fering in a common cause, and that thus
disu-
nited all may be subdued.
To promote these designs, another measure
has been pursued. In the session of parlia-
ment last mentioned, an act was passed, for
changing the government of
Quebec, by
which act the Roman Catholic religion, in-
stead of being tolerated, as stipulated by the
treaty of peace, is established; and the peo-
ple there deprived of the right to an assem-
bly, trials by jury and the English laws in
civil cases abolished, and instead thereof, the
French laws established, in direct violation of
his Majesty's promise by his royal
proclama-
tion, under the faith of which many Eng-
lish subjects settled in that province: and the
limits of that province are extended so as to
comprehend those vast regions, that lie adjoin-
ing to the northernly and westernly bound-
aries of these colonies.
THE authors of this arbitrary arrangement
flatter themselves, that the inhabitants, de-
prived of liberty, and artfully provoked a-
gainst those of another religion, will be pro-
per instruments for assisting in the oppression
of such, as differ from them in modes of go-
vernment and faith.
FROM the detail of facts herein before re-
cited, as well as from authentic intelligence
received, it is clear beyond a doubt, that a
resolution is formed and now is carrying