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O R A T T K B T O N , F R I IV T ■ K . 4'.I > .t.^ < " >■ w .w»«iihi>li|^>.-^' * 'r ■" . ilk ' .•*^V.v^^^. Introductory address. TO THE LOYAL, FREE AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OP THE PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA. My respected Fellovt Subjects : It is for your sakes, and to prevent your peace, welfare and safety from being again endangered and injured as they lately have been, that I have been induced to expose the falsehoods and evil tendency of Lord DurhatiCs Report, mutilated copies of which have been industriously and extensively distributed among you by YOUR WORST ENEMIES, for the pur- pose of cgain stirring up discord and discontent, and thus promoting their own selfish interests and wicked intentions f — If I felt assured that you would read it carefully, mark its con- tradictions, and compare its statements and imputations with facts which YOU KNOW to be trut, I should rejoice if every one of you had an opportunity of reading the ' trumpery prodttction ;' for your own intelligeoce, fairly exercised, would enable you to discover his Lordship's atrocious falsehoods and wilful misre* presentations, and your loyal and honest principles would im- pel you to reject, with contempt and indignation, the decep- tive doctrines and pernicious advice of a man who, while he attempts to excuse the wicked conduct of those who caused all our miseries, and, indirectly, encourages them to renew and persevere in their destructive works, has not written a siu- gle sentence in praise of your loyal, glorious and most admi- rable exertions, which have justly excited the universal admira- tion and applause of every wise and virtuous man in the Brit- ish empire, and caused the country of your Birth or adoption to be designated, in Great Britain, by the honorable appella- tion of "the noble province op Upper Canada." Per- severe in the loyal and honest paths which you have pursued. I ! • .1' 'V. 14 » 1 ; t i ' i ' i !■ I fi m /'■ • i j^a^i i.^r.^^^iw :..._u^.j^^ •tL,: V IV and dcpcr 1 upon it, w)icn wiser ami J)ctt-?r men than thojiC; who now constitiito the British Ministry shall obtnin powor, aa must very soon hr (he case, vein EXTRAonniNART meuits wir.L J)E HEWARnKri ANn yo7;r interests permakentiy pro- moted. 1 earnestly caution you against sufToring your judgments and your opinions to be deluded and influenced bi/ any j>reju - (ficed man of avt/ parti/ ; and Lord Durham has alvvays been both a prejudiced and a party man : his object is notoriety .- he would rather be a 'herrinrf among sprats,' — because ho would thus be remarkable for superior size, than a ' vihale among whales — whose e(junl greatness would prevent him from beingparticu- (nrhj noticed. Notwithstanding his exalted rnnk and tha high official station which ho filled, prostituted and Imtrayed, he is ro TTicr;: vr»itled to belief than any intelligent individuals "monff y ^ -'c'ves, ncr, I.w^ccu, half soinvch, as you will per- ceive if you carefully examine his dishonorable statcrocnto re- lative to your own characters and feelings, and to numerous matters with which you are personally and intimately acquain- ted. Such an examination will also shew you that he Tre- quently contradicts in one place that which he asserts in ano- ther ; aud I need not tell you that of two contradictory a^^eT- ^ionn one must he fahe. If you are thus convinced, as every oncof youmust bewho possesses common human intelligence, that he has spoken, or rather written falsely, In your own hnow- hdge, in many instances, can you place anv confidence in his statements cnncerninsf matters of which you have not the means of judging. If an impudent quack doctor who wished to exchange his wordilcss salves for vour useful money, told you that you had an ulcer on your leg, wc uld you not exa- mine the limb which he said was diseased, and if you found no symptoms of disease, would yon not reject his advice and \ 4 f keep yuur iiionoy in your pockoU ? It a uuiiuir.g yunkec bhou mukur, wiio wanted tu hcII you 'yenuwyne American built shoes' told you that those you woie pincfwd your toes and galled your heels, would you beliuvo him and become his customer if you felt that your shoes fitted you well and comfortably ? You certainly would not bu so foolish. But would it not be quite as foolish to believe those equally selfish and more wicked would be destroyers of your peace, who tell you that you are grie< vously oppressed, that you are slaves, and that you are ground to the earth, without asking your own feelings and judgments whe- ther such is or is not really ilie case ? Before you become indeed slaves, the slaves and tools of those who seek for their own in- terests and your destruction, thus to defraud you of your sup- port and votes, ask yourselves these questions : 1. Are we burthened, like our ri^publicau neighbors, with arbitrary and oppressive taxes ? 2. Can any one, ho wever rich or powerful, injure us with impunity ? 3. Are not our properties, our liberties and our lives pro- tected by the existing laws ? 4. Can we be slaves and "ground to the earth," when we " proudly feel" (as all of you must feel,) that we are members of the most free, independent and respectable yeomanry that ever existed upon the face of the earth? For such in truth are the brave and loyal farmers of " the noble Province of Upper Canada." 5> Shall we certainly be individually ientj^/ed by thechangea which pretended reformers wish us, for tlieir own purposes, to assist them in bringing about ? May not such changes, on tue contrary, possibly endanger and destroy ihoKe blessings which we now actually enjoy, and will it nut be most prudent, cs the good old proverb advises, "to let weli liNouGH alom.."? II ft ii 'H ■il U r \ •^ VI I fear not the strength of the arguments by which cviV minded politicians arc endeavoring to mislead and pervert your minds, but I do fear the effects of their active ibdustry and never ceasing perseverance, and it is against these thai I would put you on your guard. Their secret agents are scattered all over the province ; some of them may be your nearest neigh- bors and most intimate companions, and, as the constant dropping of water will at length penetrate the hardest marble, so may the perpetual repetition of their weak and false reasons, if you quietly submit to their operations, ultimately cause an in- jurious impression upon your stronger understandings. — I therefore implore you, (although too many are in the habit of adopting the printed and spoken opinions of others because it is less trouJ lesotne than to form their own^pipipBa) to thikk FOR YOIIKSELVBS AND TO ACT IN CONFORMITY WITH YOUR OWN UNPREJumcED JUDGMENTS ! If you will do thir T have too much confidence in your intelligence and in your honest prin- ciples to fear the result. In accordance with this advice, I wish you to place no more reliance on tbe statements and opi- nions contained in the following letters than, on a careful ex- amination of the evidence and arguments by which they are supported, your own judgments tell you they are entitled to claim. Since the last was sent to the press, I have read an ar- ticle extracted from the last number of tbe London Quarterly Review, (a work which is the joint production of some of the most wise, talented and exalted philosophers and statesmen in the British Empire) which proves that my opinion relative to the nature and mischievous tendency of Lord Durham's infa- mous Report not only corresponds with that of the learned re- viewers, but also with that of your late respected Lieutenant Governor, Sir Francis Bond Head, around whom you so glo- riouily rallied in defence of your Queen and Country! After vu t; minting out the falsehood and wickedness of his Lordship^ statements and the ruinous consequences of his suggested plans, the reviewers exclaim, " What is to be the result of all this ? ** Will not every legislature in British America, which is not " tainted with Fapineau or Mackenzie disaffection, repudiate all "concurrence in the Report of Lord Durham and petition " against the possibility of any measure biiiU on so rotten a foun- "dation? Will the 'NOBLE COLONY OF UPPER " CANADA, — will the loyal province of New Brunswick, — " will the happy and prosperous people of Nova Scotia NOT "raise their voices against this libellous Report"? — Our Le- gislature HAS. to its immortal honor, so raised its voice f The Quarterly Review concludes its observations with these omi- nous words, which I entreat you to consioer well and never forget ; " This trumpery Report, as with regard to its intrinsic " value it is justly called, will become a text book of Disaf- " FECTiON, in the distant recesses of our American Provinces ; ** with what does an incendiary set about kindling his 6re but " the lightest and most worthless trash ? If the obscure and obiter « evidence of such a person as Mr. Pleader Stephen was osten- " tatiously arrayed in the front of Mr. Pedlar Mackenzie's re- "belliou, only because he held a subordinate place in Downing " Street, what will be the effect of the ' Report of His Excel- **leney John George Earl of Durham, G. C. £. Her Majesty's '* High Commissioner' printed and presented to Parliament — *' so runs or rather so LIES the title page — by Her Majesty's " command ? — we can venture to answer that every uncontra- " dieted assertion of the volume" ( / have done my best to con- tradict some of them) " will »k made the excuse of futuae " REBELLIONS and every unquestioned principle will be ukuk- " afteb. vekvekteu INTO A cosFEL FOR lUEAsoN !! !" — Such aru the sentiments of some of the best and wisest men in existence, i- ifl J Vlll in which I, one of yourselves, vnurvly concur! 'I he cvrrectnetis of those aentimcuts has been already proved and additional proofs thereof are daily and hourly occurring ; the * recesses' of tivasou which, heretofore, in imitation of those wliere invasion, lapine and murder were and still are concocted in the United States, were called ' Hunters clubs' have now adapted the more signifi- cant and more treason-Stirling appellation of "DURHAM CLUBS," — meetings have been calltd to carry his Lordship's execrable projects into effect, and blood ha^ already been shed by sanguinary scoundrels under banners on wLich were embroi- dered and blazoned the title of Her Majesty's late mischievous LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER II! As you value the future peace, welfare, and safety of yourselves, your wives and families, as you glory in the ' nolle' character vibich vou have acquired for yourselves and your country, I beseech you, be not deluded and persuaded to aid in spreading the destroying pes- tilence ! Neither be backward in your endeavors to arrest its progress. If you hear any one praise or recommend Lord Durham's projects or principles, be sure that he is either a hope- less idiot or a designing traitor t Watch but trust him not ! — Had our last radical House of Assembly existed at the time of the laie unnatural rebellion you would novo have been the abject slaves of the most tyrannical Government, and compatriots of tlte most godless, dishonat, profligate and ferocious people that ever af- flicted and disgraced a nation 1 ! ! If, through delusion or neglect, you suffer such another radical House of Assembly to be elected your wretched fate will only have been delayed, and your future destiny wiUbe SLAVERY, DISHONOR ANP> IRRE- VOCABLE RUIN!!! I am, my beloved fellow subjects, Your real friend and faithful advocate, JuQc26tb, 1889. THE AUTHOR. i 1\ • '," li 1 i li I! m !) 1 ' i ^ ;''^1M.-'. ' ■*-^r-r^ •^a INTRODUCTION ;H To the Editor of the Cobourtj Star. My Dear Sir, — Again is the brand of discontent and dis- 'union cast aonong us, and, already, the flames, assiduously fanned by radical disturbers of our peace, arc spreading far -and wide. Is this the promised reward of all the sacrifices that have been made ? this the profTered solace for all the blood that has been lost, by 'the true and loyal,' to rescue this de- voted province from the fangs of domestic traitors and foreign cut-throats^ Are we to be delivered over, bound, powerless and unheard, to the tender mercies of our most inveterate ene- mies ? The wicked ministers of our deluded Q.ueen beheld the tri- umph of loyalty and consequent re-cstablishment of peace and confidence, as Satan regarded Paradise, with shame and envy. They fak that our glorious example might extensively injure the cause of whiggery and radicalism, and thereby endanger their political existence : thus feeling, they resolved, at all ^hazards, to neutralize its effects. By extending nimost un- limited mercy to convicted traitors niid pirates, they taught many to believe that treason and piracy wero venial crimes, and (which was their piiiicipal object) succeeded in dicgusting -and disheartening a large proportion of our loyal population. Honest and -ictive conservatism, even in thu remote province of Upper Canada, was incompatible with their perniciouh prin- ciples and safety, and, hoping to destroy it, ihcy confided our destioies and our intert;stt> to u noblernuu who, with the exocp' i Hi 1 "If h ' tion of Lurd Brougham, and perhaps Lord Normanby, was, of all others, the most calculated to resuscitate and foment disloyalty and discord. The " Refokt" that is the subject of the letters, addressed to its titled but ignoble author, of which the first is hereunto annexed, proves that, to promote their contemplated base pur- poses, they could not have made a more appr.)priate selection. In addressing his radical Lordship, I fear that the nausea and indignation which his mischievous misrepresentations, auda- cious falsehoods, dastardly imputations, and gross i;^norance have excited, will impel me to use stronger and harsher lan- guage than is strictly compatible with that deference which a British noMeman should command ; but Lord Dvrham has forfeited all claim to respectful distinction. It may be justly observed that "suro medicina paratur," but crime should be exposed and punished, although its fatal effects are irremediable. Many errors and falsehoods will escape ex- posure and castigation, because, although I am certain (hat they are such, I have not, at hand, the necessary proofs, and I scorn to follow the example of his Lordship by unscrupu- lously vouching what I cannot prove. Neither will I, like him, have recourse to the expressions " It is said," " I am in- clined to believe," which vile subterfuges repeatedly occur in almost every page of his evil-minded pamphlet. As I Iiavd not the original publication, but an edition printed by a noto- rious radical at Toron»o, the pages whence my quotations will be taken need not he mentioned. The atrocities noticed in the following letter are much less mischievous and wicked than many others upon which it will be my painful duty to animadvert hereafter. I am, dear Sir, yours very truly, PliILALETIIKS. LETTER L To THx Earl or Dukuam, &c. &c. &c. ** So bavinfc said^ie stoo Awhi l^exuecting * An universal shout and li^flMpplause To till his ear ; when, contrary, he hears, On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal, universal hiss, — the sound OJ public scorn." — Milton P. L. My Lord, — Before me lies a farrago designated " j4 Report on the Affairs of British North America" to which you have |iad the temerity to affix your signature. Although much better acquainted with the affairs of Lower Chan your Lordship is with those of Upper Canada, / do not feel sufficiently so to justify my offering any decided opinions relative to that province, and shall, therefore, coaiir\e my ob- servations to the latter. I am neither wieak nor vain enough to believe that my re- marks will be attended to, or read, by your Lordst^ip, even if the paper in whicii they appear should reach your hands ; fur they proceed not from a source whence only you and your com- pilers have been accustomed to seek and solicit information. — They are intended to dispel, not to establish, error and false- hood ; to allay, not to excite, party virulence and religious animosity ; to encourage poace and loyalty, not to propagate discontent and democratic ferocity. Such being their objects, tiie^ will most certainly be eschewed by the noble and hauglity radical to whom they are addressed, and by the profligate and mendacious com|)ilers of the mitchievous report which has ob- tained for him pre-eminent and lasting ignominy. And yet, my Lord, it seems that ministers have basely per- ^ i 'J 11 ■niacied tnir youtliful and deluded Qiie«n to enprcss bvr appro bation of this really infumous document, of which bhe, most probably, has not read a single sentence. I^t not this ciruum- stance ininirter io the grntifieatiun of your vanity ; for had it been compiled by lielial and Moloch, and published as the work of Satan, they would notghave. jjn^tatcd thus to prostitute their sovereign's namey^ jg^Jided they could thereby have con- •iliated the assistance of " Hell's wicked crew," to maintain their withering power. Your Lordship proclai'ined, when you accepted your late high commission, that * i/ou wohM know no party,' : had you flaid parties you would have spoken truly ; for you have be- stowed vour whole confidence upon one. You selected for your confidential advisers men known only for their profligacy and untnitigated radicalism. During your very short sojourn in this provitice, the loyal, the most mtelligent, and the truly respectable, were, if not insulted, treated with cold and dis- tant hauteur; while every one tinctured with radicalism, how- ever hase and despicable, was received with distinguished fa- vour, and consulted as a political oracle. Your chief scaven- ger, Mr. Charles Buller, was incessantly employed in search- ing the ceas-povls of discontent, disloyalty and sedition, for fil- thy manure to promote the growth and bring to maturity the pestilent crop of falsehoods which hu was about to propagate, and in procuring seed from those who were most notorious for raising thv noxious productions which he was anxious to cul- tivate. Thousands of loyal British subjects, who now curse the day when you landed on this continent, deluded by your treacher- ous professions ot impartiality and justice, hailed your arrival with hope and joy. In the Lower Province, they had been uo lonpr the victims of ignorance and imbecility, that even tb* /nSRww'. ^/V Tn efficiency and vigour was rnntter of uHfutgn'cJ ity of the inhabitants of l;pper Cunadn confiaed in your baseless promises, and nK resolved to give your Lordsnip a fair and uninterrupted trial. Although those who were inost distinguished for rank, worth, wisdom and devotioir to their Queen and country, were treated comparatively with supercilious neglect, none uttered a complaint ; and so com- pletely had you infatuated numbers of the good and loyal, by mysterious allusions to the vast national benefits with which, as you fraudulently represented, your brain was pregnant .that acting upon the principle of "omne ignotum pro magnifico ha- hendum ett" and anxious to avail themselves of an opportunity ro reprobate her Majesty's jlistly detested ministers, they ab- solutely overwhelmed you with the laudatory addresses at»« va- ledictory lamentations which you have unblushingly employed to effect their misery and ruin. Not so, my Lord, the writer of the letters of which this is the commencement : he had known you from your wayward boyhood ; he foresaw and fovc- told that all your promised blessings would prove inveterate curses ; for he knew your heart was rotten at its core, and ra- dically incorrigible. He and a few others, who knew, by ex- perfence, the pcrfidy of all democrats, whether noble or ple- beian, have escaped the disappointment, although they share the disgust, which the publication of your Report has excited in every honest, intelligent and loyal bosom. All the numer- ous mis-statements, falsehoods and proposed ?eformations of your xjordship and your minions, have evidently been bruited to promote the following impious objects, via : — To elevate and encourage democracy ; to disparage, disgust and dishear- ten loyalty, and to degrade and overthrow the religion estab- lished by the wisdom and virtue of our ancestors. If our fate dopct>ded upon tbe support which you will derive from the in- ^iMit^^ s' 1 V Am e LSS feltigent in this province, we should have IHtle eaune to dreatf i'ven the partitil success of your destructive mactRh{i6i^s*j'Aut> fl'las, there are fenr in tlte Imperial Parliament who are ac- fi^uainted with the real state of thi« country, and many may r«shly credit your assertions^ while her Majesty's ministers, reckless of all interests but their own, will be too ready to bar- ter their support of your ruinous projects for the votes- and in-' fluence of your Lordship and your radical coadjutors Sho'uld your united efforts succeed in inflicting upon us the threatened miseries, our hetrayed sovereign will inevitably forfeit the af- fection of our loyal population, and ultimately, the dominion of all her North American Provinces. This, my Lord, i* the prophecy of no inexperienced politician. I am much your Lordship's senior, have been much longer and bette^ schooled in politics, and proudly feel myself your superior in everything but vevenue and tittilar rank. But it is time to commence my remarks upon the work whicb ties before me. In the prosecution of this Augean task.altho' your Lordship may, in reality, be merely the accoucheur of IVIessrs. Buller & Co's. vile untruths, I shall consider you the Author of their existence. You commence by observing, somewhat inconsistently with your subsequent statements, and not very intelligibly, that in Upper Canada, " The quarrel 's one of an entirely English, if not ^r»s (which you seem so anxiou' to re-establish, and which have been already, in some degree, resuscitated by the g,rovellTng policy of our home government) between the virtuous and the wicked, the enlightened and the deluded, the loyal and the traitorous, in short, between the monarchists and the republicans, the assertion is false ; for a very large proportion of the latter are foreigners — venomouf d democrats from the United States-^thc number of which you soem desirous to increase for future purposes of corruption and demoralization ; for you subsequently say, that the policy of the law \/hich now protects us from their further contagion, "may loell be doubted." Yoa mis-state that the parties above designated have, each of them, "some objects in common," that " they diiFer on one point and agree on another ;" wheie- as on no one essential point do they agree ; they differ, " toto eoelo," upon all. There is no " difRcuIty in obtaining accurate information" relative to this province, unless it be .sought only in those fallacious quarters to which you and your subordinates confined your investigations : bad you not done so, perhaps you might not have exposed youi ignorance, by remarking that the inhabitants of Upper Canada "have no unity of inter- est or opinion." Notwithstanding the immense space over which they are scattered, their unity of opinion and interest is as strongly manifested as by the population of any county in Great Britain ! This fact is not more astonishing than true. There exist, strictly speaking, but two parties, the quiet and contented, and the clamorous and dissatisfied. The latter form but a small fraction of the whole ; but their incessant bellowings and crocodile groans have deceived other willing dupes, as well as your credulous Lordship. The " intelligent Englishmen" mentioned in your Report, who " found it difficult to acquire correct information in one district respecting the agricultural or commercial character of another," probably limited their inquiries to yankee settlers. Our experienced naval commanders could tell your Lordship that Americans are rather apt to make " gross attempts to de- ceive. " In point of fact, in so new a country, the agricultu- ral and commercial characters of all its districts must be very similar. But, my Lord, how does your declaration that a B i' ^ 1 i1 1 l^*^ I ■i "- I y 1 ■V f 1^ 'li I'' I I h V \% \ m V. 1} 10 iixa.i\gi, yuui Lordship that, in tltj sparso population of a wv.y.' 19 country, the number of highlj' respectable, intelligent and ta- lented individuaU, in short, of the arittocracy, must nveessB- rily be few, and thut, according to the maxim ' similia simiii gaudet,' it follows as u natural consequence, that nearly the whole should, in time, become 'connected,' either through matiimonial alliances or otherwise ? Thank God weiiave not yet arrived at ' an age of reason,^ when, as in the bloody days of the French Revolution, rank, talent, virtue and modesty might be compelled, if not disposed, to intermarry and asso- ciate with vileness, ignorance, iGfamy and obscenity I Under the fostering protection of your Lordship and your party, a rr- aewal of such glorious timet might perhaps be confidently air ticipated. Is it very extraordinary or very deplorable that " successive Governors" should, unlike your Lordship, have se- lected their advisers and their objects of patronage from the few who were most distinguished for rank, honour, integrity and intelligence, for of such does the " official party" whom you would jtigmatize consist. Are " successive Governors" VERY culpable for manifesting such a preference? But then, your Lordship most lachrymosely observes, the members of this *' official party," this " family compact," are—** lamenta- bile dictu" — Tories I " Hinc ilia: lachrymoi ;" bad they been rabid radicals, or false-hearted traitors, like Rolph, "the gen- tleman" whose fortunate expulsion from the Executive Coun- cil you, apparently, most deeply deplore, "successive Gover- nors" would probably have escaped your Lordship's discrimi- nating denunciations, even though " the Bench, the Magis- tracy, the high offices of the Episcopal Church (perhaps you may wish these 'high offices' conferred upon ra(«/i^£r«) and a great part of tho legal profession," actually had been " filled by the adherents of that party !" My Lord, I am neither a member, nor tho apologist, of 14 what is dasignaled ' the Family Compaet,' although 1 am ac- quainted with, and most highly esteem, many of its truly il- hiatriouB memhers ; who are, 1 trust, far beyond the reach ot your Lordship's petty party malice ; neither am I " a native Canadian ;" and yet, contrary to my desire and my conveni- ence, lam * a magistrate,' and 'fill offices* of honor and confi- dence in this province, to which I have been repeatedly and unanimously elected, wholly without that influence of *.he ' offi- cial party' which you falsely allege to be omnipotent. I am, moreover, what your Lordship certainly i$ not, namely, a real friend of Upper Canada, and PHILALETHES; IcAnglice, A LovitaoF Tauxii. April 90, 1839. I.ETTF.ll H. Tu THE EaHL or DUUHAM, &e. &0. &c. " Seditiono potens : ycnus huic materna auperhum Nohilitas dahat ; incertum do patre ferebat ; Surgit, et liisonerat dictis atque aggerat iras." — Viiiait. TRUE TRAKSLATIOM. " Strong in sedition : overwhelm'd with pride, Noble, though only on the mother's tide^ Reckless of truth, he wickedly essays Again to kindle discord's direful blaze." Mt Lord,— Although, as I have before stated, I am not the apologist of those whom you have designated ' the ofBcial party,' I revert to a subject upon which you have bestowed so much malignant attention and unmerited vituperation, because / miatnut your tnotive$ : indeed, I am not only " in$Uned to believe," but confident, that you wish to destroy the salutary influenee of rank, wealth, integrity, wisdom, loyalty and pure religion, and thereby serve and gratify the rabid and restless faction of whieh your Lordship is, at once, the leader and the dupe. After maliciously and falsely imputing to the objects of your virulent antipathy all that is sordid, selfish, tyrannical, and politically criminal, you exhibit 'the cloven foot' of your con- temptible slander, by invidiously observing that they are To- ries, and, which ^/ou evidently consider equally stn/uZ, * belong to the Church of England P Such I trust they are, and such, for the honor and interest of this province, may a majority of the roost illustrious and influential of its inhabitants long con- tinue * But, mark me, my Lord : I am no bigot, nor would i i. II f! f' w I. A 'li m 16 { t'xciu'k" frrnTi public office or private f'rieiidsliip conscientily \ What a precious Executive Council would have ' enjoyed the confidence' of the last radical House ! Hov gloriously would treason have flourished under the high au$-* pices of Rolph, Mackenzie, Duncombe, Gibson and Morri-' son I How enviarble would have been the situation of a Lieut. Governor blessed with such respectable, honest and enlightened advisers! Is your Lordship so profoundly ignorant of the malignant propensities of the radicals in tiiis province, as not to know that the first use which that despicable and relentless party — (such, with very few eicepticns, its members really are) would make of uncontrolled power, would be to persecute their more t^irtuous predecessors, and to repudiate and cancel every wise- and beneficial measure which had been established by the con- servatives? I defy your Lordship to point out n single in- stance of the Legis''>'ive Council's having refused to pass any bill sent up to it, in due time, by a radical House of Assem- bly, vihieh wai not fraught with mischief or injustice. Mt Lord, it it just — is it honorable — is it statesman-like — 19 %o eonderan existing institutions, and recommend vital alt tions therein, without adducing some definite, specific and tan- gible evidence of their inefficiency or injurious tendency ? Is it not, on the contrary, highly criminal and disgraceful in a Lord High Commissioner of our Sovereign, sent out for the express purpose of rein«dying abuses, to base his defamatory ^recusations, his arguments and his perilous experimental sug- gestioi.s upon vague surmises, indefinite imputations and pre. conceived antipathies, wholly unsupported by any credible tes- ^imsny ? It will gratify your Lordship to learn, that your principal object has already been in some degree attained. Many radi- cals who had succumbed to public opinion, and, to shun ge> neral execration, had actually, during the last fifteen months, conducted themselves with so much assumed decorum andpio- priety, that they might possibly, ere long, have been admitted into decent, if not highly respectable, society, are again be- coming insolently rampant, and industriously disseminating your pernicious poisons, to bhir*: and destroy the peace, happi- ness and prosperity of the dupable and unreflecting. It may not, however, be quite so gratifying to learn, that your ir*^' mous romance has excited the universal indignation and abhor- rence of the wise and good, which feelings will be streng- thened and perpetuated by the exposition, in my future let- ters, of baseness and falsehood " greater than any I have yet * exposed."* I am compelled, by other avocations, here to break off.— This epistle is not very ' lengthy,' but " / am inclined to think^ that it contains more than your Lordship's radical and traitor^ ous admirers can conveniently digest. I alike defy the itten- dacious emulator and confidential friend of Mackenzie, the saintly seditioniit, the Kingston apostate, and the more honart 20 and respectable Presbyterian dupe, to controvert a single sen. tence that I have written. Their enmity I dread not, their abuse I despise, but " Qui me cominorit, melius non tangere clamo ; Flebit." I am, my Lord, both in sorrow And just anger, Your Lordship's obedient servant, JPHILALETHJiS. May 8th, 1839. m LETTER III. t '^ To THE Ea&L of DaKHAM, &C. &C. &C. " Hence with your spurious claims ! Rejudge your caute* And fling the rabble back their vile applause : To your own breast, in quest of worth, repair, And blush to find how poor a stock is there 1" Translation of Persius, Sat. 4. Mr Lord,— So manifold and so enormous are your mis- atatements and unfounded falsehoods, and so frequent the ma- nifestations of your profound ignorance and self-sufficiencVf that it is difficult to select the fittest subjects for animadvcr- «ion and reprobation. To include the whole, (and all are wor- thy of condemnation) would require a volume larger than Mackenzie's huge book of fictitious grievances, which was, if I mistake not, printed at the public expense, by order of th« economizing Reformers ! My perplexity resembles that of the Irish sportsman who, being asked why he did not fire at an immense flock of wild-fowl, at which he had been levelling his gun for a considerable time, replied, ." By the powers I I was complately bothered ; for no sooner had I got an iUegant aim at one of the big villains, than half a dozen of his blackguard companions thrust their ugly carcasses between him and the muzzle of me gun." But your Lordship's gregarious oSencet shall not thus escape without a shot. You state that the Reformers of Upper Canada " Concentrated their powers for the purpose of obtaining " the responsibility of the Executive Council, and paid littk " attention to the composition of the Legislative Council." The incorreetness of this ststetkient is evinced by their ad- dress to the Ute King, which, in strict conformity with liberal 2i 111' ■f) .11 hit principles, was propose'!, ruad three times, nnd passed, omtke 4a$t day, but one, of tlie session of the radical House, in 1835; so that it was iiTipoxsihlc tar the accused party to refute its vile lalsehoods before it reached its destination. In this address, "" the comfjosition of the Legislative Council" was the primary tmd principal subject of complaint, and the responbibility of the Executive was merely introduced incidentally, as being, fant when the most respectable and virtuous of our republican neighbors will be anxious to seek here a refuge from the de- mocratic furor and tyranny which are becoming all rampant and paramount in their own devoted country, unless youf Lordship's pro/fjee* should succeed " in assimilating the institu- tions of this province rather to those of the United States than fo those of Great Britain," and in rendering if, as they cer-' tainly will, if your mischievous projects should be * carried out,' a perfect Pandemonium. So numerous are your mis-statements, which require refu- tation, that, for the sake of brevity, I will only notice the " minora scelera" which occur in the next page or two, by sim- ply quoting them and annexing comments ; hut in conformity iliriththat principle of evidence which repudiates the whole tes- timony of those who have been proved unworthy of credit in particular instances, as you have been, I s!)all claim, until such is also my case, the right to be believed in preference to your Lordship. You say, " It too often happened that the members of the House of " Assembly came to the meeting of the Legislatnre ignoranf "of the real character of the interests entrusted to their guar- " dianship," This may be true as respects the Reformers ; a majority of tvhom are consummately ignorant upon all sul jects ; but I de- ny the assertion, so far as it relates to the great body of the conservatives, who are much better informed relative to those interests than your Lordship. That they were " intent oniy *' on promoting sectional objects" : tiiU {"i wholly fahe ; for the chief object which the Rvtohsikrs were anxious to promol* 1 1 25 was their mim interest, and, as the jonrnals of toe House ano statute book will prove, the Conservatives have always evinced s disposition to promote the petieral interests of the Province. " The carelessness and profusion which marked the execu- "tionof these works, (i.e. certain public works not specified) "the manafi^ement of which, it was complained, l^by whom ?j "was entrusted chiefly to members of the ruii.ig party, ** were also assumed fby whom? J to be the result of a delilte- " rate purpose, and to be permitted, if not encouraged, fby *' whom 9 J in order that a few individuals might be enriched at " the expense of the community." Relative to this indefinite and intangible imputation, I shall only observe that I never heard of any such complaints, or of any such asmmption. If by the words ' ruling party* you intend to designate the most respectable inhabitants of the Province, it is probably true that the execution of the works alluded to was entrusted to members thereof; for it would have been diflRcult to find, among the Reformers, men either eapable of undertaking their management, or worthy to be trusted with the requisite Funds. Certain useless public work.i were, if I mistake not^ proposed by the last reforming House of Assembly, the management of which was, by a bill which it passed, specially entrusted to violent reformers and, since proved, traitors ; but we were saved from such an infliction by the honesty of other branches of the I^egislature. Speaking of the non-desctipt works, you observe that the governing party " has been made responsible for a failure in the accomplishment *' of their objects T" Pray, my Lord, how was a party, which you have repeatedly declared to be whoUy irresponsible, made responsible in this particular instance ? After a few sentences of sheer nonsense, you proceed to say, — " The official and reforming parties which I have described " (most falsely, you might have added), were both compnsedt m hs 26 m f i:'l '4 " for the most part, and were almost entirely led l»y native bom " Canadians, American settlers, or imigrants of « very aw- *' cient date.' Thii statement, notwithstnndiiig the elfgance. of its style, is untrue : its falsehood is too obvious to require specific contra* diction ; but I cannot refrain from asking if the traitors Mac- kenzie and G'bson were not ZeoJers of the reforming party, and if they vere either * native bom Canadians,* American set- tlers, or emigrants of a very ancient date 9 What you call tne ' official party' embraces, as I have before observed, an im- mense majority of the truly respectable, honorable and intelli- gent inhabitants of the Province; indeed, I might say, in the language of your Lordship, almost entirety the whole. If I am wrong, please to name the exceptions. Thus far you have only attempted to describe (how truly I have already shewn) the materials and the objects of two par- ties, vis., the self-named Reformers, and those whom you have designated by as many aliases as ever special pleader deemed it prudent to insert in an indictment, but which I shall deno- minate Conservatives. I marvel not that your Lordship has failed in your endeavors to explain the objects of the former, although you have enumerated as many primary, chief and cnfy ones as ever felon was reported to have made last dying Speeches; for they are as multifarious, changeful and destrar- tive« as the winds that agitate "the wild and wasteful ocean." With respect to the real intentions of their opponents, your ignorance may, in some degree, be excused, upon the princi- ple that " None are so blind as those that will not see." The consideration of your remarks relative to the third pttty which your creative pen has attempted to portray, must be postponed until my next letter. I sincerely wish that I had 27 nut subject* of far more serious and criminal import to expose Cbereio— but Fiat juntitia. 1 am, my Loid, With all pouible respect, Yuur Lordship's obedient Servant, PHILALETHES. May lltb, 1839. ' * LETTER IV. j! i'A l> \ To THE Earl or Oitrham, &c. &c. &c. " Jf truth suit not his purpose, he'll try Its more efTeotive opposite — ^e ; And thus the senseless multitude deceive, Who what they koow the leait of, inost believe." Anon* Mr Lord,— Astonished at your ignorance, disgusted witb your self-sufficiency and unrestricted mendacity, shocked by your total ahandonment of just and honest principles, and in- dignant at your unhallowed endeavors to cover the government, the magistracy, and the most worthy inhabitants of Upper Canada, with contempt and obluQuy I reluctantly resume my nauseating task. Since I last addressed your Lordithip, I have read the lucid Re|)ort of the Select Committee of the House of Assembly appointed to report on the state of the Province, dated the 30th of April last ; in which your mischievous falsehoods are so satisfactf rily refuted, and your ignorance and enormities so abh *' iJiewn up," that, had it reached me ere this series of letters was commenced, 1 should have deemed my interfer- ence in those matters superfluous and unnecesr>ary. And yet, my Lord, your oflTences are of such a naturij that loyalty, true patriotism, and virtue, must feel disposed " To place in every honest hand a whip. To lash the 'cv/priV naked through th^e world." I have sul)8iituted, in this quotation, the word * culprit' for the tnore opprobrious bisyllable of the original. The latter would have been the more correct designation, if applkd to the real auUtor of your adopted romance. In describing tliuNu wtK>m you term "• new okats of per- M>ns,'* oontisting of British immigrants, who arrived during, and soon after, the year 1826, you observe that a large num- ber of the higher class of these, and particularly the half pay officers, in conformity with their " ancient predilections, natu- "rally arrayed themselve&on the side of the official party, con- " tending with the (seditious and traitorous mi*-) representa- " tives of the people ;" and that " the mass of the humbler" iignorant, you should have said) "order of immigrants, ac- " customed, in the mother country," (through the delusion of mischievous demagogues) " to complain of the corruption and " the profusion of the government, and to seek reform of "abuses by increasing the popular itiflut;nce in the representa^ " tive body," (or, in other words, to seek a cure for alleged .corruption by increasing the number of the corruptible,) "ar- " rayed themselves oti tiie side of those who" ffuit-J " reprfr- "sented the people." All this is perfectly natural. The in- telligent and respectable are generally Conaervit.ives, and the ignorant and dupable too frequently Destructive*. I defy your Lordship to point out any a>ra, or any country, in which the common people have not been, as I observed in a former com- munication, published in the Cobourg Star, before I had the painf^J| bpQPMi^ <>f addressing you, '* S^ditiums amans et rebus amica novandis." " Fond of seditiQn and perpetual change." You intuitively remark that " There was still a great difference of opinion between each *' of the two Canadian parties and that tectum of the British " which acted with it : each of the Canadian parties, while it "differed with the other about the tenure of political powers" f, from which the very few pages of the original wherV; aJ f ' n 36 i proved traitots ! 1 iiat Sir Francis used any undue or extraor* dinary influence at tl»e last election, I utterly deny ; notwith- standing your dastardly endeavours to establish your mis-state- ments b; the most unjiisli Sable means, and particularly by exhuming ihe traitor Dunco/IBe's villainous falsehoods, which had been billed beneatti ti;o mass of irrcfiagible evidence which wus adduced in the House of Asscmbiy, and of which no memorial remained but the univeiSiii conteuipt and abhor- rence of every honest and honorable man in the Province. Having thus vilely but vainly attempted to shew that the means by which the present Mouse of Assembly was elected cai .'d " general ea'as/;e>a//oM and despair I" you, with equal truth and candour, attribute similar effects to the conduct of the Conservative majority, after their election ; and state (in- tuitiveli/, as usual,) that " Many, even of those who had supported the successful *' candidates, were disappointed in every expectation which they '• had formed of the policy to He pursued by their new repre- *' sentatives. No economical reforms loere introduced !" Excuse me for observing, somewhat coarsely, that this is ge- nuine radical humbug ! In the name of all that is rational, what * economical reforms' were desired? Why not specify them ? A dently wisb to bave it believed, were " individuala very gtnt- raUjf eatetm^V Forsbaoae, my Lord, for shame! Turn to your Bible, if you have one, and read tbe following words :-> ponder them wall, " and than to bed with what appetite you may." ** He thitjuttifiethtlu wicked, and he that condemneth thejuet, even they both are abomination to tbe Lord. "—PaoT. 17, v. 15. " He that deviiethtodoevUehaUbecaOedamiahievouaperaon*'* — >Paov. c. 18, V. 8. Scarcely less wicked, and equally false, are your insinuation that the execution of Lount and Matthews engaged a greai ghare of public sympathy, and your positive lie (" Facit indig- natio ' verbum* " that their pardon was solicited by petitions " signed by no less than 30,000 persons 1" whereas it has been asoertaineH, by a committee of the Legislative Council, that the whole number of the petitioners — men, woman and cAtV- (2r«»— amounted to no more than 45741 The same base false- hood was uttered, in tbe House of Commons, by your noto- rious, odious and contemptible coadjutor, Joaeph Hume, who probably obtained his information from tbe same filthy source as your Lordship ; if indeed either of your assertions were grounded upon aay information ; which is very doubtful, for both of you are, as Seneea said of Gamdiua, in the habit of passing sentence r I 1 ii II lii i ■ ■ 42 " UnSi taRtum parte audita Scepe et Nttlld." " Sometimes txpartt evidence alone Controla your sentence ; hvtmort of Hn none," As to your alleged " grtat than of public sympathy" for the suffering traiton» I will positively affirm that, although many thoutanda attended their execution, not a murmur of dis^ approbation was uttered ; not an aspiration of sympathy was heard on the occasion. My Lord, my gorge absolutely heaves atyour s^iamaless un- truths, and, surfeited therewith, I conclude thia letter. PHILALETHE& May 29th, 1839. LETTER VI. To THB EaKL or DuARi M, &0. &c. &c. " Ad consilium autem de republicu dandum, caput a$l noue rempuUicam," — Ciciao d* Oraiore. Mt Load,— Before I proceed further ia the prosecution of my loathsome, but, 1 trust, salutary task, allow mc to re- quest a iolutioD of your paradoxical, though positive asacr- Cion, that " It it obvious the nominal government, that is the majo- " rity of the Executive Council, enjoy the confidence f no " considerable party, and that the party called the ' 1 amily " Compact,* which po$set$e* the majority in both hovses of the " Ltgislaiun is, In fact, supported, at present, by no very large ** number of persons of any party." Hovr a party which possesses such minorities can be justly said to be supported on/y by a few, is somewhat incompreben- sible : but your object was disparagement, and you therefore regarded not the absurdity of your means. 1 now have arrived at a page of your romance, the contents of which, wonderful to relate, are neither absurd nor mis- chievous. I agree with you, my Lord, that it is unjust and vexatious to subject members of the learned professions, who have been duly approved and admitted in Great Britain, to Colonial examination and apprenticeship, ere they are allowed |o practice in this province. Thb observation is particularly applicable to the medical profession ; for surely those who bave been examined and approved by the royal Colleges of London and Edinburgh, have a right to be admitted, ad eun- ism, here, upon producing their diplomas and licensee, with- out being subjeeted to an examination wbieb thqr must consi- der deragatoiy. I will, however, admil, that English rp'^ ^-5 tli 44 v;f Irish Barrl-tm arc, gencniUy, by no means qualified to act as ProTinoial Attorney: I believe that the motiTes which Im^ duced the Legislature to pass the prohibitory acta complained o^ weM neither selfish not a'^BrUuh ; but too great anxiety to exclude improper practitioners, and to protect (he he»Uh and interests of their fellow subjects 1 i ako most cordially agree with your Lordship in reprobating the monopolies of chartered Banks, (not so much on account of what they hao* doiut as what fAey hone th» power to do) and our monetary sys- tem generally ; but the source of this latter evil must be sought in Downing Street. Ever anxious to ?xalt the democratic institutions and pre- dicament of our ferocious and unprincipled neighbors abore those of yo ir own fellow subjects, you say, *' An individual may practise as a surgeon and as a lawyci, *' in some of the new states of America, particularly in Ilti- " nois. almost immediately on his arrival in the country ; and "As ha$evkr\wj big liar /" Indeed, your ovn intended tUuitraiione eon- 4; tradict your awertions relative to ttiis subject, and I rra«t sU jrour labors will fail to foment, in this colony, that lameatablt and ferocious inimosity between Catholics and Protestaattf which your friends have elsewhere excited and established. Even our excellent Chief Justice has not escaped your ma- lignant notice ; — you remark that " There are general complaints (why thus prostitute the word *Sf*neral1) of the union of political and judicial functions of " the Chief Justice ; not because any suspicion attaches to "that Judge's discharge of his duties, but on account of the " party grounds upon which his subordinates are supposed" (by whom?) " to be appointed, and the bias attributed to them." This is another gratuitous — BuUeri If such conpUints had been general, I must have heard them, which I positively have not ; but, my most consistent Lord, why should such an ' union of political and judicial functions* be made • subject of complaint by your exclusive cronies ; who, you have unequivo- eally, if not truly declared, " are only anxious to render the constitution of this province an " exact transcript of Ihat of Great Britain 9" I believe the principal, if not, ir 'd, the only 'politiealfundion' of the Chief Justice was the udice of Speaker of the Legislative Council; now this, if not an ' exact transcript of, is certainly very analagous to, the union of '/»• dicial and poUtieal functions* in the person of the Lord High Chaneettor of England, who, if I mistake not, presides in the House of Lords t And perhaps you may be old enough to re- collect, that when England was before (in 1806—7,) cuned with a Whig ministry, the Lord Chief Justice of the King't Bench UHU nude a Cabinet Minister / I neither know who are the *$vhordinates* of our Chief Justice to whom you allude* nor 'the party bias' which, you say, ' is attributed to tbeaa.' If you mean the puune judga, I rather think they were not appointed by him ; but I doubt not their bias, inasmuch m it : III, I", il 'J 'k H « i ♦ n i iTipci.'' til •in tiTneSe out iiap«rtittl and erco-'lianded ju*4ic< (or retHtitt and craiton, is a aubjeot of verj " seriom wmplaint muf diuatufistcHoH" to your friends and prottgis I My Lord» if • blameless man eiist— if there Im an individual absolutely in- vulnerable to the shafts of calumny and detraction, it i$ Jokm Beverley Robinton, her Majetty's Chief Jiutiee m tapper Ca- nada I It would be well, indeed, for you, if you could bar- ter your immense wealth, your unholy principles, and your political ignorance and presumption, for his 'ntegrity, bia honor, his modesty and superior talents. I doubt not but many eomplaintt, as unfounded as your own statements, have been mad* to your Lordship, but which, if you had not been strongly predisposed to believe everything that was derogatory to our existing authorities, you must have discovered to b» groundless ; and among these may possibly have been that which you mention, relative to the conduct of our Sherifls, who* you invidiously observe, "are stated to be selected exclusively from the firie»d$ and dependeUU of the ruUug party /** How ▼astly ttrange I Doubtless you selected yonr objects of patron- age from the friends and dependents of your political opponenig^ And yet Messrs. Buller, Turton and Wakefield neither le- lemble the Conservatives in honour, Tirtue, nor political inte- grity : they all seem rather of your own kidney. How's this, my Lord ? Perhaps, in conformity with the maxim " tet a thief to catch a thief," you may think that our Sheriffs should have been selected from the ranks of yourfriende, the radicals. Allow me to illuminate the obscurity of your profoundly ignorant miqiS on one subject,— by informing you that if, as y«a allege, (1 verily believe most falsely) " the money arising from eieeutiona and aatea generally remains in their hands for al least a year," it is the fault of the parties entitled to thai moMj. An attachment against a Sheriff for snch detwMioo 49 can bo obtained, at any time after the receipt of the money ; and moreover, although you mendaciously state the contrary, Sheriffs are compelled, by Stat. 3, W. 4, c. 9, to gire ample security for the paying over of all monies so received by them, and for the payment of all damages that may be sustained. Why did you not bring forward some recent examples of mis- feasance on the part of our Sheriffs ? — / will answer the ques- tion, — Because you could not! How can you, my Lord, as a man of honor, reconcile to your conscience such shameless at- tempts to mislead, for party, or for any purposes, your Sove- reign and her government ? But after promulgating so many atrocious — BuJkrs as your romance has been vroved to contain, can you, maugre your Earldom , be justly Oiemed *a man of honor,^ unless "Sit laus indignis, virtuti dedecus omni, Teraporibus nostris. " All are disposed, in these degenerate days. To blame the virtuous and thebad to praise.' Our magistracy are next bespattered with the ordure of your abuse ; you remark that " the compositi' u of the magistracy " appears to be a serious cause of mischief and dissatisfaction, Wherefore, you do not and yt»u cannot explain. In fact, my Lord, every thing which does not satisfy and accord with the views of the insatiable and iniquitous party whose cause and objects are exclusively advocated in your llomance, you have represented as a serious cause of general mischief and dissatis- faction ! The interests, the wishes, the feelings, and the re- putation of the more worthy.and intelligent majority, consti- tuting at least four-fifths, if not nine-tenths of our population, you either wholly disregard or shamefully endeavor to vitupe- rate and render subservient to a wicked and contemptible mi- noritr ' Is this your boasted impartiality ? Is it thus that you m 'I lid I i %i a 50 woald verify your professed renouncement of all parties and all party distinctions ? Without adverting to its wickedness^ 1 fearlessly and confidently affirm, that a more prejudiced, partial and party-serving publication than your romantic re- port, relative to Upper Canada, never issued from the press. In the commencement o" thi^> letter, I produced a proof that in your elaborate compound of prejudice, misrepresenta- tions, falsehoods and w-»endered. We shall ne- ver be disloyal, " For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shincd upon.'' HfDiuiiAs, Part^, Canto 1, v. 173. But if the dial be cast into perpetual shade of pestilential yew trees, or if its gnomon be rudely wrested from i\\e proper beat' ing \\.susefitl demoni^f rations will be destroyed or their direction ehanped. Tlic loyal inhabitants of Upper Canada, whose de- votion, under the severest suflferings, entitled them to distin- guished approbation and favor, have been subjected, by your Lordship and her Majesty's ministers, to insulting neglect and unredressed outrage, and they have hitherto patiently submit- ted ; but if their loyalty should be as grievously punished as you have dared to recommend, its usefulness may be extin- guished, or its direction altered. This sentiment is not ex- pressed in the vain hope of awakening your remorse, for I verily believe you would rejoice at its destruction, but to excite those who are wiser and more virtuous to struggle for our salvation, which is identified with the honour, glory and best interests of the British empire. Having resolved that this shall be my last letter to your Lordship, except that which will be devoted to the analyzation of your empirical remedial projects, I will not be provoked to abrogate that resolution by the numerous falsehoods and ab- surdities contained in the subsequent pages of your romance : fortunately, they are, generally, so palpable, and so inconsis- tent with each other, that they expose and refute themselves : indeed, you have scarcely expressed an opinion or made a po- A 57 ?itivo asqortiim in any part of y >ur work, wliicli ii not (rontrfi- dicted l>y, or innumiiaiiblu urith, tliiit wliid) is contained in otiiurpartsi Such an lieterogenentis inns of incon{;ruitius, oontradictions at>d inuotierenuus as is uxliibitcd in your duspioa- ble and fallacioiM report, I never before h:i(i the misfortune to encounter. I am fully aware that radical liburalUy and injun- tii.e may take advantage of your contradictions to impugn the correctness of my imputations, by citing adverse passages ; — bjt I defy your noost ingenious advocates to prove that 1 have either misrepresented your real sentiments or the obvious ten- dency of your mischievous publication. I cannot conclude this letter without noticing a passage which is so supremely ridiculous that, ill as I am, it has com- pelled me to laugh most heartily ; and whoever reads the fol- lowing quotation, if ho have any risible faculties, must join ill my cacchinution. You say, " I have the satisfaction of believing that the policy which " was pursued during mr/admmistration of the government was "very efficient in reinoviny it ! /'i.e. American si/mpat/iifj the a/- " inont complete unanimiti/ of thv press of the United Siati's, as " well as the assurances of individuals well conversant with the '* state of public opinion in that country, convince me that the ^* measures which I adopted met with a coNr(;K...ENCE I which " completely turned the ti' V. 2. My Lohd, — since n»y last letter was written, I have c#a- ntined with closer attention than before, that portion of your report which is entitled " defects ami rvmtdtes" and the result of my examination is, that instead of facilitating, it has mate- rially impeded my progress. I find my»tlf entangled in a la- byrinth of poisonous weeds, thorns and brumbies ; among which, choked by their rnnk growth, and blasted by unskilful cultivation, a few sickly specimens of a more wholesome ge" nus feebly struggle lor existence. The union of the Canadas and the federal union of all the British North American pro- vinces, both of which you and, previously, wiser men than your I^crdship, have suggested, are subjects of too vast and loo serious importance to be properly discussed in tbis letter, or even in tliricc the space which you have devoted to their consideration ; 1 shall therefore confine myself to the exami- nation uf those political quack recipes which you have pre- scrilu'd as infallible, with all the presumption of empiricism, atul uhicli you are anxious to have administered to her Majes- ty's North American Colonies, whether they remain severed or become united. In the name of the majority of our po- pulation, I protest against the nauseous and unsalutary inflic- tion. Ton commence with a pitlpablc falsehood, by stating that " You have A7//j^(7V?///y pointed out the nature of those evils, " to the extensive opcraticiii of which jion attribute the vario.us 61 ** praciical grievauctsi uiiii ilie pitseiit uIl^^iti^iuclo^y state of ihe North Air>ericttit pioviiicts." You have done no such thing; lor altliough it is very prohable that ignorance and pre- sumption may attribute eiletts lo wrong and, as you have abun- dantly pro*ed, nm-existing causes, the Jatler could not be ^sufficiently pointed out.' You democratically and dogmaii- cally say, ** It is not by weakening, but strengthening the in- fluence of the people on iis government, that / believe harmony is to he restored where dissention has so long prevailed." it is very po.ssible that a man of your Lordship's caliber may be- lieve that the rearing and rapacity of a hungry lion inigtit be tranquiliaed by augmenting histremendr>is strength and leng> thening his enormous fangs; that a vessel might be steered with greater facility and correctness by diminishing the power of her rudder, or that the turbulence of the ocean might be calmed by increasing the influence of the winds ; therefore, permit me, before I accede to your proposition, to enquire, what class or description of persons constitute, m your opinion, 'the people?' If you mean the turbulent, clamorous, ig- norant and discontented minority, whose selfish interests, ini- quitous objects and baneful influence, in conjunction with those of their .'imerican prototypes, you have labored exclusively to promot'^, the attempt to restore haumomy, by increasing their ifijiu'jnce, would l:e just as wise and efficacious as any of the extravagant experiments which 1 have admitted might possibly be deemed feasible by sucli capacious understandings as your Lordship's. You declare " that you would not impair a single prerogative of the crown" (the appointment of its own coun- sellors, 1 suppose, you don't consider one,) but it seems you wish it to share some of them with a countervailing power, to whom you, in effect, rccmnmend that it should grant a sort of political Power of Attornry, irrevocable, to carry them into ex- M li i * II; 62 ii <3cution. Your proposed project of assimilating our Colonial government, in conformity with the wishes of radical rabid- iiess, to that of the mother country, or rather of making it an *' exact transcript thereof," reminds me of a theatrical manager^ who, being commandedhy the public of a country town to have the tragedy of Hamlet performed, and having no member of his company capable of enacting the Prince of Denmark, is- sued bills announcing that " by particular desire, would be per- formed Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy of Hamlet, altered by a gentleman of distinction ftud a Lord High CotumissionerJ to a farce, in which the part of Hamltt wouht necessarily Ik otnitted:" but, my Lord, in the performance of your projec- ted political farce, you would be compelled to omit, not only one, hut all ttte principal characters. In the name of all that is rational, or, if it suit you better, of all that is absurd, what analogy is there between the Cabinet Council of our Sovereign and the Executive Council of our Lieutenant Governor ? If you had not been lamentably afflicted with mental blindness, you would have discovered, that tlie latter rather resembles the Privy Council, the members of which are not changed " when u ministry ceases to command a majority in Parliament." — Are all the great questions of national policy which affect the guTernment of Upper Canada, devised, matured and subinit> ted to our Parliament by the Executive Councils Do all the measures of our I'rovincial administration there originate? — What is the amount of the emoluments and patronage enjoyed by its members ? Is it such as would ind'jceany independent man of talent, rank or honorable feelings to submit to the drudgery of office and iocur such perilous responsibility as that to which you have recommended bim to be subjected ? Per- haps you will exultingly exclaim " there are plenty of radicali who would gladly accept the office, aud these are the men T :i: 63 trltona 1 consider exclusively tia and Upper Cannda took little or no interest in the quarrel, both those provinces had just (riven unequivocal proofs that* they took the deepest and most lively interest therein, and that they considered the interests and the honor of all the British provinces identified with each other. You audaciously assure your soveroipn that rou have given her a full description of our state rf feelinjj and have the impuilevce to produce as evi- dence of those feelings, the addresses which ynu obtained hy wen" • ofasfalseandfraudukvt pretences nnd promises as ever were prac- tised by the most accomplished S\\ 1 N DLE R ! ! ! Not contented with this barefiiced exhibition of pfTrontery, you actually, like other capital oflTenf^ers, attempt to poin your impious ends by intimidation, and in defiance of all yrur previous Jesuitical pro- fessions and asseverations that the " predominant feeling of all "the English population of the North American colonies is ** that of devoted attachment to the mother country," &c. — You evidently wish to terrify Her Majesty into compliance by representing the danger arising from '• those threats of separa- " tion and independence the open and general utterance ofwhich^ (by the said English poptdation.J you say, "was reported to •' you from all quarters" to be so imminent that other dangers sunk into insignificance when compared with it!!! — Can this be exceeded in inconsistency, in impudence, in falsehood, or in turpitude ? God only knows what may be your Lordship's motives or what your ultimate objects ! You have professed complete po- litical impartiality ; to acknowledge no distinction of parties and you have wholly and solely advocated, lauded and encou» raged one party and that the least numerous, the inost despica- V eo \ Me, the most disloyal, and tlie most profligate ! You have ex- pressed a desire to promote hurviony and you have scattered far and wide the ^i t