made a request to the English cabinet for permission to send vessels along the coasts of America, to pick up those unfortunates.

"Our navigation act is against it," replied Mr.Grenville; "France cannot send ships amongst our colonies." A few Acadians, nevertheless, reached France; they settled in the outskirts of Bordeaux, where their descendants still form the population of two prosperous communes.

Others founded in Louisiana settlements which bore the name of Acadia.

The crime was consummated: the religious, pacific, inoffensive population, which but lately occupied the neutral land, had completely disappeared.

The greedy colonists, who envied them their farms and pasturage, had taken possession of the spoil; Acadia was forever in the power of the Anglo-Saxon race, which was at the same moment invading the valley of the Ohio.
General Braddock had mustered his troops at Wills Creek, in the neighborhood of the Alleghany Mountains.