You perceive, Sir, that I would complain of the sudden and peremptory summons that you have and which was brought to me by an express, before the arrival sent to my Officer posted at Oswego ;

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should think,

Sir, that

you might have waited for my reasons in answer to what you were

pleased to write to me, before you took so Extraordinary a step, and that in giving so short a time, that my Officer could not possibly receive my orders before it expired. I agree with you, sir, that the close union that prevails between our Sovereigns ought naturally to

produce the like between you and me, and it shall never be through my fault if it does not subsist It was, Sir, with the same Intention that I made my complaint in the modestest in all its extent. manner I could to Mr. De Longueuil, then Commander in Chief in Canada, of a Fort that had been built at Niagara and tho' I received no answer from him by the bearer of my letter and at last received one that was not at all satisfactory, I contented myself with writing to our Court about it, whence I am informed that our Ambassadors at the Court of France, has orders to represent this

undertaking as contrary to the treaty of Utrecht. This, Sir, was all that I did upon that occasion.

I did

not send any summons to Niagara, -I did

not make any warlike preparations to interrupt the work, and I did not stir