of the Five Nations, and always on pretence that they Avere only to be houses for the conveniency of

Trade with them and without ever pretending to claim the Property of those places And you seem, Sir, to allow almost as much yourself for you say, That His Most Christian Majesty had ordered :

Forts and other Establishments to be built in different places, &c, without any opposition. has been built without opposition can never be looked on as a conquest, as

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would maintain, and I should be very glad to learn by what Treaty or Agreement the five Nations ever yielded to you any of their lands, On the contrary those Nations have always maintained that the Lands on both sides of the Lake Ontario are theirs and will always maintain it. I can't comprehend what use the Article of the Treaty to which you allude, can be to you, and I can't find the words in the Treaty as you have cited them, nor even the sense entirely agreeable to them.

You call the post which we have settled at Oswego a manifest infraction of the Treaty of

Utrecht, it being mentioned expressly in the Treaty that the Subjects of one and the other Crown shall

not molest nor incroach upon one another,

saries to

be named by them for that purpose.

make use of, but for my part, I have compared with the Original Latin, which entirely agreeable to

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