From this proclamation, therefore, it is obvious, that the sole design of it, independent of the establishment of the three new governments, ascertaining their respective boundaries, rewarding the officers and soldiers, and regulating the Indian trade, and apprehending felons, was to _convince_ the Indians "of his Majesty's justice and determined resolution to remove all reasonable cause of discontent," by interdicting all settlements on land, not _ceded to or purchased by his Majesty_; and declaring it to be, as we have already mentioned, his royal will and pleasure, "for _the present, to reserve_, under his sovereignty, protection, and dominion, _for the use of the Indians_, all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and north-west."--Can any words express more decisively the royal intention?--Do they not explicitly mention, That the territory is, _at present_, reserved under his Majesty's protection, _for the use of the Indians_?--And as the Indians had _no use_ for those lands, which are bounded _westerly_ by the _south-east side_ of the river Ohio, either for residence or hunting, they were willing to sell them; and accordingly did sell them to the King in November 1768, (the occasion of which sale will be fully explained in our observations on the succeeding paragraphs of the _Report_).--Of course, the proclamation, so far as it regarded the settlement of the lands included within that purchase, has absolutely and undoubtedly ceased.--The late Mr. Grenville, who was, at the time of issuing this proclamation, the minister of this kingdom, always admitted, that the design of it was totally accomplished, _so soon as the country was purchased of the natives_. IV. In this paragraph, the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations mention two reasons for his Majesty's entering into engagements with the Indians, for fixing a _more precise and determinate boundary line_, than was settled by the proclamation of October 1763, viz. 1st, Partly for want of _precision_ in the one intended to be marked by the proclamation of 1763. 2d, And partly from a consideration of justice in regard to _legal titles to lands_. We have, we presume, fully proved, in our observations on the third paragraph,--That the design of the proclamation, so far as it related to lands _westward_ of the Allegany mountains, was for no other purpose than to _reserve_ them, under his Majesty's protection, for _the present, for the use of the Indians_; to which we shall only add, That the line established by the proclamation, so far as it concerned the lands in question, could _not_ possibly be fixed and described with more _precision_, than the proclamation itself describes it; for it declares,--That "all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers, _which fall into the sea from the west and north-west_," should be reserved under his Majesty's protection.