1. Canada will be a free and independent state. 2. It can form alliances with France and the United States. 3. The Canadians will choose their own government; they will themselves name the members of the legislative body and the executive power. 4. The veto will be abolished. 5. All persons who have obtained the right of citizenship in Canada can be named for all offices. 6. The Corvées will be abolished. 7. Commerce will enjoy a more extensive liberty. 8. There will be no longer any privileged company for the fur trade. The new government will encourage this trade. 9. The seigneurial _droits_ will be abolished. The _lods et ventes_, the millrights, the tolls, the lumber reservations, work for the service of the seigneur, etc., will be equally abolished. 10. Hereditary titles will be also abolished. There will be no lords, seigneurs or nobles. 11. All cults will be free. Catholic priests named by the people as in the primitive church will enjoy a treatment analogous to their ability. 12. Schools will be established in the parishes and towns; there will be printing offices; institutions for the high sciences; medicine and mathematics. Interpreters will be trained who, known for their good morals, will be encouraged to civilize the savage nations and by this means to extend the trade with them. In spite of these inflammatory circulars, and outside those immediately disaffected, the majority of the Canadians were in good disposition with the government. They would have resisted an American invasion without hesitation. When their own people tampered with them and offered to regain Canada to the French it is only natural that many should have been unsettled. But it must clearly be understood that the reports of the French emissaries being in the country were not the dreams of visionaries. It was expected in many quarters that Napoleon, the First Consul, would have redemanded Canada at the general treaty of peace. Canada was desired for the French “as an outlet for French products and for the means of speculation to an infinite number of Frenchmen who have no resources in their own country.” The last quotation occurs in a letter dated January 12, 1803, from France by an ex-Canadian, Mr. Imbert, to a brother of Judge Panet.