[151] _Costebelle a Ponchartrain, 3 Decembre, 1710._ [152] _Instruction pour Monsieur de la Ronde, Capitaine d'Infanterie des Detachements de la Marine_, 1711. "Le dit sieur de la Ronde pourroit entrer en negociation et se promettre de faire cesser toutes sortes d'hostilites du cote du Canada, suppose que les Bastonnais promissent d'en faire de meme de leur cote, et qu'ils ne donassent aucun secours a l'avenir, d'hommes ni de vaisseaux, aux puissances de la vieille Angleterre et d'Ecosse." [153] "La vieille Angleterre ne s'imaginera pas que ces diverses Provinces se reuniront, et, secouant le joug de la monarchie Anglaise, s'erigeront en democratie."--_Memoire sur la Nouvelle Angleterre_, 1710, 1711. (Archives de la Marine.) [154] "Pour Baston, il faudrait la piller, ruiner ses ateliers, ses manufactures, tous ses beaux etablissements, couler bas ses navires, ... ruiner les ateliers de construction de navires."--_Memoire sur la Nouvelle Angleterre_, 1710, 1711. The writer was familiar with Boston and its neighborhood, and had certainly spent some time there. Possibly he was no other than La Ronde Denys himself, after the failure of his mission to excite the "Bastonnais" to refuse co-operation with British armaments. He enlarges with bitterness on the extent of the fisheries, foreign trade, and ship-building of New England. [155] See Swift, _Conduct of the Allies_. [156] Boston, devoted to fishing, shipbuilding, and foreign trade, drew most of its provisions from neighboring colonies. (Dummer, _Letter to a Noble Lord_.) The people only half believed that the Tory ministry were sincere in attacking Canada, and suspected that the sudden demand for provisions, so difficult to meet at once, was meant to furnish a pretext for throwing the blame of failure upon Massachusetts. Hutchinson, ii. 173. [157] _Minutes of Proceedings of the Congress of Governors, June, 1711._ [158] _Walker to Burchett, Secretary of the Admiralty, 14 August, 1711._ [159] _Abstract of the Journal of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay._ [160] _King to Secretary St. John, 25 July, 1711._ [161] The number demanded from Massachusetts was one thousand, and that raised by her was eleven hundred and sixty. _Dudley to Walker, 27 July, 1711._ [162] Walker prints this letter in his Journal. Colonel King writes in his own Journal: "The conquest of Canada will naturally lead the Queen into changing their present disorderly government;" and he thinks that the conviction of this made the New Englanders indifferent to the success of the expedition. [163] The above is drawn from the various lists and tables in Walker, _Journal of the Canada Expedition_. The armed ships that entered Boston in June were fifteen in all; but several had been detached for cruising. The number of British transports, store-ships, etc., was forty, the rest being provincial. [164] Walker, _Journal; Introduction_. [165] _Ibid._, 25.