But as for our Right to carry a Trade every where among the Indians,

one cannot find expressions more contrary to the terms of the Treaty than those in your letter, where you name 'several places occupied by the French, who alone, say you, have had the Right

and been in possession of trading there.

You will oblige extremely if you will shew me how to reconcile that with a full liberty on both sides of going and coming

on account of trade which the subjects of both crowns shall enjoy.

if you say that formerly it was as you pretend, that will signify nothing, since at

But

present the Treaty

alone ought to regulate the matters.

have said enough upon the first subject of Complaint which relates to the Trade, shew you the right we have to it, and to make you sensible that the future Regulation of Limits, can never make any alteration in the general liberty which there is of Trade. I hope, Sir, I

for to

come now to the second subject of Complaint which relates to the Redoubt and Garrison at Oswego. It is true, Sir, that I have ordered a Stone house to be built there, with some contrivances

to hinder its being Surprized, and that

have posted some Souldiers in it, but that which gave me

the first thought of it, was the fortified and

much larger house which the French have built at

Niagara, upon the lands of the Five Nations, as it appears even by the Confession of M. de Longueuil, in his letter to me of the 16 th of August 1726, for he pretends that the Five Nations it