ent a
small vessel to Boston, with two French prisoners. One of them was
Monsieur Bouladrie, who had been commander of a battery, outside of the
walls of Louisbourg. The other was the Marquis de la Maison Forte, captain
of a French frigate, which had been taken by Commodore Warren's fleet.
These prisoners assured Governor Shirley, that the fortifications of
Louisbourg were far too strong ever to be stormed by the provincial army.

Day after day, and week after week, went on. The people grew almost
heart-sick with anxiety; for the flower of the country was at peril in
this adventurous expedition. It was now day-break, on the morning of the
third of July.

But, hark! what sound is this? The hurried clang of a bell! There is the
Old North, pealing suddenly out!--there, the Old South strikes in!--now, the
peal comes from the church in Brattle street!--the bells of nine or ten
steeples are all flinging their iron voices, at once, upon the morning
breeze! Is it joy or alarm? There goes the roar of a cannon, too! A royal
salute is thundered forth. And, now, we hear the loud exulting shout of a
multitude, assembled in the street. Huzza, Huzza! Louisbourg has
surrendered! Huzza!

"O Grandfather, how glad I should have been to live in those times!" cried
Charley. "And what reward did the king give to General Pepperell and
Governor Shirley?"

"He made Pepperell a baronet; so that he was now to be called Sir William
Pepperell," replied Grandfather. "He likewise appointed both Pepperell and
Shirley to be colonels in the royal army. These rewards, and higher ones,
were well deserved; for this was the greatest triumph that the English met
with, in the whole course of that war. General Pepperell became a man of
great fame. I have seen a full length portrait of him, representing him in
a splendid scarlet uniform, standing before the walls of Louisbourg, while
several bombs are falling through the air."

"But, did the country gain any real good by the conquest of Louisbourg?"
asked Laurence. "Or was all the benefit reaped by Pepperell and Shirley?"

"The English Parliament," said Grandfather, "agreed to pay the colonists
for all the expenses of the siege. Accordingly, in 1749, two hundred and
fifteen chests of Spanish dollars, and one hundred casks of copper coin,
were brought from England to Boston. The whole amount was about a million
of dollars. Twenty-seven carts and trucks carried this money from the
wharf to the provincia