three mounted with patereros, 200 barges or batteaux, 7 pieces of bronze, 48 of iron, 14 mortars, 5 howitzers, 47 patereros, a quantity of bullets, bombs, balls,

powder and a considerable pile of provisions.

On the 21 st all having been demolished,

the prisoners, artillery and supplies being removed,

army re-imbarked and repaired in three divisions to the Bay of Niaoure whence the several corps proceeded to their respective destinations. The savages having, with the Marquis of Montthe

calm's permission, departed successively after the siege,

This general had previous to the expedition

bound the Nations the one to the other by a Wampum belt which he had presented them in His Majesty's name according to the custom of the Country. So much munition of war and provisions found at Chouaguen the fleet which secured the command on Lake Ontario to the English the additional reinforcements they expected from day to day all announced designs on their part against our posts, Frontenac and Niagara, the execution of which was calculated on this Autumn, and the danger of which the Colony, very fortunately, had

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not to incur. 2

[For another French account of the taking of Oswego, see Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. xxvi. 508.]

ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION.

FORTS CHOUAGUEN, BY M. LE MARQUIS DE MONTCALM, FIELD MARSHAL OF THE KINGS ARMIES, GENERAL OF HIS TROOPS IN NEW FRANCE. Article the first. It has been agreed that the English troops shall surrender

themselves prisoners of War ; that the

Officers and soldiers shall be allowed to preserve their effects. 1.