Chapter 55
Anxieties of Mr. Astor.--Memorial of the Northwest Company-- Tidings of a British Naval Expedition Against Astoria.--Mr. Astor Applies to Government for Protection.--The Frigate Adams Ordered to be Fitted Out.--Bright News From Astoria.-- Sunshine Suddenly Overclouded. WHILE difficulties and disasters had been gathering about the infant settlement of Astoria, the mind of its projector at New York was a prey to great anxiety. The ship Lark, despatched by him with supplies for the establishment, sailed on the 6th of March, 1813. Within a fortnight afterwards, he received intelligence which justified all his apprehensions of hostility on the part of the British. The Northwest Company had made a second memorial to that government, representing Astoria as an American establishment, stating the
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