LXX ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
It became urgent for the French Canadians to make known what 
the laws, decisions and sentences had been. Moreover, the decisions 
rendered by the military tribunals, which had governed the country from 
1759 to 1763, were likely to have innovated in certain judicial matters. 
Irregularities doubtless had occurred, and the new constitution granted 
by the Quebec Act, in 1774, as well as other causes, had created uncertainty 
on some legal points ; this made it of paramount importance for all parties 
to know how they stood. 
Such the origin of the commission or committee named by His 
Excellency, Lord Dorchester, on the 27th December, 1786, composed of 
Judge Adam Mabane and Messrs. Dunn and de Léry at Quebec, and of 
the members of the council at Montreal, with instructions to report to the 
governor without delay, the actual state and condition of the old registers 
and records of the province of Quebec; where they were stored, ete. On 
the 19th June, 1788, the committee was further directed to report as to 
the contents of every volume, the period it covered, the number of its 


d’après des manuscrits récemment obtenus des archives et bureaux publics, en 
France. (8 mémoires reliés en 1 vol. (papier), in-8, Québec, 1840). 
Mémoire sur l’état présent du Canada, attribué à M. Talon. 7p. 
. Mémoire sur le Canada (1736), attribué à M. Hocquart. 14 p. 
. Considérations sur l’état présent du Canada (1758). 29 p. 
. Histoire du Canada par M. l'abbé de Belmont. 36 p. 
. Relation du Siege de Québec en 1759, par une religieuse de l'Hôpital 
Général de Québec. 24p. 
6. Jugement impartial sur les opérations militaires de la campagne en Canada 
en 1759. 8 p. 
. Réflexions sommaires sur le commerce qui s’est fait en Canada, 8 p. 
. Histoire de l’eau-de-vie en Canada. 29 p. 
3. Voyages de découvertes au Canada entre les années 1534 et 1542, par Jacques- 
Cartier, le Sieur de Roberval. Jean Alphonse de Xaintonge, ete. Suivis de la 
description de Québec et de ses environs en 1608, et de divers extraits relativement 
au lieu de l'hivernement de Jacques-Cartier en 1535-36 (avec gravures fac-similé.) 
Ré-imprimé sur d'anciennes relations. 130 p. in-8, papier, Québec, 1843. 
4. Mémoire du Sieur de Ramsay, commandant à Québec, au sujet de la reddition 
de cette ville le 18 septembre 1759, d'après un manuscrit aux archives du bureau de 
la Marine, à Paris. 84et 38 p. in-8, Québec, 1861. (Dui à M. Geo. B. Faribault.) papier. 
Historical Documents, 2nd series. 8-vo., paper. 
Extract from a manuscript journal relating tothe Siege of Quebec in 1759, kept 
by Colonel Malcolm Fraser. 37 p. in-8. 
The Campaign of Louisbourg, 1750-58, attributed to Chevalier Johnstone. 28 p., 
8 vo., Quebec, 1867. 
A Dialogue in Hades, a parallel of military errors, of which the French and 
English armies were guilty, during the campaign of 1759 in Canada. 55 p., 
8-vo., Quebee, 1866. Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone. 
The campaign of 1760 in Canada. 24p.,8-vo. A narrative attributed to Chevalier 
Johnstone. 
The invasion of Canada in 1775. Letter attributed to Major Henry Caldwell.— 
1776. 19 p., 8-vo., published at Quebec, 1866. 
A journal of the expedition up the River St. Lawrence, republished from the 
New York Mercury of 31st December, 1759. 19 p., 8-vo. 
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