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Prom this genuine relation of firerendered fiercer, have to anAver

what preceded the affair, every one to God for fuch a profufe effufion of

will eafily judge, that nothing was blocd, for the ruia and devaftation

done but what neceiuty and the of fo many countries, and for the

exigency of war required. Itiscer- lofs of the lives and effedls of fo

tainly moft natural, that when fiege many innocent perfons.

is laid to a town which is a royal Ehrich Chriftopher,

refidence, he that defends it Ihould Baron Plotho.

employ the fame precautions in its On the 26th of July, IVI. Le

defence that are ufed in ordinary Chevalier Drucour, Governor of

fortreiTes; and we cannot conceive Louilbourg, farrendered that place

on what foundation the beileged can by capitulation, on the following

be required to ufe tenderneis when articles, viz.

none is (hewn by the beCegers; this I. The garrifon of Louilbourg

would be to carry complaifance too fhall be prifoners of war, and fhall

far. be carried to England in tlve Ihips

Mean while, all this, alas ! is the of his Britannic raajcily.

deplorable effect of the war; and II. All theartillery, ammunition,

thofe who will not agree to gentle proviiions, as well as the arms of

methods, butdemandfireandfword, any kind whatfoever, which are at

andinfift on it, fee their wifhes and prefent in the town of Louifbourg,

their defires fully, and more than the iflands of Cape Breton and

fully, accomplifhed. St. John, and their appurtenances.

The underfigned can, neverthe- fhall be delivered without the lealt lefs, moft folemnly aflure, with the damage, to fuch commiffaries as greateft truth, that the King of fhall be appointed to receive them PruiTia, from his great love to man- for the ufe of his Britannic ma- kind, always feels the greateit emo- je^'^y.

tion of foul, and the moft exquifite III. The governor (hall give his

concern at the fight of the profufe orders that the troops which are in

effufion of blood, the devallation the ifland of St. John, and its ap-

of cities and countries, and the inconveniences of war, by which fo many tboufands are overwhelm- ed: and if his fincere and honeft inclination to procure peace to

purtenances, fnall go on board fuch fhips of war as the Admiral fhall fend to receive them.

IV. The gate called Port Dau- phine, ihall be given up to the

Germany, his dear country, could troops of his Britannic majefly, to-

have prerailed, or been liftened to, in any fhape, the prefent war, attended with fo much bloodihed, and ruinous to fo many countries, would have been prevented and avoided,

Thofe, therefore, who ftirred up the p.-efentwar, and who, infleadof fhall go on board, in order to becar- extinguifhingitwithoutfheddingof ried to Englandin a convenient time. blood, took meafures by which oil V. The fame care fhall be takea was thrown en the fiames, and the of the fick and wounded that are in

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morrowateight o'clock in the morn- ing, and the garrifon, including all thcfe that carried arms, drawn up at noon, on the Efplanade, where they fhall lay down their arms, colours, implements and orna- ments of war. And the garrifon