The King of _Great-Britain_ wages no War with the Industrious Peasant, the sacred Orders of Religion, or the defenceless Women and Children: To these in their distressful Circumstances His Royal Clemency offers Protection. The People may remain unmolested on their Lands, inhabit their Houses, and enjoy their Religion in Security. For these inestimable Blessings, I expect the _Canadians_ will take no Part in the Great Contest between the two Crowns; But if by a vain Obstinacy, and misguided Valour, they presume to appear in Arms, they must expect the most fatal Consequences; their Habitations destroyed, their sacred Temples exposed to the Fury of an exasperated Soldiery; their Harvest utterly ruined, and the only Passage of Relief stopped up by a most formidable Fleet.--In this unhappy Situation, and closely attacked by another great Army, what can the wretched Natives expect from Opposition! THE unparelelled Barbarities exerted by the _French_ against our Settlements in _America_, might justify the bitterest Revenge in the Army under my Command; but _Britons_ breathe higher Sentiments of Humanity, and listen to the merciful Dictates of the Christian Religion. Yet should you suffer yourselves to be deluded by an imaginary Prospect of our want of Success; should you refuse those Terms, and persist in Opposition; Then surely will the Law of Nations justify the Waste of War, so necessary to crush an ungenerous Enemy: and Then, the miserable _Canadians_ must in the Winter have the Mortification of seeing those very Families, they have been exerting a fruitless and indiscreet Bravery for, perish by the most dismal Want and Famine. In this great Dilemma let the Wisdom of the People of _Canada_ shew itself! _BRITAIN_ stretches out a powerful, yet a merciful Hand, Faithful to her Engagements, and ready to secure them in their most valuable Rights and Possessions. _FRANCE_, unable to support _Canada_, deserts her Cause at this important Crisis, and during the whole War has assisted her with Troops, who have been maintained _only_ by making the Natives feel all the Weight of grievous and lawless Oppression. JAMES WOLFE. * * * * * Boston, _November 2, 1761_. _Last Evening, just at Eight o'Clock, this Town was alarmed with the Shock of an_ EARTHQUAKE. _Gazette._ * * * * * On the 15th of August, 1763, the "Boston Post-Boy" gives the following account of the celebration of a royal birthday:-- _BOSTON, August 15._