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PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO .

I hope the Assembly will supply this Deficiency when they meet, but I was so convinced of thebenefit of the under taking that I was resolved not to let it fail for want of a present supply of money.

I am with great Respect,

My Lords, Your Lordships most dutifull and

most obliged humble servant

W. TL.-xt.

GOV. BURNET TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.

[ Lonil. Doo. XXIII. ]

New York 29th Jnne 1727.

Extract. —The province is much obliged to your Lordships for representing the French buildinga Fort at Niagara, and in order to obtain Redress the same fort which I have been building at themouth of the Onnondage’s River called Oswego this Spring, goes on successfully hitherto, and withoutany interruption from the French or their Indians, and with the full consent and approbation of ourown Indians.

The Detachment of Souldiers which I sent to up arrived safely there the beginning of this month,so that it is not likely that any attempt will now be made to hinder it, and I depend upon itsbeing of the best use of anything that has ever been undertaken on that side either to preserve ourown Indians in our Interest, or to promote and fix a constant Trade with the remote Indians.

GOVERNOR OF CANADA TO THE GOV. OF NEW-YORK.

[ Par. Doo. VII.; Lond. Doc. XXIII.

July 20th, 1727.

Sir—I am very well persuaded that you have been informed that the King my master has doneme the honor to name me Governour and his Lieutenant General in all New France, and that youhave likewise been so of my arrival to this country.

I find myself, Sir, in a juncture when the close union that subsists between our Sovereigns oughtto flatter me with the hopes of the like between you and me. But I cannot avoid observing to youmy surprise at the permission which you have given to the English Merchants to carry on a trade atthe River of Oswego, and that you have ordered a Redoubt with Galleries ( Machicoulies) and full ofLoop holes and other works belonging to fortification, to be built at the Mouth of that River , inwhich, you have placed a Garrison of Regular Troops.

I have been, Sir, the more astonished at it, since you should have considered your Undertaking asa thing capable of disturbing the Union of the two Crowns; You cannot be ignorant of the pos-session during a very considerable time, which the King my Master has of all the Lands of Canada,of which those of the lake Ontario and the adjacent Lands make a part, and in which he lias builtForts and made other Settlements in different places as are those of Denonville at the Entrance of