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

'f.^. r.It((safety ofthe settlers,itt(8(>' bicn pour laniour de Dicu ;mefiez vous bien.*At the same time we were informed that the halfbreedservants of the Norlh-VVest Company, whowere then in the plains, were ordered home totheir house. This assemblage of those mengave lis the most seiioiis apprehension for theemployed to bring provisionsthe fort."and those servants who werefrom the plains toy I Governor Semple, who had been visitingseveral of the stations within the Hudson's Bayterritories, arrived at the Red River in thespring of 1816*. In the month of April, lie sentMr. Pambrun to the Hudson's Bay Company'strading post on the River Qui Appelle, whofound, at the adjoining post belonging to theNorth-West Company, a great nuntber of theBrules collected. Mr Pambrun embarked, inthe beginning of May, with Mr. GeorgeSutherland,(who had the charge of the Hudson's BayCompany's trading post on that river/) and twentytwomen, in five boats,loaded with a considerable* Mr. Semple had been nominated by the Hudson's BayCompany to be the chief governor over all their factories andterritories,—and had gone out, in 1815, to take u[>on him theimportant charge to which he had been appointed. No personcould be better fitted for the situation than Mr. Semple. Hewas of a mild, steady, just, and honourable character.# •-