ch_ against
our Settlements in _America_, might justify the bitterest
Revenge in the Army under my Command; but _Britons_ breathe
higher Sentiments of Humanity, and listen to the merciful
Dictates of the Christian Religion. Yet should you suffer
yourselves to be deluded by an imaginary Prospect of our
want of Success; should you refuse those Terms, and persist
in Opposition; Then surely will the Law of Nations justify
the Waste of War, so necessary to crush an ungenerous Enemy:
and Then, the miserable _Canadians_ must in the Winter have
the Mortification of seeing those very Families, they have
been exerting a fruitless and indiscreet Bravery for, perish
by the most dismal Want and Famine.

In this great Dilemma let the Wisdom of the People of
_Canada_ shew itself!

_BRITAIN_ stretches out a powerful, yet a merciful Hand,
Faithful to her Engagements, and ready to secure them in
their most valuable Rights and Possessions.

_FRANCE_, unable to support _Canada_, deserts her Cause at
this important Crisis, and during the whole War has assisted
her with Troops, who have been maintained _only_ by making
the Natives feel all the Weight of grievous and lawless
Oppression.

JAMES WOLFE.

* * * * *

Boston, _November 2, 1761_.

_Last Evening, just at Eight o'Clock, this Town was alarmed
with the Shock of an_ EARTHQUAKE.

_Gazette._

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On the 15th of August, 1763, the "Boston Post-Boy" gives the following
account of the celebration of a royal birthday:--

_BOSTON, August 15._

On Friday being the Birth-Day of the _Prince of Wales_, and
the Anniversary of the Accession of the House of _Hanover_,
and also of the Surrender of the _Havanna_, which was the
immediate Means of bringing about the Peace; at One o'Clock
the Guns at the Castle and Town Batteries were Fired; and in
the Evening his Excellency the Governor gave a Ball at
Concert Hall. There were present about 240 Gentlemen and
Ladies; the Ball was opened by General _Shirley_ and the
Governor's Lady about 8 o'Clock; the Country Dances began
about nine, and about ten a Supper Room was opened, where