THE MONTREAL GAZETTE.
MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1816.
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London advices to the 28th of June have been received, via New-York; but which add very little of an interresting nature to our former stock of European intelligence.
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On Thursday last, a Gentleman arrived in this City from Sault Ste Marie, with very disagreable reports from the Red River Settlement, of which so much has been said and written for a while past. It is said that a dispute had arisen between the Indians and some of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Officers, about an escort of provisions; that the parties came to blows, and that in the contest, 21 of the Hudson’s Bay people were killed, including the Governor, Mr. Semple. As this melancholy report is given variously, we forbear saying any thing farther on the subject, until we get intelligence in an unquestionable shape, and from a pure source. There is also another gloomy report, of a party of Hudson’s Bay traders, 20 in number, having gone last winter to Arathepasco lake, where 17 of them, it is said, perished for want of provisions; the other three were saved by getting to one of the posts of the North West Company. It is reported too, that Mr. Duncan Cameron one of the North-West Company’s Agents has been made a prisoner by one of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Officers, and carried to York Factory. Such are the disager ble rumours now in circulation.
[Herald.