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 OAKIDIAN ASSINIBOINE and SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION of 1868— Author 
 of Narrative of tlie Canadiau Expeditions in the North West, I860. — Explorations in the 
 INTERIOR of the LABRADOR PENINSULAR, 1868.— Official Report on the Geology 
 of New Bnmawiok, 1$66.— Official Reports on Waverley, 1869.— Sherbrook, 1870— Motint 
 Uniaoke^ Qlcihu& md Renfrew Gold Districts of Nova Scotia, 1872, &c., &c., &o. 
 
 On Hm Fishing Grounds of the Northern Labrador, 1876.— Official Papers on— The effect of 
 tliellJBllajr Cwnua of the Treaty of Waahinstou on the Fidieries and Fishennen of British 
 Kortb ■^Trr*'^ t Pwrts I, and II, 1877.— Recipient of Gold Medal and Diploma, Paris 
 XxhiUtfOii, )l^8, for Maps and Charts illustratine the Fisheries of British North America 
 and the movements of Fisn in the Sea, 187S< 
 
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 WITH THE LATE 
 
 Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P. 
 
 PUBLISHED WITH THE CONSENT OF THE 
 
 IIGHT HON. THE MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON, M.P., 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE-WAR DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A. 
 
 Britiali, Scientific Witness at the Halifax FisherieH Commission, and Official Compiler 
 of the Analytical Index to the Documents of the Commiaiion. 
 
 ^ormerly Profetaor of Chemistry and Geology in the University of Trinity Colhye, Toronto.) 
 
 Mlogist to the CANADIAN EED EIVER EXPEDITION of 1857.— In charge of the 
 lKIDIAN ASSINIBOINE and SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION of 1868-Author 
 Narrative of the Canadian Expeditions in the North West, 18C0. — Explorations in the 
 TERIOB of the LABRADOR PENINSULAR, 1863.— Official Report on the Geologj- 
 New Bnmswick, lg66.— Official Reports on Waverley, 1869.— Sherbrook, 1870— Meant 
 Uniacke, Oldham and Renfrew Gold Distriots of Nova Scotia, 187^ &c., &c., &c. 
 
 the Fishing Grounds of the Northern Labrador, 1876.— Official Papers on— The efifuot of 
 FUbnrjr Cbnses of the Treaty of Waahingtou on the Fidieries and Fishermen of British 
 rth AmMrica ; Parts I, and II, 1877.'-Recipient of €k>ld Medal and Diploma, Paris 
 'ibition, 1878, for Maps'and Charts illustrating the Fisheries of British North America 
 and the movements of Fish in th« Sea, 1878. 
 
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 FIRST SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 To the Right. Honourahh Sir Charles W. Dilke, M.P., President of the Local 
 
 Oovernment Board. 
 Sir, 
 
 I recognize with thankfulness the tenor of the reply to uiy com- 
 munication of the 14th July, with which you have honoured me.* 
 
 That reply simply limits your objection to a personal and self-imposed 
 rule of life which public interests may at any moment require to be relaxed, and 
 it leaves me to the free exercise of my judgment in favour of those interests. 
 Taken in connection with prior communications I can only recognize it as a tacit 
 but restrained acknowledgment that the public should be fully informed of 
 their position. 
 
 But for reasons unnecessary to amplify, I willingly defer for a time, further 
 exposition of those lamentable official evils which are acting as a cease- 
 less drag on the progress of our morality, and which impart to confederated but 
 abused power, overwhelming strength for dishonest purposes, at the sacrifice of the 
 country's advancement. There can, however, be no just objection to my putting on 
 record a bare outline of the practices which have been pursued by the conspirators ; 
 or to my drawing public attention to the Oath which appears to shelter them from 
 those imposed consequences of atrocious dishonesty to which other non-official 
 offenders are justly subjected ; or to my pointuig out the methods by which they 
 are now continuing simJar nefarious practices against the interests of their fellow 
 subjects, and the dignity of government, outside of the range and functions of 
 diplomacy. For there is no political partisanship or shadow of political bias in 
 this exposure of confederated crime against the nation and mankind. 
 
 I shall first record the Oaths taken by a Canadian Minister, and then 
 lightly sketch transactions which few can conceive possible for British subjects to 
 carry on under the binding force of such solemn obligations, and during the 
 enjoyment of the confidence of their Sovereign, as displayed in many marked 
 
 •17, Park Valley, Nottingham, 
 
 July 14tb, 1884. 
 To the Right Honourablb Sir Charlbs W. Dilee, M.P., 
 
 Presidkmt of the Local Govbbnhbmt Board. 
 Sib, 
 
 I have the honour to transmit a printed copy of the " Correspondence with 
 the late Lord Frederick Cavendish," published with the consent of the Marquis of 
 Hartington. 
 
 I should now be very grateful if you would authorize me to publish my letter of 
 May 10th to yoarself, with the addenda, omitting such passages, if any, you might deem 
 unnecessary. 
 
 There could only be three purposes served by such an act, namely : — 
 The euppression of continued atrocious crimes. 
 Justice to millions of the Industrial classes of our countrymen ; and 
 An impetus given to the principles of Just Gorermneut. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A. 
 
 Sib, 
 
 Local Government Board. Whitehall, 
 
 July 17th, 1884. 
 
 In reply to your letter, 1 am directed by Sir Charles Dilke to say that he never 
 cnder any circumstances consents to the publication of correspondence with him. 
 
 I am your obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) J. fi. C BODLEY. 
 
 H. Y. HiMD. Esq. 
 
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acts conferring distinction and honour. I attach foot-note references to the papera 
 which further record and prove the statements herewith made. 
 
 Thk Oaths op a Canadian Minister. 
 Oath op Ofpicb. 
 do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that 
 
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 I will duly and faithfully, and to the best of ray skill and knowledge execute the 
 
 powers and trusts reposed in me as Minister of 
 
 So help me God. 
 
 Signature 
 
 The Oath op the Members of the Privt Council — (Canadian.) 
 
 "You do solemnly promise and swear that you will 
 
 serve Her Majesty truly and faithfully in the Place of Her Council in this Her 
 Majesty's Dominion of Canada, you will keep close and secret all such matters as 
 shall be treated, debated, and resolved on in privy council, without publishing or 
 disclosing the same or any i)art thereof by word, writing, or any otherwise, to any 
 person out of the same council, but to such only as be of the Council, and yet if 
 any matte'.* so propounded, treated and debated in any such Privy Council, shall 
 touch any particular person, sworn of the same Council, upon any such matter 
 as shall in any wise concorn his Loyalty an<l Fiddty to the Queen's Majesty, vru 
 
 WILL IN NO wise OPLN THE SAME TO HIM, BUT KEEP IT SECRET, AS YOU WOULD 
 
 FROM ANY PERSON, until the Queeu's Majesty's pleasure be known in that behalf 
 You will in all things to be moved, treated and debated, in any such 
 Privy Council, faithfully, honestly and truly declare your mind and opinion to the 
 honour and benefit of the Queen's Majesty, and the good of Her subjects, without 
 partiality or exception of i^ersons, in no wise forbearing so to do from any manner 
 of respect, favour, love, meed, displeasure or dread of any person or persons what- 
 ever. 
 
 In general you will be diligent, vigilant, and circumspect in all your doings 
 touching the Queen's Majesty's aflfairs ; all which matters and things you will 
 faithfully observe and keep, as a good co jncillor ought to do, to the utmost of your 
 power, will, and discretion 
 
 SO HELP YOU GOD." 
 
 I propose now to advert to the manner in which these Solemn Oaths 
 have been defiantly outraged, and the utter scorn of loyalty, truth, and honour 
 with which the masqueraders have carriod on and are continuing their evil work. 
 I shall glance at the eager zeal with which money-mongering allies have accepted 
 their official fabrications, and are content to accumulate wealth under the shadow of 
 infamous crime. I may choose another opportunity to notice the methods adopted 
 to escape inquiry, and the steps which appear to be necessary to make that inquiry 
 possible and effective as a public safeguard. For it is evident that the record of 
 any and every crim« may never escape the charmed circle of the Canadian Privy 
 Council, under the directed sway of tlie oath which governs some of the actions of 
 its members, or of those who may b« controlled by a resiject for its motives. 
 
 No other conclusion appears to be possible after a perusal of my printed 
 letter to Earl Granville, dated London, March 21st, 1882, which was swiftly 
 followed by the flight of Sir Alexander Gait ; or of my printed letter to Earl 
 Derby, dated January 8th, 1883, and the fatal communications therein referred to ; 
 or the subsequent correspondence which has passed in vaiious relations and th«^ 
 dificlosures wMch have been made or evolved. 
 
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I. 
 
 THE OFFICIAL MAKUFACTUBE OF FALSK EVIDENCE. 
 
 During the International Fisheries Arbitration between Great Britain 
 and the United States, a very important point depended upon the value of the 
 remission of duties accruing from the Free Markets of the ITnited States being 
 opened to Canada by the Fishery Clauses of tho Treaty of Washington. 
 
 The United States Government estimated the annual value of this 
 concession to Canada to be $400,000. The British Agent was able to i)rove by 
 means of Unitod States official figures that the actual value of the remission of 
 duties for the year selected to illustrate the arguments of counsel was only 
 $185,768, instead of $400,000. (Vide page 421 " Correspondence respecting tho 
 Halifax Fisheries Commission." Blue Book, 1878.) 
 
 But this apparently conclusive argument was based upon a forged official 
 Kecordof United States exports to other Countries besides Canada, surreptitiously 
 introduced into the United States official Commerce and Navigation Tables, 
 together with much other misleading and falsified matter adverse to the United 
 States, already poinetd out. X 
 
 This mislep.ding United States official record was treasonably prepared 
 under the supervision of the United States Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, in 
 strict unison with false Canadian Figures manufactured under the official 
 supervision of Mr. Tilley (now Sir Leonard Tilley) and Mr. Tupper (now Sir 
 Charles Tupper) against the interests of the United States and in favour of Canada. 
 
 This example is but the shadow of that grosser substance which tainta 
 the Official Trade Tables of the United States through corrupt alien influence, and 
 for the most selfish and mercenary of alien purposes. It must for ever cloud the 
 history of the Hudson Bay Company through some of its venal officers and patrons.§ 
 
 If we are men, as our forefathers were, it ought to serve as a pall 
 to the public lives of all those who had a hand in the matter. It is the meanest 
 disgrace of the age, yet Sir Charles Tupper and Sir John Rose are flourishing in 
 London officially, and continuing their evil work. 
 
 In view of the self-imposed responsibilities attached to the oaths of office 
 accepted by a Canadian or other Minister, we cannot find in the recorded history 
 of civilization a more shameful illustratior of official turpitude than is reciprocally 
 displayed in the manufacture and use made of these forged Fisheries Figures against 
 the United States, and in the subsequent compensating commercial atrocities 
 practised against certain classes in England and Canada 
 
 In 1882 I drew Sir Leonard Tilley *s attention to the consequences of 
 his infamous work in the printed letter enclosed. But he shrank from inquiry, and 
 with Sir Charles Tupper and his allies continued the profitable sale of his country's 
 honour and interests. But " the Five-brick and Clay series "may save Canada yet. 
 
 This is what I told Sir Leonard Tilley, the rest is seen in the letter 
 transmitted : — 
 
 *' If there were any doubt whatever about tho matter, then many would be 
 disposed to say — let it rest. But there is no doubt ; and little ditliculty now in tracing the 
 
 t See Printed letters entitled "The United States Spurious Statistics and the 
 Conspiracy which created them," particularly printed letter to the Honourable F. T. 
 Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State of the United States, dated, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 
 November Ist, 1882, page 6 ; also, for the relation between the United States and the 
 Canadian Figures, see letter to Sir Charles Tupper, dated, Windsor, Nova Scotia, February 
 ] 5th, 1884 ; also, letter to the Canadian Secretary of State, dated, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 
 1 ebruary 8th, 1883 ; also my returned letter to Sir Charles W. Dilke, M.P., &c. Ac, 
 and the addenda thereto, &c. &c. 
 
 § See letters already cited, also "The Conspiracy of 1871 "being Exhibit in 
 Affidavit. 
 
 
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 cunspiracy out to its beginning, or puiutiug to some of thu wire pullers. These must pay 
 the penalty of their selfish work, for it is sufBciciitly clear, tnut self-acraailizement aud 
 veiled peculation of unusual hut abhorent type, is at the bottcm of the whole matter. 
 
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 '* The whole matter is one of the utmost moment to Onnndn, it will form a turn- 
 ing point in our history, if it bo met manfully and truthfully, it will do the country 
 iuestimablo good. If au attempt be made to shirk it ami to hand it over tu "political 
 puppota," liko Mr. Witcher's moinorandum on his own delinqutncies, it will, by exciting 
 
 Sofitical passion, toiul to throw the morale of the country back into the gloom of Turkish 
 iplomacy, and leave every one conscious that he has not only failed to do his duty, but has 
 meanly saorificed the national honour which belongs to our children, to the exigencies of the 
 hour aud of political delinquencies. 
 
 There is no other course now available but full, open and exhaustive inquiry. The 
 cance;' mining within our political and social cdlouial system, must be cut out boldly and with 
 au uu8]>aring knife, or it will destroy onr national life, and transform us, an Anglo-Saxon 
 
 Eeople, heii s to the noblest efforts of mankind, into mere mammon-worshipping slaves of the 
 old aud unscrupulous political leader or parti^iau." 
 
 I ask you now, Sir, with innieot respect — wLether we are to be iimde 
 the inamiuon-worsiupping slaves, net merely of bold and unscnipnlovis political 
 leaders, but of swindling and liyprooiitical protected deceivers, or, are we to remain 
 Englishmen as heretofore, brave enouj^h to defend our rights. 
 
 II. 
 
 TXIK CONSEQUENCES OF TJIE OFKICIAL MANUFACTURE OF FALSE EVIDENCE. 
 
 These transactions concern and hamper with embittering atisociationa 
 the desired settlement of an international question which has long been a source of 
 disquieting anxiety to the two great English speaking nations of the world, and 
 between whom it is of the highest importance that honourubie trust and honest 
 dealing shcsuld ever prevail. 
 
 Ko Diplomacy can justly overcome the influence of lalse evidence 
 secretly and corruptly manufactured, and covertly introduced into the Official 
 Kecords of contending Nations, and used against the interests of one of them. 
 
 This NATION has to suffer for the disgraceful proceedings which gave rise 
 to the " Keport " and " Resolution " framed and adopted by the Committee on 
 i'oreign Aliairs of the Congress of the United States, referred to in the footnote. ''■ 
 
 * It is, however, of the highest importance to the public to know who is 
 responsible for the present aspect of the Fisheries Question, and the complications towards 
 which that question is gravitatinst, as foreshadowed hy the "Joint Resolution " recommended 
 by the " Committee on Foreign Affairs " of the Congress of the United States, and submitted 
 with the Ecport of the Committee, in February last. (1) 
 
 That report says ; — 
 
 " It is useless here to discuss the character of the testimony by which this claim 
 " was controverted, or of the tribioi nl hy yvhich it was coolly and peremptorily disregarded. " 
 
 " Afterpayment of the Award, the men most interested in the subject justify the 
 " claim of our Counsel by offering to resign what they get for what they give, less the live 
 " and a half million award, which we viu^t be content to 2uiyjor our experience of the result of 
 '■ friendly arbitration with Great Britain — they only ask to be restored to the ante tkeatv 
 "status, and they will trust to their own resources for futxire i^Totection agninst Canadian 
 " competition." 
 
 (ly^Rcaolved by the Senate and JJouse of Representatives af the United States of America 
 " in Congress^ assembled, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, rcspect- 
 " fully requested to give the notice to Great Britain, provided for in Article 33 of thu Treaty 
 " of 1871, for the termination of the provisions of said Treaty contained in Articles 18 to 25 
 " inclusive, aud relating to the FisLuries ; and that ho also be respectfully requested to 
 " institute negociations with Great Britain, by which, after the termination of said provisions, 
 " THE FisnEriES OF THIS NATION shall be restored to the rights and privileges ioemeblv 
 
 •* ENJOYED BY THBM." 
 
 See also the Joint Eesolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, and the 
 Kesolutions of the Legislatuie of the State of Massachusetts. These are referred to in the 
 Report of the ' ' Committee on Foreign Affairs " of the Congress of the United States, agreed 
 to in February last. 
 
 (Extract fvum a printed letter addressed by the viriter to the Right Hon. Earl 
 Qranville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs— dated London, March 2Ut, 1882.) 
 
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 The Conspirators are uot only now enjoying the emoluments and honours gained by 
 their treasonable praotices, bub they are still pursuing similar practicen against 
 their own countrymen. Surely the question will be asked and answered, " wnT 
 
 HAS THIS NATION TO SUFFER FOB THESE MISDEEDS IN HELPLESS ENDURANCE ]" 
 
 This point was admirably put by your Colleague the Right Hon. A. 
 J. Mandella, M.P., six years since. 
 
 " MONEY IS DUST IN THE SCALE AS COMPARED WITH HONEST 
 DEALINGS IN THE RELATIONS BETWIXT THE TWO COUNTRIES." 
 
 I append his communication to myself in a footnote ; t vast trouble, 
 coupled with the injustice and dishonour of tlie IMciuorandum in the Despatch of 
 19th March, 1879, would have been spared to the Country, if his efforts to aid me 
 then had been successful. 
 
 These sustained fifficial impositions transform subordinates into the meanest 
 ofpanders, and con vert so-called "Responsible Colonial Government" into a huge and 
 xnoit pernicious fraud. . 
 
 III. 
 
 The Right Hon. A. J. Mundella's letter proves that to shun or avoid a 
 review of the consequences (by those not bound to secrecy), which tacit submission 
 to these surprising humiliations seems to compel, would be of all things the most 
 culpable and cowardly, for the conspirators are meanwhile perfecting their measures 
 and securing their retreat, while leaving a heritage of shame to their country and 
 countrymen. 
 
 A Peace congress in the sustained presence of this kind of work is a 
 wicked delusion. 
 
 The masked details of the " Remission of Duty " frauds, and the forged 
 figures supplied under the regime of Sir Leonard Tilley and Sir Charles Tuppei", will be 
 found on pages 418 to 421 of " Correspondence respecting the Halifax Fisheries 
 Commission," laid before the Imperial Pai'liament in 1878 ; also in the identical 
 " Record;" also in the infamous secret document entitled " Appendix — Memorandum 
 concerning Article XXI of the Treaty of Washington," which supplies thp clue 
 to the frauds; also in the " Documents and Proceedings of the Halifax Fisheries 
 Commission," laid before the Congress of the United States, and which thus 
 officially embody the veiled record of the imposition practised upon this friendly 
 and neighbouring people through the seduction by aliens of their subordinate pub- 
 lic servants for base purposes. 
 
 tl6, Elvaston Place, Queen's Gate, 8.W., London, 
 
 1st February, 1879. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I am favoured with both your letters, for which I thank you. 
 I regret you are leaviag England so soon, I should much like to submit the case in 
 confidence to Lord Mouck, a late Governor of Canada; and the Rt. Hon. W. E. ForsterM.P., 
 both of whom would appreciate its gravity, and be able to prescribe the right course to 
 pursue. 
 
 Certainly to my mind it seems the bonnden duty of the British Minister of Foreign 
 Affairs to conimuuicate the whole truth to Mr. Evarts at once. 
 
 MONEY IS DUST IN THE SCALE AS COMPARED WITH HOMBST DEALING IN THE 
 RELATIONS BETWIXT THE TWO COUNTRIES, 
 
 I am almost disposed to say as much to Lord Salisbury, have you any objection ? 
 Would you write me a letter summarizing the facts before you leave England, and 
 adding your address in the Colony. » • * 
 
 I think it would be well to do so, and to state therein the efforts you have made 
 to bring the case fully and fairly before the Foreim Offlce. 
 
 Faithfully yours, 
 Signed, A. J. MUNDELLA. 
 
 H. Y. Hind, Esq. 
 
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IV. 
 
 
 1 
 
 THB ANTE TRKATT STATUS. 
 
 There is one feature in the matter under review which cannot be over- 
 looked, because it will in all probability be inconveniently, if not disastrously 
 pressed upon public attention within the lapse of very limited time. 
 
 The oflQcial fabrication of Records ot Government on the part of Canadian 
 Officials affects tlie honour of the delegated rulers of one Imperial Colony only, 
 but the secret and unlawfully purchased alteration against their interests, of 
 the National Records of a great and friendly neighbouring people, numbering fifty- 
 five millions of souls, is a matter of far greater and more lasting moment. Besides, 
 the proof is incontrovertible, official, and indelible. 
 
 The penalty which is imminent may include, as has already been strongly 
 hinted, the possibility of its recurrence by the requested relinquishment of those 
 great Territorial Rights which have afforded the opjiortunities for the conception 
 and perpetiation of the imposture, which Rights are the pride and strength of 
 a free Maritime people. 
 
 The "ANTE TREATY STATUS" implies the giving up of those exclusive Coastal 
 Fishing Rights round about the shores of the Dominion, which are always supposed 
 to belong to the lawful possessors and inheritors of the soil, and to no other ruler. 
 
 The Dominion of Canada's territorial rights, so long the source of grave 
 international troubles, were won by a lavish exjjenditure of the blood and treasure 
 of our forefathers from a valiant but alien race nearly two centuries ago. Shall 
 they silently pass from the swa^v of the grand old flag and loyal Dependencies, to 
 screen the evil deeds of a few grasping schemers, and in the transference uphold 
 from dread exposure and just condemnation, those cowardly " patriots " who 
 conspire under the shelter »f mediseval officialism. 
 
 V. 
 Article XXX op the Treaty op Washington. 
 
 The notice of abrogation of the Fishery Clauses of the Treaty of 
 Washington actually given, as stated in the public prints, goes much further than 
 the ante treaty status ; it includes article XXX. The import and full meaning 
 of this inclusion of article XXX, few will be likely to understand but those who 
 have studied the subject, and the alleged prospective Pacific Ocean Trade of the 
 Canadian Pacific Railway, and the past history of the Hudson Bay Company. 
 
 You have^ir John Rose in your midst, but Sir John Rose and his allies 
 already name J, lijB under the blackest cloud which ever hung over official 
 panders and trafficTOi-s in their country's honour. Sir John Pose and his allies 
 dare not face the " fire-brick and clay series" in extenso, or the ratio 
 666,303 — 303,666,and be publicly confronted by the uses to which these levera have 
 been put, and the lawlessness, the treachery, the injustice to which these infamies 
 have led, and are leading. Sir Alexander Campbell, one of the meanest amongst 
 them, with his memory unimpared, his purchased honours in full bloom, sought 
 in the Senate of Canada and before conscious connivers and implicated hearers, 
 to impute as the origin of these charges — monomania. It is unnecessary to say 
 more at present concerning this ghastly illustration of depraved instincts at 
 fault, in the act of seeking covert from crime. * 
 
 These senatorial and parliamentary proceedings, be it remembered, were 
 
 * See official Report of the Discussion in the Canadian Senate and the Canadian 
 Hoase of Commons, in January and February, 1881, respecting the charges made by me; 
 also, Mr. Commissioner Whitcher'fl whitewashing memorandum for Sir J. A. Macdonald, 
 and my reply to His Excellency the Governor General of the Dominion, concerning this 
 outrage against truth and honour. 
 
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I 
 
 efforts at the repudiation of my discoveries made in the pursuit of official duties. 
 They do not embrace a shadow of reason and are opposed to palpable fact. It now 
 appears that the deceits recorded embrace the fraudulent Memorandum in the 
 despatch of March 19th, 1879, and subsequent atrocities against English interests. 
 Ihe entire sustained fraud involves an alternating and discriminating 
 selection of the victims of supreme rascality, in which half of one hundred 
 millions of people are made by turns the victims, anJ a score or so of decorated 
 officials and financial Birds of Prey the successful opeiatoi'S and conspirators, and 
 a desecrated oath the abused protecting shield. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Principle op International Arbitration. 
 
 But there is a lower depth yet, which is beyond the reach even of diploma- 
 tic floiiadings, and which must ever remain as a record of surprising modern 
 perfidy, as well as of tho degree to which men will conspire who have bidden farewell 
 to honour, even under the sacred fringes of a throne. 
 
 The Canadian Trade Tables themselves were officially forged from 1867 
 to 1877 for a special purpose opposed to a friendly foreign power, and in all their 
 deformity they were officially presented and employ ^'d under solemn oath in the 
 name of thb nation as true records. This act subordinated the oath acknow- 
 ledging the Creator and His attributes to the use of an oath for the protection of 
 the creature and his crimes. 
 
 It has involved to a very great extent and prolonged degree the enforced 
 submission of many subordinates to most pernicious acts ; it has lowered the 
 moral standing and the self-respect of those who have been implored to defend by 
 diplomatic deception, or open, barefaced lies, the most heinous of abuses and the 
 gravest derelictions of patriotic duty ; it has formed and is still employed to form 
 the cloak which screens the wiles and impostures of swindlers, practiced on an 
 enormous scale. It is no excuse to say that men belonging to both political 
 parties are involved in it, the question is national in its import. 
 
 But this abhorent abuse of trust and power, was coldly perpetrated in the 
 shameful and arbitrary excercise of the highest of human functions — The Admin- 
 istration OP International Justice, and in scornful contempt of the beneficent 
 principle of International Arbitration. 
 
 It was conceived and sustained for money aims and denounced personal 
 .'.ggrandizment. No gleam of patriotism or higher though*", than self, envelopes 
 the sad history of Article XXX of the Treaty of Washington, and of certain 
 officials of the Hudson Bay Company with their Canadian allies. 
 
 These men were faithless to their country, but true worshippers of them- 
 selves ; they form now a compact, decorated but shrinking band, with a history in 
 which falsehood and cowardly devices impudently prevail. 
 
 VII. 
 
 The Memorandum in the Despatch of March 19th, 1879, and the 
 
 Canadian Trade Tables. 
 
 The same gigantic fraud by means of which the conspirators 
 have secured their aims is being further perpetrated now, and this is the gathering 
 but fortunate responsibility of the hour. The Canadian Trade and Navigation 
 Tables, annually fabricated since 1878 against the interests of Manchester, 
 Birmingham, Sheffield and all other great centres of industry trading with the 
 United States and Canada, are blurred with the same foul crime which taints them 
 from 1867 to 1877 against the interests of the United States. ^ 
 
 i See returned letter now awaiting publication under official auspices, addressed 
 
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 The people of England, and paiticularly the members of the Chambers of 
 Commerce, ought to be informed that in the annually masked and discriminating 
 Canadian Trade Tables, there is embodied an injustice tenfold more weighty and 
 pernicious than the Canadian bankruptcy laws which have already been so severely 
 censui'ed by the London Chamber. 
 
 The Memorandum by Sir Leonard Tilley introduced into the Despatch of 
 the Marquis of Lorao to Sir Michael Hicks Beach of March 19th, 1879, is a dup- 
 licity of suprising depth, for in the midst of unusual honours showered on this 
 statesman, he managed to slip in a further deformed representation of previously 
 forged Statistics of Trade, to gain an object seriously opposed to Engla nd, and for 
 the hypocritical purpose of "showing how far comparatively England is favoured 
 in the New Tariff. " 
 
 He demonstrated this " favour " by further falsifying forged figures 
 and altering denominations. His device is equalled only by the trick cf Sir 
 Alexander Gait, who palmed a tissue of grave misrepresentations on the " Venerable 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," and tlie " Venerable 
 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge," and then lauded his Confederate and 
 Colleague, the Hon. J. H. Pojie, the Canadian Minister of Agriculture and others 
 for the " Good Work." 
 
 The "Colonists Hand-book" in its first edition, is so impudent and 
 treacherous an imposition on the beneficent objects of these Societies, and so illustra- 
 tive of much nefarious work now going on, that I shall notico the fraud elsewhere. IT 
 
 VIII. 
 
 The Treatment op the Conspirators. 
 
 I take it that the fact of no countervailing objections having been urged to 
 my returned and unpublished letter, coupled with the permitted publication ot the 
 Correspondence to which this communication is a supplement, are equivalent to an 
 admission that my statements are incontrovertible, and that inaction is a hint that 
 the conspirators are not yet quite ripe for doom. 
 
 Lord Lansdowne has already acted, and he has acted grandly, as became 
 one who points to " virtute non verbis " as his motto, and ('oes not intend to fall 
 short of the measure of honour his rule of life implies. After the receipt of the 
 following letter, he turned his back upon his Ministers, and walking away from the 
 Canadian House of Parliament, he left the conspirators to appoint a Deputy to the 
 Governor General to sanction their infamous Canadian Pacific Railway Guarantee 
 Bill. This Adventure is the offspring of bold and brutal Fraud successfully pursued 
 for many years; it is defiantly winning its way even now, through fell influence and 
 feigned reliance on official truth. 
 
 You will recollect that the statistical data relating to expenditure, upon 
 which the introduction of this Guarantee Bill was based, were certified by the same 
 
 to the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, M.P., President of the Ldeal Government Board. This 
 letter is entitled "The Canadian Official Frauds, continuously practised in relation to the 
 Canadian Protective Tariff, and Canadian Trade with the United Kingdom," with addenda. 
 See also a printed circular by the writer entitled " Concerning a Letter to the Eight 
 Hon. Sir Charles VV. Dilke, M.P., President of the Local Government Board, relating to 
 the forged Trade Tables of the Dominion of Canada for the years of 1878 and 1883, with an 
 illustration of one Method of F.aud." The method of fraud with respect to "Cottons 'for 
 the year 1883 is exhibited in that letter. 
 
 II See printed letter entitled "Emigration, Land and Railway Frauds,— The 
 Colonists Handbook — Canada, 1882," published under the direction of the Tract Committee 
 of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, addressed " To the Standing Committee of 
 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, and the Tract Committee uf 
 the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge," printed on the first sheet of " The United 
 States Spurious Statistics and the Conspiracy which created them." 
 
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 facile public officer (Miall), specially selected by Sir Charles Tupper, f who had 
 previously prepared Sir Charles Tupper's and Sir Leonard Tilley's faloe records of 
 Government for use in argument at the Halifax Fisheries Commission. 
 
 This known accessory to perjury* was chosen by Sir Charles Tupper for 
 further official use in vast and scandalous public impositions now going on, and 
 the purchased or fraudulent testimony of this person was consciously made the basis 
 of Canadian Parliamentary votes in the spring of 1884. Why is this man 
 permitted to be officially employed in deceiving the public 1 He is now elevated 
 to the important position of "Deputy to the Minister of Inland Kevenue," with a 
 fine field for that kind of action for which he is infamously useful and distinguished. 
 
 Letter to Ills Excellency the Marquis of La/isdowne, Governor General of 
 Canada, concerning the Canadian Pacific Railwaij Guarantee Bill. 
 
 Windsor, Nova Scotia, 
 
 January Slst, 1884. 
 May it please Your Excbllency, 
 
 I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a communication from Lord 
 Melgnnd by your Excellency's desire, announcing the reception of my letter of the 14th 
 instant, with the enclosures specified therein. 
 
 While gratefully acknowledging this courtesy and justice on the part of your 
 Excellency, I feel that it imposes upon me the further obligation to furnish immediately 
 the additional information I have long sought to couimumcate verbally and in a less 
 complete form, to those in authority both in England and Canada. 
 
 I beg respectfully to supply herewith certain brief statements and conclusions, 
 wholly new to the public, which your Excellency will observe are of such importance to 
 Canada, and indirectly to the nation, that a continuance of concealment would be most 
 reprehensible. 
 
 These statements are a type only of misrepresentations and criminal delinquencies 
 which cover many milliona of dollars. 
 
 StcUemerd No. I. 
 A tabular representation of the alleged Canadian Fish Imports from the United 
 States, .%s embodied in the annual Trade and Navigation Returns since Confederation, or 
 the year 1 867, compared witk a tabular representation of the said alleged imports, as sworn 
 to in evidence at Halifax in 1877. 
 
 Statement No. II. 
 A tabular representation of the differences between the two forms in Statement 
 No. I showing the nature and value of the Land items substituted for products of the 
 Sea from 1867 to 1873 inclusive, and subsequently sworn to at Hal'fax in 1877 for 
 pecuniary and other considerations. 
 
 Statement A'o. III. 
 Table showing the values of certain substituted and certain omitted items Specified, 
 from the year 1867 to 1873 inclusive, arranged in order of magnitude, with the year 
 apeoified. 
 
 Statament No. IV. 
 The items in Statement No. Ill grouped, showing that all the larger quantities 
 above 56 are sums of the lesser quantities ; also, that the groups of these omitted and substi- 
 tuted items are equivalent to each and all the masking numbers used in my letter to the 
 President of the United States, already transmitted. 
 
 t See published letter to Sir Charles Tupper, dated, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 
 Pabruary 15th, 1884 ; also letter to His Excellency the Governor General of Canada, dated, 
 27th February, 1884 ; also Sir Charles Tupper's speeches in the Canadian Parliament, 1882, 
 3, 4 ; also Correspondence relating to the Guarantee by the Government of Interest on the 
 Stock of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, so that means might be provided for the 
 completion of the work by May 1886. (Message to the Canadian Parliament No. 31—1884); 
 also 'Hansard' (Canada) 1884, also too Annual Canadian Trade and Navigation Tables, 
 from 1878 to 1883 as already cited. These later tables were concocted by Mr. Commissioner 
 Johnson, who supplied a causiderable portion of the false figures for the " Evidence " at the 
 Halifax Fisheries Commission. The known agents of imposture are thus made the successful 
 ■ubc~"!.aite officials in the Canadian Civil Service. 
 
 * See printed letter and argument addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Granville, and 
 the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley, dated, May 27th, 1881, for a special notice of this official 
 pander. 
 
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 Statement No. V. 
 A number of illustrations showing and proving the exact relation between the 
 United States Exports and Canadian Imports for the years 1872-3, 1873-4, 1874-5 ; and the 
 Canadian omitted and substituted items from 1867 to 1873 inclusive, thus establishing the 
 continuous character of the same fraud from the year 1867 to the year 1877, and the 
 continuous falsification of Trade Returns since 1867, according to the same system and the 
 same arithmetical series, which may be appropriately named 
 
 The Fikb-Bkick and Clay SEEiKs, 
 
 The conclusions from the figures presented in these statements, added to my 
 exposition of the use of the ratio 660,303 — 303,666, and the invasion of the United States 
 Bureau of Statistics through bribery, and other information already furnished to your 
 Excellency, are as important and urgent as they arc irresistible. Yet they refer chiefly to 
 imports only, and disclose but a tithe of similar secret and masked misrepresentations 
 relating to Exports and othci- matters of Trade. 
 
 But in view of impending troubles it is right thai, cue Canadian and British public 
 should know, and that it should be jtut on record, when this work commenced, by 
 wh(jin it waa aided and accomplished, wiio are reaping the benefits and rewards, who are 
 endangering by silence or deception the interests of their country and the property of 
 investors in Canadian Securities, and who ure dishonoaring and debauching their countrymen 
 for seifiish purposes of the meanest character. 
 
 First : — The Record proves that these false figures of 1867 to 1871 were originated 
 about and during the period when Sir John liose of the Hudson Bay Company was J?iuauce 
 Minister of Canada, and who, leaving Canada, arranged the preliminaries for the Treaty 
 of Washington in the fall of 1 870, and gained for the Hudson Bay Compnny through its 
 Governor Sir Stafford H. Nortlieote, Article XXX of the Treaty, and, virtually, the award of 
 1877, Sir L'onard Tilley being Minister ot Customs during a part of this period. 
 
 Second : — Your Excellency will gather from these five Statements and Illustrations 
 that the Fishery Clauses of the Treaty of Washington were secured in 1871 upon the die- 
 honest basis of a portion of these false figures extending from 1867 to 1871. These false 
 figures were used again in 1877 with vast additions, to win the award virtually created and 
 already assured by their means and the Fishery Clauses in the Treaty. 
 
 Third : — Your excellency will also become aware that the United States Commerce 
 and Navigation annual Reports have been secretly altered and moulded against the interests 
 of the United States for many years by the use of known Canadian Forged and misrepre- 
 senting figures, and that this indignity and wrong has been effected by the secret corruption 
 of United States subordinates in the Treasury Department of the United States : — Also, that 
 an award affecting the Territorial Rights of Canada was won by means of a suborned witness 
 and false oath supported upon the basis of this treatment of a friendly and neighbouring 
 people. 
 
 Now, Sir Alexander Gait, himself believmg in the secrecy of this violation of all 
 principle and justice, and his «wn and his friends security, boldly advanced from the bench 
 at Halifax in 1877, the consequences of the acts not covered by secrecy. 
 
 These are the consequences as stated and taught by Sir Alexander Gait on page 
 808 of the British " Record of the Halifax Fisheries Commiiison."— On page 192 of the "Cor- 
 respondence " and on page 1587 of the "United States Documents and Proceedings of the 
 Halifax Commission." 
 
 Sir Alexander Gait quotes President Grant's Message to Congress in 1870. 
 " Anticipating that an attempt may possibly be made by the Canadian Authorities 
 " in the coming season to repeat their unneighbourly acts towards our fishermen, 1 recommend 
 " you to confer upon the Executive the power to suspend by proclamation the operation of the 
 " laws authorizing the Transit of goods, wares, and merchandize in bond, across tbe Territory 
 " of the United States to Canada ; and further, should snch an extreme measure become 
 " necessary, to suspend the operation of any laws whereby the vessels of the Dominion of 
 " Canada are permitted to enter the waters of the United States." 
 
 Permit me respectfully to urge upon your Excellency the importance of reading 
 Sir Alexander Gait's comments on this passage, and its relation to the origin of the Treaty 
 of Washington. 
 
 Then it will be well fully to consider the prepared method of the Scheme by which 
 the Fishery Clauses of the Treaty of Washington and the outcome were won. My letter to 
 the Canadian Secretary of State in Feb. 1883 was not without serious forebodings. 
 
 The acts complained of by President Grant were legal but '* unfriendly." The 
 secret acts new displayed to view, are illegal, dishonest and unfriendly. 
 
 The following consequences have now to be met : — 
 
 First: — Any guarantee given to the Canadian Pacific Railway must be based upon 
 securities whose value is dependent upon the penalty enforced for the Fisheries Swindle. 
 
 6'ecwid .• —The unpaid penalty for this dishonour and injustice must in a measHre 
 
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 destroy the value not only of the Shares of the Cans iian PaciHc Railway, but of all Canadian 
 Railways, as far as permitted transit throagli the United States is contingent upon that 
 penalty. 
 
 Third : — All Canadian Railway Stock, and Land Companies' Stocks, kc, &c., &c., 
 must decline in value until the Transit Question is settled— in a word until the Fisheries 
 Frauds are expiated. 
 
 We know that Englishman would be the first to reaontany secret successful attempt 
 of a Foreigner to procure by tho corruption of Subordinates the alteratiou of the Records of 
 our own Governmeat for aeltiah foreign purposes and opoodod to our own Country's 
 interest. We may thus judge what others aro likely to thinli a)id do in a matter affecting 
 themselves and their interests. 
 
 Therefore, in view of the consequences it would bo a monstrous injustice to Canada 
 and to the investing British and Foreign Public to give any Government aid or security to 
 Canadian Pacific Railway Bonds or Shares without first openly investigating the Fisheries 
 Frauds and paving the way for future amicable international aotion. 
 
 At any moment before November next or 'luly twelvemonth, the details of this and 
 further trausaotions of a similar kind may he flashed throughout the length and breadth of 
 the United States, startling and unsettling the Public mind with the names of assisting 
 Agents of Masked Treason. 
 
 In view of these consequences the assumption of responsibility for doing anything 
 to bolster up and enoourage investment in the Canadian Pacific Railway before the Fisheries 
 Questioi is ventilate 1, woald be a national calamity. It would be utterly opposed. I 
 feel convi'ioei your EKcellency will acknowledge, not only to honest dealing, but to that 
 necessary and expected comity which must soon rivet public attention in Canada and in 
 England. 
 
 The United States Government and people have all along declared with surprising 
 unifo.'ni';y that the b)anV3nduty rests, pr.x^ticiUy, upin your Government to re-opea this 
 Question and pave the wav for just settlement. 
 
 Your Excellency will observe that Her Majesty's Imperial Government have been 
 shamofuUy deceived in this matter, as you will gather from the printed enclosures transmit- 
 ted at the dates nameJ therein to Sir Ghirlei Dilke, and from t)ther sources. 
 
 I regret to say that there is still much for your Excellency to learn respecting this 
 an! similar atrocities now maturing bitter fruit. 
 
 The most weighty responsibility therefore now rests upon those who govern and 
 direct the public opinion of this Country, for British and Canadian investments in Canada 
 are daily becoming more and more precarious under the impending penalty which will be 
 (quietly claimed and quietly enforced for the outrage of the Fisheries Frauds. 
 
 I have the honour to be. 
 
 Your Excellency's obedient Servant, 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A. 
 
 British Scientific Witness at the Halifax Fishtrlts Commission and Official Compiler 
 of the analytical Index to the Documents of the Commission. 
 
 The acknowledgment of the i-eceipt of this letter by the Governor 
 General is printed at the close of my published letter to Sir Cliarles Tapper, dated 
 Windsor, Nova Scotia, Feb. 14, 1884. 
 
 IX. 
 Further Disclosures are at present unnecessary. 
 
 There is much to be uncovered which I have not adverted to, and do 
 not wish to make public unless it becomes apparent that National interests are 
 in danger of being perverted in an effort to shield treacherous offenders. In a 
 letter to the leading Chambers of Commerce of the Kingdom, I have noticed some 
 of those base deceptions practised in relation to certain commercial speculative 
 adventures which are the outcome of the proceedings herewith outlined, they chiefly 
 relate to swindling operations of very pernicious stamp, which deserved to be put 
 on record as a warning to " Birds of Prey " and a safeguard to the uninstructed 
 and the powerless. 
 
 But I should wish to draw your special attention to the printed circular 
 and communication I addro -^ed ''to Mem'^ji-s of Parliament, Bankers, investors and 
 others " in relation to tb • to the Governor General just quoted. Also to my 
 
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 letter to Sir Statford Northcote and the adffiavit it embodies, in the hope that 
 Sir Stafford Northcote, who was so intimately connected with the Treaty of 
 Washington, and with Article XXX, as Governor of the Hudson Bay Company, 
 will imitate the example of the Marquis of Hartington, and throw no obstacle in 
 the way of publicly denouncing the authors of the " Fire-brick and Clay Series," 
 and the ratio 666,303 — 303,666, together with the presence of these pernicious 
 aids to deceit in the Annual Official Trade Returns of Canada and of the United 
 States. I sincerly trust that he will openly condemn the use made of those potent 
 and unlawful secret levers prevailing in Canadian Trade Tables against the 
 interests of the United States in the Fisheries Arbitration, and the good name 
 and honour of England. The gravamen of his continued silence is becoming 
 insupportable and most disastrous, 
 
 X. 
 The Commercial Frauds now being practised. 
 
 My returned letter to yourself of May 10th, 1884, reveals these 
 further Frauds practised .-xgainsfc English Merchants and Manufacturers up to the 
 present hour, as a set off againsL the Fisheries Frauds and for other purposes. 
 
 Tliat letter, with the addenda, in obedience to your implied wishes, I 
 withhold for the present, although it exhibits vast injustice against theloval people 
 of England as ?vell as of Canada, and the responsibility for continued concealment 
 appears to be onerous. Yet, I withhold it, awaiting in patient submission a more 
 suitable time for the publication of the gros.^ immorality it exposes, practised under 
 official and dangerous license. 
 
 The circular letter f already distributed relating to this gigantic Fraud, 
 is a record sufficient for present purposes. 
 
 I have added force to it by transmitting copies to the Secretaries of 
 various Chambers of Commerce, several of whi Ji have acknowledged the receipt of 
 of the same. 
 
 The letter communicating the Correspondence and all it involves is 
 subjoined.'''- 
 
 XI. 
 Imperial Federation. 
 
 The recent action of the Et. Hon. W. E. Foi-ster, M.P., is a precau- 
 tionary measure of great diplomatic importance. It secures the unreserved 
 acquiescence of Sir Charles Tupper to the proceedings of the "Conference on 
 Imperial Federation." 
 
 t Concerning a letter to the Eight Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilk«, M.P., President 
 of the Local Goverument Board, relating to the forged Trade Tables of the Dominion of 
 Canada, for the year 1878 and 1883, with an Illustration of one method of fraud. 
 
 * 1 7, Park Valley, Nottingham, 
 „ ^ July2l8t, 1884. 
 
 To the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, 
 
 (London, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Glasgow, Nottingham, 
 Birmingham, &c., &c.) 
 Sir, 
 
 1 transmit for the information of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce 
 copies of correspondence with the late Lord Frederick Cavendish, pubhshed with the 
 consent of the Marquis of Hartington. 
 
 The forged Trade Tables of Canada are matters of interest to commercial 
 men in Encjland, but the use of falsified Records of Government involves the abuse of a 
 principle which aflfeets every man, woman, and child in the Empire. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND. 
 
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 I publish a letter J referring to a protest against Sir diaries Tapper being 
 jiermitted to take any part in so grand a project, and I recognize tlie skilful 
 diplomacy which secures him from ti-eachery ii' that direction, but leaves him anil 
 others answerable for their prior treasonable and atrocious deceits. For what value 
 can Canada Ije, as an element in a great Imperial Fedkration. witii her Coastal 
 Rights bartered to hide the crimes of those seltish conspirators to whom National 
 " Sentiment " is a delusion when it interferes with their gains. 
 
 The re.si»onsil)ility of the Hudson Bay Company in the inatrtr is tsuch, 
 that this " Company of A.dventarerH " ought to be ignoiniiutnisly swept out of 
 existence. 
 
 XII. 
 "The Colonists' Handbook." 
 This matter d-jes not come strictly under the head of otScial political 
 delinquencies or crimes, although to my mind it is one of the worst acts in those 
 North West Territory Swindles which have assisted in building up the Stock 
 Exchange pabulum out of which wire-pullers and tinancial " Birds of Prey " make 
 their indirect gains under the shelter of the Fisheries Frauds. 
 
 The "Colonists' Handbook " is a small work tirsc published in 1882 under 
 the direction of th^ " Tract Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian 
 Knowledge." Sir Alexander Gait gives the history of this litjle book in liLs 
 official Report to his Colleague the Right Hon. J. H. Pope, Minister of Agriculture 
 at Ottawa. 
 
 This is Sir Alexander Gait's commendation of the efforts of the Joint 
 Committee of the two great Church Societies in England in producing the- 
 "Colonists' Handbook." 
 
 " I must not lorget to say a few words in connection with the action 
 taken by the Church Societies with regard to the control of the emigration that is 
 taking place from this country. A joint committee has been formwi of the Society 
 for the I'ropagatioii of tlie Gospel and the Society for the Promotion of Cinistian 
 Knowledge (of which t had the honour to be invited to become a membei-), to deal 
 with the question. It has been decided to prepare hand-books of the different 
 colonies for the information of intending settlei's which should also contain matter • 
 of a religoiis nature for their ;,uidance. The hand-book relating to Canada has 
 been issued and distributed amona the clergy, together with a letter from His Grace 
 the Archbishop of Canterbury, directing attention to the importance of the subject. 
 
 + TotheilT. Kox. W. E. Fokstek, M.P , 
 
 Chairman ok the Confkrexce on Imperial Federation. 
 
 ^.'ottiiighani, July 2Sth, 18S4. 
 Sir, 
 
 I iL-arn from the Loiuloii Daihj Climniclc of this diiys date, that you are to 
 preside to-uiofow at a, " t'onfcreiKe on Inijjorial Foileration,'' to be hekl in the West- 
 minster P.'aarc Hotel. 
 
 !n afUlitiou to tlic tacts stated in my transmitted protest against any public action 
 being permitted to be taken \>y Sir Charles Tapper, or hia as.sociates, in the discusion of this 
 gnind [jroject, I bet; respectfully to inform you as chairman of the Confeyeuce, that further 
 and '.uost condemning proofs of treasonable and unlawful praotices against the honour 
 ami. interests of England ou the part of .Sir Cliarles Tapper are ready to he made public, 
 coupled with such proofs of heinous imposition in the exercise of the duties of the various 
 public offices he has lilied, anci otherwise, as will stamp him as cue of the most pernicious 
 iiiipostors of modern times. 
 
 1 have iutiinatcd the tenor of this note to Sir ihar'es Dilke, M.l'. 
 
 I have the honour to be 
 
 Your obedient Mervant, 
 HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A., 
 Brithh IScienfifc Witneaa at tin Halifax Fisheii'S Ci v.mittiif n cr.d Official Civipikr of 
 the. Analytical Index to the Documents of the Commifi-ovm. 
 
15 
 
 Facilities ar 3 to be afforded to enablo copies of these hand-books to he obtained at a low 
 price, aud a form of lett«r of coranaendation has been prepared for presentation 
 by the emigrant to clergymen on arrival in the colonies. The Rev. Mr. Bridgsr, 
 of Liverpool, has been requested by his Grace to attend to the enquiries that must 
 necessarily arise from th» action that has been taken. This gentleman I may add, 
 is thoroughly acquainted with all ]>arts of Canada, and is personally known to and 
 gratefully remembered by a large number of settlers who have made their homes 
 in the Doniiuion. The Rev. W. Panckridge. the Rector of St. Matthew's, London, 
 has also taken a great interest in the matter ; but it is almost invidious to mention 
 any gentleman in particular, when the wuole of the committee has been so 
 
 ASSIDUOUS AND EARNEST IN CARRYING SO GOOD A WORK TO ITS LEGITIMATE 
 
 CONCLUSION." — Extract Jrom Report of Sir Alexander T. Oalt, G.C.M.G. High 
 Commissioner Jor Canada, addressed to the Honourable J. H. Pope, Minister of 
 Agriculture, d'Ued London, ZXat January, 1882. {Page 188.^ 
 
 No porson who reads this official letter from the Canadian High Com- 
 missioner, not knowing the circtimst inces, would doubt for a moment that the 
 Joint Committee of the Great Chui'ch Societies of England took an active part in 
 formulating the Colonists' Hand-book, or that they are responsible for its contents 
 and influence upon the emigrating classes of the United Kingdom into whose hands 
 it is placed by the clergy of the Church ot England. 
 
 It is one of the many black duplicities which distinguish the acts of men 
 and ministers under the influence of Sir J. A. Macdonald and his allies. 
 
 My printed letter totho "Standing Committee of the Society for the Pro- 
 pagation of theCrospfl in Foreign Pai'ts, and the Tiact Committee of the Society for 
 Promoting Christian Knowledge " dated Windsor, Nova Scotia, Oct. 12, 1882, 
 and herewith enclosed, reveals and describes in part the frauds practised by Sir 
 Alexander Gait and the Right Hon. J. H. Pope on these beneficent bodies. 
 
 The Correspondence relating to this infamous proceeding is published 
 in my letter to His Grace the late Archbishop of Canterbury, also herewith 
 transmitted. 
 
 The effect of ruy letter has been very considenible. In 1883 the Tract 
 Committee issued a " New Edition — Revised throughout and brought up to date." 
 In the edition of 1883, the disgraceful frauds of 1882 are expunged, a new map and 
 different matter being introduced in their place. This change I notice with profound 
 and gi'ateful satisfaction its manifesting good intentions. 
 
 But I also observe that the new edition of 1883, contains a new mis-lead- 
 ing map, and much new false matter beginning with precisely the same encouraging 
 words to the intending emigrant which preceded the old false map and the old false 
 descriptive matter. The encouraging words are these j and they ' apply to 
 authorized descriptions of the same thing to guide or mislead uninstruct«d men. 
 
 " He (the reader) will find in this book, in simple form, a large amount 
 of accurate information on Canada, which is one of the countries offering itself to 
 his choice. This information is supplied by the kindness of the Canadian 
 Government, and may be thoroughly relied upon." 
 
 No one can doubt that the great Church Societies are most beneficent 
 instruments for good, yet some pernicious and influential scoundrels have crept into 
 their midst to sow their tares and steal the wheat. 
 
 At the same time I think it would have been better for the Tract 
 Committee, and would have savoured more of genuine Christianity, to have 
 introduced in the swiftly following revised edition, a brief notice of the cruel frauds 
 imposed upon them,as well as upon thousands of uninstructed and helpless emigrants. 
 
 I beg respectfully to refer you for further information on this subject to 
 the papers cited, for I maintain that this exhibition of Sir Alexander Gait's, Sir 
 
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 Charles Tapper's, Mr. J. H. Pope's, Sir John Rose's Ac, diplomacy, is not only 
 on a par with the infamy which overshadows the public life of these so-called 
 statesmen, but it is inexcusably cruel. A letter addressed to the Beverend 
 Secretaries of the Church Societies is attached. 
 
 I do not think it necessary to notice here the kindred impositions practised 
 on the Royal Geographical Society, or on the late Governor General of Caiiada by 
 Sir Charles Tapper's pet impostors Macoon and Boll, or the strategic 
 accomplishment in regard to intercepting and appropriating public documents 
 manifested by Lieut. Col. F. De Winton, R.A., the late Governor General's Military 
 Secretary. I shall notice this gaudy pilferer elsewhere. 
 
 Permit me to close this First Supplementary letter with a quotation from 
 my published communication to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, but uncon- 
 sciously and unfortunately addressed to that distinguished prelate after illness had 
 rendered his interference impossible. 
 
 " The conclusion at which I have arrived with regard to the whole matter 
 is this : — There is no existing subject for untrammelled investigation which promises 
 such fruitful results for the good of mankind, and particularly the English speaking 
 race, in relation to the Administration nf Justice and Government, the outlook 
 and drifting tendencies of the labouring classes in the United Kingdom, together 
 with the duties of rank, wealth, and position, as a full and public inquiry, ab initio, 
 into the North- West Territoiy Swindles and the Halifax Fishery Commission 
 Frauds. It is with this growing conviction that I have so long and so persistently 
 devoted my time and means, without 'fear, favour or affection ' to its purpose and 
 attainment." 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A. 
 British Scientific Witness at the Halifax Fisheries Commission and Official 
 
 Compiler of tlie Analytical Index to the Documents of the Commission. 
 17, Park Valley, Nottingham, 
 
 August 29th, 1884. 
 
 To the Right Hon. Sir Staffobd H. Northcote, M.P. 
 Sir, 
 
 In transmitting fo you a copy of the correspondence with the late 
 Lord Frederick Cavendish and the First Supplement, I beg respectfully to recall 
 your special attention to the printed letters addressed to yourself from time to time 
 in relation to these matters. 
 
 Your former connection with the Hudson Bay Company, and, as Gover- 
 nor of that body with the framing of the Treaty of Washington, &c., &c., are well 
 kpown. Mr. Henry S. Northcote's relation to the exhibits of the Treaty o£ 
 Washington and his subsequent association with the Syndicate of the Canadian 
 Pacific Railway are also known. 
 
 The fixed views you have expressed in parliament respecting the binding 
 character of an oath, and the influence you have exerted by the public expression 
 of those views have been very widely felt. 
 
 Therefore, iu consideration of the premises may I respectfully ask you to 
 remove those inexorable conclusions which continued silence on your part in 
 relation to these matters must create. 
 
 The Ajite Treaty Status in respect of the British North American 
 Fisheries, appears now to be an inevitable penalty, unless the Award is at once 
 returned. 
 
 It is not to be supposed that Englishmen or Canadians with a spark of the 
 
old fire left in them, will tamely submit to the loss of vast Territorial Rights in order 
 to screen the infamies of political gamblers and the greed of speculating and 
 profiting allies. 
 
 The Memorandum in the Despatch of March 19th, 1879, coming imme- 
 diately after denounced and palpable fraud, is an injustice of the gravest character. 
 It carries with it no trace whatever of " Fair Trade." It was unwise and unfair 
 to submit the Marquis of Lome — a most amiable and genial, but weak statesman — 
 to the influence of the noted juggler at Ottawa, whose pernicious attractions had 
 already been severely pointed out. * 
 
 Let me ask your keenest attention to the structure of the " Fire brick 
 and Clay Series" given in the Appendix, and the structure of the Coutemporaneoua 
 details of the United States Exports of 1873, prepared in UnUerl States lieconla of 
 Government for the British Agents' special use. IT 
 
 The " middle classes " and the " labouring classes " and the " struggle for 
 existence classes " stand no chance with secret unfair official work like thi.«, and 
 men lose their manhood if they submit to it 
 
 What is the reason you have taken no notice of my printed letter entitled 
 *' The Conspiracy of 1871 V The palpable reason is that you can not or dare not 
 meet the frightful official deceit it exposes. 
 
 The " Colonists' Handbook — Canada," as represented by the first edition 
 issued by the Tract Committee ot the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 
 is a slur on the Christian Religion and its gentle influences. It is of so infamous 
 a character that it deserves to be made known throughout the Christian world. 
 
 A notable deception in the Revised Edition is pointed out in a letter to 
 C. M. Norwood, Esq., M.P. Other deceptions in a letter to the Reverend 
 Secretaries. 
 
 Language is powerful to express thought, but language has no expression 
 for the double villainy of those deceivers, both official and unofficial, who could 
 mislead the poor and the uninstructed through the teachers of Religion, and the 
 dispensers of that charity which is in part supported by these same misled and 
 uninstructed people. 
 
 The cruel impostors are the same as those who imposed upon you in 
 regard to the conception of, the preparation for, and the outcome of the Fishery 
 clauses of the Treaty of Washington. 
 
 The Right Hon. the Marquis of Hartington has done infinite good to 
 the Country and to the cause of just government by his fearless facing of public 
 inquiry. No doubt Sir Charles Dilke in due time will pursue the same course. 
 The Marquis of Lansdowne, as Governor-General of Canada, has practically recorded 
 his views. It now remains for you, Sir> to withdraw comfort from the enemy 
 by publicly denouncing the Fabricators of False Official Records of Government 
 and their infamous use ; the patrons of the official sacrifice of a solemn oath ; and 
 tlu9 barefaced deceptions of dealers in official impostures. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 Nottingham, August 30th, 1884. 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND, M,A. 
 
 * See letter No. VII., addressed to Lord Frederick Cavendish, dated, 25th 
 January, 1879. » 
 
 f See page 8 of my published letter to Sir Charles Tapper dated February 15th, 1884, 
 and the prior published letters addressed to the United States Secretary of State entitled 
 "The United States Spurious Statistics and the conspiracy which created them." 
 
18 
 The Association of Chambers of Commbrce ok the United Kingdoii. 
 
 ToO. M. Norwood, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Association of Chambers of 
 
 Commerce of the United Kingdom. 
 Sir, 
 
 I have the honour to transmit fur your information, and the 
 information of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, 
 copies of certain " Corrospundonce with the late Lord Frederick C.ivendish," 
 published with the consent of the Right Hon. the Marquis of Htirtington, M.P., 
 Secretary of State — War Department. 
 
 Also the First Supplement to this Coi-reapondonce, with an illustration 
 of the subtle Method of Fraud pursued in thfi fabrication of Canadian Trade 
 Tables from the year 1867 to the present time, and noticos of the nefarious use of 
 the same. 
 
 I also transmit numerous copies of the various documents referred to in 
 the suj'plemf'ut, which disclose particular methods and objects of Fraud. 
 
 I further beg to call your attention and the attention of the important 
 body over which you are to preside at Wolverhampton on the 30th September, to 
 the accompanying Affidavits and the Papers A and B relating to the North W«33t 
 Territory Swindles and the Fisheries Frauds. The subsequent and still continued 
 Commercial Frauds, although practised by the same subtle methods, are distinct 
 from these, yet depend on them for illustration. 
 
 A copy of the Canadian Trade and Navigation Tables for 1883, forming 
 a volume of over 900 pages is also transmitted for the inspection of Members of 
 th) Associated Chambers of Commerce. On pages 63 to 80, I have marked in 
 pencil the fatal " Difference.'^" which disclose the Fraudulent manufacture of these 
 Tables. I have pasted in the volume a cojjy of my printed circular entitled : 
 
 " Concerning a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, M.P., 
 President of the Local Government Board, relating to the Forged Trade Tables of 
 the Dominion of Canada for the years 1878 and 1883, with an illustration of one 
 Method of BVaud." 
 
 On pages 397 to 408 I have also marked the " Differences" in pencil in 
 relation to " Woollens." A careful inspection of the Tables will disclose further 
 impostures, and show that the entire volume is a bold and impudent Deceit 
 in continuation of the Fisheries Frauds, and manipulated by the same forging 
 fingers, under like auspices, and with like contempt for honour, truth, and the 
 duties of trust. What becomes of British Integrity in the sustained presence 
 of this kind of work 1 
 
 The further keeping back from the public of my voluminous paper des- 
 cribing and proving the range of these Frauds and their intimate association, appeal's 
 to be a matter of very grave responsibility, but I willingly await for a reasonable 
 time Sir Charles W. Dilke's consent to the publication of that document with the 
 addenda. It is, however, now essential that the matter should be presented to the 
 public in official or semi-official form. 
 
 I have transmitted copies of this communication and of most of the 
 enclosures to all the leading Chambers of Commerce in the United Kingdom. 
 
 This record will be wanted sooner or later, and I appeal to the whole as 
 bet forth in the Affidavits and Papers A and B attached, and not to isolated or 
 separated portions of the same. 
 
 I respectfully solicit the attention of Chambers of Commerce to the accom- 
 panying Affidavits and the Papers A and B. What feeble chances have the 
 uninstructed millions in the struggle "for the comforts of life 'against the 
 protected and unlaMrful wiles of the decorated few ! 
 
 There is no Brit jh fairness in this unequal conflict, and the sterling 
 worth of our national characteristics must gradually merge into pervading 
 duplicity if these practices are not sternly checked. 
 
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 To this oiuinunication I attach as a preliniinary record of unoxaiupletl 
 ilui)licity and faithlossnoss to trust an outline of the 
 
 TiLLEY — Hose and Galt — Tuppek 
 "Fire-Brick and Clat Series." 
 
 Tlio lotter to Sir Charles TupjHjr exliibits tlu* rolatiou of this infamous 
 fterios to the Unitod States Figui-os embodied iu several years of United States 
 Commerce anil Navigation Tablea against the interests of the United States. 
 Further informa' ion will ho founil in the series of letters entitled " Tho United 
 States Spurious Statistics and the Conspiracy which created them.'' 
 
 The " Colonists Handbook " imposture is a mean device which should 
 bo stfonglv denoiinced and tlu; impostors who perpetrated it ought to be exi)osid. 
 
 The Royid Geographical Society Fraud is also bad, and shows tlm 
 infiuonce of potent schemers.* It is well that a Commercial Geographical Society 
 is about to 1)0 founded. The same sclentitic pander and deceiver is now m route 
 to Hudson's I5iiy, being sent there by the [)resent Canadian Government to re[)ort 
 on the Na. iuiition of Hudson Baj, itc, itc, in relation to a commerciid route. 
 It is a noteworthy fact that in the nrw edition of the " Colonists' Handbook," 
 published by tlie " Society f(.r Promoting Christian Knowledge," the Fraud 
 practised on the Royal Geographical Society in relation to the outlet of Lake 
 Winnipeg via Hayrs' KivEit instead of Nelson River, is reproduced in the 
 New Sketch Map in the iicv.- edition of the •' Colonists' Handbook," recently 
 issued by the Society. 
 
 It is just as ea.sy to pulilish a conect uiai) as an incorrect map, and 
 when the expenditure of some millions of money is dependent upon a " good " 
 repoi't of physical features, it is surprising that the " Society for Promoting 
 Christian Knowledge " should again have been misled into publishing very 
 misleading geographical delineations. It shows that the Tract Committee of the 
 Society is not yet purged from evil-doers, for there are several other fallacious 
 guides in the New Edition of this little work which we aie told " may bo 
 thoroughly relied on." A touter or a " promoter," with the '' Colonists' itand- 
 book " of 1883, and the Royal Geographical Societies' Proceedings for October, 
 1881, in hand, would l)e irresistible in disposing of Shares iu Adventures fur 
 opening uj) the " New Hudson Bay Route to the Canadian North West." These 
 Authorities would l)e considered paramount. 
 
 It will be seen that we liave living and thriving in our midst much de- 
 corated and draped dishonesty, and that a good deal of the ostentatious civilization 
 of the present day is suppoited and protected by infamuus shams. The methods 
 practised to conceal crime are also harshly mean. In these days of swiftly 
 increasing [lopidation, it is above all things needful to secure even-handed justice 
 and even-handed exposure of inj ustice and trickf'ry throughout all grades of Society . 
 
 Tlie indebtedness of the public to the Right Hon. the Marquis of 
 Hartington camiot be ovei'-estimated, nor can it be [jroiterly appreciated until the 
 mask is publicly ripped from the faces and the forms of the official fabricators of 
 false records of Government, and the conscious dealers in the same for the purposes 
 of gain. 
 
 * SoL' the proceodinf^s of tho lloyal Geographical Society for October. 1881. an<l 
 tlie exposure of this Fraud in my lotter to the late Ardibisliop of Ciuitorbiiry, also in letter 
 to the Kight Hon the Earl of Kimberley. Tiie paper in the Royal Geogr.iphical Society's 
 proceedings is entitled ■• On the Commercial luiportauce of llmkon's iiay, with reiyarks on 
 liecent Surveys and Investigations," by Kodert Bell, M.D., F.G.S., Assistant Director of 
 the Geological Survey of Canada. 
 
 Dr. Selwyn, the Director of the Survey, has pointed out that Dr. Robert Bell was 
 unable to penetrate an immwse area north of the Saskatchewan, in which Dr. Bell has 
 located the centre of " the greatest wheat Held in the world." This area is largely an 
 impassable swamp. I'idp Sthci/n'.i recent repvrl.s. 
 
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 20 
 
 Wo have a ** Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals " doinff 
 ){ood work. V^oiild it not bo a humane effort to 8eok to eHtablish on a broad and 
 well deQiuid baiiiH a '* Society for tU»* Pnitootion of th*) [Jninutruoted from Fraud." 
 
 I have the honour to bo, 
 
 Your ol)ediont Servant, 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A.. 
 Nottingham, August 30th, 1884. 
 
 P.S. — I intend very soon to i-eturn to my home in Nova Scotia, but I 
 Hhall be ready at any timo, and with proper notice, to give further information for 
 just purposes, either jtersonally or by letter. 
 
 To THR Rbverend Skc'Retaries of the Society for thi Propagation op tub 
 Gospel in Foreign Parts, and the Sociktv for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 
 
 Reverend Sirs, 
 
 I have had occasion to notice the .second edition of the ColoniKts' 
 Handbook in transmitted printed letters. 
 
 The changes your joint Committee has made at my suggestion in the 
 new edition, by expunging the false map and matter I pointed out,'' are grateful 
 to mo, and I recognise that the metamorphosis has been silently made and 
 without any reference to delinquences or prior correspondence. § Yet I regret 
 to observe that in furtively attempting to get out of the frying pan the compilers 
 have fallen very much into the fire. 
 
 The first edition of the Colonists' Handbook was practically a powerful 
 misleading advertisement concerning the country traversed by the Canadian 
 Pacific Railway, and the map was a palpable infamy. 
 
 The second edition in the hands of a promoter is a powerful advertise- 
 ment of the new Hudson Bay Route to the Canadian North West, and "the 
 celebrated Peace River District," (page 23) with the "Gold" prominently marked 
 on the map in the midst of undisturbed formations ; also of a Protection Policy in 
 commercial matters. You will observe that the map in the second edition repro- 
 duces the old Fraud of Dr. Robert Bell on the Royal Geographical Society, by 
 sending the waters of Lake Winnipeg down Hayes River instead of down the 
 Nelson, which is the real outlet. In Dr. Bell's paper illustrating this 
 geographical forgery, published in the Royal Geographical Society's Proceedings 
 for October 1881, the scientific " promoter " informs the fellows of the Society 
 and the public that Hayes River might apparently be navigated by shallow 
 draft steamers in the spring about 140 miles inland, but the Nelson only 70 or 
 
 * Letter to the Standing Committee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
 in Foreign Parts, and the Tract Committee of the Society for Promoting Christiari 
 Knowledge. Dated October 12th, 1882. Also letters on page 98 of letter to the l»te 
 Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 § Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 
 Editorial and Publishing Department, 
 
 Northumberland Avenue. Charing Cross, 
 
 London, May 9th, 1882. 
 Sir, 
 
 I beg to acknowledge your letter of May 6th. 
 
 f. fear the subject is one into which we cannot enter. We look to official sources 
 for our information, and cannot enter into controversy about what is thus supplied. 
 Your business seems to lie with Sir Alex. Gait. 
 
 I am. Sir, yours faithfully, 
 
 (Signed) EDMUND McLURB, Editorial Secretary. 
 
 Youle Hind, Esq. 
 
 I'- 
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 HO rnilcH by largo steamorH. Ho tells us in tho samo paper that tho centre of 
 the area "capable of becoming tho greatest wheat field in the world," probably 
 lies to tho north of tho Sabkatchownm (pacfo 5HH) ; also that tlio shortest route 
 to this region from J^^ngland lies through Hudson Bay. t 
 
 1 further notice that in yom* second oditicn of tho Colonists' Handbook, 
 '• Blodgott tho American Cliraatologist " is (luotod largely. Tho work of this 
 meteorologist is a generation old, andliis broad conclusions have been disproved by 
 tho more recent and far more extensive recorded observations of tho United 
 States and the CanatUan meteorological services. Wliy was the antiquated and 
 disproved "authoricy" quoted, and tho modern recognised authorities dis- 
 regarded '? 
 
 In the matter of Import and Export Trade your compiler has again 
 been led into grievous error. On page 13 he introduces the aggregated false 
 figures of Sir Leonard Tilhty, which formed tho l)asis of his shameful 
 " ]\Iemorandum ■■ of Mavdi 10th, 1870, hi favour of a Canadian Protection 
 Policy. Please looiv at the Appendix to this Supplement. 
 
 If you will turn to page IX of the Tables of the Trade and Navigation 
 of the Dominion of Canada for 1883, a copy of which is transmitted to tho 
 A.ssociation of the Chambers of Commerce, you will seo that if your compiler had 
 taken tlie decennial period instead of Sir Leonard Tilley's years, the conclusions 
 arrived at would have boon reversed, and fatally against a Canadian I'rotection 
 Policy in relation to I'^jugland. 
 
 Tlio Colonists' Handbook (page 13) says:— "Since 1878, the value 
 of tlie imports from Great Britain has increased from $37,431,000 to 
 $43,583,000 hi 1881," The decennial Trade Tables closing in 1883, on page 
 IX of the Returns for that venr. show that since 1873 Canr^dian Trade with 
 England has niMtNisii.-.n from §(58,522,776 in 1873, to !?52,052,465 in 1883, 
 and Canadian Trade v.ith the United States has increashd from $47,785,678 in 
 1873, to $50,032,'i33 in 1883. These results are absolutely and fatally 
 opposed to tlio )jionstrous Trade conclusions advanced in the Colonists' Hand- 
 book, which, being based on concocted and incompatible figures, are dismal 
 delusions in favour of a Protection Policy. Compare tho two Editions. X 
 
 It is just as easy to print and publish a true map as a false one, to 
 quote reliable modern authorities as garbled, antiquated and disproved 
 authorities, to present representative figures instead of misleadmg figures. 
 But these deceiving things have been again done in the second Edition of the 
 Colonists' Handbook, published under the direction of the Tract Committee of 
 the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Therefore, it is clear that the 
 Committee is not yet purged from the influence of those pernicious scoundrels 
 who in the first edition impugned the dignity of Truth, and assailed the 
 beneficence of Christianity, for pecuniary advantages or political aims. 
 
 I think I am now entitled to a courteous and reasonable reply, for a 
 second time putting you on your guard. I am in a position to furnish further 
 information in the same direction, which may be found very useful as warnings 
 to earnest Christian Tea.chers against the practices of hypocritical scamps, if 
 such information should be sought for and acknowledged in proper form. You 
 should manfully withdraAv the Bevised Edition of the " Colonists' Handbook." 
 I have the honour to be, Reverend Sirs, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND. 
 Nottingham, Augu st 30th, 1 884. 
 
 t See references on page 1'3. 
 
 I Compare the figures and the reasoning in both Editions. Also these with tlie 
 Trade Tables of 1883, remembering the discriminating charactcristict! in relation to England 
 and the United States, pointed out in the letter to Sir Charles W. Dilke. and the Appendix. 
 
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 To THE 8rcretaries of the Eoyal Geographical Society. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 You will observe from the accompanying letter and references that 
 the joint Committee of tlie Great Church Societies have been persuadod by some 
 designing scamp or otherwise, to publish in their edition of the "revised"' 
 " Colonists' Handbook — Canada," the leading features of those false represen- 
 tations of the drainage of Lake Winnipeg into Hudson Bay via Hayes' River, in 
 place of Nelson's River, which you published with a very misleading ])apor, in 
 the Proceedings of the Royal Geogrnphical Society, for October, 1881, on the 
 bribed authority of Dr. Robert Bell. 
 
 I need not go into the history of this very disgraceful matter ; it is i?i 
 great part recorded in the papers in your library, or in printed documents 
 enumerated in the footnote.* 
 
 But the same otlicial impostor, Dr. Robert Bell, has recently started 
 as a Canadian Government Officer on a large and expensive Canadian Expedition 
 to further " Report " ofBcially on the advantages of Hudson Bay as a Com- 
 mercial Route to the Canadian North West and other objects. 
 
 Therefore, apart from any motives for action arising from instinctive 
 promptings in the direction of Geographical truth and the fulfilment of the 
 duties of Trust, the necessity for tlie immediate wide-spread official repre- 
 sentation of the true facts of the case, and of tiio imposition practised upon 
 the public, becomes at once apparent. 
 
 You, for instance, under the pressure of powerful influence, publish a 
 ^liip known to be false, in the interests of certain speculators, over the name of 
 a Canadian Government official. The Great Church Societies arc beguiled into 
 accepting a transcript of a notable portion of this false Map by influential 
 schemers, apparently because your Society has endorsed it by publication. 
 The *' Finance Agents " will soon laise money on statements supported by such 
 authorities as the Royal Geographical Society, and the venerable Society for 
 Promoting Christian Knowledge. And* so the evolved thing will work until it 
 bursts, and the public lose their money, which the influential scamps gain. Is 
 not this a picture of the proceedings ? 
 
 In Sir Roderick Murchison's time, the amende honourable would have 
 been ordered and made in an hour. 
 
 As with your own Council, so with the great Church Societies, 
 influential scoundrels have exercised, and are permitted to exercise sway in 
 these matters for pecuniary or poHtical pui-poses. 
 
 No Society can long survive, or ought to be permitted to survive such 
 baneful influences. Will you not exercise your influence in aiding the founding 
 of a " Society for the Protection ol the Uninstructed from Fraud ?" 
 
 • I have the honour to be. Gentlemen, 
 
 Nottingham, Sept. 1st, 1884. 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 HENRY YOULE HIND. 
 
 * First : — Lottor to the Right Hon. thu Earl of Kiml>erlej', dated Not. 6th, 18«1 
 Seroml: — Letter to the Ilijjht Hon. the Earl of Kiniberlcy, dated Nov. 27th, 1881 
 Third: — Letter to lli.s Grace the late Archbishop of Cantcrbiu-y. dated .June 
 
 20th. 1882. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 STRUCTURE OF THE FORGED CANADIAN IMPORTS FROM 
 1867 to 1873, TO ILLUSTRATE THE RELATIONS OF THE 
 FISHERIES FRAUDS AND THE EXISTING COMMERCIAL 
 FRAUDS. 
 
 (For further details see letter to Sir Charles Tupper.) 
 
 The Forqed Trade Returns and the Forged Fisheribs Svidrnck. 
 
 Statement No. I. in Letter to Sir Charles Tupper. (1) 
 
 Tabular Representation of the alleged Canadian Fish Impoi . from the United 
 States as embodied in the annual Trade and Navigation Returns since Con- 
 federation in 1867, to the year 1873, compared with a tabular representation of 
 the said alleged imports as sworn to in evidence at Halifax in 1877, (2) the 
 details being given in the document entitled " Appendix — Memorandum con- 
 cerning Article XXI of the Treaty of Washington." 
 
 
 Imported from the 
 
 iMiported from the 
 
 
 Year. 
 
 United States according 
 
 Uiiited i^tates as awom in 
 
 Differance. 
 
 
 to Trade Returns. 
 
 Evidenoo ia 1877. 
 
 
 1867 (3) 
 
 $ 181,453 
 
 $ 172,366 
 
 9087 
 
 1868 
 
 177,595 (5) 
 
 170,156 (4) 
 
 743S» or 8439 
 
 1869 
 
 101,207 
 
 99,563 
 
 1644 
 
 1870 
 
 103,560 
 
 99,409 
 
 4151 
 
 1871 
 
 126,612 
 
 123,331 
 
 3281 
 
 1872 
 
 139, .378 
 
 123,670 
 
 15708 
 
 1873 
 
 299,468 
 1,129,273 
 
 279,049 
 1,067,544 
 
 20419 
 
 
 61,729 
 
 
 
 Add 1000 for incorrect addition in 1868, 
 
 1,000 
 
 
 62,729 
 
 (1) See published lotter to Sir Charles Tupper dated Windsor, Nora Scotia, 
 February 15th 1884. 
 
 (2) The Canadian Figures relatti to the Provinces concerned in the Treaty 
 ot Washington. Prince Edward Island Returns are introduced as presented at Halifax, 
 and shown in tko Document entitled " Appendix — Memorandum concerning Article XXI 
 of the Treaty of Washington," although they are entirely false as submitted. 
 
 (IJ) Ontario and Quebec items alone corrected. Details for N.S. and N.B. 
 imperfect. 
 
 (4) 1000 wrong in addition of items submitted, as shown by the Document 
 entitled " Appendix — Memorandum, &c." 
 
 (5) Items transposed or incorrect in the Summary Statement in the Trade 
 Returns. For instance, " Whale Oil " transposed ; also " Fish Salted and Smoked " 
 $22,958 should be $22,G40. Thus— in the Sessional Papers for 18<i8, pages 71 and 10, 
 for '• Fish," and pages 80 and 59 for " Whale Oil "— *5,88H being put in the Summary 
 Statement in the place of $11,808. This is important, because the figures 5,888 used 
 instead of 11,808, would not make the Scries hereafter shown complete ; and this trans- 
 position greatly impeded the discovery of tlie Fraud, as will be seen on examination of 
 the bearings and relations of the Series in Statement No. I V. 
 
T^ 
 
 The Structdrb of the Differsnces. 
 Statement No. II. 
 
 Tabular Representation of tLo DitferenceB between the two forras in Statement No. 1, showing the 
 nature and value of the Land Items substituted for Products of tho Sea from 18B7 to 1873 inclusive, and 
 subsequently sworn to at Halifax in 1877 for pecuniary and other considerations, the details being worked 
 up for argument by Mr. B. Miall and sworn to In evidence by Mr. Barry of the Customs Department. 
 
 Items omitted from the Statement sworn 
 in Evidence at Halifax in 1877. 
 
 Year 1867. $ 
 
 Ontario) Whale Oil 20,198 
 
 and > 
 Quebec ) Troducts of the Sea 73 
 
 20,271 
 Year 1868. 
 Ontario ) 
 
 and [ Whale Oil{2) 11,808 
 
 Quebec ) 
 
 Nova Scotia 
 
 (( i« 
 
 New Brunswick 
 
 11,808 
 Year 1869. 
 
 Ontario— Whale Oil 1,89,S 
 
 Quebec " " 88 
 
 NovaScotia " " ...Ii332 
 
 New Brunswick — Whale Oil ... — 
 
 3,313 
 Yf^r 1870. 
 
 Ontario— Whale Oil 1,276 
 
 Quebec " " 1.879 
 
 NovaScotia " " 1,602 
 
 New Brunswick — Whale Oil 56 
 
 Year 1871. 
 
 Ontario— Whale Oil 
 
 Quebec " " 
 
 Nova Scotia 
 
 4,813 
 
 .4,114 
 .1,301 
 
 New Brunswick— Whale Oil 1 ()2 
 
 5,577 
 
 Year 1872 
 
 Ontario— Whale Oil 4,287 
 
 Quebec " " 9,943 
 
 NovaScotia " '• 2,793 
 
 New Brunswick— Whale Oil 2,402 
 
 '9,485 
 Year 1873. 
 
 Ontario— Whale Oil 3,961 
 
 Quebec — Marine Animals (pro- 
 ducts of ) 17,425 
 
 Nova Scotia — Whale Oil 794 
 
 N ew Brunswick — Whale Oil 125 
 
 Total, $87„')72 
 
 Items substituted for the omitted items 
 in the Statement sworn in Evidence. 
 
 Year 1867. $ 
 
 " Fire-Bricks and Clay" (1) 11,184 
 
 Year 1868. 
 (land items.) (3) 
 "OilsCrude" 552 
 
 "Oils Crude" 2,633 
 
 42 
 
 "OilsCrude" 142 
 
 "OUs Crude" 
 
 Year 1869. 
 
 3,369 
 . 52 
 
 "OilsCrude" 1,432 
 
 "OilsCrude" 185 
 
 1,669 
 Year 1870. 
 
 "OilsCrude" 88 
 
 " " 9 
 
 Difference 
 
 OilsCrude" 565 
 
 662 
 Year 1871. 
 
 OilsCrude" 590 
 
 "OilsCrude" 10 
 
 1,696 
 
 Year 1872. 
 
 " Oils Crude " 
 
 2,296 
 
 . 26 
 . 22 
 .3,729 
 
 3,777 
 Year 1873. 
 
 "OUs Crude" 358 
 
 73 
 
 "OilsCrude" 1,455 
 
 9,087 
 
 8,439 
 
 1,644 
 
 4,151 
 
 3,281 
 
 15,708 
 
 22,305 1,886 20,419 
 
 $24,843 $62,729 
 
 (1) See " Summary Statement" for 1 Hit" in Trade Returns and compare with dotaill given in the 
 docuraeot entitled " Appendix— Alcmorunduni concerning Aniclu XXI of the Treaty of Washington." 
 
 (2) See Remarks on Statement No. I.— foot note. 
 
 i'.i) " Oils Crude " ore Laud t)ils of animal or vegetable origin, as distinguished from Fish and 
 Whale Oils. 
 
V 
 
 ig thu 
 9, and 
 orked 
 
 trence 
 
 9,087 
 
 8,439 
 
 1,644 
 
 { 
 
 4,151 
 
 3,281 
 
 5,708 
 
 •0,419 
 
 12J29 
 
 in the 
 1." 
 
 ill and 
 
 26 
 
 STATEMENT No. III. 
 The Items forming the Dipferencks grouped and constituting 
 THE « FIRE-BRICK AND CLAY SERIES." 
 
 Forged Substituted Items. 
 
 In Year. 
 1870 
 
 Omitted Marine Items. 
 
 In Year. 
 
 Land Items (Crude Oils) 
 
 ..,$ 9 
 
 Marine Items 
 
 $ 56 
 
 1870 
 
 (C 
 
 10 
 
 1871 
 
 <c 
 
 73 
 
 1867 
 
 l< 
 
 22 
 
 1872 
 
 << 
 
 88 
 
 1869 
 
 l( 
 
 26 
 
 1872 
 
 l( 
 
 125 
 
 1873 
 
 « 
 
 42 
 
 1868 
 
 (t 
 
 162 
 
 1871 
 
 ti 
 
 52 
 
 1869 
 
 11 
 
 794 
 
 1873 
 
 •( 
 
 73 
 
 1873 
 
 i< 
 
 1,276 
 
 1870 
 
 « 
 
 88 
 
 1870 
 
 l( 
 
 1,301 
 
 1871 
 
 (( 
 
 142 
 
 1868 
 
 <l 
 
 1,332 
 
 1869 
 
 (( 
 
 185 
 
 1869 
 
 (1 
 
 1,602 
 
 1870 
 
 <l 
 
 358 
 
 1873 
 
 << 
 
 1,879 
 
 1870 
 
 (1 
 
 552 
 
 1868 
 
 (< 
 
 1,893 
 
 1869 
 
 « 
 
 565 
 
 1870 
 
 (. 
 
 2,462 
 
 1872 
 
 << 
 
 690 
 
 1871 
 
 I( 
 
 2,793 
 
 1872 
 
 <l 
 
 1,432 
 
 1869 
 
 <( 
 
 3,961 
 
 1873 
 
 « 
 
 1,455 
 
 1873 
 
 I< 
 
 4.114 
 
 1871 
 
 l< 
 
 1,696 
 
 1871 
 
 tl 
 
 4,287 
 
 1872 
 
 (1 
 
 2,633 
 
 1868 
 
 (< 
 
 9,943 
 
 1872 
 
 (< 
 
 3,729 
 
 1872 
 
 (1 
 
 11,808 
 
 1868 
 
 Fire- Bricks and Clat . 
 
 ..11,184 
 
 1867 
 
 • . 
 
 17,425 
 
 1873 
 
 
 
 
 (1 
 
 20,198 
 
 87,572 
 
 1867 
 
 
 24,843 
 
 
 Value of omitted Marine Items $87,572 
 ,, Substituted Land Items 24,843 
 
 Difference, $62,729 
 
 These quantities above 56 are all sums of the terms 9, 10, 22, 26, 42, 52, and 56, 
 which may be further reduced. The sums of the?e terms taken two, three, four, 
 &c., together, also form an indefinite Arithmetical progression from 90 to 1000, 
 and thence ad infinitum, with 10 as a common difference, as shown in the 
 following pages. 
 
 The terms may be rendered sometimes in triplicate, and often in duplicate. 
 From these properties others may be easily deduced. 
 
 The application of these figures is only in part exhibited in the letter to Sir 
 Charles Tupper. 
 
 The Ratio 
 
 666,303 303,666 
 
 Can easily be rendered in terms of the foregoing series. By reversing the figui-es 
 the ratio 303,666 — 666,303 is obtained, as shown in the following arrangement : — 
 
 162,142 142,162 
 
 142,088 88,142 
 
 185,042 42,185 
 
 125,022 22,125 
 
 52,009 9,052 
 
 660,303 303,666 
 
 These numbers can be varied at 2>l«»^sure by substituting equivalent quantities 
 taken from the sums of the terms 
 
 " Oils Crude ' 
 
 a 
 
 <i 
 
 Whale Oil 
 
 9 
 10 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 56 
 
 And the sums will always be 666,303 or 303,666. The Standard being 969,969. 
 
 
r" 
 
 26 
 
 The "Fire-Brick and Clay" Series in the form op an Arithmetical 
 Progression from 10 to 1000, <fec., Ac. 
 
 I 
 
 22 
 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 88 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 
 26 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 
 52 
 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 42 
 
 62 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 100 
 
 110 
 
 110 
 
 120 
 
 88 
 
 
 26 
 
 56 73 
 
 88 
 
 126 
 
 88 
 
 52 
 
 
 9 
 
 52 56 
 
 73 
 
 26 
 
 73 
 
 10 
 
 
 125 
 
 42 22 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 160 
 
 10 9 
 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 150 
 
 160 160 
 
 170 
 
 170 
 
 180 
 
 73 
 
 
 73 
 
 125 
 
 88 
 
 125 
 
 88 
 
 73 
 
 
 73 
 
 73 
 
 52 
 
 73 
 
 88 
 
 42 
 
 
 42 
 
 22 
 
 42 
 
 22 
 
 42 
 
 22 
 
 
 22 
 10 
 
 220 
 
 
 26 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 22 
 
 210 
 
 220 
 
 230 
 
 230 
 
 240 
 
 88 
 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 
 125 
 
 73 
 
 
 56 
 
 73 
 
 56 
 
 
 56 
 
 52 
 
 
 42 
 
 56 
 
 52 
 
 
 52 
 
 26 
 
 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 
 26 
 
 22 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 270 
 
 
 280 
 
 280 
 
 290 
 
 
 300 
 
 125 
 
 
 162 
 
 
 162 
 
 125 
 
 162 
 
 88 
 
 
 88 
 
 
 88 
 
 73 
 
 143 
 
 56 
 
 
 42 
 
 
 42 
 
 88 
 
 56 
 
 52 
 
 
 26 
 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 330 
 
 
 340 
 
 
 350 
 
 350 
 
 360 
 
 358 
 
 142 
 
 358 
 
 185 
 
 162 358 358 
 
 e58 
 
 22 
 
 125 
 
 42 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 52 42 
 
 52 
 
 10 
 
 88 
 26 
 
 
 42 
 26 
 
 88 
 26 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 390 
 
 390 
 
 400 
 
 400 
 
 410 410 410 
 
 420 
 
 162 
 
 185 
 
 185 
 
 
 186 
 
 
 185 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 
 126 
 
 
 125 
 
 88 
 
 66 
 
 56 
 
 
 56 
 
 
 88 
 
 56 
 
 62 
 
 52 
 
 
 52 
 
 
 73 
 
 10 
 
 22 
 
 42 
 
 
 42 
 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 450 
 
 450 
 
 460 
 
 
 470 
 
 
 480 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 42 
 
 62 
 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 73 
 
 130 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 130 
 
 140 
 
 
 
 
 142 
 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 
 125 
 
 
 22 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 190 
 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 88 
 
 162 
 
 88 
 
 162 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 
 42 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 240 
 
 250 
 
 250 
 
 260 
 
 
 
 125 
 
 185 
 
 
 185 
 
 
 
 88 
 
 125 
 
 
 125 
 
 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 300 
 
 310 
 
 
 320 
 
 
 162 
 
 125 
 
 126 
 
 162 
 
 358 
 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 142 
 
 22 
 
 
 52 
 
 73 
 
 73 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 52 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 360 
 
 360 
 
 370 
 
 370 
 
 380 
 
 
 162 
 
 
 185 
 
 
 162 
 
 185 
 
 125 
 
 
 125 
 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 88 
 
 
 56 
 
 
 88 
 
 66 
 
 26 
 
 
 42 
 
 
 56 
 
 62 
 
 10 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 9 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 420 
 
 
 4C0 
 
 185 
 
 125 
 
 88 
 
 73 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 490 
 
 
 440 
 
 358 
 142 
 
 500 
 
 440 
 
 i 
 
i*r 
 
 * 
 
 185 
 
 125 
 
 56 
 
 52 
 
 22 
 
 440 
 
 t 
 
 358 
 
 142 
 
 10 
 
 570 
 
 652 
 
 142 
 
 56 
 
 10 
 
 27 
 'The Fi»e-Brick anp Clay Series." — Contintied. 
 
 358 
 162 
 
 520 
 
 358 
 
 88 
 
 73 
 
 52 
 
 9 
 
 552 
 
 185 
 
 552 
 
 552 
 
 56 
 
 142 
 
 52 
 
 56 
 
 22 
 
 125 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 10 
 
 88 
 52 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 
 640 640 640 | 650 
 
 590 590 
 
 88 
 22 
 
 88 
 22 
 10 
 
 700 
 
 710 
 
 565 
 
 185 
 
 10 
 
 590 
 
 73 
 
 56 
 
 42 
 
 9 
 
 "760 
 
 
 760 
 
 770 
 
 794 
 
 590 
 
 590 
 
 794 
 
 26 
 
 142 
 
 142 
 
 26 
 
 
 88 
 
 62 
 26 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 820 820 820 ; 830 
 
 590 
 125 
 56 
 52 
 22 
 26 
 9 
 
 880 
 
 ' 590 
 J 125 
 
 88 
 I 66 
 
 22 
 9 
 
 890 
 
 358 
 88 
 73 
 52 
 10 
 9 
 
 358 
 
 162 
 
 10 
 
 530 
 
 590 
 10 
 
 580 690 600 
 
 552 
 56 
 42 
 10 
 
 660 
 
 552 
 
 142 
 
 26 
 
 720 
 
 590 
 
 142 
 
 26 
 
 22 
 
 780 
 
 552 
 88 
 73 
 56 
 52 
 10 
 9 
 
 840 
 
 358 
 
 185 
 
 142 
 
 125 
 
 42 
 
 26 
 
 22 
 
 900 
 
 552 
 26 
 22 
 
 600 
 
 552 
 56 
 52 
 
 185 
 125 
 142 
 
 88 
 
 540 
 
 552 
 26 
 22 
 10 
 
 610 
 
 660 
 
 552 
 56 
 52 
 10 
 
 670 
 
 590 
 52 
 56 
 22 
 10 
 
 730 
 
 590 I 590 
 
 125 j 142 
 
 56 26 
 
 9 I 22 
 
 I 10 
 
 I- 
 
 780 I 790 
 
 I 
 
 794 
 56 
 
 I 850 
 
 590 590 
 
 185 185 
 
 125 I 125 
 
 10 
 
 900 
 
 910 
 
 185 
 142 
 125 
 
 81 
 10 
 
 650 
 
 620 
 
 740 
 
 590 
 
 142 
 
 42 
 
 26 
 
 800 
 
 794 
 56 
 10 
 
 860 
 
 565 
 
 185 
 
 88 
 
 73 
 
 9 
 
 920 
 
 185 
 
 125 
 
 88 
 
 162 
 
 560 
 
 552 
 
 552 
 
 52 
 
 5« 
 
 26 
 
 22 
 
 630 630 
 
 358 
 
 590 
 
 590 
 
 
 142 
 
 42 
 
 52 
 
 
 88 
 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 
 73 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 680 
 
 680 
 
 690 
 
 
 590 
 
 
 552 
 
 565 
 
 88 
 
 
 142 
 
 185 
 
 52 
 
 
 56 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 750 750 
 
 590 
 142 
 
 52 
 
 26 
 
 810 
 
 590 
 
 590 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 56 
 
 73 
 
 42 
 
 56 
 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 22 
 
 
 9 
 
 * 
 
 870 
 
 870 
 
 565 
 
 7!t4 
 
 185 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 26 
 
 73 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 930 
 
 930 
 
f 
 
 28 
 
 
 TuE "Fire Brick and Clay Series." — Continued. 
 
 
 794 
 
 794 , 794 
 
 794 
 
 794 
 
 794 794 794 
 
 73 
 
 73 1 73 
 
 88 ^ 
 42 • 
 
 73 
 
 88 88 88 
 
 42 
 
 73 52 
 
 52 
 
 52 88 42 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 2f) 
 
 22 
 
 2(> i 56 
 
 9 
 
 i » 
 i 
 
 . 
 
 10 
 9 
 
 10 i 
 
 1 
 
 940 
 
 940 ' 950 
 
 950 
 
 960 
 
 970 970 
 
 980 
 
 794 
 
 ; 690 
 
 794 
 
 552 
 
 590 
 
 794 
 
 88 
 
 1 358 
 
 88 
 
 358 
 
 358 
 
 88 
 
 43 
 
 1 62 
 
 50 
 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 56 
 
 56 
 
 
 52 
 
 26 
 
 10 
 
 52 
 
 10 
 
 
 10 
 
 22 
 
 
 10 
 
 990 
 
 1000 
 
 1000 ' 
 
 i 
 
 1 
 
 1000 
 
 1000 
 
 1000 
 
 And 10 on ad infinitum. 
 
 It has recently been obligatory on aie to show that this manufactured 
 Series has been applied to an enormous extent in the Falsification of Canadian 
 and United States Animal Trade Eecords of Government against the interests 
 of the United States. 
 
 It is now my duty to point out that it is at present employed in Cana- 
 dian Trade and Navigation Ta1)les against the interests of British Merchants. 
 
 With this view I put on record, as sufficient for present purposes, certain 
 "Commercial Series" for Cottons and Woollens, whose properties are more 
 fully set forth in the letter to Sir Charles W. Dilke and the addenda thereto 
 now awaiting publication. 
 
 But before doing this I desire to direct especial attention to the relation 
 between the Canadian " Fire-brick and Clay Series " and the United States official 
 Record of Fish Exports to Canada in 1872-78, surreptitiously introduced into the 
 United States Commerce and Navigation Eeturns for that year against the 
 interests of the United States and m favour of Canada. ■' 
 
 This illustration of the Official Manufacture of False Evidence and 
 its secret introduction into the Eecords of a Friendly Contestant is a stain on 
 British honour ; tlie least expiation which the premises suggest being the return 
 of the Award this stratagem secured. 
 
 The Oommehcial Frauds. 
 
 The following sympathetic Corumerciiil Series are presented as types 
 only of the infamous pructices euiployed in the ]Munnfacture of Canadian Customs 
 lleturns oi- Trade Tables, iind in falsifying tlie Eecords of Trade between Canada 
 and the Uniteil States on the one hand, Canada and the United Kingdom on the 
 otlie)' hand. Tlie figures are jniinufactured at Ottawa, and are wholly inde- 
 pendent of tlie Valuatoi's figures at the Port of Entry. 
 
 * Sec papo 8 of jirintoil letter to Sir Charles Tapper ; ul.so letter to tlic Uniteil 
 States anil Canadian SeeivLaries of Slate; also letter to th*' President of tlie United States, 
 for furtlier exposition of this infamous work. 
 
w 
 
 ^■i 
 
 (1 
 
 I 
 
 29 
 
 Stkuctube of the Foroed Record of Canadian Imports from the United Stateh 
 AND the United Kinodom, Illustrating existing Cohmeucial Frauds. 
 
 For further details see returned letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir C. W. Oilke, M.P.) 
 
 No. I. 
 
 THE COMMERCIAL SERIES FOR COTTONS, 1883 (ILLrSTRATED) 
 
 TARLK nhowiwi llw diffWi'nrpx in /losili'vp and nfifjnfive trrms betwen f/ip alletjed rnlncn of 
 items '■^ [m)torti'd" (ind '* Knlcrcd )'<ir Homf Cvnuumption" in ihf Trade and N'ivi(/ati«n 
 Tdbh's of Canada far tho Year ISSS. 
 
 (Pages in Trade and Navigiition Tables, fi3 to 80 inclusive.) 
 
 Groat Britain .. 
 Unitid States .., 
 Great Britain .. 
 United States .., 
 Groat Britain .. 
 United States .. 
 Great Britain .., 
 United States .. 
 Great Britain .. 
 United States .. 
 Great Britain (1) 
 United States .., 
 Gre'at Britain .. 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Groat Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 Great Britain 
 United States 
 
 Cottons, Grey and Bleached. &o ^^X2^ 2 
 
 " " '• I 45().()40 
 
 " Gingiuuns and Plaids (dyed) I 17.511 
 
 " " '• " i>,l<!(j 
 
 " Denims, Drillings, &c ' 4n9,0;{4 
 
 " " " " ....^ I 3211,060 
 
 •I 
 
 iSntereil 
 
 fur 
 
 Homo 
 
 Consurap. 
 
 tion. 
 
 480.481 
 431>,3i)L' 
 
 ir.<;i»(i 
 9,i(;(; 
 
 42!»,:',L»1) 
 .S2.">.0(;!t 
 
 White or Dyed Cotton Jeans, &c !1,3.^K,748 !l.:')74.7!)8 
 
 Waddiny. Batting, Warps, &c. (not dyed) 
 Knitting Yarn, Hosiery do., &c. " 
 
 it b. .1 .4 (i , 
 
 Wadding, Batting, Warps, &u. (dyed) i 
 
 2(;'J.i;i7 
 
 1 ."..^^8.•5 
 
 28,14!» 
 
 3.r,14 
 
 14,748 
 
 31,374 
 Knitting Yarn, &c. (dyed) I 20.G!)a 
 
 " " I i4.()n:? 
 
 Seamless Bags i 4.378 
 
 I lH3(Hi 
 
 Shirts and Drawers, &c i 315,382 
 
 " " I 34,545 
 
 Sewing Thread, on Spools I 820.80() 
 
 12,r,12 
 Sewing Thread, in Hanks, &c 
 
 I 
 
 Duck, for boats, &c. 
 
 it u 
 
 Bed Comforters, &c. 
 
 152,342 
 
 511 
 
 1,884 
 
 174.735 
 
 15.577 
 
 , 2,102 
 
 Clothing or other material not otlier-, 
 
 wise provided for, &c , 28.';,G28 
 
 225,00G 
 6,078 
 J>,6(!1 
 
 2f.5,501 
 
 l.>,i.">rt 
 
 29,505 
 
 3.51(i 
 
 14,748 
 
 3,04(5 
 
 3I.(;3l 
 
 20.889 
 
 14.01(3 
 
 4,37.S 
 
 10.060 
 
 317.<;07 
 
 34.(105 : 
 324,«47 i + 
 
 12.012 
 
 151.434 - 
 
 511 
 
 954 
 
 175,665 
 
 11,048 
 
 2,016 
 
 Difteretice 
 
 •f 7,632 
 
 - 11,248 
 -t 185 
 
 
 + 20,295 
 
 - 3,100 
 + 10,050 
 
 - 3,636 
 725 
 
 + 
 
 + 
 
 1,3.'56 
 2 
 
 
 
 479 
 
 257 
 
 197 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,246 
 
 2,225 
 
 540 
 
 3,841 
 
 
 
 908 
 
 
 
 930 
 
 930 
 
 4,529 
 
 , 86 
 
 Bags by the Needle 
 
 Netting for Boots, &c 
 
 (( 
 
 Pruiulla for Boots. &e. (2) 
 
 .1 
 
 5,089 
 471 
 
 7,299 
 866 
 
 Parasols and Umbrellas | 189,288 
 
 i. II 2 421 
 
 Shawls ""!!!!"!!!!!!!"! i6ii94 
 
 " ' 880 
 
 Velveteens, >!ic 317.167 
 
 1.823 
 
 Winceys, Plain, &c j 321,.-.41 
 
 " I .385 
 
 Winceys, Checked, &c i 21.b31 
 
 u ' 11 1 221 
 
 Winceys, Checked, &c., over 25 in j 27,551 
 
 " " '■■■ 165 
 
 All other Manufactures of N. E. S. (3)'3,455,3] 7 
 
 " " ' 421,837 
 
 : 283,652 
 
 ' 225.224 
 
 I 5,520 
 
 7,364 
 
 5,328 
 
 471 
 
 1 2.607 
 
 i 866 
 
 i 189.956 
 
 2.487 
 
 16.128 
 
 880 
 
 , 317.226 
 
 1.S23 
 
 ;J52,568 
 
 ! 365 j - 
 
 21,584 , 
 
 221 
 
 : 28,333 
 
 I 165 
 
 3,473,878 
 
 421,224 
 
 7<; 
 
 218 
 
 558 
 
 2,297 
 
 239 
 
 
 
 5,308 
 
 
 
 668 
 
 66 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 59 
 
 
 
 + 31,027 
 
 20 
 
 247 
 
 t» 
 
 -h 782 
 
 
 
 + 18,561 
 
 613 
 
 + 
 
 i + 
 I 
 
 I- 
 
 N.B. — The duty is based upon the entries fur '• Home Consumption, i 
 
 It is to be remembered that whatever relative properties apply to the " Differences," 
 apply also to the quantities from wliich these Differences are derived. 
 
 i 
 
30 
 
 The Commercial Series of Differenx'Es for Cottons in 1888 tabulated. 
 
 POSITIVE TERMS OR EXCESS OF VALU 
 
 entered for " Home Consiimptior 
 overvalues of " Imports.' 
 
 Positive Terma 
 
 2 
 
 ES V 
 
 '•" 'i 
 
 1 
 
 2 1 
 
 3 1 
 
 M 
 r> 1 
 
 7 ' 
 
 8 
 
 1) 
 
 10 
 
 n 
 
 12 
 
 NEG 
 
 ent 
 1 
 
 59 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 fiG 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 185 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 1<)7 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 218 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 '2W.) 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 257 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 <!n8 ... . 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 782 ...: 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 <t,SO 
 
 135ft 
 
 •• 
 
 
 11 
 12 
 
 NEGATIVE TERMS, OR DEFECT OF VALUES 
 
 entered for " Home Consumption " as 
 compared with *' Imports." 
 
 Neijative 'JhriHH. 
 20 
 
 2225 13 
 
 3841 ^4 
 
 .').S08 15 
 
 7632 16 
 
 16050 17 
 
 18.-,61 18 
 
 20295 19 
 
 31027 20 
 
 S 109898 
 
 2 
 
 3 !"!!!!!!."!!!!!'!!! 
 
 66 
 
 76 
 
 4 
 
 86 
 
 o . . , 
 
 247 
 
 6 
 
 479 
 
 7 
 
 540 
 
 8 
 
 558 
 
 9 
 
 613 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 725 
 
 yOrt 
 
 12 
 
 ');'.;) 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 2246 
 
 2297 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 3100 
 
 3636 
 
 4529 
 
 11248 
 
 
 
 S 32304 
 
 In my circular letter I put the terms of this Series in the form of an 
 Arithmetical Progession from 1000 to 24000. Also in the form of the terms of 
 the " Fire-brick and Clay Series." 
 
 In a word it may be said that this and the following "Series of 
 Differences" .and the "Fire-brick and Clay Series " are practically identical, and 
 may be rendered in terms one of the other, or in terms of Arithmetical Progress- 
 ions as stated. They possess besides numerous other ctirious properties, and are 
 each and all of them fabricated quantities. The Differences between 
 "Imports" and "Entered for Home Consumption" are also fabricated and 
 fraudulent. They are all related to the False and Forged Fisheries Figures. 
 
 This feature is elaborated to a remarkable extent in my returned letter 
 to Sir Charles W. Dilke, and especially in the Addenda to that letter. I respect- 
 fully submit that it ought to be made known to the sufferers from this imposition, 
 namely, the British Mercantile Public. It can do no conceivable good to 
 Canada. It only serves the interests of depraved politicians and the dealers in 
 Falsified Records of Government. 
 
81 
 
 No. II. 
 The Gommiboial ibbibs fob Woollens, 1883. 
 
 I: 
 
 POHTITB TBB1I8, OR EXCESS OF VALUES 
 
 entered for " Home Consumption " over 
 values of " Imports " in 1883. 
 
 Positive Terma. 
 
 126 ... 1 
 
 154 ... 2 
 
 167 ... ... 3 
 
 176 ... 4 
 
 224 ... ... 5 
 
 278 ... ... 6 
 
 462 ... ... 7 
 
 1011 ... 8 
 
 1089 ... . . 9 
 
 1310 ... 10 
 
 1811 ... ... 11 
 
 1888 ... ... 12 
 
 2359 ... ... 13 
 
 9586 ... ... 14 
 
 "$""20631 
 
 NHOATIVE TEBM8, OB DBVBOT OF VALDB8 
 
 entered for " Home Consumption " as 
 compared with " Imports " in 1883. 
 
 Ntgmtive Termn. 
 
 50 
 151 
 
 492 
 
 776 
 
 2785 
 
 7279 
 
 9041 
 
 14908 
 
 17.169 
 
 1 
 2 
 3 
 4 
 5 
 6 
 7 
 8 
 9 
 
 $ 52851 
 
 In my returned letter to Sir Charles W. Dilke I have put the terms of 
 this " Series for Woollens " in terms of the " Fire-brick and Clay Series " from 
 151 to 1089, and the terms from 1811 to 17,869 in sums of the smaller terms ; 
 and I have shown how all the terms can be put in terms of the " Fire-brick and 
 Clay Series." It will be noticed that in this Series the negative terms are largely 
 in excess. 
 

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 No. m. 
 
 The Figures in the Despatch op Maboh 19th, 1879. 
 
 No, I OF THE Commercial Series for Cottons and Woollens in 1878. 
 
 POSITIVE TERM8 OR HXCESS OF VALUES 
 
 entered for " Home Consumption," over 
 values of " Imports. " 
 
 Positive Termi, 
 
 2 
 
 180 
 
 562 
 
 67.3 
 
 750 
 
 1699 
 
 KJOO 
 
 3119 
 
 7150 
 
 7424 
 
 8488 
 
 11806 
 
 25830 
 
 1 
 
 2 I 
 
 3 i 
 
 4 I 
 
 6 : 
 c : 
 
 7 I 
 8 
 
 y , 
 10 ; 
 11 
 
 12 
 13 
 
 $(19183 
 
 NEGATIVE TERMS, OB DEFECT O' '^ALCBB 
 
 entered for *' ^lome Consumption, .ompareil 
 
 with "Imports." 
 
 t Neijative Ttrma. 
 
 I ... .. ... 90 
 
 2 ... 100 
 
 3 .. ... ... 168 
 
 4 ... ... ... 176 
 
 5 ... ... ... 300 
 
 6 ... ... ... 519 
 
 7 ... ... ... t 842 
 
 8 ... ... ... 1043 
 
 9 ... ... .. ]04H 
 
 10 ... ... .. ♦ 1470 
 
 11 ... ... ...' 2287 
 
 12 . ... ... 2523 
 
 13 ... ... ... 3406 
 
 14 ... ... ... 3705 
 
 15 ... ... ... 6683 
 
 $24350 
 
 In Sir Leonard Tillej^'s " IMemoranclum " *' Carpets of any material 
 except Woollen " are put under " Woollen Goods." Nothing can be worse than 
 this transposition and altering of dciiomiuations in order to secure a Protection 
 policy. 
 
 Tlic properties of this Series are like tho rest and may easily be shown 
 to includo : — 
 
 First — The sums of the terms of this Series taken two, three, four &c, 
 together, form an Arithmetical Progression from 1000 to 25000 and so on. 
 
 Second — This Series of Dilierences can be put in terms of the " Fire- 
 brick and Clay Series." 
 
 'J'hird — The " MAsiaNG NuMijERS " employed in the Fisheries Frauds 
 can all be deduced from the terms of these Series. ■'' 
 kc, &c., &c., &c., &c. 
 
 The further relation of these and other groups of Figures in the Cana- 
 dian and United States Annual Trade Returns are fully exemplified in 
 communications referred to, and in papers ready to be produced on authoritative 
 demand. • 
 
 Ik 
 
 •^1 
 
 * Soi" letter addressed to the President cf the United St.ates for an exposition of 
 the origin and use of the Masking Numuers. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 On page 20. Appendix I, of the "Correspondence," 13 lines from the bottom, for 
 721 read 731. 
 
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