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1775. An account of the proceedings of the British and 

 other Protestants, inhabitants of the Province of Quebec, &c. 

 London, 1766, 510 pages in-8. 



This volume, notwithstanding all the falsehoods which it 

 contains, is of considerable importance tor the history of our 

 country, from the conquest to 1775. This volume, with the 

 preceding one, are what historians call the " Quebec papers " 

 of Maseres. 



1776. The Canadian Freeholder, in two dialogues, between 

 an Englishman and a Frenchman settled in Canada, showing 

 the sentiments of the bulk of the freeholders of Canada 

 concerning the late Quebec Act, with some remarks on the 

 Boston Charter Act, and an attempt to show the great expe- 

 diency of immediately repealing both those acts of parliament, 

 and of making some other useful regulations and concessions 

 to His Majesty's subjects, as a ground for a reconciliation 

 with the united colonies in America. London, vol. I, 1776 ; 

 vol. II and III, 1779. This work is a malevolent attack upon 

 all that is French and Catholic, and an apology for England. 



1809. Occasional essays, chiefly political and historical. 

 London, 1809. 607 pages, 8vo. In this volume are found 

 many writings on Canada, among which we shall mention a 

 history of the Canadian nobility in 1775. There are to be 

 found also important details on the work done by the English 

 Government, so as to permit Mgr. Briand to go and have 

 himself consecrated bishop in France, to be able to fill the 

 functions of the Episcopate in Canada. Maseres especially 

 accuses Edmund Burke, private secretary of the Marquis of 

 Eockingham, one of the men in the English cabinet at that 

 period, of making use of all the influence which he had with 

 his master, to grant that permission to Mgr. Briand, and even 

 lets it be understood — while contradicting this step — that 

 Burke had received his education in a Jesuit College, in Bel- 

 gium, and would not later have embraced Protestantism, but 

 to improve his condition in the political world. This volume 

 contains also a collection of ignoble things against the Catho- 

 lic Church. Maseres never could digest the bill of Quebec, 

 the adoption of which, by the English Parliament, proved to 

 the Protestants, whose agent he was, that all their work, for 

 a number of years, to crush the Canadian Catholics, had been 

 a clear loss. I should be very glad to know any other docu- 

 ment on Canada, published by Maseres, which we have 

 omitted in this list. " 



Phileas Gagnon 



Quebec, 1891. 



It seems nearly incredible that so much scientific 

 research and literary work could have sprung from one 

 man's brain. 



