[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 10* of next month; and that all my forces will be collected at Fort Frontenac by the 25th of the same month, unless the weather be unfavorable. I should have been highly gratified, My Lord, to march at the head of the army, persuaded of the effect my zeal for the Kings service and my country would have produced on the Canadian soldiers and more particularly the Savages. But Fort St. Frederick [Crown Point] being equally menaced, my presence is necessary at Montreal. Baron Dieskaw will command this army. I confer daily with him and see with pleasure that he ardently desires to accomplish my views. As for the five Nations I reckon not on their aid, but I do not despair of their neutrality. From the hour of its foundation, Chouaguen is the rendezvous of the different Indian tribes. 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, principally of intoxicating liquors, persuaded them to assassinate the French. In fine, Chouaguen is, consequently, the direct cause of all the troubles that have supervened in the Colony, and of the infinitude of expences these have entailed on the King. From the destruction of Chouaguen will follow : On the one hand the complete attachment of all the upper country Indians; on the other, a con-siderable diminution in the expenditure incurred at present by the King for the Colony.