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to all hopes of a Peace at present - the substance of this lengthy reply, which fill'd near two sheets of Paper was, that no consi--deration would induce the Indians to give up their Country, and nothing short of making the Ohio the boundary could give them satisfaction, and if the Commissioners could not agree to this there would be no use in meeting at a Treaty - The answer was signed, it is said, by sixteen Nations, being all that were present except the Six Nations, who all refused their concurrence and are favourably disposed towards the United States.- About 8 P.M. the two young Onondaga's return'd who were sent express by the Commissioners, as mentioned the 14th, they brought no written reply, and could give very little in-formation, except that they delivered their message to Capt. Brandt the Mohawk Chief, who informed that an answer to the Commissnr. Speech was already gone down, the purport