=Barrington, William Wildman, second Viscount= (1717-1793). Entered Parliament, 1740. Lord commissioner of Admiralty, 1746; a privy councillor, 1755; chancellor of the exchequer, 1761; treasurer of the navy, 1762; secretary of war, 1765-1768; joint postmaster-general, 1782. =Index=: =Hd= Informs Haldimand he owes promotion to the king, 83; summary sent him of Haldimand's expenses, 107; compliments Haldimand, 113; promises Haldimand pay as inspector-general, 329. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Barron, Commodore= (1769-1851). Born in Virginia. In command of the _Chesapeake_, on board which were some British deserters, 1807. On the refusal of Barron to give them up, the British frigate _Leopard_ attacked and compelled his surrender. Court-martialled and suspended from rank and pay for five years. Fought and killed Commodore Decatur in a duel, 1820. Became senior officer of the navy, 1839. =Index=: =Bk= Enlists deserters from British ships on board _Chesapeake_, 83, 85. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._; _Correspondence between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron_. =Barter.= =L= Practised in colony in early days, 122. =Barthe, J. G.= Member for Yamaska in Canadian Assembly, 1841-1844. =Index=: =BL= Takes part in Rebellion of 1837; afterwards edits _L'Avenir du Canada_; member for Yamaska; offered and refuses seat in Cabinet, 236. =Basques.= A pre-Aryan race, occupying the border-land between France and Spain. Assertions have repeatedly been made that they made voyages to America, and discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence, before Cartier, and even before Cabot, but these have never been substantiated. All the evidence goes to show that they frequented the Newfoundland fisheries in the sixteenth century, but not earlier. =Index=: =Ch= Contraband traders, 140; threaten French on St. Pierre Island, 174. =Bib.=: Dawson, _The St. Lawrence Basin_; Reade, _The Basques in North America_ (R. S. C., 1888); Howley, _Old Basque Tombstones at Placentia_. =Bathurst, Henry, third Earl= (1762-1834). Succeeded to the title, 1794. Entered Parliament, 1793; president of the board of trade, 1807; foreign secretary, 1809; and secretary for war and the colonies, 1812. Directed Britain's colonial policy during the important administrations of Prévost, Sherbrooke, and Dalhousie, in Lower Canada, and of Gore and Maitland, in Upper Canada. Lord president of the Council, 1828-1830; one of the original members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1833. =Index=: =Sy= Colonial secretary, his despatch on Clergy Reserves question, 240. =Bk= His despatch praising Brock and his officers and announcing bestowal of K. C. B. on Brock, 296. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; _Courts and Cabinets of George IV_. =Batiscan.= =Ch= Montagnais chief, 68. =Batoche.= =Md= Storming of rebel camps at, 242. _See also_ Riel Rebellion, 1885. =Battle of the Plains.= _See_ Quebec, Siege of, 1759.