It is not to be presumed that Englishmen were wholly blind to this danger. There were advocates who maintained that it would be wiser to restore Canada and retain Guadaloupe, with perhaps Martinico and St. Lucia. This view was supported with distinguished ability in an anonymous paper, said to have been written by William Burke, the friend and kinsman of the great orator. The views therein set forth were said to have been countenanced by lord Hardwicke. The tide of English opinion was, however, very strongly in the opposite direction.

FOOTNOTES:

[136] Stewart's Sketches of the Highlanders, Vol. II, p. 66.

[137] Sketches of the Highlanders, Vol. I, p. 289.

[138] The Olden Time, Vol. I, p. 181.

[139] Spark's Writings of Washington, Vol. II, p. 332.

[140] Stewart's Sketches of the Highlanders, Vol. II, p. 61.

[141] See Appendix, [Note L.]

[142] Pinkerton's Travels, Vol. XIII.