tendants
of Indian affairs, to seize and apprehend all persons who stood charged
with treasons, murders, &c. and who had fled from justice, and taken
refuge in the reserved lands of the Indians, to send such persons to
the colony, _where_ they stood accused.

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 t