PmEUMBtART OB6KHTATIONV SI 



HOT had, and with the powerful resources of England to back 

 him. he utterly failed. It was not till after this failure, tod the 

 re-establishment of American garrisons at Detroit and Michih- 

 mackinac, that the Jetl'ersnnian Indian code of 1802, began 10 

 be put into effect in the north-west. In 1816, ■ law was j> 

 ad by Congreai to exclude foreigners from the trade. In 1819 

 St Peter*! was established. In 1820, Gov. Can personally 



visited the tribes, and in I89f, a military post was advanced to 

 St. Mary's Falls, the most northern point occupied by the Uni- 

 ted States army. 



Although the North West Company had now transferred to 

 an American company, organised by Mr. Astor, all their posts 

 south and west of the lines of demarkation, they maintained, bow 

 ever, an active trade along the lines, and waged one of the most 

 spirited and hard contested oppositions against the Hudson's 

 Bay Company, which has ever characterised a commercial ri 

 valry. Lord Selkirk had now placed himself at the head of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, and staked his character and resources 

 on the maintenance of its territorial and commercial rights. It 

 is no part of our object to go into details. Let it toffice, that ho 

 took Fort William on the 13th of August, 1818, carried his power 

 over the region of Red river, where he planted a colony, and. 

 after losing the lives of several of his most zealous agents and 

 officers, (including the governor of his colony,) finally triumphed 

 in asserting the rights of the Hudson's Bay Company, and quiet- 

 ed, by an amalgamation of stocks, the claims of his intrepid 

 rivals. 



One of the most painful atrocities which arose, in the course 

 of this rivalry, waj the murder of Owen Keveny. As the fads 

 were subsequently detailed in a court of justice, they may be suc- 

 cinctly narrated. Mr. Keveny, a gentleman in the service of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, was taken prisoner by the North A\ 

 Company, in the summer of 1816] and ordered to be sent out 



from Bad river to Montreal On ascending the river Winnipec, 



(northwest of tin* Lake of the Woods) he was finally put in charge 



