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

xliiAPPENDIX.reward for the part which the said Campbell had takenin conveying away the cannon, and in the attack on,ard destruction of, the colony at Red River aforesaid.That the said Campbell also told the deponent that heexpected to get an advantageous situation at St. Joseph's,in consequence of the recommendation, and by theinfluence of, the North-West Company. That whilethe deponent was in custody as a prisoner at FortGibraltar aforesaid, in June last,of the partners in the saidDugald Cameron, oneNorth-West Company, toldthe deponent, in the course of conversation, that thesaid North-West Company had offered AlexanderM'Lean, the principal settler in the said colony, as muchas four hundred pounds if he would abandon the saidcolony, and come over to the North-West Company.That while the deponent was in custody at Gibraltar, asaforesaid, he represented to Alexander M'Donell, oneof the partners in the North-West Company, thenhaving ciiarge of the said fort, his anxious wish to besent forward to the place where his trial was to be had,towhich the said Alexander M'Donell answered, thatthe deponent was to go with him, and that he could notset out till he had seen all the colonists off the ground,and on their way to their future destination.(Signed)Sworn at Montreal, this 28th day ofNovember, 1815, before me.MICHAEL M'DONELL.(Signed) J. M. MONDELET, J. P.