rigate, two large store-ships, and nineteen sail of smaller vessels;
the greater part of which had been taken from the merchants of Great
Britain; all these were destroyed, together with two batteries which
had been raised for their protection. The French town, consisting of two
hundred houses, was demolished, and the settlement totally ruined. All
the French subjects inhabiting the territories from the bay of Funda to
the banks of the river St. Laurence, and all the Indians through
that tract of country, were now subdued, and subjected to the English
government. In the month of December of the preceding year, the French
colonists at Miramachi, Rickebuctou, and other places lying along the
gulf of St. Laurence, made their submission by deputies to colonel Frye,
who commanded in Fort Cumberland at Chignecto. They afterwards renewed
this submission in the most formal manner, by subscribing articles,
by which they obliged themselves, and the people they represented, to
repair in the spring to Bay Verte, with all their effects and shipping,
to be disposed of according to the direction of colonel Laurence,
governor of Halifax, in Nova-Scotia. They were accompanied by two Indian
chiefs of the nation of the Mickmacks, a powerful and numerous people,
now become entirely dependent upon his Britannic majesty. In a word, by
the conquest of Canada, the Indian fur trade, in its full extent, fell
into the hands of the English. The French interest among the
savage tribes, inhabiting an immense tract of country, was totally
extinguished; and their American possessions shrunk within the limits of
Louisiana, an infant colony on the south of the Mississippi, which the
British arms may at any time easily subdue.

DEMOLITION OF LOUISBOURG.

The conquest of Canada being achieved, nothing now remained to be
done in North America, except the demolition of the fortifications of
Louisbourg on the island of Cape Breton; for which purpose some able
engineers had been sent from England with the ships commanded by captain
Byron. By means of mines artfully disposed and well constructed,
the fortifications were reduced to a heap of rubbish, the glacis was
levelled, and the ditches were filled. All the artillery, ammunition,
and implements of war, were conveyed to Halifax; but the barracks were
repaired, so as to accommodate three hundred men occasionally; the
hospital, with the private houses, were left standing. The French still
possessed, upo