[107] At the trials at York in October, 1818, Sherwood, the North-West Company's counsel, continually demanded to know why Semple was called governor. "Why," he exclaimed, with ludicrous energy, "why should this gentleman be continually dignified by the appellation of governor? The indictment charged that Robert Semple was killed and murdered; it said nothing about his being a governor. If he was a governor, then he was also an emperor. Yes, gentlemen," shrieked the counsel, working himself up to fever heat, "I repeat, an emperor--a bashaw in that land of milk and honey, where nothing, not even a blade of corn, will ripen. Who made him governor? Did the King? Did the Prince Regent? No; this pretended authority was an illegal assumption of power, arrogating to itself prerogatives such as are not exercised even by the King of England. I demand that Robert Semple be called Robert Semple--but as he was not a governor let us not be ----" "Come, come," cried Chief Justice Powell, "do let this trial go on! It is no matter whether he was or was not a governor, or what he was called, or called himself, he is not to be murdered, though he was not a governor." [108] "Ses postes," says Senator Masson, "avient été pillés et devastés; ses exportatiors considerablement sédintes." On the other hand, he adds, these losses were partly compensated for by the high prices secured in England for their furs. [109] Wentzel. CHAPTER XXXIII. 1821-1847. The Deed Poll -- A Governor-in-Chief Chosen -- A Chaplain Appointed -- New License from George IV. -- Trade on the Pacific Coast -- The Red River Country Claimed by the States -- The Company in California -- The Oregon Question -- Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1825 -- The _Dryad_ Affair -- Lieutenant Franklin's two Expeditions -- Red River Territory Yielded to Company -- Enterprise on the Pacific. By the terms of the Deed Poll, the immediate control of the Company's affairs in its territory passed from the hands of a committee sitting in London, to a personage known as Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land and his council. His commission extended over all the Company's lands and possessions, with an unlimited tenure of office. The council was to be composed of chief factors, and occasionally a few chief traders, who were to meet at some convenient centre for the purposes of consultation, this particular feature being a survival of the rendezvous of Fort William. The chartered territories and circuit of commercial relations were divided into vast sections, known as the Northern, Southern, Montreal and Western Departments. The Northern extended between Hudson's Bay and the Rocky Mountains, the Southern, between James' Bay and Canada, including a part of the eastern shore of Hudson's Bay. [Sidenote: Governor Simpson.]