destruction of the Savages by the continuation of this war, you ought to prefer peace which restoring

quietness to my subjects will place you in a condition to increase the Colony by the

means pointed

out to you in my preceding letters. I write to my ambassador in England to procure orders from the Duke of York to prevent him who commands at Baston assisting the Savages with troops, arms or ammunition, and I have reason

to believe that orders will be despatched as soon as representations on

my part will have been made.

DE LA BARRE'S EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.

am very glad to tell you that from every thing I learn of what has occurred in Canada, the fault

which you committed in not punctually executing my orders relative to the number of twenty-five licenses to be granted to my subjects, and the great number you have sent on all sides, in order to favor persons belonging to yourself, appears to me to have been the principal cause of what has happened on the part of the Iroquois. I hope you will repair this fault by giving a prompt and glorious

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termination to this war.

It appears to

me also that one of the principal causes of the war arises from one Du Lhut having

caused two Iroquois to be killed who had assassinated two Frenchmen in Lake Superior, and you sufficiently see how much this man's voyage, which cannot produce any advantage to the Colony, and