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 THE HONORABLE 
 
 mSL FRANCIS N. BURTt>N> G. CM. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 igiR FRANCI3 N. BURTON Imd before bis tempop. ^W* 
 
 J3l rary assuinptkm of the goYeromeoV been ^ifsiJrSLv 
 enoofb in Ltwer Canada to becooie per^onitlly msf^inti- ^^^^^^ 
 ed witb movfcof tbose actively engage^ in publk afiSlir8»^Junej 1884. 
 and possessed a full Icnowledge oitiiepicniits indi8Ctti8'9tt 
 bofoie the Legislaturet 
 
 He was sensiUe of the difficulties that sun^ounded 
 him in the administration of the government^ but he 
 eiitertained a hope, that a middle and conciliating course' 
 mMit bring round an understanding, and lead to sot 
 a^stment of the matters in dispute without the inter*^ 
 pofitloB of ^e British Parliament. He was believed to 
 be averse to tbe intiended Union as au impolitic and oil? 
 necessary measure, and to entertoin an opinicm that the; 
 Province was actuated by a sincere desire and fully ca- . 
 pable <Mf restoring harmony, a disporition which he re- 
 solved to cultivate, and in the pursiUt whereof as well 
 a»^ the mildness of character, and manner which pre- 
 viously distinguished him in the society, he became 
 highly popular. 
 
 Not having made hims^ conspicuous for any interest 
 lie may previously h^ve in taken in the topics which 8|4t 
 tated the Provtnee, he wai the more free to adopt audi^ 
 
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 AOMINItTRATION Or 
 
 1834. 
 
 BlMtboff. 
 
 coune as might seem to him best suiti^ for disenthraUing 
 all parties, who seemed heartilv tired of the disputes in 
 which they were engaged. The unpopular posture of 
 affairs, and the anxietv professed on all han(b to bring 
 about a change, and which it was urged was the more 
 easily to be effected, with a change of administration, 
 were circumstances in his favor of which he could not 
 but have been sensible, and have had a wish to avail 
 himself accordingiy. 
 
 The Elections took place throughout the Province in 
 July and August, but, although several new Members 
 were returned, it was apparent that the influence of the 
 party termed anti-ministerial, had rather increased, 
 than been weakened by the change. Mr. Uniacke, how- 
 ever, the Attorney General, who hitherto had not been 
 able to obtain a seat in the Assembly, was now elected and 
 returned for the Borough of William Henry. 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor visited Montreal and the 
 Ltoot G t . ^PP®*' P*"^ **^ *^® Province towards the end of August, 
 nor «i\iu ^ '' and was received with every mark of cordiality and 
 MooirMi. respect by the Inhabitants. The Citizens of Montreal 
 entertained His Excellency at a public dinner. Before 
 leaving that City he attended the ceremony of laying tlie 
 corner stone of the splendid edifice since erected, as the 
 Roman Catholic Parish Church for Montreal, the Bat- 
 tery on the Island, St. Helena, opposite the City firing a 
 salute of nineteen guns on the occasion.* 
 
 * Amoof tlw MilerilaMOlM e? eats of Mm prMenI year lint deNrve to b* 
 put on record, b the feet, that the lamet wip ever bvilt (unlew we credit 
 the talee of aaliquity) and certainly the largest that e? er crowed the 
 atlantic ocean, wai launched on the SSih July it34. at the IilandofOr* 
 leaoe, near the weatern point, at the diaiance of a league and a half from 
 Quebec. It ira* flat Iwttomed, and every way after the model of a Cana- 
 dian Battemu, and built by a Iklr. Wood, of Glatgow, for a company in 
 Scotland. The purnoee of^lhia Leviathan Batteaypassled for a lime the 
 natives, who imagined iome deep speculation at bottom. It however, 
 turned out an noprofllable one. It tooli in a load of limber and tailed for 
 Baxland, which it reacNd, but afterwards on retarning to St. John, New- 
 Bruntwicli, became in a gale of wind water-loggeo. and was in conee* 
 
 Jiaence abandoned at eea. Iti length *re3 901 feet 6 inches— breadth fiO 
 eet 7 inches— and depth 89 feet 4 incnes* and was of S.690 93*94 tons bur- 
 then. It was fitted out with four masts. In sailing down the St. Lawrence 
 on her homeward voyage, after the Hercules, steam tow-boat, which had 
 towed her down as far as Bic had left her, she ran aground at the Bets- 
 lamiles shoalu, bnt upon throwing over a considerable quanlity of her cargo 
 she floated off without injury, and proceeded on her voyage. Another on 
 a limilarmodel of rather larger dimendons, was shortly after the launch 
 of the former, laid down at the same place and launched the ensuing year. 
 She reached England, bat stranding on the coast, was after a short time 
 flaaied off, and. blown over on the eoast of Fiance where »he was totally 
 lost, but the cvgo, consisting of timber, was saved. No further attempt 
 to bnild vesiels on a tiniiar plan has tioce beeo attenptod in this Province. 
 
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Chap; 
 XVII. 
 
 1834. 
 
 Sir Francis N. Burton. 
 
 Tbe SaUuries due to the OiRcen denominated local, 
 which for want of an Act of appropriation last Session, 
 the Governor in Chief had not thought proper to pay on 
 his own responsibility, were now paid by the Lieutenant 
 Governor, who toolc it upon himself, trusting to the As- 
 sembly for indemnity. His Excellency, notwithstanding 
 the vote of reduction, during the preceding Session, of 
 one fourth upon every Salary throughout the Civil List, 
 gave to each the amount previously enjoyed, and the 
 measure although in the face of the resolves adopted l^ 
 the Assembly, was rather popular than otherwise. It 
 eviuced a reliance, it was said, on the liberality and 
 justice of that body, which it behoved them the more to 
 meet with a corresponding temper, as the revenue of the 
 vear was sufficiently productive to afford a well grounded 
 hope that the Province would be fully able to meet all 
 &ir demands upon it, without being under the necessity 
 of insisting upon the intended reduction. 
 
 TheLegislature met on the 8th January. Much inter- 
 est had been excited with respect to the choice of 
 Speaker, which several imagined would fall on Mr. 1826'. 
 valliires, and who indeed promised himself certain suc- 
 cess, having shortly previous to *the meeting of Uie ij£''*''* 
 Assembly spolkefi to that effect in terms of great confi- 
 dence, tie was, however, when it came to the trial held 
 v«ry light, only twelve voting for him, and thirty-two 
 for Mr. Papineau, who consequently being declared 
 Speaker elect, was accordingly confirmed by the Lieut. 
 Governor, in the usual manner. This preliminary 
 proceeding being over, his Excellency addressed the two 
 Houses in the following terms : 
 
 " Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, 
 
 *' Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, 
 
 ''The Administration of the Government of this 
 Colony having devolved upon me in consequence of the sp«tch. 
 absence of His Excellency the Governor in Chief,,! 
 have judged it expedient to call you together at a season 
 of the year, which I am led to consider as the best suited 
 to your private convenience, and as affording the great- 
 est portion of leisure for the despatch of public business. 
 
 " Gentlemen of the H ouse of Assembly, 
 
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 am AMUMiftHATioir or 
 
 ^ I iball -wMi M little ^ay as oonHile, mm% to be 
 laid iMibre yoa, an oeoovat of the Piwdncial Rerenue of 
 tin Grown, «mI of the ExpeMKture of the Uvil Establish^ 
 nent 4iiuing the lait year, acoonifanied by anch S(ale<»> 
 mentsand Retunw as wHI enable you to judge of the 
 resources of Uik risiag Cokmy, and of the means wMeh 
 It possesses to provide for the Civil Expenditure of the 
 Flwvincial Government, and to promote Internal Im* 
 pfovement, without Che Imposition of Duties upon its 
 Conuneroe or its Industry to an extent that can be felt as 
 a bunlien l^ its Inhabitants. 
 
 ^Gentlemen of the Legislative Ckmncily 
 
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 Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, 
 
 ** Persuaded as I am of your devotion to ^ best of 
 Sovereigns, and of your earnest denre to promote the 
 general welfare of your fellow subjects, for whom you 
 are called to legislate, I cannot but anticipate the most 
 beneidal results from your proceeding?. 
 
 '* Although enteriag for the first time on the Adminisi 
 tration o£ the Government, I have resided long enough 
 ill the Province to become personally acquahited with 
 hiostof you, and it aifoixis me the highest gratification 
 to declare that 1 have not in any part of the King's 
 Bominions, remarked a firmer attachment to His Ma- 
 jesty's Person imd Govo'nroent than I Imve observed 
 in you individaally ; I have therefore tlie best ground to 
 r«1y upon your 4so\^etxve exertions. I trust Gentlemen, 
 that you will cordially unite for the purpose of dekig 
 away any difficulties which may heretofore have arisen, 
 and for preventing %y an amicable arrangement of the 
 Financial Concerns of this Province, the recurrence of 
 such difficulties in future. 
 
 ^ The abundance of the late Harvest, and the increa- 
 i4n|^ prosperity of tiie Province, are subjects of heartfelt 
 congratuhftion to us all ; a state of gi^atn* tranquiHity 
 eamiot well be ima«|«ined than that which we now enjoy ^ 
 and both the kind Dispensatmns of Pitovklence, and the 
 felterinf 'CM<e ef a paternal Governmefft, hold out to 
 yon ihe strongest encouragement to pursue. In your 
 legislative capacity, such a course, as may best secure 
 the present^ and promote the future happiness of your 
 
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 felbw tukiiecte ia this fwrt of Mdoty'f Dmniiiioat i and (%,^ 
 Ikttgyeu to fae amired tkat nammg is «are earaeitljr xra^ 
 tin oli|{ect of my wishes than to oontrihutc, bv eveiy v^fv^^ 
 neans ia ny po«v«r, to the attalnmeDt,of so (wsirable \§m^ 
 an end." *"■*• 
 
 The Speech was well reoeiTcd among the Membefi ol 
 the Assembly, who augured favorably from it ; and an 
 advantageous result from the labors of ihe Session was 
 geaeraUy anticipated. 
 
 A letter from Sir James M'lntosh, to the late Speaker, 
 Mr. Vallidres, acknowledging the receipt of certain re- Sir Jai. Mm> 
 solutwns of the Assembly, in the last Session, relating to ^^^'^' 
 that Gentleman, was laid before the House, a day or 
 two after the opening of the Session.* 
 
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 • " LoMDOV, lltb Augmt UM. 
 
 ** I have the honor to acknowledce iroiir Letter of the tweo<y-trM 
 M Mardi, eaoleeinc eoplea of the llviolatlaBs of the Henaa of AMembly of 
 %4W€r Camadaaf tla frarlli af that oMHMh. I rcaaeu yau to prcwot ny 
 BOit hneible and grateiol thanks to that Ronorable Body, and (if iheir 
 neetinc thoald be delayed,) to the individual nenber*, for the approba- 
 aeo'VUli wMeh Ibey have iMDoiwtf my ParllaaMntary condnct ia «ppe« 
 sliionlpaay Unioa of the Caoadaa, which the Body of ihe Beapie in 
 cither Province diiapprove. Conttiintionai polic>, in my opinion, re* 
 qnlrea that the deliberate opinien ef the BMrt ■■meroiii ae well at the more 
 rfipectable ciaMeiof the Canadian commnnity ahould be treated with the 
 otmoai regard. I thall not in anch a case be easily convinred that wimt it 
 repngMnt to their wiebet ahould be conducive to their iotercals. 
 
 ** With these principlet. Sir, I need not annre yon and the Aasembly, 
 that! ah*ll«oatiaue to act in Parliament on this anbject aa I have done. 
 I thon|hi it my duty to waich dwiag ike laat Sesaioa, tn those aMaas' » .■ 
 ralatiog to Canada, which It was reported <te lie the lataotion of Govet v >- 
 neni to introduce. I delayed this anawer till the cioaa af the Seaaioa tmi 
 terminaled «U anziaiy aa that head, ftumaurs of a IUm aort ape still cir- 
 culatad respecting the neit Session. 
 
 ** The House of Assembly seem to be aware (Iml an Individoal Member 
 if parliament net clothed with any pu1>lic character by the Assemblv or 
 even by the mere considerable Inhatitanta. cannot spealt or act w4tn the 
 SMMwrtxht'aBdeffBctasiriK was the Agent af the Proviaee or of the 
 A'Siembly. If the same unfartanate circumstanecs should atHI coaiinae to 
 
 Eretvottlie fermM appointmeat of an Agent, the Memlieraef the Asaem- 
 Iv may perhaps devise some means of arming the individual whom they 
 wisb to act for them, with such proofh of their ronfidence as may i»e as 
 nearly eqttl vaient to formal agency at the ritnatlon of the Province will 
 allow. 
 
 *** lliave ^mraranieated the Resoltrtions of the Assembly to the ether 
 Men^bera of Parliamant who joined with me in eppesition to the campwl- 
 aery Union of the Canadas, and they bofve desired me to convey to the 
 Asaemblyi (lirougb yon, their tfaaaiufor the honor which has been done to 
 
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 ADMIlrilTftATION OV 
 
 Chap. ^ motion wm made early In the ScMion for the sp- 
 XVII* pointment of a Committee of five memben, to eontidcr 
 %^^iyi^/ of and report as toon at poaeible such plan or method aa 
 « fine might be bett adapted to the purpose of giving publicity 
 ^^* to the proceedings of the House, in addition to the usual 
 publications of the Journals. This motion was unani- 
 mously rqected as unparliamentary, after a short debate. 
 
 A Bill was passed during the Session by the Assembly 
 for the appointment of an Agent in the United Kingdom, 
 iftnt, kc. ))|]t j|(i not receive the sanction of the Legislative Coun- 
 cil. Messieurs Papineau and Neilson laid before the 
 Assembly copy of a letter they had, while in England 
 with the Petitions against the proposed Union of the 
 Canadas, addressed to the under Secretary of State for the 
 Colonial Department R. Wilmot, Esqr. " We have," 
 said they, in this document, which entering into a variety 
 of details is too voluminous for insertion here — *' heard 
 indeed in the Colonies, motives alleged for changes in 
 the Constitution of Lower Canada, but as they bear the 
 character of party, of prejudice, and even hatred of the 
 Inhabitants of that Province, they never can be supposed 
 to influence the British Government. There, appeals 
 
 ** I beg that joa will aeeept my tlwDki for tke obliglnK naaMr ^m 
 wklcb yoa have traniaitted to me the llcMlBliont of tbe Aiaembly. 
 
 *• I have the honor to be 
 
 "Sir, 
 
 ** Your obliged and failhfal humble Scr? ant, 
 
 «J. MACKINTOSH. 
 «< J. R. VaUiAret do St. R«al, EMulra/ 
 Speaker of tbe Honte of Aiiembly oi" 
 Lower Canada, Quebec." 
 
 (The following are the reaolntloM alladed to in tbe abo? e letter.) 
 
 Rbsoltbd, That tbe Ihankeof thii House be given to Sir Jamet Mack* 
 Intoih, and the other Members of Parliament, who, Infloenced by a lenie 
 of Juttire and their attachmeni to tbe princlplee of tbe Brliith ConMitatioa 
 •uccef ded in perenadiag Hie Majeety^e Miniateie to relingnith their aop* 
 
 Sort of a Bill introduced in tiM Houte of Commonain one tbouiand eint 
 nndrrd and twenlv-two, for altering the cilablithed Conttltulion of we 
 Canadaf, eotU tucb time at the Inhabitante of ihe Provlncae could have 
 an opportunity uf making known their lentimeBts ihcreoo. 
 
 Rbmltbd, That the precedjog and present Resolntiom, signed by MrJ 
 Speaker, be trantmltted by him to Sir James Mackintosh, requesting him 
 tu communicate tbe lame to the other Members of Parliament who serond> 
 ed his generous efforts on the aforemeniioned occasion i and also seeing 
 tbe obstncles which have for the last srventeen years prevented the Legis« 
 lalure of this Province from obtainiag an auihorised Agent in England, 
 to watch o«er the interesis of this Province, requesting Sir James to con- 
 tinue, as a Member of Parliament, those services which have rendered his 
 name so justly dear to the Inhabitants of both Provinces. 
 
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 XVU. 
 
 have been made to the right of conquest agalntt a people 
 who have been for two generationa native born British 
 subjects; foreign attachments and feelings have been 
 asserted to those who have twice voluntarilv hazarded iqak 
 their lives and fortunes to preserve their allegiance to ' 
 
 the British Crown. No calumny, no misrepresentation 
 has been spared against those who have uniformly walk- 
 ed in the path of honor and of duty, and who, if they 
 were unfortunately torn from that allegiance which con- 
 nects them with the British Empire, could not fail to per- 
 ceive that natives and inhabitants of North America, 
 they would partake in its fortunes." — ^Without ques- 
 tioning the above, in the whole or in part, was the mind 
 which indicted the same, itself wholly free of the gross 
 impurities it imputes to an adverse party ? 
 
 Mr. Uniacke, representing the Borough of William 
 Henry, and His Miyesty's Attorney General for the Pro- Mr. Uniackt. 
 vince, was in the course of the Session, removed from 
 his situation and promoted much against his wish, to the 
 Bench, to make room for Mr. James Stuart, who as pre- 
 viously mentioned had taken an active part towards pro- 
 moting the intended Union, and had more than once 
 gone to England for the purpose. The Lieutenant Go- 
 vernor informed the House by message of Mr. Uniacke's 
 promotion, which, it seems was by command to that 
 effect from the Minister, and his seat was accordingly 
 vacated. This Gentleman had acquired the esteem of 
 the Members during the short time he had a seat in the 
 Assembly, and his removal from it, was very generally 
 regretted by them. Mr. ' Stuart also succeeded him as 
 Member for the Borough he had represented. 
 
 The independence of the Judges occupied the attention 
 of the Assembly, and in connection with the subject, Judgei, ftc. 
 they took into consideration the expedience of establish- 
 ing a tribunal " to adjudge the impeachments which 
 might be brought by the Assembly of the Province 
 against public Amctionaries," and it was resolved by the 
 iUsembly " that this tribunal be the Legislative Council 
 in conformity to the despatch of the Right Honorable 
 Earl Bathurst, to His Excellency Sir Johu Coape Sher- 
 brooke. Governor in Chief of this Province, dated the 
 7th July 1817." It was also resolved "that for the 
 more upright and impartial administration of Justice, it 
 is expedient to render the Judges of His Majes^'a 
 
^mr^ CflwieiK Mitf 4iM|Mlifyiiif mmh m wm htm mm 
 ^^""^ tberain from tlttlBg or vnttag In moli'CoiuicUt." SW 
 tiMte MNrpMM it wa»retoln4 to kv '' fXfMiteol to M9«vc» 
 byJUnr totii»MiAJndgtt> ibtkrii i i et fait »ft<eidurfa^ 
 good behttviour in th« lame iMiiMr ts thiM»oAfet m 
 aeeitred in £nglMKl,"-«id finnll^ tint it " wiU bMi- 
 pcdient Aht the imrfMies sftirtMid, to Mcmre adeq|uato 
 peraMMnt SMariet to tlie mOiI Jndfet, o« their beias 
 prevented fimn holding sny other oOee of profit «r 
 emolument imder tlieCMMm." 
 
 The popular clamovr railed on tbie Mil;|eeVMd the 
 propoeed remedy if impartiallv examined, will be found 
 aUiw lenBelesi and eondemmiWe. The pretended mie- 
 chief lemiltittg fromtbeir oecupaaof ef eeatt in either or 
 bodi tbe Ckmndlf faa» never beenolearly exemplified, and 
 it ia bard to explabi how tbeie oireuttatanecs, by whieb< 
 their Independence of, andinlhienee against the Crowny i« 
 rather eatabliahed than abridged, since in the Legislative 
 Gonnoil they hold their seat lor life^ and in the £xec»- 
 cntlve Couneil thef become the confidentiai adviaem of 
 the Cfown,-^^ean be the just cause of alarm to the subfecti^ 
 Mm honored with at seat on the Bench cannot but. 
 havea regaidler public opinion, as well as for the confix 
 dence of the Execuave i &fiiom »senseof self respect, of 
 iiprightnew andof honor* independent of other oonside* 
 nUiene, it is as likely they should give sound and whoba- 
 some advice to tbe£xeeutive Government as receive par^ 
 tial and corrupt ImpreMUonefiromit^if hypotbetically but 
 erroneously, we could under any circumstance suppose 
 thft latter desirous of pointing the current of puibKc 
 Justice. 
 
 Their offices and their salaries they already bold by^a^ 
 teMffO as good as any that could be derived £rom the 
 Gelo^ii Legiriature, iadependei^ of it»^^ and unshaheii 
 amidst the misunderstandingsby which it baaof late yeart 
 been agUatedi ey^umetances that musthave dissolved ^ 
 wtede jiidieial system, had it not atoed m the foBndBtioii< 
 whereon k is placed. No diimmlification that the^e- 
 gkhktnve eafti impoae upon the Jiudges^ wilMmprove their 
 independence^ although it may limit tlie space ia whieb^ 
 A^mii^be usefiily and confine them whoUy to that, 
 
Sir Francis N. Bqhton. 
 
 307 
 
 Chap. 
 XVII. 
 
 of their judicial appointment, a public advantage that 
 after all might not compensate the loss which other de- 
 partments of the state would experience from the priva- 
 tion of their lights and their labours. The tender of ^gne 
 securing " adequate permanent salaries** to the Judges 
 on their being disqualified as proposed by those resolu- 
 tions, the Judges being already secure in this respect, is 
 fiitile. It sprung from the item system, and the preten- 
 sions set up over the appropriated fund, the Assembly 
 Infecting a willingness to exempt the Judges fVom the 
 oiieration of these pretentions, if only they could suc- 
 ceed in excluding these from either Council. 
 
 The day before the Session terminated, the Lieutenant 
 Governor, sent a message to the Assembly in answer to 
 an address which a few days previously he had received 
 from that House, informing them " that he had not 
 received any communication respecting their address of 
 last Session (1824) to His Majesty, praying for a reim- 
 bursement of the defalcation of monies levied in this 
 Province, and placed in the hands of His Majesty's Re- 
 ceiver General for the Province, conformably to the 
 royal instructions ; but that he had, however, by the 
 last mail received directions to take the necessary steps 
 for securing the debt due by the late Receiver Generalj 
 and that to this end orders had been given to the Law 
 Officers of the Crown." — It is worthy of remark that the 
 salary of the Receiver General, from four hundred 
 pounds at which it previously had stood, was this Ses- 
 sion encreased to one thousand pounds sterling per 
 annum, in favor of Mr. Hale, the new Receiver General, 
 appointed by Lord Dalhousie in the room of Mr. 
 Caldwell. 
 
 The Assembly ever since they were called upon by 
 Sir John C. Slierbrooke, in 1818, to defray the Civil Ex- 
 penditure or Civil List, as it was commonly termed, 
 having uniformly refused to do so, otherwise than by 
 an annual appropriation, which us previously mentioned 5?'jfe*** 
 they contended was in literal conformity with the de- ' 
 mand upon them by tliat Governor, and which also they 
 affected to believe was the understanding of the Minis- 
 ter in directing him to make the call, were now determin- 
 ed to ascertain officially, if possible, the nature of the 
 instructions originally communicated on this subject to 
 His Excellency by the Colonial Minister. They therefore. 
 
M 
 
 AbRiii^iSTftAtioN o¥ 
 
 1^5. 
 
 Antwer. 
 
 Eatimate for 
 tbe year. 
 
 ({ 
 
 (C 
 
 heipre tliie es^tiinate caiiie .down, addressed the iAevLien- 
 nt Governor, ** praying His Bxcellency Would be ^leaji- 
 ea to caiise to be laid before the Ilbiis^, a cbpy ot thb 
 despatches, or sucn part thei'ieof as cbdt&ihs the com- 
 *' inands of His Royal Highniess the Prince Regent, now 
 '' Hi3 Most Gracious Majesty, to Hid Excellency Sir 
 ** John C. Sherbrooke, Herietoiore tiovernoir in phief, to 
 " call upon the Provincial Legislature to vote the sums 
 *^ iieciessary for the ordinary annual expenditure of the 
 " Province, as signified to both Houses of the Legisla- 
 " tiire of this Province, on opening the iS^ssion of the 
 '* Provincial Parliament, on the seventh day bif January, 
 " one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.'' 
 
 >* 
 
 To this application the Lieutenant Governor verbally 
 replied to the Miessengers, that he would send an 
 answer by Message. Accordingly, in a few days aftJeN 
 wards. His Excellency informed the House by Mesisage, 
 diat he regretted^ the despatch alluded to being strictly 
 confidential, he coUld not consider himself at liberty to 
 make any mrther communication, than wa^ at the time, 
 made by the then Governor in Chief. 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor sent down the Estimati^ 
 oir the expenses of the Civil Government for the current 
 year, on the iBth February, to the Assembly. It was 
 in a shape different from that of the former Sessions, the 
 distinction between the permanent and local classes 6F 
 officers being omitted. The fund^ previously by law 
 appropriated towards the support of the Civil Govern - 
 iuent, were estimated at jB40,545 15 10 currency, and 
 an aid of £t3 1,456 6 currency, was called for, as neces- 
 sary to meet the current expenditure of the year ; h 
 deficiency for which His Excellency said he relied upon 
 Ine zeal and loyalty of the Assembly to provide. 
 
 The form in which the Estimate was submitted tr> the 
 Assembly was gratifying to the body, as it seemed to be 
 a relinquishment of the distinction previously drawn, 
 and a tacit admission that the application of the appro- 
 priated fund, was now ekerciseable, and this annually 
 in future, by the Assembly, the point which all along 
 they had in view, and aimed to carry with respect to 
 the Civil List. It was therefore the subject of much 
 congratulation among those who had recommended 
 perseverance in the policy espoused in this matter by 
 
Sir Francis N. Burton. 
 
 > T, f , • -•-. , . : • r f 1 3 
 
 ?!^ 
 
 ^<Si A9sem]^ly. There was, however^ a ^isu|iderstand- ^ 
 ibg petween the parties^ nbtbiiig havipg been fur'thier vS-ff ' 
 frpin the intention of the Lieutenant Governor (as '*'^"* 
 appears by a subsequent despatch to the Minister heri^- 
 after nQ>ticed) than to relinquish or compromise in the 
 least, the exclusive right and conti'oul of the Govern- 
 p^nt over the appropriated fund^ by law vested in the 
 Crown towards the support of the Civil Government. 
 
 183^. 
 
 The Assembly, before entering upon the Estimate, 
 l^e day after it was sent down, resolved upon an Address, 
 praying. His Excellency would '*be pleased to cause to Addressee re- 
 be laid before this House, copies of such parts of the SlVc.^"" 
 despatches from His Majesty's Ministers as contain the 
 royal commands, to call upon the House to make a 
 proper and permanent provision for the necessary ex- 
 penses of the Civil Government of this Province, as 
 communicated by His Excellency the Governor in Chief, 
 in his Speech to bpth Houses of the Legislature, on 
 opening the Session of the Provincial Parliament, oh 
 the 16tb day of December, 1830; and the further 
 recommendation of His Majesty, that such provision 
 as may appear necessary for that purpose, should be 
 granted permanently during His Majesty's life, as com- 
 municated by His Excellency the Governor in Chief, in 
 his Speech to both Houses of the Legislature on opening 
 the Session of the Provincial Parliament, on the 1 1th 
 December, 1821 ; and of such olber royal instructions, 
 Relative thereto, as may have been received by His 
 Majesty's Government in this Province." 
 
 The Assembly, at the same time, presented another 
 Address, praying His Excellency would " be pleased to 
 cause to be laid before the House, such communication 
 as may have been received from HisMajestv's Ministers, 
 on the subject of the Humble Address of tfiis House, to 
 His Majesty, of the 21st January, 1822, relative to the 
 demand of a permanent Civil List, during His Majesty's 
 life." 
 
 A Message from the Lieutenant Governor, was sent 
 a few days afterwards to the Assembly, expressing his 
 ^' regret that he had to state, in answer to these Ad- 
 dresses, that after the most diligent search, no instruc- 
 tions containing the royal command, to call upon the 
 House of Assembly to make a proper and permanent 
 
 Answer. 
 
310 
 
 Administration of 
 
 Chap. 
 XVII. 
 
 1825. 
 
 provision for the necessary expenses of tlie Civil Govern- 
 ment, was to be found in the Office of the Governor's 
 Secretary, and that he was consequently led to conclude 
 that the despatch containing such instructions, had been 
 carried home by His Excellency the Governor in Chief, 
 with other papers likely to be useful in any deliberation 
 with His Majesty's Ministers, respecting the Government 
 of this Province." 
 
 He further informed the House '' that no answer could 
 be traced to the Address of the Assembly, to His 
 Majesty of the 21st January, 1822, relative to the 
 demand of a permanent Civil List, during His 
 Majesty's life." 
 
 From these answers it was hastily inferred that the 
 call by the Governor in Chief for a permanent appropri- 
 ation in aid of the funds for the support of the Civil 
 Government of the Province, was unauthorised by the 
 Minister, and that the two classes of officers, as recently 
 established under the denomination of permanent and 
 local, were the mere result of the policy of the Provin- 
 cial Government, in order to establish a privilege in 
 behalf of a favored few, in immediate connection with 
 the Head of the Executive. 
 
 The Assembly on going into the subject, did not think 
 proper to confine themselves to a mere vote of supply, 
 out of the unappropriated funds at their disposal, of the 
 sum called for by the Lieutenant Governor, but went 
 regularly through the whole Civil List, in order to dis- 
 pose of and vote the application of the appropriated 
 monies, before entering upon the vote in aid of them, 
 out of the former. Certain unpopular offices were 
 wholly passed over, in order that not being included in 
 the votes for the year, they might thereby be understood 
 as suppressed and abolished. 
 
 The entire sum at which the Civil List expense had 
 
 been estimated for the year was £65,001 17 8 Sterling, 
 
 including £200 for a Private Secretary, (Mr. Cochran 
 
 the Civil Secretary being in England with the Governor 
 
 . in Chief,*) of which the Assembly voted £58,074 2 11. 
 
 * Mr. Cochran who had been Civil Secretary during Sir John C. Sher- 
 broolte'ii adminiitration, acain came into thai office upon the retirement 
 from it of Colenel Ready, fn June 1833. 
 
 i 
 
 T 
 
 T' 
 
 
Sir Francis N. Burton. 
 
 311 
 
 could 
 His 
 the 
 His 
 
 I 
 
 + 
 
 Between this sum in addition to tliat of £3,537 5 pre- 
 viously provided for by special -appropriations^ there re- 
 mained a deficiency of £3,390 13 9 short of the sum 
 required. This was occasioned by the omission of certain 
 offices from the votes of appropriation for the year, with 
 an intention to their abolishment as mentioned above.* 
 
 Chap. 
 XVII. 
 
 1825. 
 
 Although the Assembly had thought it necessary to 
 make reductions upon the Estimate submitted to them 
 they were extremely desirous of devising a bill that ^'" of Supply 
 might cover their own pretensions, without seeming to 
 intrench upon the rights of the Crown over the appro- 
 priated revenue. They had at previous Sessions sent 
 up Bills of Supply, providing by items and chapters, for 
 the Civil Expenditure, but these instead of ofiermg a 
 permanent provision as required, assumed an annual 
 controul and disposal of those monies already perma- 
 nently appropriated for the purpose and went to dis- 
 possess the Crown, of its ancient and hereditary revenue 
 in the Province in a positive and direct manner, tender- 
 ing the supply in aid of the appropriated fund on terms 
 alien to the constitution and wholly inadmissible. 
 
 The Assembly were studious in maintaining their 
 pretensions to this controul over the total expenditure, 
 including the appropriated as well as unappropriated 
 monies, but although extremely jealous on this point 
 and anxious to encompass their object, yet were they 
 equally so to send up a Bill to the Legislative Council 
 divested of those specific restrictions which had 
 occasioned the rejection of those formerly sent thither. 
 The Executive were not less tenacious with respect to 
 the rights of the Crown over the appropriated fund. 
 The matter was one of nicety, and difficit It of adjustment, 
 and much attention from a Very early period of the ses- 
 sion was bestowed upon it. Several draughts of bills on 
 the subject, were prepared, and exchanged among 
 Members in the Assembly, especially those supposed to 
 
 * Among the omisBiont were the following, vizi :— 
 
 Lieut. Governor of G«sp6 J^SOO 
 
 Agent In London 200 
 
 French Translator to Government S(K) 
 
 Chairman Board of Audit 400 
 
 Secretary to the same 182 10 
 
 Advocate General ... 200 
 
 Thia accounts for an much of the deficiency— the rest consisted of • imall 
 pension, some ioconsiderable offices and contingencies. 
 
 f 
 
im. 
 
 m 
 
 ADMINISTRATION or 
 
 Chap ^^ ^^ confidence of the a4inifiist^^tju)^. Thf^t ^hich 
 Y^* WM» ^n^ly agreed upon, as best adapted to reconcile t^e 
 * (Boiiflicting opinions entertained on the subject, limited 
 t^^e total amount of the expenditure for the year, includ- 
 ing the appropriated revenue, without howeyer making 
 any mention of the particular manner in which that 
 amount was to be applied. It also admitted the exis- 
 tence of the previous appropriation by law.* The Bill 
 ^as in fact free of the apparent restrictions which ha;d 
 
 <* The Bill passed on the occasion, without specifying any of the con4i- 
 lions or restrictions which in some Instances accompanied lh.e votes, simply 
 enaeted (as it stands on the Statute Buoic,} " that in addition to the 
 4* revenues appropriated for defraying the eipenses of the admini!<tration 
 *fpf Justice and for suppoitof the Civil Government of the Province, 
 *< theris shall be supplied and paid from and out of the unappropriated 
 «( aonies which now aie, or hereafter may come into the hands of the Re- 
 4* ^iver General of the Province for the time being, such sum or sums aji 
 "'maybe necessary to make up and complete a sum not exceeding fifty 
 •* eiyst thousand and seventy-four pounds two shillings and eleven pence 
 ** stairling, f or the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Civil Govern> 
 ** neat of this Province and of the administration of Justice therein, and 
 ** tlie other expenses* for the said year, commencing the first day of No- 
 ••(TCqiber 18S4, and ending the tbirty>first day of October 1825." Lord 
 Batburst, the Colonial Minister, expressed his disapproOatlon of the bill. 
 The objections seem less to the bill itself, which only purports to limit the 
 expenditure for the year, including the appropriated fund, than to the pre> 
 tenslonf raised by the Assembly in connection with ir. This body in (heir 
 votes decidedly assomed the disposal uf that fund, but without specifying 
 itese votes in the bill which would have occasioned its rejection by the L. 
 Council, nevertheless pretend that ihelBxecutive was implicitly to be guid- 
 ed by then in the application of the gross sum voted for the year. An absu- 
 Into refusal of an aid the ensuing year it was said would be the result of 
 anv deviation from them. The disposal of the permanent fund exclusively 
 belonging to the Crown, and applicable by it towards the support of the Civil 
 Government, would therefore in this way devolve annually upon the Ass^m- 
 bly« which in supplying the aid, also controul and dictate, not by ilie bill, 
 Ibut in this indirect though not less effectual manner, the application of 'the 
 revenue previously appropriated— a system if admitted in practice tbat 
 would leave the Executive no nllernaiive between implicit acquiencence 
 In the annual votes of the Assembly, and the danger of a renewal of niisun* 
 derttandings on the subject every year. The application of the permanent 
 revenue pursuant to the annual dictate of the Assembly in the assumed dis- 
 posal of it, precludes every notion of exclusive right in ihe Crown to the 
 entire controul and application of that fund, as well as of a permanent 
 Civil List, permanent Salaries, independence of Judges and other Civil 
 Officers. Divested of these pretensions reserved by the Assembly, and 
 annually to be revived and acted upon, the Bill possibly might have been 
 unobjeciionable. The aid granted by it, is an uncertain sum, depending 
 upon the amount of the appropriated! revenue for ihe year. That aid con- 
 riaiaoftbe balance there may have been bet ween the amount of this reveiiMe 
 for the year 1825 and the sum specified in the Bill. As to the permanent 
 revenue in question, it seems by the concurrent opinions of the be<it autho- 
 rities in Britain, that the Kinjj's right to the sovereignty of the Colony ^oes 
 not rest upon a firmer ba»is, than doe^ His Majesty's right to the exclusive 
 controul and disposal of tbe fund coni>tituted by that revenue. The one may 
 Just as well be disputed as the other. It rests upon the rights of the King 
 of France in the Colony while under the French Crown— the conouest and 
 capitulations of Quebec and Montreal— the subsequent treaty of 1763, and 
 finally an act of the British Parliament in the year 1774 undisturbed by 
 the Isth Geo. III. ch. 13, but fully recognized by recent Acts, as well of 
 this Legislature nf this Province as of the Imperial Farlianent,— see Sd 
 Geo. iV. ch. 119 or Canada Tradt Jet. 
 
Sir ^RAiifcis ^. fibiifoN. 
 
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 ch 
 
 eq 
 id. 
 
 (t 
 
 CiiAp. 
 XVI!. 
 
 182d. 
 
 dcctisidiied the Ios6 of tbode sent tip in former yean to 
 the Legisi&tivig Council, nor was any mehtion oir allU- 
 sToh ihadd in it to the redu^tidtls ihtended by the A^fii- 
 bly. It was, however, understood and insisted lipdh ill 
 debate in tlie Assembly, thf^; the Executive were bound 
 tb look io th^ journals of that Hotise and to be guided 
 by its votes, in the apt>li^atiOn of the sUth mentioned iii 
 the Bill, and tliat a failure Strictly to comply with thesis 
 would be a suiSicient and legitimate reason wholly to 
 refuse a supply the ensuing year. No formal address 
 upon the subject of tho reductions intended, or with i^- 
 pect to the application Of the sum Voted for the year, 
 was, however, sent to th^ Lieiltenant GoverUot'. He 
 consequently by assenting to tlie Bill was in no respect 
 pledged tO the obs^rvancb Of any uudcrstaiidihg wbitth 
 the 'Assembly may have thought proper to imply in tho 
 
 Sassihg of it, although he might as matter of policy 
 , eem it expedient to look into the Journals Of that 
 JEIouse in Order to take its sense ^hd be gtiided in the 
 applicatioh of the siiih mentiohbd in the Bill, and at hid 
 disposition but ivithout any othbr restriction than that it 
 should be applied to defrt^ the expenses of the Civil Go- 
 vernment and administration of Justice for the current 
 year. 
 
 Debates io lh« 
 
 Some debates occurred in the Assembly on the form of 5;5*Bin*Jf°" 
 the Bill, ^ich it Waft observed would if passed as pro- Supply, 
 posed, be considered sis a relinquishment by the Assem^ 
 bly of their pretensions to the controul and disposal of 
 the whole i'eVenue, and of the restrictions under which 
 certain itetns had been voted by the House. This ob- 
 jection and others in connection with the subject^ parti- 
 cularly that the executive might not think it necessary to 
 pay attention t6 the proposed reductions as unnoticed in 
 the Bill, were met by the new doctrine that the votes of 
 the House on the Civil Expenditure, as placed on the 
 journals of the Assembly, were tantamount to a law to 
 which the Executive were to look and be bound at the 
 hazard of a refusal of the Supply at the next Session. 
 The majority taking tlie matter in this light, the Bill 
 met with little opposition, (twenty for, and three against 
 it) and being sent up to the Legislative Council, met 
 With the concurrence of a great majority (two only 
 voting against it) of that Branch. The Honorable 
 John Richardson strongly expressed his dissatisfaction 
 at the Bill, declaring it pregnant with stillKreater mis* 
 
3U 
 
 Administration ov 
 
 Chap. ^^^^^ ^^'"^ ^ ^^ ^^^^^ previously sent up to the Legis- 
 
 XVIl! l&tive Council on the same subject. He therefore gave 
 
 ^^/"^^ his vote against it^ in which he was joined by Mr. Grant 
 
 1826. «><>"«•* 
 
 It is probable that the fiill may not have been entirely 
 to the satisfaction of the Lieutenant Governor princi- 
 pally owing to the insufficiency of the sum called for by 
 his estimate, but this being a matter, which he may have 
 considered as a question merely of pence, and not of 
 constitutional principles, was not, it would seem in his 
 opinion, and reasonably so, sufficient to warrant a re- 
 fusal after its passage by such decided majorities in the 
 two Houses. It is very certain that whatever triumph 
 the Assembly may have fancied themselves to have car- 
 ried by the final passage of that Bill, the Lieutenant 
 Governor in its acceptance did not view the subject in 
 the same light as the Assembly. His Excellency by giv- 
 ing the royal sanction to the Bill neither intended to 
 concede to them the controul of the fiind in question, 
 nor to compromise in the least the exclusive right of 
 
 * Mr. Richardson entered bit protest against the Bill. It is as fbllowSf 
 vizt : 
 
 ** JHs$entit, 
 
 ** Because tlie practice of the Commonsof the United Kingdom should be 
 fcllowed respecting Supplies, which is to fix the amount of the Civil List, 
 at the commencement of each Reign, and then to grant the same for and 
 during the life of the Sovereign, tiw surplus only ofthe public expenditure 
 being granted annually.— A system is thereby established which conduces 
 to stability, baruicny and public confidence. 
 
 " Because the power of granting or withholding Supplies, should not be 
 capriciously exercised, nor with a view to the acquisition by the popular 
 Branch of the Legislature of undue influence } else it would become a 
 source of Corruption, and destroy the Constitutional Balance established 
 between the several Branches thereof, which is essential to their salutary 
 independence. 
 
 " Because the Assembly have not fixed the Amount of a Civil List, nor 
 made any Grant for the life of His Majestv ; but on the contrarv, by vot- 
 ing annually the supply towards the Civil Expenditure, after 'an annual 
 discnision of the amount of the Salary of each Public Officer, and claiming 
 the right of then striliing out or curtailing the same at their pleasure (as 
 has been done with many this year) the whole amounts to a periodical ex- 
 ercise of despotic authority, which must transfer to that Branch of the 
 Legislature, the substantial power of the Provincial Government ; by 
 placing all the Officers thereof, at the mercy of the Assembly for the 
 means of a precarious subsistence, destructive of fidelity , and whereby the 
 Constitution of this Province, although Monarchical in form, would become 
 lepublican in practice." 
 
 (Signed) JOHN RICHARDSON. 
 
 Quebec, 21st March, 1825. 
 
Sir Francis N. Burton. 
 
 315 
 
 of 
 
 the Crown to the entire disposal and application of it. 
 On the contrary he understood tiie Assembly as distincly 
 conceding a point to v/hich they previously had adhered, 
 as his despatch to the minister clearly evinces.* No 
 message from the Assembly came to him explanatory of 
 their views. He was not bound, nor would it be perhaps 
 proper to study what conditions or restrictions not ex- 
 pressed in the Bill, they may have thought proper to implv, 
 and still less to take notice of what may have been said 
 by members when the subject was debated in the As- 
 sembly. How he might have acted, with respect to the 
 Bill and the retrenchments made according to the votes 
 of the Assembly, had he remained in the administration 
 of the Government, it would be idle to conjecture, there 
 being no authentic source of information on record, by 
 which His Excellency's views in this respect can be 
 ascertained. The King's instructions upon the subject 
 most probably would have intervened and relieved him 
 from the exercise of his own judgment in the matter.f 
 
 Chap. 
 XVII. 
 
 1825. 
 
 That he was not in possession of the despatches to the 
 Governor in Chief, the Earl of Dalhousie, by which His J^K w 
 Lordship's course with respect to the Civil List had been ^i*" !<»<• 
 regulated, he distinctly informed the Assembly by 
 message as previously observed, in answer to an address 
 from that House. Special instructions had been given 
 
 * Thii despatch hat never been published ; but by ihe despatch from 
 Lord Balburst of the 4th June 18i5 disapproving of the Bill, the view whirli 
 the Lieutenant Governor entertained of the senite of ihe Assembly on the 
 ■nbject is clearly expressed. ** Y«>u inform me" (says his Lordship) with 
 Infinite 8ati>faction that the differences which have so lung subsisted be- 
 tween the Lej^Wlative bodies on financial matters, have been amicably set* 
 tied, und that I shall perceive by the draft of n bill which you enclose that 
 the Assembly have decidedly acknowledged Ihe right of the Crown to dis- 
 pose of the revenue arising out of ihe fourleeiuh George ihe third, &c.'* 
 Thit despatch expressing dissaii(ifa«:lii>n at the arrangement made by that 
 bill, and conveying something like censure on the Lieutenant Governor, 
 for not having conformed to itpecial insiruclious given lo the Governor in 
 Chief by despatches of the lUh Sepi. 1820 and 13(h Sept. 1821, was after- 
 wards withdrawn, from the circumstance, that n^t beinj; pus^essed of them, 
 he could not fairly be btanied fur an arrangement to which ha saw no rea- 
 sonable objections, and which no special instructions in his own possession 
 prevented him from acceding to. Tlie despatches of 1830 and 1831 have 
 never been oflicially publinbed ; the particulars in them cannot therefore 
 bespoken of with certainly. 
 
 f An adjustment which the parties cnncerned understood so differently, 
 could not be expected to last. The Assembly tendered the bill, but with 
 reservations which they had not thought proper lo express in it. The 
 Lieutenant Governor accepted it, as it was, and without reference to those 
 reservations. 1'hu lapse of one year must have rendered mutual explana- 
 tion unavoidable, and replace matters where they were before, unless the 
 Executive were to yield in the |)resent in^ilauce, and were also prepiired 
 •gain to concede such other points as, year after year, in the sane matter 
 the Assembly might insist upon. 
 
316 
 
 Administration of 
 
 I ' 
 
 Chap. ^Y ^^ Majesty's Comtnand, in despatches from Lord 
 XVIl! Bathurst to the Governor in Chief, of the Uth Septr. 
 v^^v«^^ 1820, and 13th Septr. 1821, im|)osing upon the latter 
 1825 " ^^^ necessity of refusing all acrangements that went 
 in any degree to compromise the integrity of the revenue 
 known by tlie name of the permanent revenue." These 
 despatches, which must have been those intended by the 
 Assembly, and which the Lieutenant Governor in an- 
 swer to their address, said, were not to be found in the 
 office of the Governor's Secretary, and that he was con- 
 sequently led to conclude had been carried home by the 
 Governor in Chief, with other papers lil^ely to be useful 
 in any deliberation with His Majesty's Ministers res- 
 pecting the Government of the Province, had in fact, 
 as it since has been generally understood, been so taken, 
 ^nd for the purpose supposed by the Lieutenant 
 Governor. 
 
 Addreureia. "^^ Assembly, at an advanced period of the Session, 
 tias to the de- addressed the Lieutenant Governor, requesting His Ex- 
 faication, qellency would lay before the House the substance of 
 any answer he might have received to the humble ad- 
 dress of the House to His Majesty in the last Sesson, 
 praying a reimbursement of the defalcation of the mo- 
 nies levied in the Province and placed in the hands of 
 the Receiver General ; or any other information which 
 His Excellency might have received of the determination 
 of His Majesty's Government relating thereto, and which 
 he should think proper to communicate to the House. 
 In answer to this he informed them, by message, that he 
 had not received any communication respecting that 
 address ; but that he had, however, by the last mail re- 
 ceived directions to take the necessary steps for securing 
 tiie debt due by the late Receiver General, and that to 
 this end orders had been given to the Law Officers of the 
 Crown, 
 
 The business of the Session being brought to a close. 
 Prorogation, the Legislature was prorogued on the 22d March. The 
 Speaker on presenting the Bill of Supply, and a Bill to 
 authorize a loan to complete the Canal between La- 
 chine and Montreal, addressed the Lieutenant Governor, 
 at the Bar of the Legislative Council in complimentary 
 terms. His Excellency having given the royal sanction 
 to the Bills passed by the two Houses, prorogued the 
 Legislature with the following Speech : — 
 
 e . I 
 
Sib Fkancis Nt Burton. 
 
 317 
 
 \ 
 
 a- f I 
 
 I'! 
 
 '' Gentlemen of the Legislative Council^ and 
 
 " Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, 
 
 ** The diligence with which you have proceeded in 
 the despatch of Public Business, enables me to terminate 
 the Session of the Provincial Parliament, and I derive 
 much pleasure on this occasion, in observing that the 
 cordiality and good understanding which have subsisted 
 between the several Branches of the Legislature during 
 the whole of the Session, are subjects of sincere cougra- 
 tulation to every one who takes an interest in the hap- 
 piness and prosperity of this Colony. 
 
 " Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, 
 
 " I thank you, in His M^esty's name for the Supply 
 you have granted in aid of those Funds already appro- 
 priated by Law, for defraying the expenses of the Civil 
 Government and the administration of Justice. 
 
 " Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and 
 
 " Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, 
 
 " It will be a pleasing part of my duty to convey to 
 His Majesty, as early as possible, the satisfactory intelli- 
 gence, that by an amicable arrangement of the pecuniary 
 concerns of the Province, you have removed those diffi- 
 culties, which, for several years successively, had dis- 
 turbed the harmony it was so desirable to establish be- 
 tween the Legislative Bodies ; and this event, I am 
 persuaded, will tend in an eminent degree to draw closer 
 the bond of union between this Province and the Parent 
 State. 
 
 " Gentlemen, 
 
 " You are about to return to your respective residen- 
 ces in various parts of the Province, and to mingle with 
 the general mass of your fellow subjects, whose loyalty 
 and good conduct, your example will serve to encourage, 
 whose approbation and esteem you highly deserve, and 
 will, I hope, universally obtain." 
 
 Chap. 
 
 xvn. 
 
 1825. 
 
 Governor's 
 Speech. 
 
 Several liberal appropriations were made this Session 
 
318 
 
 AoMINItTftATION OV, &C. 
 
 Chap. 
 XVII. 
 
 1835. 
 
 by the Auembly towards the internal Improvement of 
 the Province. The sum of fifteen hundred pounds was 
 granted for encouraging the intercourse between Que- 
 bec and Halifax, to be given as a premium or reward to 
 the first Steam Packet of not less than five hundred tons 
 burthen, that should run regularly between those ports.* 
 An Act also was passed authorizing for the first time 
 since the establishment of the Constitution, an enume- 
 ration and return of the Population of the Province* 
 Some beneficial alterations were likewise made in the 
 pre-existing laws of the Province. 
 
 The result of the Session gave general satisfaction, 
 and it was hoped that the difficulties which heretofore 
 had existed concerning the Civil List, or Expenditure of 
 the Province, if not completely placed at rest, would be 
 of easy ac^ustment upon the arrangement which had 
 taken place by the Bill. 
 
 The administration of the Lieutenant Governor ter- 
 minated, on the return, and rcassumption of the Govern- 
 ment by the Governor in Chief, who arrived at Quebec 
 on the 16th September, iu His Majesty*s Yacht Herald, 
 Captain Leeke. In this ship, the Lieutenant Governor, 
 having previously obtained His Majesty's leave for the 
 purpose, sailed for England on the 6th October, bearing 
 with him the good will of the Province, and receiving 
 from the inhabitants of Quebec and Montreal at the 
 moment of his departure very flattering demonstrations 
 of the esteem and respect they entertained for his person, 
 and strong expressions of their satisfaction with his 
 administration of the Government. 
 
 * The LecitUtur* of Nova-Scntia met this appropriation wilba correi- 
 ponding tpuii, immediately voting ^750 for tbe same purpose. Tiiew 
 votes have not iiovteverproduced the intended effect, no steam vessel, 
 having as yet (March 18S9) uinlortaliva l\t ruu b«twe«»a tbe port* of Quebec 
 and daiifax. 
 
 Corrigendum.— -In page 316, omit the second paragraph, being a repc 
 tition from page 307, by miitake. 
 
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 Memoin of the Administration of Sir FkAvcit N. 
 Burton, will also ihortly be published, 'as well as ^ 
 continuation of that of Lord Dalhousib, iifter his Lord- 
 ship's return fromEttgland in 182&, until his departiifv 
 from the Provincein September, 1828. 
 
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 The following is a Statement of the nett Revenue col- 
 lected in Lower Canada, (the fifth, belonging tp Upper 
 Canada, deducted) from the years 1819 to IB24, inclu- 
 sively— vizt : 
 
 1819. JC107,4d7 lf'9f 4f » 
 
 1820 94,947 18 Of 
 
 1821 73,700 13 9 
 
 1822 74,696 12 4 
 
 1823 104,997 19 6{ . , 
 
 1824 95,645 11 6| ' 
 
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 A few Copies of the Memoirs of the several Ad^ 
 ministrations^, of this Government, from that of Sir Jtames- 
 H, Craig, flW7J inclusively, to the commencement of 
 the present, are for sale at the Book-Store of TaoMit 
 Cjry Sf Co., and afford an opportunity, to those who 
 wish to inform themselves, of becoming acquainted with 
 the public affairs of this Province, as far ns ihey art 
 treated of in the memoirs referred to, which, vfh^f* brought 
 down to the close of the late Administration^. inSeptefnber 
 1828, will embrace a period of twenty-one years, t^e 
 Appendix will come out with the concluding jmrt of tht 
 mieihoirs of this Administration, in which tbffreferentfs 
 from the preceding sheets will appea^, . "■' «» 
 
 Quebec, \st Februaryy 1^29. , 
 
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