how fatal such an Event would prove to this Colony in particular, and the British Interest upon the Continent in general, may be easily foreseen. in favour of our natural Enemies the French ;

The pernicious Consequences which must inevitably flow from this sort of Demeanour, I persuade myself, you will think deserving of your serious Attention, and that you will put this most profitable

Branch of our Trade, into such a Method for the Future, as may encourage and invite the most distant Nations to

come yearly

to trade at that Mart j

when by the Wisdom and Justice of the

;

PAPERS RELATING TO 0SWE60. Legislature, Matters are so regulated for the future, that the Indians

may be assured, that not only

their Occasions, will always be plentifully supplied there with Goods, the best of their kind, but also at the most reasonable Rates ; touching which last Article the Six Nations

plaints ;

by

have made frequent comthese Measures, we shall establish such a Credit amongst our

own, and the remotest

Indians, that it will not be in the power of the French to rival us in that Point.

[

Paris Doc. X. ]

April 4, 1748. Nanangousy, Chief of the Iroquois at the Sault has returned from Choueguen where he has been to spy. He reports that outside Fort Choueguen there is but one Trader's house that there was a great number of Dutch and Palatine traders at the place called Theyaoguin who were preparing to come and make a considerable trade at Choueguen, and that there was nothing at that fort to betoken any expedition on the part of the English among the 5 Nations.