilate them if they are not supported in Correcting the abuses in Trade & Indian Transactions. -- he says the Complaints agt the Commissaries are General, and particularly as to their severe Treatment of those from his Government. Whereas it is well known no CoraissY. was hitherto at Michilimackinac the prin^ Rendezvous of the Canadians, and as for the rest I have never heard any Complaint but agt M"" Hay & that for the very reverse of what he is charged, the Complaints made to me against him by pet^s. signed by sundry persons being for manifesting a blind & bigotted partiality to the Canadn^. all w"^'' they offer to prove circumstantially on Oath & for which he is now to answer.

Had there been the least plausible pretence for Exhibit'? l"omplair.ts ag* the Comiss*. of Niagara & Ontario I should soon havp had pet^^. Letters, &c on that head ffom the Traders, but it is well known that the 2 Latter posts have little or nothing to do