[No 22. From Maj Gen. Knox Sec'y of War] War Department October 12^th 1792. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 3. instant by Captain [undecipherable], and yours of the 3d instant by post. I am glad to learn that the Cornplanter has gone forward to the hostile tribes - we may I am convinced depend upon his attachment and his veracity to make a faithful report. If upon his return you see him, pray request him and the New arrow to repair here if consistent with his own view of the subject. The boon to which you allude will not - cannot be granted. The defective Howitzers shall be replaced. - It is to be hoped you will be able to purge your Army of drunken and unsuitable characters, whether Commissioned, Non Commissioned or privates. Tents and [undecipherable] are provided for, and forms will be submitted to the President and also Mr [undecipherable] - but there are many prior claimants to the latter of indisputable reputation? —— On the ninth instant I received an Express from Governor Blount stating that the five lower towns on the Tenisee headed by John Watts had formally declared war against the United States, and that the warriors had set out upon some expedition against the frontiers, probably against the Cumberland settlements. The numbers of warriors who had so set out were stated variously from three to five hundred, including one hundred banditte Creeks. That he had ordered one regiment of the militia of Washington District into service and had dispatched an express to [undecipherable: probable reading: Mero] district on Cumberland river with orders to Brigadier General Robertson to put his Brigade into the best possible state of defense. But on the eleventh instant I had the pleasure to receive a letter of which the following is an Extract. "In consequence of letters received from Equaka otherwise the bloody fellow and the Glass dated on the 10th instant at the look out mountain Town informing that they with the assistance of John Watts & other headmen has prevailed with the party that were collected for war to disperse and go peaceably to their hunting. - The information contained in those letters has induced me to discharge the regiment of Knox and to dispatch an express to General Robertson of [undecipherable: probable reading: Mero] district with orders to discharge such of his Brigade as may be in service under my order of the 11^th instant forwarded express on the receipt of the letters from the little Turkey, Brigadier General Sevier, Carey and Thompson." The President of the United States &c.