ardently French and ardently Catholic; and while officials in France
sometimes complained of the reluctance of the Acadians to move to Isle
Royale, those who directed them in their own country seem to have become
willing that they should stay where they were, and place themselves in
such relations with the English as should leave them free to increase
and multiply undisturbed. Deceived by the long apathy of the British
government, French officials did not foresee that a time would come when
it would bestir itself to make Acadia English in fact as well as in
name.[227]

FOOTNOTES:

[185] _Offres de la France; Demandes de l'Angleterre et Reponses de la
France, in Memorials of the English and French Commissaries concerning
the Limits of Acadia._

[186] _Memoire du Roy a ses Plenipotentiaires, 20 Mars, 1712._

[187] _Precis de ce qui s'est passe pendant la Negotiation de la Paix
d'Utrecht au Sujet de l'Acadie; Juillet, 1711-Mai, 1712._

[188] _Memoire du Roy, 20 Avril, 1712._

[189] _Memoire sur l'Isle du Cap Breton_, 1709.

[190] _Le Roy a Costebelle, 29 Septembre, 1713._

[191] _Recensement des Habitans de Plaisance et Iles de St. Pierre,
rendus a Louisbourg avec leurs Femmes et Enfans, 5 Novembre, 1714._

[192] _Costebelle au Ministre, 19 Juillet, 1713._

[193] _Felix Pain a Costebelle, 23 Septembre, 1713._

[194] Vetch was styled "General and Commander-in-chief of all his
Majesty's troops in these parts, and Governor of the fort of Annapolis
Royal, country of l'Accady and Nova Scotia." Hence he was the first
English governor of Nova Scotia after its conquest in 1710. He was
appointed a second time in 1715, Nicholson having served in the interim.

[195] _Narrative of Paul Mascarene_, addressed to Nicholson. According
to French accounts, a pestilence at Annapolis had carried off three
fourths of the garrison. _Gaulin a ----, 5 Septembre, 1711_; _Cahouet au
Ministre, 20 Juillet, 1711_. In reality a little more than one hundred
had died.

[196] Passages from Vetch's letters, in Patterson, _Memoir of Vetch_.

[197] _Vetch to the Earl of Dartmouth, 22 January, 1711_; _Memorial of
Council of War at Annapolis, 14 October, 1710_.

[198] Costebelle, _Instruction au Capitaine de la Ronde_, 1714.

[199] _Ecrit des Habitants d'Annapolis Royale, 25 Aoust, 1714_; _Memoire
de La Ronde Denys, 30 Aoust, 1714_.

[200] In 1711, however, the missionary Felix Pain says, "The English
have treated the Acadians with much