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As to the last Querie, That comes under my cognizance, viz., The consequence of allowing the French to sell their lands in those parts, First, as it. would entirely disappoint the settlement of that valuable country, Because it is never to be supposed, that any person will go to buy land in a new country, when in all His Majesty's plantations abroad, there is such encouragement, of land gratis, to such as will come to settle in them.
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2ndly. It would be a breach of the Public faith, contained in Her Majesty's Royal instructions, when the reduction of that place was undertaken, By which the lands are promised away to the Captors, for their encouragement to reduce the same. Nor is there any article in the treaty of peace; that entitles the French to any such privileges. Nay moreover, I am of opinion that by the treaty, the French inhabitants, are allowed either to remove if they designed it, or at least to make a demand of the same, in a year's time after the ratification of the treaty, neither of which was done. Nor would the inhabitants have offered to goe, had they not been not only importuned but threatened by the French officers, in the French Kings name, to be treated as Rebels if they did not remove, Which how far that is consistent with the Treaty, is with the foregoing particulars most humbly submitted to Your Lordships consummate Wisdom by
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May it please Your Lordships
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Your Lordships most humbly
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Devoted Servant
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To
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The Right Honorable
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The Lords of Trade, &c.
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Lt. Govr. Caulfield to Secretary of State.
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(Govrs. Lett. Book.)
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ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, May ye 3rd, 1715.
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SIR, —
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I hope by this time that mine of the 24th of Dembr. last is come safe to hand with ye account of my proclaiming his Most Sacred Majesty King Geo. Here inclosed are the transactions of Messrs. Button and Capoon, Gentlemen I sent on that occation to ye several ports and harbors in a sloop which ye season of ye year would not permit to go with my first, Save some few places to ye Eastward which have already declared for ye french King, by which you will find that ye Inhabitants of this country, being most of them french refuse
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