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

B( I^xanderxlviiiAPPENDIX.some of them having come from Cumberland House,and others from tlie Upper Saskatchwun, or Fort deaPrairies, tliat they uttered violent threats against thecolonists on the lied River, in which the deponentunderstood them to be encou raged by Mr. AlexanderM'D«)ncll, then commanding for the No'th-WestCompany.—1 hat in the beginning of May, Mr GeorgeSutlierlaiul, commanding the Hudson's Hay post,embarked with the deponent and twenty twtj men, infive boais, loaded with twenty-two packs of furs, andabout six hundi( d bags of pemican.—1'h;it as they weregoing down the river, on or about die 12ih day of May,they were attacked by a party of forty-ninethe ^oith West Company, composedservants ofpartly of Canadians,and f)artly of half-breeds, under the command ofCuthbert Grant, Thomas M'Kay, RoderickM'Kenzie,and Peter i^aiigman Bostonois, cleiks or interpreters ofthe North-West Company, and Brisbois, a guide intheir service, by whom they were attacked with forceof arms and taken prisoners, and brought to the fort ofthe ISorth-West Company, when the deponent sawMr. /1M'Donell, who avowed that it was byhis order that the saidGrant and others had taken themprisoners, and seized on the provisions and other propertyof theHudson's Bay Company, pretending thatthe measure was justifiable, in retaliation for Mr.Robertson's having lately taken the North- VV^ est Company'sfort at tlie Forks of Red River, and declaringthat it was his intention to starve the colonists andservants of the Hudson's Bay Company, till he shouldmake them surrender.—That after having retained, forfive days, the servants of theHudson's liny Company,taken prisoners as aforesaid, the said AlexanderM'JDoneli liberated them, after haying made themPC