Extract of a Letter from Major General Wayne to the Secretary of War dated 15 November 1793. The enclosed Genious and General Scotts letter of the 5 instant by which you will see a desolution of five hundreds of his people on the eve of one night; the greater part of which only crossed the Ohio from the 13 to the 15 Ultimo and arrived at this place on the 2d i.e. ten days after the arrival of the legion; will best shew whether that prejudice was well founded or not. This desolution is by no means chargeable to General Scott, or to any of his General or Field Officers— on the contrary I am well convinced that every exertion in their power was used to prevent it, and I feel myself bound to express my highest approbation of the conduct of those Gentlemen and the Officers in general from the time of their arrival which was on the 23 of October until their departure from this place— about Arthur [undecipherable] [undecipherable] At a Council of War held at Head Quarters on the St West Branch of Miami on the 8^th of October 1793. Present: the Commander in Chief Major Gen^l Scott — Brig. Gen^l Wilkinson Brig. Gen^l [undecipherable] — Brig. Gen^l Posey Brig. Gen^l Barbee — The