now here some of them were retaken going to France, and others were sent Some of them are on board the Royal Anne, and some in the Hospital all in good Health, and are to be sent home by the first opportunity.

at

Oswego, and are

;

here from Canada.

;

1 For another English account of the Surrender of Oswego, see Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxvii, 75. A Writer in the London Monthly Review, vol. xvii, 174, accuses the Merchants of England of opposing the important settlement at Oswego from interested motives as a company of them had engrossed the whole trade of supplying the Colony, as was pretended,

with goods for the Indian Trade English or the Indians.

;

which goods they sold wholesale to the French instead of retailing them to the

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