Protestant Missionary or two was supported to live among ’em at their head Quarters, as is the Method of the french Priests; by w^{ch}. means they gain so great an Ascendency over them. “Just as I had finished the last Paragraph a Letter from Governor Knowles to Admiral Warren & myself, dated the 10^{th} Instant, was deliver’d to me, in which he informs me that ‘he has given his Opinion in his Letters to your Grace, that it will be necessary to drive _all the French_ (I suppose he means _Inhabitants_) out of Accadie (Nova Scotia) in the Spring, and that he hopes he shall have Orders to assist in doing it, if Admiral Warren does not go upon the Expedition to Quebeck, which he apprehends is rendred more difficult than it was, by such a Number of Ships being got safe up to Quebeck this Year, as no doubt they have carried all manner of warlike Stores.’ And in his Letter to me of the 24^{th} of October he says ‘if his Majesty should be pleas’d to transport the Rebels who are Objects of his Mercy, & encourage other Highland Families to come over, he thinks the Colony of Nova Scotia would soon be repeopled;’ which it is possible he may have also propos’d to your Grace as in his Opinion the best Method for peopling that Colony, after the present french Inhabitants are drove off. “As the Sentiments, which I have taken the Liberty to offer to your 336 Grace upon this Subject, happen to be something different from M^r. Knowles’s, I think it may not only be proper but my Duty to mention the Reasons of my preferring the Scheme for attempting to make the present french Inhabitants good Subjects to his Majesty, and keeping ’em in the Country, to that of driving ’em off & introducing some of the Rebels and other Highlanders in their Room.