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Jolin Scliank was afterwards an Admiral of the Blue. In 1776 

 lie commanded the armed ship The Inflexible, on Lake Champlain. In 

 1793 he published in London a folio " Sketch of Two Boats and a 

 Cutter with tSliding Keels." He is to be distinguished from Colonel, 

 subsequently General, Shank, who once commanded the forces in 

 Upper Canada, and possessed property in the neighbourhood of 

 Toronto. The name of the latter was spelt differently. I have his 

 autograph also in a note to be given hereafter. 



Some of the agents dispatched to Albany and elsewhere on confi- 

 dential errands by Governor Haldimand were, no doiibt, occasionally 

 involved in ti'ouble through their mission. "We have perhaps an 

 instance in one Augustin Lansier, who gives this receipt in 1779 for 

 money received by way of compensation for sufferings at the hands 

 of "the rebels": — "Received from Thomas Dunn, Esq., by order of 

 His Excellency, Gen. Haldimand, One Hundred Pounds, currency, as 

 a gratuity for my sufferings when Prisoner among the Rebels, and on 

 account of my Effects of which they plundered me in March, 1776, 

 when they took me Prisoner. Lansieu. Quebec, 9th Sep. 1779." 

 That his Christian name was Augustin we learn from a mem. on the 

 back of the receipt. The Thomas Dunn, Esq., here named, twice at 

 subsequent periods administered the Government of Lower Canada 

 during interregnums with great eclat. The Hon. J. H. Dunn, familiar 

 to readers of Upper Canada history, and father of Cjlonel Dunn, 

 distinguished in the Ciimea, was, as we suppose, of the same Dunn 

 family already connected with Canada. Of Governor Haldimand we 

 have permanent memorials in the Canadian local names — Haldimand 

 County, Haldimand Township, and Haldimand Cove. It was during 

 his administration that the scheme for settling the United Empire 

 Loyalists in Upper Canada began to be carried actively into effect. 

 From Lord Dorchestei-, it should have been said, Dorchester Town- 

 ship is named ; and once the heights from Queenston to Hamilton 

 appear to have been known as Dorchester Mount. 



Among my papers is the autograph of a military commander veiy 

 distinguished in Canadian history just before the era of Haldimand 

 and Lord Dorchester. The name of Amherst is familiar to us as 

 that of the genei'al officer to whom the Marquis de Vaudreuil sur- 

 rendered Montreal and the whole of Canada in 1760. He was after- 

 wards raised to the peerage as Lord Amherst. It is his signature 

 ■ simply as "Amherst" that I possess, repeated thrice. The document, 



