[M^r M^c Henry. Rec. at H^dd. Aug 8. 1797.] War office 8 Aug^t 1797. Sir I have the pleasure to inform you that the Indians on the North western frontier give indications of their desiring to remain at peace and under the protection of the U States, notwithstanding the various efforts that have been made to detach them. They have consented that the line of Limits should be run, (with an exception by Little Turtle,) agreeably to the Treaty of Greenville and the Surveyors have accordingly commenced the work under the countenance of a small military guard. The Creeks appear also to be well dispersed, and affairs in Tenisee to wear a favourable aspect. The Commissioners who are engaged in establishing the boundary line between the Cherokees and the U. States, have proceeded to run the course 40 miles above Nashville where they have stopped, till they can make some experiments necessary to ascertain whether if continued, it would touch the river called for in the Treaty of Holston. By their last letters of the 8th & 12th of July they were on their way to the Kentucky Trace in Cumberland, to run the line from Tinnee to Clinch and thence across the Holston to the S. Carolina Indian boundary on the North Carolina line. Here they proposed to halt till they had ascertained and marked every part of the line where intrusions might be apprehended within the present year. L^t. Col. Butler arrived with his command at Nashville on the 21 June, and on the 27th had advanced 32 miles in approaching Knoxville. This movement has been conducted satisfactorily and without accident. Cap^t. Ransalains company of Dragoons reached Knoxville on the 5th July in good order, having performed a march from Fort Washington to that place in one month without the loss of either man or horse. This detachment, I expect, will fully answer the several important objects for which it was intended. M^r. Hawkins writes