of M^r Frobisher immediately sent some of his own men with Provisions, Dogs &^c to convey him to the Fort[.] Sad however to relate, his generous endeavours were exerted too late – for his men found only the remains of Poor M^r Frobisher in the same place where he had been left, but in a situation sufficiently distressing to draw a Tear from the eyes even of his Enemies – for half his Body Was burned or rather consumed by the Fire in the Encampment[.] The two men interred them, in the Spot which the fire had thawed and returned to the Fort with the melancholy account herein mentioned[.] They found (& brought to M^r Nelson) in the Pocket of the Deceased a Kind of a Journal which had been Kept in Pencil on Scraps of Paper, by this unfortunate Gentlemen, containing a narrative of his Sufferings from the time of his arrest untill within a short period of his Exit[.] This Document is now in the Hands of M^r William Connolly, who manages the Company's Concerns at Cumberland House[.]

Mess^rs A. Shaw & J. George MacTavish we have been informed obtained and took their passage for England last Fall on Board of one of the Hudson Bay Company's Ships[.] M^r John Duncan Campbell with a number of other Prisoners (Engages of the North West Company) is reported to have been Sent to Albany – or Moose Factory, as a prelude to their conveyance to Canada, in order to bring them before the Courts of Justice of those Provinces, to answer to the charges which the HB.C^o have against them[.] Amongst the number of the Engages is old Joseph Paul the famous Pugilist[.] This Sir, is one Item of the oppression emanating from Bench Warrants sent t[o] the Country by the Attorney General of Lower Canada, and obtained through the influence of a Titled, Envious rather covetous Indi-

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