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many of the batteaux with water, and drowned a corpo¬ 
ral and three men of the royal highlanders. On the 2d, 
this armament rowed twenty-four miles down lake St. 
Francis, arrived at Point an Beaudet; encamped and 
hauled in their boats under the flielter of coves, before 
night; when there arofe a very violent ftorm of rain and 
wind, which continued all next day. But the army em¬ 
barked again (oon after day-break on the 4th, and arrived 
that night at I fie Perrott, with the lofs of eighty-four 
men drowned, twenty-nine batteaux of regiments, feven- 
teen of artillery, fome artillery and (lores, feventeen 
whale-boats, and one row-galley, occafioned by the rapids. 
The regulars encamped upon this ifland, about two miles 
from the river. But the greatefl part of the artillery, 
and the provincials, encamped on the river fide, it being 
too late for them to proceed to the head-quarters. The 
ilianders abandoned their houfes, and fled into the woods, 
tit the approach of the fynglifh. But next day, being in¬ 
vited to come in by fome of their own people, who were 
taken and difpatched to them, with afl’uranees of protec¬ 
tion,- upon their fuhini(lion and good behaviour; they re¬ 
turned to their habitations, took the oath of allegiance to 
his Britannic majefty, and, being differed to keep pofleflion- 
of their houfes, they feemed as much furprifed with their 
treatment as they were happy in it. It was the 6th before 
the boats could be repaired : when, foon after day-break, 
the whole army embarked, and the boats rowed in four 
columns by the right, it being intended to land on the 
left, at La Chine, on the Ifland of Montreal, which lay 
at the dillance of three leagues only from this place of 
embarkation : and, the weather proving favourable, they 
arrived at the place of deftination foon in the day, and 
landed without any other oppolition than a few random 
(hot from flying parties, that ran into Montreal, breaking 
down a bridge between the Englifli camp and the town. 
General Amherft, determined to make the meft of the 
day, marched on towards the city, repaired the bridge, 
and, after a march of two leagues, formed the troops on a 
plain before Montreal.; having left the New York troops, 
and two Connecticut regiments at la Chine, to.protect the 
boats. The army, thus encamped, lay all night on their 
arms, and got up two 12-pounders, five 6-pounders, and 
five 3-pounders of light artillery. In this fituation gene¬ 
ral Amherd, next morning, received a letter from the 
marquis de Vaudreuil; which was brought by two offi¬ 
cers, and referred his excellency to colonel Bougainville 
ior particulars : and this conference produced a cefi'ation 
of arms till twelve o’clock. The colonel brought propo- 
lals for a capitulation from the French governor, and they 
were returned by general Amherfl, with fuch alterations 
and amendments as he thought proper. But the French 
commanders fhuffled fo long about particular articles, that 
if was next morning before the capitulation could be com¬ 
pleted and figned. By this capitulation, not only Mon¬ 
treal, but all Canada, an immenfe country, was furren- 
dered to the king of Great Britain. Accordingly the 
Britifli troops took immediate poffeflion of all the fortrefles 
in that province, and the French garrifons were engaged 
not to ferveagaind Great Britain during the war. 
The minds of the Englifli people had been, for fome 
time, agitated and filled with very difagreeable ideas, by 
the furprife of Newfoundland. The French, appriled of 
the weak (late of that important ifland, which had been 
totally negleCted, landed in the bay of Bulls, on the 24th 
< f June, 1762. They feized upon the fmall feitlement in 
the bay, and on the 27th obliged the garrifon of St. John’s, 
confiding only of fixty-three men, to furrender prifoners 
of war, with promt fe to fecure them in their perfons and 
eft efts. But they deftroyed every tiling that belonged to 
the fifliery; by which they only injured private property, 
and ruined many individuals’. Having done all the mif- 
chief in.their power, they fet about repairing the fortifi¬ 
cations of the town; becaufe they intended to hold the 
place. When the news of this lofs reached England, it 
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is impoffible to deferibe the indignation with which the 
people were exafperated againd the nr.niftpy. It is true, 
government ordered a fquadron and fome forces to be got 
ready for the recovery of the place : but thofe orders were 
fo delayed, that Newfoundland mud have remained in the 
hands of France at the commencement of the treaty of 
peace, to our great difadvantage, had not general Am¬ 
herfl:, of his own accord, detached a fufficient force to 
drive them away. He fent his brother, coionel. Amherd, 
before he received any orders from Europe, with a body 
of troops to join lord Colville, who was ftationed with one 
(hip of the line and one frigate only, at Halifax. This 
junction was happily effedled on the nth of September, 
and on the 18th the place was re-taken by thi Britifli; and 
we are certainly indebted to the general for the firm poflef- 
fion of this mod ancient and important Settlement in North 
America. 
SirJeffery Amherd was created lord Amherd of HolmCf- 
dale on the 20th of May, 1776; and, on the 16th of Sep¬ 
tember, 1788, was made lord Amherd of Montreal, and 
a general in the army;, his lordihip is alfo colonel of the 
2d regiment of life-guards, and of the 2d regiment of 
foot, governor of Guernfey, and a knight of the Bath. 
AM'HURST (Nicholas), an Englidi poet and political 
writer, was born at Marden in Kent, and entered of St. 
John’s college, Oxford ; from whence he was expelled for 
irregularity of conduct and libertine principles. Retain¬ 
ing great refentment againd the univeriity on this account, 
lie abufed its learning and difeipline, in a poem publilhed 
in 1724, called Oculus Britannia;, and in a book entitled 
Terrae Filius. Fie publiflied, A Mifcella.ny of Poems, 
facred and profane ; and, The Convocation, a poem in five 
cantos, which was a fatire on the bidiop of Bangor’s an- 
tagonids. But he is bed known for the (hare he had in 
the political paper called The Craftfijjan; though, after 
having been the drudge of his party for near twenty years, 
he was as much forgot in the famous compromife of 1742 
as if he had never been born; and, when he died in that 
year of a broken heart, was indebted to the charity of his 
bookfeller for a grave. 
A'MIABLE, adj. [aimable, Fr. amabile, It. amable , Sp. 
of amabilis, Lat. from avio, to love.] Lovely; pleadng.— 
That which is good in the actions of men, doth not only- 
delight as profitable, but as amiable alfo. Hooker. —Pre¬ 
tending love ; diewing love.—Lay amiable fiege to the ho- 
nedy of this Ford’s wife; ufe your art of wooing. Shak<J- 
peare. 
A'MI ABLENESS, f. The quality of being amiable ; 
lovelinefs; power of raffing love.—As foon as the natural 
gaiety and amiablemfs of the young man wears oft', they 
have nothing left to commend them, but lie by among the 
lumber and refufe of the fpecies. Addifon. 
A'MIABLY, ad-j. In an amiable manner; ii( fuch a 
manner as to excite love. 
AMIAN'TIIUS, or Earth-flax, yi Gr.] 
In natural hidory, a fibrous, flexile, elaflic, mineral, fub- 
fiance, confiding of lhort, abrupt, and interwoven, fila¬ 
ments. It is found in Germany, in the drata of iron ore, 
fometimes forming veins of an inch in diameter. Its fi¬ 
bres are fo flexible that cloth has been made of them, and 
the (hotter filaments that feparate in the wafliing of the 
done may be made into paper in the common manner. 
Amianthus is claded by Mr. Kirwan in the muriatic ge¬ 
nus of earths, becaufe it contains about a fifth part of 
magnefia. Its other condiments are, flint, mild calcareous 
earth, barytes, clay, and a very fmall proportion of iron. 
It is fufible per J'e in a firong heat, and alfo with the com¬ 
mon flaxes. It differs from albedos in containing fome 
ponderous earth. 
A'MICABLE, adj. [amicabilis,lM.^ Friendly; kind. 
It is commonly ufed of more than one; as, They live in 
an amicable manner; but we feldom fay, An amicable ac¬ 
tion, or. An amicable man, though it be to ufed in this 
paflage; 
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