Excerpt from A Letter to Governor Johnstone, &C. &C. On Indian Affairs Become the fervile tool of arbitrary power, or the pailivc victim of' hungry Factions? Alternately threatened and cajoled, fleeced and reviled, fcrutinized and mifunderftood, too long has [he filently wept over the ina fringerxients of her privileges, the mutilation of her charters, the difturbance of her ar rangements, and the difpofal of her property. Every fyfiern of policy, every plan of com merce, every principle of action, by which (in conformity to frequent aets of the legifla ture, and undert the immediate encourage ment of charters from the Crown) the pro fperity' of our affairs in A133 has gradually augmented the trade, the power, and the. Iefources of the Mother Country, fo as to be come one of the molt important pledges for the flability of the empire, have been violent ly and repeatedly explored, to gratify a ma lignant, or an interelted curiofity. Every record which might difplay the fources from whence are derived the Company's wealth and dominion has been wantonly torn from Its facred repofitory, and ci'r'culated'iinhreporty and appendixes through the Whole European world By thefe means have her counc1ts been difiraeled at home, and her defigns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.