The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a letter from Quebec, dated October 24.

"At the request of the gentlemen of a committee from Montreal, I send the enclosed, with an assurance that it is a true translation from the French original, and beg you would insert it in your useful paper, that the sentiments of a very (if not most) considerable number of our Canadian brethren and fellow subjects in this province may appear in a just light to our brethren in the province of Massachusetts."

Instructions to the English gentlemen of the committee at Montreal, From the Canadian farmers, &c.

"We the Canadian farmers and others, being greatly alarmed at a late act of parliament, which re-establishes the ancient laws of this country, one mode of which we too severely felt during the French government, being entirely satisfied under the English laws administered in this province, beg leave to acquaint the gentlemen of the committee for Montreal that any legal steps they shall take for the repeal of the said act will be approved of by us, and we sincerely hope and pray that they will use all means in their power for the same, by petitioning his majesty and representing to the merchants of London the flourishing state of the trade and agriculture of this province since the conquest thereof, which we attribute to that freedom which every one has enjoyed under the English laws, and we hereby declare that we never had any hand in a certain petition said to be sent to his majesty, in the name and in behalf of all the Canadians for obtaining said act, nor have we, nor any part of the country where we reside, been in any wise consulted thereupon, therefore we verily believe the said petition was contrived and obtained in a clandestine and fraudulent manner, by a few designing men, in order to get themselves into posts of profit and honor."