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dragged on shore, which was accordingly done in a violent and brutal manner, he being seized by the neck, and hauled through the water to land; and and on his expostulating, one of the De Meuron soldiers struck him a heavy blow with the buttend of his musquet. An Iroquois Indian named Thomas Ogoniarto, who was an expert steersma[n], was likewised dragged on shore, and made a prisoner of: neither against for the arrest of this man, nor against M^r Machintosh, could they allege the slightest legal pretence; nor did they ever, but M^r Machintosh had rendered himself very obnoxious to their party by successfully resisting an attempt made the year before by John Clarke, who was one of the present gang, to take forcible possession of Fort Vermillion, the municipal North West principal establishment on English Peace River; on which occasion, although Clarke had actually entered the fort with a number of armed men, Machintosh though at first surprised and taken, got loose, and at the head of no more than four Canadians, succeeded in driving out the assailants.

M^r Shaw, upon witnessing this shameful treatment of M^r Machintosh, again remonstrated with Williams on the cruelty of such conduct toward men wholly defenceless and in his power, but the only answer he could obtain was a repetition of invective and menace. Upon again warning Williams of his presumption in thus acting in direct violation of the Prince Regent's proclamation commanding all His Majesty's

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