LETTRE DE LORD GERMAIN A CARLETON

(Archives du Canada, sérit @., vol 12, D: E4).

Whitehall, june 21 st 1776.

Sir,

l received on the 10th instant, your letter of ma: L4th, together with the copy of a letter which you wrote to general Howe on junuary the 12th.

The impossibility of sending succours to you sooner having occasionned me great and constant anxiety, | could not but derive much pleasure from the perusal of the first paragraph of your letter, whereof you inform me of the arrival of the Surprize frigate, Isis and slocp Martin, in the Basin of Quebec on the 6th ulto, as I was confident that even the small reinforcement which those

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