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years. 4 pages in folio, a document without date nor place- 

 of printing, but certainly printed, in 1772, as is indicated by 

 a manuscript note on a copy in my possession. 



1772. Another plan of Act, bearing exactly the same title 

 as the preceding one. 



At the end of this document are found notes on the power 

 of taxation in this province. The word " second," written by 

 the hand before the word "draught," at the commencement of 

 the title in the copy which I have in my possession, would 

 indicate that Maseres had had a second scheme printed, 

 more complete than the first, for the information of the 

 English minister, for this last document is composed of 12: 

 pages instead of 4, as the preceding one had. The latter was 

 re-printed in the " Quebec papers, " vol. 1, page 50. 



1772 (First.) Draught of an Act of Parliament for settling 

 the laws of the Province of Quebec. 



1773. (Second.) Draught &c, like the preceding document, 

 1772. A collection of several commissions and other public 

 instruments proceeding from His Majesty's royal authority, 

 and other papers relating to the state of the Province of 

 Quebec, in North America, since the conquest of it by the 

 British arms, in 1760. London, 1772, 311 pages in quarto. 



1773. Account of the defence of a plan of Act of Parliament 

 for the establishment ol the laws of the Province of Quebec^ 

 drawn up by Mr. Francis Maseres, English lawyer, afterwards 

 Attorney General of His Majesty, the King of Great Britain, 

 of the said province, against the objections of M. Francis 

 Joseph Cugnet, Canadian gentleman, secretary of the Governor 

 and counsel of the said province for the French language. At 

 London. Printed at Edmund Allen's, Bolt Court, Fleet 

 street. M.D.C.C.L.X. XIII. 159 pages in folio. 



As in all the other works, Maseres says in this one that he 

 could wish with all his heart that the Canadians would adopt 

 the Protestant religion, would learn the English language and 

 adopt the English laws, or, at least, forget those of France. 

 He also makes known to us who those were whom Gen. Car- 

 leton had charged to prepare the extract known by the name 

 of " The Abstract of Gentlemen ", and which was published 

 in London in 1772. He mentions " Frs. Jos. Cugnet, the 

 learned M. Jacrean, of the Seminary of Quebec, and the very 

 intelligent M. Pressard, of the same seminary, and Mr. Des 

 Chensand, as well as other clever persons who worked there 

 during three years at the request of General Carleton. 



1774. Quebec commissions. London, 1774, folio. During the 

 year 1774 he inundated also the English papers with his prose 

 against the French Canadians. It was especially the Public 

 Advertiser which had the honour of publishing the first, — the 

 letters of Junius ; and the Norwich Mercury which had the 

 privilege of causing his writings to be circulated. 



