Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Gardiner Spectator.
SIR WILLIAM PHIPPS,
TCoNCLUDED.I

II was now tnat Fhipps ielt the value oil
his repution for truth and honor, for upon
his assuring the men that they should re-
celve an ample reward, even if it should
come from his own share,-ihey declared
themselves con,en;ed. Phipps Immediate
| ly set sail for England and arrived at Lon
| don, with near three hundred thousand
pounds sterling, of which his own share
| amounted to sixteen thousand
| Here he was to meet the hostility, of
malice, envy, and al, uncharitable ),
| which so often wait upon successful indus
try and public enterprise; there were moi
wanting some, base and mean enough, to
urge the king upon false representations, to
seize and contiscate, the well earned fruits
of his toll. But in this instance the whispers
of malignity and envy were too feeble to
contend with truth and honesty, and the
king replied that Phipps was in his opinion
person Of fidelity, honesty and ability, and
that he should no; want his conntenaBce,
and in consideration Of the services he had
performed, bestowed upon him the honor
Of knighthood, and Phipps beng appointed
Sheriff Of New Eng land, returned 10 Dos-
ton after an absence Of five years; and built
the 6rack honse upon the spot he had former
| ly selected. In 1859 war was proclaimed
at Boston against France, and the General
Court determined upon regaining Nova
Scotia, and reducing Quebec. Early in
the ensuing spring eight vessels were pre-
pared, and manned with seven hundred
men, for the expedition, and the command
was given TO Phpps as the most suitable
person. The fleet sailed the oath Of April
| 1890. The first attack was made upon
Port Royal, which being unprepared to
withstand a seige, made but little resis-
lance, and Phipps took possession of the
whole sea-coast from Port Royal TO Penob-
scot, and was thought to have taken suffi-
cient plumber to pay the expedition.
The success Of the enterprise against
Port Royal, induced the Gvnerai Court, to
lpersevere in their design against Canada,
which had now become the more necessary
from the constant rayages of the French
and Indians, upon the English frontiers. -
A small vessel had been sent express to
England early in April, with representa-
ton Of the exposed and suffering state of
New England, and aid was demanded
which however they did not receive The
magnitude and importance of the enter
prise, was universally perceived, and n.
York joined with New England, in equip.
ping forty armed vessels, and in raising
1000 men, half of them under the comm and
of Phipps, were destined to attack Quebec,
the remainder under Gen. Winthrop, were
to penetrate by land to Montreal.
After some delays, in the month of Au-
gust, Phipps set sail, but retarded by fer
| l. 4 ~
till the 9Th Of October, On the next day
he addressed note to Count F:ontenac
the Governor Of Quebec, demanding a
surrender. To this Frontenac returned a
naughty refusal. Phpps on the Sth effec-
ted landing of 1900 effective men, upon
the island of Orleans below the city, at the
same time commencing cannonade from
his shipping. The attack had however
been anticipated by Frortenac, and he was
prepared for stout resistance. The APP
proach of the English vessels was checked
by the long gunssin the French batteries,
and their land forces were continually and
| furously attacked, by the French and In
dams from the woods and the troops suffer-
ed SO greatly, from the rigors of the Cana
dian winter, which was then beginning to
set in, that the besiegers on the lth OF Oc-
tober learning from deserter the great
strength of the place ana perceving the in
adequacy of their force to reduce it, re-em.
barked with precipitation!
But their misfortunes did not cease here;
in the st. Lawrence, the feet was overta-
ken by violent storm, in which two or
three vessels were sunk, one was wrecked
upon Anicosta, and some were blown OF
to the West Indies. Phipps himself not ar
irving at Boston till the 10Th Of November.
The loss during this expedition, by camp
distemper the small poX, and ship wreck,
amounted to two or three hundred So
confident was the government ofsuccess, and
Of paying the soldiers with the plumber of
the conquered, that no provision had been
made, and the treasury being exhausted, re-
course was had to Bills Of Credit" or pub
lie notes, the first instance the kind oc-
curing in New England, the currency
hitherto having been sterling. Upon this
disastrous issue of the war in Canada,
Phipps repaired 10 England hoping to re-
ce!ve aid from the mother country, and
though disappointed in this. he was APP
pointed Governor oyer Massachusetts Bay
in New England as il was then called
where he arrived on the l4th of Nav 1892.
Happy was it for New England, that he