[No. XIV.] Lieutenant Peircy S. Pope, to Don Manuel Gayos[o de] Lemos. Camp, 2d May, 1797. SIR; YOUR letter of yesterday was delivered me by your Adjutant Captain Stephen Minor. The Governor General has, as appears from your letter to me, requested that I should be informed of a proposed attack on the part of the Illinois county by the British force of Canada, and that such an expedition cannot take place without passing thro' the Territory of the United States. I have no doubt but that the United States have made such arrangements as will secure to them the respect due the Nation, and that at the same time every preparation has been made to carry into effect with firmness the late treaty between his most Catholic Majesty and the United States. The second part of your letter more particularly concerns me, as a longer delay of the evacuation of the Walnut-Hills and Natchez, I cannot possibly consider in any other light than an indirect violation of the late treaty. The landing of any troops for the purpose of fortifying or re-inforcing Nogallis, or any other Post above a east and west line to be drawn 33° and 46" south from M^r Ellicott's present encampment, will be highly improper, and no doubt considered as a direct attack upon the Ho[undecipherable]