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at Fort William and Elsewhere (for this Plunderer having unsheathed the sword appears to have thrown away the Scabbard) in the Interior as well as at Montreal. I would give you some account of the posture of affairs in this Your favourite part of the Country, but the disorganized state of some parts of the Interior little encourages a detail of this kind. Suffice it to say for the present, that our unprincipled and inveterate O.P'^s cause began to decline last Summer (during the preceeding winter including about 2 packs they collected in coming about English River &^c their returns was scarcely 4 Packs) and I shall leave you to judge whether our admirable Leader, supported or seconded as he has been, has not done the business for them. In short I trust the prospects of their cause is at an End.

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