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Show TRAVELS TIIROUGII UPPER Ci\NADA: himfl:lf to the cenfurc of many of bis ountrymen, and Gencr.tl, th en 'olonel Ca:npbcll, who commandt: i in t l lC fiu rt, gaw· ccl th public thank · of the traders in 1 ,( ndon. . The Miami •o rt, fituatcd on the river of the (une name, was bu:lt by the Englifh in the year 1791, at which time there .w~ fomc realot: to m. 1ag11· 1e t h at t 11 c C~1-1 ~·p u te ::'; c,',i !ling b tvvecn. Gr<.:at Bntam a, n. d. the Unttc,d States would not have been quite fo amtcably fcttlcd, pet h.'1~s, a th ey have he 11 ; at 1c~ (l: that doubtlcfs mufl: have been the opm1on of go- vernment, ot !1 c1. w 1· 1·',",' tll ·v would not have giv n orders for the confhuc- J • tion oC a fort within the boundary line of the t. nitcJ State·, a CJrcumHn ance w 1J J·C 11 cott ll 11 ot J-•a 1"1 to c\:cite the indignation of the p<•. :a•p le ther - of. GcnerJl \tVayne, it would appear, had re eivccl no pohuvc or~kt·s from his government to make himfd[ mafier of it: o~ld h<.: _have gamed poHdTion of it, however, by a cou1 -de-main, without mcurnn · an.y 1-~[s, he thought that it coull not but hav. been dccmc l an ~cceptabk ptccc of [crvice by thr.:: putlic, from whom he {hould have rccetv~d unbo.unLkd . pplau(e. Vanity was his ruling paHion, and aCtu.lt~d by 1: o_n tllJS occai1on, he refolve l t try what he could d to obtam pof1en10n of the fort. Colonel C mpbdl, however, by hi fpirited and manly anf wcr .to the fum nons th~u was fent him, to furrender the fort on account of 1ts being Jituatcd within the boundary line of the States,. foon convi11ced th~ American general that he was not to be nlakcn by hiS remonfirances OI intimid.lted by his menace , nnd that his two hundred men, who con~pof'- ll the garrifon, had f ufE c i~,; n t r~,;folu tion to rcfdt th<.: attacks of _Ius army of thr e thoufcmd, wh<.:nevcr he thought proper to mar h agamfl: the fort. The main divifion of the American army, at this time, lay at the difianc.__ of about four mile from the fort; a fmall d tachment from it, how<.:ver, was oncealed in the woods :tt a very little difiancc from the fort, to be ready at the call of General Wayne, who, firange to tell,. when he found he was not Iii ely to get polfefEon of it in confC<gucnce of t:ne fummons he f<:nt,· was fo imprudent, and departed fo much from the di<rni y of t 1c general and the character of the foldicr, as to ride up to b ·n th<.: fort, and to ufc the moil: grofs and illiberal language to the Brit1 l fol hers on duty in it. Jiis objeCt in doing fo wa , I D1uuld fuppo(( r to 3 provoke \ AM E R I C A N AN D I N D I A N W A R. 367 provoke the gnrrifon to fire npon J1im, in whi h cafe he would h.1vc hau a pretext for fionning the fort. Owincr to the great prudence, however, of Colonel Campbell, who hau ifTut;d the fi.rittcfl: orders to hi men and ofEct:rs to remain filcnt, notwithflandin() · any infults that were offered to them, an l not to attunpt to firL, unkfs indeed an aClual attack were mad on the pbcc, Wayuc's phm was fi-ufhatcd, much blootin1ed crtainly f.lved, and a fc ·ond war b<.:- twcen reat Britain and America perhaps averted. General Wayne gained no great perfonal honour by his conduct on this occafion; but the circum{b.nce of hi having appeared before the Britii 1 fort j n. the manner h<.: did operated firongly in hi favour in rdj)cc to his proceedings againfl: the Indians. The[~ peopl<.: h·1d been taught to heli<.:ve by the young Canadians that were among(l: them, that if any p.ut of the Ameri ·an army appeared b ·fore the fort, it would certainly be fir<.:d upon; for they haJ no idea tlut the Am<.:rican would hav~; come in fight of it without takinrr off<.:nflve meafures, in \·vhich afe refifhlJlce would certainly have b en made. When, therefore, it wa:, he.l!"d that G<.:neral Wnyne had not been fired upon, the Indian· ompbincJ grievoul1y of their h:lVinrr been deceived, and w rc greatly dithe.1rten<.:d on finding that tl1ey were to receive no affifl:ancc from th ,; nritifh. Th ·ir native courage, however, did not altogether forf.l w them; they r-folv<.:d fpcedily to make a f1a Hi, and accordingly h lYing chofcn their ground, • \\ aitcd the arrival of G ·ncral \Vayne, who folluw ·d t 1em cloiely. Preparatory to the d.1y on 'Nhich th y cxpe :ted a g .. :neral <.:ng·tgenH.:n t, the Indians, COI Jtr,try to the uf:tgcs of mofi nation s, obll:rve a £hid (.t{l; nor docs this abfl:incnce from all forts of food liminin1 their e, ertions in the fitld, as fr m their <.:arly infancy they accu.flom themfi·lves to f.t!ling fo r long perioJs togetlwr. The day before G<.:neral VV·tync was cxpcc - cd, this ceremony was .flriClly att<.:nded to, and afterwards, having placld themfdvcs in ambulh in the woods, they waited for hi arrival. He did not, how<.:ver, com<.: to the ground on the day that they had imagined, from the reports given them by their !Couts of his motions, he would have done; but having rea[on to think he would Gome on th<; fubfc:qu<.:nt |