"Brother!--We have heard of the bad conduct of our brothers towards the setting sun. We are sorry for what they have done. But you must not blame us. We have had no hand in this bad business. They have had bad people among them. It is your enemies have done this. "We have persuaded our agent to take this talk to your great council. He knows our situations, and will speak our minds. "Farmer's-Brother, his mark X Wheel-Barrow, his mark X Little Billy do X Jack Berry do X Young King do X Twenty Canoes do X Pollard do X Big Kettle do X Chief Warrior do X Half-Town do X Two Guns do X Keyandeande do X John Sky do X Captain Cold do X Parrot-Nose do X Esq. Blinkey do X John Pierce do X Captain Johnson do X Strong do X "N. B. The foregoing speech was delivered in Council by Farmer's-Brother, at Buffalo Creek, December 19, 1811, and subscribed in my presence, by the Chiefs whose names are annexed. "(Signed) ERASTUS GRANGER." * * * * * NO. VII. Extracted from the American Remembrancer (an impartial and authentic collection of facts, published in London during the Revolutionary War) for the year 1782, vol. 14, p. 185. Boston, March 12. _Extract of a letter from Captain Gerrish, of the New-England Militia, dated Albany, March 7._ "The peltry taken in the expedition, will, you see, amount to a good deal of money. The possession of this booty at first gave us pleasure; but we were struck with horror to find among the packages, eight large ones containing scalps of our unfortunate country folks, taken in the three last years by the Seneca Indians from the inhabitants of the frontiers of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and sent by them as a present to Colonel Haldimand, Governor of Canada, in order to be by him transmitted to England. They were accompanied by the following curious letter to that gentleman. "_Tioga, January_ 3d, 1787. "May it please your Excellency, "At the request of the Seneca Chiefs, I herewith send to your Excellency, under the care of James Hoyd, eight packages of scalps, cured, dried, hooped, and painted with all the triumphal marks, of which the following is the invoice and explanation.