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 ( 5 ) dom, which will prove ſuperiour to Scotland and Ireland, and furniſh ſhores of every kind for his moſt Chriſtian and catholic majeſty's navy, and proviſions and other neceſſaries even to profuſion, for the ſupply of their royal majeſty's poſſeſſions in the weſt-indies.

Our young hero, the preſent governour of Canada, did not take this task upon him, of making a conqueſt of that part of North-America poſſeſ'd by the Engliſh, only from a motive which makes him ruler thereof, and becauſe he has not a ſuperiour title; but his preſent diſpoſition animates him to be revenged on the Engliſh Heretics for the late indignities offered his illuſtrious perſon and royal predeceſſors, and is come into theſe parts, inveſted with the power and authority of church and ſtate, and ſupported with money and other alliance, by his moſt Chriſtian and catholic majeſties, and has likewiſe received the ſupreme function and ſovereign benediction of his holineſs the Pope, to drive out of America peſtilent Heretics, to make room for good Catholics. I have alſo the ſatisfaction of acquainting you, that the regiments raiſed in the Switz cantons ſome time paſt, which our governour brought over with him, are in high ſpirits, zealous to aſſiſt us againt the Engliſh, and conceive an infinite ſatisfaction at our preſent proſpect of poſſeſſing thoſe fruitful lands now enjoy'd by the Engliſh.

I have lately had a conference with M'Laiſh, an Iriſh Jeſuit, of the order of St. Patrick, a politic ingenious man, who has been among the ſeveral tribes, influencing and inlifting the natives