The New Hampshire Gazette

December 8. In contradiction to the first and second articles of the British Court's answer to the Ultimatum of France, delivered by M. de Bussy to Mr. Pitt the 17th of August last, the French Ministry have got the following piece inserted in the Hague Gazette.

Letter from the Marquis de Vaudreuil to the Duke de Choiseul, Oct. 30, 1761.

My Lord,

Have read with surprise, in the Historical Memorial of the negociations of France and England relative to peace, what is imputed to me by the English on occasion of the limits of Canada; and as there is nothing more false and chimerical than that assertion, I must, my Lord, give you an account of what passed on that head between Mr. Amherst and me.

I traced no limits whatsoever, when I capitulated, and never expressed myself, in my parleys with that General, but in the simple terms of Canada. Seven or eight days after the surrender of the country, he sent an officer to demand of me instructive charts concerning the extent of that colony; to which I answered in the negative, because they had been plundered with my effects at Quebec, contrary to the faith of the capitulation of that place; and that officer having then shewn me a map which he had about him, I denied the limits marked in it, and verbally substituted others, which extended Louisiana on one side to the Carrying place of the Miamis, which is latitude of the lands whose waters fall into the river Ouabache, and on the other side as far as the upper part of the river of the Illinois.

What I have the honour to write to you, my Lord, is indubitable: I am not afraid of the English producing any proof of the contrary; because there has been no act signed, nor any line drawn on this subject. I am charged to give you notice thereof, to prevent further impositions in this respect.

I am, &c.
The Marquis de Vaudreuil.