CHAPTER XXII.--1744-1748.

War again with France -- Company takes Measures to Defend its Forts and Property -- "Keep Your Guns Loaded" -- Prince "Charlie" -- His Stock in the Company Confiscated -- Further Instructions to the Chief Factors -- Another Expedition to Search for a North-West Passage -- Parliament Offers Twenty Thousand Pounds Reward -- Cavalier Treatment from Governor Norton -- Expedition Returns -- Dobbs' Enmity -- Privy Council Refuse to Grant his Petition -- Press-gang Outrages -- Voyage of the _Seahorse_. 257