646 A. D. 1689. 



' of it, they are fince increafed to 50,000 families, all fubjed to the 

 ' company's laws. Laftly, the company had made a moft fuccefsful 



* war with the mogul, and brought him to reafonable terms, confirmed 

 ' by that prince's own phirmaund, and fecured by a ilrong garrilbn at 

 ' Bombay; which, being one of the befl ports in India, and lying fo 



* near Surat, the great emporium of the Indian trade to Arabia, Perfia, 

 ' Ballbra, and the Red fea, if the Englifh trade had not been brought 

 ' thither to load home, and not at the river of Surat, as formerly, it 



* would not have been near fo beneficial.' This is indeed a very pomp- 

 ous view of that company's condition, as publilhed by themfelves ; but 

 their enemies foon after gave a very different view of it. 



1690. — Befides the benefits elfewhere mentioned, as received by Eng- 

 land from the French king's revocation of the edift of Nantes in 1685, 

 it did good fervice to the Englilh colonies in America ; and particularly 

 in the year 1 690, when King William fettled fome hundreds of French 

 refugee families on the fouth fide of James's river in Virginia, above the 

 falls, where they have fince much improved that naturally-fine country. 



The French in the province of Canada growing troublelome neigh- 

 bours to the Englifli province of New-York, by endeavouring to draw 

 to themfelves the whole trade of peltry with the Indian nations, the go- 

 vernment of New-York made an attempt on Quebec, the capital town 

 of Canada, difi:ant about 400 or 500 miles from New- York city. For 

 this end they marched from Albany, with 300 Englhh and 300 allied 

 Iroquois Indians ; and though the FrencTi governor of Canada had with 

 him above double the number of regular troops, befides Indians, yet the 

 Englifh defeated him, and killed about 300 of his men : but not having 

 artillery, &c. proper for attacking their forts, which furely they fhould 

 have forefeen, they were fain to be content with this vidory, and fo to 

 return home. 



But in this fame year General Coddrington, commander in chief of 

 the Englifh leeward iflands, had better fuccefs in the Weft-Indies ; for, 

 by the help of fuccours from England, joined to the regiments he had 

 raifed in thofe iflands, he retook from the French, with the lofs of 200 

 men, the ifland of St. Chriftophers, from whence he conveyed the French 

 inhabitants, confifting of i ,800 men, befides women and children, to 

 Hilpaniola and Martinico. The fame year he likewife retook the ifle 

 of St. Euflatia, which the French had, the preceding year, taken from 

 the Dutch : he alfo took from the French St. Martins and St. Bar- 

 tholomew, but he failed in his attempt on Guadaloupe. 



Sir William Phipps, with a fleet and land forces from New-England, fail- 

 ed for Nova-Scotia, and took the fort and town of Port-Royal, fince nam- 

 ed Annapolis Royal, in the bay of Fundy, which had fo greatly annoyed 

 our commerce in America, by means of the French privateers, as to ob- 

 tain the appellation of the Dunkirk of America. He alfo deraolifhed a 



