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Though our former attorney-general is known to us 

 principally through his fourteen memoirs and reports 

 on Canadian affairs from 1766 to 1791, mentioned else- 

 where, it was in the exact sciences, parliamentary law, 

 philosophy, and parliamentary history of England where 

 he made his mark and where he so laboriously toiled. 



I subjoin the following list of his scientific publications : — 



1. " The Elements of Plane Trigonometry, with a diserta- 

 tion on the nature and use of Logarithms, " 1760, 8vo. 



2. Montesquieu, Views of the English Constitution, tran- 

 slated with notes, " 1781, 8 vols. 



3. The Principles of the Doctrine of Life Annuities, " 

 1783. 1 vol., 4.20. 



4. The Moderate Reformer ; or a proposal to correct some 

 abuses in the present establismentofthe Church of England, " 

 1791, 6 vols., 4to. 



5. Enquiry into the Extent of Power of Juries on Trials, 

 for Criminal Writings, 1792, 8vo. 



6. Scriptures Logarithmic, '' 1791-1807, 6 vols., 4to. 



7. Bernoulli i's Doctrine of Permutations and Combina- 

 tions with some Principles of Algebra, " 1799, 8vo. 



8. May's History of the Parliament of England, which 

 began 3rd Nov., 1640 ; a new edition, with a preface, " 1814, 

 4to. 



9. Three Tracts Published in Amsterdam in 1691, and two 

 under the name ot General Ludlow to Edmund Seymour and 

 other persons ; a new edition, with a preface, 1813, 4to. 



10. The Irish Rebellion 5 or a history of the attempts of 

 the Irish Papists to exterpate the Protestants ; by Sir John 

 Templer ; a new edition, with preface, 1813, 4to. 



11. The Curse ot Popery and Popish Pains to the Civil 

 Government and Protestant Church of England," reprinted 

 in 8 vols., 1807. 



12. Memoirs of the most material transactions in England 

 for 100 years preceding the Revolution in 1688 ; " by James 

 Wei wood, 1820, 8 vols. 



13. Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, 

 temp. Chas. I. and Cromwell Usurpation, " 2 vols., 8 vo. 



14. View of the Ancient Constitution of the English Par- 

 liament. " 



Mr. Phileas Gagnon, in some interesting Biographical 

 Notes, on our former Attorney General, gives as follows, a list 

 of Maseres Works on Canada. Several things will be found 

 in them which are but little known up to the present time. 



1766. A sketch of an act of parliament for tolerating the 

 Roman Catholic religion in the Province of Quebec j for 



