Canada,1804

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includes letters from:

Clark Bentom, Quebec - diary of visit to United States of America; attached note from George Burder requesting counsel's opinion on Clark Bentom's lost case and possibility of petition to parliament; his trial and imprisonment; qualifications needed by his successor; comments on the legal opinion obtained

copies of petition from church members and stated hearers, Quebec - re Clark Bentom; plea for successor, and of address from churches of Edinburgh and Leith proposing Francis Dick as minister to Quebec, and of letter from George Burder to Robert Haldane.

James Stephen, Middle Temple, London - opinion on the case of Clark Bentom; advises against petition to parliament

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