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The several matters you have mentioned, and the difficulties you have stated, claim our sym-pathy and solid consideration, and we shall, I trust, take the subject up, and if way should open for us to move forward, in aiding you in your application to the General Government, we shall be willing, either on this occasion, or any other, to render you any service in our power. The conference then broke up, and the Indian Committee prepared and forwarded to the Con-gress of the United States, the following me-morial. To the Congress of the United States: The memorial of the Committee appointed for Indian affairs by the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Baltimore, respectfully repre-sents: That a concern to introduce amongst some of the Indian tribes north-west of the river Ohio, the most simple and useful arts of civil life, being several years since laid before our Yearly Meeting, a Committee was appointed by that body, to visit them, to examine their situation, and endeavor to ascertain in what manner so desirable a purpose could be effected. A part of that Committee, after having obtained the approbation of the President of the United States, proceeded to perform the service assigned them, and the result of their enquiries and ob-servations, as reported to the Yearly Meeting, was, that the quantity of spirituous liquors with