[193] When the office of Secretary of State for the American Department was abolished by Burke’s Act of 1782, colonial matters were placed under the Secretary of State for the Home Department. This office was in 1787 held by Lord Sydney, who was succeeded by W. W. Grenville, youngest son of George Grenville, and afterwards Lord Grenville. When Grenville was raised to the peerage and became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he was succeeded in the Home and Colonies Department by Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville, and Dundas was succeeded by the Duke of Portland. [194] See above, pp. 105-6. [195] See above, pp. 88 (note) and 193. [196] For these petitions see Mr. Brymner’s _Introductory Report on Canadian Archives_, 1890, pp. xxi-ii and pp. 146, 150, 157 of the Calendar, and see Shortt and Doughty, _Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada_, pp. 502-5, 524-7. [197] See Shortt and Doughty, pp. 520-4 and notes; and Debrett’s _Parliamentary Debates_, vol. xx (1786), pp. 132-49. The statement that two years had passed since the petition was presented was not strictly correct, as the petition was dated November 24, 1784. [198] See Shortt and Doughty, p. 652, note, and Debrett’s _Parliamentary Debates_, vol. xxiii (1787-8), pp. 684-707. [199] In 1789, Hugh Finlay, Postmaster-General of the province and member of council, wrote suggesting that ‘We might make the people entirely English by introducing the English language. This is to be done by free schools, and by ordaining that all suits in our courts shall be carried on in English after a certain number of years’. See Shortt and Doughty, p. 657. He anticipated to some extent Lord Durham’s views. [200] The correspondence is given in full in Mr. Brymner’s _Report on Canadian Archives_ for 1890, Note B, p. 10. See also Shortt and Doughty, _Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada_, 1759-91, and Egerton and Grant, _Canadian Constitutional Developments_. [201] Compare the very similar language used by Carleton in a private memorandum written in 1786 and quoted in note 3, p. 551, Shortt and Doughty. [202] No. 46 in ‘Papers relative to the province of Quebec ordered to be printed April 21, 1791’. The Order in Council is referred to in Lord Dorchester’s Commission as having been made on August 19, 1791; but that was the date on which the report was made upon which the Order was based. The boundary line sketched out in the Parliamentary Paper, and adopted almost word for word in the Order in Council, was again adopted by Sec. 6 of the British North America Act of 1867, when the Dominion was formed and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, i.e. Upper and Lower Canada, were, after having been re-united by the Act of 1840, again separated from each other.