The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-10
THE CONNECTICUT RAID.
VHICH W1S MADE AGIINST C4N- 
 ADA IN f546.
Men Who Formed am Expedition Against the French-MOster Roll Found In EngIaud-Brave Deeds Told by pr. Love.

Found In EngIand-Brave Deeds
 Told by pr. Love.
 The Rev. William De Loss Love gave an address before the Connecticut His torical society at Hartford recently on the expedition to Canada which oc- cured in 1746 and in connection present. ed to the society an elegant transcript of the muster rolls of the colonial forces recently discovered in the public record office of England. The address and the correspondence relating to the rolls will be found in full below:
 The French garrison at Louisburg, the "Dunl<irk of America" surrendered to the provincial troops of New England on the 17th of June, 1745. It was sig nal victory which filled Europe with amazement and the American colonies with rejoicing. The consequence was the formation of plans in( England for the complete conquest of Canada; and on the other hand the devising of a scheme in France for the recovery of their fortress the establishment of their power in Nova Scotia and the devasta- tion of the settlements, along the New England coast The designs of both countries were thwarted. An uneXpect- ed concurrence of circumstances pre- vented the departure of the expedition against Canada, which the American colonies had done their part in making ready; and the great French armada, which was transporting an army to CO., operate in it's purpose, was pursued by the fate of death and tempest to it's de- ,bf bictp If H,np19n6 in 1746 derives its main interest from these movements.
 COMMAND OF THE GROWN.
 On the 26th of May, His Majesty's sloop Hicl1ingbrook, Captain Townley commander, arrived in Boston harbor. It had been sent expressly from Eng land to carry packet of letters, one for each colonial governor as far south as Virginia. These were dated at White hall, April 9, 1746, were signed by the Duke of Newcastle, secretary of state, and contained the royal commands for the expedition against Canada. The governor of Massachusetts, William Shirley, doubtless read his epistle with secret exultation, for he afterwards as- serted that he with Sir William Pepper el and Admiral Peter Warren, when at Louisberg the autumn previous, had concerted the proposed expedition and accordingly wrote of it to His Majesty's ministers. The letter addressed to Jon athan Law, governor of Connecticut, was dispatched by express and arrived at Hartford on the 29th inst, the gene ral assembly being then in session. It is the most important document on the subject The Connecticut authorities evidently counted it their only warrant for action in subsequent events. The plan it proposed was as follows: Gene ral St. Clair with five battaliOns of His Majesty's troops, was to be dispatched from England, sailing early in May with a convoy of war ships, and this force with a regiment which had been already ordered to embark, two regiments sent from Gibraltar, which arrived at Louis burg the Fist of April and the troops to be raised in New England were to pro- ceed with the fleet to the St. Lawrence river and thence to Quebec. At the same time the forces of the southern colonies, assembling at Albany, when they should hear of the fleets arrival at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river were to move northward by the way of Crown Point to attack Montreal and eventually unite with the other army. Accordingly the colonies were urged to raise ac many troops as possible, and appoint their officers, for whom blank commissions were to be sent from Eng land by the next conveyance The gov ernor was directed to "assure all those that shall engage in this service, as we'll officers as soldiers, that they will imme~ diately enter into His Majesty's pay, the officers from the time they shall engage in His Majesty's service and the Sol- ders from the respective days on which they shall enlist"
 All the New England governors inter- preted their letters to mean that they were to receive further orders or await the arrival of General St. Clair before sailing for Louisburg. In the letter to Governor Shirley, however, there was provision giving authority to General St. Clair, Admiral Warren and the Mas sachusetts governor Ito alter and final Iy adiudge the plan" This was Cover nor Shirley's claim, though the letter it. self is missing from the Massachusetts archives and so far as we are aware is not extant In his printed memoirs he says that he was ordered ''to consult with the general and admiral upon the most advisable scheme Tor effecting the conquest of Canada" and Gin case they and he should think that any other plan might be more practicable, it would be left to them three to do as they should think proper" There was certainly no such clause in the letter to Governor Law, and no mention of any authority conveyed by his majesty on that amhi tious gubernatorial general. All these features of the Duke of Newcastle's circular letter were important, as will appear in the sequel.
 THE CONNECTICUT CONTINGENT.
 The Connecticut general assembly on the day following the receipt of the command resolved to raise six hundred men and passed the votes necessary to carry out their decision. Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Wolcott were ap pointed to visit Boston and confer with Governor Shirley as to further details. This they did, and they found him greatly disappointed at Connecticuts quota. On further consideration there fore they decided to recommend an in crease to one thousand men, which was accordingly approved This was not