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By all which Management, the Public has incurred a very Considerable and fruitless Expence, and Sir Jeffery Amherst's intention for the disposal of those Prisoners has, for the present, been intirely baffled, and his Expectations disappointed, as appears by Mr. Hancock's Letter 5th October, wherein he says the General has signified that he hoped the Province of the Massachusetts had taken the Acadians, and that an End was put to that affair." * * * *
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* * * * The prisoners became more submissive to Government, and desisted from their hostile measures; yet upon the first notice of the enemy's invasions on the coast of Newfoundland, their insolence broke out afresh, to the terror of the Inhabitants, as will be under your Lordship's notice, by the representations of the legislative body of the Province, and minutes of a council of war, copies whereof I have the honor to transmit to your Lordship. Among other precautions for the safety of the province, in a time of so much seeming danger from the Enemy, it was considered as of instant necessity, that these Acadians should be removed, and they were accordingly, My Lord, transported to the Massachusetts Government, under address to the Governor for their remaining there, for the pleasure of His Excellency General Amherst, as Prisoners of War. The General, having approved of their removal, as by the extract from His Excellency's Letter humbly presented, recommended the Disposal of them to that Government, where; by the House of Assembly, they were refused permission to land, and were with great precipitation sent back to this Province, before General Amherst's final resolution could be known, contrary to the very candid and earnest recommendation of His Excellency Governor Bernard, for their being received in the Massachusetts. This disappointment, My Lord, to a very essential
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