146 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



Great Britain. I am, Sir, with regard, your most obedient and most 

 humble servant, Dorchester." Guy probably never obtained the 

 Cornetcy. He died unmarried in 1793, aged just 20. Nor did his 

 next brother Thomas, who died in the following year, at exactly the 

 same age. But Christopher, the third son, born in 1775, was a 

 Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and was father of Arthur Henry, 

 the second Baron Dorchester, who died unmarried in 1826, when the 

 barony descended to his cousin Guy, born in 1811. Lord Dorchester, 

 the writer of the letter just given, died November 10, 1805. 



(2.) I next transcribe a document possessing a two-fold interest as 

 bearing the autograplis of George IV. and Lord Palmerston. It 

 is to be placed in the Canadian series, inasmuch as it consists of a 

 royal warrant, authorizing magistrates at " York, Upper Canada," . 

 (hodie Toronto), to enlist men for service in the regular army of 

 Great Britain. I suppose at the present date such a warrant would 

 be locally held to infringe on the principle of responsible government. 

 Its date is 1828. It runs as follows: "George E,. — It being 

 expedient that the provisions contained in the ll7fch clause of the 

 Act, passed in the 7th and 8th years of Our reign, for the punishment 

 of mutiny and desertion be duly carried into eifect, "We do hereby 

 authorize and appoint jou to enlist and attest, in our Colony at 

 York, Upper Canada, any soldiers or others, desirous of enlisting, or 

 re-enlisting into Our service, and to administer such oaths as are 

 directed and required to be administered in that behalf, by Justices 

 of the Peace in Our United Kingdom, in relation to the enlisting 

 and re-enlisting of soldiers ; and every person so enlisted or re-enlisted 

 by you, shall be deemed and taken to be so enlisted or re-enlisted 

 under the provision of any Act in force in relation to the enlisting of 

 soldiers, and for the punishment of mutiny and desertion, in like 

 manner, in every respect, and as fully and effectually, to all intents 

 and purposes, as if such oath had been administered and such attesta- 

 tion had been made, and such enlisting and re- enlisting had taken 

 place before a Justice of Peace of the United Kingdom. Given at 

 Our Court at Windsor, this third day of September, in the eighth 

 year of Our reign. By His Majesty's Command, Palmerston. To 

 the Justices of the Peace, and other Civil Magistrates for the time 

 being, at York, Upper Canada." 



The name of Palmerston, when Foreign Secretary, especially during 

 the period 1835-41, was regarded with a good deal of awe on the 



