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CIRCULAR. 
 
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 Southampton, March IB, 1836. 
 
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 Reverend Sir, - = 
 
 Having felt a desire that the tenor and the 
 results of those representations which I have been 
 engaged in making to His Majesty's Government, 
 with reference to the Ecclesiastical affairs of Ca- 
 nada,, should be made known to my brethren of 
 the Clergy in the Lower Province, with whom 
 (contrary to the intentions with which I left 
 Quebec) I am thus placed in a new relation ; and, 
 having received an intimation from sufficient 
 authority, that I may consider myself at liberty to 
 communicate to them, in the manner here adopted, 
 my correspondence with the Colonial Department 
 of His Majesty's Government upon the subject in 
 question, 1 have availed myself of that mode, as 
 the readiest and most satisfactory in which my 
 object can be effected : and I venture to extend 
 the discretion thus given me, to supply the same 
 information to some private friends. 
 
 It is superfluous, perhaps, that I should guard 
 against its being inferred from this circumstance, 
 that the correspondence could be allowed to appear 
 
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 in the newspapers, or in any way get abroad before 
 the public — a proceeding which would be most 
 decidedly unrvarrantrtble and improper. 
 
 It may not be inexpedient here to explain that 
 the Bishopric of Montreal does not form an inde- 
 pendent See. It is, in fact, a mere titular 
 distinction attached to my office, which office is so 
 constituted as to enable the Bishop of Quebec to 
 delegate to me the episcopal charge in that portion 
 of his Diocese, of the labours of wiiich he desires 
 to be relieved. 
 
 I reserve for some other occasion all expression 
 of the motives, the feelings, and the views for the 
 future, with which I have accepted this office; and 
 shall only now add my request for your prayers, 
 and my assurance that I remain 
 
 Your affectionate brother, 
 
 G. J. MONTREAL. 
 
CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 OF 
 
 ARCHDEACON MOUNTAIN 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 Colonial Department op His Majesty's Government. 
 
 London, October 21, lS35, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 The Bislioj) of Quebec having confided to me 
 the task of laying before His Majesty's Govern- 
 ment at home, some representations in behalf of 
 the Church in Canada, as well as of endeavouring 
 to effect certain an'angements, which have been 
 for some time past under consideration in order to 
 bis own personal relief in his extensive charge, 
 I have to solicit the favorable attention of your 
 Lordship to what I proceed to submit in relation 
 to these two objects. 
 
 It is now forty-two years, my Lord, since a 
 Bishop of the Church of England was first sent 
 out to Canada to take possession of the then newly 
 erected See, in connection with which measure, the 
 lands commonly called the Cltrgy- Reserves, had 
 been set apart two years before, for the support of 
 
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 the Clergy of whom the Bishop was to he the 
 head. I need not say to your Lordsliip that the 
 measure has heen also followed up hy a series of 
 acts on the part of Government, in perfect consis- 
 tency with the intentions thus indicated : a 
 Cathedral Church has heen huilt : Parishes have 
 been constituted: Archdeaconries have heen 
 erected: and the Cler«^y in either Province have 
 been formed into a Corporation for the management 
 of the Reserved Lands. 
 
 The progress of the Church in the Canadas has 
 abundantly justified whatever provisions have been 
 made towards its establishment. The evil in Ca- 
 nada is not the excess, but the utter insufficiency 
 of such provisions. Whatever future return may 
 be calculated upon from the Clergy-Reserves, 
 (presumip;; them to continue available for the 
 object to which they were originally apj)ropriated,) 
 the spiritual wants of the Church of England 
 population, are so far beyond the means of at once 
 supplying them from this or any other as yet 
 accessible resource, as to create a strong necessity 
 for at least allaying the sense of those wants by 
 some distinct and determinate proceeding for the 
 endowment of the Church. 
 
 1 venture, therefore, most respectfully to urge 
 upon the attention of your Lordship the importance 
 of bringing to an issue the long pending questions 
 •respecting the Reserves ; and of either causing 
 the management and application of the revenues 
 arising from them, to be put in such train as to 
 secure some tangible maintenance to the establish- 
 ment, or substituting in some other permanent 
 form, a fair equivalent for this appropriation. 
 
 ft^u^ , ... 
 
 I forbear troubling your Lordship with a minute 
 
 detail of those circumstances wliich may be stated 
 
 

 in support of what I have ahove advanced ; but 
 I may venture to mention some leading arguments 
 of wliich the force cannot, as I humbly conceive, 
 be denied ; as, for example, that tlie Protestant 
 population of tlie two Canadas has for several 
 3'oars past been gaining in rapid progression upon 
 the Roman Catholic; that the emigration to 
 Upper Canada was found not long ago to have 
 doubled the population of that Province, I believe 
 in tlie space of eight years; that a very 
 great proportion of the persons emigrating are 
 attached members of the Church of England; 
 that in Lower Canada the Church of England, 
 according to the Census taken in 1831, numbered 
 among her disciples, I think very nearly one-half 
 of the whole Protestant population of the Province 
 and would, as I well know from long official 
 experience, have numbered many more, had she 
 possessed the means of establishing more Ministers 
 or even had she been authorized to hold a more 
 decided language with respect to her prospect of 
 enlarged future support; that in the City of 
 Quebec, since I myself assumed the charge of the 
 Rectory in 1817, the number of places of 
 worship of the Church of England has increased 
 from one to five, and although some of these are 
 but small, yet in three of them it has recently been 
 necessary to augment the accommodation for the 
 hearers ; that as it respects the new settlements, 
 rising up one after another, the Ecclesiastical 
 Authorities are exposed to constant solicitations 
 for ministerial services which they are unable to 
 supply, and which the circumstances of the country 
 render it impossible that the people should them- 
 selves provide ; that tlms the appalling prospect is 
 opened of a population destined to spread over an 
 immense surface of country, and still thickening 
 from year to year, without having been formed to 
 
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 habits of Religion, or supplied in the present 
 important jslage of their progress, with the means 
 of transmitting to their descendants the faith and 
 worship which they have received from their 
 fathers. 
 
 I hope I may he pardoned, my Lord, if I here 
 very briefly notice an argument which has been 
 often used to the prejudice of tliose interests for 
 which I am pleading, — namely that the Episcopal 
 Church is seen to flourish in the United States of 
 America, without having the advantages of an 
 establishment. It will be found, my Lord, in the 
 first place , that where the flourishing condition of 
 that Church is particularly conspicuous, which is 
 in the City and Diocese of New York, it is main- 
 ly attributable under Divine Providence, to her 
 having retained the endowments which proceeded 
 from the voyal munificence of England ; and it is 
 known to myself that some of her most eminent 
 living Bishops have lamented he. struggling 
 condition, and unfavorable prospects in other 
 quarters, from her entire dependence upon the 
 system of voluntary support. In more than one 
 instance,, indeed, within the last few years, her 
 Bishops have appeared in this country in the 
 character of itinerant solicitors for aid to uphold 
 the Church in their own. 
 
 The provision made for the Church of England 
 in Canada, by the 31. Geo. III. c. 31., is not one 
 which can press upon any class of His Majesty's 
 subjects, or bring the Clergy into collision with 
 their Parishioners, or others, in the exaction of 
 dues. With reference to the Roman Catholic 
 population of Lower Canada, who constitute a 
 religious body far surpassing in point of numbers, 
 any other in the two Provinces, it cannot be 
 supposed that an adherence on the part of His 
 
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 Majesty's Government to the original intention 
 respecting the Reserves, would he an unpopular 
 measure, while tithes and other endowmeiits are 
 secured hy law to the Roman Catholic Church 
 itself, and its Clergy are also permitted to dispose 
 of large revenues, the legal title to which is 
 (helieved to he) in the Crown : ^n the contrary it 
 could not hut infuse into that hody a feeling of 
 alarm even for their unquestioned means of 
 maintaining their Church in the country, 
 were they to witness the unconditional alienation 
 of the property assigned to the support of the 
 Protestant Establishment. They would naturally 
 regard any such measure of interference with the 
 vested interests of one Churcli, as but a step 
 towards the spoliation of the other; and I have 
 myself seen, and can produce an expression of 
 this very sentiment in a Canadian paper conducted 
 in tlie French language, which has an extensive 
 circulation.* 
 
 Whatever, therefore, may be the pui'pose of His 
 Majesty's Government with respect to the Clergy 
 Reserves, I would humbly trust that in the event 
 of their being diverted from their original object, 
 the Church will he assured of receiving an equiva- 
 lent in substitution for them; but should any 
 project of this nature be in contemplation, I would 
 hope that an opportunity will be afforded to the 
 Clergy Reserve Coi-porations of the two Provinces, 
 to submit to your Lordship their views of the ar- 
 rangements, which in that case will be necessary. 
 I have reason to hnow that as far as Lower Canada 
 is concerned, the outline of a plan of this nature, 
 is under the consideration of the Board, with a 
 view to communications to be made at home. 
 
 • Gazette de Quebec, 16th June, 1835. 
 
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 With reference to the other suhject which I am 
 charged to hring under the notice of your Lord- 
 ship, I have only to renew those applications which 
 have been received by yourself, and your predeces- 
 sors in office, from the Bishop of Quebec; — 
 strengthened as they now are by the broken and 
 precarious state of his Lordship's health, since an 
 alarming attack which he suffered in Apiil last. 
 His labours in the charge of a Diocese 1300 miles 
 in length, in some parts not to be travei'sed with- 
 out hardships and fatigue ; his extreme devoted- 
 ness in the performance of those labours, and his 
 anxiety in conducting and closely watching the 
 affairs of a Church composed in a great measure 
 of newly formed and still increasing establishments, 
 >vith a discouraging poverty of means at his 
 command, are things whicli have unquestionably 
 contributed to these inroads upon his constitution ; 
 and if the extent of his duties was felt to be dis-. 
 proportioned before to his powers, it has now 
 (according to his own just estimate of episcopal 
 duty) become impracticable to him without relief. 
 
 I persuade myself therefore, that His Majesty's 
 Government, alike upon public and personal go o ds , 
 will see the necessity of acceding to his desire that 
 a Suffi'agan* Bishop should be appointed to assist 
 him ', and I have reason to know that the harassing 
 anxiety which he experiences upon this subject, 
 renders it particularly desirable in the present 
 state of his health, that the arrangement should 
 take effect with the least possible delay. It is 
 proposed that the Suffragan should have charge of 
 the Lower Province, and should receive a salary 
 of £1000 sterling, per annum, to be assigned 
 over to 1 .m from the salary of the Bishop himself; 
 
 * This term has not been employed in the appointment ultimately made : 
 but the effect proposed is equally attained. 
 
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 and it is, I presume, to be understood that the 
 appointment to this Office would carry with it the 
 promise of succeeding to the 8ee. 
 
 Your Lordship may possibly be aware that the 
 Bishop of Quebec jrom the time of his first 
 application to Government upon this subject, had 
 done me the h(>nor to designate me as the person 
 to whom, in consequence of my experience in the 
 Diocese, he desired to confide the proposed share 
 of his own labours. This appointment however, 
 I have latterly, (for reasons which it is unnecessary 
 to obtrude upon your Lordship,) signified my wish 
 to decline; and I have a discretion from the 
 Bishop to make whatever satisfactory aiTangement 
 upon the subject I can be instrumental in carrying 
 into elfect. Should it be the pleasure of His 
 Majesty's Goveniment to divide the Diocese at 
 once, (as expressly provided for in the Letters 
 Patent appointing the present Bishop,) this plan 
 would unquestionably be preferable to any other ; 
 but I would venture to suggest the expediency, in 
 that case, of imposing upon the new Bishop during 
 the life of Dr. Stewart, the duty of assisting him 
 in the Upper Province, to whatever extent might 
 be required. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 G. J. MOUNTAIN, 
 
 Archdeacon of Quebec. 
 
 The Rlfjht Honorable 
 The Lord Glenelg-. 
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 Sir, 
 
 Dooming Street, November 10, 1835. 
 
 I am directed by Lord Glenelg to acknowledge 
 the receipt of your letter of the 21st ultimo, 
 bringing mider his Lordship's notice the present 
 state and tlie prospects of the Church of England 
 in Canada, more especially with reference to the 
 subject of the Clergy Reserves. 
 
 Lord Glenelg feels that it is unnecessary to 
 assure you of the interest which he takes in the 
 welfare of the Church of England in Canada, and 
 he has accordingly given the fullest consideration 
 to the observations which you have addressed 
 to him. 
 
 The question is indeed one which had previously 
 occupied much of his attention, but as it is 
 necessaiily involved in the enquiries which are 
 to be i>rosecuted by the Commissioners noAv in 
 Canada, his Lordship regrets that it is impossible 
 for him at the present moment to communicate 
 to you any definitive answer upon the subject. 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient Servant, 
 
 GEORGE GREY. 
 
 The Venerable Archdeacon Mountain, 
 
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 Southampton, November 17, 1836. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledao ;i, letter from 
 Sir George Grey, written by desire of your Lord- 
 sliip, on the 10th of the present month^ in answer 
 
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 to my representations of the claims of the Church 
 in Canada, and the urgent need experienced hy 
 the Bishop of Quebec, of assistance in the labours 
 of his Diocese. 
 
 Your Lordship having been pleased to inform 
 me that the questions affecting the Church Esta- 
 blishment in Canada, and especially as it regards 
 the Clergy-Reserves, must be decided, upon the 
 Report of the Royal Commissioners who have 
 been sent to that country, I have on?y, with all 
 respect, to express, on behalf of those interests 
 which I have been deputed to represent, my most 
 earnest hope that the instructions conveyed by His 
 Majesty's Government to the Commissioners, will 
 direct their attention to the subject in all the 
 serious, and I surely may be allowed to say, the 
 sacred importance whicli belongs to it — involving 
 as it does, njt only the security of those pledges 
 given to the Church, the maintenance of whicli, as 
 I humbly conceive, is a matter wholly independent 
 of any adjustment of political differences, — but the 
 present and future provision for the religious wants 
 of a rapidly increasing population, wOio, mthout 
 such provision, have prospects before them, such 
 as it is afflicting to contemplate. 
 
 The disposal, however, of the question which 
 concerns the Church-Establishment at large, 
 being thus left contingent upon the Report of the 
 Commissioners, and the Bishop having the advan- 
 tage of communication with them upon the spot,* the 
 Church ought to repose in the confidence that the 
 issue will be favorable to her claims, and to 
 reserve all further plea addressed to the Home 
 Government, till a necessity for it shall appear. 
 
 I pass, therefore, under permission from your 
 Lordship, to the other point to which I was 
 
 * The writer was himself ia communication, by letter, with the Bishop. 
 
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 charged to solicit your attention; and beg to 
 renew my application for the appointment of a 
 Suf&'agan Bishop in the Diocese of Quebec, upon 
 the footing stated in my former letter. Whatever 
 may be the ultimate character of the more "general 
 ecclesiastical arrangements in the Canadas, the 
 necessity for this particular measure (which carries 
 with it no expence to His Majesty's Government, 
 and, as I have been given to understand, is not 
 conceived by Government to envelop any objec- 
 tion) has, I trust, been made sufficiently apparent; 
 and I have received letters from the Bishop of 
 Quebec expressive of his anxiety to be speedily 
 informed, that provision is made for his relief. I 
 take the liberty of adding, that there are reasons 
 which render it particularly desirable that time 
 should be afforded to put all matters connected 
 with this arrangement in satisfactory train, before 
 I am myself obliged to leave tliis Country. 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 G. J. MOUNTAIN, 
 
 Archdeacon of Quebec. 
 
 The Right Honorable 
 The Lord Glenelg. 
 
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 Sir, 
 
 Donming Street, December 26, 1835. 
 
 I have the honor to inform you that I have 
 devoted much attention to the representations, 
 made in your letters of the 2 1st of October, and 
 
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 17th ultimo, on the suhject of the appointment of 
 a Suflfragan to the Bishop of Quebec, for the 
 purpose of assisting his Lordship in the discharge 
 of the laborious duties attached to his extensive 
 See. 
 
 I need scarcely assure you, that in the 
 consideration of this question, I have been most 
 anxious to give effect to the wishes and the 
 recommendations of the Bishop of Quebec. The 
 subject was first brought under my notice, soon 
 after I received the Seals of this department; but 
 as the scheme at that time proposed, assumed that 
 a permanent endowment would be made for the 
 Suffragan Bishop from the Clergy Reserves, and 
 from the casual and territorial Revenue of Upper 
 Canada, I found myself compelled, however 
 reluctantly, to decline acceding to it. The 
 considerations which have been latterly urged 
 by you, both in writing aiid personally, have 
 induced me to resume the subject ; and I proceed 
 to inform you of the only terms upon which it 
 appears to me practicable to afiford to the Bishop 
 of Quebec, the assistance which he requires. 
 
 You are aware of the pledge which was some 
 time since given to Parliament, to discontinue the 
 annual vote towards the maintenance of the 
 Clergy in North America, whenever the tenure 
 of the present holders of Clerical appointments 
 should expire. To that pledge His Majesty's 
 Government feel it incumbent upon them strictly 
 to adhere, and no change can be contemplated, 
 either in the amount of the provision for the 
 Clergy of the Church o. England in North 
 America, or in the duration of that provision. 
 It appears to me, therefore, that the only mode in 
 TwMch I can gite vay aid to the attainment of the 
 'object in View, is by jNmetiomag the appointmeivt 
 
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 as SuttVagan to the Bishop of Quehec, of some 
 Clergyman who may he willing to undertal^e the 
 office, without any addition at the charge ol the 
 public, to the income to which he may be at 
 present entitled. I can hold out no secular 
 inducement to any one, to assume the labour 
 and responsibility necessarily attached to such 
 an office. I am aware that when it was proposed 
 to me that a Suffragan Bishop should be appoint- 
 ed, with a permanent Salary, you expressed an 
 unwillingness to accept the appointment, although 
 the Bishop of Quebec was most desirous that you 
 should be selected for this station. Sensible, 
 however, as I am of the disinterested anxiety 
 which you have evinced, to promote the welfare 
 of the Church in Canatla, I am encouraged to 
 hope that under the circumstances which I have 
 stated, you will not refuse your personal assistance 
 towards carrying into effect the arrangement in 
 question. If upon consideration you should feel 
 yourself able to accede to this proposal, I shall 
 have much jdeasure, with the concurrence of the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, in sanctioning your 
 appointment, and in submitting yonr name to 
 His Majesty as Suffragan Bishop of Quebec. 
 I cannot doubt that much benefit will accrue 
 to the interests of religiDii in North America, 
 from the zealous and efficient discharge of the 
 duties which will devolve upon you in that 
 character ; and in addition to this consideration, 
 it will afford me great satisfaction to have been 
 enabled in any v/ay to meet the wishes of the 
 present Bishop of Quebec, whose active and 
 indefatigable devotedness to his laborious office, 
 during many years, e:?tilie3 him to every con- 
 sideration on the part of His ilajesty's Govern- 
 ment. I am not forgetful of the disinterested 
 offer which has been made by the Bishop, to 
 
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 give up a considerable portion of his income 
 as a provision for a Suffragan; but I do not 
 feel that this is an arrangement to which the 
 official sanction of His Majesty's Government 
 is necessary, and I therefore abstain from con- 
 sidering it as in any degree essential to the 
 adoption of the proposed scheme. , 
 
 I have the honor to be, v 
 
 Sir, '^ 
 
 Your most obedient Servant, 
 
 GLENELG. 
 
 The Venerable Archdeacon Mountain, 
 
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 Fulham Vicarage, December 28, 1835. 
 
 My Lord, ' 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge your Lord- 
 ship's letter of the 26th of the present month, in 
 which you are pleased lo signify to me, in answer 
 to representations addressed to your Lordship by 
 myself, the views and intentions of His Majesty's 
 Government in relation to the Church of Engla^id 
 in Canada, and to propose to my own acceptance 
 the appointment of Suffragan Bishop in the 
 Diocese of Quebec. 
 
 For the honor which you have thus done me, 
 and for the terms in which you have been so good 
 as to convey the offer, I am bound to render my 
 best acknowledgments to your Lordship ; and as 
 the conditions stated by your Loi dship are such, 
 as almost to preclude the hope of finding any other 
 person who could afford to assume that office, 
 while the emoluments attachei'i to my ecclesiastical 
 duties in the Colony, will enable me, though not 
 without some sacrifice of prudential considerations^ 
 
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 iQ Undertake it> I am induced^ with the apptoha- 
 UoD 9I His Grace of Canterhury, to whom I have 
 ecimmumcated your Lordship's letter, to avail myv 
 imM of the contideiide which you aj^ pleasediiitai 
 repose i^ my qualificationa^, and to close witkthc 
 pifojeete 1 arrangemeot. -^ 
 
 I am very sui^, however, that your Lorid 
 will pardon me, if I respectfully request that my 
 acceptance of this office may not he understood to 
 carry with it the acquiescence of my own mind, in 
 the dedsibn to \v^ludi His Majesty's Government 
 iMVB <s&BAe respecting the provision to he made for 
 the support of the Ecclesiastical EstabUsta^entin 
 Canada, nor construed as implying in whole or in 
 part, an ahandonment of what I conceive to he the 
 claims of that Establishment^ aa I have already 
 had the honor of representing them to your Jjord- 
 ^hip; Although the exigencies of the> Church and 
 the want of relief personally experienced by tiie 
 excellent Bishop of Quebec, scarcely leave, me a 
 'choice as to the cOur.se which I shall now ^dopt, I 
 tiannctbnt feel not only that my own efficiency will 
 ^e unavoidably and most distressingly criijpl'e^, 
 jsliould t survive the Bishop and succeed to lus 
 eAtire charge, by the want of any income attacke^d 
 ttt the See, liut that the discoura^ng changes ^vitji 
 idiieh the Church at large in Canada has, witliiii 
 Ifiie last few years, been llireateued, are such as it 
 is the imperative duty of the Clergy to seek to 
 ja^ert, by every means left in their power.* 
 
 llTnder the influence of tliese impressions, and 
 referring ti3 the notice of the Clergy-Reserves 
 teported in the papci*s to have been taken hi the 
 Speech of tlic Earl of Gosford, at the opening of 
 'the Session of the Pro\iiicial Parliament of Lower 
 Canada, which has reuclicd me since Ilasthadihe 
 
 • The writer in engaged in endeavours to effect wbatftven littte'tatyifce 
 hoped for f<om his single excrtioas^, duritag; the remainder of his etftxjn 
 
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 honor of addressing your Lordship, — 1 venture to 
 express my earnest hope that instructions may be 
 sent to the Royal Commissioners in Canada, to 
 take into consideration the statements submitted to 
 your Lordship in my letter of the 21st of October ; 
 and since the intervention of the local legislature 
 is regarded as necessary in order to any measure 
 which would prevent the alienation of those 
 Reserves, or provide an equivalent for the party 
 whom they were designed to benefit, I trust that it 
 may not be deemed improper, that in making so 
 vast a sunender, an attempt should be made to 
 obtain some stipulation in favor of the Church. ^ 
 
 Should I receive any encouragement from yoiir 
 Lordship upou this point, I am prepared to submit 
 to you the outline of a plan for such a purpose; 
 which, however, if y you shj^uld judge it more 
 advisable, can be foywa^dod to fhe Commissioners 
 by the Clergy Reserve Corjioration of Lower 
 Canada, upoA their receiving directions from your 
 Lordship to apply fdr it.* 
 
 * I have the honor to be. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship*s most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 G. J. MOUNTAIN, 
 
 Archdeacon of Quebec. 
 
 The Right Honorable 
 The Lord Glenelg. 
 
 * This proposal was answered by an offer to forward any representa- 
 tions to be addressed directly by the writer to the Commissioners, which 
 offer was declined upon the ground that the Bishop of Quebec was him- 
 self in communication with them upon the spot. 
 
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