upwards of 1400 fine farm-houses, for we, during the siege, were masters of a great part of their country along shore, and parties were almost continually kept out ravaging the country; so that 'tis tho't it will take them half a century to recover the damage.

* Major General Wolfe, killed.

† Brigadier Monckton, Col. Carlton, Q. M. General, Major Barry, Adjt, General, and Major Spittle, wounded.

APPENDIX.

BOSTON, December 17th, 1759-We hear that George Cradock, Esquire, is appointed Collector of His Majesty's Customs, in the room of Benjamin Barons, Esquire.

The English prisoners who were exchanged this fall by a flag of truce from Monsieur de Vaudreuil, at Montreal, are returned to their respective places. Capt. James Beach, one of those who was exchanged, is arrived here: he was taken about a year ago, on his passage from Bristol, by Capt. Delabroitz, in a French 64-gun ship, which was cast away in the River St. Lawrence, as has been published. By him we learn that, when the British fleet and troops arrived before Quebec, the English prisoners, who were officers (being 12 in number), were removed from that city to Trois-Rivières, where they tarried till the day the battle was on the Plains of Abraham, when they were ordered for Montreal; but the success of our forces was kept hid from them as well as the inhabitants of Montreal, till a considerable time after: that about 800 of the militia were sent from the French army before Quebec surrendered, to gather in the harvest, and send it to the mills: that the inhabitants' stock of cattle and grain were taken an account of, and two-third parts of the whole was appropriated for the King's use: that when they received the news at Montreal of the death of Mons. de Montcalm, and the loss of Quebec, the French in general were prodigiously cast down, and dreaded their own Indians more than the English; that the Canadians were pleased with the articles of capitulation: that M. de Vaudreuil pleased them with the prospect of peace early in the spring; and that it was needless for the peasants to submit themselves to the English, as they would enjoy their possessions so soon again. While the prisoners

were at Montreal, the French had intelligence of Major Rogers destroying St. François, which they tho't to be a great enterprise; but just as the flag of truce was coming away, they endeavoured to depreciate it, by reporting to the prisoners, that there were not more than 40 Indians destroyed therein. It is said that the Island of St. John's is not very strongly fortified, any more than Montreal: but that Nut Island is made as strong as possible to make such a pass. The prisoners who were in Canada, are not all discharged, some still choosing to remain with the French, though they must fare very hard, and others among the Indians. About 80 were in Quebec when the place surrendered, and were discharged, and some of them are returned to their homes.

One of the instances of kindness and generosity of the British troops after their taking possession of Quebec, has not yet been mentioned in the public papers, which is, that when they had their allowance of provisions dealt out to them, on seeing the distressed women whose husbands, fathers and brethren had been, and some were then their inveterate enemies, freely distributed half their allowance to them, causing them to rejoice, in receiving their sustenance from those whom they had so great an aversion to. It is imagined that the French army in Germany under the M. de Contades, had that been victorious last summer, would it have behaved in like manner to Hanover? Let Mar. Belleisle's letter, or rather the conduct of Marshal Richelieu, when he had that capital in possession, determine:-"But (said the late General "Wolfe) Britons breathe higher sentiments of humanity, "and listen to the merciful dictates of the Christian "Religion;" which was verified in the brave soldiers whom he led on to conquest, by their shewing more of the true Christian Spirit than the subjects of his Most Christian Majesty can pretend to.

In our last we mentioned the arrival of His Majesty's Ship "Mercury," with the money granted by Parliament in 1757 to this Province, to recompence them for their expenses in