Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-11-23
From the N. r. Commercial Advertiser
OLE THE CANADIAN EEIIDS


correspondent has sent us the following
proceedings OF the court at Quebec, on an i'll
nlctment fOrmurder, against several of thepart-
ners and servants OF the North West COMPANY.
lhe complaint, on which the indictment was
grounded, was, at will be recollected, prefer
red by Lord SelkiIk. Our CORRESPONDENT
heard the opinion that was offered nv the
CNIef Justice, IN relation to one or two points
o' IA" which were discussed by tile Counsel
and he expresses the belief that the indictment
VIII eventually be TeliDqushed. He adds,
mat the subject is now before the British Par
Lament but it will undoubtedly be referred
oacN 20 me provinces. and note ProsegHi will
close the unpleasant affair
Court OF Oyer and Terminer for the District
OF Quebec, and the Indian Territories, open
e" ny Commission under the Great Seal
dated 18th April, 1918, and continued by adj
loninment TO The 2lst October 1910
IL appeared, in the course of the pTnceed-
,n%S III the session of the Commission, that in
November, 1918, d memorial was presented TO
MS Grace tie Duke of Richmond, on the part
OF the North West Company, pravinp thar a
sPeclai Court OF oyer and TeTmlneT might
take, TO hear and determine all cases arising
~ the Indian territories. An early reply was
gwen that a coHrt would open for that pur-
pose on the 2ist October, 1919, and that the
crown would, ~ due lime. give notice to the
parties. On the 9th Of May last the crown
gave notice that court wpnld he held at One
Dec on the 2ud of November inst. for that pnr.
pose, and the notice was Immediately acted
upon by those of the North West Company in
tFfeSted therein IL was forthwith desDatCtpd
''io the interior, and those who were rnpIica.
te" IN the accusations brought forward by the
Far OF Seikirk, were appTized of il, as time
ana distance would allow. II appeared how
ever, that some time after this notice had been
gwen to the North West Company, the agent
"a Tie Earl OF SeIkrk, notwithstanding that
ms lOrdShlp had, as appeared by his printed
memorial produced in court also petitoned
go'ernment ~ tbs country, in October. 1915,
mat commission of Over and Terminer for
TIE same purposes should issue; had ex-
Phcltly stated to government that the private
prosecutor, the Earl of Selkifk } was not rea-
Iy ana that probably the earliest time when
We might be ready wOuld be the autumn of
1870 An intimatiou to this effect was, in con.
sequence, given on the 10th June to the prin-
clpal agent Of the North West Company. then
absent from the province and actually IN the
lhuldnteTriiories period when il was much
TOO late, even had the thing been itself rea-
S0uable and the preparations for the an
preaching expected trials, though at great ex-
pence. necessarily went on, pursuant TO the
hIst notice, However, on the "a Of October
thP pariiesacCused found IL exBedieut TO Iay a
memorial before the President, against any
iuFtheT prolracioH Of their trials IN reply TO
which. his Honor stated that n Commission Of
oyer and Iermnei forMg friai Of oHences COM
HAtted an tie lHdiGn territories. had issued on
the 18th OF April, ISIS aud was continued by
adjournment 20 the 2lst Of October, and wouId
open on that day" where legal course and re
dftsS mnst be sought for by the persons inte-
rested therein"
Accordingly, severa' gentlemen belonging
tJ The North W est COMPANY with UPWARDS of
20 witnesses, collected from distances of from
l"otO tve tbousand miles appeared on the o.
pPning OF tile courts when the names of the
accused, 20 wit, Archibald Norman MTeod |
James Leith, Alexander Macdonald, Arcih-