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

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.(Signed)iPPENDIJC.VIII<strong>of</strong>willimet wilh jet to any one that will again take up arms t<strong>of</strong>ly in <strong>the</strong> face <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> law, or to plunder.—I rememberileaavelejroutthat you, Livingston, did not take arms last fall; don'tbe afraid that Captain M'Donell will ever jinow any <strong>of</strong>my secrets from me, but take care that Mrs, M'Leanhere will know none <strong>of</strong> your secrets, lor she would sell3est;Ionsereandloseher own bro<strong>the</strong>r to him, J he was here. 1 am afraidyou'll not be able to read this scrawl, as I am really ingreat haste, and remain.Your sincere well-wisher,D. CAMERON.''^Ion»urleseP. S. You may trust <strong>the</strong> Bearer with any thing youmay have to say.^ithub-Met5r$. Hector M'Eachern, ^and Donald Livingston. 5Gibraltar, lOth March, 1813.Your joint letter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 6th instant, washanded to me by honest John Somerville, and I amhappy, on your own accounts, that you are still<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>same way <strong>of</strong> thinking, as it will afford me an opportunity<strong>of</strong> delivering so many people from bondage, and notonly that, but even to save your lives, which is everyday in danger from both Soteuse and Scioux.—Besides,if <strong>the</strong> country was both peaceable and good. CaptainMcDonnell's violent and foolish conduct would drive allhonest men out <strong>of</strong> it, as none but rogues and robberswill answer his purpose. — You tell me that JohnM*Vicar will, perhaps, become a Canadian yet ;I certainlyhave great cause to be displeased with him for hisviolent conduct and abusive language to me last fall, and

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