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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. y errata id to nt rie pelure, iQon d 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 EMIGI A N : u SHORT ACCOUIVT O P T H E EMIGRATION FROM THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, TO nrORTII AMERICA; AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE o F UPPER CJlJV^n^, VriTH. AN AFFESTBIX. .o« 18 3 9. KINGSTON, UPPER CANADA. i ! PRINTED AT THE BRITISH WHIG OFFICE-KINGSTON U. C, u. c. It was in the year 1772, that the first Emigration from^the High- lands of Scotland to North America took p ace, from the estates of Lord Macdonell, in thelsleof Skey, and of Lord Seaforih; from Kintail and Loch Broom. These Emigrants went to South Carolina— they were all Protestants. In the year 1773, Macdonald, of Clanranald, began to display some hostile feeling against Catholics. His factor, John Macdonald, of Glen Aladale, who was a Catholic himself, wish- ing to relieve the Tenants of Clanranald from the hard usage they experienced from their Landlord, sold his property in order to assist them to emigrate, and took a ship load of them to Prince Edward's Island, then called St. John's Island, But not meeting with proper encouragement, many of these Emigrants removed to Acadia, on the main land of Nova Scotia, where they remained, until the breaking out of the Revolutionary War in 1774. The whole of them, that is to say all capable of bearing arms, then joined ihe Royal Standard; some under Captain Macdonald himself, and others undei Major Small, and were called the 84th Regiment. This corps was formed with the addition of another body of Highlanders, under General McLean. In the year 1773 another large party of Highlanders emigrawd from Glengarry and Knoidart, at the invitation of the celebrated Sir William Johnston, to the then British province of New V^fk, and settled in the bush of Sir WiUiam, on the borders of *^e Mohawk River. When the Revolutionary War broke oat, the itnericans tried every means to detain them in the country. Wb'** ^^^y ^o""d that entreaties, persuasions, threats and coaxing vv^^^ ^^ "® avail, tney arrested several of the influential men, and -onfined them in prison ; but they contrived to effect their own re^ase, and under the guidance and command of Sir John Johnston, son to Sir Williran, fought their way to the banks of the St. Lawrence. During this expedition they suflered incredible hardships, both by hunger and fatigue ; hvincr chief- ly upon the flesh of their horses and dogs, and when that failed them upon the roots of the Forest. On their arrival in Canada they were formed into a corps under Sir 3ohn Johnston, and called " The Roy- al Emigianis," and their services in the field contrihiitcd in a great degree to the preservation of the Canadas. At the conclusion of the War, as a reward for their services, and in compensation for their losses, lands were granted them in Upper Canada, and they located themselves, some on the Niagara frontier ; ■ ome on the Bay of Q,uinte ; eome on the shores of the St. Lawrence, in what is now called the Johnstown District; and others in the Eastern District, in those counties now known by the names of Glengarry and Slormont, the former of which was so called, in compliment to the Emigrants from Glengarry, in Scotland. 'I: ) h Many of the friends and connexions in Scotland of these Emi- grants, especially of those settled in Glengarry, hearing cheerful ti- dings from Canada, and suffering from the same causes that induced the former to quit their homes, began to join them in numbers. To such an extent did the emigration proceed, that the Highland Lairda began to be alariiied at the idea of the Highlands being depopulated ; so much so indeed, that they procured an Act of Parliament to be passed, restricting emigration by oppressive and vexatious regulations, and obtained ships of War to guard the harbors and lochs of the Highlands, to board Emigrant vessels, and to press into the Naval Service every able bodied man fjund on board. By the regulations^ ofthis Act, no man could emigrate to North America with a wife and ihret children, even below the age of five years, unless at an expense of nearij fifty pounds, and the cost of transportation of the rest of his family m 11^ proportion. As American ships carrying out Emigrants were not subjx^tpjj to any of these severe regulations, the natural consequence was, ^^at intended Etnigrants to Canada and other Bri- tish Provinces madfc choice of those vessels, and emigrated to the United States instead, *o that the tide of emigration set in towards that cguntry, to which mQre<>v less it has always &iuce flowed. Ano- gilt tlieir ion they icr chief- led them ley were he Roy- 1 a great on of the for their y located 'Q,uinte ; ailed the in those iiiont, the ants from lese Emi- leerful ti- it induced bers. To nd Lairdd )opulated ; tent to be jgulations, chs of the! the Naval egulation'gt a wife and n expense rest of his Emigrants he natural other Bri- ited to the in towards ed. Ano- ther consequence rcsuhiiig i.ut nf ihn fust, wns, ihat ju il e «nr of 1812, between (Jreat nritaiu and iho United IStnt»;s, thi; ranke* (»f iho enemy were filled with lliglilaiuiors ami ilicir ohiMron, who IcCt home under the irritation of mind, arising froin.tlio tipprcssion of thtir land- lords in racking their rents, and fVom the illiheralitv of iho (iovern- menf, in throwing unjust impeJinientH in liie uay ol' obJaip.iiig relief, by joining their friends in Canada, A few years previous to the year 1790 a system was introduced into the Highlands of Scotland, converting small agricuhinal farms hlo large Sheep VValkf, thereby dispoas-^essjng samll tenant-^. Tlic landlords found that south comiiiy sliejjlierd.? with large capital were able to give much larger rents than small lenntits. The cons( qucnce was, that a large proportion of the tenants throughout the Hiirhlands were ejected from their farma, and ihey and tl eir families reduced to the greatest distress, as the rcstriciions of the l^^inigratioii Act prevent- ed them from emigrating to the Colonie?. In May ITO:-, the Right Reverend Alexander Macdonell, Catholic Bishop of Upper Canada* then a Missionary Priest in the Braes of Badenoch, Invernesshire understanding that a great many labourers were wanting in the manu- factories of Glasgo.v and the iieighl)ouritig Counties, travelled down to Glasgow, and waited upon the rvlanufacturers of that city, to pro- cure employment for the disposL^essed iiighlanders; aiid on inlbrm- ing the Manufacturers, that the greater portion of these people were Catholics, those gentlemen promised every protection and encourage- ment to such as would con)e down to tl? . ; works. But as the excite- ment caused in the year 17S0 by Lord c :orge Gordon and his enthu- siasts, when the Catholic Chapel and the Priest's IJouse m Glasgow were burnt by a riotous mob, had not yet subsided, the Manufacturers were apprehensive that some annoyance might be offered to the Ca- tholic labourers. When Mr. Macdonell stated the necessity of a Clergyman's accompanying these men, to aUord them the exercises and consolations of their religion, they assured him that every coun- tenance in their power would be given to such Clergyman ; but as the Penal Laws against the Catholic Priests, were yet in existence, thev could not insure or guarantee protection to him. Mr. Macdonell, however, declared his willingness to accompany the Highlanders, and I ^\ G take hiii cliniice of ihf Penal \,n\\:^. Tlic Catliolic Jiahoiirors to the number otUetwcen 700 a»ul SOO soiilt^, acco •liiii^'^Iy canif down from tlio lliglilaiuls and gavo ovciy possible HalisCaciiori to their eniploy ■ ei's, during the foUowing two years they remained in their service. It was about tliis time, that Fiench Revolutionary principles began to make very rapid piojresH among the »nen of all denomina- tions emploved in the Manufactories; atid the trouLles in France, Holland and other parts of the Continent having caused a stagnation in the exports of iJritish Manufactories of all kiiuiis, a general failure among the Cotton Manufacturera ofGhiiii^ow waa the consequence, who were thus compelled to dismiss? the gi eater part of their hands^ Catholics as well others. The men thus thrown out of eujploymcnt were obliged by necessity to enlist in the several New Corps then raising for the defence of the country. Mr. Macdonell, finding the Catholics under \m charge obliged to enlist into these Corp^, and compelled, according to the then uni- versal practice, to declare themselves Protestants, conceived the idea of embodying them into one corps as a Catholic regiment; and with this view, was instrumental in procuring a meeting of the Catholic gentlemen of the Higldands, who drew u[) a Loyal Address to His Majesty, with an olVer to raise a Catholic Regiment, under the Com- mand of Young Macdonell of Glengarry. Mr. Macdonell, together with John Fletcher, Esq. of Dunans, were sent to London with the Address and the ofier to raioe the regiment. Several of the Fencible Corps whicli had been raised in Scotland, having refused to marcfi out of that country, even to England, Messrs. .Macdonell and Fletcii- er offered on the part of the proposed regiment, to serve in any part of His Majesty's dominions, where their services might be required. — The Rl. Hon'ble Henry Dundas, then Secretary at War, approving of the idea of thus extending the services of Fencible Corps, procu- red a Letter of Service for the First Glengarrv Regiment, to be under tile command of Alexander Macdonell, Esq. of Glengarry, to serve in any part of Great Britain & Ireland, and in the Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, &c. and Mr. Macdonell was appointed Chaplain to the Regi- ment, being the lirsi Catholic Corps raised in the British Dominions since the Reformation. The recruiting for tiie regimeru was finished in n fo labourf I the rog rors to tlie lown from ir employ- seivice. principles dutin.TiiiKi- in France, stngnatiuii eial iailiirc iivsetiuence, lieii' liands^ mploymciu Corps tlieu rge obliged then uni- ed the idea t ; add with lie Caiholic Iress to His ;r the Com- ?il, together an with the he Fencible ed to marcd and Fletch- in any part required. — , approving )rps, procu- to be under ■y, to serve f Guernsey, to the Regi- Dominions >vas finished in n few iiionihs, including all tlic unemployed Cuvanl and penury. Mr. Mac- donell, lindingf that ihc trade of the Scotiibh Cotton Mannfacturera had become ao mucii circuii)«cril)ed and reduced by the bloody war juot ended, as to alu>rd no lunger an asylum to his destitute country- men, in whotse welfare he had taken so warm an interest, and in whose dangers and fatiirueis ho had so largely participated during eigh years, thought that ho might ef>tal)lish for them a claim upon Go» verninent, so far as the obtaininq; for them grants of land in Upper Canada, where so many of their friends were settled, on lands given ay rewards lor their Hcrvieeis and attachuieni to the Government during the Ameiieun Kevoluiionary War. With thid iritention he ««ini to London and lenresented the des- titute situation ol his charge, and alsio ilicir claims upon Government, to the Rt. Hon. tJenry Addingion, tlieu Premier, after the reaigna' lion of Mr. Pitt. Mr. Addingioij received Mr. Macdonell with grea; condescension, connnuncd with him on the bravery and loyalty of hit^ countrymen, the Scotch Ilighianders, and assured him that nothing could give him greater pleasure, than to alFord substantial proofs of the approbation and good will of His xMajesty's Government towards, ihem; and was moreover pleased to say, that of all His Majesty's subjects, the Highlanders were always the readiest to come forward, at their counuy's call, and the only class from whom a complamt or murmur had tiever been heard. Mr. Addinijton further assured Mr* Macdonell, that fsince his appointment to his present situation, nothing had given him deeper cause of regret, than to see those brave and. loyalsubjects, the Glengarry Highlanders, reduced, not by their own faults, but by adverse circumstances to the necessity of quitting their native land, to seek in a far distant country a subsistence for them- selves, their wives and little ones. At the same time Mr. Addingion adaiiUed, th«t the proprietors of the Highland Estates had every right to disp ment c Addmg by wiii themsel wealth The British tablish of whic offered of his c land m with as farm ; t( I to provi Wine ai the pre Macdoi make ti ges Mr. devoted not thii mate ; a oflands I which I I the Brii i per Cai courage , To this Emigra est tie i He sugi Great 1 Emigra limited ways k( I 9 lie, it soon lid rebel'! nur of the the iium-' Cntliolic Mr. Mac- iifacturera loody war B country- \ in whose ring eigh upon Go- , in Upper inds given ent dining id the des- vernment, le reaigna' with great alty of hii^ lit nothing proofs of lit towards, Majesty's lie forward n plaint or Bured Mr. m, nothing brave and ' their own itting their for them- ^ddlngton every right 1 to dispose of their property to tlie best ndvnntncrc, and that Ciovcr- ment could not interfere in the mnlter. To shew the interost Mr. Addington took in this subject, he proposed to Mr. Macdonell a plan, by wiiich his followers might easily enrich themselves, and render themselves able in time to return to their native mountains with wealth and disiinctiont The Island of Trinidad had just been ceded by Spain to the British Crown, and a Board of Coiumissioners wfjs appointed to es- tablish a Government agreeably to the Constitution of Gicat Britain, or whicliBoard Colonel Fuilciton was a principal. Mr. Addington offered the strongest inducements to Mr. Miicdonell, to lead a Colony of his countrymen to that island ; promising to grant eiifhty acres of land m the healthiest situations to every head of a family, together with as much money as woulJ siilTice to place four slaves upon every farm ; to send a Physician and Schoolmaster to the new Colony, and to provide the Colonists, for a period of three years, wiih «»s much Wine as Mr. Macdonell and the Doctor should consider necessary for the preservation of their healtl). And further to be?^ow upon Mr. Macdonell, and also upon a few of his friends, such salaries as would make them independent in their ciicumstances. All these advanta- ges Mr. Macdonell declined ; assuriiuj Mr. >iddington, that having devoted his whole life to the good of his -^H'jw creatures, he could not think of inducmg ihem to emigrat.r to an unhealthy tropical cli- mate; and renewed his solicitation w the Premier, to bestow grants of lands upon his adherents in Upper t'anada. The only objection which Mr. Addington oppose.^ to Mr. Macdonell's request was, that the British Government ha^.'s) slender a hold of the Province of Up- per Canada, that he could not think himself justified in giving en- couragement to the Ring's loyal subjects to emigrate to that Colony. To this Mr. Macdonell replied by assuring Mr. Addington, that the Emigration to Upper Canada by Highlanders would form the strong- est tie and connection between that Colony and the Parent State.— He suggested to Mr. Addington the advantages that must accrue to Great Britain by organizing the disbanded Fencibles into a Military Emigration to the British Provinces in North America, and after a limited period of service to grant them lands in those Colonies; al- ways keeping embodied a certain force, by fresh emigration from the I I ;,H ifc « t t £ a 1] h ft II: se 10 mother country and tlio children of former Emigrants. This sugges- tion of peopling the American Colonies with a loyal and hardy popu- lation, and maintaining therein an armed body of men, had it been attended to, might possibly have prevented the last American War, and probably the late rebellion in both provinces of Cwnada; and thereby have saved to Great Britain thr many millions it has expend- ed in protecting her American Colonies. Sir Archibald Campbell, the late Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, then on the staff of Sir William Pulteney, Colonel Stewart, 42nd regiment, and several other officers of distinction ofiered to take command in this Military Emigration, should the plan be approved of ' -' Government. On Mr. Addington's resignation, the p'm of this Military Emi- gration was disapproved of by his successor; but in March 1803, Mr. Macdonell obtained the Sign Manual for a grant of land for every Of- ficer and Soldier belonging to the late Glengarry Regiment, whom he should introduce in»o Upper Canada No sooner was this gra- cious a'-^ or Majesty g< leraliy known, than the Highland Propri- etors took tht alarm, an eiKleavoured by various means to prevent the Highlanders from Em rating. The regulations of the Emigra. tion Act were rigicf.y enfoi sd, and many of the poor Highlanders, after selling their effeug, ai repairing with their families to the ports of embarkation were pru-;, vj f,om emigration. The Highland Lairds mduced their frienck »•-, were connected with the Highlands, to represent to Mr. Macdonell the imprudence and even folly of his undertaking; to wir, the Earl of Moira, Sir John McPherson, late Governor of India, Sir Archibald xM^cdonell, Baron of the Exche- quer, and uncle to Lord Macdonell, and Mr. Charles Grant, father of the present Lord Glenelg, then Chairman of ths East India Compa- ny. Application was even made to Sir Thomas Twhirwhit, agent fo- the Prince of Wales, to offer to the intended Emigrants, lands in the Duchy of Cornwall, to be under the care and control of His Royal Highness, with a pension to Mr. Macdonell. So far did the fears or reproaches of the Highland Lairds act upon the then Ministry, that even Lord Hobart, the Colonial Secretary of State, endeavoured to prevail upon Mr. Macdonell to conduct his Emigrants to Upper Can-, ada through the United States, in order that the odium of directly assisting the emigration from the Highlands might be removed ; there i M Schoo Clergy not spt provin irom roads 11 lis suggeg- \rdy popu- lad it been ican War, nada; and as expend- Campbell, the staff of ind several \:8 Military ;nt. ilitary Eini- h 1&03, Mr. jr every Of- nent, whom 'as this gra- land Propri- 3 to prevent the Emigra. tlighlanders, 3 to the ports le Highland e Highlands, I folly of his 'herson, late f the Exche- ant, father of idia Compa- hit, agent foj. , lands in the )f His Royal d the fears or linistry, that deavoured to ► Upper Can- n of directly moved ; there I existing at tiiat time, a Provincial Law in Upprr Canada, which grant- ed two hundred acres of land to every loyal subject who entered that province from the United ytatos, \» ith the intention to settle. This proposal Mr. Macdonell peremptorily declined, and for two reasons. let. Because the circuitous route to Upper Canada through the State of New York [there being no Erie Canal in those days] was much more expensive. And 2ndly. Because he was well convinced, that the intercourse of his followers with the people through the United States would innoculate them with radical principles, anJ ever after- wards affect their loyolty ; and this would be done t'»c more readily» as the minds of the Emigrants were irritated ago-nst their late land- lords, and soured against the Government by ^^e severe restrictions of the Emigration Act. Consequently, and .*n the midst of all this op- position, Mr. Macdonell and his follo'^'ers found their way to Upper Canadrt in the best way they could, in the years 1803 and 1804; nay, he may be said, almost literall}', to have smuggled his friends away, so many and so vexaliou^ were the restrictions agamst their going. Upon Mr. Macdonell's arrival in Upper Canada, he presented his Credentials to Lt. General Hunter, at that time Lt. Governor of the province, and obtained the stipulated lands for his friends, agreeably to the order of the Sign iManual ; and took up his residence in the county of Glengarry, where ho had not long resided, before he found that very few of the Emigrants who had previously arrived ia the country and had located themselves on lands allotted them, had obtained legal tenures for their present possessions; so that he was obliged to repair to the seat of Government, where after a great deal of trouble, he obtained Patent Deeds for 160,000 acres of lands for his new clients, and after some further delay, likewise obtained the Patents for the lands of his own immediate followers. Mr. Macdonell's next object was to get Churches built and Schools esiablishpd. On his arrival, he found only two Catholic Clergymen in Upper Canada, one of them a Frenchman, who could not speak a word of English, and the other an Irishman, who left the province a short time afterwards ; so that Mr. Macdonell hod to travel from one end of the province to the other, at that period without roads or bridges, ofttimes carrying his vestments on his back, eome- i' ''1 12 times on horseback, sometimes on foot, or in the rough waggons of the people, and sometimes in Indian bark canoes, traversing the great inland lakes and descending the rapids of the Ottawa and Sti Lawrence. Mr. Macdonell succeeded partially in the object of his ambition, but the apprehended and threatened hostilities between the province and the neighboring republic militated against his endea* vouts. When i\ie United States of America in the year 1811 declared War against Gi?at Britain, and invaded Canada, Mr. Macdonell prevailed upon his countrymen to form the second Glengarry Fenci- ble Regiment, which wvh two Militia Regiments, raised also in the Eastern Distiict, contribultd not a little to the preservation of the province; and by their activhy and bravery, the enemy's frontier posts of Ogdensburgh, St. Regis and French Mills, were taken with their Artillery, Ammunition and other Military Stores. After the conclusion of this War, in the year 1816 Mr. Mac- donell returned to England and waited upon Mr. Addington, t*resi- dent of the Privy Council, (by this time raised to the Peerage, by the tide of Viscount Sidmouth,) who received him most kindly, and con- gratulated him on the good conduct and success of his countrymen in Canada, during the recent War. Viscount Sidmouth introduced him to Earl Bathurst, then Colonial Secretary, who presented him to the Prince Regent, and by way of favor and encouragement to the Ca- tholics of Upper Canada, authorized him to appoint three Olergymert and four schoolmasters to his flock, with a promise of a salary of one hundred pounds a year for each. Upon Mr. Macdonell's return to the province next year, these Clergymen and schoolmasters were ap- pointed, but the Provincial Government declined to pay the salaries; and Mr. Macdont-ll, after spending seven years in memorializing the Provincial, as well as the Home Government, and after being obliged to borrow money to pay these Clergymen and schoolmasters, was compelled at last to repair to England in the year 1825, where after an infinity of delay and trouble, he obtained, through the intercession of the present Lord Glenelg, the arrears of these salaries, which how- ever were not continued. l:J aggons of jrsing the 'a and Sb jct of his jtween the lis endea^ L declared Macdonell rrv Fenci- ilso in the on of the 's frontier taken with Mr. Mac- oil, t*resi- ge, by the ^, and con- urymen in duced him him to the the Ca- "'•lergymert ary of one > return to "3 were ap- is salaries ; atizing the ng obliged stei's, was here after tercession hich how 0\^ Mr. Macdonell's return to Canada in 18126, he was appoint- ed the fust Catholic Bishop of Upper Caiinda, and the Govrmineul sellied upon him a salury of .£400 per annum, wlijch was afierwaidtt increased to £600. ]3itsl]op Macdnncll ilien succeeded in oUtaioing an increase to the number of his Clergymen ; some he educated at his own expense, and » thers he received ftom Europe; and the Govern- ment allowed him the sum of £750 to be distributed among his Cler- gymen and Ecclesiastics. In the year 1S30 this sum was increased 10 £1000, \\\ the year 1S32 tlie Provincial Government granted £550 towards the building and repairing of Catholic Churciies, and in the following year the grant was increased to £900; but t-hortly af- terwards, William Lyon McKenzie and his radical associates prej vailed upon the Home Government to i.ssue no more money for reli- gious purposes; and in consequence several Churches which were then in progress could not be linished. Bishop Macdonell who had exerted himself to the utmost in building Churches and Schoolhouses, and in procuring chrgy men and teachers, found himself by this withdrawal of the Government moneys inadequate to supply the increasing wants of the growing population of his Diocese, and the multiplied demands for Clergymen and Churches. In fact, by undertaking upon his own responsibility the erection of Churches in various parts of the Province, over and above the small grants of money given by the Government, he greatly in- volved himself in debt. This he necessarily did, as hia flock, with the exception of the Highland settlements and the Frer .h Cana- dians of the Western District, consisted of the poorer class of Irish Emigrants, who were litde able to assist him. When Bishop Macdonell first arrived in Canada in the year 1804 he found but two wooden Catholic Churches and one stone iyhurch in the whole province. It now coinains 48* Churches* many of them handsome and capacious stone buildings, and these 48 Churches are served by 35 Clergymen, feo large, and at the same time so scatter- ed is the Catholic population, that as many more Churches are want- ed, and three limes the number of Clergymen required, to afford the ^? * Some of these Churches are not yet finished. u noce?s;uy ii-.^^tnuiioti, '.itul to pdiuiiiistt-r to t'icm the rites of their re- ligion. The gveai Gilliculty which Hishop Maciionell had expeiieiii* ccd ill ohtuinin^ properly educated men to officiate as Clergymen, has been a great nu>:ins { (' reiarding the religious instruction and moral improvctnent of tiie Catholic popnlntion. Although a comparatively large number of Priests are now distributed over the varioui? parts of the province, yet the increasing want^ of the people render the dispa- rity between the l^ie-t> and their flocks quite as great as ever. Thia evil can only be remedied by t!ie buildin^r and endowment of a Semi- narv in Upner Canada, for the education chiefly of young men m- tended for the Catiiolic Priesthood. Such an establishment has long been a tavorite project of Bishop Macdonell, who has succeeded in obtaining from the Legi.^latui of Upper Canada, an Act of Incorpo- raiion, estabUshingr such Semi ry ; and he has in consequence be- stowed upon certain 1 ru^^teos a valuable piece of land, being a most t'lioril)Ie site for the intended College in the Town of Kingston, the Catholic Episcopal See of the Province, where the foundations are al- ready dug, but the watit of means has hitherto retarded its progress. To further this undertaking Bishop Macdonell purposes once more to visit Europe. As he is now very far advanced in years, and in every human proljubility, cannot be expected to have his useful life much prolonged, it is considered necessar)', both for the interest of Government, and for the support of religion, that effectual means should be adopted for the comfort and satisfaction of the Catholics of Upper Canada, who have ever formed a strong link in the chain of connection between that Colony and the Mother Countrv. The Scotch Catholics have this strong claim upon the Govern- ment, for when the Scotch Protestant Emigrants made choice of the United States for the place of their residence, the Catholics, without a solitary exception, went to the British Provinces. This preference is by no means confined to Upper Canada, for a large portion of Catholic Emigrants from the western coasts and Islands of Scotland emigrated at various limes to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- wick and other of the Lower Provinces, where they and their descen- dants to this day, are loyal and attached to the British Crown. — Scarce as are Catholic Priests in the Highlands of Scotland, yet no fewer than nine Clergymen accompanied the Emigrants, and by their Amer 15 iheir rc- tpeiieii" nen, has d moial antively parts of lie dispa- ir. Thia ■ a Semi- men in- bas long ;eeded in Incorpo- ence be- ig a most ston, the ns are qI- progress. nee more rs, and in useful life nterest of al means atholics of J chain of e Govern- oice of the s, without preference portion of f Scotland ew Bruns- leir descen- Crown. — nd, yet no ad by their influence may br said, (o liave mniiily diiertcil ilidi F.trp<5 towaidn t!u! British Province!--. The claims of the Irisli Caiholics upon (loverniiienf are '.:1s(J powerful and irresistible; for they have ulmosit al! of ilicm, to a man, spent the prime of tlieir livea in tlu; seivicf ol" iheir KiiiLf aid Country, and a great niiiny LiOLiglit with iluii! to Caiiuda tlie wrecks of a constitution won> out in the vinioUi ciiiiK.'vf.s oCilie Biit- ish Empire, with bodies cicatrized with scars, ilu! lioiiDrallo testimo- nials of their lengthened service, and now in the'r old a:f»!, inaMe I ii *: TMVB aPPEJ^DlX* i ' I u . if. Sir, 19 (No.l.) Letter from Lord Hobart, Secretary of State for the Coloniet^ t& lAeut. General Hunter^ lAeut, Governor of Upper Canada, Downing Street, 1st March, 1803. Sir, A body of Highlanders, mostly Macdonells, and partly dis^ banded soldiers of the late Glengarry Fencible Regiment, with their families and immediate connexions, are upon the point of quitting their present place of abode, with the design of following into Upper Canada some of their relatives who have already established them« selves in the Province. The merit and services of the Regiment in which a proportion of these people have served, give thero strong claims to any mark of favor and consideration, which can consistently be extended to them; and with the encouragement usually afforded in the Province, they would no doubt provie as valuable settlers as their connexions now residing in the District of Glengarry, of whose industry and general good conduct very favourable Representations have been received here. Government has been apprized of the situation and dispositioa of the Families before described, by Mr. Macdonell, one of the Min- isters of their Church, and formerly Chaplain to the Glengarry Regi* ment, who possesses considerable influence with the whole body. He has undertaken, in the event of their absolute determinatioa to carry into execution their plan of departure, to embark with them/ and direct their course to Canada. Id 20 In case of their arrival within your Government, I am command* ed by Ills MiijoBty to authorize you to grant, in the usual manner, a Tract of the unappropriated Crown Lands in any part of the Pro- vince where they may wish to fix, in the proportion of twelve hundred acreH to Mr. Macdonell, and two hundred acres to every family he may introduce into the Colony. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, Humble Servant, (Signed) HOBART* Lieut. General Hunter, &c. &c. &c. (No. 2.) The Address flf Bishop Macdonell to the Catholic and Protestant Frei- holders of the Counties of Stormont and Glengarry, My Dear Friends and Fellow Countrymen, At my advanced period of life already tottering on the brink of the grave, you will believe me when I declare to you, that I can have no selfish, or interested motive but solely your welfare at heart in addressing you on the present occasion, I address my Protestant as well as my Catbolic Friends, because I feel assiured that during ihf^ long period of four and forty years that my intercourse \>ith some of you, and two and thirty years with others, has subsisted, no man will say that in promoting your temporal inter- est I ever made any ditVerence between Catholic and Protestant, and indeed it would be both unjust and ungrateful in nie it 2 did, for I found Protestants upon all occasions as ready to meet my >*ishes, and eecond my eflurts to promote the public good as the Catholics them- fielves, and it is with no sniall gratination that I here acknowledge having received from Orangemen unequivocal and substantial proofs of disinterested friendship and generosity of heart. lu ordert howeveri to establish my claim to your coofideace, I 21 think it not foreign to my present purpose to refresh your meinoiies with the recollection of circuinstniices now long gowt* hy and nhifh EQiue of you, I dare say, may reinember better than I do. Ats far back as the year 1762, when the system of turning vvholo districts of tiie Highlandtj of 8cothind into large sheep farms, and ejecting small tenants to make room for South Country Shepherds,— many hundreds of the poor people with their families being thrown a- drift, and ignorant of the ways of the wjrld, and of any other lan- guage but the (jiclic their native tongue : their miserable situations may be more easily conceived than expressed, more especially when it is stated that the Government at that time was so very hostile ta emigration that armed vessels were stationed at the dilTiirent parts of the coast of Scotland from whence the Highlanders were accustomed to sail for America, with positive order to pies* every able bodied tiian found on board the emigrant ships into the Naval Service. It was at this juncture that I travelled from Invernesshire to the City of Glasgow, where in the course of a few weeks I obtained era* ployment in the manufactories of that town for not fewer than seven hundred Highlanders whom I accompanied myself & attended for the period of two years aa their introductor, their friend, and their inter- preter; although exposed every time 1 appeared in ihe street to th6 insults and fury of the very same fanatical Rabble, who a few years before, at the instigation of Lord (leorge Gordon burned the Catholic efitablishmeut in that city. In the year 1791, when a general depression in public credit, and extensive failures among the manufacturers occasioned a dismissal of labourers, those Highlanders were again thrown deatilute upon the world, and it was principally on their account that I planned and oru ganized the first Glengarry Regiment, to serve their country as a Ca- tholic Corps, in which so many of you to w!)om I now address myself, served for the period of eiglit years between the Island of Guernsey and Ireland with credit to yourselves, and benefit to your country. * h f i Those of you still living in the Counties of Glengarry and ssn m n 11 Ktortnoiit \>ill liear iiic tcraiinnny tliut I Hliared your Imrdships and fafi?tu>s duiing (liu Iiisli Uci)olli()ii, tinoiigh the inuuntaiiis of VVicklow and CuiMinniarn; thatiht' Ciuipi^lij oCBurrows, Greagnumanah, Hack- o(Hiovvi), and several oilieiH, whicli had been Cv.nverted into stables ibr the hordes of the Veoinaiii y corpH,\vere with vour assistance clean- ed out and purifit'd by me, and restored to their original and sacred use, and that by airording them protection and secdrlty, the frighten- ed and ill-used Inhabiiaiits \\^u•e induced to quit their lurking holes and bogs, and return >vitb joy to the bosom of their families, in submission to the luwe. and tlie exercise of tiieir Holy Religion. Need I bring to your rcculle-'.tion how many of the disarmed Re- bela I srtved from ibu bayuneis of i')e Yeomanry, and afforded them the chance of beiii^ tried by regular authority. During the short peace of Anjiens, when the Glengarry Regi- ment, in common ^'nh all the other Scotch Fencibles were disbanded, 1 went to London, wnd on representing to the present Viscount Sid- mouth, tlien Prime Minister, their destitute situation, I obtained Lands for them in this Provnice, the order for >^hich is now lying in the Go* vernment Office at Toronto. On that occasion the most flattering prospects of >vealth and ho- nour were held out to me if I would lead them to the I.sland of Trini- dad, just then come into the popsession of Great Britain ; but as their welfare and not my own interest, was the object I had at heart, 1 re- jected a proposal that would have exposed them to an unhealthy tro- pical climate, and preferred leading them to Canada, where so many of iheir friends were already settled. I had not been long in this Province when I found that few or none, even of those of you who were longest settled in the Country, had legal tenures of your properties. Awaie that if trouble or con- fusion took place in the Province, your properties would become un- certain and precarious, and under this impression, I proceeded to the seat of Government, where, after some months' hard and unretnitting labour through the Public olfices, 1 procured for the Ihhabitantsof the Counties of Stormont and Glengarry, Patent Deeds for One Hundred and Sixty Thousand Acres of Land. !i hiiby virtue of ihoBe Patents that ymi now enjoy tie l)onofit of your Franchise, and are entitled to Bond your Ro|>i'.^»ciii:uiv<>H to ihe Provincial Pailiamenr. i i My strenuous and unremitted exnilons to [)romote education and morality among y '. and indeed your weUare in every way I pos- sibly could, will he I believtf nclvnowlcdj^ed hy nil of you, hat I can- not pass over in siienee one oppoituniry I gave you of acquiring pro- perty, which would have put a large proporiion of you at ease for many years. I mean the transport of war-like stores from Lower Canada to the forts and military posts of this Province, which the Governor-in Chief, Sir George Prevost, and the Quarter Master General, Sir Sidney Beckwiih, oHered you at my request. After you refused that offer it was given to two gentlemen, who cleared from thirty to forty thousand pounds by their bargain. Having thus taken a transitory view of the tenor of my conduct towards you during the course of a long life which has been devoted entirely to your service, you may suppose that I cannot feel indider- ent to your welfare and interest now when so near the close of life. And if you believe that I have still your interest at heart, and that I know better than yourselves the most eifoctual means of pro- moting it, you will elect men to represent you in the ensuing Parlia- ment of sound and loyal principles, who have the real good of the country at heart, who will not allow themselves to be duped or mis- led by wicked hypocritical radicals, who are endeavouring to drive the Province into rebellion, and to cut off every connection between Ca- nada and Great Britain, your Mother Country, and to subject you to the doDiination of Yankee rulers and Lynch Law. Your gracious and benevolent Sovereign sent you out as his re- presentative, a personage distinguished for abilities, knowledge and integrity, to redress all the grievances and abuses that had crept into the Government of tbis Province, since its first establishment : but in place of meeting him with cordiality, and offering their co-operation in the important work of Reform, what do the Radicals do ? Why, they assail him like helUhounds, with every possible abuse, indignity I 24 nnd insult; and your late Representatives are joined in politics and frieudaliip with these Radical worthies, and would teign make you believe that they are your fiiends, and the friends of the Country. Although implacable enemies of yourselves, your Religion and your Country; and this they proved by stopping the money wjiich the Government h:id been giving for some years past towards building and repairing Catholic Churches, supporting Catholic Schools, and maintaining Catholic Clergy. It has been with Government money that the Catholics of Glen- gfarry have been enabled to proceed with the Parish Church of St. Raphael, after allowing it to remain in a state of decay for the space of sixteen or seventeen years, from the inability of the paiishoners t6 finish it ; and it has been by the aid of Government money that ahn( Bt every other Catholic Church in the Province has been brought to the state it is now in, — and farther ndvances were ready to be made towards completing them, when, by the false representations of the Radicals, orders came from home to stop the issuing of the money, and the consequence is that the greater part of those Churches are left in an unfinished and insecure state. At the same time that those Radicals who aim at the destruction of our holy Religion, are loud in their complaints against Government for aflfording me assistance towards establishing it on a permanent foundation in this Province — they are cutting and carving lucrative situations for themselves, and filling their own pockets, and those of their Champion, O'Grady, with your money and that of your fellow- subjects. It was for this purpose that they stopped the supplies last session, and thereby prevented the issue of the money which was ta be laid out on public roads, canals, and other improvements of the Province : and in all those mischiefs, your Radical Representatives joined heart and hand with the enemies of their country. In hope of having the pleasure of being amongst you in a few dftys, I remain, with fervent unceasing prayers for your temporal and eternal welfare, my dear friends and fellow countrymen, Your faithful and devoted servant, ALEXANDER MACDONELL. Kingston, June 15thy 1836. hand whi 25 (No. 3.) The Address of the CnthoUcs of the Parish of St. Jlndrcws, in the Toionship of Cornwall, to the Right Rev. Jllcxavdcr Mucdonellt Bishop of Kingston, on the occasion of his going down to the Eastern District, to celebrate tha Jubilee of his ffticth year of the Pritsthood. May it Please Your Lord ship : We, the Caiholic Inliabitanta of the Parish of St. Andrews, in the Township of Cornwall, respectfully bog leave to approach your Lordship with the expression of our cordial conarainlutions, on an occasion so gratifying to all your Countrymen, in this part of the Province, and particularly to us wJio liave been for upwards of thirty years under Your Lordship's Pastoral care and fostering protection. We offer up our grateful thanks to the Father of Mercies, for preserving your Lordship's life through ail ihe perils and labors you have endured in the ministry, during the lung period of half a centu- ry, and making Your Lordship the happy instrument, in his own hand, for establishing the Church of Christ throughout this Province, which is our consolation for being for some years past deprived of your Lordship's residence among us. We earnestly pray that the Almighty may prolong your Lord- ship's useful life to complete the good \ork which you have hitherto so successfully carried on. Alihougli we cannot expect to enjoy the happiness which your spending the evening of your life among us would afford us, still we assure your Loidship, that our hearts will be always united to you, a:id that our wannest wishes and ardenl prayers for your health and hapj)iness here and hereafter, will never cease to be offered up to the Thione of Mercy, on your behalf. St. Andrews, Cornwall, ? Tuesday, 21st Feb'y, 1837. S The Address is signed by a great variety of the clans, consisting of Macdonells, MacMiUans, MacLellans, MacGilbs', MacAulays, McPhails, Mclntoshs, McLeans, Fraaers and Camerons. w m 26 Ills LORDSHir'S ANSWER. Gentlemen : I ihank you most sincerely for your kind and affectionate Ad- dress. I have been too long and too well acquainted with the Catho- lics of the Parish of St. Andrews to render this gratifying testimo- nial of their regard and attachment to me necessary. I do you but bare justice when I declare that your congregation is among the most respectable, the most exemplary, and the most punctual in the whole of this Diocese, and of all others the one among whom I would find the greatest satisfaction to spend the few remaining days of my life, did the necessary discharge of important duties which is paramount to every other consideration, allow me to do so. Let me, however, assure you, that although separated from you personally, I am, and ever shall rei7ain united with you in spirit and affection, and that io my humble supplications to our Heavenly Fa^ ther, your temporal and eternal welfare shall always be a principal Petition. I am, wi(h warm regard and sincere esteem, Gentlemen, your humble and devoted servant, In our Lord Jesus Christ, ALEXANDER MACDONELL, Ep. R. (No. 4.) The AddresiS of Bishop MacdondU to the hihabitants of the County of Glengarry. My Dear Countrymen, I am far from thinking it necessary, in the present critical sit- uation of your Country, to address you on the score of loyalty to your Sovereign, and uncompromising attachment to Brituiti and the British Constitution. Forty years' intercourse, and intimate connexion with you, in various parts; of the British Empire, where your active services iiave been of so much importance in restoring peace and tranquility to Ire- 27 Ifeind— in repelling the invasion of the Americans on these Provinces, and in checking the progress of Canadian rebellion last winter, leave no doubt on my mind that you will turn out to a man, on the present occasion, and join with your loyal fellow subjects in defence of your wives and children, and valuable properties, against the attacks of a heartless gang of pirates and rebels. When a Prime Minister* of England in 1802, expressed to me his reluctance, to permit Scots Highlanders to emigrate to the Canadas, from his apprehension that the hold the Paient State had of the Can- adas, was too slender to be permanent, I took the liberty of assuring him that the most eflectnal way to render that hold strong and per- manent, was to encourage and facilitate the emigration of Scots High- landers and Irish Catholics into these Colonies. Your brave and loyal conduct during the last War with the Uni- ted States of America, verified my prediction, and so highly appre- ciated were your services, as to obtain the approbation and thanks of His late Majesty George IV. I •h I i On review of my long intercourse with you, it is to me a most consoling reflection, that 1 have been so fortunate as to possess the confidence of you all, Protestants as well as Catholics, because on all occasions when my humble exertions could /orward your interests I never made any distinction between Protestant and Catholic : and I have no hesitation to declare, that among my warmest, my most sincere, and most attached friends, are persons of a different persua- sion from my own. To the credit and honor of Scots Highlanders be it told, that the difference of religion was never known to weaken the bonds of friend- ship ; and Catholic and Protestant have always stood, shoulder to shoulder, nobly supporting one another during the fiercest tug of battle. * Mr. AJdingtoii, now Lord Sidmoutli. 28 M t III It is not a little to your credit, Glengarrymen, Protestants nnd Catholics, that you have hitherto carefully abstained from entering into the existing overheated (and certaitily in the present critical state of the Province) unseasonable discussion of your claims, upon Government, reposing with a genernua confidence on the impartial justice of a noble minded and magiinnimous Sovereign, whose plea- sure and true happiness is to see all her loysil puinects satisfied and contented, and their faithful services rewarded as they deserve. Fear not, my friends, that you whose fathers have been so much distinguished in the conquest of the Canadas, and who have your- selves contiibuted ao powerfully to the defence of them from foreign and domestic enemies, shall be forgotten, by a grateful and generous Sovereign in the distribution of rewards. The loyal and martial character of Highlanders is proverbial.— The splendid achievements of your ancestors under a Montrose and a Dundee in support of a fallen family, proved their unshaken adhe- rence to honor and principle, acquired for them the admiration of their opponents, and secured for you, their posterity, the confidence of a liberal and discerning Government. You have indeed reason to be proud of such ancestors— and your friends have reason to be proud of your conduct since the first of you crossed the Atlantic. When the American Colonies biolfe their allegiance and rebel- ed against Britain, your fa'hers, and such of you as are yet alive of those Royal Emigrants, rallied around the atandaid of your Sover- eign, fought your way through ilie wilderness to the banks of the St. Lawrence, and gallantly supported the British authorities in Canada. How gratifying it is to think that the martial character transmitted to you by your forefathers has not been tarnished nor disgraced. Uueenston heights, Lundy-s Lane, Cl)ryslcr's Farm and Ogdens- burgh will be standing monuments of your bravery and loyalty, while the history of the Canadas shall continue to be read. i I I 'I ,1 29 The renowned veteran, Sir John Colhornc, Commander of ihc Forces, acknowledged and admired ihe promptitude and ahicrity wiih which you flew to arms last wmter, and voliinieered your services to Lower Canada, wliere your nresence elTectually checked the spirit of revolt for the time; and would in all probability have extinguished It ill that part of the country, had your corps been kept on foot. Your countryman and friend, General McDonell, whose brows are encircled with unfnding laurels of many a hard fought battle, tra- velled hundreds of miles last summer to Glengarry, for the pleasure of inspecting your Militia Regiments on their respective parades. — Think with what satisfaction he will view them in the field of honor this winter, and by your valor and bravery see you contribute so much to the preservation of the Canadas. That nothing may be wanting to cheer and encourage you in the glorious contest in which you are now engaged, the brave and gallant Col. Carmichael, whose confidence in your loyalty and coujage can only be equalled by his regard and attachment to you all, will direct your operations against the enemy, and will, I feel confident, have the honor and satisfaction of making the mobt favorable report of your gallantry in the field. That the God of Batdes may be your protector, and grant suc- cess to the righteousnessof your cause, is the ardent prayer and (sin- cere wish of your obedient and humlde servant, ALEXANDER iMACDOINELL. Kingston, 1st November, ly38. (No. 5.} 2he Jiddrcss of BisJiop MacJonell to the Irish Catholics of Uppef Canada, My Dear Friends, and Spiritual Cuildren, I thank my God, and congratulate you and myself, that all the attempts and industry of the Radicals, disaffected, and the whole ! 00 I 11 I lirtst of the enemies of the reveieJ constitution of your country, and of vour Uolv llc'liever, of the conduct of the Cana- dians was, not to listen to tlie advice of their Clergy, who knew well the intention of P.ipi.K-au a.id In-i ai^i^ociates was to destroy their infiuence, and extinguisli the catholic reIi;i:lon, which he publicly declared to be ubciolutely necessary, before liberty could be establish- ed in Lower Canada. Two causes contributed greatly to work into tlie hands of the leaders of the Canadian rebellion : the first was the abuse and reviling, poured upon the Canadians by the ultra loyalists, and the utter con- tempt in which they were held, by persons of different extraction. — Jean Baptiste was hardly ;;! lowed to belong to the human species, and no animal was so vile and so contempiiljle us he ; but Jean Baptiste had his pride and i'.is vanity like other mortals, and when smarting under the irritation of wounded feeling-!, he listened widi pleasure to the harangues of the preachers of sedition and rebellion, and was delighted with those parts of their jpeeches, whicli promised to expel all foreigners from the soil of Canada, and confine the entire possession of it, to the children of the soil. TEufansdu sol !) E 34 The second cr.iine oftlie rebellion, in 1h)i1i tlie Caiiadae, was ihc system of ccono;Tiy, which ha J b.icii nclo|)led. IlrJ two or three provincial coipa Ijetn kept or. pjimanont duty, in the disturbed parla of the country, they would liavc prevented most effectually the last out-break that look place, and a fesv corpss raised in liower Canada, under loyal coinnui'.ider.s, and c'uiploycd in ihis province, would with our own Militia, have saved us from all the alainis, trouble and ex- pense wc liave been at. 'i'ltus did the late k^ir George Pievost, of viuchivjurcd mcmori;, secure the attachment of the Lower Canadians, durin;? the last war, by rai'oing the Volti^eu.a and two other Ca.iadian Corpy, whose loyalty and bravery wcro found and acknov>ledged to be of essential benefit. hi hit, I have said that your lovaltv is based on the sucreJ obli£?ations of your Holy Kcligiuii. The apostle commands v.\, xo obey and he suhmissivc to the 2>otocrv, that be. That is to cay, ui'dcr the govexu- inent of a King, we nsust honor and obey the King, and give to Ciesar, the things that are Cicaar'a; and under a ilopuulicau (jiovernmeni, obey, and be submissive to the laws a. J c;Lislipg authorities of that Government, m m []»[ III searching however, the records of antiquity, we find, that in the most powerful and llouiibhin^Mcpublics that ever existed in the world, the duiudon of peace, hr.p}/inc:is and tranquility has been short indeed, in comparison to that of tuibulence, fjCurms and hurricanes, in which they have been at last uvcr-.v helmed, and finally swallowed up. And if we look at thoae v/hich have sprung up in our own days, we lind the picture duly dialicartcning and melancholy. Behold the fruit of the} much boasted liberty given to South America. Travel through Mexico, Columbia, Guatamala, Buenos Ayres, Chili and Peru, and see if you can meet with the happiness and tranquility which the treacherous phantom of liberty had promised to the deluded inhabitants. On the contrary, you will meet with nothing but Revo- lution •ucceeding Kevolutioii, one ambitious Cliief rebelling against and upsetting another, and he in his turn overcome and destroyed by his more daring and enterprising rival ; and thus, those ill-fated legions have become the scene of bloodshed, slaughter and desolation ; even the grand paroijOu of perfect uud uncoiitrollcd liberty, in our own r>j neiglibovliood, olj^csvo how fai.Iy it verges towards confusion and anarchy, uiid what security docs it liold out to life and property. But let u?, my fii-iul:!, behold ppectaclea BMuicicntly wretched and piiiahle, nearer hiMr.e. Whut heart-rending o!)joota do the victims of delusion prcwcnt to our eyes, in a nf.i'jhboririir Province! Men who liad every comfovt around tliom, and did not know what wnnt of any kind was, in .-^cnrch of tiie promised liberty and independence Iiavc met witli imprisonmcp.f, banishment, or the death of rebels; while their unrorl'iiiiito wives r.nd cliildren have seen their houses reduced to aslies, their property pltmdercd and destroyed, and them- selves helpless, and expo'^cd to the severity of a Canadian winter, without shelter, food or iaiment, perishing with cold, and starvinjj with hunger. It is by viewing and rcHrctiecj on the misfortunes and miseries i i} that generrdly follow in the train of dibioynlty and rebellion, tliat we |« can best appreciate the happy eril-cls and blo'^pinrra of a peaceable and loyal conduct. It is no small causfe of exultation to yon and to your friends, that hardly a Catholic bas been found amon.-r the agita- tors to rebellion, or ia l!ie lanks of the rebels in LFppcr Canada. I am aware that tiiose who are not acquainted wifh the Irish character, or are prejudiced against it, inJul'Te in representing it as riotous and rebellions ; but in order to refute this unjust and vile charge, I shall produce the testimonies of I'rntcstant Gentlemen, who Iiad the best opportunities of knowing the Irl^h character, and whose varacity is beyond suspicion. Sir John Davis, who had been Attorney (lenc.icd in Ireland, and afterwards Chief Justice of ilie King's Bench in England, says, ''The Irish are more fearful to offend tlie laws, tlian the English, ov any other nation whatsoever ; in the condition of subjects, they will glad- ly continue as long as they may be protected, and justly governed without oppression. ?5 His Excellency Sir John Harvey, the present Lieutenant Gov- ernor of New I>ruu:iwick, whose achievements at Stony Creek, Lun- 3G Hi M H i dy'aLane, Cliryelci's Farm, nnd oilier pliKOs u\ this Provinco, ImfLr erected monuments to his fame, which will Inst ns long ns the JJriti ,h power will be acknowledged in the Cannil»p, oiul icinniu engraved on the hearts of Canadians, to tho end of time, in answer to the ad- dress of tiie Society of St, Patrick, sayn, ♦'(Joiitlenien, your addresn is truly Irish, it goes direct to the heart, from whence it evidently proceeds; though not an ]ri:-!inian myself, 1 passed many happy years in Ireland, and the eiicinnstanccs in which I was placed, in that country, gave me peculiar iaciliiics for correctly appreciating the worth of the Irish character. I pul)licly said upon a fointcr eccaaion, treat an Irishman with strict justice and a little kindness, and you will attach him to you with all the ai'lor of his warm hearted nature. Justice, he in cominon with all cl.issafl of Her Mpjcsty'f Bul>Ject9, feels a well-founded confidence of receivinq' under llie proteclion of our unrivalled Constitution, in every part of the British Dominions; and kindness, when needed, he fech equally assured of experiencing from the Throne. Hence his ardent loytdiy to the one, and his de- voted attachment to the other/' I will also mention to you the suh- tstanceofa conversation which took place betv.een a Texan General ■who visited Kingston last summer, and two gentlemen of this town. — One of these gentlemen, who had been formerly acquainted with the General on the Mississippi, among other questions, enquired of him what had become of the Catholic Irish Colony, whicli had been set- tled in Texas for several years, and had jiossefiscd a fine tract of land in that country. The answer was, that they had been almost anni- liilated: for they had been (he most formidable enemies, the invaders had to encounter, and fought most desperately for the Mexican Gov- ernment; and this tallies pretty much with the declaration of an A- merican citizen who asserted, not many weeks ago, in the Court House of this town, when questioned by one of our Magistrates, ''that the sympathisers had many friends, of difierent denominations in this Province, who would readily join them in the cause of liberty, t)Ut as to the Catholics, they had no dependence on them." Thus have Catholics established their character of loyalty and fidelity, to every government under which they live; not by decla- rations of loyalty, and loyal addresses whicli we see crowding the columns of the public prints of the day, but by their actions, and the 04 , Iiarc Will h gravcil 10 ad- ildresfl dcntly inppy in ilint iiT tl>c ■^cncrrtl iriior of ilieir ron.liict. In ^jstiinoiiy dI i!)i:i duili, uc snc' iliat ibc calliolic Cniiadiatin dI' tlio Wc^ttMu District IVot; (loiii iliO jicstilcMtioiis dclw.sioiis af RcdiiCL'is, mid listoiiiii-j to iluj admoiiiiit >b of ilicir pastors, cxliil)it InJl jia imicli I(iv;iltv said Ijiavrrv in d.^v/iin- tering il»e IJrii^ands and invadcra of ilicir country, ua any poitioii of tiicir follow cclonistd. It Nvill be no small f.ati.'if.iction to vimi, my riiendt;, to l^o assured tliat in no class of ilcr Majcsty'H in Upp*!r Canada, docs Ins Excel- lency, our ))resent just and wiipaitial Lieutcniuit (iovcrnor, Sir Georg'j Arihnr, rcposo more trust and conlidoiice than in ('atliolics ; ns is evidently shown by tlic fact, tliat at tliiij moment no fewer tlian nine Regiments of Militia and Voluntcerfi arc under tlie con)inand of Cniliolics, besides the {:rcat nunjtjcr if Caiiiolics who arc appointed to Companies in other iiegitnentt', and tu other situations of high trust and honor. That you may always dcsc rve and possess the conlidence and favor of vour Couiitrv and vour JSovcrcii^n, and receive the reward of your loyalty and fideliiy, with the blessing of Heaven is the never ceasing ))raycr of your Spiritual Father, your afiectionate Friend, and devoted humble Servant in Our Lord Jesus Christ. ALEXAISUEll MACDOI\ELL, JJishop of Kingston. Kingston, 1st December, 183S. 33 Pi If (?;.). G.) TO THE iiox();^Anij:. Tin: liawslativf. C0u\\cu.,ANnTiiE iion- oiiAiJi.E, Tin: cnyiMri:;:, jidUrf;: or AS:^i:Aii;i.Y or vvrui Cana- da, iN riiOvi:\XTAL PAllLIA.MLl.NT AStfi:.AIi;L!:i), Ihe Jiumhlc. ^slcniorkU of Utc Rigid Rev. Jlicxajuur ^nacdonrli, Bi' sliop of KlngSLo:f ; (f his CuCicljntor, tiic Rig/U Rcr. Rc.itcgitis GuuUn; of the Very Rev. IVi/fiam P. Jilatiilonn'.'I, of fhc Very Rev. Aligns MaCiniieH, Vicars Gcvcral; of iiic Iloii, Jliexandcr MacdoncU, and the Uoiu Jcfin Elr.islcy ; of Thirltj-iu:o Catholic Priesh^, and Eighty-six Thout;m:d Five Hundred Caiholics, of the Province of Upper Canada. llKSrECTFL'LLY SlIEWETIT, That wliilo fhcir feIIo^v Colonists of ' *.lici- Religious Denom- inations are ui'Lrinq- v. iih vi^:;',ii:r nnd pGrsevernnce tiieir respective Claims to a sh'ue of th-: Cltrgy llescivcp, Your Moniorinlists beg leave to lay l)crorc yojir LInaorable iIou?c tlicir own Claims to a pro- vivsion from (rovcrnmcni: for the ?:i;pno!t of their Religion, upon grounds equally just aiui constitutional with any othces of their fel- Jow Colonist?. 11 1st. Because on the cession of tlie Province of Quebec totiie Bri- tish Crown, the Catholics were secured in the full pos3oasion of all the rights and privileges of their ileligijn, a'5 ir, clearly expressed in the twenty-seventh article of the Capitulaiion, which says, "The people shall he obliged by the British Government to pay to the Priests the Tithes and all the Taxes thev were used to pav under His Most Christian ^Majesty, (not indeed, howevci', the tenth part of their produce, as in England and Ireland, but the sixth and twentieth part of their grain.) 2nd. Because on the division of ilie Province of (iuebec into the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, tlie right to tithes and other privileges was preserved entire and undiminished to the Catholic Clergy of Upper Canada, which riglit still exists, althouah the po- verty of the Inhabitants generally, and the utter abhorrence of the Irish Emigrants to the obnoxious and oppressive tribute of Tithes, induced the Catholic Clergy of Upper Canada to refrain from exact- ing them. IJrd. ]Jecaiif_e this foiborirniico of their CliMrry from exacting' '*lir,t is ilicir jttst n:ul hiwful chic, lor fear of exciting (li.soo-itent and ilisaffociioii ill tho Province, ourht to bo a btroiig atkliiional motive to yoin Honorable Uoutie to Buh.-titnic a deccni. ant! a'!e(niate provision (lilt of the Clergy Ket;er\es, the uneoneedec! laud.s of the Crowi?, (jr some oth.er fiuuJs, for the suiinort ofilu'lr ileh^"!o;i, in lieu of Tithes, which your ^Jetnoriuliita aie v.iihng to relinquish forever, provided such adequate [!ro\i>;ioii he secured tu then:. 1th. Bccan:-c MciDbers of your llonosab'e House, of ihc first le- gal knowledge and intimate acqnainta'.ice v. it'i ilie Constitution, con- bidcr the ('atholic I'eligion to be the Ebta!)liahed Uelijion of the Pro- vince, which Iui\ing been endowed and provid-'d for, en ll)e faith of a solemn Treaty : and voar .'.ien.orialbts ha\i:i''' neNcr done aiiv thmij to forfeit llielr rights and j>rivi!ege«, -awfl reiving on the justice and lecliludo of your I'onoiable ilou^-e, feel con!ideni that a competent and liberal provision will be granted to ihcni ]!oi the i3Upi)ort of ilieir Kehgiuu. Gth. Because upon the bcorc of stc.idy aijd unshaken loyalty, and peaeable and cood conduct, vour Menuriidists viill not vield to any class of Her l^iajc^ly's t?iibj>.'cts in tliis oi any other j)art of the 13riiish Dominions, and they appeal with confidence to severul Mem- bers of your Honorable L'oube for amnio testimony of the readiness with which ihey upon all uccabions stcjit forward in defence of the Piovince, and of the bra\cry v, ith which they contributed to repel the Americans during the last war, aiid trust that not a few of the Mem- bers of your Ijonorablc House will ackno'.v ledge that to the uncom- mon exertions of the Catholics during the last general Election, they "we their seats in the preticnt Parliament, as&isting in a great mea- sure to turn out the lladicala and disaffected who have since become Kebels, and turned their arms against their Country. Tlicy also conceive that it gives them a strong claim, not only on the justice, but also on the liberality of yt)ur Honorable House, that during the agitation and outbreak ;^]: Rebellion wliich took place last year in the Prv,vince, hardly a Catholic could be fouud among the iigitulors, or in the ranks of the rcbcla. 10 I iii m r'l Your JN'lonioiialists beg have to in conchir^ion to mention, (hat four Coins of Cilei!!zany ;.ii I two Cur})H of iStormoiit Militia, the j;:iouter iioriion olwiiom mo C.itliulics and under Cailiolic Comman- ders, luive vcikiiuecii'd dieir services, butli ihis year and last year, to Lower CaiiaJu, and coiMiibiKed very niuteiially to put down tho Kubellion, and aie all «tiil embodied and doing duty between Corn- wall Lancaster, Ooteau du liUC and iSt. KegiiJ. Ilavin/j tluis staled respectfully to Your Honorable House their claims and pretensions to a co)npetcnt provision for the support of their Religion, Your Memorialis's ind.dge sanguine hopes ihat Your Honorable House will grant t!ie prayer of Your Memorialists, and Your Memorialists as in duty boinid will ever pray. Kingston, February, 1839. (No. 7.) The Report of a Select Comniiitcc vf the House nf Jisscmhhj of Zipper Canada, to whom teas rcjcrred the Petition of the Rt. Rev. the Bishops of Rrgiovolis and Trabracca, and otlui'ii. To THE rioNORAHLE THE Co.M.MONS IlcUSE OF AsSEMULY. The Committee lo whom was referred tlie Petition of the Right Reverend tlse Bishops of Regiopolis and Trabracca and of the very Reverend W. P. Macdonald and Angus jM'Dontll, Vicars General, on behalf of themselves and their Clergy, and SG,500 Roman Catho- lics of this Province, beg leave respectfully to Report : I In the first place they respectfully invito tho attention of Your Honorable House to the most piominer-t parts of the I'etition which truly avers that wliile other religious denominations are urging their claims to a share of the Clergy Reserves, the Petitioners beg leave to prefer their own claim for the support of their Religion. 1st. Because, on the cession ot Uuebec to Great Britain, the Roman Catholics were secured in the full possec-ijion of all the rights and privileges of their Religion (by the 27th Article of Capitulation) n, iliat [tia, the |st year, JWII tliu U Corn- se their 'port of |it Your its, and licv. the Right e very 3neral, ^atho- Your kvJiicIi their ve to , the ghts ion) 41 and to ihe enjoyment of one twenty-sixtli of grain as Tithes. 2nd. Because, though possessing that right, they have not, owinc to the comparative poverty of their people, enforced if. 3rd. Because, their forbearance in this respect ou^ht to he as ihey respectfully submit, an additional motive to .ubsiit.^e for them an adequate provision out of the unnonceded Lands cf the Crown or some other funds, for the support of their Religion, in lieu oL' tit/ies. And lastly, because, on the score of steady and unshaken loyalty the Petitioners will not yield to any class of Her Majesty's Subjects'; and to their exertions are owing in some measure the successful' defence of this Province against foreign aggressions. Your Committee have most attentively and seriously considered the Petition and they are most happy to express their concurronce in the statements put forth of the loyaly and good conduct of their fel- low subjects of the Roman Catholic persuasion, and to recognize their claims to obtain assistance for the maintenance of public worship. Considering the purpose for which the Clergy Reserves were originally set apart— the religious scruples felt by many conscientious members of the Protestant Churches— and the practicability of afford* ing assistance from other sources in accordance with the prayer of the Petitioners, _ our Committee abstain from recommending any ap- propriation or allotment from the Clergy Reserves for that purpose. But in furtherance of their anxiety to secure to their Roman Catholic fellow subjects a sufficient provision from other sources for the purpose mentioned in their Petition. Your Coainiitttee strongly recommend to Your Honorable House, that an humble Addrensbe presented to Her Majesty, praying that Her Majesty will be graciously pleased to grant the aid prayed for out of the Jesuit Estates in Lower Canada, or from such other sources, or in any other way which to Her Majesty may seem expedient and proper. All which is most respectfully submitted. (Signed) OGLE R. GOWAM. Cfiamnan. Committee Room, House of } Assembly, July llih, 1839, 5 i I'* 42 FAUEW^EIil^ I>f IVIVKIt (xiven hy the Celtic Society of Upper Canada j at lungstont to Bishop Jlacdonelli on the occasion of his quitting the Province Jor Great Britain. The Celtic Society of Upper Canada, gave a Dinner to this ven- erable Prelate, on Wednesday last, May 29th, in this town, previous to his departure for the United Kingdom. At seven o'clock, a very numerous and highly respectable party sat down to a table, groaning beneath every luxury which could be procured, and which was fur- nished in Carmine's best style. The truly respected ShcrilTof this District presided on the occasion, supported on either side by Bishops Macdonell and Gaulin ; and a goodly array of Hritish Odlccrs, dress- ed in their usual splendid uniforms, with the beautiful addition oi the Gaelic garb. The vice chair was filled by Colonel Donald McDonell, M. P. P. of Glengarry. The admirable Band of the 83rd attended, and delighted the company by their exquisite and enlivening strains. After the cloth was removed, the chairman gave, 1 *Her Majesty the Queen, God bless her!' 4 times 4, (loud raptur- ous plaudits.) Band— 'God save the Queen.' 2 Tl^e Queen Dowager, and the rest of the Royal Family, 3 times 3. Band—'ll'dil Star of Brunswick !' The chairman said he requested a full and flowing bumper to the next toast. It was known tnat their worthy and venerable o-uest, who was President of this Society, was on the eve of his departure to his native land, and that, as he was endeared to the whole community by his dignified liberality, courteous demeanour, and unostentatious be- nevolence, they would join him in drinking, 3 Our worthy and venerable gucsl, the Rt. Rev. Dr. ]\Jacdonell, Birhop of Kingston. The enthusiastic and rapturous cheering which followed this toats defies description, it was renewed again and again— the Band played in ^dmirable taste and feeling, 'Auld Lang Syne.' 43 Aller the Band had ceased. Dr. ilolph, of Anctuster, was prcvailod ujioii by llio chainaa-.i to address llio company, which he did in a beau- tiful and reeling maimer, eulogizing the merits of the Veneruhle Pre- late, and alieclingly alluded to the sacrifice be was about making, at his advanced period of life, lor the temporal and spiritual benefit of the people committed to his charge. — Loud plaudits followed ihe con- clusion of Dr. Rolph's address. The venerable Bishop, evidently greatly afiected, rose and address- ed the Company, as follows : I most sincerely thank you, gentlemen, for the very high honor you have done me, by assembling here this day, on my account, and drinking my health in the cordial and aftectionatc manner you have done. This is an honor, gentlemen, I certainly did not expect, nor think myself worthy of, but although I find myself greatly embarras- sed, for want of words to express the feelings of my heart on this oc- casion, nevertheless it would be aticctation and hypocrisy in me, to deny how vain and proud I am otthe compliment. I feci my heart swell within my breast, and transported with de- light, at seeing this table surrounded with an assemblage of such loyal, brave, and respectable characters. I think I am warranted in say- ing, that no part of the British Empire can boast of inhabitants more loyal to their Sovereign, more devotedly attached to the parent coun- try, and to the British Constitution, than the [)eople of Kingston ; and of this they have given the most substantial and unequivocal proofs ; to those virtues, you have added, gentlemen, the more amiable and social qualities of the mind, benevolence, kindness and goodness of heart ; that so obscure an individual, as myself, walking in so hum- ble r. path of life, should m2ct with so much contenance and attention, |) roves this truth to a demonstration. (Loud chcers.^^ The only claim, or pretension, I would ever have to the good will of my countrymen, was the warm interest 1 took, at an early peri- od of life, in the welfare of a great number of poor Highlanders who were ejected by their landlords out of their possessions, at the close of the last century, and they and their families set adrift on the world. I' « It t l.i" 44 Those poor people, to the nuinbcr of several hundreds, I conducted to Glasgow, and procured employ ment for thcin in the manufacturies» where I remained witli them myself, till in consequence of the French Revolution, and the stagnation of trade on the Continent, the manu- facturics were ruined, and the Highlanders thrown out of employment. It was then, I represented their destitute situation to Government ; got them embodied into a Fencible Corps, and accompanied them myself to the Island of Guernsey and to Ireland, and attended them for the period of eight years, till tliey, with all the other Scotch Fencibles were disbanded in 1802. Seeing them thus a third time set adrift, withuut home or habitation, I applied to Government, and obtained lands for them in Canada ; came with them myself, and resided with them in the county of Glengarry for 25 years. In the course of the last American War, they raised a corps of Fencibles and a Regiment of Militia, and during the late troubles in these Provinces, the Glgngar- ry men armed four Regiments of Militia, and their services are loo well known to the present company to render it necessary for me to say a word upon the subject. [Great cheer-s.J I cannot sit down without observing, with pleasure and delight, that the descendants ot our ancestors, the Celts, have never yet tar- nished the glory and renown of their forefathers, of which we ought to be proud. Monuments of their power, and of the extent of thsir Empire still exist in every part of Europe, in the Basque Provinces in Biscay, Guipuscoa, Asturias, and Navare ; in Britanny, Wales, Ire" land, and the Highlands of Scotland, the Celtic Language is still spo- ken, and there is not a mountain, a river, strait, or an arm of the sea, between the Meditcrancan, the Black Sea, and the Atlantic, but is Celtic; this, with the certainty, that nineteen out of every tventy words in the Latin Language, are pure Celtic, is sufficient proof that the Celtic Empire extended from the pillars of Hercules to Archan- gel. fLoud cheers.) It being my intention shortly to visit Great Britain, probably for the last time, I must wish farewell, for a while to my friends ; but ray hopes and my expectations are to return toKingston, as soon as I can, and to spend jny Ccw remaining days among friends, whom I love and esteem, and in whose society I expect to receive whatever comfort this iducted cturies* French manu- yment. nt ; got myself for the ncibles adrift, btained cd with of the Jgiment 15 \vorl(l can aflbrd nic, at iny advanced period of life. Tlic Vcncablu Prelate sat down perfectly ovcr[)owcrcd by his leelings. and was greet- ed with the warmest a[)[)l!iusc. After the cheering hud subsided, the chairman, with some adniira- blo prefatory remarks, })roposed the fourth toasi, 4 Lord Hill and the Army, 3 times 3. Band — 'British Grenadiers.' Captain Townsend returned thanhs in a very elegant manner, and in the course of his remarks, payed a very high encomium on the bravery, discipline, and i)atriotisni ot the Milhia of Upper Canada. 5 Lord Minto and the Navy, 3 times 3. Band — 'Rule Britannia.' Dr. Barker was generally called upon for a song, and gave in most admirable style, 'When Vulcan forged the bolts of Jove,' which drew tlown vehement ap[)laurie. His Excellency Sir John Colbornc, Governor General of Bri- tish North America, 3 times 3, and "roat cheer inij. Bund — 'See the con([ucring hero comes.' 7 The chairman called for another bumper, and said that he had to propose another toast; it was an individual who had more difficul- ties to cope with, live in," 3 limes 3. A general call was made for Dr. llolph to iesj)ond to the toast, which he did as follows : Gkntlemen, — 1 assure you that I (eel it a most distinguished honor, to be invited a guest on this occasion, by a t'ociety, t st iblished lor ^^rescuing from oblivion the valaahic remains of Celtic litcr- alurc^' and ^^ for relieving disiresftcd Highlanders' at a distance from their native liomes,''^ and which Society hlend.s the loftiest patriotism with the most exalted philanthropy. No man, who values the integrity of the Empire, can be insensi- ble to the merits of this virtuous and valiant race. At homo and a- broad — on the sea and en the field, they have been equally distinguish- ed, Thev have, amidst every difiicultv and allurement, still retained those ancient manners, which are so intimately connected with all their characteristic virtues — and their recent dclenco of this country evinces that ardent and unsubdued spirit of loyalty, which has in eve- ry age been their ennobling distinction. In the early period of the revolutionary war, although smarting under wrongs which drove them from their native land, they would not consent to the extinction of the British authority, but enterprising In danger, of unshaken fidelity, persevering under reverses, prodigal oflife,paticntoflatigue, of hunger, of cold, and every hardship incident to war, they threaded their way through an untrodden wilderness, to place themselves under the united IJanner of St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. George. (Chcers.J Gentlemen, you know well, with what enthusiastic attachment they love their native land, lor smother our feelings however we may, the love of our own land will not jjjive wav so long as memory binds US to it \N ith the thousand ties of sweet associations and early happi- ness. " Dear is the shade to which their souls conform, An'l dear the hill that lifts them to the storm; 48 And as a babe whom scaring sounds molest Clings close and closer to her mother'^ breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind them to their native country more." This love for home is still as great as ever, but many circum- stances have combined to induce them to avail themselves of any facility of emigration. The letters which rea^h them daily (rom their friends on this continent, the progress of knowledge, the horror of destitution at home, and the impossibility of finding employment in their own country — and above all the appalling famine which recently visited them, with its usual horrors — the change of times producing the destruction ot that patriarchal tie which bound th3 poorest Clans- man to his Chief, as a member of one family — all these circumstances and many more have combined to reconcile their minis to emigration, and if they must leave their own lovely Isles of the Sea, and the sweet glens of their nativity, over which the Roman Fagle never hovered, they would prefer the woods and BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA, where, by societies like the present, the lan- guage, dress, and manners of their forefathers arc preferred by thou- sands of their expatriated Countrymen, to the dusky atmosphere of manufacturing towns ; or the still more uncongenial land of republi- canism. '•n Nor, Gentlemen, whilst paying this just and willing tribute to this valuable class of settlers, in this province, can I help, on this day, this great, auspicious, memorable day, carrying my mind's eye over the broad .Atlantic, to the rural villages of my own, my native land, where its hardy, noble peasantry are gambolling together on the village green, to commemorate the restoration of monarchy to a people, who sickened and disgusted at republican tyranny, threw off its heavy and intolerable yoke. We know not until we observe the workmgs of the monster, on this Continent, of what a burden they 'ere freed. And the monitions of the past should strongly teach us to preserve inviolate that great, inestimable boon, the British Consti- tution. That matchless form of governnent is not the child of chance nor the offspring of hasty and crude experiment— it is not the result of a happy conjecture— it owes its birth to the united efforts of the 49 boEt jind wisest ^morr' the Rcr.c 'f me'' "•?:: have l"ve:' laborious days r.nd glccnh::'? Irhtc, in crdtr tlia* th^T iT'iVlit found nnd establish it ■ upon pritr,:nlcs cc'cvl-ited c pocito 'ha ^reatef^t af;grofT!it0 of happi- i"r.ecs to ti-2 hu":::!an vc: &'.v' :!si i- claim:;, & j^~tly claims, tl»e privi- • logo of fencing itcclf round with thoen Karogimrds an.'. immM^itiee which nr:: abcoliUcly rsccrrary to its v/clfare and continued cx'^fcce;, it afbi b the most perfect and fullest ■.olerntion to all living beneath its protecting c'i.ade. CChccrs.) Conihneuy I'-c p-oplc hnvo been so long fascinated with th' meretricious trappirgsr.nd blan'Mchrnentsof a masked democracy, thai they have almost !oct th:.t affeclion v/hicn our forefathers cherished for the monarchy an ' the peerage r but we who have seen ruflianisnr and republicanism alip.ostsy'ionyn'.ons^ who have witnessed a countr7 groaning under its iron 3way, z.vd -eon its workings in the distraction of unceasing elec^lor.s — popnl.^r violence -nejjro slavery — border plun dcrer.'; — ?.nd unchecked agrarir.nism, mu:t hope that our fellow sub- jects at heme v.'il' more anc: more appreciate that lofty and illustrious body ct n^;en wht «iill uxibt Ii- cl.u parent sta-e, enncbled by hered itary birth, and riignified with porronrJly acquired honors, caprble ofvatu" 'ng aright the impcrt?.nt '..ntereGi9 which Ihey posce'^r, rot only Ik ^h-^. land, buiin i^-c intr-^r:!- '''':'' c r-'r/.r^:^ and determined, as "ir •.. ih.cy are able, and at all ) a7.ardr; to leqncath Iho^o interests uninp'ired to our latest posterity. I ccnfpr-s that 1 look to these din"!Htied patricians to assint the hardy, induatricu"*, vr.itiaMc, ill-requi'ed labourer to this Province, so 'hatb]'' the addition to o"r nurrib-rs of this inestimable description orcir-rrr".*"c:^j ';he ^r:'''C': n'"dy lor over continue a heri- tage of the British Cro'7n= (hci:<} cheers ) W: z-.e e:-Gry ^\her:D ''.ro:.-:d "z 'bo rler'jcn ^?.nts ot' Engli^.,, Irish [I and Scotch; these nr: th- va!' -b!c cl^- cf Cnnad=ann, for allhoijgh Upper Canada i:; noUh.^ ^p.nd 0^1;!* of many around this table, settled in tko "'rovincc, it has brccmj, by o)'r o'.vn tVee choice, the land of our adcp .en. It ou-l* to b', our pride, as it :..Gsuredly, is our duty, tocherich th3 i-:ort ^.relent aflection both for i: and -ti/inhabitants.— They wen de':erve ci-r re-^rd— they rro proud ot lieir connection v/ith 'he parent rtate let u- bo cq-.ally p-oud of our un'o:: with ieiKi. This f:ehn^ : 'Vj cI IT^Vn A ed- 01 • T"'\ ' 'r — T y nativ* rx n 60 land with my vcnorablo friond, tho Bishop; I again proclaim this scn- timnnt; I sfill, and ever shall cherish it and adojit unhesitatingly the sentiment of the poet "For 1)0 this still my pride To love the land I live in now, but overbear in heart and brow, That whcrD my fathers died." To heal all wounds, nppeasse all angry feelings, unite all hearts, and establish the reign of brotherhood, conddenec, and aflcction should bo our object. The bringing to [)ass such an event should be the quarry of our aim, the scope of our ambition, the gravo propositum of our cause. My efTorts, like those of this, and sister Societies, shall bo directed to make this Drilish Province rcfiembio the picture drawn of its august parent by Dr. Graham, a genuine Celt. *' Life and proper- ty secured by imi)artial and cllectual laws which shield alike the rich and poor — ^justice maintaining a firm but lenient sway, hei balance never falsely hold, her sword but seldom stained with blood — Irecdom of speech and action restrained by no otlicr bounds than the peace of society and the protection of individual character require — the useful arts brought to perfection — the whole land one scene of active industry — its fields clothed with the rich products of universal culture — its towns swarming with a busy population, and resounding with the processes of prosperou." labour — its [)orts crowded with vessels, waft- ing its commerce to distant shores— its hearths hallowed by domestic virtue, and moral worth, and heartfelt piety — education difTusing its benignant innucncL; to dispel the prejudices and soften the rudeness of ignorance — the social habits of the people characteriztd by countless token t»iim, tho pious Alcuiii, and ilij viiUious 2»i ii'e, iearul those lossona, wliiili itileci l.iiitiiig \HA\Ji- 'jii ilitii- liicuiorics, iuid blici a halo ol glory laoui.ti the tstalli.'-lunciilti \^hicii pioilutctl Mich hiight and bhiiiiiig OMiameuls, Nvho adoruLd and diiiuiiicil ihe cour.liy lo which ihey belonged, and wliuso meinoiioy \\iil Ij^ i^^iniercd u'l in ilse gialo- lul rcmcinbiance ol'ilie l.ue^i j.osieiiiy. It id well known thai until orverylato yuius!, ilie education of CalhuliLti hud been ahiioat amnhikued, and I'lai ii waa niatciially pro- moted and aasiated by ihe l.bciality oi i'roieatants in \aiious parts oi' llio Uiiiibh Einpiie. Tiieio id no iudividu.il who has been more indebted I'ur ilns geneioi:s ussistance ll;an lii.-^hup Macdonell. Indeed ii is ihis practical acquainiance uith iheir njunirioenoe, that has cheer- ed hiin un, and eiicoaraged iiim asnidiit many diilicullii's, to persevere in his CAeriions lo budd this collejje, and ho lias paiiicuUuly desired ine iu ilianU must coidially tlio&u rrcjie&taiits iu ll.is i)rovince, who iiave so genei"t)nsly couniena;iCt^d and forrtardcd his views, j'lid more cbpcciully hi.s kind and zeiduus iViendd oi' this town. It Iras been an object ol" ISit-hup MatdonelTs unceasi.ig exerti(*ns, to obtain a sunici- eni nuuiber of well educated, zealon;;, and godly clergymen lo n.inis- ter to the wants oI' the people commitied to his care ; but alas I whdst the haivesi is great, he l.Mnenis that the labourers uie lew ; and he lias had reason lo deplore that he has not had the means of rais^ing up clergymen for his dii:cese, under his own surveillance, and husi thus been bereft of tlsose advantages, and hud to deplore the utter in- adequacy of means to accoinplisli tho most beneficent ends. Nor is it a matter of trilling moment or miisor consc(|uence to a community, that the ministers of religion should be reared both from them and atnor;gst them. It is the best security for that fondness and attach* ment to the country and its institutions, which it is eminently desira- ble should be ardendy felt and chcribhi;d by a parochial clergy. *'For if any thing under Heaven can approach the human cha- racter to the divine, it is the laborious and unremitting dedication of life and talents to the diliusion of truth and virtue among men." It is the most anxious desire of our venerable Bi6hr)p that a Priesthood bhould be raised in the Country, fearing God — honoring their Sove- reign — attached lo ilic Governmeiu and Institutions of ihc Ij.i)pirc — 64 using tlicir assiduous efforts to maiiituin its iiitegrify — and that they sliould be reared in i»ll sanctity of lifo a!i(l manner, to minister at our lioly altars, exclaiming in all bincjiity and iruili: ♦• Lavabo inter in- nocentes manus mens, et circuindabo altare luuni, Domir.e :" and it inuist i)e quite evident Uiat until such an Estal.lisliment is founded, that a 13islio[i cannot be as responsible for bis Clergy as he would wisb. Nor is it unitnooriant that tliey tsball be de(3j)ly imbued wiiU ihat genuine charity ahvays fostered and inculcated in these nurseries of religion and learning, so much admired in the founder of this in- stitution, which invaiiab'y brings with it all the grace, refinement, and polish ofsocial life, and without which, though they should preach with the tongue of men and of angels, it would be like sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. I am sure that you will therefore join with me in ihe fervent hope that as this is the last act of the venerable Bishop, previous to his departure for the United Ivingdom, to obtain that co- operation which will enable him to carry his laudable designs into ef- fect, that the edifice now commenced by his niunificence and zeal, will not onlv remain a lasiiiiLT munun}(nt of his aflectionate solicitude for ilie Catholics of Upper Canada, but will also ensure him the coun- tenance and blessing of that Almighty Being to whom he dedicates it, and whose special protection he invokes, and that il will prove of im- uieasureable benefit to the whole community. I t ihey at our ter iii- and it mded, Nvould d with I'series liis in* lit, und :li niili iss and me ill Sisliop, hat co- into ef- d zeal, licitude e couij- ;ates it, J ol iiTi- E U R ATA. •'.ifl na.ro, 3ril. line, For Lord Maclonell, read Lord MacdonaUl. ioth oage, 2Gth and 27th lino, For Sir Archihal 1 Mncdoncdl, and Lord Mac donell. m2 Sir Archibald Macdoniil.l, and Lord Macdonald.