Copy letter from Filius Gallica to Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis-Lomagne, duc de Mirepoix

This is a letter intercepted and concerns: levying of troops in America, privately; the armies of Shirley and Johnston; his own language of French; going against his crown and country; changing his name and handwriting in other letters in case his letters should be intecepted; English men that were spies sent from Canada; preparations in Canada against the English; native Americans referred to as "Indians" in the French interest that were in the English interest; Bethlehem and the Moravian people; Cherokees in alliance with the English; the offer of 1000 men from the Cherokee to join Gallica at Ohio if they can be taken in the Government's pay; the Vaneck family; Native Americans at Goshen and a threat from the Mohawks; Irish people transported to Virginia and Philadelphiato increase the populace on plantations; Germans imported from Holland to America; Roman Catholics would rather choose to serve his "Royal Master"; King George;s subjects likely to be swayed to the cause [of France?] by the promise of money and peace to enjoy their estates. Original written from America and signed by Filius Gallica. Addressed to "Monseigneur le Duc du Mirepoix, a Paris".

See: Hughes, Thomas, "AN ALLEGED POPISH PLOT IN PENNSYLVANIA : 1756-7", Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia , JUNE, 1899, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 208-221 concerning this letter.

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