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Show 160 CANADA PAMPHLET. [A: B. T.] Canada afieurity; éutfirir none. 161 fpeétion of fuperiors, foon become of little confcn quence, even though theFrench were left in pof- fefiion of Canada. If the four independent com( panics, maintained by the Crown in New Yorlt more than forty years, at a great expence, con- fifted, for moft part of the time, of faggots chiefly; if their oflicers enjoyed their places as fine cures, and were only, as a writer*‘of that country f'tiles them, a kind of military monks; if this was the {tate of troops potted in a populous country, where the impofition could not be {0 well concealed; what may we expect will be the cafe of thofe that [ball be pof'ted two, three, or four hundred miles from the inhabitants, in fuch obfcure and remote places as Crown Point, Ofwego, Duquefne, orNiagara? theywould fcarce be even faggots; they would dwindle to meet names upon paper, and appear no where but upon the mutter-rolls. Now al/tbe kind: of fecurity we have mentioned, are obtained by fubduing and retaining Canada. Our prefent pofleffions in America, are fecured; our planters will no longer be maiTacred by the Indians 5 who depending ahfolutely on us for what are now become the iiecefiaries of life to them, (guns, powder, hatchets, knives, and clothing) and having no other Europeans near, that can either {upply them, or inftigate them againt't us ; there is no doubt of their being always difpofed, if we treat them with common juftice, to live in perpetual peace with us. And with regard to France, {he cannot, in cafe of another war put us to the immenfe expence of defending thatlong extended frontier; we {hall then, as it were, have our backs againft a wall in America _; the {ca coaft Will be eafily protected by our fupcrior naval power: and here " our own watchfulnefs and our own firength " will be properly, and cannot but be fuccefsfully employed. In this fituation, the force now employed in that part of the world may be {pared for any other fervicc here or elfe: where; {0 that both the olfenfive and defenfive firength of the Britifh empire, on the whole will be greatly increafed. ' But to leave the French in pofl'eflion of Canada wben 1! z: :72 our power to remove tbe/n, and depend (as the Remarker propofes,) on our own " ftrengtli " and watchfulnefs 9" " to prevent tbe nzyenz'ej} that may attend it, feenz: neitber flzfi' nor prudent. Happy as we now are, under the heft of kings, and in the profpeét of a fuccefiion promifing every feltetty a nation wasever bleffed with ;' happy too in. the wifdom and vigour of every part of the admrmfiration ; we cannot, we ought not to promife ourfelves the uninterrupted continuance of thofe bleflings. The fafety of a confiderable part of the (fate; and the interef'r of the whole, are not to be trufted to the wifdom and vigour offutnre'ztdnzi- flg/frarton: ; when a fecurity is to be had more ef- fectual, more conf'cant, and much lefs expenfive. They who can be moved by the apprehenfion of dangers {0 remote, as that of the future indepen- f Douglafs. France, " Page 25. dence |