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APPENDIX G.

Certified copy of a Beport of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council J
approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the 28th|
February, 1894.

On a memorandum, dated 20th February, 1894, from the Minister of Marine anc
Fisheries, submitting herewith a pamphlet prepared by Captain F. C. Wurlele, Hon-I
orary Libiarian of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, free of charge, in
which evidence is collected establishing the fact that the " fioyal William " was the
first vessel to cross the Atlantic, propelled by steam, and recommending that the
same be referred to the Secretary of State for publication or for such other actiot
as may be by him deemed advisable.

The Minister also recommends that ho be authorized to convey to Captain WurJ
tele the thanks of the Government of Canada for his services in this matter.

The Committee submit the same for your Excellency's approval.

JOHN J. McGEB,

Clerk of the Privy Council.

The Honourable

The Secretary of State.

SS. "ROYAL WILLIAM."

THE PIONEER OF TRANSATLANTIC STEAM NAVIGATION.

To Canada and Canadians belongs the honour of inaugurating transatlantic stear
navigation by building, equipping, and sending to sea the steamship "Royal
William." She was built, as a steamship, in Cape Cove, under the clift's of Cape
Diamond at the city of Quebec, with whose merchants alone rests the honour o^
sending her on that voyage acroos the Atlantic Ocean, which she performed by the
continuous use of her steam engines.

This honour bus been disputed and the claim is made in Britain that it be
awarded to tho steamers " Sirius" and " Great Western", and in the United State^
to a vessel named the " Savannah " ; to refute these claims is the raison d'itre o\
this brochure.

It had evidently ever been the desire of tho British Government, througl
its representative at Quebec, to bind more closely and firmly the Maritime Provinceej
and Old Canada, by easier and speedier means of inter-communication than b}
schooners and the land transport of the day. The initial step to that end was the
passing of the Act intituled " An Act for the encouragement of the trade and inter-]
course between the ports of Quebec and Halifax"; next the building of the Inter-
colonial Railway fiom Quebec to Halifax in 187'>, the link between Quebec and Monj
treal via the Grand Trunk Railway having been in operation for many years; and
lastly tho completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1887 from Montreal tc
Vancouver, making one unbroken railway on Canadian soil from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, thus strengthening the Confederation of 1867 and assisting to weld together
into one nation the component provinces of this grand Dominion of Canada.

As the outcome of this Act and its amendments was the building of the ssJ
" Royal William," it will be in order to give it and also the Act of incorporation o^
the " Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company," at length :

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

ANNO QUINTO GEORGII IV., CAP. XX., 1825.

An Act for the encouragement of the trade and intercourse between the ports of

Quebec and Halifax, March 22, 1825.

preamble:

Whereas it is expedient to appropriate a sum of money for the encouragement
of the communication and more easy intercourse between the ports of Quebec and
Halifax, and for the advancement of Navigation and the Trade between Canada and
Nova Scotia, and whereas, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the
Commons of Lower Canada in Provincial Parliament assembled, have in the present
Bessiou freely reuolved to grant for the purposes aforesaid an aid to Your Majesty :
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enactedj and be it enacted by the
King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and Assembly of the Province of Lower Canada, constituted and assembled by
virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain
intituled " An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His
Majesty's reign, intituled ' An Act for making more effectual provision for the Gov-
ernment of the Province of Quebec, in North America', and to make further pro-
vision for the Government of the said province," and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same that it shall be lawful for the Governour, Lieut.-Governour, or
person administering the Government of the Province for the time being, to advance
and pay by a Warrant or Warrants, under his hand, out of any unappropriated
monies that may come into the hands of the Eeceiver General of the Province for the
time being, the sum of fifteen hundred pounds currency by three equal and annual
payments to the first person or company that shall cause a steam vessel of not less
than 600 tons burthen, to be built and regularly navigated between the ports of Quebec
and Halifax, during four years, each payment to be made after the termination of
the first voyage, each year, for three successive years.

II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that
previous to the first payment, to be made under and in virtue of this Act, sufficient
security shall be required and given before some one of His Majesty's Justices of the
Court of King's Bench, that such Steam Vessel shall, for at least four successive
years regularly ply between the ports of Quebec and Halifax, solely (accidents
always excepted) entering only, if the owner or owners shall so think proper
at the intermediate ports or places, which security so taken shall be transmitted to
and deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Province.

' III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the due appli-
•ation of the monies appropriated under this Act shall be accounted for to His
Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's
Treasury for the time being, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and
Successors shall be pleased to direct.

10th & llTH GEO. IV., CAP. XXXII. 1830.

An Act to repeal a certain Act therein mentioned, and for the encouragement of the
Trade and intercourse between the Ports of this province .'ind Halifax, March
26, 1830.

PREAMBLE.

Whereas, it is expedient that more .effectual encouragement be offered for the
establishment of an easy direct intercourse by means of steam vessels, between this
Province and the Province of Nova Scotia, and that a certain Act passed in the fifth
year of Your Majesty's reign and intituled " An Act for the encouragement of Trade
and intercourse between the ports of Quebec and Halifax" be repealed; may it,
therefore, please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the

DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the consent and advice of the Legisla.
tive Council and Assembly in the Province of Lower Canada, constituted and as.
sembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of
Great Britain intituled " An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the
fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign intituled < An Act for making more effectual
provision for the government of the province of Quebec, in North America,' and to
make further piovision for the Government of the said province; " and it is hereby
enacted by the authority aforesaid thai the said Act passed in the fifth year of His
Majesty's reign bo and the same is hereby repealed.

II. And be it fVirther enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall be lawful
for the Governour, Lieutenant-Governoui, or person administering the Government,
to issue his Warrant for the payment out of any unappropriaied monies in the
hands of the Eeceiver General of a sum not exceeding three thousand pounds cur-
rency, which sum shall bo paid in the manner and under the provisions hereinafter
set forth, to the person or company who shall first cause a steam vessel of not less
than 500 tons burthen to be regularly navigated for four successive years (the first
of which may commence in all of the month of August), between the Port of
Quebec and other Ports in the Biver St. Lawrence and the Port of Halifax, during
such part of the year as the navigation between the said ports shall remain safe and
open, the dangers of navigation always excepted.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that of the sum
hereby appropriated, the sum of £1,250 currency shall be paid to the person or
company immediately after the close of the firat season during which the said vessel
shall have been so navigated, a further sum of £1,000 currency immediately after
the close of the second season during which such vessel shall have been so navigated,
and the remaining sum of £750 currency, immediately after the close of the third
season, during which such vessel shall have been so navigated.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no such payment
or advance shall be so made at the close of any season unless the said vessel and
machinery shall have been insured until the close of the season then next following,
in a sum not less than the said sum then to be advanced, and also any sum previously
advanced.

y. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that His Majesty, His
Heirs and Successorn, shall have a special privilege and lien on the said vessel and the
machinery therein, and on the sum whicn may be recovered from the insurers in
case of the loss or partial loss of the said vessel, for the repayment of any sum or
sums advanced and paid under the authority of this Act, if the said vessel shall not
be so regularly navigated during four successive years as aforesaid, and that such
privilege and lien shall date from the passing of this Act, and shall have preference
over every other privilege, lien or claim whatsoever.

YI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such repayment
(if any there be) shall be made to the Beceiver General of this Province, and the
sum or sums so repaid shall remain in his hands and await the disposal of the Pro-
vincial Legislature for the public uses of the Province.

YII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the due applica-
tion of the monies appropriated by this Act shall be accounted for to His Majesty,
his Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Cnmroissioners of His Majesty's Trea-
sury for the time being, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and
successors shall be pleased to direct.

It will thus be seen that the amount, six thousand dollars, offered in 1829 by the
Government to any person or company for maintaining steam communication
between Quebec and Halifax was insufficient, therefore nothing was attempted.
But the Government, wishing to obtain this steam service, doubled the amount in
1830 by a new Act, which had the desired effect, for in 1831 tho "Quebec and
Halifax Steam Navigation Company" was organized, incorporated, and active

SS. ROTAL WILLIAM.

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operations instituted. On looking through the list of shareholders of that oompanv,
(3) three names are found, " Samuel, Henry and Joseph Cunard," and from the lively
interest they took in the naval success of the " Hoyal William," it may be Justly
admitted ihat thereby originated the idea of a line of steamers which culminated
in the famous " Cunard Line."

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FIRST YEAR WILLIAM IV., CAP. XXXIII.— 1831.

An Act to incorporate the Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company,

March, 1831.

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Whereas : —

John Forsyth,
John Caldwell,
William Price,
William Pemberton,
John Saxton Campbell,
James Hamilton,
Hypolite Dubord,
Charles A. Holt,
Samuel Neilson,
Robert Shaw,
James Stanfield,
John Jones, Jr.
Alexander Simpson,
Charles Francis Roy,
Duncan McCallum,
Joseph Dyke,
John Malcolm Fraser,
John Miller,
John Lambly,
David Logan, .
Robert Dalkin,
Archibald Campbell,
John Mclicod,
Robert Richai*d8on,
Joachim Mordor,

PREAMBLE :

William Walker,
Jeremiah Leaycraft,
Matthew Bell,
George Pemberton,
Robert Patterson,
James Gibb,
Noah Freer,
Francis Bell,
William Lampson,
William Philips,
Willifim Sheppard,
Benjamin Torrance,
James Clearihue,
Joseph Stowe Shaw,
Colin McCallum,
Robert Pope Ross,
John Bell,
James McKenzie,
Alexander Morrison,
George Taylor,
JohnMunn,
William Henry Roy,
John Kerr,
Thomas Gibb,
James Edie,

William Finlay,
Henry Lemesurier,
George Keys,
Henry Pemberton,
Robert Shortis,
Charles Felix Aylwin,
Augustus Freer,
James Hunt,
John Leather,
John Ryan,
Thomas Tucker,
William Henderson,
Peter Patterson,
John Racey,
George Black,
John Fraser,
James Saunders,
Margaret Urquhart,
Thomas Gordon,
Allison Davie,
John Douglas,
William Carter.
Robert Denston,
Dominic Daly,
Alexander Clarke,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

John Ricbai-dBon,
Adam L. MoNider,
Hector Russell,
Charles William Grant,
William Bitohie,
Andrew Shaw,
Biohard Tromain,
Alexander Morison,
James Mitchell,
Joseph Starr,
James Bridge,
Temple Lewis Piers
George Smith,
Alexander McDonald,
J. Tobin,
Edward Potter,
Eliza Leggate,
Adam Duchezeau,
Conrad West,
Bichard Davis,
John Johnson,
Alexander Primrose,
David Hare,
Andrew Fraser,
James T. Avery,
Jonathan Tremain,
William Mortimer,
William M. Allen,
Patrick Boss,
BufuB Black,
George Barton,
James Wilkie,
James Robb,
A. P. E. Boss,
Jasper Bouast,
Joseph Allison,
Philip J. Holland,
William Macara,
William Foster,
James Donaldson,
Thomas H. Peters,
John Fraser,
Hugh Morrell,
Bichard Blackstock,
Bobert Henderson,
John Hawbolt,
J. A. Johnson,
Thomas C. Allen,
Henry Cunard,
Joseph Samuel,
Caleb McCully,
Francis Peabody,
Francis Durette,
John Torrance,

George Moffatt,
John Torrance,
Hart Logan,
Horatio Gates,
James Breckenridge,
Samuel Cunard,
Henry Prior,
Frederick H. Clark,
J. G. A. Creighton,
Andrew Belclier,
Bobert Bomans,
John Alexander Barry,
John Howe,
James MacDonald,
Michael Tobin,
James H. Tldmarsh,
William Brehm,
Nicholas LoCain,
John Stayner,
James Bilchie,
John Johnson, jr.,
Alexander McGregor,
Thomas Maynard,
Peter McNab,
Bobert Dawson,
J. Boggs,
John Barron,
Joseph Anston,
James Lishman,
Joseph D;rby,
Samuel Davis.
Samuel Mitchell,
James L. Stairs,
' J. Pi'imrose,
Allan McDonald
George Young,
Daniel Starr,
Charles Keeflor,
John Bomans,
Benjamin Schneller,
James A. Sti-eet,
Andrew Creme,
William Locke,
Christopher Clarke,
Joseph Bussell,
James Lotson,
Alexander P. Henderson,
William Cowan, jr.,
William Eade,
Mary Little,
Alexander Shirroff,
Martin Cramey,
James Black,

Peter McGill,
Bobert N. Harwood,
Lewis Gugy,
Nathaniel Jones,
William Budden,
Bichard Harvey, sr.
John Batchford, jr.,
Edward Deblois,
Thomas Grassie,
George Bundall,
Adam Esson,
James Bain,
George Bussell,
William Cariff,
George P. Lawson,
Alexander Keith,
Henry Lockyer,
George Hard ley,
Bichard Marshall,
Charles Dewolf,
Charles Fairbanks,
John Munro,
Thomas Grant,
Bobert Downes,
William Black,
George Hartshorne,
William Stairs,
George Innes,
William F. Young,
George Turner,
Francis LeCain,
David Starr,
Edward M. Archibald,
James McNab,
J. Shannon,
William Young,
L. Yates,
Charles Bigby,
William Woodill,
Alexander Bankin,
Alexander Fraser, jr.,
Joseph Allison,
Joseph Cunard,
Gilbert Henderson,
Patrick Henderson,
Asa Willard,
John S. Willaston,
Geoi'ge Taylor,
Edward McQuillan,
Daniel Keith,
John S. Gavin Bainnie,
Alexander Key,
James McDonald,

By their humble petition have represented that they have become subscribers
to and have associated for the purpose of establishing Steam Navigation between
the Ports of Quebec and Halifax in the Province of Nova Scotia, and other places,
which they conceive would not only facilitate and extend the intercourse between

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

these Ports, but be conducive to the advancement of all His Maiosty's Colonies in
North America; and they the said Hubsoribers are apprehensive that the said objects
cannot at all or but imperfectly be attained unless they are incorporated and sub*
jected to such rules and regulations as the nature of such an undertaking may
require, and therefore have prayed that for promoting the object of such Association
they, the subscribers and thoir assigns, may be incorporated: — Bo it therefore
enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, bv and with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council and Assombly of the Province of Lower Canada, consti-
tuted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in
the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled "An act to repeal certain parts of an Act
paHsed in the 14th year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, ' An Act for making more
effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Canada in North
America,' and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province,"
and it is hereby enacted that the several persons hereinabove named, subscribers to
the said undertaking, their several respective successors, heirs, executors, curators,
administrators, assigns, shall be and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared
to be one body corporate and politic by the name of the " Quebec and Halifax Steam
Navigation Company," and by this name they and their successors forever hereafter
have perpetual succession, and shall and may be by the same name by persons
capable in the law to sue be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be
anhwered, and to defend and be defended in all the Courts and places whatsoever,
and of what nature and kind whatsoever ; and that they and their successors may have
a common Seal and may change and alter the same at their pleasure, and also that
the}'^ and their successors, by the name of the "Quebec and Halifax Steam Naviga-
tion Company," shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any
real or personal estate for the use of the said Corporation. Provided such real and

Sersonal estate at any one time held by the said "Quebec and Halifax Steam
favigation Company " shall not exceed sixteen thousand pounds Currency.

II. And be it further enacted by the author! < '^foresaid, that a share in the
sum of £16.000 currency subscribed or to be hereaii') tiubscribed in the said under-
taking, shall be at the rate of £25 Currency for eaci and every share, and such
shares as aforesaid shall be and the same are hereby vested in the several persons
hereinbefore named and in the several persons who shall become new subscribers to
the said undertaking in manner hereafter enacted, and in the several and respective
successors, heirs, executors, curators, administrators and assigns, proportionally to
the sum which they and each of them now have severally and respectively sub-
scribed, or hereafter shall severally and respectively subscribe and pay into the
hands of the Treasurer of the said Company, to bo appointed in the manner herein-
after directed, and such proprietors of each of such shares as aforesaid, severally
and respectively, shall be entitled to receive the entire and net distribution of one
proportional part or share of and in the profit and advantage that shall or may
thorefrom arise and accrue, and so on in proportion for any greater number of
shares which such subscriber may own.

III. Each subscriber shall have one vote for each share of stock either person-
ally or by pro.<cy. And all questions in any public mooting shall bo decided by the
majority of votes, chairman to have the casting vote although he shall have voted
before. Parts of shai'es have no vote in any form.

IV. The stockholders may raise a further sum not exceeding in the whole
£16,000 for the purposes of this Act.

V. Such persons shall be considered constituent members of the said body
politic and corporate by this Act.

VI. If the sum be not sufficient, the Corporation may borrow £5,000 more by
mortgage on any steam vessel or steam vessels of the company.

VII. The first general meeting of Stockholders will be held in the New Ex-
change in Lower Town of Quebec on the third Tuesday from and after passing of
this Act, at one o'clock P. M., and the like general meeting shall bo held on the last
Tuesday of January, in overy year afterward, at one o'clock P. M.

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VIII. At the firritgoneral mooting of Stockholderd a Committeo of nine shall be
nnmod of whom five Hhall form a quorum, to manage the affairn of the Company,
The firHtCommittoo mo choHon at tno first general meeting nhall remain inotHco utitil
the first of February of the following year and no longer. And the Shareholdi-rs
shall elect any number of momberH not Iohh than throe to be trustoen of thoproporly
in anjy vessel to bo owned by the Company.

IX. The Bald Committee of Stockholders shall be afterwards chosen at the gen-
eral meetings of Stockholders, to bo holdoti annually, as aforesaid, and shall be u
Committee for the purposes, aforesaid, until the Istday of February, of the following
year, and no longer, and shall meet as otten and at such place in tho city of Quebi'c,
to be by thom appointed, as occasion may require. Provided always, that no mom-
bor of the said Committee shall have more than one vote in the said Committee,
except tho chairman, who shall bo chosen by themselves, and who in case of division
of equal numbers shall have a casting vote, although he may have given one vote
before. Provided also that such Committee shall from time to time raako report of
their proceedings to and bo subject to the examination and control of the said general
meetings of tho said Stockholders, and shall pay duo obedience to all such orders ami
directions in and about the premises as shall from time to time bo made by the said
Stockholders at any general meeting, such orders and directions not being contrary
to tho express directions or provisions of this Act, or to the laws of this Province.

X. The Committee shall be vested with power to manage, order and transact,
&c., all business whatever of tho Company and to appoint a Treasurer and Secretary
and such other officer or officers as may be necessary, and tho committee shall on
the last Tuesday of January in every year, at the meeting of Shareholdors, produce
and give a just and true account in writing of all their transactions, receipts and
payments respectively, so that the true state of the said Company and its affairs may
manifestly appear, and also make and declare a dividend of the clear profit and in-
come (all contingent costs and charges being first deducted) among all the Stock-
holders aforesaid.

XI to XV. Related to meetings, by-laws, transfers &c.

XVI. The stock to be considered personal property of tho Stockholder.

XVII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no Stockholder or
Stockholders shall be answerable in his, her or their private or individual capacity
or capacities for the debts of the said Corporation.

XVIII. The Committee may expose for sale the shares of any Stockholders that
may be in default, but not until after four months after such instalment has become
due.

XIX. Is a form of transfer of stock.

XX. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

The Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company had been organized and
the funds paid in prior to the Act of incorporation being passed, and the contriTot
for building the 'steamship was given to John Saxton Campbell, Merchant, and
George Black, Shipbuilder, Co-partners, and under the supervision of James Gondie,
Marine draughtsman and foreman of the yard, her keel was laid on '''Tliursday, 2nd
September, 1830, in their shipyard at Cape Cove, situated under the cliff where
Wolfe's Monument stands on the Plains of Abraham. Tho work was prosecuted under
Mr. Black's guidance with alacrity, throughout the winter and by April she was
ready for launching.

Many vessels and steamboats had been built at Quebec ere this, but tho launch
of the Royal William on Wednesday, 27th April, 1831, was "par excellence" the
event of the time and the relation thereof as told in the Quebec Gazette of the 28th
is worth recording: —

"Lady Aylmer and His Excellency Lord Aylmer and his staff went yesterday
afternoon to Munn's Cove, on the St. Lawrence, to attend the launch of the St.

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XioholM Forry Steamboat. Hia lordship performed the uoual oeremonieH of naming
the voHBel " Lady Ayimor," when nhe went off the BtoclcB, from an awning docomted
with fla^H; Hevoral thouHand perHonH crowding the adjacent wliarfn and heighttt.
The Tow Boat Company had, In an extremely handsome manner placed the Steamer
lllcholieu at the service of the public, and Colonel Maitland, with hia usual kindness
permitted the excellent band of the 32nd regiment to attend on board. The boat
wais crowded and lay off the wharf in a position advantageous to witness the launch
which was effected in a manner to gratify every one. The increasing NpectatorH then
Het out for Mr. Campbell's shipyard whore Lady Aylmer performed the ceremony
at the launching of the Quebec and Halifax company's steamship " Royal William."
This vessel had a magniticont appearance on the stocks, the prow, stern and quarter

galleries are particularly tasteful, her actual builders' measurement Ih 1,370 tons,
ut she will not carry more, we suppose, than 4 to BOO, owing to the space occupied
by the engine, and her sharp build. She wentotf beautifully amid obOers and tiringof
cannon, and when she floated looked a gallant ship. Mr. filack was the contractor;
she is built with the greatest fidelity and strength, the sides forming a protection to
the wheels against heavy seas. We have no doubt she will prove very fast. Her
cost when ready for sea will be about £1(1,000 and her proportions are as follows:
length of keel 146 feet, breadth of beam across 44 feet, length of deck 176 feet, depth
of hold 17 feet 9 inches.

" We witnessed theno new strides to wealth with pride. Three of the stoamers
on the St. Lawrence, the John Bull, British America, and Royal William are not sur-
passed by any other vessel of the kind anywhere, and from the common deal seat to
the elegant decorations of the cabin, aul the ingenious and finished workmanship of
the engines, all on board is of the manufacture of Canadian establishments. The
Steamer John Bull was safely launched at Montreal on Tuesday.

" An incident occurred on board the Richelieu, Captain Morin of the Tow Boat
company, while gratuitously placed at the service of the public yesterday and dis-
patched to the launches, which created much conversation and amusement. No
wines or liquor of any kind were to be had on board of the boat, but Captain
Morin invited the guests to partake gratuitously of coffee cs a substitute, which
they appeared to partake of with satisfaction. There is no place where the evils of
intemperance are occasionally seen in a more aflHioting light than in parties of plea-
sure on board of steam vessels, where a portion of the company is often disgusted by
loud and frequently riotous indulgence.

*The new Steamship ' Royal William ' proceeded to Montreal on Saturday, 30th
April in tow of the * British America ' to receive her engines."

She was towed to the foot of St. Mary's Current, Montreal where she received
her engines, of about 200 horse power, from Bennett and Henderson's foundry, and
was ready to return to Quebec at the beginning of August.

The " Royal William" left Montreal at 2 o'clock jP. M., Saturday, 13th August,
and calling at Sorel and Three Rivers, arrived at Quebec about 9 P. M., Sunday 14th,
having steamed the whole way down, her engines working satisfactorily, but hav-
ing touched ground in getting out of the harbour of Montreal, she was placed on the
gridiron for examination.

She is described in the Quebec Gazette as having three lofty masts, schooner
rigged, but having three square sails on the foremast. The underdeck cabin was
fitted out with taste and elegance, containing some fifty berths, besides a splendidly
furnished parlour. The dining saloon occupied the round house on deck. Her
register as entered at the Quebec Custom House is as follows : —

No. 42. Port of Quebec, dated 22nd August, 1831. Name " Royal William ".
Burthen, 363f$ tons. John Jones Master. Built at this Port this present year, 1831.
Which appeared by a certificate of Geo. Black, the builder, dated 15th July, last.

•Quebec OazetU

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DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

Name and employment of surveying office. — (Signed) C. G. Stewart. One deck;
three masts ; length 160 feet ; breadth taken above the main wales, 44 feet ; depth of I
hold, 17 feet 9 inches; schooner rigged^ with a standing bowsprit, sqnare etftrned;
carvel built ; quarter badges ; scroll head : admeasured aground ; propelled by steam,
with wheels or flyers at each side; breadth between the paddle boxes, 28 feet.

Subscribing owners.

William Finlay, William Walker and Jeremiah Leaycraft, '\
of Quebec, Merchants, Trustees of the incorporated v
" Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company ". J
and other owners.

Custom House, 14th Jnne, 1832.

A true copy, Custom House, Quebec. 2nd March, 1891

Sixty-four shares.

(Sd.) D. D. O'MEARA,

Acting Registrar of Shipping.

She

sailed for Halifax on the 24th August, with about 20 cabin passen-
gers, viz.: — E. Bedard and lady, M. Massuo and daughter, Miss Marret, Miss Kreen,
Lieut. Seymour, 71st Eegt., and Messrs. McDonald, Goldsworthy, Adair, Tudor,
Adaras, Schneller, Pack, Lemon, Wicksteed and Parker, also 70 steerage passengers,
a good freight and 120 tons of coal. The cabin fare was £6. 5s., including meals and
berth. She was welcomed with great dclat at Halifax on Wednesday morning Slst
August ; the trip took six and a-half days, including two days' detention at Mira-
michi, and she arrived in Quebec on 13th September, taking nine days on the return
voyage, including four days' detention at stopping places, and by fog, also experienc-
ing heavy cross-winds coming up the river, but proved herself a good sea boat,
and the engines gave satisfaction.

She left Quebec for her second trip on the 17th with a good cargo and several
passengers, and, stopping both ways at Pictou and Miramichi. arrived at Quebec on
7th October, again proving her seaworthiness in a tremendous storm 50 miles east
of Cape Canso, when she lost her two quarter boats through the breaking of the
davits by the sheer force of the gale. On the 8th she went to Green Island and
brought up the passengers and crew, some 160 persons, of the vessel "Acadia"
wrecked there.

On the 18th she departed on her last trip of the season, returning on the 9th
November, with ten passengers, but from htress of weather could not call at Mira-
michi. It was suggested that she should return during the winter and make a
voyage to England or the West Indies, sne being so admirably fitted for crossing
the Atlantic, but as there were doubts of thus infringing the Charter and Act of
incorporation, the idea was abandoned, and on the 17th she proceeded to winter
quarters at Sorel, thus concluding three successful voyages in 1831.

The Company deeming it advisable to have the Act granting the subsidy altered
with reference to the insurance clause, and also to have the option of making Pictou
the terminus instead of Halifax, it was amended as follows: —

2nd WILLIAM IV, CAP, II, 1832.

An Act to amend a certain Act therein mentioned, relating to the encouragement of I
the trade and inteicourse between this Province and the Province of Nova
Scotia, February 25th, 1832.

PREAMBLE.

Repealing 4th Section of Act 10 and li George IV, Cap. 32, that is (o eay :
" and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no such payment or
advance shall bo made at the close of any season unless the said vessel and
machinery shall have been insured until the close of the season then next following,

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

y-four shares.

in a sum not less than tho said sum then to be advanced, and also any sum previously
advanced," shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the several sums
of money mentioned in and payable under the authority of the waid Act, may be paid
to tho person or Company who shall have complied with the other provisions and
requirements of tho said Act, as hereby amended, although the steam vessel for
which the said sums shall be claimed may, during the whole or any portion of the
period of four years mentioned in the said Act, have been regularly navigated .be-
tween the Port of Quebec and other Ports of the Eiver St. Lawrence, and the Port
or harbour of Pictou in the Provin^o of Nova Scotia, in^jtead of the Port or Harbour
of Ilalifax aforesaid.

The spring of 1832 opened with dark and gloomy forebodings, that dread
scourge, Asiatic Cholera, was rampant in Europe, and the worst fears were realized
in Canada, especially at Quebec ; that year over 3,000 of her inhabitants were laid
low, business was at a standstill, and disaster brooded over the Quebec and Halifax
Steam Navigation Company. The ''Royal William" duly arrived from winter
quarters, and after much delay started on the 16th June with 11 cabin and 52
steerage passengers on her first and only voyage to Halifax. Her troubles began
at Miramichi, where she arrived on the 19th with six of her crew slightly ill with
choleraic symptoms, and the engineer is reported to have died. On opening the
Quebec letters brought ashore by the Captain, a panic seized upon the inhabitants,
and the vessel was quarantined, all the steerage passengers and sick men were
landed on Sheldrake Island, and a boat manned by four men armed with muskets
kept guard, threatening to fire on any one attempting to get into the ship's boat,
which was demanded to be given up to them, but rightly refused by Captain
Nicholls. The fireman came ashore with a request to the agent, Mr. Cunard, for a
supply of coal to enable her to proceed on her voyage, which the magistrates
refused to permit, and seized the boat after landing the man on the island. She
was released from quarantine on 12th July, and left on the 16th for Pictou, where
an armed vessel prevented her entering the harbour, so she proceeded to Halifax,
to be again quarantined; and, after an absence of 53 days, arrived on the 7th August
at Quebec, with about a dozen cabin passengers and 27 time-expired non-com-
missioned officers and men of tho 71st Eegiment fro: i Bermuda, going to settle in
Canada. On the 15th the Committee, seeing the futility of attempting to continue
the service, tied her up to Brunet's wharf, to wait until such time as the Health
officers would give a clean bill of health to outward bound trade from Quebec. She
was kept in readiness to proceed on her voyages until tho 24th October, when she
wont into winter quarters at Sorel.

In order to meet expenses it is presumed, the company made a loan of £5,000
on a mortgage; the payment was pressing, and tho general meeting of stockholders
called on 29th January, 1833, was adjourned to 5th February. What took place is
not on record, but the " Royal William " was advertised on the 11th March by L.
Gugy, sheriff" of Montreal, to be sold at the Church door of the parish of Sorel, on
the 3rd April, 1833, by reason of a judgment obtained against the Company by
Henry George Forsyth and Alexander Clark, Merchants, of Quebec, of the firm of
Henry George Forsyth & Co., which advertisement was copied by the New York
Albion, Kingston Chronicle, Montreal Herald and Gazette, besides the Quebec
newspapers.

The sale took place and the steamer was bought by the Mortgagees for £5,000,
being the only bid. As she had cost over £16,000 it was a total loss to the stock-
holders, but the purchasers made the following offer to them at a general meeting
held on 17lh April presided over by James Dean, Esq.: —

" The gentlemen who in April last year advanced £5,000 on mortgage on the
Royal William, and who on the 3rd instant, at sheriff's sale, became the purchasers
of that vessel, are willing to transfer the purchase to the original stoikholders on

DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

their coming forward before the iBt June next and depositing in either of the two
banks of this City the amount of the purchase money, say £5,000 Cy., together with
such other sums as shall have been expended in the outfit of the vessel since the
sale, and undertaking to pay otf the debts due by the Corporation ([about £1,000
more) and to run the Royal William between this port and Nova Scotia, under the
Act of Incorporation, for the benefit of the original stockholders."

The meeting adjourned to 1st June for the stockholders to decide, but nothing
seems to have been done and evidently a new Company was formed by six of the
old stockholders, who purchased the vessel, as shown by the new register taken out
in the Quebec Custom House.

No. 13— Port of Quebec— dated 18th May, 1833. »

Name: Royal William. Burthen, 363 60-94 tons.

John McDougall, Muster.

Built at this Port in the year 1831. which appeared by a former certificate of
registry. No. 42, granted here the 22nd August, 1831, now delivered up and can-
celled upon transfer of property.

Name and employment of "Surveying Officer. — (Signed) C. Socretan, Acting.

One deck and round house; 3 mast^l, length 160 feet; breadth taken above the
main wales 44 foot ; height between decks, or depth in hold, 17 feet, i» inches.
Schooner rigged, with a standing bowsprit; square stemed, carvel built, quarter
badges, scroll head ; admeasurement afloat ; propelled by steam, with wheel or flyers
on each side.

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SUBSCRIBING OWNERS.

James A. Forsyth, of Quebec, merchant, ten shares.

Jeremiah Leaycroft, do do do

Henry Lemesurier, do do do

OTHER OWNERS.

Matthew Bell, of Quebec, merchant fourteen shares.

Noah Freer, do do ten shares.

Henry John Caldwell, do do do

De Novo. — London, 22nd November, 1833.

A true copy.

Customs House, Quebec, 2nd March, 1891.

(Signed) D. D. O'MEARA,

Acting Registrar of Shipping.
Port op Quebec, Customs.
V. R.

Canada, Quebec.

On leaving Sorel she wont to Montreal and arrived at Quebec on 8th May and
was used for pleasure excursions to Grosse Isle, and towed vessels until 18th May,
when she was advertised to sail for Boston touching at Gasp^, Pictou and Halifax
on 4th June.

She arrived on 17th at Boston and being the first British Steamer to come there
was enthusiastically received; on passing Fort Independence she tired a salute to
the American flag, which was acknowledged from the ramparts of the fort by the
band playing "God Save the King". She left Boston for Halifax on the 26th
and arrived at Quebec on 14th July with 47 cabin, 82 steerage passengers and 26
soldiers.

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

feet, 1» inches.

The six above mentioned Quebec merchants now decided to send the " Eoyal
William " toElngland for sale, and advertised her for the Ist August. Cabin passage
to London £20 exc'usive of wines. She left for Pictou on the 6th with four cabin
passengers, Mr. Clark of Upper Canada, Kev.Mr. Sweenj' and daughter, of Jamaica
and Mr. Caszier. The following memorandum appears on the records of the Quebec
Custom House : —

" 1844. The steamship " Royal William " ; McDougall, Master, cleared on Satur-
day, 3rd August for London 1833 and sailed for London at 5 o'clock a. m., Monday,
5th August, 1833. The Royal William arrived at Gravesend, 25 days passage from
Pictou, N. S.

(Signed) J. W. DUNSCOMB,

Collector oj Customs, Port of Quebec.

5th February, 1872.

She arrived at Pictou on the 8th August and left for London on the 18th hav-
ing been detained by so-ne slight repairs, coaling and awaiting the Prince Edward
Island passengers. The following declaration has been made by the Collector of
Customs of Pictou which speaks tor itself.

" [, Daniel McDonald of Pictou, in the said Province of Nova Scotia, aged 56
years, do solemnly declare that I am the Collector of Customs for the port of Pictou,
N. S. In the book of records of oxpoitd of the said Port, wherein I find the follow-
ing particulars which 1 now give literatim et verbatim : —

" Date of clearance, 17th August, 1833. Royal William 363 tons, 36 men ; John
McDougall, Master; bound to London, B. (British); cargo, 254 chaldrons of coals, a
box of stufted birds, and six spars, produce of this Province, (N.S.), one box and one
trunk, household furniture and a harp, all British, and seven passengers. And I
make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true and by
virtue of the act respecting extra judicial oaths.

(Signed) DAXIEL Mc DONALD.

"The said solemn declaration was taken before the undersigned by the said
Daniel McDonald at Pictou, this 25th day of March, 1891."

In the Archives of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.

(Signed) ANGUS McDONALD,

J. P.

"The Bark "Rokeby," arrived at Quebec 24th September and reported meeting
the Royal William on 27th August in latitude 47° 55", longitude 45° 30" sails set
and steam up, 9 days out, wind W. S. W." — Quebec Gazette.

" Arrived at Giavesend on 12th September in 25 days from Pictou, was sold for
£10,000 to carry troops for the Pedroites to Portugal." — Quebec Gazette.

London, 14th Sept. — " Steamer ' Royal William ' arrived here some days since
from Pictou in 19 days, out of which she had two days detention to make some
alteration in machinery. The whole distance was performed by steam with most
perfect succef s with Pictou coal." — Quebec Gazette.

The above certificates and paragraphs from the press of the day establish the
fact that the steamship " Royal William" lelt Quebec for England on the 5th of August,
1833, arrived at Pictou, N. S., on the 8th, sailed thence for London on the 18th,
steamed the whole way across the Atlantic and duly arrived at her destination. Her
log book is not extant, but the following letter, from her master, Capt. McDougall,
to his friend Mr William King, of Quebec, now in the possession of J. M, Le Moine,
Esq., and published in Transaction No. 13, sessions 1877 and 1878 of the Literary
and Historical Society of Quebec is a short detail of her voyage and corroborative
and incontrovertible evidence of what has been set forth.

DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

London, November 16th 1833.

Mt Dear Willie,

"You will, I am certain, think me very neglectful in not giving you an eai'lier
account of our proceedings with the " Royal William." We left Pictou on the 18th
Auguat, after having waited several days for some passengers who were expected
from Prince Edward Island, and for whom we had laid in a stock. We were very
deeply laden with coal, deeper in fact than I would ever attempt crossing the At-
lantic with her again. However, wo got on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland whore
we experienced a gale of wind which rather alarmed my engineer ; ho wished very
much to go into Newfoundland. We had previously lost the head of foremast, and
one of the engines had become useless from the beginning of the gale; with the
other we could do nothing, and the engineer reported the vessel to be sinking.
Things looked rather awkward, however, wo managed to get the vessel clear of
water, and I'an by one engine after the gale ten days. After that, we got on very
well, and put into Cowes to clear the boilers, a job which generally occupied them
from 24 hours io 2() every fourth day. However, wo managed to paint her outside
there; the inside we had previously done, which enabled us to go up to London in
fine style. Ton days after her arrival she was sold, and has since been thorough Ij'
repaired and coppered; her model is considered to bo superior to any of their
steamers here. I should not be surprised to hear that George Blixik had got orders
to build some more like her. She was sold for £10,000, which I believe has all been
paid. I am now employed by her owners at £30 per month, and I shall sail in a
few days for Lisbon."

My dear Willie, believe me to be,

ever sincerely yours.

To Mr. William Kino,
Quebec.

(Signed)

JOHN McDOUGALL.

In the history of Lower Canada by Robert Christie, published in Quebec 1854,
on page 362 of Vol. V., will be found a letter from Capt. McDougall to Mr. Christie
claiming the " Royal William " to have boon the first steamship that crossed the
Atlantic Ocean by steam power alone.

It is an extremely interesting letter and graphically relates her subsequent
career. St. Foy, where it is written, is a parish adjacent to Quebec. Captain
McDougall died the following year, 1854, on the (Jth December, aged 57 years, and
lies buried in grave 531 at Mount Hermon Cemetery, Quebec.

" Saint Foy, 10th August, 1853.
•' Robert Christie, Esq., M. P. P.

"Dear Sir, — * 1 lately found some papers connected with the " Royal William "
steamer which brought to my recollection my promise to furnish you with a brief
sketch of her history, while I was attached to her, from the 19th April, 1833, to the
Ist January, 1838.

" I took charge of her at Sorel, after she was sold by sheriff's sale, from Captain
Nicholas, and was employed during the month of May towing vessels from Grosse
le' , and afterwards made a voyage to Gasp^, Pictou, Halifax, and Boston in the
Luiitfcc' States, being the first British steamer that entered that port. On my
return to Quebec the owners decided on sending her to London to be sold, and I
left for London via Pictou on the 5th August, and was detained at Pictou until the
18th repairing the engines and boilers and receiving coals.

"I then started for London and was about twenty days on the passage, having
run six or seven days with the larboard engine, in consequence of the starboard
engine being disabled, and was detained at different times, about a week, laying to

*. Christie's History of Canada.

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

repairing the boilers which had become very leaky. About the latter end of Sep-
tember the " Royal William " was sold by Messrs. Geo. Wilds & Co. (the agents to
whom she was consigned) to Mr. Jos. Sirres, the shipowner of Radcliffe, through
Messrs. Wilcox and Anderson, for £10,000 sterling, and chartered to the Portuguese
Government to take out troops for Don Pedro's service, and on my arrival in Lisbon
offered to them for sale as a vessel of war, but rejected by their admiral, Count Cape
St. Vincent, the present Admiral Sir Charles Napier. I then returned to London
with invalids and disabled soldiers from Don Pedro's service, and laid her up. off
Deptford victualling office. In July I received orders to fit her out to run between
Oporto and Lisbon, and made one trip between these ports and a trip to Cadiz for
specie for the Portuguese Government; and on my leturn to Lisbon I received
orders to dispose of her to the Spanish Government, through the Spanish ambas-
sador at Lisbon, Don Evanston Castor da Perez, which was completed on the 10th
September, 1834, and her name was changed to " Isabel Segunda," being the first
steamer the Spaniards over possessed, and Commodore Henry hoisted his broad
pennant on board as commodore of the first class and commander-in-chief of the
British Auxiliary Steam Squadron, to be employed on the north coast of Spain against
Don Carlos. I joined the Spanish Service under him with the rank and pay of a
Commander, but with a special agreement by which I was guaranteed £600 sterling
per annum, and under a contract to supply the squadron with provisions from
Lisbon. \^'e proceeded to the north coaht of Spain, and about the latter part of
1834 returned to Gravesend for tho purpose of delivering her up to the J3ritish
Government to be converted into a war steamer at their dockyard, and the crew
and officers were transferred to " The Royal Tar," chartered and armed as a war
steamer, with 6 long 32-pounder8, and named the " Regina Governadoza," the name
intended for city of Edinburgh Steamer, which was chartered and then fitted up as
a war steamer, to form part of the squadron ; when completed she relieved the
" Royal Tar," and took hor name.

"The * Isabel Segunda' when completed at Shoerness dock yard took out Gen-
eral Alava, the Spanish Ambassador, and (leneral Evans and the most of his staff
officers to Saint Andero and afterwards to San Sebastian, having hoisted the Com-
modore's ' broad pennant' again at Saint Andero, and was afterwards employed in
cruising between that port and Fuesti Arabia, and acting in concert with the
'Legion' against Don Carlos, until the time of their service expired in 1837. She
was then sent to Portsmouth, with a part of those discharged from the service, and
from thence she was taken toLondon and detained in the City Canal by Commodore
Henry until the claims of the officers and crew on the Spanish Government were
settled, which was ultimately accomplisheil by bills, and the officers and crew dis-
charged from the Spanish Service about the latter end of 1837, and the ' Isabel
Segunda' delivered up to the Spanish Ambassador, and after having her engines
repaired returned to Spain and was soon afterwards sent to Bordeaux, in France, to
have the hull repaired. But on being survej'cd it was found that the timbers were
80 much decayed that it was decided to build a new vessel to receive the engines,
which was built there and called by the same name, and now forms one of the Royal
Steam Navy of Spain, while her predecessor was converted into a hulk at Bordeaux.

" She is justly entitled to be considered x\\o first steamer that crossed the Atlantic
by steam having steamed the whole way across, while the ' Savannah,' American steam-
ship which crossed in 1822 to Liverpool and Petersburg sailed the most part of the
way going and returning.

I remain, dear sir,

Your most obedient,

JOHN McDOUGALL."

One more intei'esting episode in the career of the " Royal William" is taken from
a letter by Mr. A. Somerville, of Toronto, to the Toronto Globe of 15th May, 1876,
where he relates : — "This vessel earned one other distinction than that of steaming
across the Atlantic prior to any other steamship. The ' Isabel Segunda' (the new

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name of the ' Royal William' was the earliest steamer of war in the history of nations
to deliver a hostile shot. It was on the 5th of May 1836, in the Buy of San Sebastian,
during the action on land then in progress between the British Legion under General
Sir Do Lacy Evans and the Carlists entrenched behind a series of field works. The
first shot from the ship dislodged some Carlist sharpshooters who were picking otf
rank and file and officers of the Eighth Scottish Highlanders, in the Grenadier
Company of which I was a Colour Sergeant, &c., &c., &c."

Through the kindness of Ovide Frechette, Esq., Consul for Spain at Quebec, an
interesting document was obtained from the Minister of Marine at Madrid in refer-
ence to the career of the Isabel Segunda, n^e Royal William, and also of the fate of
the vessel into which her engines were tran&forred, of which the following is a trans-
lation from the Quebec Consulate: —

" CONSCLAOO DE EsPANA,

en Quebec.

MINISTRY OP STATE No. 49.

" His Excellency the Minister of Marine by Royal order of 28th July last, says
to this Ministry what follows: Received in this Ministry the Royal order No. 93 of
21st March from your Ministry, transmitting the despatch No. 9 bearing the date
of 28th February last, from the Spanish Consul at Quebec, asking information about
the first steamer that croi^sed the Atlantic and which he supposed to bo one that
our Government bought and used as a man-of-war under the name of Isabella 2nd,'
I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that effectively the vessel to which
refers your communication is the one our Government purchased in September,
1834, and was used in the service as a coast-guard in the Cantarabic Sea, and was
afterwards transferred to the Mediterranean for the same purpose and there re-
mained till 1840, when it was withdrawn from the service on account of its bad
condition.

"Her machinery was utilized for another man-of-war, which was built at Bor-
deaux, and to said vessel was also given the name of ' Isabella 2Dd ' and it was
afterwards changed for that of 'Saint Isabella.'

" In January, 1860, the vessel was wrecked on the coast of Algeria during a
most terrific storm. In 1850 was built in England by order of our Government and
under the superintendence of Don Pablo Llanes, Brigadier of the navy, a paddle
steamer of 500 horse power, and was called ' Isabella 2nd.'

" By Royal order, transmitted by His Excellency the Minister of State, I inform
you of the above facts in answer to your despatch No. 9 of 28 February last.

" 3Iay Gofl spare you many years,

"Madrid, ISth August, 1891,

" The Under Secretary,

(Sgd.)

RAFAEL FERRAZ."

" To the Consul of Spain at Quebec." '-^

Thus closed the memorable career of the "Royal William," built at Quebec, as
a steamship the first to cross the Atlantic by continuous steam power, and the first
war steamer to go into action and fire hostile shot at the Carlists in Spain ; her
hulk rotted in the harbour of Bordeaux, France, and her engines lie at the bottom of
the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Algeria.

As further evidence of the building of the " Royal William," it will be import-
ant to record an interesting letter}- from the late James Gondie, jr., Marino Architect

* Original in the SpaniHh ConHtilato, and traifHlatiun in the archives of the Literary and Historical
Society at Quelx'C.

+ Originals in archiveH of the Literary and Hi«t<)rical Society of Queljec.

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

of George Black's ship-yard, written to Archibald Campbell, Esq., now president of
the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, and its authenticntionf by W. H.
Baldwin, Esq. Mr. Goodie was then hale and hearty, but died on the 8th May,
1892, at his residence in Illinois, U.S.

r and HiHtorical

North EvANSTON, Cook County, III.,

J'ebruary 17th, 1891. •

Archibald Campbell, Esq.

Dear Sir: — "It is with great pleasure I take my pen in hand, though in ray
82nd year ot age, to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter, under date 14th
inst. and contents noted. I shalfgive you the fucts as they occur to me as briefly as I
can, of which I am in possession as the superintendent duly appointed by the stock-
holders to superintend, in all its details, the building of a steamship, afterwards
named the ' Eoyal William.' In the fall of 1830 1 was duly engaged, and the keel
of the * Royal William * was laid in the yard of Mr. George Black, Shipbuilder, in
connection with Mr. John Saxton Campbell as partner. Mr. Campbell was a mer-
chant and shipowner of high standing and capitalist at Quebec, and brother to the
late Archibald Campbell, in hi» life Notary Public.

" As I had the drawing of the form of the ship, at that t'nio a novelty in con-
struction, it devolved upon me to lay off and expand the draft to its full dimensions
Oh the floor of the loft, where I made several alterations in the lines as improve-
ments. Mr. Black though the builder and contractor, was in duty bound to follow
my instructions, as I understood it. The steamship being duly commenced the work
progressed rapidly and in May following was duly launched, and before a large con-
course of people was christened the 'Eoyal William' in honour of the reigning
King. She was then taken to Montreal to have her engines, when I continued to
superintend the finishing of her cabins and deck work. When completed she had
her trial trip, which proved quite satisfactory. Being late in the season before be-
ing completed she only made a few trips to Halifax.

" The next year was 1832, the cholera made its appearance and she was destin-
ed to lose money; in 1833, in August, it was decided to send her to London for sale,
where she an-ived after a passage of 25 days, under command of Captain John Mc-
Dougall, who gave a very flattering account of her good qualities, she was put up
for sale and sold to the Spanish Government, retaining Captain McDougall as Com-
mander, remaining in charge for several years, coming back to Quebec with high
honours from the Spanish Government. She was the first steamship to fire a gun in
action, which is something of an honour to Quebec.

" Now as to her being the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, there can be no
doubt, as she was built expressly for a sea-going steamship. I had not the slightest
idea of her failure to reach London as a sea-going steamer. Right hero let mo tell
you, though I was only 21 years old, I was full master of my business, as Mr.
Simmons said when he spoke to me about going out. I asked him the question : —
Do you think me capable ? I am so young. ' James, if I did not think you capable
I would not recommend you." That was enough for an ambitions youth, as I was.
I had been at the actual building as assistant foreman to William Simmons, of Green-
ock, Scotland, with whom I served my apprenticeship, on four such vessels as the
'Royal William,' to cross the Irish Channel, where no rougher sea can be, having
made the trip to Belfast in one of them myself. I was also foreman apprentice, in
my last year, in building a steam yacht of the same strength as the ' Royal William,'
of 400 tons, but much sharper, for Don Pedro. I merely mention these facts to show
I was duly qualified. It was during that time I was spoken to by Mr. Simmons to
engage to go to Quebec to superintend the building of the ' Royal William,'

" I shall now explain why I think the ' Royal William ' is entitled to the credit
of having been the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, is because the Savannah
ship (American) was a full rigged packet ship, built for a sailing ship, but by some
ambitious desire of the owner, he conceived the idea in 1819, fourteen years prior to

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the ' Royal William ' to fit up a small steam engine on the deck of that ship, and
had it so constructed that small wheels were put on the shaft, which in stormy
weather could bo easily unshipped and hoisted on deck to bo used only in fine weath-
er; thus he was only experimenting on tho adaptation of steam for propelling on the
ocean. lie seems to have got sick of the experiment, for on the return of tho ship
the engine was taken oft" and laid aside to let the 'Royal William' fourteen years
afterwards, and the Canadian Public show to your Yankee cousins how steam could
be adapted to ocean navigation.

"Mr. Campbell, trusting this sketch of mine about the 'Royal William,' and
'Savannah ' may be sutficiently authentic, I Hhall conclude, trusting you may be as
I am, in perfect good health, and that you may live for many years to come to enjoy
the world as best wo can. Gen. Sherman said, before dying. ' It was natural to
die as it was to bo born.'

I remain verj' respectfully yours,

(Sd.) JAMES GONDIE, Senr."

The working model of tho " Royal William" has an honoured resting place in
the Library of tho Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. How it got there is
authenticated by the following declaration* of W. H. Baldwin, Esq., one of Quebec's
oldest shipbuilders, who also verities the signature of the late .Tamos Gondie. This
model was sent, at tho request of the committee of the Royal Naval Exhibition, to
that exhibition held in London in IS'.tl, and numbered model 473G, where it
attracted considerable attention, and tho Sociotj' received from the Committee a
handsome diploma which also graces the walls of their Library.

Tho importance of this model was recognized by tho Dominion Government by
ordering a facsimile of it to bo made, and sending it to the Columbian Exhibition or
World's Fair, at Chicago, in 1S93. It is doubtless now to be seen in the Department
of Agriculture at Ottawa.

"CANADA,

Province of Quebec,

District of Quebec.

}

" I, William Henry Baldwin, of tho city of Quebec, Shipbuilder, aged sixty-five
years, do solemnly declare that in the year one thousand eiirht hundred and forty-
six, I took from Mr. George Black possession of Mr. George Black's ship-building
establishment at Cape Cove, situate immediately under where Wolfe's monument
stands on tho Plains of Abraham. In tho moulding loft there wore numbers of
models, and amongst tho rest that of tlio steamer " iioyal William." The name was
on hor model, and Mr. George Black, who was then alive, proudly showed it to mo
as being the model of tho first steamship that crossed the ocean propelled by the
motive power of steam. Subsequently Mr. Henry Dinning became my partner in
tho business of ship-building, and he presented tho model of the said ship "Royal
William " to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, where it now is. I had
it in my possession for a short time within the last six weeks, and gave it back to
the Society.

"Mr. James Gondie, after the transfer of tho said ship-yard to me, was my
draughtsman and ship architect. I know his handwriting and believe that the letter
now shown to me, addressed to Archibald Campbell, Esq., from North Evanston,
Illinois, and of date February 17th, 1891, as written on the said letter, is written by
him, and the signature, 'James Gondie, son.,' at the foot thereof, is in his hand-
writing. Prom all I know and heard Mr. George Black mention on the subject,
I believe Mr. Gondie's statement contained in the said letter to be correct and
every way worthy of belief, and I do solemnly declare and make this solemn de-

* Original in the archives of the Literjiry .and Hitttorical Society of Queliec.

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

claration consoientiouHly belioving the Bume to be true und by virtue of the Act
respecting extra judicial oaths.

(Sgd.)

" The said solemn declaration was taken be-
fore the undersigned by the said William
Henry Baldwin, at the Court-House,
in the city of Quebec, this twenty-sixth
day of February, 1891.

" WM. H. BALDWIN,

" Ship-builder, Quebec."

(Sgd.) "FisBT, Burroughs & Campbell,

*' Prothonotary of the Superior Court
for the District of Quebec."

"I, Archibald Campbell, of Thornhill, in the parish of St. Colomb, de Sillery,
one of the joint Prothonotaries of the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec for
the district of Quebec, do solemnly declare that, on or about the fourteenth day
of February last past, I wrote a letter to James Gondie, ship-builder, asking for
information respecting the steamship 'Eoyal William'; and on about the twenty-
third day of the same month and year I received an answer thereto, the letter
hereto attached, and at the foot thereof tor identification I have written the follow-
ing in red ink: 'This is the letter I refer to in the annexed solemn declaration
taken by me this twenty-first day of March, 1891.'

(Signed)

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL."

" And I do further solemnly declare that I showed the said letter to William
Henry Baldwin, of Quebec, ship-builder, on the twenty-sixth day of February last
past, and that the same is the one referred to in his solemn declaration taken at
Quebec, before Fiset, Burroughs <& Campbell, P. S. C, on the day and year last
mentioned.

" And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously belioving the same to be
true, and by virtue of the * Act respecting extra judicial oaths.'

(Sgd.) "ARCHD. CAMPBELL."

*"The said solemn declaration was taken
before the undersigned by the said
Archibald Campbell, at Quebec, this
twenty-first day of March, 1891.

(Signed) "A. B. Routhier,

"Judge Superior Court."

* " I, Joseph Wilson Henry, of the city of Quebec, founder, aged 76 years, do
solemnly declare that in the year 1831 I was present at the launch of the steamship
' Royal William' in the cove* generally known as Cape Cove, owned at the time by
Mr. John Saxton Campbell, merchant, who, with Mr. George Black, built the said
steamship for a company, to trade between Quebec and Halifax. The launching
was a great event in Quebec and attracted an enormous concourse of people; the
regiments stationed in the city provided the bands ; the shipping in port lent their
bunting, and Lady Aylmer, the wife of the Governor General, honoured the scene
with her presence and christened the vessel after the reigning sovereign, William
the Fourth.

"I knew perfectly well Mr. James Gondie; he was the son of that Mr. Gondie,
ship architect, who constructed the navy on the Upper Canada lakes in the war of
1812, and was born in Quebec; but, about the age of 15 years, left to study his

* Original in the archives of the Literary and Hintorical Society of Quebec.

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profession of Bhip-buildor at Greonock, Scotland. On his return to Quebec, I think
It was previous to the laying of the keol of the •Royal William,' In the fall of 1830,
he wab employed in the shipbuilding yard of Mesars. Campbell k Jilack ; and, from
all I heard and saw, he draughted the lines of ihe said steamship. After her launch
she was towed to Montreal, where engines wore put into her. The following year
she traded between Quebec and Halifax; but it being the dreadful year of the first
cholera, business was nearly at a standstill, consequently the ' Royal William ' did
not prove a paying concern to the stockholders. During that year I made several
castings for said steamship's engines. The following year she left this port under
steam for the port of London; and, regarding her as the first steamship that
attempted the dangers of the ocean voyage, like all Quebecers, I took a great inter-
est in everything connected with it, and greedily perused the accounts of her
voyage acioss the Atlantic Ocean, which appeared in the papers several months
after her depai-ture. In those accounts it was stated that the voyage from Quebec
to London was made the whole way under steam ; that as the Pictou coal was con-
sidered unequalled for steamboats, she put into the port of Pictou to obtain her
supply for the voyage; and, alter having secured what she required, proceeded to
the port of London, where I understood she arrived safely.

" And 1 make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be
true, and by virtue of the Act passed in the .^7th year of Jlor Majesty's reign, inti-
tuled ' An Act for the suppression of voluntary and extra judicial oaths.'

(Signed)

J. W. HENRY. "

" The solemn declaration was taken before
the undersigned l)y the said Joseph
Wilson Henry, at the city of Quebec,
this 26th day of February, 1891. '

(Signed) "Fiset, Bcrrouqhs & Campbell,

" Prothonotary of the Superior

Court for the District of Quebec."

On page 266 of "Quebec Past and Present" by J. M. Lemoino, Esq., there is a
note which seems to be an extract from a letter of the second engineer of the " Royal
William " and reads thus : —

" W. Stevenson, Esq., was the agent for this vessel (at Quebec). She was
towed to Montreal to receive the machinery and engines made by Rennet and Hen-
derson, St. Mary's foundry. Whilst in Halifax the " Royal William " was repeatedly
visited by Sir Samuel Cunard, who lost no opportunity to enquire every particular
regarding her speed, sea qualities, consumption of fuel, carefully noting down all
the information obtained, which, (says J. G. Dentner, second engineer on board)
doubtless enabled him to establish the magnificent fieet of ocean steamships that
still bear his name,"

The claims of the " Royal William " to be the inaugurator of trans-Atlantic steam
navigation have been recognized by prominent men and brought before the public
at different times ere this, and it will not be out of place to again quote from that
admirable paper read by Archibald Campbell, Esq., before the Literary and Histor-
ical Society of Quebec on the Slst March, 1891. and published in their Transaction
No. 20 as follows: "Mr. Gondie, in bis letter, agrees with Captain McDougall that
the Royal William is justly entitled to be considered the first steamer that crossed
the Atlantic by steam, as does also Mr. Kivas Tally, C. B., of Toronto, who delivered
a most valuable lecture in Toronto, thereon, before the Canadian Institute in 1877, a
printed synopsis of which he most obligingly sent me on my writing to him last month
the conclusions of which I shall read : 'The facts are fully borne out by published
letters from Mr. McDonald, Longacre, London ; Mr. Stephenson, president of the Liter-
ai'y and Historical society, Quebec ; Mr. Serpell, Burford ; Mr. Dunscombe, Collec-
tor of Customs Quebec ; Mr. Johnston, Superintendent of Quebec Exchange; Mr.
Freiich, Ottawa ; Mr. D. McPherson, Manitoba; Mr. F. H. Howard, Royal Insur-

liK

■S'.S'. HOYAL WILLIAM.

ancc rompanv, Toronto, who was in Quebec when the "Eoyal William " suilod ; J. C.
Dontner, Wetland, who wan Bccond engineer on boaid under Captain McDouffall and
Ml'. J. W. Lawrence of Oswego, who han taken much trouble to elicit several of the
focts in order to satisfy himself as to the correotnesH of the statements, and in a
letter dated Oswego, 17th April, 1876, ho in conclusion states: Most unquestion-
ably the old Lower Province can claim the credit of having both built, equipped
iiiicf successful ly put to sea the first working steamer to cross the western ocean and
open up this great trade. The only vessel which can dispute the priority as pioneer
hloamsnip for transatlantic navigation is the " Savannah " and this vessel has for
years been considered the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. As I have full state-
monts with regaid to this vessel, the claim can easily bo investigated, and the re-
sult will prove that tho "Savannah" was not a steamboat in the strict sense, such as
tho "iloyal William," but a sailing vessel fitted with movable paddle wheels driven
by steam.' "

This great Canadian honour and the claims of the " Royal William " have been
ably taken up by Dr. Sandford Fleming, C.M.G., in a paper read before tho Canadian
Institute at Toronto, when the following resolution was passed and copies sent to
all tho Historical Societies of Canada, and duly brought to the notice of the Govern-
ment at last session of Parliament.

Resolved : — " That the subject of the Pioneer Ocean Steamship having been
brought to the consideration of tho Canadian Institute ut its meeting held in Toronto
on Saturday, December 17th, 1892: — It is resolved that suitable measures be taken
to establish a memorial tablet in honour of the men associated with the building and
sending to sea of tho ' Royal William,' and that the members for the city of Toronto
be requested to obtain permission for the tablet to be placed in a fit position in the
Parliament buildings at Ottawa, and that it be remitted to the council to invite the
co-operation of societies or individuals, and to take such other means as may be
needful to carry out in the best manner the spirit of the resolution."

The matter did not rest there for in July 1893 Dr. Fleming read an able paper
on tho subject of this resolution before the Nova Scotia Historical Society at Hali-
fax, and one of the •jpeakers, Dr. Mackay, suggested that an historical sketch of the
" Royal William's" career might well be placed in our school reading books. It was
moved by P. Blake Crofton, Esq., and seconded by Di-. DeWolf, and unanimously
adopted that : — '• This society respectfully seconds the recommendation of the Can-
adian Institute that the (lovernment of Canada should adopt some means of communi-
cating the fact that the first vessel propelled by steam through the entire voyage
across the Atlantic was the 'Royal William' built at Quebec and owned in Canada,
and which made the pioneer voyage from Pictou to London in 1833. And further
resolved, that this society suggests the expediency of having the evidence proving
the pioneer ocean steamship to have been a Canadian vessel properly collated, and
published in pamphlet form under the auspices of the Government.

" And further resolved, that tho Members of Parliament and Senators from Hali-
iiax and Pictou, be requested to present these recommendations to the Dominion
authorities".

Having thus related the career of the " Royal William " and given the authori-
ties, proofs, and affidavits that she was built at Quebec, sent on her voyage to Lon-
don, in 1833, by six of Quebec's merchants, and that she was the veritable pioneer
steamship of transatlantic steam navigation, I will now briefly glance at the pseudo
claims to that honour made on behalf of other vessels and show the untenability of
their position and that none of them have either right or title to the name of pioneer
steamship of transatlantic steam navigation. In the report of the United States
National Museum for tho year ending 30th June, 1890, published at Washington in
1891, will be found the history and " Log " of the vessel "Savannah,"* which on analy-
sis proves that she has no right or title to that honour. Page 617 of the Report
states : —

" The ' Savannah ' was a full-rigged ship of 350 tons burthen and was built at
Oorlear's Hook, New York, by Francis Fickett. At first she was intended to be used

*The Chief Claimant.

j-rfMiMtrf^

DEI'AHTMENT OF TIIK SECKKTAUY OF SIT ATE.

AS a flailing packet botwoon Now York uml Havre, Franco. The kool whh built in
1818, luid tlio voHHol waH laimchod Au^'ust 22iid of the Mumo ^oar." She was pur-
chBHod by a Savaimuh Hhippingfirm ami equipped with one enpno of 90 hoi-Ho power
and Bido paddle whoeU of peculiar coiiBtruction, conHiHtiii^' ol "oiyht radial armH,
held in place by one flanf,'o and were arranged to cIoho together like a fan. They
wore furnished with a Horios of JointH ho that they could be detached from the shaft
and taken in on dock when Htoim or other circunintanceB required it," The veHMol
carried Hoventy-five tons of coal and twenty-five cords of wood. The total cost wum
about $50,000 including engine and rigging." In addition to the engine the vessel
carried the same complement of spars and sails as a Hailing ship of that period, with
the exception of royal masts and royals."

Her first trip was made from New York to Savannah. Georgia, leaving the
former port on 28th March, 1810, and " by examining the log book of the Savannah
it will be noticed steam was seldom used except in calm weather, or when it was de-
sired to show the power of the engine of the vessel." On the "^rd of April, the
weather being calm and plo.isant/' the log states," at 3 P. M., stowed the wheels and
started the wheels, furled all sail." But the run under steam was of short duration,
*' as the fore and aft sails were unfurled at 5 o'clock the next morning, and the crew
at 8 A. M. folded up the wheels and stowed the wheels." During the whole voyage
from New Yoik to Savannah, we find that the engine was running; —

March 29th ^ hourc.

From April 2nd 'A V. M., to April 3rd 8 A. M 17 "

From April 3rd P. M., to April 4th 8 A. M 14 "

From April 5th 10 P. M.. to April (Jth 4 A. M 10 "

41^ hours.

The vessel came to anchor at 4 A. M., April 6th, 8 days, 15 hours (207 hours)
from Sandy Hook Light."

The "Savannah " left Savannah for Liverpool under steam on 22nd May, 1819,
and arrived "with all sails set to the best advantage at 2 P. M., Sunday, 20th Juno, in
the River Mersey and " " hove to off the bar for the tide to rise," " and at 5 p.m.
shipped the wheels, furled the sails and running to the Bivor Mersey at 6 p. m. came
to anchor off Liverpool with the small bower anchor," " twenty-nine days, eleven
hours from Savannah, during which time the vessel had run under steam eichtv
hours." ** -^

" The following table shows the number of hours the engine was at work dur-
ing the voyage from Savannah to Liverpool : — "

Got steam up. Shut steam off. Hours.

May 30th, 8 A. M. May 30th, fi P. M. 10 hours.

June Ist, 8 A. M. June 2nd, 2 A. M. 18 "

June 6th, 8 A. M. June 6th, 12 P. M. 16 "

June 9th, 8 A. M. June 9th, 12 P. M. 4 "

June 11th, 10 A. M. June 11th, 12 P. M. 14 "

June Kith, 8 P. M. June 17th, 2 P. M. 18 "

80 hours.

From Liverpool to St. Petersburg the engine was used somewhat more con-
tinuously.

" The homeward voyage to Savannah was a stormy one ; heavy winds rouirb
sea, gales and storms being almost daily noted in the log" The engine was not
used during any part of the return trip until the 30th of November^ (the fortieth

thYhii"' !?/!"fn r""^^'^' ^^'r^^ r^^'o" ^^P^'^'" ^^S^^- " ^^"'^ «" » P''^* inside
the bar and " 10 A. M. anchored in the Savannah Bivor and furled sails on the

flude tide, got under way with steam and went up and anchored off the town"

s^5« f h« T?^K • ^fTll ^T'^ ''''"*>^« "-"^^ «°<^^ ^"'•^ 10 ^«t up steam just out-
side the ports he visited, thereby appearing to have steamed all the voyage

,•

SS. HOYAL WILLIAM,

Tho " Siivnntinh'K " onpino wbh token out und Hold and she run between Now
York and SnvuniiuhuHiiHiiiliii^ puukut, until Hhe ran nnhoro on Long Island, in 1822.

A yclept stonmor which can only htcam in Mmooih wiitor is no bteumship at nil,
and thus tho "Saviinniih" has no claim whatever to be called the Pioneer ofTranMit-
luntic Steam Navigation.

Tho report mentions a steamship "Ciiruyoa" in 1828, hut no proof is given of
what she was, whore she went aflor loaving Antwerp and in what manner hor Kup-
posod voyage was j)orformod, and she is classed with tho "Savannah " a failure —
therefore her claim mny be dismissed.

The " Sirius " and tho " Great Western " appeared on the horizon five years after
tho " Royal William" and theroforo have no claims whatever. I mention those
becaufie people in Britain have through ignorance advanced claims in the promises
on their behalf.

This document has l>eon prepared for Sir Charles Ilibbert Tupper, K. C. M.G.,
Minister of Marino, being a request by tho Nova Scotia Historical Society for in-
formation respecting the " Royal William" and her career.

P. C. WURTiiLE,
Honorary Librarian Literary and Historical Society of Quebec,

Quebec, 10th February, 1894.

at work dur-

List op authoritiks consulted :

Handbook of Dates, F. A. McCord.

Statutes of (^uoboc.

Quebec Gazette.

Records of Custom House, Quebec.

do do Pictou, N.S.

Archives of fiiterury and Historical Society of Quebec.
Transactions do do do . •

Registrar of Mount Hermon Cemetery.
Robeit Christie's Hintory of Canada.
Lemoine's "Quebec, past and present."
Toronto Globe.
Halifax Herald.
Spanish Consulate at Quobcc.
Report of United States' National Museum, 1891.
Log of " Savannah " in Report of U. S. N. Museum.

In connection with the foregoing, the following additional matter, which is
self-explanatory, will be found of interest:

Editorial notice of "Royal William" in Colonial Patriot, published at Pictou,
13th August, 1833.

"Tho 'Royal William' is here on her way to London, whence she is not likely
to return. We sincerely lament that she is not to continue in tho service of those
Provinces, and her departure ought to bo considered as a great calamity. When the
idea of connecting Quebec and this Province by stoum was first started, wo hailed
the opening prosperity with a very long article, pointing out the advantages which
would ensue; and though our predictions have not been realized, wo have never
seen cause to change our opinion. We do not despair of seeing before long a
cheaper boat, of more manageable dimensions, running between this and Quebec,
leaving the dangerous navigation between this and Halifax out of the route. We
take this opportunity of congratulating our friends in Britain, with whom we used to
anticipate happy meetings when the Atlantic should be navigated by steam, upon the
present attempt to the accomplishment oj our wishes. We have no doubt she will have
a safe and speedy voyage."

The same paper, of tho 20th of the same month, has the following among the
shipping news : —
16—6

DEFARTMEXr OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

"Clonred Htb, ' Royal William,' McDougall, London, coal, natural curiosities,*

^'^^^::X^rXtr'B.y^ WiHiam:- Rev M^Sweoney and daughter, Dr.
Law Messrs. Causyoi- and Clark, and several in the Btcerage.

The ;to.T of the " Royal William " may fittingly conclude with an account of
the final act of placing in'its permanent position the memo.ia tablet, prepared by
direction of the lion. J. A. Ouimet, the Minister of Public Woik8.
[See page 19, Proceeiings of Colonial Conference].

At the conclusion of (ho ceremonies opening 1 he Colonial Conference on the
28th June 1894, His Excellency the Earl of Aberdeen, Governor General, announced
to the delcL'ates and others assembled in the senate chamber, that he had received
the following letter from the Clerk of the House of Commons, after the reading of
which His Excellency announced that he would have much pleasure in placing the
brass tablet in the place selected for it, and ho wanted the gentlemen specially
named in the letter and others to accompany him and assist by iheir presence at
the place designated. .

To His Excellency THE Governor General :

Mr Lord,— The two nouses of the Canadian Parliament have ordered that a
brass tablet should bo placed in the wall of the corridor leading to the Library of the
Parliament, with a suitable inscription "commemorating the departure of the
'Royal William' from the port of Quebec in 1833— the first vessel to cross the ocean
wholly by means of steam,"

Your Excellency is already familiar with the leading circumstances connected
with this interesting historical fact. The brass plate ordered by Parliament is now
ready to be put in place, and it is felt that no more fitting time could be chosen than
at the close of the opening meeting of the Colonial Conference.

On behalf of the Royal Society and Associated Societies, who wore the first to move
in doing honour to the builders and navigators of the "Royal William" I express the
hope that Your Excellency wilt bo pleased to place the commemoration plate in its
permanent position. If it is agreeable to Your Excellency I inclose the list of
gentlemen who, it is thought desirable, should witness tho proceedings.

1. — The Delegates to the Conference. 2. — Tho Speakers of tho Senate and Com-
mons. 3. — Cabinet Ministers. 4. — Mr. Gustavus Wicksieed, who saw tho " Royal
William " launched 63 years ago and took passage on her trial trip. 5. — Mr. Horace
Wicksteed, who boarded the "Royal William " on her arrival in England and dined
with the captain. 6. — Representatives of the Royal Society and Associated So-
cieties.

I have tho honour to be,

Your Excellency's most faithful servant,

J. G. BOURINOT.

His Excellency then proceeded to tho corridor leading to tho Library of Parlia-
ment, when in pursuance to the Order of Parliament, tho memorial brass represent-
ing the steamship " Royal William " was placed in the position it now occupies.
This form.al act of His Excellency most fittingly associated tho gathering of Delegates
from the British possessions in all quartorsof tho Globe with the (^anadian ship
"Royal William" the pionee" of those vast systems of ocoan steam navigation which
had rendered the Conference possible. Tho Delegates present were tho following : —

The Right Honourable the Earl of Jersey, P. C, G. C. M. G., representing the
Government of Her Majesty.

•Dr. George Patterson, of New Gl.asgow, N. H., in a letter to Dr. Sandford Fleiiiinff, C. M. G., under
date of 15th November, 1894, says that the "natiiral curi().xitie« " alK)ve indicat*?d "were a collection,
particularly of birds, made by the late Dr. McCulloch and family, wliich was sent to London for sale."
This gentleman adds that there are some particulars given of tiie " Koyal William " in his "History of
the County of Pictou," (p. 394).

SS. ROYAL WILLIAM.

*The Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, P. C, the Hon. Sir Adolphe P. Caron, P. C, K.
C. M. G., the Hon. George E. Foster, P. C, LL. D., Mr. Saiidfoid Fleming, C. M. G.,
L.L.D,, representing the Government of the Dominion of Canada.

The Hon. F. B. Suttor, M.L.A., representing the Government of Now South Wales.

The Hon. Nicholas Fitzgerald, M.L.C., roprosonting the Government of Tasmania.

The Hon. Sir Henry de Villiers, K. C. M. G., Sir Charles Mills, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
the Hon. J. H. Hofmeyr ; representing the Government of the Cape of Good Hope,

The Hon. Thomas Playford, i-epresonting the Government of South Australia.

Mr. Alfred Loe Smith, ropronentiiig the Govornmont of New Zealand.

Sir Henry Wrixon. K. C. M. G., Q. C, tiio Hon. N. Fitzgerald, M. L. C, the
Hon. Simon Fraser, M. L, C, repiosonling the Government of Victoria.

The Hon. A. J. Thynno, M. L. C. (member of the Executive council), Hon. Wm.
Forrest, M. L. C, representing the Government of Queensland.

This act of His Excellency was witnessed also by the members of the Canadian
Government, the Speakers of both Houses of the Dominion Parliament and by mem-
bers of each House, by officers and members of the Royal Society of Canada on bo-
hiilf of the Canadian Institute, the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, the
Nova Scotia Historical Society and other associated" societies and by citizens of Ot-
tawa generally: among others by two gentlemen who wore contemporaries of the
fvents relating to the memorable voyage of the vessel in 1833 viz. Mr. Gustavus W.
Wicksteed, Q. C, who was present at the launching of the ship, and was on board
of lier as a passongoi- previous to her voyage across the Atlantic: and his brother,
Major Horace A. Wicksteed, who visited the steamer on her arrival in the River
Thames after her passage across the ocean,
^ow Sir Mackenzie Bowo'.l, K. C. M. G.

IN HONOUR OF THE MEN

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The Rrsl Vessel to Crossthe Atlantic by
Steam Power was wholly constructed In
Canada arid navigated to England In 1833.
The Pioneer of Those Mighty Fleets of Ocean
Steamers by wNch Passengers and Merchandise
of all Nations are now conveyed on every sea
throughout theWorld.

ORDERED BY

THE PARLIAMErtT OF CANADA. JUNE » IS im.

FACSIMILE OF THB MEMORIAL BRASS.