A collection of rough memoranda on a great variety of subjects. It is not possible to calendar the volume which contains many important facta, mixed with the most trivial affaire. The Memoranda fill 114 pages. On the last are rules for his conduct, apparently at the time of entering on office as Governor of Quebec, the last of which may be given. The originals are in French. “To be always polite and obliging but also to be always watchf &c.” “To ask time to consider things of any importance, but also to make it an inviolable law to do whatever has been promised.” “Not to become heated in conversation, rather to leave the room under any pretext, as was the case with a Bishop, who prayed in order to give time for his blood to cool ; to return immediately, to listen with patience and take time for deliberation.” “To favour commerce, and distinguish the merchants who deserve it.” “To have the respect for the officers which is due them, to associate with them at table and in parties with the Canadians, and to require from them pood conduct, and the regulation of their expenses” The short jotting of his transactions will enable his course to be traced from the time he left the command at Boston till he came to Quebec in 1773.
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