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

XXXVIIlAPPENDIX.three days afurwnids, and was conveyed \>y ilic Nortli-West ("ompany in ilicir canoes, to the said city ofMontreal, vv here he arrived on ihcnincteendi day of thepresent inontli of October,—That, in coniini^ down, thedeponent saw one Joseph I5»'llcu;radc, a ('anadian, andothers of the persons eniployetl in niakitig the saidattack on the settlement at \\i'i\ Uiver, wljo were thenat a trading post of the said JSorlh-VVest Company,called Fort VVillium ; and the deponent was told by thesaid Ikllcgrade, that he and the said other persons weremuch dissatisfied with the said North-VVest Company,for not having fulfilled their promises to them, by wliichthey had been induced to make the said attack on thesaid settlement, and uflerwards to burn and destroy italtogether; tiie said Hellegrade mentioning at the sametime, that what they had so done, had been done at thedesire and by the instigation of the said North -WestCompany.(Signed)Sworn at Montreal, the 21stOctober, 1813, before me,JOSEPH KENNY.ELM. St. DIZIER, J. P.[R. ]IDeposition of Donald M'Kinnon.Donald M'Kinnon, late of the colonyto wit, > of Red River, in the territories of the Hud-Montreal^ >son's Bay Company, in North America, now at the cityof Montreal, in the Province of Lower Canada, labourer,jnaketh oath, and saith, that he emigrated from Scotlandin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-