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 THE LOUISBOURG MEDALS. 
 
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TIIK LOUlSHOURCi MKDALS. 
 
 CELEBRATKI) ^coloirjcal writer adopted the 
 phra.sc, •' Medals of Creation, " as a title for 
 one of his works, tluis acknowled^in": the im- 
 portant place that numismatics occupies in histt)ry. 
 For, since the invention of coined money, most tjjreat 
 events have been commemorated and radical clian^es 
 chronicled by this medium. And, while older 
 America has had few, if any, medallists, like those of the 
 mother continent, ever ready to indelibly grave the records 
 of passing events, enough has been done in this direction by 
 which, were our written history blotted out, we might build 
 up a skeleton of the past that could be clothed with flesh 
 by those who tell of deeds of valor in the "Old times in the 
 Colonies." 
 
 Every medallic memento of this past has been sought 
 out and treasured up with great care and, from time to time, 
 made to yield up stories of how the savage continent was 
 reduced to law and order. The most interesting, to us, are 
 those which relate to the struggles for the mastery and the 
 final victory of one of the two diverse forms by which two 
 races attempted to work out this problem. The object of 
 this paper is, therefore, to givt .1, history of the numismatic 
 mementoes of the first decided success in this grand victory 
 ( f free institutions on this continent. 
 
 After the capture of Acadia and its final cession in 
 1713, to (ireat Ikitain, the French felt the necessity for a 
 better tlcfence (A their frontier. \ chain of forts was 
 therefore begun that fi nail \' extended from the island of 
 Cape Breton to the Ohio river. I'iiese guarded every 
 accessible avenue leading into the country ; atid around 
 each of them one or more battles were Anight and deeds of 
 valor enacted worthy to be recorded in the most brilliant 
 pages of history. 
 
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As the treaty that ceded Nova Scotia to the English, 
 permitted the French to retain pose.ssion of Cape Breton 
 they chose, for the site of their Fort, one of its harbours 
 called Havre aux Anglaise, because in earlier times when 
 the Island was not appropriated by any power, the Fnglish 
 fishermen were vvont to resort to it to dry their fish ; as did 
 the Spaniards to what is now called Sydney Harbour. 
 There the French built and fortified a town calling it 
 Louisbourg in honour of their King. It was to be a strong 
 place where the fleet engaged in the Gulf fisheries could 
 resort in times of danger ; and which would be an outward 
 bulwark to protect the St. Lawrence shipping trade from 
 the raids and encroachments from New England. Vast 
 sums were expended on masonry and earthworks ; and so 
 strong did the fortifications appear that the town was con- 
 sidered impregnable. When, in 1720, it was completed it 
 was a proud day for the inhabitants of New France. A 
 medal was struck in commemoration of the event the obverse 
 of which bears the bust of the child King with the long 
 hair so fashionable at that time and the reverse a tolerably 
 good view of the town and harb.iur. Two or three vessels 
 are represented as lying at the wharves in the harbour, one 
 or two others sailing out to sea and some fishing bo.its 
 making for the port. The whole view, when compared 
 with old plans, seems very accurate, shewing as it does, the 
 pond or marsh near the entrance of the harbour and the 
 bastions of the fortifications. Thanks to the care with which 
 the French Government has guarded the dies, prepared 
 under its authority, restrikes of this medal can easily be 
 had from the Musee Monetaire, specimens may therefore 
 be found in many collections of medals relating to America. 
 Two other varieties besides the one described above have 
 come under my notice ; both, apparently, the result of care- 
 lessness in the handling of the dies. One has, for an obverst-, 
 an older head of the King, apparently much older than he 
 could have been when Louisbourg was built. The other 
 
has the reverse of the medal struck in commemoration of the 
 treaty of 1763. I'eace is r«;|)resenteci as standing with an 
 olive branch in her hand wliile war. as a naked male fij^ure, 
 is seated bound on a oatterinj^ ram. A curious medal when 
 we consider that one sitlc represents the founding of the 
 place which was ceded to the nation a«;ainst whose 
 encroachments it was built, by the treaty commemorated 
 on the other side. The mistake that produced this medal 
 occurred under my own knowlde{^c, for liavin^ ordered two 
 or three of each of these two medals to be struck at the 
 medal mint at Paris, what was my suri)risc, on ex- 
 amining my purchase, to find the two obverses and the two 
 reverses muled to<rcther. forming the medal as described 
 above, and another with a head of the king for reverse ns 
 well as obverse ; one at the age of ten the other at fifty. 
 
 h'or a time the fortifications were kept in good repair 
 and additions and iinproxements were made as necessity 
 suggested, hut, towards the beginning of 1745, they were 
 neglected and allowed to become ruinous. The (iarrison 
 also was greatly reduced. During the year an expedition 
 was fitted out at Ik^ston, and sailing for Louisbourg in- 
 vested the place, whicii, after a siege of some weeks, cap- 
 itulated. It remained ir the hands of the English Colonists 
 until the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle when, much against 
 their wishes, it was r<>turned to France. On regaining 
 possession of the town, work was immediately begun by the 
 French, in the repairing, enlarging and improving of the 
 fcirtifications. Although much of this money was diverted 
 from the purpose for which it was intended to the pockets 
 of a peculating governor and dislionest contractors the 
 work was at length completed ; and so strong was Loui.n- 
 bourg believed to be that it was called the "Dunkirk of 
 America " and was considered to be the greatest fortress on 
 the continent. And yet, from the use of salt-water in mix- 
 in<r tile mortar, it was easily crumbled and, as some of 
 the provisions of the original plan were not carried out, 
 
tlic fottirications were by no means s«) slroiij^ as tliey 
 appeaietl. 
 
 I'lom tliis safe ret. eat raids were made on the colonial 
 fishing fleet and expeditions fitted out af^ainst the coasts 
 of Nova Scotia and New I'^n^Iand. The colonists so con- 
 tinued to long for its capture : that one or two expedi- 
 tions were organized for that purpose but they came to 
 nothing. Although more poj)ulous than Canada, the separate 
 and almost independent linglish colonies were weak in 
 organization. J hey, instead of acting together kept up 
 constant disputings or quarrelling with their governors 
 about [jrerogatives and powers, refusing to \'ote the supplies 
 and men necessary for the defence of tiie country until 
 sotne trivial dispute should be granted. Meanwhile the 
 French colony, less populous and so dependent that save 
 at the dictates of the king it could not move hand or 
 foot, but with a united front and supi)iied with money, 
 munitions and men by that king, seemed to be victorious 
 in every direction, dealing devastation all along an un- 
 guarded frontier. P2specially, after the battle of the 
 Monongahela did the Canadians, by the aid of their Indian 
 allies, spread death and desolation throughout the border 
 settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. In the mean 
 time the generals, sent out from England by Newcastle 
 to conduct the war, proved so incompetent that they more 
 often led their troops to ambush and disaster than to 
 victory. Defeat following defeat told of the encroachments 
 of their northern neighbours. The extinction of the 
 "American Colonies" seemed at hand. Although a crusade 
 against the modern Babylon was preached from the New 
 I'^ngland pulpits the New Englanders seemed paralyzed. 
 
 Hut at length a change came. Pitt, by the will of the 
 P^nglish people, was made Prime Minister and new generals 
 — competent men — superseded Newcastle's favorites. Hope 
 again seemed to revive throughout the colonies, the French 
 were brought to a stand-still. But that did not satisfy 
 
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 Pitt who aimed at nothing less than tlic extinction of 
 their dominion in America. With tiiis end in view an 
 expedition was fitted out. in I75J<, a^Minst Louisbourg. 
 The command was pfiven to Aihniral lioscawen wlio had 
 elsewiiere distinguished himself for bravery and discretion. 
 
 On the first of June the whit' sails of the luipfhsh fleet 
 were seen off Louisbourg, but on account of the stormy and 
 tempestuous wcatiier, it was not until the eighth that a 
 landing, under Wolfe, was effected. Batteries were soon 
 erected and the siege began in good earnest. Wolfe after- 
 wards the Hero of Quebec seemed ever present in the strife 
 encouraging, planning and pressing forward operations. An 
 unabating and ever nearing storm of shot and shell was 
 poured into the doomed town. The place became at length 
 almost untenable ; so untenable, indeed, that, on the twenty 
 fifth of July, Drucour, the Governor, hoisted a flag of truce. 
 Negotiations were comj)leted and the terms of capitulation 
 signed at midnight. On the morning of the twenty-sixth 
 the Union Jack floated over the wreck of that bulwark of 
 the French Dominion in the New World. 
 
 This, the first decisive victory for the upholders of, and 
 the perpetuation of free institutions in the new land so 
 bravely won, filled the Jiearts of New Knglanders as well 
 as Old Englanders with joy. They saw the final triumph 
 near at hand and from the pulpits of the one came pceans of 
 praise for a fallen Babylon, and the public places, of the other 
 from end to end of the land, glowed with the beacon fires 
 of gladness over a defeated foe. 
 
 Medalists too, were not slow in contributing to the public 
 joy. Although not so loud or so brilliant, their indelible 
 work is more lasting and more apparent to us who live "in 
 these degenerate days" than songs of triumph or fires of joy. 
 No less than eleven medals chronicle this event varying in 
 design and excellency of workmanship, some, the work of 
 skilled artists, are beautiful in themselves, but others, the 
 work of untrained men, are only treasured for the events they 
 
were struck to celebrate. All of them were cither executed 
 in London or Birniin^hatn and seem to be the work of five 
 different engravers. Hy the first, who has not recorded his 
 name, there are two varieties. One lias the bust of George 
 II for the obverse ; and, for reverse, a figure of Britannia in a 
 chariot ilrawn by a Hun over ground strewn \\\\.\\ Jlcur-de- 
 lis. By her right hind walks Justice, and on her left Liberty. 
 This medal was struck to commemorate the British victories 
 of 1758, of which eight are enumerated thereon, three of 
 them being in North America. That of Louisbourg, which 
 by the way, is dated on the medal July 27th instead of July 
 26th, as the most important, appears in the most prominent 
 place. The other has the same reverse muled with the re- 
 verse of a similar medal struck to commemorate the victories 
 of 1759. 
 
 The next variety i>^ also by an unknown medalist and is 
 perhaps, the rarest. 1 he workmanship although not of the 
 highest order, lacking as it does in finer finish and ths more 
 delicate touches of the true artist, is bold and original. The 
 obverse has a rather expressionless head of Britannia with a 
 trident, the emblem of supremacy at sea, behind it, and the 
 words "O fair Britannia, hail". The reverse represents a 
 winged Victory standing on the prow of an ancient war vessel ; 
 in her right hand she holds a wreath and in her left a palm 
 branch. The dies, especially that of the reverse, seem to 
 have given way before many impressions were struck. All 
 of the few specimens, that have come under my notice, shew 
 a deep indented break on the left of the reverse. This pro- 
 bably accounts for its scarcity. A medal much after the 
 same design and apparently by the same person, was struck 
 on the capture of Goree, off the coast of Africa, in the same 
 year. 
 
 The next is by Kirk, a well known medallist and one 
 whose works are still cherished, apart from the subject which 
 they treat. The art displayed is of a higher order than any 
 other of the series. The obverse is like that of the last but 
 
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the face of Rritannin h.is an expression of sadness. A lib- 
 erty cap, which with the trident acconipnny the head, indi- 
 cates that freedom as well as Britannia triumphed throu^rh 
 this sucess. The reverse represents Victory running with a 
 palm branch, a shield ami an ancient cuirass on a pole over 
 her left shoulder. In her ri^ht hand she carries a iar^^er fish 
 and a number of sm.iller ones above it, while, the battle 
 trophies represent sucess in war, the ^reat and smaller fish 
 represent the capture and seem to arLjuc for the retention 
 of the important Island of Cape Breton and the smaller 
 islands dependent thereon. 
 
 The medal by l'inj,fO is by far the most original in desi^rp 
 and in execution, and little, if anythinj^, behind that of Kirk. 
 The central object on the obverse is a large globe showing 
 a map of the eastern part of North America which is in- 
 scribed " Canada" ami "America." The latter is intended 
 to indicate the iMiglish Colonies; a term still used in Kng- 
 gland for these colonies as rei)resented by the United States. 
 This globe seems to be crushing a naked female figure who 
 lies prostrate on a rock and who is pointing to an inverted 
 flcur-dc-lisy or, rather, the Jhur-de lis has just dropped 
 from her grasp. This represents the crushing out of I*Vench 
 rule in the New World and the loss of the great colony. 
 To the right of the globe is a sailor, representative of New 
 England with his hat raised, apparently cheering ; and on 
 the left is a British soldier who is pointing to Canada on 
 the map to tell the colonist that Canada his enemy will 
 soon be captured and that the danger that has so long 
 menaced his existence will be removed, The inscription 
 '■^Paritur in bello'^ tells that, although in the days of the 
 Newcastle regime, the English soldier despised the colonial 
 militiaman, that, in these latter days of success, they were 
 equal in war. Fame blowing a trumpet and the Union 
 Jack fill up the balance of the space on the obverse. The 
 reverse gives a view, and a very good one too, of the 
 harbour during the last days of the siege. A shell from the 
 
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 battery in the foreground has set fire to the French ship 
 Prudent and the sailors are out in a number of small boats 
 towing her away from the battery where she was likely to 
 strand and cause damage. A ball from the battery is about 
 to strike in the town. Part of the British fleet appears 
 anchored at the entrance of the harbour and to the left is 
 Lighthouse Point shewing the lighthouse. The whole 
 scene is vivid and full of life and action. 
 
 The remaining six medals seem to be the work of one 
 man or by those who were close imitators of his work. All 
 but one are similar in design although differing considerably 
 in detail and are of a low order of workmanship, much in- 
 ferior in execution to any of the rest of the series. They 
 are said to have been issued by a man named Christopher 
 Pinchbeck who commenced business in London in the early 
 part of the eighteenth century, as a watchmaker and 
 jeweller. His name still lives in the language in the word 
 pinchbeck which means in slang anything inferior or deterior- 
 ated as used by Anthony TroUope in Framly Parsonage, 
 "Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the 
 old agricultural virtue in all its purity." In ordinary Eng- 
 lish it designates an alloy of copper and zinc in which con- 
 siderably more of the latter metal is used than in making 
 brass. This invention of Pinchbeck is thus described in a 
 manuscript written about 1725 : — "Mr. Xtopher Pinchbeck 
 has a curious secret of a new metal w^h so naturally 
 resembles gold (as not to be distinguished by ye most 
 experienced eye) in color, smell and ductibility, yc secret is 
 communicated to his son." This alloy before it has become 
 tarnished has all the appearance of colored gold ; and so 
 popular was it in those days that Pinchbeck made vast 
 quantities of cheap jewellery, watch cases and ornamental 
 articles from it. He also made a musical clock which was 
 much admired and which he sold to the King of France in 
 1729, for j^ 1 500. Pinchbeck was a well-known character 
 in London. He invented a pair of snuffers which he made 
 
of his favorite metal and presented them to the king. This 
 "event," a local poet, named McGregor celebrated in an ode 
 in which he thus addressed his hero : 
 
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 •'Illustrioui Pinchbeck ! condescend, 
 
 Thou well-beloved, and \>e*t King's friend. 
 
 These lyric lines to vie*v ; 
 
 Or may they prompt thee, e'er too late, 
 
 To snuff the candle of the State, 
 
 That burns a little blue I " 
 
 Pinchbeck wrote a poetical reply ; and the two pamphlets 
 were so popular that they reached their eighth edition. He 
 seems to have gone extremely ii.t^ the medal business as 
 many of the Admiral Vernon medals, glorifying the capture 
 of Carthagena in 1741, some, relating to the suppression of 
 the rising of the Highlanders in favor of the Stuarts in 
 1745, and others, commemorating memorable events in the 
 eighteenth century, were struck by him. Pinchbeck seems 
 to have given up the meilal business shortly after the Louis- 
 bourg medals were struck as I have come across nothing of 
 a later issue which can be classed as his work. Had he 
 continued to issue medals he would not have neglected such 
 an important event as the taking of Quebec. 
 
 All the medals issued by Pinchbeck, are rude in design 
 and poorly executed. They have a worn or old and dirty 
 appearance shewing that the metal pinchbeck from which 
 many of them seem to have been made, although so like 
 gold when fresh and new, became, with wear more unsightly 
 even than old brass. Five of these medals bear a figure, 
 not by any means a likeness, of Boscawen on the obverse 
 with the inscription "Adml Boscawen took Cape Breton"; 
 lauding the General or Admiral in command of the expedi- 
 tion as do all the Pinchbeck medals. The reverses have a 
 view intended to represent the siege of Louisbourg but as 
 unlike Louisbourg as it is unlike anything else in nature or 
 art. They all differ in detail, some have one hill, others 
 two, and one three. The ships, are what a Chinese junk 
 would be ashamed of, differ in number and position while 
 
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 men appear as great wedges with caps on. Perspective is 
 so outraged as to make one wonder if a blacksmith would 
 not have done better. A town, consisting of one large 
 house and five or six smaller ones, clusters at the foot of a 
 hill upon which is a tower from which a flag is drooping, in 
 one variety a ball just fired from a mortar, is about to crash 
 through the tower, in another Louisbourg is spelled without 
 the last " u " ; and in still another the date is pushed for- 
 ward ten years, reading 1768. The inscription reads in 
 four "Louisbourg lul 26 1758" while one has "Louisbourg 
 harbour lul 26 1758." The sixth is totally different in de- 
 sign having, on the obverse, the usu.d figure of lioscawen 
 with the inscription " To lirave Adml Hoscawn" and the 
 reverse "I surrender prisoner 1758 " Drucour is represented 
 on one knee surrendering his sword to Boscawen who is 
 standing with his sword stretched over his prisoner's head. 
 
 These, then, remind us of a town that is no more. Her 
 fortifications are dismantled and sheep peacefully graze on 
 the mounds that mark her battlements. No merchant 
 vessel enters the harbour and only once in a while does a 
 fishing boat visit the hamlet of impoverished fishermen that 
 clusters on the opposite shore. Here it was, that one hun- 
 dred and thirty years ago. four thousand people cowered 
 and hid from the hissing bombs and thudding balls that 
 spread desolation and made the wild and uninhabited waste 
 that now remains. Here freedom and self-dependence 
 fought against absolutism and dependence and here the first 
 vantage in this final struggle in America, was gained for the 
 former. Shall we then not cherish in thes momentoes the 
 names and memory of the dead heroes whose triumph has 
 made this continent a land of liberty. 
 
 LIST OF MEDALS RELATING TO LOUISBOURG. 
 
 All these medals, but two, are in my own collection and 
 those I have had by me while writing this paper. Thus 
 every variety has been verified and carefully prepared. I 
 
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 am unaware of the existence of any other varieties ; although 
 Sandham describes two others. These, after carefully 
 examining every collection accessible to me, and after writ- 
 ing to owners of collections that I have had no opportunity 
 to inspect, I have come to the conclusion do not exist. 
 
 1. (9^7V— I^UDOVICUS XV. IJ. G. FR. ET NAV. REX. Youthful 
 
 bust of the king, with long hair. Under the bust 
 which faces to right l)U VIVIKR. 
 /?^7';— LUDOVICOIJURGUM FUNDATUM ET MUXITUM. 
 
 Ex : M. Dec. XX. A view of the town and harbour 
 of Louisbourg. Bronze; size, 41 milliinctrcs. 
 
 2. (9/w.-— LUDOVicus XV. REX ciiRisTiANissiMUs. Laure- 
 
 ated older head of the King to the right. 
 Rev: — Same as last. Bronze, size 41 ;;/. 
 
 3. Obv:—VAX UBIQUE VICTRIX iVl :— GALLORUM ET BRIT- 
 
 AxVORUM I COxVCORDL\ | MDCCLXIII. Peace to the 
 right standing with an olive branch in her extended 
 right hand, and a caduceus in her left. At her feet, 
 seated on a battering ram is War as a nade male 
 figure bound, surrounding them are flags, battle-axes, 
 and other implements of ancient warfare. Bronze ; 
 size, 41 JH. 
 
 4. Obv :—G]LOKG\m IJ. REX. Laureated bust of the king 
 
 to the left. 
 Rev: — SEXIGAE MAE 2. MARSH .NFASON. ST. MAEOS 
 lUN. 16. ALVREBORO. CHERBOURG AUG. 1 6. HOWE. 
 LOUISBOURG. lUE. 27. BOSCAWEX. AMHERST. 
 FRONT. AUG. 27. BRAUSTREET. DUQUESNE NOV. 24 
 
 FORBES. GOREE. DEC. 29. KEPPEE. Britannia in a 
 chariot drawn by a lion over ground strewn with 
 Fkurs-de-li'^ by her right walks Justice, and on her 
 left Liberty. Above is a scroll inscribed FCEDUS- 
 INVICTUM. and underneath the date MDCCLVlii. 
 Brass ; size 43 m. 
 
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 5. (9/;7^:— GUADALOUPK baringn moork. may I. 
 
 NIAGARA JOHNSON lULY. 2$. QUKHKC WOLFE 
 
 MONCKN TOWNS'.> SEP. 1 3 and 18 CROWN POINT 
 AMII1:RST AUG. 4. LAGOS UOSCAWEN AUG. I9. 
 HAWKE QUEBERON NOV. 20. MINDEN FERDINAND 
 
 AUG. I. A shield witli a Jlcur-de-lis reversed, 
 supporters a lion to the left and a unicorn to the 
 right. Garter inscribed perfidia EVERSa and rib- 
 bons with w. PITT. AUSP. GEO. II PR. MI. underneath 
 is the date MDCCLIX. Brass ; size 43 m. 
 
 6. (9/^z^:—0. FAIR BRITANNIA HAIL. A nude female bust 
 
 to the left. From behind tlie bust appears the top 
 of a trident. 
 Rev .•— LOVISBOVRG TAKEN. MDCCLVIII. Victory to the 
 right standing on ]jro\v the of an ancient war vessel. 
 In her right hand she holds a wreath and in her left 
 a palm branch. Copper ; size 39 m. 
 
 7. Obv .•— O • FAIR • BRITANNIA • HAIL. 
 
 A nude female bust to the left, with a liberty cap 
 before and a trident behind, underneath is L KIRK. 
 
 Rev : — LOVISBOVRG • TAKEN ' MDCCL VIII. 
 
 EX:— I -KIRK- F. Victory to the right running, in 
 her hand is a large fish with a numberof smaller fish, 
 es above it, and in her left a palm branch on a pole 
 with a shield bearing a fleur-de-lis and an ancient 
 cuirass. Bronze, size 41 ?«. 
 8 Obv .—A globe inscribed CANADA AMERICA, resting on 
 a nude female figure which is prostrate on a rock, 
 and is pointing to an inverted fleur-de-lis, on the left 
 of the globe is a soldier with musket and bayonet 
 pointing to Canada on the globe, and to the left is a 
 sailor waving his hat. Over the globe is a scroll 
 inscribed PARITER -IN • BELLA, behind it the Union 
 Jack, and above. Fame with a wreath in her left hand 
 blowing a trumpet. In the distance are five small 
 boats and a high rock. To the left on the rock is 
 T. PINGO • F. Bronze, 44 fn. 
 
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 Rev: — LOVISHOVRG'TAKKN* MDCCL VIII. 
 
 View of Louisbourg liarbor. In the foreground is a 
 battery firing on two war vessels one of which is 
 burning, to the right is the town and in the distance 
 are six vessels, on the left is Lighthouse Point, 
 
 9 Obv : — ADML. HOSCAWKN • TOOK ' CAl'E ' HRKTON. 
 
 Half length figure of Boscawen in mailed armour to 
 the right. 
 Rev: — LoviSHOVRG. Ex'.—\\5\. 26 1758. 
 
 A rude view, intended for, but altogether unlike the 
 town and harbor of Louisbourg. To the right is a 
 hill surmounted by a tower. A ball from a mortar 
 is about to strike the tower, and the flag seems to be 
 about to drop or is being lowered. The town is 
 clustered at the foot of the hill. To the left is a 
 small tower with six men around it. In the harbor 
 in front of the town are five vessels, three small and 
 two large ones. Brass, or better. Pinchbeck, size40 ;«. 
 
 10 Odv : — Same as last. 
 
 Rm: — LOVISHOVRG Bx: — lUL 26 1758. 
 
 Similar view but the hill is larger and the mortar 
 and ball are wanting there are only two men beside 
 the tower. To the right two small and two laiger 
 vessels. Copper, or dark mixed metal, size 41 ;«. 
 
 I I Odv : — ADML. BOSCAWEN TOOK CAPE BRETON. 
 
 Three quarters figure of Boscawen to the right in 
 naval uniform. In his right hand he holds a baton. 
 Rev:—LO\\is]iQy,R(:. jF;r.;-rTlUt..:£6,.j;i68,.. Similar view 
 but th4 C"^vy<»l";on;fh^ tiS'J^tG^thfc idPt. There are five 
 small N^^s.^elli* dh*d two* laVger ones! Brass, size 37 m. 
 
 12 Odv. — Si^itlif. tit 'JasC ba.vf»tIifer&jare.?cj\Ver 'buttons on the 
 coat anca tKe'lDaton is'sWttr* * ** "' 
 
 Rev. — LOUISBURG HARBOUR. £x. lUL 26 1758. Sim- 
 ilar view. There are three hills with the tower on 
 the one to the left. The other hills are each sur- 
 mounted with a small building. Ir the harbour are 
 four small vessels and one large one. Brass, size 37 m. 
 
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 13. Obv. — Similar to No. 1 1. 
 
 Rev\ — LOVISBOVRG Ex\ lUL. 26. 1758. Similar 
 view. Tower on rising ground to the left, other buil- 
 dings scattered over the field. There are no men 
 standing beside the smaller tower to the right. In 
 the harbour, there are five small vessels and two 
 large ones. Brass size 23;«. 
 
 14. Obv: — TO BRAVE ADML BOSCAVVEN. Figure of Bos- 
 
 cawen as in No. 9. 
 
 Rev. — 1 SURRENDER PRISONER Ex, 1758. Drucour to 
 the right on one knee handing his sword to Boscaweni 
 "■'ITll Copper size 26 ;;/. 
 
 R. W. McLachlan. 
 
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