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

24After tliis robbcrj, tliosc of the settlers, whohad, for some time resolved to quittlie Ked River,>vciit over to the Forks ; many "y of them carryin arryingAvith them the government miis.kets v^liit li had beenissued to them, the gUDS, and arms which Lord!!1,.; VSelkirk had likewise provided, and whieii, (us wellas various olher articles, belonging to his LorJhip,such as implements of husbandry,&c.) were afterwards])urchased by the N()rlh-\> est Company,>vho could not but have known they were stolen.One of the labourers belonging to the settlement,who had assisted in breaking open and plunderingthe store-liouse, liaving beenapprehended by Mr.Arcliibald M' Donald, a large armed party from theForks, led by George Campbell, together with theNorth-West Company's clerks and servants, CuthbertGrant,William Shaw, Bostoiiois. and Bouche,broke into the governor's house, presented theirI'llpistols at Mr. M'Donald, and the other officers ofthe settlement, and rescued the prisoner. Shawdeclared to Mr. McDonald that this was doneby Cameron's order.— But it would require nosuch declaration to satisfy any one that these additionalacts of aggression could never have beencommitted by those in the service of the North-West Company, had they not been directed bytheir superiors to commit them.number of the servants of the North-Wcst Company wereflrawn HI) armed on each side, mostly with muskets andfixed bayonets./i|