[16] Travels into North America, by Peter Kalm, Eng. Transl.; 1770, vol. i, pp. 264-5.
[17] Montcalm’s letters, however, to which reference is here made, are held to have been forged by a Jesuit or ex-Jesuit named Roubaud. See Mr. Brymner’s Report on Canadian Archives for the year 1885, p. xiii, &c., and Note E, p. cxxxviii. See also Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, 1884 ed., vol. ii, pp. 325-6, Note.
[18] History of England in the Eighteenth Century, 1882 ed., vol. iii, chap. xii, p. 272.
[19] From the anonymous Lettre d’un habitant de Louisbourg, edited and translated by Professor Wrong, Toronto, 1897, p. 58.
[20] As to the authenticity of Montcalm’s letters, see above, note to p. 31.
[21] Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, in the Essay on the Government of Dependencies, chap. vi, writes that the North American colonies ‘had not been required at any time since their foundation to contribute anything to the expenses of the Supreme Government, and there is scarcely any habit which it is so difficult for a government to overcome in a people as a habit of not paying’.
[22] Wealth of Nations: chapter on the ‘Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies’.
[23] Wealth of Nations: chapters on the ‘Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies’, and on the ‘Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope’.
[24] The Greek colonies will be remembered to the contrary. Some of them speedily outgrew the mother cities in wealth and population, but then they were wholly independent.
[25] The American Revolution, 1899 ed., Part I, chap. ii, p. 101.