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"The present Situation of Affairs in this Province obliges me to collect all the Force in my Power; I have therefore sent Transports for the 10^th and 52^nd Regiments to bring them to this Place, at the same Time I submit to you, whether you think any Thing is to be dreaded from the Absence of these Corps, internally in the Province of Quebec during the Winter; for as these Regiments will come down the River so late in the Year, and may be replaced early in the Spring, I imagine no Danger can be apprehended from without. If therefore you think the Fusileers at Quebec, and the Part of the 26^th at Montreal, with small Detachments from them at Trois Rivieres and Chambli, can preserve Peace and good Order in the Province, I am to beg you will order the 10^th and 52^d Regiments to embark without Delay on board the Transports, for you will think with me they will have no Time to spare in coming down the River St. Laurence.

"As I must look forward to the worst, from the apparent Disposition of the People here, I am to ask your Opinion, whether a Body of Canadians and Indians might be collected, and confided in, for the Service in this Country, should matters come to Extremities; and on what Plan, and what Measures would be most efficacious to raise them, and for them to form a Junction with the King's Forces in this Province?"

G.C.

Endorsed: — Extract of a Letter from

General Gage to General

Carleton dated Boston Sept^r

4^th 1774.

In Governor Carleton's

of the 23^rd Sept^r N^o 1

[2]

Canadian Archives, Q 10, p. 122. This was sent as an enclosure with the previous despatch, and is one of numerous documents showing immediate preparation on the part of the English authorities, after the passing of the Quebec Act, to make use of the Canadians and Indians in connection with the colonial troubles to the south.