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Sandusky to the mouth of the Miami, and that a Deputation from the Council may be expected to this day or tomorrow, who were are to give a favourable answer to the Commissioner's Speech and attend them to the place of Treaty - about 10 oClock a Canoe with 7 Chipewa Indians from the Council, arrived here on their way home. --these people confirm the intelligence we received last night, and we are again fill 'd with the pleasing hope that this tedious and expensive Embassy will not be altogethe fruitless. 10th. Warm and sultry - anxiously waiting the return of the Indians. 11th. This morning arrived the Ottaway from Fort Erie, in her came Jasper Parrish who was sent an Express by the Commissioners from Niagara to Philadelphia. - he brought Letters for most of our friends, and News Papers as late as the 20th of last month.- The Chippeway also came down from Detroit, bound to Fort Erie, and anchor'd near our Encampment.­ Friends had a Meeting this afternoon at Gros Isle, at which I was not present. 12th. Since we have been upon this spot we have experienced from a certain class of Men, a treatment