receive farther proposals, in consequence of His
Majesty's approbation of our measures, from any person or persons
who will offer themselves to become settlers in this Province; and
that all due encouragement shall be given them to the utmost limits
of the authority with which His Majesty has been pleased to invest
the Governor and Council of this Province.--Nota Bene. Proposals
left with Mr. Hancock, will be transmitted to the Governor at
Halifax.

"Captain Bragdon informs us, that Captain Fisher in a sloop from
Annapolis Royal, bound to Fort Cumberland, was cast away in the Bay
of Fundy, on board of which was Lieutenant Tonge, an Engineer, with
a considerable sum of money, which was lost, together with the
lives of two or three persons on board. Friday last arrived here
the Province ship King George, Captain Hallowell, from Louisburg
and a cruize. From Louisburg, we learn that the armed vessels
lately sent out thence, had been at Pictou, and burnt five or six
vessels which the enemy took from us last year, and brought off
some plunder; and that the Indians from Saint John, who brought the
account of the five French men of war being in the Bay of Chaleur,
also informed that they had landed four hundred men, in order to
attack Fort Cumberland.

"Arrived here, Colonel Arthithnot, who commanded at Fort Frederick,
in Saint John's River, the year past; also several other officers
and a number of soldiers belonging to this Province, who have
garrisoned His Majesty's forts up the Bay of Fundy, and now
discharged, arrived here, being relieved by a number of soldiers
lately enlisted in this Province, for that service. We hear that
the Indians behave well, and still continue to come into the forts
at Nova-Scotia, and carry on trade very peaceably."

_Extract of a Letter from Colonel Fry, to His Excellency the Governor,
dated Fort Cumberland, Chignecto, March 7, 1760._

SIR.--I informed your Excellency in my last of 10th December, of
the submission of the French peasants residing at Miramichi,
Richibucto, Bucktouche, Peticodiac, and Memramcook, made by their
deputies sent here for that purpose. On the 30th of January last,
Mr. Manack, a French Priest, who has had the charge of the people
at Miramichi, Richibucto, and Bucktouche, and a number of the
principal men of those places, arrive