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LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



BY HENRY SCADDIXG, D.D. 



{Continued from page 160.) 



FURTHER SUPPLEMENT. 

 As a further supplement to the collection of brief inedited auto 

 graph documents laid by me from time to time before the Canadian 

 Institute, I desire to add the following, which will close the series. 



I. In the Canadian subdivision I insert (1) a royal warrant 

 bearing the sign-manuaPof George III., authorizing the payment of 

 a sum of money for the purchase of hemp-seed to be sent to the 

 Province of Quebec, in 1789. 



"GrEORGE R. — Our will and pleasure is that by virtue of our general 

 letters of Privy Seal, bearing date the 5th day of November, 1760, 

 you do issue and pay, or cause to be issued and paid, out of our 

 Treasury, or any Revenue in the receipt of the Exchequer applicable 

 to the iises of our Civil Government, unto Alexander Davison, Esq., 

 or his assigns, the sum of one hundred and fifty-two pounds, eighteen 

 shillings and tenpence, without account, for the purposes following, 

 that is to say : To reimburse him the charges attending the purchasing 

 of 200 bushels of hemp-seed to be sent to Quebec to be distributed 

 among the inhabitants of the different parts of that Province, 

 .£137 8s. lOd.: To pay the fees and charges attending the receipt 

 thereof, £15 10s, : (together) J152 18*. 10c?. And for so doing this 

 shall be your Warrant. Given at our Court of St. James's, this 

 30th day of July, 1789, in the Twenty-ninth year of our Reign. To 

 the Commissioner of our Treasury. By His Majesty's command : 

 W. Pitt. Graham. Ed. J. Eliot." (A document bearing the 

 signature of the younger Pitt has been given before.) (2) A letter 

 written by Captain Bateman, commander of a sloop-of-war stationed 

 at Halifax during the winter of 1760, in which the cold of the season 

 is referred to, and the probable sufferings of brother-officers up the 

 river, at Quebec. It is addressed to Richard Kee, Esq^., in Savage 



