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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour >)tre reproduit en un seui cliche, il est filmA d partir de Tangle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite. et do haut en b«s, en prenant le noribre d'Images n^essaire. Las diagrammee suivants iiluatfent la mithode. 1 2 3 4 3 8 ( IMf v/- ^ "^^ Tmi QVBBBC OAivrrs. f .^TN **' i^xvu NnuoN tiM ikM pivpriMor, In ITM. k b Aidll ** r>> %«l iM b* wo»cc<|n«bl« w Uw pMMe hi Uw fitmA wowiiiKi— ' ^ » _" WauAM BaowN ft TliUMt Oiuwm, botk Mttm IT t V Vr«M Britain, Im iiitraduor4llM«torprictiag into ^inriii X ^ ^MlaijMfogMiikvimkiyfraMtntiMor TaaqeuwOA. "v^ \ «■»«. Uttn coinpriaed In • ifieet of Crown iMptr, ia th« Ftnnwll ««d IbaglMi langutge*. conUlniDg Um niOTt matcrkl puMio o«* ^ «M«ncMlil Eurapt mkI Amrica?' "^ /*i«th«AntOiinttni|WhMwi H iifclar«ri to have notiing M rnucb at Hmi t aatha aupooM oTfiTb «••• murality ami tlw noble omim of Liborty, and thflt it WM ta« l««dtd to bland <>hiloMptiy, tfinarf, FOlitica&c.in MtiMbite* «un, at tb« Mm« time pl«d|^a« vm/kt to tha public tMI pjrty pi** jMdiOM •» privato wandal thoald wnvt itain lu pin. ' « Th« erigiittt n«mbm orMtb^iribt^itappoanto havabMn abM 100 •fwhlvlia^it half were Eoglifh aiid Iwtr Fntnch. TImO** Mttt continued, with iliti* fluctuation in iho numbar ofnurclMt. vn, UU a aumii, dui* impotM bv Orvat Britain on h«r <^ni|| Dul a itep lu the imbHcation in Octobw 1 765. TiM diuy bataf vtptaU ' Ou the siege being raiwd in Muy m«, WilM^n Biowfl, Thomas CJilniore having dia* In 1 778} andwivouivdlo rt %M hsh th« QoMtte, bat wOt, at Nrat, prevented bjr the then OoTtr. nor (juy Curleion, who was apital-enlly averae t« the publiealion «ta newtpaptfin the Provwice .roin what motivM It Is unknowii | but it could proce^'d iVom no Uis^ofaUy on tbe pM of Mr. maim Who remained in the I'own du) but underthe most servile prot'eiaiona to tha public. Bi|br«tlM»liaM tn hndobtniued a commission ol' King'a Printer, and Ua Satorr •f iSm wa» aiuim-iitvd t* oo Stg. -, " During the whole of lUo American War 1775 to ItSS, Um •« On/eite kept silenre on the most liiiMilant fiNU, and HJM AIM With misn-preseiitattonu. Uuring Oenaral BouTgogna'a opaii^ ^ tioDA on the frontiers of this province, not a word waa pubUah rea> d SectiPK them ; and Hlihough hladafwt WM pubUckly known at (Quebec, a lew weeks alter it happened, not tiia l«(t aoeount «f wne|published till nearly two yean aftarvrank. '• 'Aft. r the return of peace the intuenca of habitual aervlUty «nd perhaps the i^iog Salary, rendered Che Oaaattoifaotaafiillp at least uv insipid as before. A jftnul of I^MMa alio aafwdto ra* tain the culm. » WlMium Iftowndlorlin MatthlTSft, at which time tha nlw «rlbefs to the Oaa.'ite were not mora thwi 290^ what ia 1Mb AM two thirds of the iire>ent nu«lMr (in 17W.) " The Gaaettc was cuntimicd by hia Nephew and 8uocM||lv the aalary and coinmisAion witMrnm, and he waatharaby la without a motive to publish falsehNll or conceal tlbth ; berideahh •nJv retnined the printing for GofVernaient, bacauaa none could be found to do it cheaper or ao well, although there wara thaa .J^ other Printers esiabliabed at Quebbe." * It will belong to • future succeMMr to aiy whether the Qu*. hi^ Oaratle, iVom 1781» was dedicated tvapmicular cr general iBtere^t, whether not cooducted with freedom, truth, iBl);iai1|M9 and juaiice to tlie conMuunity in which ii circolaML •• Quebec, 1st Jatiy. l7iB<" IThe writer died in January 1793. In his If ^ will or teit*> ment he bequeathed the Quebec Gazette to hi* Brother John Neilsou, then a minor, afUr which it waa conducted till be waa ■^ of age by the late Rev. Dr. Spark, his Oualdtaa.] (1)^ this oecaikn the firrt Mier [May fi9th 176S] emtaliMd the ibOev " A vepoft having been r«l»ed, and indiistrlouily propsnted, that our Ctaierte was eadln' tXe h,intkm of the SsefetaMr, Iberefore, In Older to nw. vCntant Detriment It might beof to us, we think itnecessary lDdcolaie,|tat evar sinre the EAaMiihinsnt of Civil Ooremeianl^eur JPape* hat i emshail be, is free 'rora the laapectlon «r RestrietiiMis ef any fSnsa Whatwavai^ as It !• of t'le late SUm'jt, and that 9» mf^ Beport was pieMli Wre and highly ungenerous. We profemM at wr *« setting out, our avoWM Xasoluticn against making our PubUcatioD the (^wveyance of private Sean, dd, or the Tooi and Stimulator to poliUGal Factkm : we trust that from Kmciple we ibouM keep to iMl though Rtgard to our own M^dU not Oblige us to It. At the lame TuaeVe never meal to reAue, nor have raAuad. aPfcce in our V^et to any Thing which might or has been oflbiod tous, Wbtch.UreefhiB: these Tendencies, might contribute toaniase,to entatlriB. o^y, to have the liberty of thinUng for th«nselvas on all SutrfacbL to I wiiat tney thloK, and to pubUuli, such Thoughts at uav Mcai Imoxio tedivkUwls, and undittPJMng to the Pubkc. It Is tbeieiate fi«n tha „. fi5f^'*?*t?"*7' "*■* Publications ean oome wldunit an impHmttm / a