Succeeded William Osgoode
as chief-justice of Upper Canada, 1796, and again as chief-justice of
Lower Canada, 1802. At the same time became a member of the Executive
Council. In February, 1803, appointed president of the Legislative
Council--a position he held until his death. =Index=: =S= Becomes
chief-justice, 178. =Bk= His death, 69. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._;
Read, _Lives of the Judges_.
=Embargo.= =Bk= On United States ships, 83, 108; benefits Canadian
trade, 109, 115; disastrous effects of, both in United States and in
England, 110, 111; withdrawn, 114.
=Emigration.= =Sy= Sydenham's views on, 321; grant by British government
in aid of, 322.
=Emulous.= =Bk= British ship, prizes taken by, 224.
=End, William.= =W= Votes against address of New Brunswick Assembly, 46;
referred to by Wilmot, 95; moves amendment in regard to money grants,
97; interrupts Wilmot's speech, 108, 109.
=Endemare, Father.= =Ch= Jesuit, goes to Fort Ste. Anne in Cape Breton,
237.
=England.= =Bk= At war with republican France, 8; its invasion
threatened, 10; mutiny in the fleet and insubordination in the army, 11;
isolation of, 23; makes peace of Amiens, 30; declares war with France,
44; threatened by Napoleon, 71; the Berlin Decrees directed against, 81;
without an ally in Europe, 82; orders-in-council in reply to Berlin
Decrees, 93, 106, 111, 120; intense anxiety in, as to war in Peninsula
(1811), 140; prostration of trade, 167; neglect of military protection
of Canada (1812), 184; its main force necessarily concentrated on
struggle in Europe, 269.
=English Colonies.= =F= Goods cheap in, 154; pay better price for furs,
154, 175, 201; political confusion prevailing in, after downfall of
James II, 263. =WM= Colonists sell goods to Indians on more advantageous
terms than the French, 21.
=English Colonization.= =WM= Egoism the principle of, 17; Parkman on,
20; demoralizing effect of, 20. =Bib.=: Fiske, _New France and New
England_.
=English Law.= =Hd= Introduction of, by the royal proclamation, 59. =Dr=
Sometimes inconsistently invoked by those who in general objected
thereto, 40.
=English Settlers in Canada.= =Dr= Position taken by, 9; find French
laws irksome, 12; Murray's description of, 14, 24, 26; send delegate to
England, 16; petition for Murray's recall, 17; described by Carleton,
47; object to Carleton's ordinance of 1770, with respect to
administration of justice, 55.
=Enos, General Roger= (1729-1808). =Hd= In
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