The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Niagara, dated the 2d of August, 1791, to a gentleman on the Mohawk river.

"We have some reason to hope that Colonel Simcoe, our proposed governor, may come to this country by way of your sea-ports, authorised to settle with Congress the doubtful line of division—which must be a pleasant thing to both countries.—Captain Joseph Brant, after having attended for some time the councils of the western Indians at the Miami-River, set off a few days ago for Quebec, attended with several of the chiefs from that quarter; as they avowedly go to ask Lord Dorchester's advice, and as we well know his and government's strong desire for peace, we would gladly hope that it may be the means of bringing on an accommodation—much will depend on the moderation of your side—you have strength and power, I doubt not, to drive them to the last extremities—but when you consider that, most assuredly, their next resource will be to accept the strong offers and pressing instances of the Spaniards, to settle on their side, and that the only motive for these offers is to form a barrier between you and them, which by restraining your frontier-settlements, will keep you at a distance from them, of which they are so jealous. When you consider the present animosity of the Indians, aggravated by the loss of their lands, and every thing dear to them, policy and humanity will perhaps dictate an accommodation on reasonable terms, as preferable to the greatest success, which may probably entail a cruel predatory war on the defenceless settlers of your western boundaries for many years."