you are beginning and pretending to make at the Entrance of the Lake Ontario into the River of Oswego, the fortifications that you have made there, and the Garrison that you have posted there, as a manifest infraction of the Treaty of Utrecht, it being expressly settled by that Treaty, that the subjects of each Crown shall not molest nor encroach upon one another, 'till the Limits have been fixed by Commissaries, to be named for that purpose. This it is, Sir, which determines me at present to send away M. De la Chassaigne Governour of the Town of trois Rivieres, with an Officer, to deliver this letter to you, and to inform you of my I look, Sir, upon the Settlements that

Intentions. I send away at the same time a Major to summon the Officer who commands at Oswego, to retire

with his Garrison and other persons who are there, to demolish the fortifications and other works,

and to evacuate entirely that post and to retire home.

The Court of France which I have the honour to inform of it this moment, will have Room to look upon this undertaking as an act of hostility on your part, and I dont doubt but you will give attention to the justice of my Demand. I desire

you to honour me with a positive answer which I expect without delay by the return of

these Gentlemen, I am persuaded that on your side

you will do nothing that may trouble the harmony that prevails among our two Crowns, and that you will not act against their true Interests. I should