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N«i York 14604 USA 1 (/)6) 48i.- OMO - >1»n. ■ (716) 288- 6984 -Fa» ■n^v ON OLE&atr RBSXSRITE T»i«* measure of rHlinR the Clergy R^^rven in Upp*r C«. nndii, introd«c«(l into parliament (by Mr. Wllmot, Secretary •hfl Vuppowd to be objectionnble to his suceewor in office xvha gavo notice to that eflfcrt,) bad ever an interest in my mind.frorti ^he time they were first said to have been sold to the Canada Land Company, and I was ind need to «eek such eccUirciwfment on the sqbject, as might be acccswblc to a stranger. As the act of the Union* with SA>tland, had proviaed that in all future time the Church of England should continue to bi? the prevailinK establishment, in thfe then colonies of Englan^^, and future colonies and plantations of Great Bn|w«v » "^"^ duced to seek the origin of the reserve of land in Upper Canada for 4hc support of a Protestant Clergy, in lieu of tythes, to which I bad idagined she carried her claim, wherever establish- ^ edbjrLaw.' ^ '.': ' \ ■■■;.■■ . . ' ■ - » ■'-■ 1 found that by the capitulation for the province of Canaap. W- VTraaiyof F Irdv^nap. o \- ;x^„ -4^ / . ..,.•■.. .■ ^.^ . ■. test»nt»iibjccU were e» for tlie maintenance 6f the Throne, the laws and religion of Kugluud, had some claim, when cwt frort their homes into a atratoge laud, to find there the law! and religion which they had abandoned tojiiesccve their loyalty. Sueh a claim wan felt by the King and Parliament, and after a delibeMion of seven years, Uie King intorriied ti» parliament that, he was about to divide llis conquest of Canada into two Provinc^a ; comprehending in oiu! part, such portion of the pro- • Vince of Quebec as was below the point of Bodet,, the term- ' ination bf thepld French Grants, "and in the dther part all that tvas cede^ to Great Qrilaiu under the name of Canada: and called upon ihe nation for a consHitutioh ^fbr the two provincesj suitable to their respective eir(:!umstances. The task was of no small ipjpottance, and it resulted /in the Canada Bill, which re- ceived the Koyal Ajksent in 1 7P.1. By this bill, a constitution; Was formed, intended to be suit- able to two several populatioHS, differing, in l^augipage, religion, and'j^anners ; giving Jo each, theifuture power of legislation for itself, with the assent of the King, in such matters as affected neither religion or commerce ; but in these exceptions, the King " kad no power to give force to their enactment, without an ap- peal to both houses of pariiament, and, at least, a tacit awjettt, lifter a due and stipulated period, . In this bill of 3l8t Geo. 8d, ch. 31 , Parliament preauine*, that tythes were, by law established io both Piovincea, either by the operation of the act of Union, by which the church of England became the establishment in aU the donainiona of Eng- land or Great Britain, fexcept only Scotland; or by the 14th Geo.. 3d, which had established, or confirmed the laws qf France ae anciently administered in the conquered Province, as the rule of decision in all controversies relating to property a^d civil tights } biit the Le^siatuFe baviog expeiieace of whit might '::■*'• \» aflbrded to loadu, We»t Dch King. — ieveu . years nance 6( the claim, when here the lawi their loyalty^ lent, and after liii parliament ida into two n of the pro- • % the term- part all that Canada : and vo provincesi isk was of no till, which re> led to be suh- |iage, religion, (legislation for !rs as affected tions, the King ' ithout an ap- a tacil AMteaty ent presuqpied, tvlnces, either the church ot inions of Eng- the 14th d«o.. s of France aa e, as the rute terty ai^ii^ <^'^ ii Wb»t might be e«p«cted, in modcrd tim?, from exncling ty the. for the Rupporl of a church, of which the party to pay was not i member j and undoubtedly perceiving the raoroeut favorable, in a new con>ilitu. tionoflaw, to provide forthe support, of the altar, .nd.pen. tfently 0f the feelinRS. the prejudices, if the interests of llu- pcO, pie it declared, that no graul of bndto be rtade in future .n those piovinces «houl.l be rsKd, *nle», it contained the reserve •of oni-seventh of land, in ^oportion to the quantity granted, to hccitrreis»lV described aftd specified iu the body of the p«tcM of iXXo be for tHo s,;;>o«of a Protestant Clergy .uh.n *'''^!";ovision required o«ly a^^^^^^^^^ .eventh,or rather eighth, of the land inere:«e in vulgc as n.p.ab^ a. the intervening lands amon«.t .vhich it .ta, scattered; but there were re««>ns opposed to such an attentlon,wh.Hi it .« need, less now to advert to, the fact is that the rental of the Clergy Reserves has not hitherto in thirty years produced more .n any one year than iEGOO, if so much. In the mean time it had be- come a nice question, how far the Clergy of the Church of England had, by the net of 3l9t Geo. a, ch. 31, lost their right to demand and receive tythes : if oijce, according to the provisioaa of that act, Parishes were hid out and endo«B;d with Clergy, Reserves, they were lawfully inducted into the beneficje, living, ""^ There is no doubt that the Canada Act, to »"bf f ^^'^ seventh r rather eighth of the whole of the land of the Pr^ Z'of Upper fcanada, (for no grant of land had been made luhin that province) to be in lieu of tythes, s'uch .vas the word- rngbf tbe oViginal.p^^^ submitted to the house ; on that point there was some, discourse in the committee, without any Amendment, so it was printed by order of the house, and so yt continue in the Journals of the House-without erasure or ar mendment; butthe printed law given to the public, and whjcU governs the Courts of- Law gene aly, contains no such provision^ or limitation ; but if the Clergy before that act, had a nght by<^^ Law to tythes, they certainly continue to enjoy that rjghtuntler* the printed Lnw. "iK •""pf^ n #■ .1 . . . .■/-. 4 ■ •■/-■ ■ . /' ^ thit fad,tt tliat (iine,and •tiM,unftccount(ul fo/^httiued Um^ BOtire of a warn friend to Mr. PitU original bill, whicli li« had •t«n in tht; Qerman Text-Copy, aitd littlu suspectiog tlic- extra- ordinary fact that the omiMiou and difference, U not warranted by any Leglidative procerdinfr, um^d erery exertion to prevent the legal induction of a parHon to a pariah, agrot- ably to ihu pro* vision of the act, which, it was f«ared,migh*t eatablitih the rccitipt of Tytbei, and with it a fueling throughout the province not to Wencoungod. . • ^ / x This important Rtep of induction, was accordingly delayed^ until opportunity offered to procure an att of tHr Provincial Lc^ gislaturc, declaratory, that it should not be lawful to demand or receive Tythes iri that province ; which oct parsed into alaw by the assent of the King, under the sanction of both houses of par* liameiH, in the nianuur prescribed by the 31st Geo., ch. 31. From the moment of passing that act, ond its proranlgation In Canada, there could be no opponitlon to the induction of par- ' oons, to parishes and the endowment of such parishes out of the clergy reserves. — Such a measure, however would have opposed some further dllEculty to the completion of the project, soon af- ter formedj to sell these reserves, and outof their proceeds, pro- vide for the support of tbo clergy of fhe Kirk of Scotland, and Church of England. ^^This proposition, it is belie red, was hazarded at first w/th much caution; not from any apprehension of right, in parliament, to take away what it had given, bat from the appearance of Buck a measure to the public eye, when it should be inv- rv<» wasbafr o «ther ; for- e/could take t wasfounil Caaada LvsA '?X. '.,.» . k- ana / U i. thJ.«I« of th* land, m Canada, whieh I. to come u«- arr conaldjation of pnrUamcnt at the .n.ulnR .e«l6n , and th. friend, of the Canada act, have no lo"«- hope .n the powe ful Irl off he yO«n« nobleman who .topped it. pro,ll. , For tbirtj- years and more, every grant of land in Granada. ft>ntain.itaown nulUty ; if there i. not found reserved the pr^ Wion of one seventh of the land granted, described, and appro- rriated,inthepaten^or.uppor,of aP|||«tCl.rgy. ^ ^ For tbi. appropriation, a:body of m«1'ohad r-lBbts.h.vc abandoned those right.,in tbc fullest assurance that the exchange ,vw,0lemnized in every instance bv th. r.val sc.l. anl aecured by theinter^stand po.«.s«on of each individual P/^;P"««°'- ^ Will it be contended that the right ex.sts here w.th the power to take away ? The land is pifrnianent, it- roust advance ;n value ^ithtbe aurrounding property.; whereas the yroct^ds in inpney, vested ..they miy b., can .ever be .ecure from the various .n- eideBt,of fluctu^tiooof stock and exchange ; -Pl-^-^ ";«;" *° belodiedin the natbnal funds, and sulyect to no control but th^ of parliament. "''" ^ If the lands are iSfd ibr ftpir value at the prew^nt time, tl,e pubUcihtbe best administration of them, will benefit no more Vdwd by the Company at iD8W,000 Sterling. -y './i llhta thfl Iniercat of the money, to be divided lo dt timt, «iDoit(| 'the increaiinK mnmlMri of the clergy, who ; by ritaininK their ^ght to Tytbei, would htvc fundi increiiing in ttlue with the populttion tnd industry of the people. V - There ii e fetture in the projected legisUtton on the aubjetft •r clergy rose ret in Upper C«n«da, whieb If allowed to remain ■ Will be of more aerious eooacqucnce than their entire rclinquiah** •tfot. The propoaition to »Jinit the church of Scotland to a participation in the benefit of theac land*, feaerved for the aup- portof a Proteatant Clergy, excluding all otfier diaientera from tbe church of Kngland, cannot fdil to oroduce the' worst oiTccta in the mixed population of that provinfll; who at present aubmit- tingailently to the diatinction in favor of the national churchy •re cojitent to support their own teachers ; bat ao aoon aa that line of demarcation ispaascd, and the nutioiml fuuda are applied U> the maintenance of the tolerated cliurch of Scotland, they Willaflectto aee no difference between the sect of Presbyterians and any other aect, merely tolerated like thomietves. It ia not lopposedtbat one twentieth part oC Upper Canada, piofoas the tenet* of the Kirk of Scotland. The various other aecta of christians maintaining pnblic worahip in t* province, with full licenae, And under the pretectida- of the law, precisely as thtf Presbyterians ; will naturally morteur at a distinction for which tbeyaecnogood caute. They all knovv that, in the mother country to which they append, the Kirk of 'Scotland is the nation- •I church of only one part ; and that in England, it may redeive <»antenance and protection under the toleratidn act, prec isely as other sects, but not entitled to any portion of the funds of the church ^ England. They know that the reserved land is a 9obstitute for Tytbes, which could only be applicable to the na- tianal church, of which they can only participate by a union with that chureh-^that of the many sects dissenting from the worship of the church of England, the most numerous retain her principles, and are separate only in form. Every considera- Hmtf ivill f uriiiih reasons of offence at the proposed ^intinctioii '^ I ttmt, among nittininK their •lue with (he \ - on the nubjetft ed to remain. » re rcUnquiih- jcotttnd to • id for the lup- •lenterM from worst effect* esent aubmit- ionulchurch^ Boon u that la are applied Scotland, they 'reshyteriaus, !«. It ia not I, piofc'ia the ler aects o^ Qcc, with full ciaely as thef ion for Mrhich the mother ia tho nation- may receive , prec isely as funds of the red land ia a lie to the na- by a union ting from the merous retain ?ry considera- led difftinctioii V#» J