rther
intrusion." Vigilant Governors, these French, and well supported from
home. Duquesne, the vigilant successor of La Gallisonniere (who is now
wanted at home, for still more important purposes, as will appear),
finding "the lead plates" little regarded, sends, by and by, 500 new
soldiers from Detroit into those Ohio parts (march of 100 miles or
so);--"the French Government having, in this year 1750, shipped no
fewer than 8,000 men for their American Garrisons;"--and where the Ohio
Company venture on planting a Stockade, tears it tragically out, as will
be seen!

The THIRD thing worth notice, in 1749, and still more in the following
year and years, had reference to Nova Scotia again. One La Corne, "a
recklessly sanguinary partisan" (military gentleman of the Trenck,
INDIGO-Trenck species), nestles himself (winter, 1749-50) on that
Missiquash River, head of the Bay of Fundy; in the Village of Chignecto,
which is admittedly English ground, though inhabited by French. La Corne
compels, or admits, the Inhabitants to swear allegiance to France
again; and to make themselves useful in fortifying, not to say in
drilling,--with an eye to military work. Hearing of which, Colonel
Cornwallis and incipient Halifax are much at a loss. They in vain seek
aid from the Governor of Massachusetts ("Assembly to be consulted first,
to be convinced; Constitutional rights:--Nothing possible just, at
once");--and can only send a party of 400 men, to try and recover
Chignecto at any rate. April 20th, 1750, the 400 arrive there; order La
Corne instantly to go. Bourbon Flag is waving on his dikes, this side
the Missiquash: high time that he and it were gone. "Village Priest
[flamingly orthodox, as all these Priests are, all picked for the
business], with his own hands, sets fire to the Church in Chignecto;
"inhabitants burn their houses, and escape across the river,--La Corne
as rear-guard. La Corne, across the Missiquash, declares, That, to a
certainty, he is now on French ground; that he will, at all hazards,
defend the Territory here; and maintain every inch of it,--"till
regular Commissioners [due ever since the Treaty of Aix, had not that
ROMISH-KING Business been so pressing] have settled what the Boundary
between the two Countries is."--Chignecto being ashes, and the
neighboring population gone, Cornwallis and his Four Hundred had to
return to Halifax.

It was not till Autumn following, that Chignecto could be solidly got
hold of by t