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

'•ift IDOTailedupon to accompany them from a great digtance)int6 separate brigades, under Cuthbert GrantsLacerte, Alexander Fraser, and Antoine Hoole—and he nominated Seraphim Lamar, (thei^rm^n of the preceding campaign,) liisV^oyageurlieutenant^or second in c(»mmanil, under him.—When thisorganisedbanditti arrived at Portage dcs Prairies^the plunder was landed from the cunocs^ and thesix hundred bags of pemican were formed into asort of rampart or redoubt^ flanked by two brassswivels, which had formerly belonged to Lord Selkirk'ssettlement.On the 18th of June, Cuthbert Grants Lacerte,Fraser^ Hoole, and Thomas M'Kay, were sent offfrom the Portage des Prairies, with about seventymen, to attack the colony at Red River. Their commai)der-iu-chicf,Alexander M'Donell, in the meanwhile,prudently remained where he was, togetherwith several of his officers, and about forty men,cautiously barricaded behind hisportable redoubtof plundered provisions, amiiprotected by artillerywhich had been stolen.On the 20th of June, a messenger returned fromCuthbert Grant, who reported that his party hadir'tI'lk.killed Governor Semple with five of his officers,and sixteen of his people ; upon which M'Donell,Seraphim Lamar, and ail the other officers, shoutedwitii joy,—M'Dontll then went to the rest of themen who had remained with him, and announced-to them the uesYs, in language (as sworn to by Mr.vii