S I R, United States, January the 16^th, 1793. AS the circumstances which have engaged the United States in the present Indian War may, to some of them, be out of the public recollection, and others perhaps be unknown, it may appear advisable that you prepare and publish, from authentic documents, a Statement of those circumstances, as well as of the measures which have been taken, from time to time, for the re-establishment of peace and friendship. When the Community are called upon for considerable exertions to relieve a part which is suffering under the hand of an enemy, it is desirable to manifest that due pains have been taken by those entrusted with the administration of their affairs to avoid the evil. (Signed) G. WASHINGTON. The Secretary for the Department of War. [undecipherable: To Citizens of the [undecipherable] States] A RECURRENCE to the Journals of the [undecipherable] United States in the present Indian War, will evince the public [undecipherable] to promote peace with the Indians, and to prevent their engaging in a contest involving their own [undecipherable] destruction. [undecipherable] When the [undecipherable] forces were formed with force of the north-west and south-west, at the conclusion of the late war, the United States found it impossible to resist the powerful impulse of a contrary nature, acting upon a considerable part of our citizens. [undecipherable] Although all the various Indian nations [undecipherable] treaties were made, and the Indians of the [undecipherable] Delaware were [undecipherable] by a [undecipherable] treaty [undecipherable] at Fort Mc Intosh, [undecipherable] It is yet necessary to have been [undecipherable] that the frontier inhabitants of [undecipherable] from time to time committed [undecipherable] outrages on the [undecipherable] Indians [undecipherable] that Indians were [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Notwithstanding [undecipherable] the right of the United States to [undecipherable] limit the boundary with the Indians on the basis of [undecipherable] treaties which had been violated, and no difficulty [undecipherable] It does not appear that the right of the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Western Indians was contested [undecipherable] before it was interfered by any other tribes — nor does it appear that any hostilities were adopted by the [undecipherable] but in consequence of being [undecipherable] the said treaties. In the year 1790, three [undecipherable] were [undecipherable] against the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] on Wabash Indians upon Kentucky — [undecipherable] detachment [undecipherable] under General Harmar, a [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] were killed — a [undecipherable] Indians [undecipherable] one hundred [undecipherable] are killed the entire [undecipherable] of the friendly Chickasaws [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] In the year 1791, three [undecipherable] were [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] were [undecipherable] giving [undecipherable] to open [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the Miami village, [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] with a [undecipherable] purpose [undecipherable], established the [undecipherable], [undecipherable] a general peace with all the [undecipherable] Indian [undecipherable], and was received with marks of humanity and [undecipherable], and at the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were yielding [undecipherable] favorable [undecipherable]. The Indians in favor of the villages on [undecipherable] St. Clair [undecipherable] in consequence of the [undecipherable] dispute, which [undecipherable] all affected the [undecipherable] at the Miami village, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] was [undecipherable]. The following from [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] village [undecipherable], laid around, and most [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] But the outrages which were committed principally upon the inhabitants of the [undecipherable] of Kentucky, [undecipherable], and the situation of [undecipherable], rendered it indispensably [undecipherable] [undecipherable], to effect a peace [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] required by [undecipherable] force [undecipherable] through the Wyandots and [undecipherable] Indians [undecipherable] required to do [undecipherable], but [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] General [undecipherable], Chief of the [undecipherable] of the United States armies, to [undecipherable], being in Philadelphia in the month of [undecipherable], was [undecipherable] directed with the [undecipherable] of his [undecipherable] to endeavor the [undecipherable] of their profiting in [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] from [undecipherable], after having [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the Miami and Western Indians [undecipherable] that a [undecipherable] victory to [undecipherable] of the United States towards them. But [undecipherable] Col. Porter and the [undecipherable], although seriously desirous of renewing their military, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and prevented the execution of their [undecipherable] Major General St. Clair, in the month of [undecipherable], 1791, advanced from Fort Washington, with a [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], to [undecipherable] in the pacific designs of the United States, to all the [undecipherable] parties — The different mediation [undecipherable] [undecipherable] failed, [undecipherable] by Colonel [undecipherable], in 1791, with the [undecipherable] — And the several [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] applied upon [undecipherable] of that [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Tecumseh [undecipherable], [undecipherable], the government of the United States [undecipherable] compelled, under [undecipherable] circumstances, to [undecipherable] and large [undecipherable] a considerable number of [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] an effort to prevent [undecipherable], if it [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Was it possible to add [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the treaty with the Creeks, and the general [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Indians [undecipherable], [undecipherable] all [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Grand [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] H. KNOX, Secretary of War. War Department, Jan. 18, 1793. [Philadelphia: Printed by D. C. CLAYPOOLE.]