Before closing this subject we must explain our allusion to the Red River settlement, and in so doing illustrate and prove beyond a doubt the settled and determined policy of that organization to crush out their own, as well as American settlements,--a most unnatural, though true position of that company. It will be seen, by the date of the document quoted below, that, four years previous, that company, in order to deceive the English government and people in relation to the settlement on the Columbia River, and also to diminish the number of this Red River colony, had, by direction of Sir George Simpson, sent a part of it to the Columbia department. The remaining settlers of Rupert's Land (the Selkirk settlement) began to assert their right to cultivate the soil (as per Selkirk grant), as also the right to trade with the natives, and to participate in the profits of the wild animals in the country. The document they prepared is a curious, as well as important one, and too interesting to be omitted. It reads as follows:-- "RED RIVER SETTLEMENT,} "August 29, 1845.} "SIR,--Having at this moment a very strong belief that we, as natives of this country, and as half-breeds, have the right to hunt furs in the Hudson's Bay Company's territories whenever we think proper, and again sell those furs to the highest bidder, likewise having a doubt that natives of this country can be prevented from trading and trafficking with one another, we would wish to have your opinion on the subject, lest we should commit ourselves by doing any thing in opposition either to the laws of England or the honorable company's privileges, and therefore lay before you, as governor of Red River settlement, a few queries, which we beg you will answer in course. "_Query_ 1. Has a half-breed, a settler, the right to hunt furs in this country? "2. Has a native of this country, not an Indian, a right to hunt furs? "3. If a half-breed has the right to hunt furs, can he hire other half-breeds for the purpose of hunting furs? Can a half-breed sell his furs to any person he pleases? "5. Is a half-breed obliged to sell his furs to the Hudson's Bay Company at whatever price the company may think proper to give him? "6. Can a half-breed receive any furs, as a present, from an Indian, a relative of his? "7. Can a half-breed hire any of his Indian relatives to hunt furs for him? "8. Can a half-breed trade furs from another half-breed, in or out of the settlement? "9. Can a half-breed trade furs from an Indian, in or out of the settlement? "10. With regard to trading or hunting furs, have the half-breeds, or natives of European origin, any rights or privileges over Europeans?