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Show ADVISED TAKING OF CANADA Benjamin Franklin's Counsel to British Brit-ish Government Resulted In Capture Cap-ture of the Dominion. Henjamln Franklin, tho first Amorl-can Amorl-can philosopher and the first Amorl-can Amorl-can diplomat, was not, as Mark Twain averred, "twins, born simultaneously at Hoston and Philadelphia," but at the change In the calendar from old style to new came after his birth nt Hoston on January 6, 1706, according accord-ing to tho reformed almanac ho was born on January 17. In 17B9 Franklin was In England as agent for the colony of Pennsylvania. Previous to this, though llttlo known, it was mainly main-ly by the advice of Franklin that tho English government resolved to conquer con-quer Canada, and for that purpose sent out Wolfe's oxpedltlon. It wat In 1769 that Franklin mado n Journey from London to Scotland, of which In a letter written to a Scotch friend, he used these words which havo over endeared htm to the Scot: "I think the tlmo we spent there was six weeks of tho densest happiness I have over mot with In any part of my llfo, and the agreeable and Instructive society we found there tn such plenty has left to pleasing an Impression on my memory that, did not strong connections con-nections draw me eleswhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I ahould choose to spend the remainder of my days tn." ' |