and my illuftrious benefactor, with this affair alfo, who, in compaffion for my fufferings, and to mitigate my forrows, iffued his orders in good time, and had my daughter taken away from the Indians, and conveyed to the fame nunnery where her fifter was then lodged, with his exprefs injunc tion, that they should both of them together be well looked after, and carefully educated, as his adopted children.

53. In this fchool of fuperftition and bigotry, they continued while the war in those days between France and Great Britain lafted. At the conclufion of which war, the governor went home to France, took my oldest daughter along with him, and married her there to a French gentleman, whose name is Cron Lewis.

54. He was at Bofton with the fleet under Count de Eftaing, (1778) and one of his clerks. My other daughter ftill continuing in the nunnery, a confiderable time had elapsed after my return from captivity, when I made a journey to Canada, refolving to use my best endeavours not to return without her.

55. I arrived just in time to prevent her being fent to France. She was to have gone in the next veffel that failed for that place. And I found it extremely difficult to prevail with her to quit the nunnery and go home with me.

56. Yea, fhe abfolutely refufed; and all the perfuafions and arguments I could use with her were to no effect, until after I had been to the governor, and obtained a letter from him to the fuperintendant of the nuns, in which he threatened, if my daughter fhould not be delivered immediately into my hands, or could not be prevailed with to fubmit to my parental authority, that he would fend a band of foldiers to affift me in bringing her away.

57. But fo extremely bigoted was fhe to the customs and religion of the place, that after all, fhe left it with the greatest reluctance, and the moft bitter lamentations, which The continued as we paffed the ftreets, and wholly refused to be comforted. My good friend, Major Small, whom we met with on the way, tried all he could to confole her; and was fo very kind and obliging as to bear us company, and carry my daughter behind him on horfeback.

58. But I have run on a little before my story; for I have not yet informed you of the means and manner of my

⚫wn redemption; to the accomplishing of which, the recovery of my daughter juft mentioned, and the ranfoming of fome of my other children, feveral gentlemen of note contributed not a little; to whofe goodness, therefore, I am greatly indebted, and fincerely hope I fhall never be fo ungrateful as to forget it.

59. Col. Schuyler, in particular, was so very kind and generous as to advance 2700 livres to procure a ransom for myself and three of my children. He accompanied and conducted us from Montreal to Albany, and entertained us in the most friendly and hofpitable manner a confiderable time, at his own house, and I believe entirely at his own expense.

EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF MR. PITT IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, JAN.

20, 1775.

MY LORDS,

I RISE with aftonishment to fee thefe papers brought to your table at fo late a period of this bufinefs; papers, to tell us what? Why, what all the world knew before; that the Americans, irritated by repeated injuries, and ftripped of their inborn rights and careft privileges, have refifted, and entered into affociations for the prefervation of their common liberties.

2. Had the early fituation of the people of Bofton been attended to, things would not have come to this. But the infant complaints of Bofton were literally treated like the capricious fqualls of a child, who, it was faid, did not know whether it was aggrieved or not.

3. But full well I knew, at that time, that this child, if not redreffed, would foon affume the courage and voice of a man. Full well I knew, that the fons of ancestors, born. under the fame free conftitution, and once breathing the fame liberal air as Englishmen, would refift upon the fame principles, and on the fame occafions..

4. What has government done? They have fent an armed force, confifting of feventeen thousand men, to dra

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goon the Boltonians into what is called their duty; and, fo far from once turning their eyes to the policy and deftructive confequence of this fcheme, are conftantly fending out more troops. And we are told, in the language of menace, that, if seventeen thousand men won't do, fifty thoufand fhall.

5. It is true, my lords, with this force they may ravage the country; wafte and deftroy as they march; but, in the progrefs of fifteen hundred miles, can they occupy the places they have paffed? Will not a country, which can produce three millions of people, wronged and infulted as they are, ftart up like hydras in every corner, and gather fresh ftrength from fresh oppofition?

6. Nay, what dependence can you have upon the foldiery, the unhappy engines of your wrath? They are Englifhmen, who must feel for the privileges of Englishmen. Do you think that thefe men can turn their arms against their brethren? Surely no. A victory must be to them a defeat; and carnage, a facrifice.

7. But it is not merely three millions of people, the produce of America, we have to contend with in this unnatural ftruggle; many more are on their fide, difperfed over the face of this wide empire. Every whig in this country and in Ireland is with them.

8. Who, then, let me demand, has given, and continues to give, this ftrange and unconftitutional advice? I do not mean to level at one man, or any particular fet of men; but thus much I will venture to declare, that, if his Majefty continues to hear such counsellors, he will not only be badly advised, but undone.

9. He may continue indeed to wear his crown; but it will not be worth his wearing. Robbed of fo principal a jewel as America, it will lofe its luftre, and no longer beam that effulgence which fhould irradiate the brow of majefty.

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goon the Boltonians into what is called their duty; and, fo far from once turning their eyes to the policy and deftructive confequence of this scheme, are conftantly fending out more troops. And we are told, in the language of menace, that, if seventeen thousand men won't do, fifty thoufand fhall.

5. It is true, my lords, with this force they may ravage the country; waste and deftroy as they march; but, in the progrefs of fifteen hundred miles, can they occupy the places they have paffed? Will not a country, which can produce three millions of people, wronged and infulted as they are, ftart up like hydras in every corner, and gather fresh ftrength from fresh oppofition?

6. Nay, what dependence can you have upon the foldiery, the unhappy engines of your wrath? They are Englishmen, who must feel for the privileges of Englishmen. Do you think that thefe men can turn their arms against their brethren? Surely no. A victory must be to them a defeat; and carnage, a facrifice.

7. But it is not merely three millions of people, the produce of America, we have to contend with in this unnatural ftruggle; many more are on their fide, dispersed over the face of this wide empire. Every whig in this country and in Ireland is with them.

8. Who, then, let me demand, has given, and continues to give, this ftrange and unconftitutional advice? I do not mean to level at one man, or any particular set of men but thus much I will venture to declare, that, if his Majesty continues to hear fuch counsellors, he will not only be badly advised, but undone.

9. He may continue indeed to wear his crown; but it will not be worth his wearing. Robbed of fo principal a jewel as America, it will lofe its luftre, and no longer beam that effulgence which fhould irradiate the brow of majesty.

10. In this alarming crifis, I come with this paper in my hand to offer you the best of my experience and advice; which is, that a humble petition be prefented to his Majefty, befeeching him, that in order to open the way towards a happy fettlement of the dangerous troubles in America, it may gracioufly please him, that immediate or

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