IT were impertinent to multiply our Extracts, as
we believe the foregoing sufficiently answer the inten-
tion : However, as Mr. ——— has related two
facts, on which he affecteth to confide, as though
they
were decisive testimony of the American power, we
are obliged to proceed a citation or two further.
ALTHOUGH we confess that these assertions be not en-
tirely false, they are, nevertheless, far from being
absolute-
ly true, and stripped of the air he gives them, are indeed
futile and insignificant, for his manner of relation would
induce one to believe, that the one was an achieve-
ment which the Mother Country was too feeble to
ef-
fect, and, that the other even rescued her from fo-
reign conquest.—But, the acquisition of
Louisbourg the
last War was surely more glorious than the preceed-
ing, and if it be true, that General Braddock and
his
Army were massacred in the desarts of
America, 'tis
equally certain, they were sacrificed in defence of
the Colonies, their Troops, indeed, fortunately beat
the French on the Western Frontier, but they fought
in their own defence, nor could these facts were they
almost