[176] Jones, ii. 645–654. Wilmot, _Historical View of the Commission for Enquiry into the Losses, etc._, London, 1815. Ryerson, ii. 159–182. _Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson_, ii. 435–437. Sabine, i. 86–90. In March, 1784, the number of persons who had preferred their petitions was 2,063, and the alleged losses £7,046,278, besides outstanding debts in America amounting to £2,354,135. “In 1788 Mr. Pitt submitted a plan for classifying the claimants, and of classifying and apportioning the nature and amount of consolation to be allotted to each; and to those whose losses had been caused principally by the deprivation of official or professional incomes, he proposed a system of pensions. By the 5th of April, this year (1790), the Commissioners in England had heard and determined 1,680 claims, and had liquidated the same at the sum of £1,887,548. It appeared, finally, that the number of applicants from England, and from the Canadian provinces, attained to the aggregate of 5,072, of which 954 either withdrew their applications or failed to press them, and the sum of the losses is stated to have been £8,026,045. Another return is made out by Mr. J. E. Wilmot, one of the Commissioners, wherein the amount of the claim is given as £10,358,413, and the amount of the claims allowed at £3,033,091. The subject was again raised in Parliament in 1821, but though there was much sympathy expressed for the sufferings of those who had trusted to their country to recompense their fidelity, the sympathy exhausted itself in words.” See also Lecky, _England in the Eighteenth Century_, iv. 268. Curwen, 367, 368. [177] Ryerson, ii. 127. _No. Am. Rev._, lix. 279. Hawkins, _Missions of the Church of England_, 249. _The Frontier Missionary, or Life of the Rev. Jacob Bailey_, by W. S. Bartlett, New York, 1853 (Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society, vol. ii.). This work gives a pathetic account of the hardships and privations undergone by the exiles in Nova Scotia, as well as a graphic picture of the methods used by the town committees in New England with those who adhered to the cause of the king. [178] Hawkins, _Missions_, 371–3. Ryerson, ii. 206. _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings_, Oct., 1886, p. 95. For the treatment of the loyalists in the United States after the treaty of peace, see especially Jones, _Hist. New York_, vol. ii. Roberts, _Hist. of New York_, ii. 449 ff. Lecky (_Hist. England in the Eighteenth Century_, iv. 267) remarks rather sharply: “The loyalists to a great extent sprung from and represented the old gentry of the country. The prospect of seizing their property had been one great motive which induced many to enter the war. The owners of the confiscated property now grasped the helm. New men exercised the social influence of the old families, and they naturally dreaded the restoration of those whom they had displaced.” [179] _Vide supra_, Note 11.