Judges. The Counsellors are six, Croix de St. Louis and Mr. Regauville, who acted as Major to the Corps of the Canadian Militia, which General Murray sent to the upper country during the last Indian war. It is said the officers are to have half pay. This is the favourable moment for Canada, and I am very glad that the Ministry have seized it, Whatever narrow-minded men may say, the Act is consonant to sound policy, humanity, and that moderation which becomes an enlightened Nation. To conquer, has been often the lot of the British Nation; but to conciliate the affections of the conquered, has been reserved to the reign of George the Third; and I may venture to say, that the Canadians will, upon every occasion, show their fidelity and gratitude.

NEW COMMISSION TO THE GOVERNOUR OF QUEBECK.

GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, and IRELAND, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To our trusty and well-beloved GUY CARLETON, Esquire, Greeting.

Whereas we did by our Letters Patent under our great seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster the twelfth day of April, in the eighth year of our reign, constitute and appoint you to be our Captain General and Governour-in-Chief in and over our Province of Quebeck in America, bounded on the Labrador Coast by the River St. John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that River through the Lake St. John to the south-east of Lake Nipissin, from whence the said line, crossing the River St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain in forty-five degrees of northern latitude, passes along the high lands, which divide the Rivers that empty themselves into the said River St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Sea, and also along the north Coast of the Bay Des Chaleurs, and the Coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Rozieres, and from thence crossing the mouth of the River St. Lawrence by the west end of the Island of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid River St. John, together with all the rights, members, and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, for and during our will and pleasure, as by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear. And whereas we did also by our Letters Patent under our great seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the . . day of . . . . in the . . . year of our reign, constitute and appoint Molineux Shuldham, Esq., to be our Governour and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Island of Newfoundland, and all the Coast of Labrador, from the entrance of Hudson’s Straits to the River St. John, which discharges itself into the Sea nearly opposite the west end of the Island of Anticosti, including that Island, with any other small Islands on the said Coast of Labrador, and also the Islands of Madelaine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as also of all our Forts and Garrisons erected and established in our said Islands of Newfoundland, Anticosti, and Madelaine, or on the Coast of Labrador within the limits aforesaid, for and during our will and pleasure, as by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear. Now know you, that we have revoked and determined, and by these presents revoke and determine, the said recited Letters Patent granted to you, the said Guy Carleton, as aforesaid, and every clause, article, and thing therein contained; and that we have also revoked and determined, and do by these presents revoke and determine so much and such part of the said recited Letters Patent granted to Molineux Shuldham, Esq., as aforesaid, as relates to the Coast of Labrador, including the Island of Anticosti, with any other small Islands on the said Coast of Labrador, and every clause, article, and thing therein contained, so far as the same relates to the said Coast of Labrador, and the Islands herein before recited. And further know you, that we, reposing especial trust and confidence in the prudence, courage, and loyalty of you, the said Guy Carleton, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have thought fit to constitute and appoint you, the said Guy Carleton, to be our Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief in and over our Province of Quebeck in America, comprehending all our Territories, Islands, and Countries in North-America, bounded on the south by a line from the Bay of Chaleurs along the high lands, which divide the Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Sea, to a point in forty-five degrees of northern latitude, on the eastern bank of the River Connecticut; keeping the same latitude directly west through the Lake Champlain, until in the same latitude it meets with the River St. Lawrence, from thence up the eastern bank of the said River to the Lake Ontario, thence through the Lake Ontario, and the River, commonly called Niagara, and thence along by the eastern and southeastern bank of Lake Erie, following the said bank, until the same shall be intersected by the northern boundary granted by the Charter of the Province of Pennsylvania, in case the same shall be so intersected, and from thence along the said northern and western boundaries of the said Province, until the said western boundary strikes the Ohio; but, in case the said bank of the said Lake shall not be found to be so intersected, then following the said bank, until it shall arrive at the point of the said bank which shall be nearest to the northwestern angle of the said Province of Pennsylvania, and thence by a right line to the said northwestern angle of the said Province, and thence along the western boundary of the said Province, until it strikes the River Ohio, and along the bank of the said River westward to the banks of Mississippi, and north-ward along the eastern bank of the said River to the southern boundary of the Territory granted to the Merchants Adventurers of England trading to Hudson’s Bay; and also all such Territories, Islands, and Countries, which have, since the tenth of February, 1763, been made part of the Government of Newfoundland, as aforesaid, together with all the rights, members, and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging.

And we do hereby require and command you to do and execute all things in due manner, that shall belong to your said command, and the trust we have reposed in you, according to the several powers and directions granted or appointed you by this present Commission, and the instructions and authorities herewith given unto you, or by such further powers, instructions, and authorities as shall at anytime hereafter be granted or appointed you under our signet or sign manual, or by our order in our Privy Council, and according to such Ordinances as shall hereafter be made and agreed upon by you, with the advice and consent of the Council of our said Province under your Government, in such manner and form as is herein after expressed.

And our will and pleasure is, that you, the said Guy Carleton, do, after the publication of these our Letters Patent, in such manner and form as has been accustomed to be used on like occasions, in the first place take the oaths appointed to be taken by an Act passed in the first year of the reign of King George the First, intituled, “An Act for the further security of His Majesty’s person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abetters;” and by an Act passed in the sixth year of our reign, intituled, “An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration, and the Assurance; and for amending so much of an Act of the seventh year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms, as, after the time therein limited, requires the delivery of certain lists and copies therein mentioned, to persons indicted of High Treason, or Misprision of Treason;” as also that you make and subscribe the declaration mentioned in an Act of Parliament, made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, “An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants;” and likewise that you take the oath usually taken by the Governours in the Plantations, for the due execution of the office and trust of our Captain-General and Governour in and over our said Province, and for the due and impartial administration of justice; and further that you take the oath required to be taken by Governours of the Plantations, to do their utmost, that the several laws relating to Trade and the Plantations be duly observed; which said oaths and declaration our Council of our said Province, or any three of the Members thereof, have hereby full power and authority, and are required to tender and administer to you; all which being duly performed, you shall yourself