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Show 158 CANADA PAMP'HLET. of Hackney might as well rely upon the tower of [Az B.T.] Canada a/érurz'ty; éutforf: none. I 59 flores, fuflicient to reduce a very flight fort. The London to fecure them againf't highwaymen and accounts at the treafury will tell you what amaz~ mg fums we have necefl'arily fpent in the expedi- houfebreakers.--As to the Mini kind of fecurity, that we [hall not, in a few years, have all we have now done, to do over again in America; and be obliged to employ the fame number of troops, and (hips, at the fame immenfe expence to defend our poffeflious there, while we are in proportion weak- tlons againft two very trifling forts, Duquefne and Crown Point. While the French retain their in- fluence over the Indians, they can eafily keep our long extended frontier in continual alarm, by a very few of thofe people; and with a fmall num- ened here : fuch forts I think cannot prevent this. ber of regulars and militia, in fuch a country, we During a peace, it is not to be doubted the French, find they can keep an army of ours in full em- who are adroit at fortifying, will likewife ereét ploy for feveral years. forts in the molt advantageous places of the coun- need to be told by our colonies, that if we leave try we leave them; which will make it more diffi- Canada, however circumfcribed, to the French, cult than ever to be reduced in cafe of another war. We know by the experience of this war, how " we have done nothingi‘fi' we {hall foon be extremely difficult it is to march an army through co . I would not be underflood to deny that even if We fubdue and retain Canada, fomeflw/brtr may the American woods, with its neceflary cannon and We therefore {hall not made fenlible ourfiloe: of this truth, and to our ‘ ceive that they can at any. time make an attack upon, and con- be of ufe to fecure the goods of the traders, and ‘ {lantly annoy as many of the expofed EngliflJ fettlements as they protect the commerce, in cafe of any fudden mif-. underf'tanding with any tribe oflndians : but thefe forts will be belt under the care of the colonies ‘ pleafe, and theft: at any diflance from each other. ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ The etl'eé‘ts of fuch incurfions have been too {everely felt by many of the Bria/b colonies, not to be very well known. The entire breaking up places that had been for a eonfiderable time fettled at a great expence, both of labour and money; burning the houfes, (leflroy- ing the flock, killing and making prifoners great numbers of the inhabitants, with all the cruel ufage they meet with in their captivity, is only apart of the fcenc. All other places that are expofed are kept in continual terror; the lands lie wafle and uncultivated, from the danger that attends thofe that {hall prefumeto work upon them: befides the immenfe charge the governments ‘ mull: be at in a very inefl‘eé‘tual manner to defend their extended Interefled in the Indian trade, and garrifoned by their provincial forces, and at their own expence. ThClI‘ own interel't will then induce the American governments to take care of fuch forts in propor- tlon to their importance; and fee'that the oflieers keep their corps full, and mind their duty. But ‘ frontiers; and all this from the influence the Pram/7 have had any troops of ours placed there, and accountable ‘ over, but comparatively, a few of the IndianL-JI‘O the fame or here; would, in fuch remote and obfcure places, and at f0 great a dittance from the eye and in- ‘ greater evils l'till will every one of the colonies be expofed, when- ‘ ever the fame influence {hall be extended to the whole body of ‘ them.' Ibid. p. 20. *' Remarks, p. 26. fpeétion (totes, |