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My Lord, — In obedience to his Majesty's Commands signified in Your Lordship's dispatch to Sr. Jeffery Amherst of the 12th December last I have the honor to transmit the following account of His Majesty's Government of Quebec and dependancies thereof; however deficient it may prove Your Lordship may be assured it has been my earnest desire, as it is my constant study to fulfil my Royal Masters intentions.

The better to effect the same, and in order to state the several interesting matters of this Report in the clearest light, I shall divide the whole under the following heads.

1st — Return of His Majesty's Forces in His Government of Quebec and dependancies thereof.

2nd — State of the Fortifications

3rd — State of the Government under the French Administration.

4th — The Revenues and Expenses.

5th — Church Government.

6th — Indian Nations.

7th — Nature of the Soil and its produce.

8th — Population.

9th — Trade.

10th — Character of the People.

I shall subjoin some remarks pointing out the Errors of the Ancient System, and wherein by my own observations and the best information I have been able to procure, there is room for alterations or amendments.