[406] By my communications to you of the 3^d of August last, from Savannah and the 6^th of last month from Augusta and 22^d from this place, as well as by a copy of my instructions which your Excellency received from the Secretary of the department of War, you have been fully informed of my intended journey into the Creek nation, as well as the nature and extent of my business. I therefore could not doubt but I should have received every aid from the government of Georgia in accomplishing an object so much desired by the President of the United States, and which tended so conspicuously to promote the true interest and happiness of the people of this State. How far my expectation on this head have been answered the following statement of facts will explain. After having had the honor of an interview with your excellency at Augusta on the 5^th ultimo, and of writing you a letter next day, I set of for this place on the 7^th in order to meet the friendly chiefs on the Oakmulgee, and with them proceed to the Creek nation. I was not a little astonished when on the morning of the 9^th being then about thirty two miles from this place, I was met by Cap^t Dickenson with a party of federal troops whom it appeared had been dispatched in consequence of a counsel of all the officers at this garrison held from the repeated alarming accounts to them, & that parties of people were out on the roads in order to intercept and destroy me, those misguided people having heard that I was going to the Indian nation in order to make peace for this country. On my arrival there I received satisfactory information that the people on this frontier were assembling in bodies with design