He will select, before leaving, the officers and soldiers he will deem proper to leave at New York

ticular, under the authority of His Majesty's Lieutenant General in

and put over the posts those officers best qualified to maintain and fortify them. In case he find, after having provided sufficient troops for New York and concluded on the number of soldiers necessary for His Majesty's service in Canada, that he has a superabundance, he can

send some to France in the King's Ships, and retain thirty-five to forty men to be sent eventually to Acadia.

His Majesty is very glad to observe to him on this head, that he must regulate himself, as regards the number of men he will leave in New York, by the means of subsistence there and the necessity

of guarding the country ; and he will also consider that his return to Canada will be more convenient tor those he will have to convey back there, when they will not be more numerous.

In case, contrary to all appearance, the season be too far advanced to admit his return to Canada during the remainder of the Fall, he will give advice of his expedition and sojourn there until the Spring, and he will employ himself during winter in securing his conquest and waging war on the

enemy.

However that be, he ought if he be obliged to remain, either personally or through Chevalier de by circumstances to conclude a solid and advantageous peace

Callieres, if that be convenient, profit