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

me and what I have since acquired. Without requiring to enumerate the proofs I have given of a special attachment to my new Country, the sole fact of having acquired new possessions in that Country ceded to the Crown of Great Britain, instead of endeavoring to

sell

those I already had there, manifests the dispositions I entertained to

mine forever to it, and consequently I cannot but be comprehended under the denomination of Kings Subjects granted to those of Canada by the Treaty. After having spent eleven consecutive months in fruitless expenses and proceedings I finally sucattach myself and

ceeded in appearing four weeks ago before a meeting of the Lords Commissioners of Plantations,

when Milord Hillsborough, President of that department, put divers questions and objections to me. That on which he appeared to me most to dwell was that the two Seigniories in question being Lake Champlain, to which His Britannic Majesty had formed pretensions, he did not

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