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 INTRODUCTION. 297 at length determined to send a remonstrance to chap. vm. him, against a conduct which was incompatible 1726. with the state of peace then subsisting between France and England. Monsieur Vaudreuil received this embassy politely, and at first, de- nied any interference in the quarrel, alleging at the same time, that the Indians were inde- pendent nations, who made war and peace without being controlled by him. On pro- ducing his letters to Ralle, and the evidences of the part he had taken in occasioning and continuing the war, he changed his line of conduct, and gave assurances of his future good offices in bringing about a peace. On receiving these assurances conferences were held with some of the Indian chiefs then in Canada; some captives w r ere ransomed; and soon after the return of the commissioners to New England, the war was terminated by a treaty of peace signed at Boston, after a cessa- Peace. tion of arms had been settled at St. Georges. b Meanwhile, the complaints of the governor points of • « i. controversy against the house 01 representatives came on withthe ° 1 governor, to be heard in England. Every question was J e r d f a e n d d in decided against the house. In most of them, Souse. the present charter was deemed sufficiently ex- plicit, but on two points of difference, it was thought advisable to have an explanatory char- ter. These points were the right of the gover- b Hutchinson.,.. Belknap,. vol. I. Q^q