Our spies have tracked you from your crossing the river above the whirlpool to your present position.

Every man of your party is numbered by us; and, what is still more, numbered by our allies -- yes, gentlemen, I must repeat it, 'allies'-- though, as a Briton, I blush at the word.

Shame and disgrace for ever be that man's portion, who first associated the honourable usages of war with the atrocious and bloody cruelties of the savage.

Yet so it is: the Delawares of the hills"-- here the Yankees exchanged very peculiar looks--"have this morning arrived at Fort Peak, with orders to ravage the whole of your frontier, from Fort George to Lake Erie.

They brought us the information of your approach, and their chief is, while I speak, making an infamous proposition, by which a price is to paid for every scalp he produces in the morning.