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At a Meeting of tho Central and Permanent CoMMfTtE* o* fhB District of Montreal, in Convention assembled at the City of Montreal^ on the fourth day of September, 1834, according to public notice previously fiven, Joseph Rov, Esq., President, in the Chair, Louis Coureolles, Isq., (Delegate from the Comity of Two Mountains,) Vice-President, C, Ov. Perr ault, Esq.,and Dr. O'Callaghan, Secre(aries,ihe names of the several Delegates in attendance inscribed on the Roll, and the Minutes of the last Meeting read, the Secretary reported that he had transmitted to London, according to the orders of the Convention, copies of the Resolutions pass- ei at the last Meeting, to their respective addresses. The President then informed the Convention that, since they had met in July, several letters had been received from Messrs. Viger and MoRiN, the Agents for the Province in London, which were accordirigiy read, and ordered to be entered on the Minutes. After which, the Secre- tary proceeded to read a letter from J. A. Roebuck, Esq.- M. P., to the Central and Permanent Committee, dated london, July 5, lb34 ; which be- ing finished, it was unanimously Resolved, That copies of this day's pro- ceedings be transmitted to John Arthur Roebuck, Esq., M. P., together with the thanks of this Meeting, for the vigilance and zeal which he has manifested in behalf of this country, and for the lively interest which he takes in its affairs, praying him to continue his efforts for the procuring a responsible form of Government for this Province. REPORT OF CANADA COMMITTEE. Tho ftesiJent next announced, that the Committee of the House of Com- mens, to whom were referred the complaints of this Province, had con- cluded their labours, and made a Report ; a copy of which was accordinelv laid on the Table. t f^ &y Whereupon the same was taken into consideration, and the following Re- solutions unanimouBly adopted. On motion of J. N. Cardinal, Esq., Delegate for LapraiHc County ; se- conded by Mr. Vincent, of Longueuil. I. Resolved, That this Meeting having taken the Report of the Cotnmit- teo of the House of Commons ofthe 3d July last, on the affairfi of this Pro- vince, into mature consideration, are of opinion, that although that docu- ment has been drawn up in a vague and general style, yfet they hope for Reform, inasmuch ae it seems to have been agreea to ny the Commtttee onder a knowledge ofthe liberal policy entcftained and professed by Mr. WT«fii"W^j^^.>(V-^WJiupfii^|iL.-l 9 Spring Rice; and becanso the Comjnittcc considered it of extreme im- portance that a jicrfect 'reconciliation of existing differences should tiiko place, and expressed tiieir earnest hope that the iniaconccptions occasion- ing them may be removed under the niaiuro care of the present Colonial {Secretary, tlie responsible officer for the adoption of practical measures for the future better (Government of this Province. On motion of tho same ; seconded by Dr. Vallois,— 2. Resolved, That inasmucii as the various grievances of whic's the country complains arise from an imperfect and vicious Colonial system which does not afford any means within itself of preventing or checking political abuses, or of bringing to an account and punishing public delin- quents, there exists no guarantee against the recurrence of those griev- ances, unless the said system be so iar modified as to render the local au- thorities responsible for their acts to the people of this Province, and by the extension of Elective institutions furnish the country with the means of peaceably removing from office such of the Legislative and other function- aries as may have justly forfeited public confidence. On motion of the same ; seconded by Dr. Lacroix, — 3. Resolved, Therefore, that however well inclined to confide in the pri>- fessions of the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, (to which confi- dence hs is, to a certain degree, entitled by his early abandonment of Mr. Stanley's threatened usurpation of the right in the British Parliament to tax the Colonies, and by the advices which the Convention have received from Messrs. Roebuck, Viger, Morin, and other friends of this country,) yet this meetmg cannot honestly perform the duty it owes its constituents without frankly and publicly declaring that no measure of Reform can pro- ^ duce permanent satisfaction, nor remove the existing " misconceptions," and "difficulties," unless it is based upon the recommendations contained in the Petition of the House of Assembly, lately presented to the House of Commons, praying for an extension of the Elective principle in the Govern- ment of this Province. On motion of the same ; seconded by Masson, Esq. 4. Resolved, That this Meeting learns, with feelings of profound regret and disappointment, that the Committee did not consider it expedient to lay before the House of Commons the evidence of the witnesses examined, or the documents which have been placed before them, as publicity is the greatest, if not the only, security., to a distant people, against intrigues, jobs, abuse of power, and misrepresentations on the part of their Colonial rulers, frequently sent for the purpose of repairing their broken fortunes, and who, in a spirit of animosity, have often been known to have prejudiced His Majesty's Government against the inhabitants of the Colonics ; and that in the present instance in particular, when an almost unanimous people ac- cused the Provincial Administration of high crimes, it was due both to ac- cusers and accused that the evidence and documents aforesaid should not be suppressed. On motion of the same ; seconded by Mr. A. Girod, — 5. Resolved, That the Colonial Secretary is hereby respectfully request- ed to procure for the information of His Majesty's subjects in this Colony the production of the said rvidence and documents before the House of Commons, and should he, contrary to the expectations of the people of this country, not act on the above request, Messrs. Hume, O'Connell, and Roebuck, are earnestly and respectfully required to move for the same. Ordered, That copies of the above be transmitted to the Right Honoura- ble the Colonial Secretary, and to Messrs. Hume, O'Connem., Roebuck, and to Messrs. Vioer and Morin. The Sub-Committee charged with drawing up a reply to the Speech of Hii Excellency I-ord Avlmer to the Deputation from Tattersall'.«, and Ob- •ervations on ihe Speech uelivered by Mr. Stanley in the House of Com' 1II0I18 on tht) 15ih April, handed in a pamphlet, which had been prepared am? printed under their superintendence ; and the same was ordered to be distributed throughout the Prjvince. BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. It waa 'hen announced to the Convention, that advices had been receiv- ed since tlie lagt meeting, conveying the intelligence that the Royal Sanc- tion had been given to the Bill Incorporating the BRtTisti American Company ; whereupon Mr. Girod, one of the Delegates from the County of Vercheres, came forward, and stated that he had prepared a series of Ue- solutions condemnatory of the alienation of the public property of this Pro- vince to a Company ot foreign speculators, without the consent, and against the will of the people, whose property the lands in question are, and that he would submit the same with the permission of the meeting. The Resolutions referred to were then read, one by one, and severally adopted unanimously. They are as follow : 1. Resolved, That this Committee, whilst persisting in the Resolutions which it adopted in its meeting of the second July last, relative to the pass- ing of the Act Incorporating the Land Company, seizes this opportunity of expressing its deep regret that the said Bill has received the Royal sJanc- tion. 2 Resolved, Tliat this meeting cannot consider the interference of the Imperia; Parliament in the local affairs of this country, and in matters with- in the jurisdiction of the Provincial Legislature, otherwise than as a viola- tion of the Constitutional rights of the people of this country, and of the promises made by the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Coder icii, former- ly Secretary for the Colonies, in his Despatch of the 7th July, 1831. 3. Resolved, That this violation of *he promises and engagements of the Colonial Office towards this country, and the House of Assembly is in the opinion of this meeting the more flagrant, the more oppressive, and eihibits the greater contempt for the people of this Province and their Legislature, inasmuch as it was committed against the will and desire of the inhabitants of the country, expressly manifested by Resolutions unanimously passed by their Representatives in the Session of 1832 — Resolutions which have since been renewed in the last Session of the Provincial Parliament, and support- ed by the people in their Petitions to the Imperial Parliament. 4. Resolved, That, independent of other Acts, which have rendered the Administration of the late Mr. Secretary Stanley deservedly odious to the people of this Province, the approbation which he has given to the passing of the Land Company Bill, the favour which he showed towards those who solicited it — the open protection which he has given to those who, to avoid all opposition to their projects, have effected the passing of the said law se- cretly and clandestinely) sufHce to impress upon that Administration an iti delible stain, and affix thereto the seal of reprobation. 5. Resolved, That this meeting confidently demands, from the liberal views of the new Colonial Secretary, and the opinions which he has recent- ly expressed on an analogous subject, that he will obtain from the Imperial Parliament the repeal of^so much of the aforesaid Act as concerns Lower Canada, and thereby remove one of the sources of discontent most poign- antly and most generally felt, and which has been created throughout tliis Province by the impudent temerity of his predecessor. 6. Resolved, That, whilst confidently awaiting this Act of Justice, this meeting invites the Electors of the different Counties to exact from those who may offer to represent them, a formal pledge that they will use all their efforts to oppose, by all legitimate means, the operations of the aforesaid Land Company, and that they will not cease their exertions until they shall ■M !iav« obtained the repeal of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, by virtue of which it has been incorporated, so far as Lower Canada is concerned. 7. Resolved, That this meeting regards as null the title obtained by the said Land Company, and invites the Provincial Legislature, at its next Ses- ■ion, to declare such nullificaiion, and to adopt every other means in their power, which their wisdom may suggest, to protect the people uf this coun ry a^^ainst tliis invasion of their rights as long as it may continue. 8. Resolved, Tlint the inhabitants of this Province are, moreover, earnest- \y invited to use all legitimate meansat their disposal to arrest the progress of the prevailing system of speculation and monopoly, whereby covetous and privileged shareholders, by virtue of Legislative provisions, pretend to aclt by auction, and to dispose offer purposes of trade,a considerable extent of land, the most easy of access, and the most susceptible of early settle* mont by the youth of the country, from the approach to which they have been hitherto shut out by the partial distribution of the same in favour of a certain class of persons, which has been pursued with systemotic persever- ance until completed by the passation by the Imperial Parliament of the re- cent Act now alluded to. Ordered, That copies of the above Resolutions bo transmitted to the Right Honourable the Secretary for the Colonies, and to Messrs. Vioeb, MoRiNi and Roebuck. A Sub-Committee was then appointed, consisting of three members, to report, at the next meeting of the Conv ^ntion, a Memorial, setting forth the evil consequences which must necessarily result, as well to the perma- nent as to the emigrant population, from the establishment of the British American Land Company. CHOLERA. After the above Resolutions were thus disposed of, the Convention pro- ceeded to take into their consideration the ravages lately committed through- out the Country by the Asiatic C/iofcm, together with the existing Quarantme regulations, and the refu.sal of His Excellency the Governor m Chief to extend the provisions of the Quarantine Act to this City, or to advance the necessary sums for the relief of the sufTering Emigrants na prayed to do by the Corporation of Montreal, on motion of Turton Pe.nn, Fars from a despatch from Lord Viscount Goderich, the then Colonial Secretary, dated 7ih July, 1831, in which the people of tliis Province received the assurance of His Majesty's Government, that " if it could be shewn that the patronage of the Crown had been experienced upon narrow, and exclusive principle8,they ought r'>t be too soon disavowed, and abandoned; especially ifitvere trtie that the fixed population of the colony had not enjoyed a full participation in all public employments, and the countrj* should be ossured that His Majesty cannot desire that such odious distinctions should be systematically main- tained " 3. Resdved, That notwithstanding the above ossurances, the people of this country are at present under the necessity of again complaining that the same systematic, partial, and ur^ust exclusion from oflice, has continued to be followed iip by His Excellency Matthew Lord Avlher, the present Governor in Chief, who, since his appointment to office, has called tJ several permanent situations of profit in the civil departments, twenty-three or more persons, besides a great many in the Customs, ofallof whom only eight are Canadians of French origin. (Vide Table on eighth page.) 4. Resolved, That notwithstanding the assurances of His Mnjesty's Gov- ernment above alluded to. His Excellency LonI Avlmer has moreover se- lected for the Judicial Departments in both the higher and lower Courts of this Province, violent partisans as instanced in this late nomination of the major part of the Commissioners for the Summary Trial of Small Causes in the Country parts ; on which occasion, controry to the spirit of the Law, and to the former practice of himself and his predecessor, he has excluded from such office several persons recommended to him by the proprietors who had called for the establishment of such Commissioners' Courts, (which persons had already filled such offices with advantage to the public and honour to themselves) and appointed others who had no other recommendation than their known subserviency to His Excellency's political bias, and hostility to the opinions of the mass of the people. 5. Resolved, That the recent appintment of Samdel Gale, Esquire, to a seaton the Bench in this District, is another particularly obnoxious instance of the violation of His Mixjesty's Gracious assurance contained in the afore- said Despatch, and of the whole spirit of both the Canada Reports, and of the pledges of the Colonial Offic }, and unaccountably well calculated to continue those animosities and misconceptions lately recommended to be removed, in- asmuch as the said Samuel Gale was throughout a notonous political sup- porter of the had A(liMini.strHiioa iiguinsl which tho pioplc ut'ihis Fruviikon du', in 1627, sjcceaMiully t-omplnin; to unpwo which cornpiaiiits und tu sup- port whicli obnoxious Administration the said Samuel Gale v/as deputed to England, where ho evinced in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Comnioa's the most violent and unfounded prejudices against the language of the people of this Country and their laws, which laws he is now •palled to administer to tho great injury of the minority of His Mjyesty's sub- jects in this District, who, uller tho declarations on his part contained in that evidence, caimut have any confldcnee in such a man as a Judge. 6. Resolved, That by the aforesaid nominations, and repeated violations of the assurances contained in the Despatch above referred to, which were based on tho Report of the Canada Committee of 1828, and especially by tho recent appointment of the said Samuel Gale to the Bench, in manifest con- tradiction with the terms and spirit of the Report of tho Canada Committee of 1831, the confidence of His Majesty's subjects in the sincerity of the pro- fessions of His IVIqjesty's Government is very much disturbed — Hia Excellen- cy Lord Aylmer having identified thereby his administration witli that of the wicked and tyrannical Earl of Dalhouse, and aflbrded, if such were ne- cessary, furtfier proof of His Excellency's utter inoapacity to govern impar- tially, and oF his having forfeited anew all claim to tho respect and confidence of His Miyesfy's subjects in this province. Ordered, That copies of the above Resolutions bo transmitted to the Right Honourable the Colonial Secretary, and Messrs. Viger, Morin, and Roebuck. No further business being before the Convention, the meeting was »d- journed to (he first Thursdat in OcTOBEa next. "■ m Pcrnrmont Appointmrnts to Pliicrs of Profit made by IIi« Excellency Ixjrd \VDMi;n, wovcrnor-in-(.'hi»'for Lower I'anudu, an fur as iho game can b« correctly nacertaiiied : — M. o 3, 5. *6. 7. 8. 9. ♦10. ♦11. ♦12. 13. 14. 15. ♦16. 17. 18. ♦10. 20. 21. 22. ♦23. Mr. Panel., appointed Judge nt Quebec — siicuocdcdu French Canadian. Mr. Stewart Scott, ('lerk of the IVocc, &.c. Mr. Antrobus, Provincial Aide-de-Camp — succeeded a French Cana- dian. Mr. Chibholme, Coroner at Three Rivers — aucceeded ■ French Cwa- dian. Mr. Davidson, C'leTk of the Court of Choncefy. II. S. Iluot, Esq., Secretary of Marin»j Hospital. Mr. Halts, (Mr. Watts,) in the Department of Civil Secretary. Mr. Willan, Clerk Criminol Court at Quebec Mr. Gale, appointed Judge at Montreal. P. L. Panel, Grand Voyer, Montreal — succecde