The Convent is almost ready for occupation, so we may expect to see sisters arriving here to take up their new quarters shortly. The god people in the Esk hope, believe, that when this happy consunmation has' arrived they uy possibly be relieved by a French gunboat for a spell to enable them tw go and revel in a couple of mouths of your lower river civilisation. Without wishing to wrap them about with a wer blanket, Dwould remind them that however desirable this may be—and one exnnot deny it would be but just, when French subjects outnumber the British—still the water in the river is one
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