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

,*.'4APPENDIX.XIXalso read to the deponent a copy of a letter from thesaid Duncan Cameron to Archibald McDonald, orderinghim to deliver up the cannon, because they wereused to stop the king's highway, meaning the navigationof the river; and declaring that the cannon shouldbe taken only to prevent harm, and not to make anybad use of them.—^That, on the following day, the saidGeorge Campbell, with the deponent, and John Mathe«son, communicated this order to the rest of the settlerswho had assembled for divine service.—^That, on theforenoon of Monday, the settlers assembled as had beenagreed upon; and after most of them had receivedtheir supply of provisions,George Campbell took thedeponent and another of the settlers with him into thehouse, to deliver a letter to Mr. Archibald McDonald,which the deponent understood to be the order fromMr. Duncan Cameron, to deliver up the cannon.—^ThatMr. M*Donald did not attempt to resist, but calledthree witnesses, (one Kilbride was one of them ; deponentdoes not know the others,) to attest that they weretaken by force against his will ;that, in the mean time,others of the settlers had taken the cannon out of thestore ;and when the deponent came out of the house,they were nearly ready to be carried away, on thesledges which had been prepared.—That when theywere ready, one of the settlers, whom the deponentbelieves to have been Robert Gunn, fired a shot, andthat Mr. Duncan Cameron then came forward, and metthe settlers at the distance of thirty or forty yards fromthe house, when he shook hands with some of them,signifying his pleasure at what they had done.—Thatthe deponent afterwards left the Red River, and cameto Canada in the canoes of the North -West Company,and was for some time at Fort William on his way,:1