WrL.HIsplANs.-P,ines Madee anahs Col,a,
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WEL.H s.-P,ince Nadoc aadh his Colony. In the ast number of rGe Investigator, cDnGurIed by J. F. Polk, Esq, of Washington city, Is arti- cle from the pen ot iishcy Thompson, Esq, Crm- pIslng much and curious hisoi lCal information n confirmation of long exslng tradition, that Prince Madoc, uf Wales rade voyage and b uugl.t settlers the Western world in the l2th cen,ury, and that the descendants oi these We'ch colon sis have been iuuud il they aGe ntt nut now to ie Vund amung our Indian tIiues. Mt. Caln con,eCturcs that the "pnlile a.d friendly Mandans" (uf whom we have b.ea told not sur,ves) ''wore ut V csh origin, many ot them having cUmpiehiuu5 l .ht as the half breeds Among the womsn pariCnia is, many there whose s~ins almost whItr, wilh the most pleasing symmetry and proportion ui Hgue with hazel, with gray and with blue eJ es ihm,ld- ness and sweetness Of expression, and exctssike modesty of deneanUr, rendering hem extremely pleasing and beautiful" Mr. Ihnnpsun introduces a letter published in the Gentlemeus Magazine ia 1740, from Mir. Morgan oDe5, who esided iu, l.mc in Virg mia, and afterwards sailed 10 South Caroli- na, whence with five companies, being in want ot provisions, they travelled through the wilderness to Tuscarora county. Here he found an Indian SaCr. III of the Doegs, who spoke Welsh, and was CNi!ly treated for lour monlhs during which he preacLt the trbe three tunes week Ill lie Welsh language, "Faher Richard, of Detroit, stated 10 the Reverend Jedediah Morse (see hIs report 10 Congress In- dian afairs) that, in l7S3, he was told, at For Charles, that twelve years before that time Captain Lnrd commanded that port, who heard old pt ople observe that ManddD Indians visited them, who con- versed ntelliglbly with Welsh soldiers m the B itish army"

 In lsl0, soon after the publication of Mir. Souhey's poem, MaIoc, a workman in London, stated to Il friend of MT. Thompson. that in his youth he had travelled among the Indians in the northwestern parl of America, and that occasion he and his companions had fallen in with d hght complex. toned tribe of Indians, with whom of the party, WeIshman, carried on conversation in the Welsh language.

 There IS, then, strong reason to believe in the story of Prince madoc and his Colony. and that to d recent period, traces of their existence were be found among some of our Indian tribes.