[458] principal chiefs, are very desirous that the Prisoners you have should be [undecipherable: made] known as soon as possible to their friends. Hope your Excellency will see the good policy of such a measure, as the prisoners belong some of our best friends in the nation. M^r Shaw already acted for them, Hope they are on their way to this place. Your Excellency may rely that an equal number of prisoners (as many in this Creek nation belonging to the United States) shall be delivered for them, as well as every other arrangement favorable to this country that rests with me to do. Enclosed you have extracts from M^r Barnard's Letters to one of the 17^th & 7^th [undecipherable] which will serve to point to your excellency how favorable the present moment is to give peace to our country, and how unpardonable, it would be not to embrace it by every just means in our power, and how much more so to throw any impediments in the way. I am sorry to be again obliged to inform your Excellency that I have reason to believe several companies of horsemen from the county of Washington are gone on an expedition against some of the Creek towns. The enclosed extract of a letter from Lieutenant Hon Allen of the Federal troops to Major Gaither will further explain the business. That such thing should be done after the express order to the contrary which hath been received from the President of the United States is truly unaccountable. I hope for the honor and happiness of Georgia that your Excellency will be able to put a stop to those, and that we shall once more enjoy peace. I shall hope for your excellency Answer by return