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>vas necessary to carry into effect an act of the 

 British Parliament for quartering their troops.* 

 In an hour of resentment he wrote to governor 

 Pownall, November 15, 1757. " I have order- 



* ed the messenger to wait but forty eight hours 



* in Boston ; and if, upon his return, I iiMd 

 f things not settled, I will instantly order into 



* Boston the three battalions frOm New York, 



* Long Island, and Connecticut, and if more are 

 '■ wanted, I have two in the Jersles at hand, be- 

 ■^ sides three in Pennsylvania." The return not 

 being agreeable to*his lordship's feeling, he gave 

 orders that the troops should march. The 

 matter being properly explained, his lordship 

 wrote again, December 26th, " As I can now 



* depend upon the assembly's making the point 



* of quarters easy in all time coming, I have 



* countermanded the march of the troops."* 

 While Loudon was engaged in such exploits, 

 Webb w^as safe at fort Edward j towards which 

 the enemy could not approach with much force, 

 during the winter. The French only were in a 

 state of activity and enjoyment : Instead of 

 proving distressing or mortifying to them, the 

 war had served to enlarge the boundaries of 

 Canada, to fill it wdth prisoners and scalps, with 

 private plunder, with public stores, arms, pro- 

 visions, and other trophies of triumph, 



1758. The misfortunes and disgraces which 

 had attended the war for three campaigns had 

 been the occasion of ridicule and triumph to the 

 French, and had spread the spirit of jealousy 

 and discontent in every part of Great Britain, 



* Gordoa's Hist. Amcricaa 'War, Vol. I. p. 96. 



