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 better sort at the Church in the Forest [St. Thomas's]—to raise a body of about two hundred men, and take all my Recruits from me." The plan of the conspirators, if such existed never materialized, but Captain Gardner received cold comfort from Mr. Bordley, the Attorney-General. "He put a case," laments Captain Gardner to Governor Sharpe, "not very much to the Honour of the Recruiting Service—Suppose a man steals a horse, etc."

While the French and Indian War was in progress, Baltimore received a large addition to its population. When the "French Neutrals" were removed from Acadia by the British Government, many came to Baltimore, and were hospitably quartered in the mansion of Mr. Edward Fottrell, which stood upon the square now covered by the stately court-house recently completed. When the Abbé Robin visited Baltimore during the Revolutionary War, these unfortunate people and their descendants filled about one quarter of the town, a quarter mean and poor in appearance. They still spoke their native dialect, and treasured the altar vessels given them, with his parting benediction, by their old curé, M. Le Clerc, who had been the loving guardian