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Respecting all other foreigners, men, women and children, His Majesty deems it proper that theyshould be put out of the Colony and sent to New England, Pennsylvania and to such other quartersas shall be considered expedient, either by land or sea, together or in divisions—all according ashe shall find will best secure their dispersion and prevent them, by reunion, affording enemies anopportunity to get up expeditions against the Cplony. .
He will send to France the French Refugees whom he will find there, particularly those of thepretended Reformed religion. When he will have captured the fort and conquered that Colony hemust think particularly of Ms return to Canada to convey thither the Militia and Soldiers he shalldeem necessary for the King’s service, according to the disposition in which he shall find things bothas regards the Iroquois as well on the side of Canada as on that of New Yoik, and in propor ion owhat troops he will calculate necessary to be left to guard the forts and country.
And as nothing appears more important, after his expedition, than to take advantage of the sea-son to return to Canada , he must, in case he cannot execute all that is above contained, confide itsexecution to Sieur Chevalier de Callieres, giving him orders conformable and according to what heshall consider most fitting the King’s service; His Majesty having determined to con er ° n ie sChevalier de Callieres the Government of New York , and of the town and fort of Manathe m pa •-ticular, under the authority of His Majesty’s Lieutenant General in New France .
He wifi select, before leaving, the oflicers and soldiers he will deem proper to leave at New forteand put over the posts those officers best qualified to maintain and fortify them.
In case he find, after having provided sufficient troops for New York and concluded on the num-ber of soldiers necessary for His Majesty’s service in Canada , that he has a superabundance, he can ^send some to France in the King’s Ships, and retain thirty-five to forty men to be sent eventually toAcadia. ,
His Majesty is very glad to observe to him on this head, that he must regulate himself, as regardsthe number of men he will leave in New York , by the means of subsistence there and the necessityof guarding the country; and he will also consider that his return to Canada will e more convenienfor those he will have to convey back there, when they will not be more numerous.
In case, contrary to all appearance, the season be too far advanced to admit his return o ana aduring the remainder of the Fall, he will give advice of his expedition and sojourn there until theSpring, and he will employ himself during winter in securing his conquest and waging war on ie
However that be, he ought if he be obliged to remain, either personally or through Chevalier deCalibres, if that be convenient, profit by circumstances to conclude a solid and advantageous peacewith the Iroquois , whom he will, doubtless find disposed to sue for it, being depiive oand communication with the English . w
In order to deprive the English of the facility of undertaking land expeditions againfrom New England, His Majesty desires that the English Settements adjoining anaoff if necessary, be destroyed; and that the more distant be put under contri ution. , f
He will send an exact report of all the observations he will be able to make ^^^^de of
the new inhabitants of' New-York , the security of the navigation thence o ranee, e
tion with Canada , so that HtfMajesty may give him on those points the necessary orderfrom that conquest all the advantages to be expected from it. But should this expe 1 7
to all appearances, and for reasons which His Majesty cannot foresee, not be executed, he wffi con-vey his orders to the said Sieur de la Caffiniere to make war against the English , and to range alongthe Coasts of New England and New York to capture there as many prizes as possible, and to remainthere until he have no more provisions than are necessary for his return to France .
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