I have sent orders that he shall return no more to Missilimakinak, or be permitted to hold any Conferences publick or private with any of Indian Nations, and to watch his motions very narrowly. Of all this you will take no Notice for some time to come. I have wrote very fully to Lieu* Roberts to send the fullest Information upon every part of his Conduct, and given Orders to the officers to assist him in his enquiry s.

I am sorry that you find the Indians in the Disposition yOu mention, what Complaints they have concerning their Trade I have never beared, by all acc*^ lately transmitted, they have never had for many years so plentifull or so cheap a Trade, as this year. I

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am as ignorant of their Complaints about their Lands, unless it 13 the old affair of Kayadorossoras and the encroachments of the Virginians at Redstone and cheat Rivers. They know of the Removal of the Virginians by force from those encroachments, as many of their Chiefs were present with the Detachment. The Insults they have received on the Frontiers should no doubt be redressed, and every method has been taken to do it, But in some of the Quarrells which have happened, the Indians were in fault, and the first aggressors, as far as I have been able to learn.

I have received no advices from the Government on the subject of your Department these many Packets ; am inclined to think with you that they may be in doubts what orders to send, from the different Representations made them.