a place of great responsibility, was in a short time at the disposal of government, and was immediately bestowed upon M. Baby. The last 17 years of his life have been spent at York (aujourd’hui Toronto), in the discharge of the duties of this office, and never has there been the slightest shadow of complaint — a fact, the more remarkable as he had to check every other office in the province, and to pronounce in a variety of questions, in which numbers were deeply interested, but such was the public confidence in his integrity and honor, that not a murmur was ever heard.
« As a member of both Councils he displayed the most uncompromising probity and no influence could induce him to give up an opinion, which, after mature examination, he concluded to be right. Owing to his having cultivated both languages, French and English, and sometimes speaking in the one, and sometimes in the other, he seemed, at times, slow of apprehension, and after having made up his mind some-
