faction. Steadfast in good purpose; fidelity in trust;
impartial to all; a passion to promote universal good, with
personal labour, pains, and the sacrifice of every selfish feeling;
to endeavour to maintain Society in peace, tranquillity, plenty and
security. It is, in short, as I feel it, one man's care for the
many: and, as you I am persuaded feel it, the concern of every man
for the good of all. This sentiment binds us together in the
pursuit of public advantage to a co-operation from which I am
convinced none will shrink in any difficulty which these
Institutions may have to encounter; and onward let us go with a
determination that when we meet again in this place, we may
receive, and record, reports which shall prove that our schemes
have prospered.

I have now the pleasure to announce that from the Funds which His
Majesty's Secretary of State has put at my disposal from the King's
Casual Revenue, I shall appropriate L25 to each of the County
Societies for the present year subject to the regulations and
conditions already established; and I will not fail to intercede
for a continuance of this Royal Bounty, if I can report success in
our labours.

APPENDIX No. II.

_Extracts relating to the early transactions in Nova-Scotia and
New-Brunswick, copied verbatim from papers compiled by a gentlemen who
intended to publish an account of New-Brunswick; but was from
unexpected circumstances obliged to relinquish the design._

PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY.

Notice is hereby given, that it hath been determined that a
squadron of His Majesty's ships and divers regiments of foot should
winter in Nova-Scotia, which will require large supplies of fresh
provisions to be sent thither from time to time, not only for the
support of the sick in the hospitals, but for the refreshment of
those that are well,--and that His Excellency Governor Lawrence
hath given assurance, that the coasters and others trading in
refreshments of that sort, shall not only be protected by the
Admiral from pressing, but shall receive, both from His Excellency
and the Admiral, all manner of countenance and regard.

A. OLIVER, Sec.

Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Boston, October 31, 1758.

The following proclamation being published in Nova-Scotia