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SO w 3 o a B i^ bd • >>4 2; '^ To His Royal HighB ■*le "PfeilfWKIEi.B" The Memorial of ike undersigned ALEXANDER BECHER, Captain in the Royal Navy, SHEWETH. THAT your Memorialist has heard, with much sui-prise and concern, that a bill of indictment has been found, at York, in Upper Canada, against his son Alexander Bridport Becher, a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, for an alleged malicious conspiracy to destroy the trade of a numerous body of fur-traders of Montreal, called, as your Memorialist believes, the North-West Company. That, upon inquiring into the circumstances of this extraordinary case, your Memorialist has ascertained that, in the year 1816, his son, then only twenty years of age, had been ordered l)y Captain Owen of the Royal Navy, (at that time employed by directiorjs from the Admiralty in surveying some of the lakes in Canada,) to proceed to Lakes Huron and Superior, where, in consequence of such order, he continue J all the winter, making surveys, and carrying on tlie requisite geographical and astronomic J observations. That, while thus employed, your Memorialist's son, with the knowledge and "sanction of his ccmmandipg officer, remained frequently residing with the Earl of Selkirk at Lake Superior, and tliis circumstance, together with the sentiments of regard entertained for him by bis Lordship, was, no doubt, considered by the North-West Company as a sufficient ground to charge him criminally, and to suborn their servants and hirehngs as witnesses to support such charge. But your i^Temorialist is well assured that in place of unlawfully conspiring to injure the trade of any of His Majesty's subjects, liis son was at that time diligently and honoural)ly employed in His Majesty's service : and your Meriiorialist can, on this subject, appeal with confidence to the Lords of the Admiralty, who are In poss(>ssion of all the surveys, draughts, and observations th<«n taken upon Lake Superior by his son, ::'.id that their Lordships have been pleased to approve of the same, and again to send him abroad in His Majesty's ship Leven, destined also upon a similar service of a nautical and geographicd description. That your Memorialist, liowever, has been informed that, at the instance of the said North-West Compan)', a bill of inilictment was preferred in September last, at Sandwich, in the Western District of Upper Canada, against his son, for the said alleged conspiracy, but that the Grand Jury at that place did not find the same to be a true bill. That, shortly afterwards, however, an Act was ce, in - ,™ „^. ^^^^^ jther af inHctmenl ^ ^^jmi . -.u:- ,e mme A ^•^^f^^^^^^^H| *'^'"' lesses, — ^biit fji^^J^^^M^MmT distrfrt, wf^^^^^^^^^^^^^W been cognizable without the passing of the said Act ; and that the second bill of indictment, so preferred, has been found by a Grand Jury at York, in Upper Canada, against your Memorialist's son, who is now abroad on public service. Your Memorialist, therefore, most humbly prays that Your Royal Highness in Council will be pleased lO withhold your Assent from the said Act, and that means may be taken to quash :he said indictment, and wipe oft" the wanton and unfounded imputation ti.us cast upon your Memorialist's son, who has nothing to depend upon for his success in life, but his professional character and conduct, — which your Memorialist hopes he will not be deemed over- presumptuous in asserting, have never, in any shape, or upon any occasion, been reasonably or justly impeached. "Sn3 your Memorialist, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. ALEXANDER BECIIER. \6th jiuguit, \8\9.