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sated him for his losses in 1786, paying him half of his claim, when he 
boasted that he was the only creditor Congress had paid. This uncon- 
victed traitor escaped the halter or drumhead court martial. 
1889.—The archivist’s report for this year sets forth among other 
documents and memoirs copied or acquired for the Ottawa Public 
Record Office, various papers on the Northwestern Explorations; the 
journal of the famous explorer La Verendrye, 1738-39 ; Capt. Holland’s 
plan to explore from Quebec ; religious, educational and other statistics ; 
summary of the Census of Canada, 1784; list of parishes, &c., of the 
diocese of Quebec; census of clergy; return of Indians; the Vermont 
negotiations ; statement by Mr. Jarvis; Col. Bouquet to General Am- 
herst; General Amherst to Col. Bouquet ; Bouquet’s proclamation against 
settling, 1761 ; Bouquet’s proclamation with regard to Indian lands ; letter- 
book of Col. Bouquet, 1757-58; correspondence with General Amherst, 
1759-63; correspondence with General Washington ; inventory of the 
effects of the late Brigadier-General Bouquet, 1765 ; statement of militia ; 
ecclesiastical state of Canada; Levi Allen to Governor Simcoe; the 
Bouquet papers ; the reservation of Indian lands. 
“Col. Bouquet was a native of Switzerland, and served in the Dutch 
and Sardinian armies. He and Haldimand were in 1754, selected to raise 
men for the ‘ Royal Americans,’ a corps intended forthe British service in 
America, the officers of which were to be either American or foreign 
Protestants: this corps was afterwards known as the 60th Rifles. 
Bouquet was actively employed in America during the last years of the 
war between France and Britain and held a leading command in the 
contest with the Indians, including the period of the Pontiac war. He 
died in Pensacola, western Florida, some time previous to the 4th Sep- 
tember, 1765.” 
Bouquet was a thorough soldier, well trained, possessed of consider- 
able ability. | 
1890.—A rich mine of information to students of history is revealed 
by the publication of the archivist’s report this year. The position of 
General James Murray, the first governor of Quebec, appears to be any- 
thing but enviable, placed as he is between carrying out the paternal 
instructions of the king towards his new subjects the French Canadians, 
and the hostile feeling existing towards them, by the rude and ignorant 
class of settlers he describes, calling themselves the king’s old subjects. The 
administration of justice ; the constitutional act of 1791; Northwest ex- 
plorations; relations with the United States after the peace of 1783: 
such are the leading subjects in this report. 
The claim set up by Lord Amherst to the Jesuits estates is discussed, 
as well as Col. Morse’s report of 1783, who expressed the opinion that by 
the union of the maritime provinces with Canada, “a great country might 
be raised up, with a general government, having its seat in the island of 
