UO NATURAL AND CIVIL 



could not be derived from the situation or 

 strength of the city, but upon the natural strength 

 of tlie country ; the woods, mountains, waters, 

 defiles and morasses, that the British generals 

 must have to pass, before they could bring their 

 armies around the city. These, he hoped, 

 ?niglit retard the progress of the lingiish armies, 

 or protract tlie war till a general peace should 

 be made, or some favorable event enable the 

 French to afibrd relief to the colony. That 

 nothing might be wanted to animate and allure 

 the inhabitants to make a general and desparate 

 struggle to save the countr}'-, he addressed a cir- 

 cular letter to all the officers of the militia, in 

 this style : 



Mojitrealy Jime S, 1760, 

 " Sir, 



' THE chevalier de Levy is just returned 

 ' to this tovv^n ; he has repeated to me the strong 



* testimony wliich he had before given me, of 



* the good will, the zeal, and ardour of your 



* company of militia. 



' I expected no less fiom the fidelity of tlic 



* brave Canadians, and from their attachment 



* to their native countrj. 



'His majesty, who is by this time, probab- 



* ly informed of your bnlliant victory, wiii be 



* no less pleased with this, than affected with 

 ' the distresses of the colony ; so that suppo- 



* sing that peace has not been concluded, on 



* the receipt of this news, the king of Kngland 



* canriot possibly avoid subscribing such terms 



* as our monarch shall have imposed upon him. 



* You are not uninformed of the great ad- 

 ^ vantages which he gained in Europe during 



