the rank of colonel in the Guards. He afterwards acted
as chief engineer in the attempts and descents which were made on the
French coast. Though grievously maimed, he accepted the same office in
the expedition to Guadaloupe, where he died universally regretted.]

[Footnote 378: Note 3 A, p. 378. When the French ambassador returned to
London, he proposed that orders should be immediately despatched to the
English governors in America, with express orders to desist from any new
undertaking, and all acts of hostility; but with regard to the lands on
the Ohio, to put, without delay, matters on the same footing in which
they stood before the late war, that the respective claims of both
nations might be amicably referred to the commissaries at Paris. The
British court agreed to the cessation of hostilities, and the discussion
of the disputes by the ministers of the two crowns, on condition that
all the possessions in America should be previously put in the
situation prescribed by the treaty of Utrecht, confirmed by that of
Aix-la-Chapelle. The French ministry, instead of complying with this
condition, produced an evasive draft of a preliminary convention, and
this was answered by a counter-proposal. At length the ambassador of
France demanded, as preliminary conditions, that Great Britain would
renounce all claim to the south coast of the river St. Laurence, and
the lakes that discharge themselves into that river; cede to the
French twenty leagues of country lying along the river of Fundy, which
discovers Acadia, or Nova Scotia; and all the land between the rivers
Ohio and Ouabache. A memorial was afterwards presented on the same
subject, including the affairs of the neutral islands in the West
Indies; but this was amply refuted in another piece, in which the
British ministry observed, that even at this very opening of the
commission established in Paris, for terminating amicably the disputes
in North America, the French invaded Nova Scotia, erected three forts
in the heart of that province, and would have destroyed the English
settlement at Halifax, had they not been prevented: that the like
hostilities were committed upon his Britannic majesty's subjects on the
Ohio and Indian lakes, where the governors appointed by the French king,
without any shadow of right, prohibited the English from trading; seized
their traders by force, and sent them prisoners to France; invaded the
territories of Virginia, attacked a fort that c