380 WILLIAM SHIRLEY— A HISTORY

He returned tO' the subject again in June of the same
year to inquire whether, in case of the failure of the Canada
expedition to proceed, " the immediate removal of some at
least of the French inhabitants of Nova Scotia, and secur-
ing the province in the best manner would not be advisable
and even necessary." ^ He suggested further that some of
the troops sent against Canada might be used to perform
this service before their return or that it might be possible
to spare men enough from the Louisburg garrison for a
short time to do it.^

Shirley, however, was by that time being made to feel
that his ambition tO' become governor of that province had
been urged somewhat too impetuously, and he seems to have
felt that his proposals might be construed as devices to for-
ward his own fortunes.
