Navy Hall June 7^th 1793 Colonel Simcoe Commanding the Kings Forces in Upper Canada has the honor in answer to the Paper delivered to him this Morning by the Commissioners of the United States for making Peace with the Western Indians to state to those Gentlemen that He is duly impressed with the serious importance of the Negotiation committed to their Charge, and shall be happy to contribute by every means that may tend to its success. He is much obliged to them for the polite manner in which they have expressed their sense of his readiness to afford them such facilities as may have been in his power to assist in the preparatory arrangement for holding the Treaty. He is perfectly aware that unfounded Reports, and deep rooted prejudices have arisen amongst the Indian Tribes; but whether from the Acts of a few bad Men living among them, he cannot pretend to say; But he must observe upon the instance given by the Commissioners of one of these unfounded Representations — "that a Mohawk from Grand River should say that Governor Simcoe advised the Indians to make Peace, but not to give up their Lands"; — is of that nature, that cannot be true. The Indians not having as yet applied for his advice on the subject — and it being a point of all others & in which they are the least likely to consult a British officer Commanding in Upper Canada. Colonel Simcoe considers himself perfectly justified in admitting on the requisition of the Commissioners some officers to attend the Treaty and therefore in addition to Gentlemen appointed to controul the delivery of the British Provisions &c &c. He will desire Captain Bunbury of the 5^th Regiment, and Lieutenant Givens who has some knowledge of one of the Indian Languages to accompany the Commissioners. Colonel Simcoe can give the Commissioners no further information, than what is afforded by the Speeches of the Confederate Nations, of which General Hull had authentic Copies. But as it has been ever since the Conquest of Canada, the principles of the British Government to unite the American Indians, that all petty Jealousies being extinguished, the real wishes of the several Tribes may be fully expressed, and in consequence all Treaties with them may have the most compleat ratification, and universal concurrence, so he feels it proper to state to the Commissioners that a Jealousy of a contrary conduct in the Agents of the United States appears to him to have been deeply impressed upon the minds of the Confederacy. To the Commissioners of the United States } for making Peace with the western Indians &c &c A.C. [Endorsed: In Jn: Clarke's to Mr. Dundas No 88]