apprized of any military enterprizes, that may be intended against the nation by your excellency or under your authority; I request your excellency will have the goodness to give me such timely notice as may enable me to provide for my safety. Of the eight Indians detained by me some time ago and committed to the custody & care of Lieutenant Nicoll of the Federal troops, three have made their escape since I came from S^t. Marys, I thought it best, as they belong to one of the most friendly towns, to send home the others, and have given orders accordingly. I thought it necessary to do this, in order to encrease and confirm the good dispositions of the Cuspelahs to whom town they belong and who earnestly requested it. Should your excellency wish to have personal information from me relative to Indian affairs I will attend at any time before my going to the nation, on your giving me notice. I have the honor to remain Your Excellency, Obedient Servant &^c James Seagrove, Agent of Indian Affairs, S^d. U. S. --- Extract of a letter from James Seagrove Esq^r To the Secretary at War. Savannah 13^th August 179² My last respects to you was dated the 4^th Inst^o a duplicate of which you will find herewith. Yesterday arrived here the person whom I sent with my letter of the 5^th July to the chiefs and others of the Creek nation respecting the unfortunate affair of David Cornells being killed. My letters were delivered in the upper and lower towns and received with more than usual moderation and temper by the Savages. They however insist on satisfaction for the loss of Cornells and a boy. This ought and indeed must be done, but the mode and how to accomplish it so as to please all sides is a difficult task. The plan I have all along proposed since this affair took place, was by way of a discount. Captain Fleming who was killed at Trader hill in march last, was a valuable man and one much respected by the Creeks. him I intend to place in lieu of Cornells, and M^r. Moffett who was killed at the same time for the boy who was a bougie of Cornells. This I hope still to effect altho' the friends of Cornells seem partly obstinate insisting on having two men delivered up to them, this may answer in some degree from the demand which I at first made, but as it hath not been complied with on the part of the nation; it is forward and ill timed in them to look for any such thing. The demand in itself I conceive alto'tho' inadmissable, and therefore should the Indians insist on it I know not what may be the consequences. The measures which I have taken for meeting the nation on the 10^th next month you have been advised of by me. My determination is to meet them at all events, and tho' their demands in the affair of Cornells are high, yet I flatter myself I can bring them to reason, and restore peace to our country. Exclusive of the affair of Cornells all other matters were in a good train of being settled; but this hath given our enemies in the nation and the Spaniards fresh matter to keep up the unruly spirit of the disaffected