Under a liberal fystem, the hands of government will be strengthened, the people would feel themselves interested in the fupport of it, and in the preservation and defence of the province; agriculture would be improved; that, and the fisheries extended; and the general commerce of the province greatly encreased; the demand for British manufactures augmented; and employment furnished for fome hundreds of British ships: The province would rife in importance and population, and become the envy of the late British colonies, now the United States; and Britain would fave a confiderable fum now drawn out of her treafury annually for the payment of the officers of the civil government of that country. We are confident that to procure these advantages, and to fecure the privileges of Britons, to a British colony, the whole powers of the British fenate will be exerted; that that

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patriotism which has fo often fhone with benignant fplendor in that august body, will find itself agreeably employed in rescuing the inhabitants of the province of Quebec from their prefent deplorable fituation; and we trust, that a government will now be established for that province, on fuch permanent and fixed principles, as may call forth the unceasing gratitude of its inhabitants, and convince them, that their own comfort and happiness and that of their pofterity depend on an union with, and fubmiffion to, the imperial Crown and Parliament of Great Britain.

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APPENDIX. No. I.

Extract from the King's Proclamation, dateď 7th October, 1763.

WE

E have thought fit to publish and declare, by this our Proclamation, that "We have, in the Letters Patent under our "Great Seal of Great Britain, by which the faid "Governments are conftituted, given exprefs "C power and direction to Our Governors of Our "faid Colonies refpectively, that fo foon as the "ftate and circumftances of the faid Colonies "will admit thereof, they fhall, with the advice "and confent of the Members of Our Council, fummon and call General Affemblies within the faid "Governments respectively, in fuch manner and form

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as is ufed and directed in thofe Colonies and Pro"vinces in America which are under our immediate government; and we have alfo given power to the faid Governors, with the consent of our said Council, and the Reprefentatives of the People, fo to be fummoned as aforefaid, to make, conftitute, and "ordain Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the "public peace, welfare, and good government of Our "faid Colonies, and of the people and inhabitants

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"thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the laws "of England, and under fuch regulations as are " used in other Colonies; and in the mean time,

and until fuch Affemblies can be called as "aforefaid, all perfons inhabiting in, or reforting to, Our faid Colonies, may confide in Our

Royal protection for the enjoyment of the be"nefit of the laws of Our Realm of England: "for which purpofe, We have given power, "under Our Great Seal, to the Governors of "Our faid Colonies refpectively, to erect and "conftitute, with the advice of Our faid Coun"cils refpectively, Courts of Judicature and "Public Justice, within our faid Colonies, for "the hearing and determing all causes, as well "criminal as civil, according to law and equity, "and as near as may be, agreeable to the laws "of England, with liberty to all perfons who think themselves aggrieved by the fen tence of fuch courts in civil cafes, to appeal, under the ufual limitations and restrictions, to "Us in Our Privy Council."

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