y.
'Never,' said Louis the Fifteenth, 'will I forgive the piracies of this
insolent nation.' And in a letter to George the Second he demanded ample
reparation for the insult to the flag of France by Boscawen, and for the
piracies of the English men-of-war, committed in defiance of
international law, the faith of treaties, the usages of civilized
nations, and the reciprocal duties of kings." (History of the United
States, Vol. IV., pp. 217, 218.)

Among the eight thousand French seamen held in captivity were the
soldiers destined for America, to invade the British colonies in time of
protracted peace and against "the faith of treaties." Mr. Bancroft also
ignores the fact that a year before this the Commissioners from the
Legislative Assemblies of the several colonies, assembled at Albany, had
represented to the British Government the alarming encroachments of the
French, and imploring aid, and that the French authorities in America
had offered the Indians bounties on English scalps.]

[Footnote 228: Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. III., pp.
21-23.

"While the Convention was sitting, and attending principally to the
frontiers of the colonies, in the western parts, Mr. Shirly (Governor of
Massachusetts) was diligently employed in the east, prosecuting a plan
for securing the frontiers of Massachusetts Bay."--_Ib._, p. 25.

"In the beginning of this year (1755) the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay,
in New England, passed an Act prohibiting all correspondence with the
French at Louisburg; and early in the spring they raised a body of
troops, which was transported to Nova Scotia, to assist
Lieutenant-Governor Lawrence in driving the French from the
encroachments they had made upon that province." (Hume and Smollett's
History of England, Vol. VII., p. 7.)]

[Footnote 229: History of the United States, Vol. IV., pp. 276, 277.]

[Footnote 230: Minot's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., p. 228.
Dr. Minot adds: "The whole number assigned for this expedition against
Crown Point was 3,700, of which Massachusetts voted to raise 1,560,
besides 500 by way of reinforcement, if judged necessary by the
Commander-in-Chief, with the advice of the Council; and to these 300
more were added after the defeat of General Braddock. The General Court
also voted L600 to be applied towards engaging the Indians of the Six
Nations in the enterprise, and supporting their families. In short, this
became a favourite enterprise both