Page:Garneau - Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours, tome III, 1848.djvu/558

La bibliothèque libre.
Cette page a été validée par deux contributeurs.
557
APPENDICE

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 8 th April 1784, in answer to the foregoing.

“ His Majesty approves of the plan you have proposed for settling some of the Loyalists at Cataraqui and places adjacent, and is satisfied with the reasons you have given for suspending the execution of the directions contained in the late Secretary of State’s letter to you with regard to establishments on the tracts of land to the eastward of the River St.-Lawrence, and bounded on the North and West by the revolted colonies.”