by means of the cheap bargains of merchandize they can give them, nearly a half less than our Frenchmen can afford theirs, for reasons which will be, elsewhere, explained, and thus become masters of all the peltries ; a trade which sustains Canada and constitutes one of the chief benefits that France derives from that Colony.

No sooner will the English have ruined our Trade with the Savages than uniting with them they on us, burn and sack our settlements, scattered along the River St. Lawrence to Quebec, without our being able to prevent them, having no fortress capable of arresting will be in a position to fall

them.

Things being thus disposed, the only means to avoid this misfortune is to anticipate it by the expewhich will be hereafter explained and which I offer to execute forthwith, if it please His

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Majesty to confide its direction to me on account of the particular knowledge I have acquired of the affairs of that country during five years that I had the honour to serve His Majesty and to

his troops and military there, after twenty years service in the army.

command

;

INVASION OF NEW-YORK AND BURNING OF SCHENECTADY.

The plan is, to go straight to Orange (Albany) the most advanced town of New York, one hundred leagues from Montreal, which I would undertake to carry, and to proceed thence to seize Manathe,

the capital of that Colony situated on the seaside; on condition of being furnished with supplies