The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-10

names and terms or service are gwen in the muster rolls now recovered. The regimental officers were: Elisha Will l Hams, colonel Samuel Talcott, lieuten- ant-colonel; Israel Hewitt major; John Darling, adjutant; Normand Morrison,
 surgeon; Roderick Morrison, quarter
 master; and Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge chaplain. The ten companies were { commanded as follows: Captain Elisha Williams of Wethersield, Captain sam uel Talcott of Hartford, Captain Israel Hewitt of New London, Captain James Church of Hartford, Captain Josiah Starr of Fairfield, Captain Benjamin
 Lee of Plainfield, Captain Robert Deni- son of New London, Captain William Whiting of Lebanon, Captain Elihu Hall
 of Wallingford and Captain Joseph Wooster of Stratford.
 RENDEZVOUS AT NEW LONDON.
 This regiment was duly equipped and provisioned. Transports were secured at New Haven and Hartford and the
 colony warship Defense, of New Lon
 don, was made ready to act as convoy, Still, as time passed there was no news of General St Clair and the British
 fleet. The day was approaching when they must depart for Louisburg or 1t would be too late in the season. So the troops were ordered to rendezvous at New London, where they were en- camped by the middle of August. On
 the 18th of that month Governor Shlr- | ley wrote to Governor Law advising
 him that there was no news of forces | from Great Britain and saying, "A few
 days further delay will make us con 1 clude that it is too late to proceed to | Quebec" It was then that this inflated conqueror, who had concocted scheme for the reduction of Canada, which
 would probably have met with disaster
 had it been carEed out proposed that
 the American forces should concentrate l all their energies on the capture Of Crown Point. He shortly wrote also to this effect to the governors of New Hampshire and Rhode Island who agreed to it. He found, however, in
 Governor Law an imfregnabIe Connect icut Yankee, harder to capture than the Louisburg fortress.
 CRAFTY GOVERNOR LAW.
 The diversion of the American troops
 to an attack on Crown Point was
  Duke of Newcastle's letter. Although
 authority was given General St Clan, Admiral Warren and Governor Shirley to modify the plan, this surely did not warrant independent action on the part
 of the colonies. Governor Shirley, how
 ever, claimed that he, with the co-opera- tion of Admiral Warren, being ma jorty of the three named, had the right in the absence of General St. Clair to or
 der it. He so wrote to Governor Law on the 18th of August. To this letter the Connecticut governor made the follow ing reply September ?: "The scheme you propose in yours of the 18th of the last month is very agreeable to my sen-
 timents and CD shall impatiently wait for a copy of that authority which his
 Grace by his Majesties command has
 signified to MT Shirley will be left to yourselves and Lieutenant-General St.
 Clair to alter the scheme contained in the Duke of Newcastle's circular letter.
 should exceedingly rejoice if Provi
 dence should so order the matter that
 the commissions and order you refer to
 so come, then may we rest securely on
 his Grace Declaration about the expen- SeS. 6ul III cdSe HOlHlUS HlOle SllOultl
 come then what we have already re-
 ceived it deserves the most serious con- sideration whether we can proceed upon it any other way than by the authority of the several governments through the circumstances of the present day seem to make 1t necessary to proceed on the scheme you have projected. Yet not withstanding this may leave us without
 so much to say in fovor of reimburse
 ment we will freely joyn with you in
 making the best we can of it. This then was the situation. Although Gov ernor Law was willing to unite in the attack on Grown Point if the same was approved by the several governments, he doubted the authority of Governor Shirley and Admiral Warren to order it
 under the terms of the dukes circular
 letter. and if they should not claim the promise of reimbursement. Moreover
 the officers were unwilling to serve | without proper commissions. Those which the duke had promised to send in
 blank had not arrived, and if the colony should issue them it would be liable for | their wages It is evident that Cover
 nor Law had no intention of proceeding
 on the proposed expedition. Only four | days after answering Governor Shirley's
 letter he commanded the troops to re-
 turn from New London to their respec- | tive places of enlistment, and a week later, September IS, they were given a
 months furlough, which. at the expira- ton of that time was extended indefi-
 nitely by the general assembly, until they were discharged by royal orders
 on the 31st of October, 1747.
 | THONGS OF FRENCH FLEET. | About the same time that Governor Shirley heard as above from Governor
 Law, he received news of a danger from 1 the French and Indians which threat
 ened Louisburg and Of revolt among
 the Acadians which made it expedent | to send endorsements to Annapolis | Scarcely had he recovered his breath when from various sources came alarm 1 ing tidings of a great French fleet un- 1 der the Duke d'Anville lowering off the | coast. This was a surprise and created consternation throughout New England, especially in Boston, which was thus I threatened with destruction. The Eng 1 fish had failed it seems to blockade the | French in the harbor at Brest, and "the | most formida ble armament ever fitted out against the coast of North America" was about tn OVerWhelm a II the New