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more favourable opportunity must be waited for. But as we apprehend that the nation is now on the verge of peace, we conceive no time more proper can ever present itself for the fixing of such an establishment than the present; and we are sure that the influence of such an establishment will never be more useful than now, when so large an accession of inhabitants is to be made to that province.
We have, &c.
(Signed)
CHARLES INGLIS
SAMUEL SEABURY. JEREMIAH LEAMING.
ISAAC BROWNE.
JOHN SAYHE.
H. ADDIBON.
BENJN. Moođe.
J. WALTER.
MOSES BADGER.
His Excellency Sir Guy Carleton,
&c. &c.
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(Signed)
JONATHAN ODELL. GEORGE PANTON. JOHN BEARDSLEY. JOHN H. ROWLAND. Thos. MOORE. GEO. BISSET. CHARLES MONOAN. JOSHUA BLOOMER. JOHN BOWDEN.
EXTRACTS of a DESPATCH from Lord NORTH to Sir GUY CARLETON, dated Whitehall, June 15, 1783.
SINCE my letter to you of the 18th April, I have received by Captain Brett, your despatches from No. 55 to No. 64, and, by the Halifax packet which has lately arrived, No. 65 to No. 72 inclusive, and lost no time in laying them before the King.
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The King's servants have taken into their consideration the letter from the clergy of the Church of England now at New York, and their plan for an Episcopate to be established in the Province of Nova Scotia, contained in your despatch No. 65. But, before they finally decide on that measure, it is very desirable that they should be informed of the dis- position of the laity, particularly those who intend to remove with them to Nova Scotia, for the adoption of this plan, on which account they are anxious that you should endeavour to discover and transmit their senti- ments thereupon as soon as may be, that it may be certainly known whether the recommendation of that establishment is according to their general ideas, or merely confined to the clergy.
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P.S. With respect to the person recommended to fill the office of Bishop of Nova Scotia, His Majesty is so well acquainted with the character, merit, and loyalty of Dr. Chandler, and of the very respectable persons who have recommended him, that there will be no difficulty in the choice of the first Bishop as soon as a decisive resolution has been taken upon the proposed institution.
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greater part of the new settlers, gone and going to that province, appear, from good information, to be members of the Church of England, whose inclination in favour of this appointment seems not to admit of any doubt; and 1 understand that numbers among them have, at different times, been formerly consulted on the subject of a similar institution for the colonies in general, of which they declared it was what they both wished and expected, as a measure not only just and reasonable in all respects, but of great importance in a political view.
The plan of this Episcopate is, indeed, so unexceptionable that many of different sects, and in particular the Quakers, are known to have pro- fessed their approbation of it, even in times of greater jealousy; and its principal opposers, I am credibly informed, have been in a great measure confined to the Presbyterian Dissenters, of whose decided unanimity in the late revolt their Synod have made their public boast on several occasions. Of these we may, therefore, presume the number will not be considerable among the emigrants to Nova Scotia, where we may rather expect that the spirit of loyalty, which has remarkably distinguished those of the National Church, especially in the middle and eastern colonies, during the late contest, will dispose all such Dissenters as have adopted their political tenets at least to acquiesce in the proposed esta. blishment, which I cannot but think would be perfectly acceptable to a large majority of a colony that is chiefly to consist of loyal exiles, driven from their native Provinces on account of their attachment to the British Constitution; and I am confident that, while due care is taken in choosing persons of real merit and discretion to fill the station, it will be greatly conducive to the permanent loyalty and future tranquillity of that colony.
I have, &c. The Lord North,
(Signed) GUY CARLETON. &c.
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No. 5.
EXTRACTS of a DESPATCH from Lord NORTH to Sir GUY CARLETON, dated Whitehall, December 4, 1783.
I AM to acknowledge the receipt of your several despatches from No. 87 to 115 inclusive, all which I have had the honour of laying before the King.
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I have the satisfaction of informing you that upon your represen- tation a resolution has been taken to establish an Episcopate in Nova Scotia, and that the proper method of effecting that establishment and providing for the Bishop are now under consideration.
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Sir Gur CARLETON to Lord NORTH,
(No. 102.) MY LORD,
New York, August 26, 1783. I HAVE reason to think the opinion of many candid and judicious persons here, laymen as well as clergy, is well founded-hat the want of an American Episcopate, with powers purely ecclesiastical, has given many and very considerable advantages to those who have taken the lead in exciting and conducting the late rebellion; and that such an establishment ought at present to be considered as a very important object among the arrangements to be made in Nova Scotia.
In answer, therefore, to the question stated on this subject in your Lordship's letter of June 15th-whether the proposed appointment would in general be acceptable to the laity-I beg leave to observe that far the
LETTERS-PATENT of the First BISHOP OF NOVA SCOTIA, dated August 1, 1787.
To our Attorney or Solicitor-General.
OUR Will and Pleasure is that you prepare a Bill for our Royal Signature to pass our Great Seal, in the words or to the effect following,
viz.:-
George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England are possessed and observed by a very considerable part of our loving subjects of the Province of Nova Scotia, and its dependencies in North America.
And whereas, by an Act passed in the year 1758 by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the said Province of Nova Scotia, it is enacted that the sacred rites and ceremonies of Divine Worship, according
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