CHAPTER IX.

Difficulties between Great Britain and the United States after the Treaty--Refusal of the former to surrender the western posts--Mission of Baron Steuben to Canada--Indications of fresh Indian hostilities---Movements of Captain Brant--Grand Indian Council at the Huron Village--Address to the United States--Letter of the Secretary at War, General Knox, to Captain Brent--Letter of Sir John Johnson to Brant--Letter of Major Matthews to Brant, disclosing the views of Lord Dorchester respecting the retention of the western posts--Message from the Hurons to the Five Nations, proposing another grand Council--Preparations of General St. Clair for negotiating with the Indians--Brant begins to distrust them all--Letter of Brant to Patrick Langan, Sir John Johnson's Secretary-Letter of Brant to Sir John Johnson--Great Council at Miamis--Letter of Captain Brant to Patrick Langan--St. Clair's negotiations at Fort Harmar--The policy of dividing to conquer--Letter of Captain Brant to Major Matthews--Jealousies of Brant among the Indians--Council against him at Montreal--Letter to him from Major Matthews--Letter of Brant in reply--Letter to Colonel McDonnell--Suspected plot against the English at Detroit, and Brant and his Mohawks, by the Hurons, Chippewas, and Pottawatamies--Letter to Brant from Sir John Johnson--Brant turns his attention to the cultivation of letters--Endeavors to obtain a stated Missionary--Resumes the preparation of Religious books--Letter from President Willard--John Norton--Land difficulties among the Indians in the state of New-York--Letter from Governor Clinton to Brant. 262