CARLETON TO GERMAIN

(Canadian archives, series Q. vol. 13, p. 297)

Quebec 27th june 1777.

My Lord,

By my letter to your Lordship No. 11, you would learn that I judged mujor Caldwelt, Messieurs Longueuil, 5 Dufy and Baby, proper persons to fill the vacant seuts in His Majesty s council of this province having distin: guished themselves by à firm attachement to ther duiy during the late factious and rebellious times, at the same time T informed your Lordship my propose was to appoint such of those gentlemen as were in the province, or woulu return in time, thinking those reasons, besides their being ï otherwise well quualified, might have had some weight è with your Lordship.

Lt.-colonel Caldwell is returned and informs me, he has a mandamus appointing him à member of the coun. Gil, Mr Drummond tells me he has another, the board of