what other part the two Seigniories in question, at present belong, he prays Your Lordsliips to government to which they are at present annexed, to have him acknowledged Aere as Proprietor of said Estates to cause him to enjoy the same without delay, in the same manner that he or his predecessors have or ought to enjoy them, in order that he may be in a position to replace the inhabitants there who were already located there that he may as soon as possible make there the settlements he proposes and improve said Seigniories in the most useful manner, and according to

instruct the

;

;

as he may judge most proper.

London, 6 May, 1764.

(B.) To Sir Fletcher Norton, King's Attorney General

The affair in question at present which alone detains me here over a year in consequence of difficulties which I perceived to" arise on

my arrival in this country that I could not even suspect before

by which the Attorney General is at this moment interrupted, is already decided in a very clear manner both by the general Capitulation granted to Canada on the 8 th September 1760, and by the Treaty of Peace which followed it. The first formally states that all those who have property in that Country shall be maintained as heretofore in the possession of such property as well as of their rights, privileges and prerogatives.

The Treaty of Peace since concluded confirms in regard to the King's New Subjects in that quarter what had been granted by the Capitulation, and permits all others, within the space of eighteen months from the day of the Ratification of the Treaty, freely to sell what they possess in the said Country. The question then resolves itself, as far as I am concerned, to enquiring, If I am to be considered a. subject of the King and if in that capacity, I am to possess what already belonged to