LOUDON.
This follows a painting by Ramsay, engraved by Spooner, which is reproduced in J. C. Smith’s Brit. Mezzotint Portraits, p. 1343.
Shirley, on his part, was preparing to carry out such of the lordly plans which he had suggested at New York as proved practicable. He would repeat the Niagara movement himself, with a hope of better success. For the command in the campaign on Lake Champlain he named Gen. John Winslow, and the New England colonies eagerly furnished the troops.
LORD LOUDON.
From a print in the London Magazine, Oct., 1757. Cf. the full-length portrait in Shannon’s N.Y. City Manual, 1869, p. 767, given as a fac-simile of an old print.
The eastern colonies and the Massachusetts governor were not fully aware how the cabal of Johnson and De Lancey, the lieutenant-governor of New York, against Shirley was making head with the home government, and so were not well prepared for the tidings which came in June, while Shirley was in New York, that Colonel Webb, Major-General Abercrombie, and the Earl of Loudon were to be sent over successively to relieve Shirley of the chief command.[1146]