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Colonial Office. Even in respect to his efforts for encouraging immi- 

 gration, Dundas felt it expedient to cool his zeal by observing : "I am 

 not of the opinion that such emigration would be producive of all the 

 good results your mind would suggest. Population is often the effect 

 but never the cause of prosperity, especially in an ingrafted population 

 outrunning all laws, regulations, usages, and customs which govern us 

 and go hand in hand with a progressive and well regulated population. 

 I have said this not to check emigration from the United States but 

 because there is every appearance of sufficient numbers coming of their 

 own accord without going out of your way to entice or allure them. If 

 care be taken to render the situations settled under your care comfortable, 

 their fame will naturally spread and attract a sufficient emigration. 

 Nothing can be more justly offensive to other nations especially the 

 neighboring States than to make the emigration of their subjects a 

 proposed and avowed object of our Government." '* As to the establish- 

 ment of schools and an University he added, " I believe only the first 

 will be necessary for some time to come." 



One of Simcoe's first executive measures upon assuming the functions 

 of Governor was to continue in force the courts of justice as they had 

 been previously established. Two men who had recently arrived in the 

 Eastern District from the United States had been arrested for uttering 

 seditious speeches, but although their guilt was amply proven they were 

 discharged with a reprimand. 



On the 20th August, 1792, a few days after his arrival at Niagara 

 where he was warmly welcomed by the inhabitants, the Governor exult- 

 ingly informed Mr. Dundas that there was every prospect of a very 

 great influx of immigrants from the United States and that he had in 

 consequence promised the same exemptions to the Quakers and kindred 

 sects that they had always enjoyed under the British Government. About 

 fifty families of reputed Loyalists had also been sent out from England 

 through the agency of the Rev'd Mr. Peters. They arrived at Kingston 

 about the beginning of October and were at once settled on farms in the 

 vicinity. It was however soon discovered that a number of them had in 

 point of fact never been in America before. 



The battalion of Queen's Rangers was quartered for the winter in 

 huts at the " new landing " on the Niagara which then received the 

 name of Queenston in consequence, and the Governor announced that 

 he intended to establish military posts at Long Point and Toronto early 

 next spring and " to set myself down on the la Tranche. " 



In his despatch of the 4th of November, enclosing the journals of the 



