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

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1APPENDIX.<strong>the</strong>ent[c. ]<strong>the</strong>ers.AnoneLETTERS FROM D. CAMERON TO THE 8ETTLERS ATRED RIVER.>.:irriiles%ndTo Messrs. Donald Livingston, -jand Hector M*Eachem, per >Bostonois Pangman. JSirs,Gibraltar^ lOth February, 1815.f-ti''OYour letter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 28ih ultimo, by Jordan,came safe to hands, and I am very glad that <strong>the</strong> eyes <strong>of</strong>some <strong>of</strong> you are getting open at last to <strong>the</strong> situation youare placed in, in this barbarous country, and that younow see your past follies in obeying <strong>the</strong> unlawful orders<strong>of</strong> a plunderer, and, I may say, <strong>of</strong> a highway robber, forwhat took place here last spring can be called nothing\\\elsebut manifest robbery.—But I am very willing t<strong>of</strong>orgive as many as repent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> poor deluded men, as Iknow that <strong>the</strong>y are not bad men in principles, althoughmade so by bad leaders and bad advice. You say verytrue, when you mention thatfriends from your foes ;you did not know your<strong>the</strong> greatest enemies ever youhad, is Lord Selkirk, Doctor Auld, and Miles M'Donell,who was made a fool <strong>of</strong> by <strong>the</strong>m, and he made fools <strong>of</strong>all those that were under him. I 'iito every one <strong>of</strong> you since you left your own country, <strong>the</strong>like I never heard before, and none but hard-hearted badmen would use <strong>the</strong>ir fellow-creatures in such a manner.In pity to your present deplorable situations, as I consideryou to be in <strong>the</strong> very worst <strong>of</strong> prisons here, Imaccept, your <strong>of</strong>fers, and will be very happy to take so•0"

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