ERD. WENTZEL

LETTER No. 6.

McKenzie’'s River Department, Bear Lake (1), March Gth, 1815.

Roderick McKenzie, Esq., Dear Sir,

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M The late intelligence from Canada stating the glorious event which had succeeded 0 the troubles o* the Continent ot Europe, ith the prospect of a speedy termination of hostilities in anada, has once more enlivened the merry lads of the North, Mhose congratulations, exultations and, especially, expectations n that account baffle all description. Plans are formed, executed nd fortunes made in less than three seconds; thus the torpor nder which they have so long suffered, with the frown of espondency that wrinkled their brows so many years, has been ] at once dissipated by the contents of one single “ Herald.”

Such is the changeable state of the mind of man! expiring e moment under the tortures of grief and dying the next of By. But I, who am an unit of the unfortunate, can little paripate in the fanciful hopes of ever becoming a sharer in the pncerns of that Company to whose services I have already @dicated sixteen years of my youthful days. [I therefore can

1) Now, Fort Franklin.