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Among the political writings on Canada which Maseres 

 published during the years 1772 and 1773 were found two 

 projects of acts of parliament which made some noise. They 

 all had the same title, but were written at different periods. 

 The first was printed in 1772, and the second in 1773. The 

 title reads as follows : " Draught of an act of parliament for 

 settling the laws of the Province of Quebec." 



On ceasing (at his own request) to continue as 

 attorney-general, he was asked to act in London as 

 agent of the Protestants of Canada, and charged with 

 advocating their civil and their religious rights. 



The arbitrary treatment meted out by intolerance to 

 his ancestors, in France, seems to have ever rankled in 

 his mind ; he cordially hated Eoman Catholics (1). His 

 was another distinguished name to be added to the 

 group of clever delegates charged to advocate in England 

 colonial rights and immunities by the English minority 

 or Erench majority in Canada : Etienne Charest, Adam 

 Lym burner, Louis Joseph Papineau, Denis Kenjamin 

 Viger, John Neilson, (Sir) James Stuart, Arthur H. 

 Roebuck. 



In 1779 the Recorder of London appointed Maseres 

 his deputy. 



In 1770 the Court of Common Council made him 

 president of the Sheriff's Court in London. He held 

 this appointment until 1822, two years before his 

 death. 



The year 1784 found Maseres deeply immersed in a 

 dispute with the Royal Society of London, touching 

 the dismissal of the mathematician, Hutton. 



In 1800, Maseres published a dissertation " On the 

 Resolution of Affected Algebraic Equations, " with 

 profuse scientific notes. 



(1) Governor Carleton, in a letter to Lord Hillsborough, 

 rightly censures Maseres' too "fervid Protestant zeal" at 

 Quebec, and rebukes his rooted prejudices against Eoman 

 Catholics as unworthy of such a learned man. 



