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,

But it [is] to be exactly and

distinctly settled

by Commissaries, who are and who

ought to be accounted the Subjects and friends of Britain or of France.

Upon reading all this together it is impossible to imagine that the last clause of this Article can relate to the Five Nations, as if Commissaries were yet to

determine whether they are our subjects

or yours, as Mr. de Longueuil writ to me that they were neither. Tliis would be directly opposite to the first part of the same Article which declares them expressly

subject to the Dominion of Great Britain.

But as there is mentiou made of other Americans Allies

of Great Britain and of American Subjects or friends to France, without

naming them, it is as clear

as daylight that the Commissaries are only to determine about these last.

You have now, Sir, my reasons for acting as I have done, and of which I have given an account to the Court at the same time that I represented the affair of Niagara,