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«His Majesty approves of the plan you have proposed for settling some of the Loyalists at Cataraqui and places adjacent, and is satisfied with the reasons you have given for suspending the execution of the directions contained in the late Secretary of State's letter to you with regard to establishments on the tracts of land to the eastward of the River St.
64 18 A moi: 'help! 85 2 au petit jour: 'at early dawn'; au grand jour 'in full daylight. qu'il: cf. note to 5 1. 85 6 chameau
At Scythæ, propter famem qui eos premebat, transigere velle dixerunt, neque longiores moras ferre posse.
Dans les causes qui devront être décidées selon la loi commune (in suits at common law), le jugement par jury sera conservé dès que la valeur des objets en litige excédera vingt dollars; et aucun fait jugé par un jury ne pourra être soumis
EMILE SOUVESTRE was born at Morlaix in Brittany, April 15, 1806. His father was a civil engineer, and he intended following the same profession. After his father's death he changed his mind and began to study law, but being ambitious to shine as a writer he soon abandoned the law also.
56 12 Barbarin: when this work first appeared in serial form Tartarin was called "Barbarin." The name was changed when Daudet discovered that a family named Barbarin was living at Tarascon. See Introduction. The word tartarin means the sacred or Arabian baboon. 56 13 souffla: 'prompted. Souffler, 'to blow, 'to breathe, in theatrical parlance means 'to prompt. Le souffleur is 'the prompter.
LE DUC DE LORRAINE, Charles III., called "the Great," was the son of Francis I., Duke of Lorraine, and of Christina of Denmark, niece of the Emperor Charles V. He was born at Nancy, February 15, 1543. After the death of his father in 1546, his mother ruled over the Duchy during the minority of her son.
I was to a certain degree prepared for the hostility of France by what passed at a visit made by M. Titof to the French ambassador; when the latter, in the course of conversation, said he thought war between France and England inevitable.
This place is of great consequence for two reasons, 1st. because it keeps the communication between Canada and Mississipi by the river Ohio open, which else our Indians would be able to intercept at pleasure, and 2d. if it should be made a fort with soldiers enough in it, it will keep our Indians from going over the narrow part of the lake Ontario by this only pass of the Indians without leave of the French, so that if it were demolished the far Indians would depend on us».
I need not say that I attach no credit to this report, and that I believe you have endeavoured, by conciliatory means, to adjust the difference. At the same time, as you have acted in the belief that the spanish government were right in their pretensions, it is clear that your advice, whatever it was, and you do not describe it particularly, could not be expected to produce much effect.
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