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Show .. TRAVELS TIIROUGI-1 UPPER CAN ADA: This Brandt, at a very early age, was fcnt to a college in New England, where, being poficBed of a good capacity, he foon m.1dc..: very confidcrablc progrcfs in the reck and Latin hnguagcs. Uncommon pains were taken to inll:il into his mind the tnH~s ~f the ? OfJ ~l.. ~ Ie profdlcd himfdf to be a warm admirer of the_ pnnctpks of_ chn!lumty, and in hopes of being able to convert his natLOD on returnmg to them, he abfolutely tranflated the gofpel of St. Matthew into tl1e Mohawk language; he alfo tranilated the dl:abli01ed for~n of p~·ayer of the chm:ch of England. Before Drandt, however, had fint(hed h~ s. cou~-fc of ll:ud~cs, the American war broke out, and fired with that fp n or glory wht h feem to have be~n implanted by nature in the breafl: of the Indian, he immediately quitt d the college, repaired to his Jutive village, and fhortly afterwards, with a confidcrable body of his nation, joined fome Briti01 troops under the command of Sir John Johnfion. Here he diflin :;ui01ed himfelf by his v:ilour in many different engagements, and was foon raifcd, not only to the rank of a war chief, hut alfo to that of a captain in his Majcfly's fervice. It was not long, however, before Brandt fullied his reputation in the Briti01 army. A fl'-irmi01 took place with a body of American troops; the attion was warm, and Brandt wa {bot by a mufquet-baH in the heel; but the Americans in the end were defeated, and an officer with about fixty men taken pri[on rs. The ofliccr, after having delivered up his f,"·ord, had entered into converfation with Colonel Johnflon, who com· manded the Briti01 troops, and they were talking together in the mofl friendly manner, when Brandt, having ll:olcn flily behind them, laid the American o01 cr lifdcfs on the ground with a blow of his tomahawk. The indignation of Sir John John!l:on, as may readily be {uppofed, was JOufcd by fuch an act of treachery, and he rcfentcd it in the warme£1: language. Brandt lifl:encd to him unconcernedly, and when he had finiilied, told him, that he was forry what he had done had caufed his difpleafure, but that indeed his heel was extremely painful at the moment, and he could not help revenging himfelf on the only chief of the party that he faw taken. Since he had killed the officer, his hec1, he added, was much lefs painful to him than it had been before. When B R A N D T, A N I N D I A N C H I E F. When the war broke out, the Mohawks rcfided on the Mohawk Ri~er, in _the fl:ate of New York, but on peace being made, they emigrated mto U ppcr anada, and their principal village is now fituated on the Grand River, which f..'dls into Lake Eric on the north fide, about fixty miles from the town of Newark or Niagara ; there Brandt at prcfent reficles. He has built a comfortable habitation for himfclf, and any ftranger that vi fi ts him may rcfl: afTured of being well received, and of findmg a plentiful table well ferved every day. He has no lcfs than thirty or forty negroes, who attend to his horfes, cultivate his grounds, &c. Thcfe poor creature are kept ih the greatefi: {ubjettion, and they dare not att~mpt to make their cfcapc, for he has affurcd them, that if they did fo he would follow them himfelf, though it were to the confines of Georgia, and would toma~1awk them wherever he met them. They know his difpofition too well not to think that he would adhere ilric!:ly to his word. Brandt receives from government half pay as a captain, befides annual prefcnts, &c. which in a11 amount, it is .laid, to [,.soo per annum. We had no finall curiofity, as you may well imagine, to fee this Brandt, and we procured letters of introduction to him from the governor's fccretary, and from difFerent officers and gentlemen of his acquaintance, with an intention of proceeding from Newark to his village. Moil unluc~ily, however, on the day before that of our reaching the town of Newark or Niagara, he lpd et)1barked on board a veffel for Kingfl:on, at the oppofite end of the lake. Yon may judge of Brandt's confequence, when I tell you, that a lawyer of Niagara, who roffcd Lake Ontario in the fame veffel with us, from Kingflon, where he had been detained for fomc time by contrary winds, informed us, the day after our arrival at Niagara, that by his not having reache f that place in time to tranfact fome law bufincfs for Brandt, and which had confequently been given to another perfon, he fhoulcl be a lofer of one hundred pounds at lcafl. Brandt's :lagacity led him, early in life, to difcovcr that the Indians had been made thl.! dupe of every foreign power that had got footing in America; and, indc d, could he have had any d ubt on the fubjctt, they would have been removed when he faw the Britia1, after having demanded |