[No. XVIII.] Colonel King's Iron Works, April 21^st, 1797. Dear Carey, I WISHED to have been you before I returned to Philadelphia, but I am obliged to return to the fefsion of Congrefs which commences on the 15th May. Among other things that I wished to have seen you about, was the bufinefs Captain Chifholm mentioned to the British Minister last winter at Philadelphia. I believe but am not quite sure that the plan then talked of will be attempted this fall, and if it is attempted it will be in a much larger way than then talked of ; and if the Indians act their part I have no doubt but it will fucceed. A man of confequence has gone to England about the bufinefs, and if he makes arrangements as he expects, I shall myfelf have a hand in the bufinefs, and probably fhall be at the head of the bufinefs on the part of the British. You are however to underftand that it is yet not quite certain that the plan will be attempted ; yet you will do well to keep things in a proper train for action in cafe it should be attempted, and to do fo will require all your management ; I fay will require all your management, because you must take care in whatever you fay to Rogers, or any body elfe, not to let the plan be discovered by Hawkins, Dinmoor, Byers or any other perfon in the intereſt If I attempt this plan, I fhall expect to have you and all my Indian Country and Indian friends with me, but you are now in good bufinefs I hope, and you are not to rifk the lofs of it by faying any thing that will hurt you until you again hear from me. Where Captain Chifholm is I do not know, I left him in Philadelphia in March, and he frequently vifited the Minifter, and fpoke upon the fubject, but I believe he will go into the Creek Nation by way of South Carolina or Georgia. He gave out he was going to England, but I did not believe him. — Among things that you may fafely do will be to keep up my confequence with Watts and the Creeks and Cherokees generally, and you muft by no means fay any thing in favor of Hawkins ; but as often as you can with fafety to yourfelf, you may teach the Creeks to believe he is no better than he fhould be — Any power or confequence he gets will be againft our plan. Perhaps Rogers, who has no office to lofe, is the beft man to give out talk againft Hawkins. — Read the letter to Rogers, and if you think it beft to fend it to him, put a wafer in it, and forward it to him by a fafe hand, or perhaps you had beft fend for him to come to you, and fpeak to him yourfelf refpecting the ftate and profpect of things. I have advifed you in whatever you do to take care of yourfelf ; I have now to tell you to take care of me too, for a difcovery of the plan would prevent the fuccefs, and much injure all the parties concerned. It may be that the Commifsioners may not run the line, as the Indians expect or wifh, and in that cafe it is probable the Indians may be taught to blame me for making the Treaty. To fuch complaints againft me, if fuch there are, it may be faid by my friends at proper times and places that Doubleheaf confirmed the Treaty with the Prefident at Philadelphia, and received as much as 5000 dollars a year to be paid to the nation over and above the firft price ; indeed it may with truth be faid, that though I made the Treaty, that I made it by the inftructions of the Prefident ; and in fact it may with truth be faid, that