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PETITION. 
 
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 To the Honorable the Leyidative Assembly^ of the Province of Canada, in Par- 
 liament Assembleri. 
 
 THE PETITION OF HENRY MOYLE, ESQUIRE, OF THE TOWNSHIP OF 
 BRANTFORD, IN THE COUNTY OF BRANT, ONE OF THE UNITED 
 COUNTIES OF WRNTWORTH, HALTON AND BRANT. 
 
 HuMBLV Sheweth: 
 
 That in the years 1849 and 1850, certain seditious, treasonable, and very 
 offensive Letters against the Government, were published in the Brantford Courier 
 newspaper, under the signature of G. IM. Johnson, an Indian, in the employ of the 
 New England Company, as Interpreter, which said Letters were evidently intended 
 to bring Her Majesty's Canadian Government into contempt, and were further 
 calculated to endanger the fidelity of the Indians, who would be likely to be in- 
 fluenced by such addresses from one of their own class. 
 
 As one of the Senior Magistrates of this Section, it became a public duty to 
 notice the dangerous publications alluded to, and Your Petitioner, in concert with 
 B Brother Magistrate, the late Nathan Gage, Esquire, since deceased (or he would 
 have been a party in this Petition,) took such steps as the Law directed, and tran- 
 mitted copies of the said publications to Her Majesty's Attorney General, and re- 
 quested his opinion thereon for our guidance. 
 
 Your Petitioner further represents that shortly alter the period alluded to, 
 His Excellency the Governor General visited this section of the Province, when 
 the aforesaid publications were brought under His Excellency's notice, and they 
 were considered to be of such importance as to induce His Excellency to give 
 instructions to Your Petitioner, who was then about to go to Europe, to lay the said 
 publications before the New England Company in London, and also to Report to 
 Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, the action thereon taken by 
 the said New England Company. 
 
 Your Petitioner accordingly attended .several meetings of the Directors of the 
 New England Company, specially convened at their office in Great St. Helen's, 
 London, in January, 1850, and the Directors finally agreed that a full investigation 
 should be made into the whole affair, and a journey was subsequently undertaken 
 from the West of England to London, in order to obtain a written statement of the 
 decision, and to Report to the C^olonial Office, as before stated. 
 
 Your Petitioner further brought under the notice of the said Company their 
 departure from the Ancient Charter, by making the Institution of a High Church, 
 an exclusive character, which was not intended by the Charter, and is well under- 
 stood by the Directors and their Missionaries, it being stated in the Charter, that 
 the Institution originated in the united exertions of Dissenters and Churchmen, 
 and particularly refers to a Munificent bequest by the Reverend Doctor Daniel 
 Williams, an eminent Welsh Presbyterian or Non-Conformist, and was the .^amr 
 individual who endowed the noble Library in Red Cross Street, London, known 
 and used, as the Congregational Library at this day. 
 
 It is also well known that there were no Episcopalian Churches in New 
 England at the date of the Charter (1649, for Indians,) notwithstanding the promises 
 by the Directors, as before stated, they have never taken any action whatever in 
 
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the investigation, so fully promised, and the whole affair becomes a precedent for 
 future insult to the Government and its supporters, whenever the Indians or their 
 Missionaries or Servants may feel disposed. Occasions of this kind will be certain 
 to recur as the natural result of evil influence on the minds of the Indian youth 
 under the tuil'on of an individual of the description of character clearly indicated 
 in the published letters before alluded to, or whenever the High Church preten- 
 sions may be affected. 
 
 Your Petitioner is enabled to judge more accurately of the increasing dema- 
 ralization of the Indians from his own position, and from the statistics of crime, 
 the results of drunkenness, bigamy, prostitution and indolence. During the past 
 year, an Indian was killed in a drunken affray near my own residence, and a repre- 
 sentation was then transmitted to the manager of the establishment, ' t failed to 
 produce any beneficial effect ; in fact the degraded position of this Mission will be 
 most conspicuous when compared with any other Indian Mission in the Province. 
 
 Your Petitioner therefore prays (as a necessary measure to prevent the re- 
 currence of insult to the Government and its supporters, and to maintain the dignity 
 of the Law,) that, proper steps be taken to obtain such alteration in the existing 
 Charter of the said New England Company, as will place the appointment and 
 control of Directors or Managers for the disbursement or management of that 
 portion of the endowment heretofore expended in Canada, in the Governor and 
 Council, through the usual nomination of the District Councils ; such Directors 
 to be residents in Canada, and have a stake or interest in the peace and prosperity 
 of the Country, and that the said Directors be required to comply with the clearly 
 expressed intentions of the benefactors of the ancient endowment. 
 
 Your Petitioner is authorized to stato tbat the great majority of the local 
 Magistrates in this section, concur in the foregoing prayer, and will consider it a 
 public duty to urge that immediate action be taken in the matter. 
 
 And Your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray. 
 
 HENRY MOYLE. 
 
 Sheep Walk, near Brantford, August, 1852. 
 
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