S2S TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA! 
there is a water communication throughout all 
Canada, and a very great part of the United 
States; however, when the agents of the 
North-west Company w T ere fixing trading 
posts upon some rivers which ran immediately 
into Hudson’s Bay, it undoubtedly appeared 
to be an infringement of the charter, and so in¬ 
deed it must strictly have been, had not the 
Hudson’s Bay Company itself infringed its own 
charter in the first instance, or at least neg¬ 
lected to comply with all the stipulations 
contained therein. A clause seems to have 
been in the charter, which, at the same time 
that it granted to the company the exclusive 
privilege of trading to Hudson’s "Bay, and 
along all the waters connected with it, bound 
it to erect a new post twelve miles farther to 
the westward every year, otherwise the char¬ 
ter was to become void. This had not been 
done; the North-west Company therefore 
rested perfectly easy about the menaces of a, 
prosecution, satisfied that the other company 
did not in fact legally possess those privileges 
to which it laid claim. 
The Hudson’s Bay Company, though it 
threatened, never indeed attempted to put its 
threats into execution, well knowing the weak 
ness of its cause, but continued nevertheless to 
watch the motions of its rival with a most 
jealous eye; and as in extending their'respect- 
