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North West Company, for alleged crimes, the falsity of which accusations will best be evinced by reference to two such trials that as have taken place, and the recorded verdicts of aquittal that have been given. Yet Bench warrants had been issued at Montreal, at the earnest solicitation of his Lordship's, agents against all whose names were found in those indictments, and who, being the most useful persons in the establishment of the North West Company, their removal from the interior, and protra and protracted prosecution would be a severe blow and and produce an almost total stagnation of their trade. These warrants or copies of them, the legality of which is wholly denied, or copies of them, had been sent up the preceding year, and those furnished a convenient and opportune pretext to give some faint shadow of legal proceeding to some of the outrages which followed.

In order to strike this blow with security, a number of the discarded discharged soldiers of De Meuron's regiment, who, in defiance of theat proclamation of the 3^d May 1807, still retained their engagements with Lord Selkirk & the H. B Co, and who were chiefly at Red River, were additionally engaged for this especial

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