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

—APPENDIX.XXZVllCompany, as aforesaid; and it was about the fifth ofJune last, that the deponent left the said colony, andwent to the said trading post called Gibraltar. Thatwhile tlie deponent was at the said trading post, asaforesaid, about two or three days previous to the ele*nventh of June last, he observed in the store of the saidNorth-West Company at the said trading post, a numberof guns, with powder-horns and shot-bags, preparedand in order to be used, some of the guns being loaded,and the whole fit for immediate action. That, on theeleventh of June last, a party of half-Indians and Canadians,with some clerks in the service of the said North-West Company, were provided with the said guns,powder-horns, and shot-bags, prepared as aforesaid,iwhich they received out of the said store, and salliedforth from the said trading post, and made an attack onthe settlements at Red River aforesaid, and kept up acontinued fire on the said settlement for at least half anhour; during which, several persons of the said settlementwere wounded. That, among the persons who sosallied forth, were one Seraphim, a Canadian, a clerk inthe service of the said North-West Company, one Grant,and one Shaw, Indians of the half-breed, clerks in thelervice of the said North-West Company, and one Bostonois,also a half-Indian, and an interpreter, in theservice of the said North-West Company.That, afterthe said firing ceased, the said party, with the saidclerks at their head, returned shouting, and manifestingtheir exultation at what had taken place, to the saidtrading post, where they were received by the said DuncanCameron, who had the command and charge of thesaid trading post, and who shook several of them by thehands, and expressed his satisfaction at their conduct.That the deponent left the said trading post two or"'It/W^