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Essays and addressesIn the print our present method of capitalizing gentile adjectives and writing common nouns with a small letter has been followed: Smiths method is followed in this reprint. La Kochefoucault, having visited this Continent under the circum- stances mentioned in the Introduction (p 4), met Hammond the British Plenipotentiary to the United States, and was invited ly him to visit Canada. The Governor-General of Canada at that time was the famous Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, 2 and the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, Colonel John Graves Simcoe. 3 France had never sincerely acquiesced in her expulsion from the northern part of North America. Genet, 4 the French Ambassador at Philadelphia, then the seat of government in the United States, had constantly intrigued against the continuance of British rule in Canada. prev next |