312, ’The Discoveries 
ana Sciiooi-mafter perceived all their Labour was loft^ 
and that they were frequently in Danger of their Lives 
if they went out of the Fort. The Society received thefe 
Accounts with much Diffatisfaftion, as bein^ extremely 
contrary to what their good Defires had made them hope. 
However, they were fo unwilling to abandon this wretch- 
ed People to themfeives, that they would not difmifs 
Mr. yjndrews from his MifTion, upon his own Repre- 
fentation of his ill Succefs. They wrote to the Govern- 
or of iSew I’orkj Robert Hunter Efq; acquainted him 
with the Accounts they had received, and requefted the 
Favour of his Excellency to caufe an Inquiry to be made, 
whether Mr. Andrews’s, Labours were fo fruitlefs among 
the Indians^ and fubmitted to his ^Judgment to difmiis 
Mr. Andrews if they flioiild be fo%und. The Accounts 
tranfmitted A^«hft^^^^ found true upon Examination, 
aifd fMr. Andrews left that miferable Race of Men. 
? We have chofen to give the whole of this remarkable 
Account together, that the Reader may fee, and be fully 
apprifed of the many and great Obftacles that lie in the 
Way of our bringing the Indians to embrace our Interefl; 
together with our Religion ; but there are ftill Hopes, 
that. as the Society proceeds in the great Defign of fet- 
tling a regular Clergy in our Colonies, and thereby in- 
fluencing the Planters, not only to profefs, but to drew, 
themfeives Chriftians ; thefe Obftacles will be leffened by 
Degrees, and the Indians come to have a better Opi- 
nion of our Faith, in the fame Proportion that they grow 
better pleafed with the Juftice and Regularity of our 
Behaviour towards them ; but in the mean Time what 
has been related fhews that this important Taflc has not 
remained unattempted, and that if it has been in fome 
Meafure interrupted, this Interruption was occafioned 
by Accidents unforefeen, inevitable, and in their Nature 
hitherto unconquerable. 
7. But it is now Time for us to proceed to that great 
and fingular Expedition, undertaken in the Qiieen’s Reign, 
for difpoffeffing the French of ^ebec, and driving them 
entirely out of Canada. This was firft conceived 
pradticable, and Meafures taken for putting it in Execu- 
tion, in the Year i yoy, at which Time the Earl of Sun- 
derland.^ then Secretary of State, wrote to the Govern- 
ment of New England^ to prepare for giving what Af- 
fiftance lay in their Power, towards a Defign of fuch 
Importance to, and fo often recommended by, the Peo- 
ple of that Colony ; who from the Time Sir William 
Phipps mifearried in it, were continually wilhing for an 
Opportunity to recover their Credit, and to revenge their 
Lofs upon the French, by renewing their Attempts upon 
Canada. The Perfon then intended to command the 
Land Troops, was General Maccartney, and every thing 
was fettled with refped; to his Voyage, when the fatal 
Battle of Almanza, in Spain, made it abfolutely necefla- 
ry to fend the 1 hoops defigned for this Service into that 
Country, to prevent the total Ruin of the late Emperor’s, 
then King Charles, Affairs. The Circumftances of the 
War in fucceeding Years hindered the Revival of this 
Projed till the Change of the Miniftry, and then it was 
refolved upon afrelli, as the moft effectual Means of 
forcing France into a fpeedy and folid Peace. 
How it was executed is a very hard Talk to fay ; but 
we will make ufe of the Account pubiifhed by the Se- 
cretary of the Admiralty, who had it in his Power to 
give the fulleft and faireft Relation of this Matter; and 
if he has not done fo, we know not where to find a 
better. He t^ils us the Queen’s Inftrudions to Sir Ho- 
‘venden IValker, Rear Admiral of the White, were dated 
the nth Day of April, lyii, by which he was ordered 
to take under his Command, the Torbay, a Ship of 
eighty Guns, the Edgar, Swiftjhure, and Monmouth, of 
feventy Guns ; dM. Hunkirk, Sunderland, Kimgfton, and 
Montague, of fixty Guns, with two Bomb Veffels ; as 
alfo the Leopard and Saphire, one of fifty and the other 
of thirty Guns, fent before to North America ; with all 
thefe, except the two iaff, together with the Store-fliips 
and Tranfports defigned on the Expedition, he was, as 
foon as might be, to rendezvous at Spithead *, and when 
Mr. Hill, General and Commander in chief of the Forces, 
Iliould be embarked, and the Troops onboard, he was, 
with the firft Opportunity of the Wind, to proceed to 
and Settlements Book I. 
Bofion in New England, without touching at any Hand, 
Country, or Place, if it could poffibly be avoided ; and 
as he was required to appoint proper Signals and Places 
for Rendezvous, in cafe of Separation, fowas he to give 
' ftricl Orders to the Captains of the Ships under his 
Command, that if they happened to be fo feparated, they 
fhould not inform the Enemy, or any other, on what 
Defign they w'^cre going. 
In his Paffage to Bojton, the chief Town in New Eng- 
land, he was, when himfelf and the General ftiould 
judge it moft proper, to detach one Ship of War or more 
to convoy dirediy to New Fork the Tranfport Ships, 
in which were laden Artillery, Silks, Cloaths, and Ac- 
coutrements, with other Things, for the Ufe of Forces 
to be raifed there, as well as in the Jerfeys P-enjyl- 
vania ; the fame to be delivered as the General ftiould 
dired ; and then the Shipps of War were to be ordered 
to return to Bojlon : But if it fhould not be judged proper 
to make fuch Detachment, the Tranfports were to be fent 
to New Fork, under a fufficient Convoy, when he ar- 
rived at Bofion and the faid Convoy, to bring there fuch 
Neceffaries and Stores as fhould be provided for the 
Squadron and Forces. When he arrived at New Eng- 
land, he was to take the Leopard and Saphire under his 
Command, and confider whether it might be neceffary 
to make any Addition to the Squadron by the Convoy 
to the New England Maft Ships or others ftationed on 
the Coaft of America, which he was impowered to do j 
and if the General fhould, upon advifingwith him, think 
it pradlicable to fend any ol the Tranfports with fome 
of the new raifed Troops in New England, to garrifon 
Annapolis Royal, lately called Port Royal ; and to bring 
from thence the Marines left there, or any Part of them, 
or the Artillery, or Stores of War, he was to appoint 
a fufficient Convoy, with Diredions for them to return 
forthwith to New England. 
He was, when at Bofion, to take under his Care all 
Tranfport Veffels, Ketches, Hoys, Boats, and other 
Neceffaries provided in New England ; and as foon as 
the Forces from thence, and thofe raifed there, fhould 
be on board, he was to Tail with them into the River of 
St. Laurence up to ^ehec, in order to attack that Place ; 
and being arrived, to make a proper Difpofition of the 
Ship’s for that Purpofe, as well of fuch as might be fit 
to be employed before the Town, as others ; upon con- 
fulting with the General to pafs the Place, and proceed 
up the River towards the Lake, not only to prevent 
any Communication with pfiyebec, but to proted the 
Canoes and Boats with the Forces from New Fork, to 
which End he was empowered to convert fome of the 
fmall Veffels fent from thence to New England into 
Frigates, fuitable to the Navigation of the upper-part of 
the River, and to man and arm them accordingly at 
- New England, or elfewhere ; he was to affift the General 
with Veffels and Boats proper for landing the Forces and 
embarking them again, but more efpecially upon his 
Arrival at Quebec, or frefh tranfporting them from Place 
to Place. 
He was alfo ordered to fend to the General fuch Ma- 
rine Soldiers as fhould be on board the Squadron, when 
he fhould demand the fame ; which he was to have the 
Command of while employed on Shore ; Befides which, 
he was to aid him with fuch a Number of Seamen, 
Gunners, Guns, Ammunition, and other Stores from 
the Ships, as he ftiould demand for the Land Service ; 
which Seamen were to affift in drawing and mounting 
the Cannon, or otherwife, as fhould be found neceffary. 
He veas ftridtly required to lofe no time in proceeding 
to New Efigland, and proceeding from thence to the 
River St. Laurence nor in putting in Execution the 
Service at Quebec ; but that on his Part, all Expedition 
fhould be ufed in the Redudtion of the Place, and of the 
Country of Canada, or New France ; and in the feafon- 
able Return of the Squadron and Tranfports. Her Ma- 
jefty impowered him to diredt the Commiffary of the 
Stores to deliver to any Ship or Veffel, whether of War 
or otherwife, any Provifions or Liquors under his^ Care : 
He was Jikewife to provide any other naval Stores for 
the Ufe of the Squadron ; and in cafe of Succefs it 
fhould be found neceffary by him and the General to 
have 
