Would it not be better for them to part v;ith one Half of tlieir Personal Estates, for Encouragement for 5000 or 6000 Men to come and suppress those Salvages, that his Majesties Subjects could not live quietly by, and to possess their Lands, and not become Tributaries to them, or at least to do as those of Quebeck did in October, 18, 1716, on the Interruption of their Commerce by the Savages, living Four Hundred Leagues up the Country, went with Three Hundred French and Six Hundred Savages their Alhes, to bring them to a better Temper : And finding the Enemy well entrenched witli Pallisadoes and good Ditches, they planted themselves near enough to tlie Pallisadoes, and threw two Granadoes, brought tliem to Surrender and agree to pay the Expence they had been at, and restore to the French their former Skin-Trade, as before ; and they had but one Frenchman and two Savages wounded in that Expedition, thought there were above 3000 Men Women and Children in that Fort. So tliat it is a Qimre, whether it be not more for some particular Mens Interest, to make so much Stir for Presents to the Indians and bring the Colony to such vast Charge, than it is for the publick Good.

The poor Colony of JVeio-York, containing in it not above 6000 Men at the most, were at the Charge of at least 30000 l. upon the Expedition for Canada, upwards of 27000 /. to pay some small Debts and make good the Embasselment of the publick Money in the Government, and 4045 /. per Annum for five Years by Resolves of tlie House, part of which is to bring them to be Tributaries to the Heathen, and pay Men to bring it so to be ; and now the Colony is miserably distressed, if not vassaled : The Sence whereof caused several to mo^'e out of the same, and several more purpose to do so, if they canndt be relieved.