The report of the 23^d of May 1789 on the treaties at Fort Harmar, by the Governor of the Western Territory; and the paper Number one of the Indian Department, contain such a general statement of the circumstances relative to the Indian tribes within the limits of the United States, North West of the Ohio, as will probably render their situation sufficiently understood. The Numbers two, three, and four comprehend a general view of the nations South of the Ohio. But the critical situation of affairs between the State of Georgia and the Creek Nation requires a more particular consideration. In discussing this subject it will appear that the interests of all the indian nations south of the Ohio as far as the same may relate to the whites, are blended together, so as to render the circumstance highly probable, that in case of a War, they may make it one common cause. Although each nation or tribe may have latent causes of hatred to each other on acco