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war, viz. in 1746. The orders from Great Britain for making these levies, were dated in April that year. Many troops were raised in the colonies on fo important an occafion; fome of which were rendezvous'd at Saratoga above Albany: But at length; to our great furprize and mortification, in October of the following year, orders were received here for disbanding the troops. Why this defign was not then profecuted, there are others that know better than the author of these few pages.

BUT be thankful, my countrymen and fellow-fubjects, that what all who have well understood, and heartily defired, the true 'intereft of British America, ever efteemed the grand, effential point, is now gained. QUEBEC, after repeated ftruggles and efforts, is at length reduced: QUEBEC, I had almoft called it that Pandora's box, from whence unnumber'd plagues have iffued for more than an hundred years, to diftrefs, to enfeeble, to lay wafte, thefe northern colonies; and which might, perhaps, in the end have proved fatal to them! An acquifition, the confequence of which, if maintained, must prove, not only the utter ruin of the French power and intereft in America; but in time, according to the natural courfe of things, the exalting of thefe little provinces and colonies, as it were into as many kingdoms; and confequently, the raifing of the British empire in Europe, on which they will continue dependent, to an height and dignity amongst the nations, which it never knew before. However, altho' this is not a fermon, it may be juft added here, that under the government and providence of God, all this will depend, in fome measure, on our own wisdom, virtue and piety: For even our prosperity, without these qualities, may prove our ruin. A pagan faid wifely, whether juftly or not, as applied to ancient Rome, "Diis te minorem quod geris, imperas : "Hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum"! Which being put into a more chriftian ftile, in plain profe, may be expreffèd thus: You are exalted above other nations, because you are virtuous, and walk humbly with your God: From hence deduce the origin of your power, its increase and grandeur; and to the contrary afcribe its fall !-Or you may take the fum of it in the words of a certain wife King, who flourished in the days of old: "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but fin is a reproach to any people."

To conclude: However unfortunate the former expeditions against Canada were, in the reigns of K. William and

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