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whatever he chose in that country. M^r MacTavish was separated from M^r Shaw, and put under a guard of four men, armed with musquets. Upon M^r Shaw's remonstrating with the Williams against this illegal blockade stoppage of the King's highway, and the scandalous defiance it envinced of the proclamation issued by the Prince Regent, he replied in a great rage, "I do not care a curse for the Prince Regent's proclamation; Lord Bathurst and Sir John Sherbrooke, by whom it was framed, are damned rascals. I act upon the charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, and as a Governor and a magistrate of their territories, I have sufficient authority, and shall will do as I think proper". Williams and his associates likewise uttered a torrent of abuse against the judges and courts of justice in Canada (though they have pretended to have act upon warrants granted by the chief Justice of Montreal). The whole party abused M^r Shaw in grossest manner, several threatened his life, and one soldier clubbed his musquet to strike him, but an old french soldier man stepped in and pushed him away. Another cocked and levelled his gun at M^r Shaw's breast, but was prevented firing by one of his comrades, a Swiss, who pushed it aside.

During this altercation the canoes came in sight, having run down the rapids, and Williams immediately ordered M^r Machintosh to be seized and

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