PM. Ponenza [prepared for the CG of 19 February 1827] on the Sulpician Seminary of Montréal, in six paragraphs. Paragraph 6 contains one query to be answered by PF. It is followed by a Sommario. Roux, superior of the Sulpician Seminary of Montréal, currently in Rome, a few days after his arrival [which probably took place on 11 November 1826] received a letter from Bathurst, Secretary of State for [War and] the Colonies, dated 24 October [1826] (Sommario, no. 1), answering his own letter of 22 July 1826. Roux had asked for permission to receive priests from France, who were to be attached to his Seminary.
Bathurst answered negatively, pointing out that Dalhousie, Governor[-in-Chief] of [Lower] Canada, was assessing whether the Montréal seigneurie belong to the Crown, that two recent acts of Parliament [probably the Canada Trade and Tenure Act of 1825, for Lower Canada] made it necessary to change the status of the Seminary, and that the Sulpicians would be adequately reimbursed were their seigneurie to be expropriated.
In the draft of his answer to Bathurst, that he submitted to PF Secretary [Caprano, on 7 December 1826] (Sommario, no. 2 [see SOCG 486]), Roux states that French priests had been granted in the past, that the Sulpician corporation is ready to take the government to court if it is not recognized by the government as agreed in the treaty [recte Capitulation] of Montréal of 1764 [recte 8 September 1760], that the Sulpicians are ready to autonomously grant the "affranchisement des rotures", and that reimbursements would not allow the continuation of the Seminary's pious activities (Sommario, no. 3).
In his letter [to Caprano] of 19 January 1827 [see SOCG 488], Roux also mentions the Treaty of [Paris of] 10 February 1763 between France and England, the Capitulation of Montréal, [George III's] instructions to Prevost, Governor[- in-Chief of [Lower] Canada, of [22 October] 1811 [see C 042], the priests received by the Seminary, one in 1793 [Le Saulnier], eleven including the writer in 1794 [Garnier Des Garets, Humbert, Malard, Molin, Nantet, Rivière, Robin, Roux, Sauvage de Chatillonet, Sattin, Thavenet), two or three soon thereafter, three more recently [recte 19 between 1796 and 1825]. The query is, whether to approve Roux's answer to Bathurst. The Sommario contains, [1] Translation into Italian of Bathurst to Roux, 24 October 1826 [see SOCG 486];
[2] Roux to PF Secretary [Caprano], 7 December 1826; [3] Roux to Bathurst, [December 1826; see SOCG 486]. Bs: fol. 143[c]v, 146rv, 151v-152rv.
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