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performed, and the limits I had prescribed for this Appendix have been already exceeded; but the very interesting character of the concern in-duces me (before producing a copy of the Trea-ty of Grenville, which from its influence on the condition of the Indian Tribes ought to be pre-sented to the reader) to add the following ac-count. From the last meeting of the committee, as above related, in 1804, to the commencement of the war with Great Britain, the affairs of the Indians continued to increase in importance, and their friends were frequently flattered with the hope of a successful and permanent settlement of the Tribes, to whom the United States under certain conditions had guaranteed their lands, in the neighborhood of the Lakes. Philanthropists, not only in our country, but, also, of the more enlightened European nations, continued to accord to the efforts of the Friends of this country the meed of their approbation, and from members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain, the Indian Committees of Phila-delphia and Baltimore recieved donations of money, paid to them in two instalments of several thousand dollars each, to be applied to the im-provement of the condition of the Indians, which greatly increased their opportunities of useful-ness; to these donations was afterwards added a bequest from a friend of Ireland, of much less