with any other than a hasty and imperfect sketch of both. Yet short as our notice must of necessity be, there will be found something to stimulate to moral improvement, something to recommend and inspire the love of virtue and to exemplify the rewards of rectitude and the consolation of religion.
« James Baby was born at Detroit in 1762. — His Family was one of the most ancient in the colony and it was noble. His father had removed from Lower Canada to the neighbourhood of Detroit, before the conquest of Quebec where, in addition to the cultivation of lands, he was connected with the fur trade at that time, and for many years after, the great staple of the country. James was educated at the Roman Catholic Seminary at Quebec, and returned to the paternel roof soon after the peace of 1783. The family had ever been distinguished (and indeed all the higher French Families) for their adherence to the British crown ; and to this more than to any other cause, are we to
