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An Event Chronology Based on Louisbourg Accounts Not Available in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, By Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, 2004 - Present

1769

• February 16, 1769
  Quebec Gazette
  No. 216

[February 16, 1769]

To the Conqueror of Louisbourg, Newfoundland, and Canada, on the late noble Reward for all Victories.


"Let Amherst fall!" Corruption said:
Obedient to her Call,
Our Statesmen, knowing in their Trade!
Re-echo’d, "Let him fall!
He never bent before thy Throne, 5
Nor dragg’d thy golden Yoke:
Then let him fall!—and let thy Son,
Thy H——gh, strike the Stroke."
Thrice loud the Gallic Cock did crow,
And thrice Britannia sigh’d; 10
Blush’d while the V——n gave the Blow,
And sunk beneath the Tide.
Yet trembling for her darling Land,
Red with maternal Shame,
To* Clio flew, whose honest Hand 15
Gives Infamy or Fame.
With downcast Eyes she spoke her Fear,
Indignant told her Grief;
And pray’d the pitying Muse to tear
The black, the guilty Leaf; 20
And ne’er to future Ages tell
(Her Britannia’s foulest Stain)
How H——gh rul’d, and Amherst fell,
While B——k seem’d to r—n.
Justice stood by, she bent her Brow, 25
Refus’d Britain’s Pray’r:
Cry’d, "Hear th’irrevocable Vow!
’Tis by myself I swear!
No Time shall wipe away their Crimes:
The Names in this true Page 30
Shall blacken through succeeding Times,
And stink from Age to Age.
While ev’ry Clime, from Pole to Pole,
Shall Amherst’s Deeds record:
The Good with Envy view his Soul, 35
The Brave revere his Sword.
And when at last to taste Repose,
Which Statesmen never know,
To Joy’s eternal Fount he goes,
Where Statesmen seldom go. 40
In that dread Hour, when Fate shall bid
Stern Death to set him free,
He’ll smile at Death, as late he did,
Base H——gh! at thee.
Then the Canadian grateful, shall, 45
Low bending o’er his Grave,
Sigh, while his Tears sincerely fall,
He conquer’d but to save!
And Britain’s froward, headstrong Child,§
When Britain is no more, 50
Shall teach the yet untrodden Wild,
His Mem’ry to adore.
Yes, Amherst! dear to Fame and me,
Thy Worth shall never die:
Time, sinking by the Fate’s Decree, 55
In vast Eternity.
E’en in the cold Embrace of Death,
Still careful of thy Fame,
Shall, with his last, his parting Breath,
Pronounce our Amherst’s Name." 60

[Source: © Canadian Poetry Press - http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/newspaper/Quebec_Gazette_1769_february.htm ]

• February 23, 1769
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

Boston, January 18. 

JOURNAL of OCCURRENCES. 

THIS being the Day appointed for the Celebration of the QueenBirth, there was a general Muster of the Troops in the Common; the thin Appearance made by the several Regiments, fully evinced that their being quartered in this Town, was a Measure as impolitic as it was illegal. --- A Gentleman in P--------t, when speaking of their Arrival in Boston, added, "I am very glad that the Trial of N--th A--r-ca and G---t B-----n has been made; for those Disturbers of the Public Peace, and Subverters of Government, are now acquainted both with us and themselves"--- We are so, and wish we could justly return the Compliment: It may not be improper to tell that little S------n, that this Province alone, raised four Times the Number of Troops now in Town, in less Weeks than it has taken Months to collect this Body of Regulars from all Parts of the Continent; and that with our Troops we took Louisbourgh, and thereby purchased a Peace for Europe, for a less Sum, than the Boston Expedition will cost the Nation; and that if the Court of Versailles had foolishly taken it in their Heads to have sent twice the Number of Troops to have taken Boston, as the Court of London has sent, as it is said, to support the Laws which protect us, the Conduct of the Bostonians would have convinced the World, that Americans took a Pride to vie with Britons in Spirit and Resolution upon a justifiable Occasion. ...

• July 6, 1769
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

Halifax, May 25.

They write from Louisbourg, that the Distress of that Place, since the Troops were withdrawn, is really difficult to be described; several poor Families in starving Condition, and many of the Inhabitants daily deserting the Town.

• July 6, 1769
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

Boston, June 22.

... The Reports of a French Fleet of ten Sail of the Line being seen off Louisbourg, and sundry other extraordinary reports, relating to them and Halifax, we can find no Foundation for.

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