He was succeeded by a man of wholly different type, Sir George Prevost, who endeared himself greatly to the French Canadians; but internal differences were soon to be overshadowed by foreign invasion, for in one year to the day from the date when Sir James Craig left Canada, Madison, President of the United States, issued a proclamation which began the war of 1812. FOOTNOTES: [216] He belonged to the same family as the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies. [217] The Lieutenant-Governor in question was Mr., afterwards Sir, F. Burton. His commission was dated November 29, 1808, but he did not go out to Canada till 1822. He left Canada in 1828, but did not cease to be Lieutenant-Governor, as his commission was renewed on October 25, 1830--the year of King William the Fourth’s accession. An Act passed in 1782, 22 Geo. III, cap. 75, commonly known as Burke’s Act, provided against the holding of Patent offices in the Colonies and Plantations in America and the West Indies by sinecurists living in England. The operation of this Act was greatly extended, and the granting of leave restricted by a subsequent Act of 1814, 54 Geo. III, cap. 61. [218] See Brymner’s _Report on Canadian Archives_ for 1892, Introduction, p. xlix. [219] _The Canadian War of 1812._ [220] See the _Memoir of Sir James Craig_, quoted at length on pp. 343-5 of vol. i of Christie’s _History of the Late Province of Lower Canada_, 1848. The notice of Craig in the _Dictionary of National Biography_ says that he was sent home with dispatches after the taking of Ticonderoga, which seems to be incorrect. [221] Letter of August 6, 1810, Christie’s _History of Lower Canada_, vol. vi, p. 129. [222] Letter of September 10, 1810, Christie’s _History of Lower Canada_, vol. vi, p. 157. [223] The departments of War and the Colonies were combined under one Secretary of State in 1801. This lasted till 1854, when a separate Secretary of State for War was appointed. [224] Ryland to Craig, August 4, and September 1, 1810. Christie, vol. vi, pp. 124, 149. [225] Letter of November 9, 1810, Christie, vol. vi, p. 166. The main dispatch is dated May 1, 1810. [226] Letter to Craig, August 23, 1810, Christie, vol. vi, p. 146. [227] Letter to Craig, November 9, 1810, Christie, vol. vi, p. 169. [228] 3 and 4 Vic., cap. 30. [229] _History of Lower Canada_, vol. i, p. 350. [Illustration: MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE BOUNDARY OF CANADA _to face page 322_ TREATIES subsequent to the Treaty of 1783, under which the boundary line was fixed either directly or by Commission or Arbitration +---+ _Treaty of Ghent 24 Dec 1814_ | 1 | _Article 4._ +---+ +---+ _Jay’s Treaty of 19 Nov 1794_ | 2 | _Article 5._ +---+ +---+ _Treaty of Washington 9 Aug 1842_ | 3 | _Article 1._ +---+ +---+ _Treaty of Ghent 24 Dec 1814_ | 4 | _Article 6._ +---+