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evidence of my having violated the laws of my country and the duty of my station by the clandestine purchase and introduction of them into the country even admitting that I had no proof to the contrary? I am persuaded you will admit they ought not - but I have ample proof of every circumstance I now state with regard to them. With respect to the other charges of detaining from the Indians the money due to them for their losses; of paying them for their Military Services with good instead of cash; of keeping a large store, a large tavern and taking all the ferries into my own hands which exorbitant toll is collected & the motives with which it is alledged, I have done all this, is just as true as the assertion of Colonel Brearley, that thirty Negroes were run from the Agency the Night of the Arrival of Mr. McIntosh, which I can prove by every living soul who was at this places at the time to be utterly false. time does not admit of my going into a full detail of the circumstances and facts relating to these different points, all I need now state is , that I can prove