Ch.VII. south AMERICA. 3Í9 



by the Englifh, not lefs out of efteem for that valour 

 which a concurrence of misfortunes had forced to yield, 

 than from adefire of putting an advantageoTJS period to 

 a ftatc of life, which had drawn them from their do- 

 meftic concerns, and was not at all agreeable to their 

 difpoficion. The officers of the befieged were not 

 ignorant, that the moft favourable opportunity of repel- 

 ling the enemy, was to fall on them when they were 

 beginning their works, in order to form their approaches; 

 yet fuch was the miitruft from the too recent mutinies 

 of the regular troops, that though they themfelves made 

 the offer, a fally was not judged advifcable, fearing that 

 the foldiers in their prefent difcontent, being once with- 

 out the walls, would go over to the enemy, either from 

 a dread of the punifhmcnts which they were confcious 

 their difobedience deferved, and would on fome favour- 

 able opportunity be inflided on them; or to be revenged 

 for the opprefiions which they had undergone from 

 their commanders. 



Under a combination of contrary events, and with a 

 weak garrifon, this place held out a fiege of fix weeks; 

 not furrendering till the end of June. By this fuccefs 

 England made an acquifition of new dominions, and 

 the colony of B often acquired an increafe of territory} 

 profperous before throughout its large inland extent, it 

 only wanted thi^ ifland to command the whole coaft : 

 and Louiibourg being now annexed to it, a ihort ac* 

 count of this colony will not perhaps ^e unacceptable. 



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