Page 474. — Extract of a letter from the Right Honorable Lord Sidney, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, to His Excellency Governor Haldimand, dated Whitehall, the 8th April 1784.
“ I have every possible reason to agree with the late Secretary of State, in the propriety with which you have conducted yourself respecting the two Priests whom Monsr. Montgolfier attempted to introduce from France into the Seminary of St.-Sulpice at Montreal. Monsr. de Montgolfier as well as Monsr. Brassier, seem to have acted very imprudently thro’ the course of the transaction, and they must be told that a repetition of such behaviour will induce His Majesty to withold that countenance from the Seminary, which, by their observing a different line of conduct, he might be inclined to bestow.
“ Messrs. Adhémar and Delisle have, since their first arrival in England, paid a visit to the continent, and on their return have made application for the admission of three young Eclesiasticks, whom they proposed to take out with them from the Seminary of St.-Sulpice at Paris, but the same reasons which operated with you, have produced a negative to that requisition. These gentlemen have met with very little countenance here, and his Majesty, from your representation of their character, as well as some other reports which have come to my knowledge of their sentiments, has chosen, rather to receive the Petition they were charged with thro’ my hands, than it should be presented to him by them.
“ It is proper that it should be known that liberty has been given to Messrs. Adhémar and Delisle, to engage any number of Eclesiasticks that were necessary for supplying the vacant Parishes in Canada, and such other persons as they might judge proper for the tuition of their children, from any country unconnected with the House of Bourbon, as it is more than probable, that reports of a différent ten-
