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

APPENDIX.hvwtre many people who had done such things to serve tlit- m,but no one had ever seen them sufter for it.That afterwards, in the same winter, the said Campbellshewed to the said Blondeau, a letter had received fromJohn Macdonald, aI«o a proprietor in the said North-WestCompany, residing at Swan River, giving an invitation on thepart of tlie Company, to all the Metifs and others who choseto go to the Red River, to defend the interests of the Company.And that, in consequence of this invitation, sevenMetifs and one Canadian (of whom one was a clerk, and theothers servants of the said Company,) set out from Fort Cumberland,inthe month of April, to go to the River Qui Appelle.—Thatthe yaid Louis Blondeau saw some of themafterwards down the River Winipic, who related to him thatthey had been in the battle of the 19th of June, in which theyhad killed Governor Semple and many of the i^ettlers.Thatthey shewed him the booty they had received as their reward,which had been given out of the effects pillaged from tikestores of the colony; and that they told him, Louis Blondeau,that these effects had been distributed to them by Mr.Archibald Norman M'Leod, one of the proprietors of the saidNorth-West Company.The said Louis Blondeau also declares,that he heard thesaid Duncan Campbell read a letter which had been addressedto him, as well as to all the other proprietors of the North-West Company, in the month of February or March, byGovernor Semple and Mr. Robertson, who promised that theywould put no obstacle to the carrying out the North-WestCompany's provisions by the Red River, provided the otherparty wsuldallow free passage to the trade of the Hudson'sBay Company—a proposal which the said Campbell appearedto treat with contempt.(Signed)Sworn at Kaministigoia, this 12thLOUIS BLONDEAU..itlii\i'i.indayof August, 1816, before me, v,(Signed) SELKIRK. J. P./