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£1. Marcli 10. To paid ditto on a second journey to get intelligence 

 of seditious letters that had been distributed in the lower parts of 

 the Province, <£3 10s. March 10. To paid to two persons who 

 assisted in getting him said letters, by order of Lieut. -Governor 

 Cramahe, £3 10s. March 10. To paid sundry expenses during the 

 above journeys, £3. Total, £16. — Quebec, 2nd April, 1779. Received 

 from Thomas Dunn, Esq., Paymaster-General of the Marine Depart- 

 ment, sixteen pounds, currency, in full of the above account. — J. B. 

 BoucHETTE." (6) A receipt in the handwriting of Mr. Dunn, for a 

 gratuity to Firmain dAigre, a French Canadian volunteer, made 

 prisoner on the occasion of Burgoyne's surrender. '' J'ai regu de Mons. 

 Thomas Dunn, Ecuyer, par les mains de Mons. le lieutenant Gouver- 

 neur Cramahe la somme de quarante piastres d'Espagne pour mes 

 f rais et depense d' Halifax h Quebec, et recompense pour moi captivite, 

 ayant et6 fait prisonnier avec I'armee du General Burgoyne, etant 

 pourlors voluntaire. — Ejrmain d'Aigre. a Quebeck, 29*^ Mars, 

 1779. Branard, temoin." (7) Col. F. Smith's order for ammunition 

 to be used in firing a salute on the departure of General Carleton 

 from Quebec. It is addressed to the respective Ofiicers of His 

 Majesty's Ordnance, Quebec. " Gentlemen : You are hereby ordered 

 and directed to issue from out of His Majesty's Ordnance stores in 

 this Garrison, to Capt.-Lieut. Agar "Weetman, the undermentioned 

 particulars, the same being to salute His Excellency Brigadier-General 

 Guy Carleton, at his departure from hence, and for so doing this shall 

 be your justification : Corned powder : lbs : Twenty-two and a half. 

 Flannel cartridges, 6-poiinders, fifteen. Tin tubes, 6 -pounders, nine- 

 teen. Port-fii-es, two. Slow-match, lb : one. — F. Smith, Lt.-Col." 

 (8) A letter written by the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, when Secre- 

 tary at War, in 1794. It relates indeed in no way to Canadian 

 affairs ; but I insert it here as an authentic relic of one whose name 

 has been recorded again and again on the map of Canada. It was in 

 honour of this Henry Dundas, that the flourishing Town of Dundas, 

 the County of Dundas, and the original " grand trunk" highway, cut 

 out through the forest from Detroit to the confluence of the Ottawa 

 and the St. Lawrence, denominated on the early maj)S throughout its 

 whole length, Dundas Street, received their respective names. The 

 letter referred to is addressed to the Governor of the Island of Jersey, 

 Gen. Hall, during the troublous times of the Revolution in France. 

 It appears that the island had been made a convenience of by persons 



