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

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. • 857

-with, those from that Governm*. & as no Commissary was at Michilimackinac it must rest on M^". Hay, who is accused to me by a powerfull number of persons for a conduct diametrically opposite to the Canadian charge. In fact the 'Traders both English & French, but particularly the latter generally do as'they please and it is not in the power of the Comissys to prevent them One of the consequences of their Liberty is the murder of Jadot, & the Indian we must Expect many such accidents if they Trade where they please with people who have it not in their power to obtain justice from us be their Conduct what it will, and who are so sensible thereof & so revengefull that they will not hesitate to do mischief, when they think themselves aggrieved, -- I have had the particulars of Jadots Affair, and wish it may go no farther, the Ind". murdered is Son to the Chief of Cheneessio, a Troublesome people who have much influence.