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to help them. We are impatiently expecting every day news from France. We hope that there will be some regulation. If the limits are not regulated, at least we shall know what to depend upon, and we will despatch a courier to you, with as detailed a memorandum of our wants as can be made. The Canabas, who were on the Chebucto road, have seized the letters of the English who were writing to Mines and Port Royal. I will have them sent to you by the first courier. We learn that the English are getting ready to come and settle at Chinecto. Captain Rous with two other ships is to go to Bay Verte. We are always in expectation of having the English on our hands. If all our savages were Frenchmen we should not be embarrassed; but the wretches get tired and will perhaps leave us in our greatest need. They are getting tired at not hearing from France; and it is very surprising that there are no letters for us, although a vessel has arrived at Louisbourg with three hundred soldiers on board.
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The two vessels which passed each other on the banks have arrived at Louisbourg. It is said that we are threatened with an approaching war. It is reported that they are recruiting the regiments and calling out a large militia force.
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Our gentlemen expect to be relieved. If that be true it would be necessary to make one's arrangements for the magazines either at Echedack or at the river Gasparos in Bay Verte for the houses and lodging of soldiers and militiamen.
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We are waiting here only for news from France to decide upon our course.
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The foregoing letter was found in a French Sloop captured, by Captain Le Cras, of H.M. Ship Trial.
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Extract from a Letter of Gov. Cornwallis to Duke of Bedford, dated Novr. 27, 1750.
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I have now an affair of a more extraordinary nature to inform you of. Captain How was employed upon the Expedition to Chignecto, as knowing the country well and being better acquainted both with the Indians and Inhabitants, and poor man, fancied he knew the French better aud personally those villains La Corne* and Le Loutre. His whole aim and study
* Chevalier Pierre La Corne, one of the most active disturbers of the peace pf this country, was son of Capt. La Corne, who was Town Major of Quebec in 1719. His first service, was with Sieur Joncaire, on an embassy to the Indians of Niagara, in 1720. He, in conjunction with M. St. Pierre, defeated the Indian incursion at La Chene Rapids in 1747, and was the same year sent to Acadia with De Ramezay. He was in the action at Grand Pre, and tool command of the French force on De Ramezay's
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