or coal. She arrived at Gravesend in twenty-five
days from Pictou--the first vessel to cross the Atlantic wholly under
steam. She had been named by Lady Aylmer, wife of the governor-general,
after William IV. A few days after her arrival in London, the vessel was
chartered as a troop-ship by the Portuguese government. In 1894, on the
occasion of the opening of the Colonial Conference at Ottawa, Lord
Aberdeen unveiled a tablet in the entrance to the Library of Parliament,
bearing this inscription: "In honour of the men by whose enterprise,
courage and skill the ROYAL WILLIAM, the first vessel to cross the
Atlantic by steam power, was wholly constructed in Canada, and navigated
to England in 1833. The pioneer of those mighty fleets of ocean steamers
by which passengers and merchandise of all nations are now conveyed over
every sea throughout the world." =Bib.=: Fleming, _Notes on Ocean Steam
Navigation_ (Can. Inst. _Trans._, 1891-1892); Christie, _History of
Lower Canada_.

=Royal William, H. M. S.= =WM= Conveys Wolfe's remains to England, 238.

=Ruette d'Auteuil, Denis-Joseph.= =L= Crown prosecutor, 167; temporarily
banished from Quebec, 168. =F= Attorney-general, 106; death of, 138.

=Ruette d'Auteuil, Francois-Madeleine-Fortune.= =F= Son of Denis,
succeeds him, 138; makes trouble for Intendant Meulles, 174; waits on
Frontenac, 255.

=Rumigny.= =WM= At Sillery, directs artillery fire on enemy on opposite
shore, 161.

=Rupert's Land.= The name applied to the territories of the Hudson's Bay
Company, particularly to that portion lying west of Hudson Bay and east
of the Rocky Mountains. The Company held these lands under royal charter
granted by Charles II in 1670. The first governor of the Company was
Prince Rupert, after whom the territories were named. The Company's
title was repeatedly challenged, but its validity was always upheld by
the law officers of the crown. In 1869 the territories were transferred
to Canada, for the sum of L300,000, the company retaining certain blocks
of land around their trading-posts and one-twentieth of the arable land
of the country. _See also_ Hudson's Bay Company; North-West Territories.

=Rupert, Prince= (1619-1683). Third son of the elector palatine,
Frederick V, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England. Served in
the army during the Thirty Years' War; commanded the royal cavalry in
the Civil War in England. Returned to England at the Restoration. The
first governor of the Hu