3?4 A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



which received the firil notice of the defign from the 

 appearance of the arnarnent. 



1 HA already nk-niioned that France every year 

 fends a remittance to Louiibourg of money and pro- 

 vifious for the payment and fiibfiftence of the garrifon; 

 and for the repairs and improvemcni: of the fortifica- 

 tions : at which the fcldiers themfelves, when not on 

 guard, very gladly work as being a comfortable ad- 

 dition to their pay. But through covetoufnefs, one of 

 the general vices of mankind, thofe who were com- 

 miíTioned with the payment of the foldiers, and even 

 the very officers of the garrifon, befides wronging them 

 in what they earned by their work, curtailed them 

 even in their fubfiftence money. This v/as no recent 

 evil j and on the death of the governor, the foregoing 

 winter, the opprefiion of the rapacious paymaflers 

 and officers rofe to fuch an excefs as twice to occafion 

 a mutiny in the garrifon, and for want of timely 

 lenitives, thefe refentments contributed not a little to 

 the lofs of the place. 



TfjE garrifon of Louiibourg and all its forts, 

 confided only of fix hundred French and Swifs re- 

 gulars, and eight hundred militia ; formed of all the 

 innabitants capable of bearing arms. The governor 

 of Canada, who was not ignorant of the difcontented 

 ñate of the garrifon, and knowing that even with an 

 unanimous zeal, it was not a fufficient number in 

 tmic of war for a place of fuch confequence, had, 

 without any knowledge of what v/as on the carpet,- 

 offered to lend a reiniorcement to Louiibourg. But 

 the commandant, cither apprehending that there 

 wr-jld be no occafion for making ufe of thofe fuc- 

 CGurs, or that he judged the ulual force fufficient for 

 its defence, or for foine other fccret reafon, thanked 

 the goveiQor of Canada for his offer, and told him 

 ih::i on ¿-ny appearance of cLanp-r he would em- 

 brace it. . It was not long after before he faw Jiim- 

 felf funoiinded by die enemy i and all the wiys for 



applying 



