ond Viscount= (1717-1793). Entered
Parliament, 1740. Lord commissioner of Admiralty, 1746; a privy
councillor, 1755; chancellor of the exchequer, 1761; treasurer of the
navy, 1762; secretary of war, 1765-1768; joint postmaster-general, 1782.
=Index=: =Hd= Informs Haldimand he owes promotion to the king, 83;
summary sent him of Haldimand's expenses, 107; compliments Haldimand,
113; promises Haldimand pay as inspector-general, 329. =Bib.=: _Dict.
Nat. Biog._

=Barron, Commodore= (1769-1851). Born in Virginia. In command of the
_Chesapeake_, on board which were some British deserters, 1807. On the
refusal of Barron to give them up, the British frigate _Leopard_
attacked and compelled his surrender. Court-martialled and suspended
from rank and pay for five years. Fought and killed Commodore Decatur in
a duel, 1820. Became senior officer of the navy, 1839. =Index=: =Bk=
Enlists deserters from British ships on board _Chesapeake_, 83, 85.
=Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._; _Correspondence between the late Commodore
Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron_.

=Barter.= =L= Practised in colony in early days, 122.

=Barthe, J. G.= Member for Yamaska in Canadian Assembly, 1841-1844.
=Index=: =BL= Takes part in Rebellion of 1837; afterwards edits
_L'Avenir du Canada_; member for Yamaska; offered and refuses seat in
Cabinet, 236.

=Basques.= A pre-Aryan race, occupying the border-land between France
and Spain. Assertions have repeatedly been made that they made voyages
to America, and discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence, before Cartier, and
even before Cabot, but these have never been substantiated. All the
evidence goes to show that they frequented the Newfoundland fisheries in
the sixteenth century, but not earlier. =Index=: =Ch= Contraband
traders, 140; threaten French on St. Pierre Island, 174. =Bib.=: Dawson,
_The St. Lawrence Basin_; Reade, _The Basques in North America_ (R. S.
C., 1888); Howley, _Old Basque Tombstones at Placentia_.

=Bathurst, Henry, third Earl= (1762-1834). Succeeded to the title, 1794.
Entered Parliament, 1793; president of the board of trade, 1807; foreign
secretary, 1809; and secretary for war and the colonies, 1812. Directed
Britain's colonial policy during the important administrations of
Prevost, Sherbrooke, and Dalhousie, in Lower Canada, and of Gore and
Maitland, in Upper Canada. Lord president of the Council, 1828-1830; one
of the original members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,
1833