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

i1AnPF.NDIX.XXVCompany, and particularly one Duncan Cameron, apartner in that Company, employed themselves iaexciting dissatisfaction in tlie minds of some of thtsettlers and servants, whom they endeavoured to induce(o abandon the colony, and go over to (he North -WeitCompany; by which great promises of advantage weremade to them.—That before these intrigues were practised,every body looked forward tothe rapid improvementof the colony ; the settlers were so well pleasedwith if, that they had written to invite their friends iaScotland to follow (hem; and the indented servants,who had a right to a passage home, preferred remainingas settlers, and applied to Captain M'Donnell for land,that they might become peimanent settlers in the colony.That the said Duncan Cameron, as the deponent believes,in order to increase his influence and authority, gavehimself out as being a captain in the King's militaryservice, and wore regimentals, with a sword, &c.—Andone Seraphim, a clerk under him, was said to be hisensign.That a short time before the attack on the settlementin June last, the said Cameron, the better toconfirm the belief of his military rank and authority,posted over the gate of the place called Fort Gibraltar,written papers, the purport of which was to give himsuch rank and authority : and on his way down, at atrading-post of theNorth -West Company, called FortWilliam, the deponent saw new regimental dresses,which had been received for partners in the North -WestCompany ; and he saw two of the said partners theredressed in military uniform. That no apprehensionswere felt by the colonists at Red River, upon theof the Indians,scorethe best understanding having subsistedbetween them: the Souioux nation dwelling on and•» ii'is'I'I