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the barge, which was moored in the stream as a gunboat so as also to command the navigation.

Having thus completed all These were their military preparations and they soon had an opportunity of putting their threats into practice execution. On the 18^th of June, M^r John Duncan Campbell, and M^r Benjamin Frobisher, partners of the North West Company with two clerks, M^r F arrived, with a couple of light canoes, at the Grand Rapid, on their way from Athabasca English River to Fort William. M^r Campbell was one whose name was included in the fabricated indictment upon which the Bench warrants above mentioned had been issued charges preferred in the Courts of Canada by the Earl of Selkirk, and was actually on his way down to Canada to present himself before the Courts that were was to sit, in the following October, for the very purpose of taking cognisance of offences alleged to have been committed in the Indian Territories. Against M^r Frobisher not a shadow of accusation had been preferred, nor was theirre the remotest defensible pretext for arresting him. There were two men, Louis Majeau and Pierre Boucher, engagés, or voyageurs in the service of the Company, who were in the same predicament with M^r Campbell. On arriving at the head of the rapid, as is customary, the gentlemen landed to walk across the portage, and the canoes ran down. As soon as the canoes came within sight reach of Williams and his party, the two above mentioned men, Majeau & Boucher were taken

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