[Footnote 69: Relating to the seizure and condemnation by British
authorities of American vessels engaged in the fisheries.]
WASHINGTON, _April, 1840_.
_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit herewith communications from the Secretary of War and
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, giving the information "in possession of
the Government respecting the assemblage of Indians on the northwestern
frontier, and especially as to the interference of the officers or
agents of any foreign power with the Indians of the United States in the
vicinity of the Great Lakes," which I was requested to communicate by
the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo.