In 1757 a fourth volume was added to the quarto Paris edition, containing the final reply of the English commissioners, and completing the record of the two years' conference. The four volumes are a very valuable repository of historical material; and, from printing at length the documents offered in evidence, it is a much more useful gathering than the single English volume, which we have already described. The points of difference between the two works are these: The memorial of Shirley and Mildmay (Jan. 11, 1751), given in French only in the Paris edition, and accompanied by observations of the French commissioners in foot-notes, is here given in French and English, but without the foot-notes. The English memorial of Jan. 23, 1753, lacks the observations of the French commissioners which accompany it in their vol. iv.1 Among the "pièces justificatives" in the London edition, various papers are omitted which are given in the Paris edition. The reason of the omission is that they already existed in print. Such are the texts of various treaties, and extracts from printed books. The London edition prints, however, the MS. sources among these proofs, but does not give the observations of the French commissioners which accompany them in the Paris edition. Among the papers thus omitted in the London edition are the provincial charter of Massachusetts Bay and Gen. John Hill's manifesto, printed at Boston from Charlevoix. Vol. iv. of the Paris edition has various additional " pièces produites par les commissaires du Roi," including extracts from Hakluyt, Peter Martyr, Ramusio, Gomara, Fabian, Wytfliet, as well as the English charters of Carolina (166263, 1665) and of Georgia (1732). The Paris edition was also reprinted at Copenhagen, with a somewhat different arrangement, under the title Mémoires des commissaires Mémoire de M. St. Jean, May 24, 1712 (in French and English). Offers of France, Demands for England, the King's Answers, Sept. 10, 1712 (in French and English). Acte de cession de l'Acadie par Louis XIV., May, 1713. 7. Table des Citations, etc., dans le mémoire des Com. Français, Oct. 4, 1751, viz. : — Ouvrages imprimés: Traités, 1629–1749; Mémoires, etc., par les Com. de sa Majesté Britannique; Titres et pièces communiquées aux Com. de sa Majesté Britannique. Concession au Sieur Joibert de Soulanges du fort de Gemisik par Frontenac et Duches 1676, Oct. 16. 1676, Oct. 16. neau. 1676, Oct. 24. Concession de la terre de Soulanges par Frontenac et Duchesneau. Concession de Chigneto au Sieur le Neuf de la Vallière par Frontenac et Duchesneau. 1684. M. de Meules au Roi. 1684. Requête des habitans de la Coste du sud du fleuve St. Laurent. 1684, Sept. 20. Concessions des Sieurs de la Barre et de Meules au Sieur d'Amour Ecuyer, de la rivière dø Richibouctou, et au Sieur Clignancourt, de terres à la rivière St. Jean. 1686. Mémoire de M. de Meules sur la Baye de Chedabcuctou. 1689, Jan. 7. Concession à la rivière St. Jean au Sieur du Breuil. 1710, Oct. 3. Lettre de Nicholson à Subercase. 1 This document was also published at the Hague in 1756, as Répliques des Commissaires Anglois: ou Mémoire présenté, le 23 Janvier, 1753, with a large folding map. 1 Key of the French Map: Limits proposed by English commissaries, Sept. 21, 1750, and Jan. 11, Cromwell's grant to La Tour, Crown, and Temple, Aug. 9, 1656, What was restored to France by the treaty of Breda includes Cromwell's grant and the country from Mirlegash to Canseau. Denys' government (1654), shaded horizontally. Charnesay's government (1638), shaded obliquely. La Tour's government (1638), shaded perpendicularly. 1 KEY OF THE English MAP: Claim of the English under the treaty of Utrecht (1713), marked Grant to Sir William Alexander (1621), and divided by him into Alexandria and Caledonia, being all east of line marked According to Champlain (1603-1629), all, excepting Cape Breton, east of this line, Grants of Louis XIII. and XIV. (1632–1710), the same as the claim of the English for Nova Scotia or Acadia. Nova Scotia, enlarged westward to the Kennebec, as granted to the Earl of Sterling (Alexander). Acadia proper, as defined by Charlevoix in accordance with the tripartite division, shaded perpendicularly. Charnesay's government (1638), La Tour's government (1638), +++++++ Cromwell's grant to La Tour, Crown, and Temple, being the same ceded to France by the treaty of Breda (1667), Norembega, according to Montanus, Dapper, and Ogilby, is the country between the Kennebec and Penobscot. The Etechemin region, as defined by Champlain and Denys, shaded obliquely. |