104 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA *. 
new town has been laid out on the opposite 
bank of the river, eighteen miles lower down* 
and hither many of the traders have removed. 
The majority of them stay at Detroit; but few 
or none have become citizens of the States in 
consequence, nor is it likely that they will, at 
least for some time. In the late treaty, a par¬ 
ticular provision for them was made ; they were 
to be allowed to remain there for one year, 
without being called on to declare their senti¬ 
ments, and if at the end of that period they 
chose to remain British subjects, they were not 
to be molested * in any maimer, but suffered to 
carry on their trade as formerly in the fullest 
extent; the portion of the fur trade, which we 
shall lose by the surrender of this place, will 
therefore be very inconsiderable. 
The fourth post, Michillimachinack, is a 
* This part of the late treaty has by no means been 
strictly observed on the part of the States. The officers of 
the federal army, without asking permission, and contrary 
to the desire of several of the remaining British inhabitants, 
appropriated to their own use several of the houses and 
stores of those who had removed to the new town, and de- 
f 
dared their determination of not becoming citizens of the 
States j and many of the inhabitants had been called on to 
serve in the militia, and to perform duties, from which, as 
British subjects, they were exempted by the articles in the 
treaty in their -favour. When we were at * Detroit, the 
British inhabitants met together, and drew up a memorial 
on the subject, reciting their grievances, w r hich was com¬ 
mitted to our care, and accordinglypresented to the British 
minister at Philadelphia, 
