I8 HISTORICAL SKETCH 0F PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     four bastions and be of strength to command the basin. 
     
     The cannon were chiefly of light calibre, and the strength 
     
     of the garrison with cannoniers less than eighty rank and file. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Quite a Town~as founded by Count St. Pierre—had now 
     
     sprung into existence, the site of which may be seen near 
     
     Warren Farm to the southwest of the harbor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But, to return to the Province of Nova Scotia, we find that 
     
     the Hon. Edward Cornwallis on being appointed Governor in 
     
     1749, arrived there during the summer of that year with 2,500 
     
     emigrants, and founded the Town of Halifax as if by magic. 
     
     The Provincial Government was removed there from Annapolis, 
     
     —formerly Port R0yal——-and soon Halifax became a military 
     
     station of vast importance to the British Crown. Meanwhile, 
     
     Louisburg, during this period of peace, constructed additional 
     
     works to such an extent that her batteries now mounted two 
     
     hundred and thirty-six pieces of ordnance of heavy calibre, 
     
     and was next in military strength to Quebec, the strongest and 
     
     most important fortress in America. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Although this peace lasted for seven years, there were several 
     
     causes which kept up an ill~feeling between the two countries, 
     
     especially in their colonies in America; and when at length a 
     
     fresh war broke out in I7 5 5, it not only resulted in the second 
     
     overthrow of Louisburg, but likewise the loss to the French 
     
     nation of all her authority over the vast territory of New 
     
     France,——although the first of the campaign opened most dis- 
     
     astrous to the British arms. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But the event which gives this year a sad preeminence, was 
     
     the deportation of a neighboring people from their domestic 
     
     hearths, and the privations they endured when driven among 
     
     strangers, for they appeal to our common humanity, and seem 
     
     at the first view of the case a grievous wrong, that such an 
     
     occurrence as the expulsion of the Acadians from the land of 
     
     their childhood had ever taken place, and that its authors could 
     
     not be justified in so vile and gross an act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The treaty of Utrecht, by which Acadia was given to England, 
     
     in its fourteenth article, stipulated “that the subjects of the 
     
     King of France may have liberty to remove themselves within 
     
     a year with all their movable effects ; but those who are willing 
     
     to remain and be subjects of Great Britian were to enjoy the