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hav£ made levies of armed men, that we have hur- 

 ried with ardour into new undertakings, that we 

 have laid down and begun the fined projects, and 



in the end have deferted them all indeed to 



be fuccefsful in fuch enterprises we. ought to be 

 "well fupported ; but we ought like wife to have men 

 of refolution, who will not retracl, but carry this 

 point of honour always in their eyes, to conquer or 

 die, it being a great and a glorious thing to die in 

 the execution of a noble defign, fuch as laying the 

 foundations of a new kingdom, or eftablifliing the 

 Chriftian faith among a people unacquainted with 

 the true God." I could pufh thefe reflections a 

 great deal, farther, but am cautious of engaging in 

 a difpute, into which I neither can nor Ought to en- 

 ter with the knowledge I have of it at prefent. 



I come now to the commerce of Canada. This 

 has turned for a long time folely upon the fifhery 

 and fur- trade. The cod- fifhery had been carried 

 on upon the great bank, and the coafls of New- 

 foundland, long before the difcovery of the river 

 St. Laurence, but we were too late in making a fet- 

 tkment on that ifland, and fuffered the Englifh to 

 get the ftart of us. At laft we got poffeffion of 

 the harbour and bay of Placentia, where our royal 

 fquadrons have been at anchor oftener than once ; 

 we have withftood lieges there, and the Canadian 

 militia have performed warlike exploits in that place 

 which are not inferior to thofe of the braveft bu- 

 caneers of St. Domingo. They have frequently 

 laid wafte the Settlements, and ruined the trade of 

 the Englifh in that iOand but that people, from 

 whom we eafily took their flrongeh: places, were 

 too well acquainted with their enemies to be difcon- 

 certed in their meafures. Accuftomed to behold 

 the Canadian fire kindle in the frozen regions of the 

 3 north, 



