own Indians. The Detachment of Souldiers which I sent to up arrived safely there the beginning of this month, it is not likely that any attempt will now be made to hinder it, and I depend upon its

so that

being of the best use of anything that has ever been undertaken on that side either to preserve our

own Indians in our Interest, or to promote and fix a constant Trade with the remote Indians.

GOVERNOR OF CANADA TO THE GOV. OF NEW- YORK. [

Par. Doc. VII.

;

Lond. Doc. XXIII. July 20th, 1727.

Sir

-- am very well persuaded that you have been informed that the King my master has done

me the honor to name me Governour and his Lieutenant General in all New France, and that you have likewise been so of my arrival to this country. I find myself, Sir, in a juncture when the close union that subsists between

to flatter me with the hopes of the like between you and me.

our Sovereigns ought

But I cannot avoid observing to you

my surprise at the permission which you have given to the English Merchants to carry on a trade at the River of Oswego, and that you have ordered a Redoubt with Galleries (Machicoulies) and full of

Loop holes and other works belonging to fortification, to be built at the Mouth of that River, in which you have placed a Garrison of Regular Troops. I have been, Sir, the more astonished at it, since you should have considered your Undertaking as a thing capable of disturbing the Union of the two Crowns You cannot be ignorant of the possession during a very considerable time, which the King my Master has of all the Lands of Canada, of which those of the lake Ontario and the adjacent Lands make a part, and in which he has built Forts and made other Settlements in different places as are those of Denonville at the Entrance of ;