Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...

—Iliin his deposition^ was not sufficient to last themone quarter of their journey to the coast.—Noproposals were now held out, as in the year before,of free conveyance to Canada.— No gratuitousoffer of lauds in the Upper, or Lower Province.—No higii wages—no flattering encourageMuentnone of those " aids and comforts" which were lastyear to be derived from the boasted " compassion" of the North-West Company."— Insulted, plundered,and robbed;—deprived of the protectionof their nearest and dearest relations, some bythe fury of a merciless banditti; and others bythe callous, and cold-blooded, persecution of amagistrate, they set out on their long, anddismaljourney to Hudson's Bay*.—Of these people,nothing, I believe, has since been heard in this* To notice individual cases of severity amid such a massof injustice, would be an useless task—but it may be mentioned,that, in consequence of these proceedings of Mr.M'Leod, Mr. Pritchard, (without any charge against himwhatever, but merely by a citation as a witness,) was forciblyseparated from his wife, though she was then far advanced ina state of pregnancy, and who (as he states in his narrative)never expected to see him again. Heden, his fellow-prisoner,against whom also there was no accusation whatever, and whowas merely cited, in a similar manner, as a witness, CSee hissubpana attheend ofAppendix, [C. C]) was liktwise separatedfrom his wife, who, as admitted by the Brule leaders. Grantand Fraser, had been particularly selected by the banditti:m3-.as the intended object of their brutal violation.