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tampered with by the agents of the American Government. He was suspected of favouring emigration & the sale of the country. The period for a new election now approached. The friends of William Hicks, who understood better than he himself could, the light in which he was viewed by the nation, out of delicacy & to spare his feelings, advised him not to enter the lists for the Chief Magistracy. They even promised him support as Second Chief, if he would relinquish his purpose of attempting to be made Principal Chief. But he was not to be persuaded and he lost the election. John Ross was made Principal Chief & has remained in that station ever since. This check to his ambition was a blow from which he never recovered. Every thing which the new government could do to make him useful to his country and acceptable to himself was attempted in vain. He was appointed a member of the Executive Committee. He was nominated by Mr Ross as one of a Delegation that year to Washington. He went; but when he returned seemed estranged in his feelings, absent in his mind, bewildered, inconsistent & unaccountable in his conduct.