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 \ r^^- ,A Co p Y of a L E T T E Rvfrom ^leck in Canada, to a 
 Pr-c M— r in France, dated OBoher ii, 1747- 
 
 GREA^,SIR, ■" ' •• 
 
 •%-"^ E I N G reiident for forne Years pall ia this remote Palt ofithe World, and my 
 B_^ chief Emplay being to vilic the feveral Nations oilndiaHs, in order to eftabUlH" 
 
 • H""^ ^^^^ '" ^^ Catholic Religion, which makes rfiem loyal Subjefts to his moll 
 — jL-^ Chriftian Majefty, our royal Matter ; and, agreeable to your Inftruftions, great 
 
 Sir 1 have uken Pains to fettle a Correfpondence with fome of our Friends among 
 the' Enemy, who have given me a large Account of the feveral. Provinces, Cities, 
 Towns, and Villages, along the Sea-Ccaft, from Smh-Carclina to NfJ-fund^Jumd.- 
 A particular Information would be incredible to you in france^ that in oue Century 
 ihoSd fpring out of a barren Wildernefs fiich a Nuniber of fine large Gitics, Towns, 
 and Villages peopled in fo prodigious^ a Manner, as ^to amount to many hundred 
 
 * thoufand Inhabitants ; and their Trade In Navigation is fo furprizingly large, tm;t it 
 will furmount your Belief} when I tell you. That their Shipping, large ?.nd lir.ail, is fo 
 numerous as' to amount to feveral thoufand Sail, that they even cover the Seas, and carry- 
 on Trade'. to almoft ail Parts of the World: And by the heft and mod auchcntie 
 Accoi^nts I have received, the Privateers fitted out o£ North- Jmr tea, viz. Bofton^Rmde- 
 Ijlatuiy New-Tork, and the feveral Sea-Port Towns, did us more Damage this War, by 
 
 — dillrelfing our Trade, and taking our Treafures, coming from our Sugar-Plantations, 
 than alUhe £»5//yi& Men of War in the yfwmV<»» Seas. The Privateers were fo nu-- 
 jTierous, and of fuch Force,- from twenty to thirty Guns, that they would block up our 
 Harbours, and take a Fleet of Ships at once, richly laden with Plantauon Produce, 
 belides Silver and Gold in Abundance. The|Jnhabitants of North-America have the 
 iSpirit arid Blood of old Oliver Cronnvell ; t!|ff ar« of the Race of the Puritans that 
 fled into Ncvj-hjigland in the Time "of Perfecution, ai^d they maintain an implacable 
 Harr^vl o^nlnft rlii.. Ttr.mllb Relision ; and their Refolution and undaunted Courajre id 
 
 iuch a Fortrefs as did not feat all Ae W^rld! But, Oliver-like, they laid, Tky cm Id 
 take it, and they would take it, and (to the Surprize and Wonder ot all tfi(.> World). 
 they did takt it.' They are as bold as Lions, and carry all betore" them- Their Prin- 
 ciples are fuch, they have n6 Dread in Batde : They arc taught they lliall not die a 
 Moment before their Time; fo that if ten thoufand Cannons are point. d at ihcm, 
 they rcgafd it not. They feem to be like the Ifraelites of Old; oncThovIand \\ill put 
 .ten Thoufand to Flight: And we believe in Canada, if twenty thoufand l^iocps had 
 come from Old Et^hnd, they never would- have taken that Fortrels: For you knowj 
 great Sir, fuch an Armament is never fitted out in England, but great Part of the Oincers 
 are Scotch and Iriflb, and many of them of our Religion; but that is a Secret, and die 
 major Part are feldom of any Religion ; and as Mdhey is^hat they are alter, a fuffi- 
 cient Number of our Louis. d'Ores will at any Time fufiHilh- them with a tolerable Ex- 
 cufe to raife a Siege^ and withdraw. What a fine Jolce did our young Hero puc 
 upon General Cope's Army in Scotland, by our taking Care before hand to have feme 
 of our hearty Friends in Office in that Army : But the Fate of our Friends m Sett- 
 land was, that the Duke had a Number of new Troops raifed by fome Prcte/ant Noble- 
 men^ w ho filled up their Regiments with fuch Officers and Soldiers, that it was not m 
 our Power to bribe, norlSad we any Tim? to corrupt them ;^that the Duke's Army wa*: 
 like thofe New-Enfland Puritans, who have their Religion, fo much_at Heart, thjt 
 
 one Man agait^ us, except a Number of Scotch and Irijh, that fled over to Nm 
 
 England, "that are of our Religion, and fome lately, upon that fatal Battle at Cullo- 
 
 den ; and I underftand, feme of the latter were O fficers in ftrince Cbarlej'j Army, and I 
 
 DWtTiic Friends willl)fom(XcThem. Now^ "" ' " "^ ' " "' ^ 
 
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 exceeds ua in Numbet' of Men, Shipping, Trade, ^c, and Acn a Method to weakea 
 
 » ■■■' ■ ■• ■ «nd 
 
and ftnpovcrifli thrm, and advance ourfelVes uoon their Ruin. As to the Inhabitants of 
 Cafnuia^ omt principal Men are Officers and Fatkora : The Officers are Spiritual and Mili- 
 tary : Wc ot the Spiritual Order, you know, great Sir, will have the Fat ot the Land ac * 
 Home or Abroad ; the Civil and Military are yearly paid their feveral Salaries, widi 
 Calh Iciit liom our Royal Matter, with which they make a confiderable Figure ; the 
 Planters and Aitificers are generally very poor, ieldom having any Money but when the 
 Soldiers are paid ofF, and then they get a lew Livres, but are immediately obliged to go 
 and pay it to' the Factors, who trufted them for Ibme coarfe Cloathing, and the Faftora 
 lend the Calh to France again, in order for a new Supply of Goods j and the poor Crea- 
 tures iAdom handle a Li\ie more, until the Soldiers are paid oti'again^ and I am bold 
 L to lay, all oui little Farmers and Mechanics are not able to build and fit out a Veflel of 
 nnv Bignels tor a Ibieicn Voyage. If they can own a Fithing-Shailop, they in brave 
 I'cllowy. And were it not lor the Natives, whom, by our extraordinary Pains and In- 
 
 Oiivc'UA's. ]\ui I iin.il now intorm you of the true Reafon why our4'.nemies on the Sca- 
 Couii ic; iibuaduntlv furmount us in Men, Shipping, Trade, i^c. as our Friends inform 
 me : Tlicy lay,, \\ hen thoic I'urilcim Hrlt came over to Nrju-Fttgland, they were diftreffed 
 as wc novs aie, 1( r Want cf M'one);;, and could not fit out a Ship nor Veflel, no better 
 than our Poor ; bur, as Keccllity is the Mother of In\ention, they got into a Method of 
 making I'aper Money, and it loon obtained a Currency ; lb that' in a little Tiipe the 
 leyeral Pioances got into the Praftice, and furnilhed the Inhabitants with large Sums ac 
 an ealy La •■, tnat in a ihoit Time they were enabled to tear up Trees by the Root^ and 
 to fpUc the Rooks in Pi.-ces, clear their Land, fence it in, plough, fow, reap, and mow 
 build Houfcc;, hhipi and Veflels ot^ all Sorts, load them with Malb, Spars, Boardi 
 Staves, Oil, Bc>ne, Filli, Tar, Turpentine, Iron, Beei; Pork, Butter, Cheefe, Whear," 
 Flour, Rice, Tobacco, Skins, Furs, j3c. So that in half a Century they covered the 
 
 lent that Hcnie to their Jyjother Country," to pay tor what Neceffaries they "wanESL 
 having no Lie tor the lame, fo long as Paper Currency anfwers for a Medium of Trad^ 
 
 ^. --..tting Ok Ships and Veflcls, and iri ownine 
 
 ^and htting oi:t Privateers this \\ ar ; lo tliatwe need not wonder die S^were fo full oi 
 
 them out ot A'crth-Jmrica, when all the I rf.rxbitants of all Ranks and Degrees are una- ' 
 
 nimoully agreed to lerve their King and Cotntr}-, and diftrcfs us ; and all by Ae Help 
 
 ot that pernicious Paper Money, that makes them rich and powerful, able to do Wonder? 
 
 ■ by Sea and Land. | am told, the fmall petty Colony o'i Rhcde-Uiin^^ has two hundred 
 
 .-,.„... , ^'^ on making Paper Money, they will 
 drue us tjut ot this Part ot the World, without any Help from their Mother Country 
 And I mull cell you, great Sir, if Half the Force that took Cape Breton^ had come difeaiV ' 
 to Sl:iehck, we jhould have furrendered ; for our chief Concern was about packing up 
 , our All, and vamping off, having a Runhour of their coming ; and we dreaded rfiele ' 
 Pmtaus, knovMng there were none of our Religion amongft themi and they were not 
 to be bribed with Louis d'Ons, as the Kunpeati Officers oiten are. ' 
 
 But the Scheme, 1 propofe, great Sir, is, I have certain Information, that great Num- 
 
 ,..-,, , .. r . - c »w rich by the fame Advantage as they 
 
 got their Lltates by, .It feems moft of the Bch Merchants in the feveral Gov£rnmena 
 were originally mean Farmers and TradefnfiA, as Shoemakers, Taylors, Copperfmidis 
 
 omphlli our Ends by their Help. And to bring this about, great Sir, we muft 
 employ our Friends at Lcfidon and elfewhere, and advife them to make our SccUh Friends 
 in the leveral Towns in Nrx-Enghnd popular, by putting them into Bufmefs, as Mailers 
 ot Ships, and by conligmng large Quantities of Goods to others, which will make them 
 
 th iuch " Mer'' ' — ^— 
 
 Petition to go Home to the<ParUament of Great- Batain, in order, if poflibie, to put 
 
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Stop to the Currency ; and if fuch a Petition ftiould come to' London^ figncd as before men- 
 tioned, you muft enjoin our true Friends in and about Lundon, to fparc no Pains nor 
 Money to get the Petition to {»f8 j and if we brin^ this Scheme about, and ftop a Paper 
 Cdfitncy, I am bold to fay, inftead of their having a hundred large -Privateerj out of 
 Iforth-Jmerifay it will be a Wonder it they have Twenty ; for I am told, xhe Farmer* 
 «nd Tradcfmen have put their Land in Pledge for the Paper Mbney they ht out fo many 
 Veflels with j and the^Ierchanu that have got the^Paper Money in their Hands for the 
 European Goods, dclign, as foon as ever it ii ftopped, and to be called in, to take the 
 Lands that are jn Pledge, from all the common People i fo that all the lower Clafs will 
 become like our Pjpor, to be well off to own a Filliing-Shallop. I would advife omr 
 Scotch Fiiends, as foon as the Paper Money is ftopp'd, and to be called in, to coUeft all 
 "B^ >^ t they poflibly can of that which is outftanding j and by this Method they will come 
 
 ib for a large Share qf Lands, and fo become Ijitle Lairds ; and, it may be, in Haifa 
 (OBntury we may have their feveral Clan's to alfift us, as we have in the Highlands. The 
 pext Method I propofe, is to reduce the richell Merchants among them, and oblige them 
 
 Jto lelfen their Trade ; and that is, great Sir, you muft write to our feveral rich Planters 
 at our Sugar Iflands, and advife them to employ a Number of our polite Frenchmen, and 
 
 fend them into the feveral Sea-Port Towns on the Continent, viz. Bojlonf Rhode-IJJand, 
 New-Jwk, Philadelphia, and where-ever we can carry on Trade j and thefe Men mull gee 
 into Favour with (ome coniiderable Merchant in each Town, to furnifh them with a fuf- 
 
 ficient Number of Veflels, in order to bring over our Produce, fuch as Rum, Sugar, 
 Molafles J in (hort, we muft wink and connive at any of our Produce, to carry on our 
 Scheme j but let Rum be the chief Article, for by our Manufafturing that, we Ihall make 
 double Profit, and deprive our Enemies of that Advantage. .AndthofeMen thus em- 
 ployed, mull impower the Englifb Merchants *to fell our Produce f6r them, who will 
 readily do it for Part of the Gam, and, in order to procure Silver and Gold : For our 
 Planters muft not tak,e any Thing in Return but Calh ; and by this Method we may pro- 
 cure all the hard Money thJt is ftirring anflijjngft them. For when PUper Money is once 
 ftopp'd, there can be no Medium of Trade-* and their Trade will be fo. reduced, that 
 there will be but little of that j and thofc £>r//^ Traders that are not concerned with 
 our Friends, will foon have no Ufe for their Vcffils ; and being often obliged to fell at a 
 low Price, our Friends, muft be employed to buy thajAM Opportunity offers. If this Mer 
 thod) Ifreac Sir, is IndaftrlOufly aBd*&ii!hfiiliy purfu^ind carried on, we ftiall unavoid- 
 ably impoverifh, diftrefs, and confound them : All thp lower Clafs will no more be able 
 %> pay for Cloathing from their Mother Country, bui;,WOft be contented to live as diey. 
 
 ns, and to dwell in Caves and 
 ; obliged to leflen their Trade, 
 fell their Veflels, and no more be able to fend HAne> to their Mother Country fuch 
 Quantities of Silver and Gold. Then nO more Ntw-\„^land Invafions, no more beating ' 
 down our Walls at Cape Breton j apd when we have iri jrfier War, we Ihall not only haVe 
 ^fteir Money, but their Vcffels i and their Men, beijg poor, muft feek Shelter in fom# 
 'i^rergn Land. ' . 
 
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