that Quarter have for the French & the hopes they still Entertain from that Quarter adds that last year they sent to N Orleans to enquire of the French into these matters who dismissed them with valuable presents, plenty of Ammunition & assurances that they would shortly attack the English & that the Ind^, sho'i. hold themselves in readiness that this Spring they were assured of the same by the Comds Officer near the Illinois in the Names of the French & Spaniards, & that when he has expressed a desire to leave them they liave advised him to consider their Village as a place of Safety, & not go among the English where he would.be killed Adding that they wo*^. Exert themselves with more Vigor and be better Assisted than in the late War -- As he well understood their Language, & that they had for a Long time expected he would never Leave them he had an opportunity of hearing their Real sentiments, & observes that the Prini cause of their dissaffection is owing to the French Traders & others amongst them who fill their minds with the strongest prejudices Am^* others that the mbrtality in 1757. was owing to our hav? poisoned the Rum, & that Disorder since was occasioned by sending the Small pox amongst them, That they were well pleased on hearing w' I had said at Ontario last year but that the French assured them it was false and only calculated to amuse them, the better to destroy them hereafter, & that they are daily abused with the grossest misrepresentations of us by the Canadians, the French in their Neighborhood, and those from Mississippi &c.