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

irPENDIX.XV[ F. ]Deposition of Robert Sutherland.-l^ v.iHome District, } Th e information of Robert Suthertowit. ) lind,late of Red River,in the districtof Ossiniboia, territories of the Hudson's Bay Companj.Deponent being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists,saith, that he arrived at Red River in June 1814, andwas well pleased with the appearance of the country;that the crops which he saw in the ensuing harvest werevery good ; and the wheat \ as good. That he, depo-..,,nent, understood that the settlers in general were as wellpleased as himself, nor thought of leaving the countrytill after the arrest of Mr. Spencer; and the deponentis of opinion, that if Mr. Spencer had not been takenaway, none of the settlers would have thought of leavingthe country. That ihe deponent never observed anyappearance of hostility among theIndians, whom they,the settlers, saw during the summer, nor entertained anyapprehension of danger, till they, the settlers, heardfrom the servants of the North -West Company, thatDuncan O.-tmeron, master of this trading post of the saidCompany, told deponent and his wife, that the Indianswould come in the spring, and murder all the settlers,after he, Duncan Camoon, would leave the place inthe spring, when the I idians would certainly murderthem all. Duncau Cameron also said, that MilesMacdonnell, Esq. governor of the settlement wouldhave no provisions to give to the settlers, unler-s he(Miles Macdonnell) would take it by force, as he haddone before; for that reason, Duncan Cameron tolddeponent and his wife, thatthey might have a passageto Canada, if they chose ;and said to deponent and hiewife, they should not only have a free passage to14