Your Lordship will please to recollect that the plan for the more effectual regulating of Indian affairs which came out in 1764 was formed under your Lordships direction & honored with his Majesty's Approbation when you so Wisely presided at the head of the Board of Trade, and has been since in part carried into Execut" attended with as much Success as could have been possibly expected from the powers committed to me on which subject I have often since Wrote, and at sundry times offered my humble Sentiments towards such Amendments therein, as seemed most reconcileable to the different Views & Interests of the Americans, That Agreeable to my Instructions I did then & since give the strongest assurances to all the Nations of Ind^ iho' out of my District that the same would be firmly established by such Authority &. in such manner, as to effectually remove all their uneassinesses, That on these Assurances the Majority of them relied, and from the Expectation of that Establishment they have been hitherto withheld from committing Outrages, the consequences of their own Unsettled minds, their Strong Jealousies of our Power and Views since the reduction of Canada, and the Misconduct of sundry Persons in the Colonies which has daily encreased. That notwithstanding I was VOL. n. 57

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not impowereil to Carry this plan effectually into Execution and that some parts of it howeA'er Judicious & political appeared from reasons that occurred since impracticable to be inforced,yetI have still received Assurances that something Similar thereto was under Consideration, & that I should speedily receive such powers as would Answer those ends & that in the interim I should give the Indians such Assurances & take such Measures, as would make them easy till the same was Estabhshed, By taking Great pains ^nd by repeating these Assurances I have been hitherto enabled, notwithstanding their impatience to preserve peace, which has been solely owing'to these Measures & to their Expectations founded thereon.