It is from Chouaguan proceed all the Belts and messages that the English scatter among the Far Nations. It was alway at Chouaguen that the English held Councils with the Indians and by means of presents, In fine, Chouaguen principally of intoxicating liquors, persuaded them to assassinate the French. is, consequently, the direct cause of all the troubles that have supervened in the Colony, and of the From the destruction of Chouaguen will infinitude of expences these have entailed on the King. the hour of its foundation,

follow

on the other, a conShould siderable diminution in the expenditure incurred at present by the King for the Colony.

On the one hand the complete attachment of all the upper country Indians

;

the Five Nations take sides with the English, they would abandon them the moment Chouaguen was

no more.

The Indian tribes having no longer a resource with the English to obtain intoxicating

liquors, I shall insensibly destroy the trade in Brandy at certain posts, so destructive to the prosperity

These same tribes acknowledging and from that moment unable to communication except with the French, the prodigious quantity of Beaver and Peltry have any other of the service and of commerce.

which went to the English will return to the trade of France. I request

you, My Lord, to be assured of my punctuality in obeying all that is prescribed by my

instructions and that I shall do everything in my power to signalize my zeal for the King's service.