Considerable alarm was occasioned Causation in England by the first accounts of these events in Newfoundland , the news being to the effect that the French had actually landed Self_motion 1,500 men at Bay Bulls and 2,000 at Portugal Cove in Conception Bay , from which they were marching against St. John 's .

Changes in the social and political structure occasioned by Bourbon Reforms and a deep economic crisis in New Spain caused Causation discomfort among the native-born Creole elite .