The Genesee country, making a part of the new county of Ontario, in the state of New-York, is consequently under the government of the congress of the United States, which government is perfectly free. Every inhabitant is eligible to be chosen a meiiaber of the legislative body, or to be appointed a public magistrate. Religious opinions exclude no man from any public situation in the government, and every sectary or society are at perfect liberty to exercise their own mode of worship, under the protection of the same laws which give the most perfect security to their property.

The native Indians have wholly retired from the Genesee country^ In this particular quartet of America, these tribes are now perfectly tranquilized, and disposed to cultivate the arts of peace and civilization. After ceding any tract of country, for a valuable con'sideration paid, and after a treaty signed for that purpose, as in the present case, no instance occurs of these Indians ever settling upon the same lands. They are remarkable for keeping faith in this respect. Indeed they always retire from the settled countries, on account of the scarcity of game, upon which they principally depend for subsistence.

But above all the extended society of white inhabitants, amounting to upwards of 6000 persons,! already established hi this new country, half of whom may be presumed able to bear arms, gives the most perfect security to the settlers, and the more especially as their numbers will daily increase.

With this increase will also be introduce'd, in a greater degree every year, public schools and other seminaries of learning for the education of youth of both sexes, as well as places of pubhc worship. Some churches and chapels are already built in this new country ; and the latest advices state that the rev.