in the War Office, prevented me from attempting the task. I think it desirable to publish the list sent me by Mr. Howe; it is not improbable that similar lists may be in possession of families descending from United Empire Loyalists, who may possibly be induced to send them for deposit among the Archives, so as to complete these details, as far as possible. The following is a list of Corps sent by Mr. Howe:

New Jersey Volunteers, 1, 2, 3 and 4 battalions

Delancy's Brigade, 1, 2, 3.

Loyal American Regiment.

Guides and Pioneers.

British Legion.

American Legion.

Volunteers of Ireland.

Prince of Wales' American Regiment.

King's Rangers.

Queen's Rangers."

King's Orange Rangers.

King's American Dragoons.

New York Volunteers.

King's American Regiment.

Maryland Loyalists, 1 battalion.

Pensylvanian Loyalists, 1 battalion.

Loyal New Englanders.

Loyal Foresters.

Battalion of Chasseurs.

Governor Wentworth's Volunteers'

Black Pioneers.

Philadelphia Light Dragoons.

Buck's County Dragoons.

South Carolina Loyalists.

North Carolina Loyalists.

Nova Scotian Loyalists.
Garrison Battalion.

Royal North Carolina Regiment.

North Carolina Highlanders.

I am indebted to Mr. Allan Park Paton, of Greenock, Scotland, for an interesting volume, the first work ever published in that town, being the "Adventures of J. McAlpine, a native Highlander, from the time of his emigration from Scotland to America, in 1773." The work was published in 1780, and dedicated to Sir Guy Carleton. McAlpine served as a Loyalist under Carleton, Burgoyne, Hamilton, Phillips, Powell and other officers, lost all his property, and for his loyalty was oxpelled from the country in common with many others.

Works of this character, whether published at the time or subsequently, would be of material service as contributions towards the elucidation of various points of Canadian history. A beginning of such contributions, I am happy to say, has already been made. Among these, I have to acknowledge from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, by the hands of Dr. Lyman C. Draper, a complete set of the catalogues of the Library and of the transactions of that Society, including many very interesting papers. Also, from the State Library of New York, by the attention of Dr. Homes, a collection of documents, a list of which will be found at the end of this Report. To Mr. Black, the Treasurer, and to the late Mr. Ansley, City Surveyor, of Montreal, thanks are due for valuable collections of reports respecting the progress of that city. For other papers, pamphlets, &c., presented by individuals, I would refer to the list at the end of the Report. Special reference may, however, be permitted to the collection of letters addressed to Sir Charles Bagot, whilst GovernorGeneral of Canada, presented by his grandson, Mr. Joscelyn Bagot, Grenadier Guards, and to the collection sent by Sir Francis Hincks, K.C.M.G., one of which is published by his permission.

In the Greville Memoirs, Vol. III., page 125, of the London edition, is an entry, dated 20th December, 1835, in these words: "I have just seen an excellent letter "from Frederick Elliot to Taylor, with a description of the state of parties and "politics in Lower Canada, which has been shown to the Ministers, who think it the "ablest exposé on those heads that has been transmitted from thence."

On the information furnished by Sir Francis Hincks, I wrote to Sir Henry Taylor, to whom the letter spoken of by Mr. Greville was addressed. Sir Henry at first sent me copies of two letters, the one referred to by Mr. Greville, dated 24th October, 1835, and another dated the 12th November of the same year. Subsequently, however, he sent the originals, which he had found after a long and troublesome search, with permission to publish them, and sometime after, two additional letters. These letters were written by Mr. T. Fred. Elliot, the youngest son of the Right Hon. Hugh Elliot, and nephew of the first Lord Minto. He was in Canada in 1835, as Secretary of the Gosford Commission, and whilst in that position, wrote the letters in question, unofficially, to his friend, Mr., now Sir, Henry Taylor, of the Colonial Office. They were considered of sufficient importance to be submitted to the Ministry, and were passed from one to another of the members of the Administration. The following note, written by Lord Howick, respecting the first letter, shows the sense entertained of the value of the correspondence:

"WAR OFFICE, Thursday.

"DEAR TAYLOR,-I return Elliott's letter, which I think decidedly the best paper on Canadian affairs I have ever read. Indeed, I do not know that I ever saw an "account of the state of parties and politics in any country, drawn up with equal judg "ment and discrimination. Perhaps I am not a fair judge, and that I estimate this 'paper too highly, in consequence of its so completely establishing all my own pre

"conceived opinions and views, but filling up various important parts and details in "the picture I had made to myself of the state of affairs in Canada.

"I trust that you will show this letter to Lord Glenelg, and I even wish you "could feel yourself at liberty to allow him to show to Lord Melbourne, and to the "King, a copy of all the more important parts of it.

"I trust you will not object to my having made an abstract of it for my own use, "or to my employing and quoting the information it contains, in a statement I mean "to draw up of my views of what ought to be our policy towards Canada at this con"juncture.

"Yours very sincerely,

"HOWICK."

The effect these letters probably had in shaping the Colonial legislation of that critical period would appear to be sufficient justification for publishing them. They will be found in notes A 1 and 2, at the end of this Report.

As an interesting pendant to these letters, written before the outbreak of 1837-38, is a letter from the Hon. A. N. Morin, to Sir Francis Hincks, 8th May, 1841, shortly before the first meeting of the Legislature of United Canada (14th June, 1841). The letter will be found at note B.

Early on the morning of the 13th October, 1812, Major General Sir Isaac Brock fell at Queenston, "whilst," to use the words of Major General Sheaffe, his successor, "gallantly cheering his troops to an exertion for maintaining it." The last official letter he wrote before his death, is amongst the military correspondence in this office. The whole letter, chiefly written on the 11th, with a postscript of the 12th, has been published in" Brock's Life," by his nephew, Mr. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, from a rough draft found among Sir Isaac's papers. The biographer expresses a doubt whether it was ever sent, a doubt which its existence among the military correspondence sets at rest. The letter is written on rough foolscap, and is in Sir Isaac's own hand,

For some time after the Conquest, the only Protestant clergy in the Province of Canada were the military and naval chaplains, who presumedly kept the registers. of the baptisms, marriages and burials of the Protestant inhabitants. Even after there was a resident clergy, their number was so few that the chaplains were obliged to continue the celebration of marriages, &c. What has become of the registers they kept, I have been unable to ascertain. Nothing is known of them in the Public Record Office, London, and it does not appear that they were transmitted to any central authority. It is, in fact, beyond doubt that many, perhaps most of them, were kept in the most slipshod, irregular manner, and that the books containing them were retained by the chaplains as their own individual and private memoranda. It is barely possible that portions of them might be recovered, could the representatives of the chaplains be found, but the difficulty of tracing them seems to render any attempt of this kind almost hopeless. There are many interests involved in the production of these papers: those of inheritance, for instance. It is desirable, therefore, that all possible publicity should be given to the fact that these documents are missing, so that if they are still

in existence among the papers left by clergymen who served as chaplains in Canada, they may be forwarded to this office, as they are in every sense public and not private documents.

In answer to inquiries, the Bishop of Quebec has promised to make an investigation among the papers belonging to the Anglican Cathedral there, and Mr. Fiset, Prothonotary of Quebec, states that there are portions of the Registers of the garrison chaplains deposited in his office, but none of the naval chaplains. Any such records are, however, very imperfect. Since this was written the Bishop of Quebec has informed me that only the registers of incumbents are in the Cathedral. The Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has written me that the missionaries sent out by the society after the conquest, only transmitted the numbers but not the names of those baptised, married or buried whom they had registered.

In the Archives Report for 1882, attention was called to the danger of the destruction by of valuable papers which cannot be replaced. To the instances then adduced of the burning of public buildings has to be added that of the Legislative Buildings at Quebec, in the spring of this year, when a large portion of the Library, and the Records of the Legislative Assembly were destroyed. Other original and unpublished papers are deposited at Quebec, the loss of which would be irreparable. Of these it is only necessary, in the meantime, to notice the "Registres de deliberations et Jugements du Conseil Superieure de Québec " extending from 1663 to 1760, which are in the Provincial Secretary's Office.

There are papers in many of the national depositories of the greatest importance to Canadian history. There are many in St. Petersburg, some of which are mentioned by Harrise in his "Bibliographie de la Nouvelle France"; others at Rome; others among the Spanish papers. Respecting these latter, I have been in correspondence with Don Pascual de Gayangoz, the distinguished Arabic scholar, who writes me as follows:

"ATHENÆUM CLUB, PALL MALL, 17th October, 1883.

"My Dear Sir,-I recollect very well having seen at Seville, where the papers "relating to our Spanish Colonies are now kept, diplomatic correspondence in which frequent mention is made of Canada and Nouvelle France. The papers proceed "from Simancas or from Madrid, whence, at the dissolution of the old "Consejo de las "Indias," they were sent to Seville in 1829.

"I hear also that a mass of papers from Florida and Lousiana were sent to Cuba, "where, I have no doubt, something may be found to interest you. I may add, that "the Spanish Government has lately ordered that they should all be sent to Seville. "How soon the order may be executed, so as to make them available for readers, is "another thing.

"In the meanwhile, if on my return to Madrid, which will take place after "Christmas, I can in any way supplement this scanty notice, or forward your plans, "in any way, I shall be most happy to help you in your researches.

"Believe me, &c.,

"PASCUAL DE GAYANGOZ.”

Since the last Report was published a valuable addition of printed works has been made to the Archives. These are indispensable as the working tools of those charged with the collection of historical documents, it being impossible to conduct investigations successfully without them, as they must always be at hand, and con stantly accessible in the Archives Rooms, not only to the officials but to those engaged in historical investigations. I would beg to direct attention to the want of anything like a complete set of Canadian pamplets, and of pamplets on Canadian subjects. It is most important that this want should be supplied. Gifts of private collections of this nature have been made to local institutions, where they are, to a certain extent, useful; but if the collection of works in the Archives Office at Ottawa is to become as extensive and useful as it ought to be, for practical purposes of research, it would require the assistance of every one interested in tracing and preserving the history of the progress of the country, using the term "history of progress" in its most general sense. It is to be hoped that all who can contribute to this object will do so. Pamphlets, which at the moment of publication may seem to be almost worthless, and scarcely deserving of preservation, may prove, in the course of years, to be of great value, in a historical point of view Many writings of an ephemeral nature are out of print; many have been printed only for private circulation. In the case of County histories, for instance, having a very limited circulation, they have almost entirely disappeared. Imperfect as many of them are, there is not one of them that does not contain information of service, to at least the local historian, and it is desirons that all works of use to investigators of social progress, should be found in the Archives Rooms.

The British Museum has attained to its present extent, and its contents have become so valuable, in a literary and historical point of view, by a similar course to that to which I have taken the liberty of calling attention. The nucleus of the Museum was formed by the collection of Sir Hans Sloan, who bequeathed to it 50,000 volumes. With this and the Harleian collection, to which was added the Cottonian collection and the Royal collection, both of the latter being MSS, the British Museum may be said to have originated in 1753. Before the opening of the Museum, in 1759, George II. presented the old Royal Library, dating from the reign of Henry VII. When the Library was opened, a Jewish gentleman, Solomon da Costa, sent a present of 180 volumes, of the choicest kind in Hebrew literature, which formed the foundation of the present extensive Hebrew Library in the Museum. These, Mr. da Costa stated, were sent as a token of gratitude for the protection and privileges that he enjoyed whilst living under the British Constitution. In 1763, George III, presented the Thomason collection of books and tracts, published in England between 164) and 1662; it is of a most miscellaneous character, from a folio to a broadside, and has been of most essential service to historians of the time immediately preceding and during the Commonwealth. That collection contains about 30,000 distinct publications, bound in 2,200 volumes. The Reverend C. M. Cracherode bequeathed