Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 Revised Text.

Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 [Revised Text]. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0020

On the 20^th of September, Williams left York Factory for the interior, and on the 25^th the Prince of Wales sailed for England, with Mess. Shaw and MacTavish, as steerage passengers. We will follow the fate of those gentlemen no farther than to say that not the slightest attempt has been made either in England or in Canada to fasten upon them any allegation of offence or in any way to justify the execrable treatment they met with.

That the real object of the aggressions and outrages that have been detailed was not in any degree to advance the ends of justice, or even to follow up the Earl of Selkirk's malicious prosecutions, but to cripple the means, destroy the energy, and finally to expel the traders of the North West Company from the country, is thus made evident, and is also corroborated by a variety of other circumstances besides those already mentioned. Amongst other things it is testified that John Clarke, (one of the foremost and most violent of the party as well as one of the most unguarded,) declared "that they arrested the partners of the North West Company and

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