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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 'i^' ( i ) U^U(^ J'OR PUBLIC INFORMATION^ IF my cafe was the firft iiiftahce of abufe experienced of Judges belonging to the Courts of this Province, my impatience would be increafed at any delay of being per- mitted to refer it to my country, in order to obtain fubftantial juftice ; and to (hew the public what I am fuffering without a fliadow of reafoh given to juftify the fentence under which I am deprived of my liberty, and re- fufed the benefit of the Habeas Corpus A£l: ; as appears by the dilregard of my Memorials of the 1 6th and 23d Ultimo^ to his honor the Chief Juftice of the Province, who hath not condefcended to give any anfwer, altho' it is impofsible to conceive any reafon for it^ or to imagine that his complyance could be in the fmalleft degree dei*ogatory of his dignity Or ihconfiftent with his profeifional duty ; being charged with the chief care to preferve the rights and tranquillity of the iPublic, or thofe feelings that humanity excites in the impartial Breaft of a man defirous to imitate his God, by confidering the meaneft of his fellow creatures, not unworthy of regard and care ; of which the Public will be enabled to Judge by publiihing my faid Memorials a copy of the attachment of my perfon, and copy of the interrogatories I was compelled^ ( ? ) to anfwer by my adverfaries, and the Sen* tence an 1 warrant of commitment which they gave. By which it will appear that I am the only evidtnce examined to difcover any matter they might turn to my difadvan- tage, and they made themfelves, at fame time. Judges and parties. I am induced to take this mode to remove impofi ion, that has been pradtiled on the public in various artful ihapes to bewilder and divert their enquiries from the truth concerning me, about which much pains has been taken and by other oppreffion, than my co; fintmcnt, endeavours to com- pdl me by fervile acquit fcence to yitld up the right and Liberty of my fellow Citi- zens. 1 had wrote the foregoing when Mr. Young the ketp.r of the Common prifon addrefled me in a fet of words that I could not comprch^nJ any meaning from, except fomething doubtful, wh- thtr or not what he faid was to be conlideied as a meflage fir)iTi the Sheriff Fdw A uD William Gray Fiqr. who I write to for certain informa- ti ni, if it (hould pleafe him to favor me thertwi'-h in writing, to which he gave my fcrvant (as he fays) an angry verbal anlwer. That his Mrjier knew very well •what Mr. Young meaiitj and there waa ( 3 ) ho occafion to write him. About two hours atter my lervaut brought me a word that he had m t the Sheriff in the ftreet ia a Caiafh, who ftoped and told him he Would call upon hi^ malkr next day; but inft^ad of his doing lo 1 receivtd from him the following Letter. Montreal igtb, ^^g^/^ '79^^* S I R. " The meflage I fent to you by Mr. *' Young was that the Chief JulVice defired " me to caule to be intimated to you, thnt *' you had made two very improper appli- '* cations for a Habeas Corpus Ify Letters " that you (hould apply to Counlel to be " put into a rigfit courfe no fuch corref- *' pondences were proper.'* " 1 am Sir your humble Se«-varit, ''(Signed) Ldwd. Wm. GRAY.'* I declare I never had in my life wrote a Letter to the Chicrf Judge or wrote him on any fubjed other than my memorials of the i6ih, and 2 jd, ultimo for a writ ot Habeas Corpus, to relieve me from my confine- ment, and allow me an opportunity of ap- pealing to my Country, in order to obtain flri<5l and (ubftanrial Judice, not only ia my own behalf, but in that of the whole • » '4' W ^ ( 4 ) community. But if my application had even been by Leticr, or otherwife defedive in form, it ought not to deprive me of Juftice, and the benefit of a Lavv, which iEnglifhmen rates of th^ mod importance, of any of thofe which governs and protects their fociety. It is intimated in Mr. Grays Letter that 1 fhould employ counfel, that is I fuppofe, that I ought to employ a Lawyer. Indeed 1 confefs I fhould be ex- ceedingly willing to do fo, if I could have one that would do his duty and not betray me, and in filch cafe, I fhould confider it not a hard tax neither on myfelf nor the public to be obliged to employ them in every bufinefs in Courts, altho' the parties were always capable of tranfadling for themfelves, and fhould be defirous of fee- ing people live by their profeflion if they difcharge their duty faithfully and not ra- paciously and I confider mylelf capable of tranfadling my own bufinefj and am deter- ed by what I have feen my Brother fufter, to trufl any one elfe.— But as the fentence which I am fuffering under is an abufe of his Majeflys CommifRon and an oppreffion that mufl make every one of the public tremble for their fafetv, I confider it the duty of his Majeflys Attorney general tq proiecute as the Law dir&ds in fuch caic tg ( 5 ) obtain fatisfadion and redrefs for the public; and be has been accordingly am- ply informed which ought to be confidered as having complyed with the directions of the Chief" Judge intimated to me by Letter from Edward William Gray Efqr. as a- bove mentioned.-— The Attorney General's aniv/er and refolution will appear in my third memorial annexed; addrcfled to his Jionor the Chif Judge dated 4th Inftant, Thomas TAYLOR. Montreal, nth September, '7 90* DiJlriB of \ Edward WllUam Gray, Efqr. } Montreal J Sheriff of the faid Diflrici. To Jacob Marfton and all and every my Deputies Bailiffs or Huiffiers for the laid Diftridl Greeting. By virtue cf his Ma- jefty's writ of attachment, to me dirsded, I do hereby authorile and command you that you attach Thomas Taylor, Angus M'Donaid and Louis Chaboiller, Notary public, of Montreal, fo that I may have their bodies jjefore the Judges of His Majeftys Court of Cpmrpon Pleas, at the Court- Houfe in vhe town of Montreal, on faturday the fourteenth day of Auguft inftant, to anfwer our Sove- reign Lord the King of and upon fuch things as on his Majeftys behalf (hail then and there be objcdled againft them ; and how this my warrant ihall be executed you ihali m.ke ( ^ ) known unto me iiiimediately after you fh^ll have executed the lame ; hereof tail not ; this is your warrant. Given under my hand and the feal of my Office, dated the thirteenth dayof Auguft one thoufaud feven hundred and ninety. (Signed) Edw. Wm. gray, SherifR A true eopy from the original which I have hy virtue thereof attached Mr. Thomas Taylor's body and am in purfuit of the others Mr. Angus M'Donald and Louis Chaboiller, and which I hid no copy furnlfhed me of the original by Edward William Gray, Efq: Sheriff to furnifh the laid Thomas Taylor with. (Signed) J. Mars TON, Bailliff. District ofi Court of Common Plea^y Saturday^ Montreal, i 14//^, Augt4jl 1790. RESENT The Hon { JOHN FRASER, r^ HERTEL DE ROUVILLE, J ^^'l* On an attachment ifTued againft Thomas Taylor of Montreal, Merchant to anfwer upon oath to certain interrogatories to be exhibited againft him for a comtempt of the perPons of the Tudo;es of livering to them a- certain ( 7 ) 'writing ^ur Memorialifl is confined in the common pri- f)n amonfffb the criminals in an horid noxitus and unhealthful fituation by which his life may be in great danger and his in^erefls of great impor- tance to him and thofe of his helplefs brother by thelofs of fight and in an ill Hate of health fufFers great injuiy, by your Memorialifls being deprived of is liberty ; and the comfoi t of vifitation by his fi lends excep: fuch as condefcend to the tr juble ( It ) of applying for the Sheriff's pafs for admittance anto the Jail. Wherefore as there is no Judges befide the bef:)re mentioned in this City to apply to for immediate relief conformable to the ftatute 31 C. 2. he humbly addrefses himfelf to your Honor at your diftant refidence for your interpo- fidon by authority to endde him to Bail for his appearance before the Couit of Kings Bench, fiift cnfuing in order that he may there have juflice done him in the premifes. And your Memo- morialift Ihall ever pray as in duty bound &c. THOMAS TAYLOR. Montreal, iSth Augi^fi, 1790. To the Homrable WILLIAM SMITH, ii/^r Chief Juflice of the Province 0) ^iebec. The Memorial of Thomas Taylor, of fhe City of MontreaL Mtichant humMy Shevveih. ryK X HAT whereas by Memorial under date the iC:>h inftant repiefenting to your Honor the inju- red firuation of your Mcmorialift by defcripdon far Ihort of what his inteiefts and perfon fuffer under his unprecedented confinement in the com- mon Jail am.ongll: ciminals, under reftriaion that pel haps even thefeare notfubieded to, which is being denied the peimifTion of comfort from the vifitadon of friends except fuch as can obtain paffes for admittance from the Sheriff^ for a fiippofed contempt of Court as was explained by the documents accompanying it j praying relief ( n ) vpon Bail given for his appearance before the Court of King's Bench to have ample juftice in the prenaifes determined by his country. And whereas no anfwer has been received your Memorialift is in duty bound in juftice to himfelf and to the community at large for the purpofe of afcertaining their rights and their liberty, fafety of their perfons, and fecurity of their property from being difpofcd of at the will of arbitrary Juges to reiterate his faid Memorial praying for fuch anfwer as may diredt your Memorialift to obtain relief That however much your Me- morialift is at a lofs to conje6ture the reafon of his not having any anfwer, he is little inclined to impute it to fo trivial occaficn as the want of formality from a perfon of whom it cannot be expelled he fliould be acquainted minutely with law forms and precedents ; any defeft of which ought not to impede or delay ample and ftrid juftice. . Your honor being pleafed to ccndefcend to comply v/ith the humble requeft, your Memo- rialift will be in duty bound to pray &c. THOMAS TAYLOR. Jidontrealj 2^d Augujl 1790. iit ( 13 ) Tv the Honorable WILLIAM SMITH, Efq: Chiif Juftice of the Province of ^ebec. The Memorial of Thomas Taylor, of the City of MontrcaL Merchant humbly Sheweth. T. HAT notwithftanding Memorials of i6th and pr. 23d ultimo addreffed to your honor, and having followed your Honor's dirediion as inti- mated in Edward William Gray, Efquire*s letter on the 29:h ultimo to your Memorialift, agreably thereto confidering his Majefty's Attorney Gene- ral the moft proper counfel to take he was ap- plyed to, but he declined interfering officially becaufe he faid he did not confider himfelf obliged on the publics behalf, when men in fuch high office as thefe Judges complained of are interefted, that it had never been his praftice, to do, fo, unlefs ordered by the Governor, or after appli- cation to Government, he llioud have its fandlion for the profecution of any executive Officer, except petty officers fuch as in cafes of mifde- meanours of common Juftices of the peace, and jf Memoralift's cafe was confidered in the light of a difpute of individual nature he the Attorney General might if he chofe be employed in it, but that he never was defirous of engaging in op- pofition to parties of fuch confequence in the employment of Government as thefe Judges are, he therefore he faid declined giving any counfel in this matter unlefs application was made to the oT.-.erxx^x Ox uic i^cgiaacorj ana that he Ihould be tliereby commanded, that he did not conceive ! I I I t H ) it even in the power of the Chief Judge to Corthi pdhim, or that the Chief Judge could interfere in the matter any more than himfclf without the authority he mentioned 5 although he muft admit he faid that the matter might come before the Court of Kings Be^ch by prcfentm^nc of the Grand Jury. In reply to the Attorney General he was told, that the complaint was a public grievance being an abufe of his Majeftys commiffion in contempt of the law which fhould preferve the tranquillity of all his Majeftys fubjeds ; and that the faid Judges fhould he proceeded againft on indid- ment therefore. Your Memoiialifl. is ftill fuffering under con- finement in the common Jail as hath been already fetforth for want of being allowed the benefit of his Majeftys remedial writ of Habeas Corpus as .was prayed for in his faid Memoiials of the i6:h and 23d ultimo on his giving bail for his appea- rance at the firft enfuing Court of Kings Bench, in order to have ftrid juftice in the premifes ac- cording to law determined by his country i which prayer he humbly now again reiterates and by your Honors acquiefcence your Memorialiil will ever be in duty bound to pray, &c. 3cc. THOMAS TAYLOR. Montreal, 4th September, 1790. N. B. On Saturday afternoon the 4th inflant, the Chief Judge arrived in this City to hold the Court of King's Bench commencing Monday the 6i:h inflant he was inilantly prefeiited with my ( »5 ) third Memorial ; and gave for anfwer he wouM look into the matter it but was then engaged. And in confequence of my infirm brothers im. patienc