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[newspaper clipping CANADIAN FLOUR.-The Liverpool Journal states
that the importation of wheat and flour from Canada
into Great Britain last year was 278,761 barrels
of flour and 141,931 minots of wheat, each minot
being equal to three bushels. Those engaged in
the trade expect that the importation of the present
year will reach 700,000 barrels of flour and
wheat in proportion.]

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settlement of the boundary line of the river St. Lawrence
The Yankee Commissioners thought the name too
aristocratic for the democratic notions of the commonwealth,
and changed the name in the charts to the cognominal
of Wells' Island. Here after completing the
required quantity of wood with the intention of proceeding
on her voyage at daylight, the passengers and
crew had retired early to rest.

At midnight when all was hushed in sleep
Johnson with his infernal gang rushed from his concealment
boarded the vessel with the loudest imprecations
seized the crew, captured and made prisoners the gentlemen
passengers, turned the ladies into the forest to
shift for themselves and then plundered and set fire
to the vessel. conducting the passengers as prisoners
to his station at Fort Wallace where they were compelled
to pay a ransom before they could be released from
the captivity of this lawless vagabond.

Six months afte the destruction of this vessel
it was he who concocted and directed the expedition to
Prescot, which was to terminate in the total and entire
subjugation of Canada of which I have already spoken
in the account of my voyage from Montreal to Kingston.

When the rebels surrendered themselves as
prisoners of war on that occasion immediate search
and every enquiry was made by the British for Johnson
but he was no where to be found. It was subsequently
ascertained that he had no sooner landed Shultz with
his body of sympathizers, and seen them firmly established
as he termed it in a proper position to erect