[217] The Lieutenant-Governor in question was Mr., afterwards Sir, F. Burton. His commission was dated November 29, 1808, but he did not go out to Canada till 1822. He left Canada in 1828, but did not cease to be Lieutenant-Governor, as his commission was renewed on October 25, 1830—the year of King William the Fourth’s accession. An Act passed in 1782, 22 Geo. III, cap. 75, commonly known as Burke’s Act, provided against the holding of Patent offices in the Colonies and Plantations in America and the West Indies by sinecurists living in England. The operation of this Act was greatly extended, and the granting of leave restricted by a subsequent Act of 1814, 54 Geo. III, cap. 61.
[218] See Brymner’s Report on Canadian Archives for 1892, Introduction, p. xlix.
[219] The Canadian War of 1812.
[220] See the Memoir of Sir James Craig, quoted at length on pp. 343-5 of vol. i of Christie’s History of the Late Province of Lower Canada, 1848. The notice of Craig in the Dictionary of National Biography says that he was sent home with dispatches after the taking of Ticonderoga, which seems to be incorrect.
[221] Letter of August 6, 1810, Christie’s History of Lower Canada, vol. vi, p. 129.
[222] Letter of September 10, 1810, Christie’s History of Lower Canada, vol. vi, p. 157.
[223] The departments of War and the Colonies were combined under one Secretary of State in 1801. This lasted till 1854, when a separate Secretary of State for War was appointed.
[224] Ryland to Craig, August 4, and September 1, 1810. Christie, vol. vi, pp. 124, 149.
[225] Letter of November 9, 1810, Christie, vol. vi, p. 166. The main dispatch is dated May 1, 1810.
[226] Letter to Craig, August 23, 1810, Christie, vol. vi, p. 146.