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

is

'till

the Limits shall be regulated by Commisdont know, Sir, what copy of the Treaty you the French translation which I

have quoted,

printed at London by Royal Authority and have found

it

it.

The words we are now upon are these as follows, The Subjects of France inhabiting Canada and others, shall hereafter give no hindrance or Molestation to the five Nations or Cantons of Indians, subject to the Dominion of Great Britain, nor to the other Natives of America who are friends to the same, in like

manner the subjects of Great Britain shall behave themselves peaceably towards the Americans,

who are subjects or friends to France.

PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.

This is the first part at full length of what you refer to ; the second part is at the end of the Article in these words,