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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 COPY /■ or ASTABBSIBSS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY TO HER MAJESTY ; WITH COPIES OF SEVERAL iiIDa!>]B]B90S89 WHICH HAVE BEEN PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, IN CONSEQUENCE THEREOF, VKOM VAHIOVS PARTS OF THE PROVINCE. HALIFAX, N.S. rAIITTKD AT TBI ROTAL OAZXTTI OmCS. 18 4 0. \ ^ %f^ ^*-^ ))-, ' i.""-/ J.'^V /-«:r ."^.-r l'^ . ,S,i>r ,.- -■'r . A ■ pmEii^_ iisH OT YJSMa^EA 10 3a-joH dnr . ■■ "'jf,"C> , 4. m. 'Uj 'i^'^.~i.si%^:ii oiw tu 0oyii>i3i (Vifltrti ,op.iJJOt» This House are at a loss to conceive any " motives of pub-f' lie policy" more " sufficient" to render an application of the principles of that Despatch to this Province advisable, than the facts, that a majority of thirty to twelve of the Members of the Representative Branch have avowed their want of con- fidence in Officers, expressly referred to by the Colonial Se- cretary, — that they have declared it impossible to deal wisely ' with measures of great importance to the Government and the Country, until confidence between the Executive and the Legislature be established, — and that, while the only efficient Representative of the Local Government, in this House, has resigned his seat, no man of any influence in this Assembly can be found to devote his talents to the service of the Go- vernment, while a majority of the Executive Council persist-J* in retaining their seats, and Your Excellency declines to ex*'* ercise the powers confided by Lord John Russell's Despatch. It is to this House a subject of deep mortification, that while, in a neighbouring Province, His Excellency Sir John Harvey recognizes the Despatch of the 16th October as con- ferring a new and improved Constitution on the Colonies, and has expressed his determination to act upon it, — while in Ca- nada the Governor-General declares, that "he has received Her Majesty's commands to administer the Government of these Provinces, in accordance with the well understood wishes and interests of the People, and to pay to their feel- ings, as expressed through their Representatives, the defer- ence that is justly due to them," that the people of Nova Sco^^l tia are to be treated worse than the people of New Brunswick ;i and that, under cover of a Despatch, written before the new policy was adopted, by a Nobleman who no longer presides over the Colonies, principles are to be applied to Nova-Scotia whose allegiance is unsullied, less in accordance with the spirit and practice of the British Constitution, than those which 3& ^M%^M have been promulgated for the Government of a Province but recently agitated by disaffection and rebellion. y Should your Kxcellency, upon re-considcring this subject— upon referring to the Governor General's Message of the 14th January, in which be declares " bis earnest and anxious desire to discharge the trust committed to him in accordance with the principles announced," still feel compelled to disappoint the just hopes of the people of Nova-Scotia, this House will feel unfeigned sorrow ; but, in the meantime, they trust they need not assure your Excellency of their desire to preserve the tran- quillity of the Province, and to ensure the harmonious action of the different branches of the Government." THE FOLLOWING ANSWER WAS GIVEN I ' ".A/r. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly ; I have given to this Address the deep consideration to which the opinion of the Representatives of the People is justly en- titled. ;"n \- '■ i >- 'i v.;-'.' By adopting the course you suggest, I should practically recognize a fundamental change in the Colonial Constitution, which I cannot certainly discover to have been designed by the Despatch of the Right Honorable the Secretary of Slate for the Colonies, of the 16th October, in the manner and to the extent supposed by you. In exercising the solemn trust committed to me by my So- vereign, I feel it my duty not to establish a principle involving consequences of deep moment, on which any uncertainty rests, until Her Majesty's Ministers shall have been consulted, and the judgment of the Queen ascertained. It is, therefore, my intention, immediately to bring to the no- tice of Her Majesty's Government, the Address and Resolu- tions you have lately passed on the subject. In the meantime, I shall be constantly ready to yield my concurrence to any measures you may adopt, which, in my judgment, are calculated to promote the welfare of Her Ma« jesty's loyal subjects, the People of this Pr-ovince, whom you represent." ( ■.■'>m ^ii'i\>c,i;x'.u>ii ,f^i uu-yii' ,-w,«.-».i,>'' .>■•*■• ^ .r.^s. ,{.>,.<>.■.■ ,^' This Reply, (he Assembly are most reluctant to avow, wi- thered all the hopes which they bad cherished. It told them that the Officer who bad violated the plain letter and spirit of Lord Glenelg's Despatches in 1837, was determined either not to understand, or not to act on, the Despatch of Lord %*;>•/ John Russell, and convinced them that the views of your Ma- i'esty's Government would never be carried out by Officers hostile to its policy, and who, when commanded to call around them those who possessed the confidence of the People, were determined to persist in governing by the aid of those in whom the People had no confidence. If, up to the perid when their final remonstrance was made to Sir Colin Campbell, this House conceived that there was reason for dissatisfaction and distrust, the recent appointments to the Legislative and Executive Councils, have furnished fur- ther evidence of a determination to perpetuate the system, of which this House has so frequently complained. To some of these appointments to the Legislative Council, grave objec- tions might be urged ; while, in the appointment to the Exe- cutive Council, the House recognize a studious determination to pass over every man possessing influence, and enjoying the confidence of the people, to do honor to an individual, of whose political conduct this House will not trust itself to speak, but who certainly cannot bring to the aid ol u Government, which has been for years in a minority, the smallest portion of influ- ence in the Commons. This House, notwithstanding these gross violations of the sound principles laid down by Your Majesty, for the govern* ment of British North America, have made ample provisiml^ for all branches of the public service, and for carrying out what they believe to be the policy of the Imperial Parliament, in order to bind in closer connection with each other, and with the Parent State, Your Majesty's Colonies on this Continent. They have not even declined to grant a sum, drawn in viola- tion of their privileges, by Your Majesty's Representative. — But these supplies have been voted because the Representa- tives of the People of NoVa-Scotia confidently relied upon the justice and firmness of their Sovereign. This House is most reluctant to believe that Your Majesty will turn a deaf ear to the complaints of Your people— that, while the Governor-Ge- neral has been, told that there is " no surer way of earning the approbation of the Queen, than by maintaining the harmony of the Executive with the Legislative authorities" — a different rule will be permitted to prevail in Nova-Scotia ; or that the favour of the Crown will be extended, in one Province, to po- licy the very reverse. of that laid down for the government of aijotJier* -W ' ^-'^ M It is true, that Nova-Scotia is a small Colony, and that Your Majesty may, if you see fit, govern it by the strong hand of power, relying, in no degree, upon the affectionate attachment of its inhabitants — but it is also true, that in no portion of Your Majesty's dominions, are the powers of the Crown and the rights of the People better understood ; and in none is there a more determined spirit of resistance, by all constitutional means, to a system of Government founded on mere favoritism or injus- tice. From the position the people of Nova-Scotia occupy in the centre of the lower Colonies, and availing themselves of the influence which their loyalty, their intelligence, their firm- ness and their moderation, have acquired for them among the population of British North America, they will never cease to appeal to the public opinion around them — to contend against that system, — and to vindicate and assert, by every means in their power, their rights as British subjects. That Your Majesty will join with this House in obviating the necessity for such appeals — that you will repress these absurd attempts to govern Provinces by the aid and for the exclusive benefit of minorities, this Assembly confidently be- lieve — and, in asking your Majesty to remove Sir Colin Camp- bell, and send to Nova-Scotia a Governor who will not only represent the Crown, but carry out its policy with firmness and good faith, the Representatives of Nova- Scotia perform a painful duty to their Sovereign, and to their Constituents — but recommend the only remedy which, they fear, can now be applied to establish harmony between the Executive and Le- gislature of this Province. ; U e V K; j^ ;^ s In the Home of Assembly, 26/A March, 1840. • • s ■) S. G. W. ARCHIBALD, Speaker. v.*. tl^->,v ■- i. . TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, %<>ll:v/ii. !..■ ,^ ,, ,, ^ Knight Commander of the Most Honornble Military Order of the '/?^V. >'^Y. Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in .:, •-,;><(■. and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, and its Dependencies, &c. &c. &c. ji THE ADDRESS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. May it please your Excellency : We, Her Majesty's dutiful and Loyal, Subjects, the Legi- slative Council of the Province of Nova-Scotia, respectfully ) - m ..,!_ - — . ^ II m i .y L m. 'H 9 offer to your Excellency our acknowledgements and thanks for the attention which your Excellency has been pleased at all times to bestow, upon the different communications made by this House to your Excellency, during the present Session, and adverting to the peculiar and unprecedented difficulties which have attended your administration of the Government of this Province, during whicn, a fundamental change has been made in its constitution, by the separation of the Ex-. ecutive from the Legislative powers of the Council, beg leave to assure your Excellency of the confidence of this House, and to express our conviction that the manner in which your Excellency has exercised the high and important functions of Lieutenant-Governor of this Colon/, has evinced a sincere desire to support the honor and dignity of the Crown, and to advance the interests and happiness of the People. ; x Legislative Council Chamber) 26th Marchy 1840. / . f SLMON B. ROBIE, President. THE FOLLOWING ANSWER WAS RETURNED. J\Ir, President, and Gentlemen of the Legislative Comicil: I thank you for this dutiful and loyal Address. It is gratifying to me to know that my administration of this Go- vernment has obtained for me the approbation of so highly respectable and independent a body as the Legislative Coun- cil of this Province, and evinced, \n their opinion, a sincere desire to support the honor and dignUy of the Crown, and to advance the interest and happiness of the people. iv^' PROCEEDLNGS OF A PUBLIC MEETING, CONVENED AT MASON's HALL, IN HALIFAX, On Saturday the 28th day of March, A. D. 1840, pursuant to the following notice, previously published, that is to say : Notice. — " Certain Resolutions having passed the House of Assembly, expressing their want of confidence in the Ad- ministration of the Government of this Province, — the Inha- bitants of the Town of Halifax, who do not concur with the opinions expressed in the Resolutions, are requested to meet at the Masonic Hall, on Saturday, at 11 o'clock, to prepare an Address to the Governor, expressive of their sentiments on this important occasipn." ,, ■■ ' .*■ ' Mi - ' • '. .. \ . -■ - -<^, 10 On motion of James Tremaio, Esq., Stephen W. Deblois, Esq. having been called to the Chair, ,, ... Alexander Keith, Esq. chosen as Vice President, and Leonard Shannon, Esq. appointed Secretary to the meeting. The Chairman opened the proceedings of the meeting, by explaining the nature and objects of it. John Fairbanks, Esq., after very ably addressing the meet- ing at considerable length, in vindication of the administration of the Lieutenant-Governor, from the censure passed upon it by the House of Assembly in the late Session of the Legisla- ture, and after assenting to a suggestion made by the Hon. Mr. Wilkins, in which the meeting concurred, that the Address of the House of Assembly referred to shouM be read, and it xvas accordingly read — proposed the following Resolution : Resolved, That apart from the consideration of the several questions of Colonial Reform agitated by a party in this Pro- vince, this Meeting sincerely deplores the Address of the House of Assembly, proposing to censure the Administration of the Government by Flis Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, a censure as unfounded in reason as it is inconsistent with the feelings of the majority of the respectable and influential inhabitants of the Province. Which being seconded by D. Allison, Esq. and the ques- 'tion put thereupon was passed unanimously. J. R. Smith, Esq. having previously very ably addressed the meeting upon the subject of it. .. _ ;;f ; u il- , . : . < .i : J. E. Fairbanks, Esq. then moved the follovving Resolution : ^y Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the Ad- ^f^ministration of His Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, surround- ed as it has been with difficulties, and requiring the exercise of a sound and vigorous mind in the selection of the respec- tive Councils to meet the changes introduced through the in- fluence of the House of Assembly, has been conducted, and the measures of Government carried out by His Excellency r [with an anxious desire to meet the true interests of the people, •inconsistent with the duty of His Excellency to our most Gra- cious Queen, and Her Government. >^ vr ] ^- Which being seconded by David Allison, Esq. passed unani- mously. John E. Fairbanks, Esq. then moved the following Resolu- ' ■ tion : Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that it is the '•f^- .5 ^ / \\ bounden duty of every well-wisher to the paternal Government to rally round His Excellency at this time, and by an expression * rtheir dissent from the opinions of the Assembly, to evidence to U'most Gracious Queen, that although there may be discon- tented spirits in the House of Assembly, ever ready to find griev- ances, when few, if any, exist, yet ihat the majority of the people not only duly appreciate the conduct of His Excellen- cy in the Administration of the Government, but are satisfied with the paternal care of our most Gracious Queen, and will be ever ready to support Her Throne, and maintain the con- nexion between this Province and the Parent State. Which, being seconded by Thomas R. Grassie, Esq. passed unanimously. J. E. Fairbanks, Esq. then moved the following Resolution : Resolved, That these Resolutions be embodied in an Ad- dress and presented to His Excellency Sir Colin Campbell by a Committee to be appointed for that purpose, r: rrv^.hf • , Which, being seconded by Edward Allison, Esq., passed unanimously. < ,*. : m -^i -iuv* -^ v<- ■ Stephen Binney, Esq. then addressed the meeting with much ability, and concluded by moving the Address, which is hereinafter inserted. The Secretary having read the Address, and the Chairman having intimated to the meeiing that, if it were desired, in or- der to afford to every inhabitant present an opportunity, if he wished it, to modify it by amendment, he would direct it to be read, paragraph by paragraph, and the question put upon each of them severally. W. A. Black, Esq. moved, and his motion was seconded by J. N. Shannon, Esq., that the Address, as read by the fSecretary, should pass, and the question being put thereon from the Chair, the motion thus made by Air. Black, passed unanimously, with nine times nine, and one cheer more, which were loudly and enthusiastically given, on motion of Andrew M. Uniacke, Esq. A Committee consisting of the following gentlemen present, Chairman — Stephen Deblois, Esq. ; Alexander Keith, Esq.; J. E. Fairbanks, Esq. ; S ^jhen Binney, Esq. ; J. N. Shan- non, Esq. ; J. R. Smith, Esq. ; Mr. William Crawford ; Da- vid Allison, Esq. ; Mr. Caldwell ; W. A. Black, Esq. ; Tho- mas Grassie, Esq. ; Mr. William Story; C.W.Hill, Esq.; M. B. Almon, Esq. ; Robert Romans, Esq. ; G. P. Lawson, Esq.; William Lawson, Jr., Esq, ; Matthew Ritchardson, Esq. ; -1-^i- 12 J. M. Chamberlain, Esq. ; James Tremain, Esq. ; James Dechman, Esq. ; Mr. William Miller ; Mr. Hugh Campbell ; Edward Cunard, Senr., Esq. ; M. G. Black, Esq. ; David Starr, Esq. ; Lawrence Hartshorne, Esq. ; Alexander Muri- son, Esq. ; J. H. Braine, Esq. ; iVJr. Skimmings ; A. M. Uniacke, Esq. ; C. H. Belcher, Esq. ; W. B. Fairbanks, Esq. ; Jonathan Allison, Esq. ; Mr. Sinclair; Mr. David Hare; hav- ing been chosen by the Meeting, and it having been moved " that the Committee should sign the Address and take it to the Governor," it was thereupon moved, as an amendment, by Joseph Fairbanks, Esq., seconded by Henry Pryor, Esq, " That all persons present at the Meeting do sign the Address, and in a body wait upon the Lieutenant-Governor, and pre- sent the same," which ii?otion, the question being put there- upon from the chair, passed unanimously. Alexander G. Eraser, Esq. moved, seconded by Mr. Alex- ander M'Leod, "That the thanks of this Meeting are justly due to the Minority in the House of Assembly, who so nobly op- posed the passage of the Address to Her Majesty, which has been the occasion of this Meeting. ■ ; . r Edward Canard, Jnr. Esq. then moved the following Reso- lution — Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Meeting that One Thousand Copies of this Address to His Excellency Lieuten- ant General Sir Colin Campbell, be ordered to be immedi- ately printed, with the names of the persons who have signed it, and circulated throughout the Province, in order that per- isons of the same opinions may adopt wSimilar measures to avow their sentiments, and may know whom they have to depend upon for their countenance and support. ' /" '^' ' , Which, being seconded by Matthew Richardson, Esq. and the question put thereon, passed unanimously. - * - Three of the Committee above named, viz — J. E. Fair- banks, Stephen Binney, and J. N. Shannon, Esqrs. having waited upon His Excellency, by Resolution of the Meeting, to know when it would be His Excellency's pleasure to receive the Address, being returned, reported that His Excellency ■would receive the same at the pleasure of the meeting. The thanks of the meetin;; having been given to the Chair- man, Vice Chairman, and Secretary, the Chairman, attended by about 400 persons, repaired to Government House, and on 1^ behalf of the meeting, read and presented to His Excellency the Address of the meeting, which is a? follows : — ».^i-?s» V..-,. ' ^/.'■fc'V''"' f-y-^^- '^ii' SfX' 7P ;|II8 IXCELLCNCY LIEVTBN'ANT-OSNCR AL -"^ SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, H^A >iO \:i: Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, &c. &c. &c. ^ 1 > jr_ .*, V M ,1 May it phase your Excellency, \mi v a -. j. -^ ■ i > ^ * u • - We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the Town of Halifax* beg leave to assure your Excellency of our devoted attach- ment to Her Majesty's Royal Person and * Government, and to the principles of the British Constitution. Yfv Mr' We have learned with unfeigned sorrow that the'Represen- tatives of the People of Nova-Scotia have passed an Address to our Sovereign, imputing to your Excellency misgovernmeni of this Colony, and praying Her JMajesty to remove your Ex- cellency from the high office which you now fill. 1 The distinguished reputation which your Excellency had acquired in fighting the battles of your Country, had prepared the minds and hearts of the People of this Province to hail with satisfaction your appointment to the Government of this Colony, and whilst we recognise with gratitude many benefi- cial acts of your Excellency's Administration, we retain a high sense of the noble manner, in which, shortly after your arrival, at a period when it pleased the Almighty to scourge our country with a malignant pestilence, your Excellency, in person, visited the Infirmaries, ministering to the suft'erers, and by your example and influence, inspiring confidence and encouraging the inhabitants of this Town to exertions in the cause of humanity. • ■ The dissolution of the Old Council and the subsequent con-- stitution of the Executive and Legislative Councils, have sub- jected your Excellence's Executive administration of the af- fairs of this Colony to difficulties and embarrassments that were unknown to, and unfelt by, your Excellency's predeces- sors, and when adverting to the manner in which your Excel-^* lency met those difficulties of your position, and endeavored to carry out, with such means as were at your command, the instructions that you received respecting the composition of the two Councils referred to, we are unable to discern any design upon the pan of your Excellency to violate those in- 14 structions, we feel it a duty that we owe to your Excellency, to the country, and to ourselves, to come forward at this pe- culiar crisis, unparalleled in the history of Nova- Scotia, and to assure your Excellency that our judgements and our hearts entirely absolve your Excellency from such an imputation, which we are convinced is perfectly without foundation. '^5^^ Whilst we admit that it is not merely the privilege but the duty of every British subject, whose home is fixed in a Colo- ny subject to the British Crown, to use every constitutional means to render its institutions accordant in principle and practical operation with corresponding Institutions in the Pa- rent State ; we deprecate needless agitation which has an ob- vious tendency, amongst other evils, to affect the high mer- cantile character of this community, to check the tide of im- mig'ution, and to prevent the introduction of British Capital into this Province ; and when, at the present hour, we hear on the one hand, the phrases " Official Faction,'* and " Family Compact" applied opprobriously to men whose private charac- ters are respected and confessedly respectable ; and on the other hand, reflect that of all those who are invested with im- portant Public Offices, it is not even pretended that any one of them has abused the trust reposed in him, or failed in per- formance of the duties attached to the Office that he fills, we cannot but consider, that the assumed circumstance of compe- tion for office not being perfectly open to all, does not consti- tute a sufficient reason for jeopardizing, by extreme measures, the peace and tranquillity of this eminently loyal and hitherto remarkably happy Province ; nor do we believe that the intel- ligent and reflecting portion of its Inhabitants will be prepar- ed to give their deliberate sanction to the sentiments express- ed by their Representatives in the Address to Her Majesty, of which the prayer is the recall of your Excellency from the Government of this Province. In conclusion, we beg leave respectfully to assure your Excellency that we are impressed with a conviction that throughout the whole course of your Administration of the Government of this Province, your Excellency has been in- fluenced by a sincere and single desire to sustain the honor of the Crown, and to promote the true interests of Her Ma- jesty's subjects in this Colony ; and that your Excellency's conduct and firmmess on a late occasion. In refusing to make important changes in the constitution of the Province, upon 15 the Address of the House of Assembly, without first receiving Her Majesty's commands on the subject, justly entitle you to the warmest expression of our thanks ; and we humbly trust that the manner in which your Excellency has discharged your public duties, as the Executive head of this Government,, will continue to receive, as we believe it merits, the approba- tion of our most Gracious Sovereign. S. W. Deblois James R. Smith L. M. Wilkins, jr. ' John C. Allison Peter McNab Matthias Hoffman Stephen Binney, J. P. Matthew Richardson John E. Fairbanks Hugh Campbell J. W. Merkel S. L. Shannon Robert M. Brown John C. Halliburton William Joseph Starr Frederick R. Starr Alexander Keith C. H. Belcher Daniel Starr William Chapplain George Anderson, jr. Robert McDonald John Dorothy William Full William Lawson, jr. Henry Yeomans Thomas Fyke William Bauld :^^ A.E. Allan Michael Murry John Jamieson '*•' Thomas HoUaway '* John Willis R. M. Barratt I '■'»'.' .■•'!' '\\'' •»:!( t I r • ■ < ,(»• >il ■ MJ;< ' i';? !< ''n;( i'.( '*■*' i^v •^ David Calder '^ Thomas Ott. Beamish Duncan Patterson Michael Harney Robert Noble John Martin John Allen Sinclair James B. Forrest Benjamin D. Crow George Pryor , . James Reid "' > William Carritt Charles M. Cleary G. R. Frith S. B. Smith - ^ Andrew Smith ' ' John Forrest ' James Swan Thomas Goudge William Cunnabell George P. Mitchell John T. Walfbrd ■ ■ ^■l Edward H. Lowe, J. P. r William S. Sterling " i i/N Richard W. Laughlin ': '>v> Nicholas Lecain - u- > ^4/ Henry Pryor f ^Lr^/S James Croskill, jr. -/'.'oid' Henry Glendenning ia esydB , Robert Jamieson x- T'-nt^nrft Samuel Gollen • 'i^) ^J^^l^ George Little >.^ i f/u;i'f oq •; "i Pi tint f (.'> '^ -ju^J:'. Edward Haggarty Thomas Legg rV I Robert Millar Joseph Lawrence Samuel Purdee J. J. Sawyer Samuel Story ri vf/if^ Samuel Marshall, jr." ■^^^''■' Henry T. Wright Edward C. Sturmy Alexander Sutherland William B. T. Piers, J. P. James Findlay ^' ;";' "-\ C. Pitzpatrick ^^ ';;':|'^1''^' Samuel Thompson W *^ Robert Fox '.V T' Richard Marshall V ; V - * James Sutton ^ '^' ^ George Bates ^"' '^r^'; Nepean Clark '^j S. Douglas Huyghue ^ Daniel Angus Frederick Haverstock Richard Meagher Peter -Nordbeck James Lessel John Mackintosh Frederick Dorrell Archibald Sinclair, sen. ^finv/ Henry Spike ,,,,^j.. ^.^^j^g James Scott *;t-,1 ■ ;>hj>i'l William Bayfield jn^Vr (•^^i^.^xii William Mooney,."; If -:f.*iiir'7 A^luriH .ri' J A 1 ^■:'/:. .^4 ilt )' ,!' ;-?*6, ^i- ■ i"I C-: ?fl^ H ;i ■Oi M • " ■ i< >!' 1 »;. :i.^T- Solomon Chalk j.vM •>i^ Matthew Cunningham I'"'*'' John Fenerty * ., J:, ' WiliamH. Marvin ^^f^^."^ Charles Clarke '"^'""^ *■ Edwin Clarke Edward Baker Richard Davis Peter Manson Gasper Roast tiii^^v George H. Starr Andrew Lecain John Howe ff^Tt?' p.'vji Francis Muncey , ^f ti /^' Richard Tremain/lfrHf^ '^''t Charles Keefler ij^- , James Dechman, Senr. J. A. Rathburn Robert Lawson Edward Bartlett William Clarke William H. Roach Joseph Brewer R. S. Black, M. D. William Bates James Schofield , n:.i-y 7.^ ■ At «. •. '■Vsi 5 "J ^: .../'■■■■ •'uM. i-^r » i ■"^ 17 '■) v>; • ■ -r..' . » 1 •10 A- 13 J ■:.:.;f^ n. Xi i-Uiv ,u John S. Knowlan Thomas May nard, Jr."'^'^'" James Ritchie ''^'^ '''" Thomas Maynard, U. N. John Smith - -;. ^ William Hancock '"^ 'f' Robert Duport ^"^'^ ^'' Frederic LeBlanc George T. Fillis , , William McKay •"*:; ,f ^; John Richardson ^ ''';'^'; '' ' Alexander McLeod ,V James Roue ' '. James Hobson M. G. Black, Jr. Thomas Skinner Jacob Smith W. H. McCurdy J. M. Hamilton R. D.Clarke j; Joseph Allison * Thomas J. Sterling, M. D. William Scott D. D. McKenzie J. B. Bennett Angus Eraser G. N. Russell J.Hamilton James Spike .'■■ \ Joshua Lee John Longard Alexander A. Black Richard Gorham James C. Hume, M. D. E. Duckett, Jr. George Caldwell ' ' William Caldwell, Jr. • James Mahany Jacob Currie i Thomas Williams Robert Lee 'I'i «« uJ. I :v^-:.?. Andrew Richardson Thomas W. James , , ..^.^^ Nicholas Vass ^' * , * -' ' r Edward Prybr William Merrick Cavie Richardson James Pryor ,i , ,. J. B. M. Chiptn&n G. Charker ; Charles W. Hill John Cormack /• Thomas Brown " | James P. Wilmard ^ John Palmer Francis Quinan John T. Bishop John Fraser Edward Duckett Thomas McMurray James Croskill, Sen. D. C. McCurdy G. Hamilton William Verge William Skinner Joseph Clarke Robert Downs John Adams John Baxter John McDougall John Parker William Murray ^ H. N. Dickson A. McFarlane Peter McPhee Donald McLennan Wallace Porter William Pickles Joseph Fairbanks Thomas C. James William Gossip, Senr John Hennesy M i ■..*■/ ' , .\hiht rf <■:<■ ■'f ' .. '' V 18 *• ft F * ;< !), , 1' >! Zebina S. Hall 'i fif. W. J. Morris ) pdt4 James Reeves William Richardson ( jv i,iul William Henry Cope •..; t. f Alexander Johnston ] i/.i-ilvi Edward Ruggles ., ,j,,,;,,; Donald Murray .,/j J ;!;.' John Bennett ,,- , i .«/ im .V John D. Nash -.j,', ?ii rft /i J. Cunnabel ^ >, ^i , .{■ E. Cunard, junr. Jj; .« ,V7\ ' John Lithgow , ,» ^ Thomas Adams i,'.,'jcm'il t. Thomas Mackie ', .i.,, . ,1/ Azor Stevens Charles R. Morris , , i •; < John Munro Michael Wallace , ;^,,„;;;. George Flowers : s n.^^Ui Thomas R. Grassie j,, : | Philip Cart Hill ,..!, James G. A. Creighton ^. ; , William J. Almon, M. D. Lewis E. Piers { Thomas Boggs , James Smith Robert Grant .^ . . N.T.Hill * . Temple S. Piers H. Hartshorne .; H. N. Binney Winckworth Allan Edward Binney , W. S. More John Prowse William Davis B. Reeves J. Brookfield E. Hoyne Samuel Marshall, Senr. R. Keefe W. Brind Samuel A. Morris E. L. Lydiard J. Leander Starr John H. McNab , William Caldwell ^" William B. Almon, M. D. William Sherlock ti Samuel N. Caldwell Andrew M*Coubrey Hugh R. McKenzie 7". ':■) I James Cogswell .. ^, , (,.< William King i \ .] D. McN. Parker f ': S. W. Lydiard < ,• Lloyd Johnston - -, Edward Cunard, J. P. James N. Shannon ,, ; ,;■ V William Lawson - ' f ' Alexander Knight .i ,a John Shaffer ,,.,,,» , ,; : W.L. Black James C. W. Wilkie George J. Creed A. G. Fraser A. Harshaw Edward Craigen * ,, A. H. Taylor ' ,,., ^ - ^^^ .. John Oal v <, s i^m -'1 -I'l J^so^S^ S* Creighton, J. P. ' , ,,, J, Lawrence Hartshorne, J. P. John S. Morris j, . John Edward Starr William Pryor James B. Uniacke, M. P. P. Garret Miller, M. P. P. »; v/ A. Oswald :'^'.M.;-'iH .1 '^^ A. H. Lockett ,^^r;^ *■■- , ■ . : . ■ .■' ',' f '■' * " '^ .-••■•/ '•-■' V ^ !: y > ■..rft.'i-'l «- 1" ' * '••'to. i Ml' ' .■ '.t t. * y '■''•■ ■», VJ u.< s -J^ f ;■■■ ■>< ;:i:i -, +; . ■, ,■„<■'' r I' John Cameron ♦(• * John H. Braine ='• '^ '•^«^^" Edward Lawson '- J'>^ '^ JohnT. Wainwright f^ ^^' ■ William Story, jr. T. W. Cochran ' R. Hume, m. d. Rev. Charles Churchill George E. Morton William B. Fairbanks James A. Moren ^ - George P. Lawson ' Temple F. Piers - William B. Hamilton Thomas C. Kinnear > Hugh Lyle * Henry Boggs ' ' Robert Willis, D. D. John Duffus James Bowes '^ - John V. Greenwood ' Robert Story Robert Allison Charles Fairbanks S. Townly James A. Findlay Richard Best John Garby •' ' ' Charles H. Rigby F. W. Passaw G. Seely ' -, Thomas A. Anderson James Percy John S. Edsall ' Edward Bichan W. C. Wilkie W.J.Rogers John Fraser Daniel Gallagher * Robert H. Skimmings John Withrow Robert Romans 1(1 • Tf 1» John Forbes ' ''^^^ Andrew McKlnlay G. A. S. Crichton *;;— i-*; Joseph Hamilton ^'» ^;:^'^'' « John McLean 'V' }^'^\ Charles Twining >* ••w^-* ^t A. G. Blair Alexander Fiddes P. P. James, R. N. William Gossip, jr. Adam Esson Adam Dechezeau * Andrew M. Uniacke Archibald Sinclair John Farquhar Andrew B. Richardson Joseph H. Harvey ^ ^ ' John Tempest Michael Dunbar )\:v:: ' : M.'--a .Kt: r:.. \ ,v . .. .a ■•■■ -i^wn >\\) '-J 1 if' F. W. Clarke J. Creighton, Lt. Col. H. P. John W. Barss Michael Herbert Thomas E. Murphy John Strachan C. W. Parker Thomas B. Gilpin ' Richard F. Hare James Ham ' William Mills John Strachan . George Greaves William Story, senr. Samuel Story, jr. C. H. Reynolds George F. A Lecain William Clarke E. Cannell Thomas Maynard, jr. Thomas Hosterman, J. P. .Tohn McKenzie ..: William Cooper ' ' ; .A: ..;J X M ■;■]'■' i"/r lUih, ' 20 Charles Legg 1 Tib;vrii Lewis Bliss ^^athtA William Miller ^,r^ mJiii \^ Frederick Sturmy, scnr. M. B. Almon rKi ^^^iii^s Stewart Clarke James M. Chamberlain .,ry, John Storrs, A. B., T. C. D. Charles Hill Wallace Edward Wallace Alexander Murison .'■•i-' r J i-rt'i- J- Thomas A. Bauer j^y ^^ ,.^ ^. Stephen Boggs ;^i;^v7,^5> Edward Allison, J. P. ::^_ . ;;>^ Richard Tremain, J. P. ,r^ William A. Black, J. P. William Crawford William N. Silver L. E. Van Buskirk James Tremain, J, P* ,, , Joseph Keefler , r . » . M. P Black ; .'\ ..; . ,.. John C. Coade \ Walter C. Manning J. Makintosh James Standford ^ , . William Grant Joseph Bilby Philip D. H. Neilson John Rogers George Tulloch William A. McAgy William M. Allan Samuel Albro, J. P. Henry Lawson ,.^ . P. S. Archibald John V. N. Bazalgette Andrew B. Jennings Thomas A. Ritchie Peter McNab, jr.^V , , . , David Hare i.r- >//' , r A. Primrose .,..;% u^^.,.r.^ David Starr Jacob P. Miller Robert D. Durey Thomas Boggs, jr. ■A )m3 • \ •fT: . '^ A. D. Parker, A. B. Beamish Murdoch John Liddell Stephen F. Beamish John Smith ^*»\ T. B. Desbrisay Scott Tremain ; ; James Morrison • Robert Pyke George C. W. Morris, A. M. D. H. Gardiner Charles T. Prescott Samuel A. White Robert Fitzgerald Uniacke, A. M., Rector of St. George's William Cogswell, A. M. J. Laughlan, Rector of St. Ma- ry's Charles W. Hill, Jr. James Smithers Edward Hebby v ';^^ John Smith • ' ;^ " Nicholas Wright ' -^ " Edward Aggus ^; ' ' John Sutton /- -' Thomas Drew ^ ^ . William Oorlmm ' - > George Koc. ^ " ' H. D. S 1 Peter Morriscy '"'"■ v John E. Cummins Henry E. Harvey • ' ' Charles G. G. McKay Matthew Quirk ? Robert Sutherland William Pereton Joseph McGill Alexander McRae \ ^■ "w " l'' Jajanes Ledwedge j Frederick William La4l John Crow Alexander Faulkner John Tracy J. Martin Robert Stuart John Graham Thomas Graham ^ Samuel Fisher Thomas Osborne ^. ^^ John Stuart '-^^{i^P V John Graham, Jr. '^ ^'* Alt xander Lyle, Jr. ^- ^ John Prescott ^ *^^ " M. McCurdy H o^i^ W. ilammond *-v^'^ uu Edward Millar '^- ^>v,iot.u Tobias E. Millar w^'i^i;W F. W. Wooderman • ^^'^^ John Stayner '" '^nniig Edwad Allen -*^-f i^-'^ William Hague ':;'..- 'J John Wright ' ' ^' ^^'^' John C. Worrall :^^^^^^^«A John Bright ^*;iHodT ; George Worrall Jf /l^^^^? . ' John Welsh '^"^^ ^^'^s^ Evered Green «^'>'«"»Ji^i ,A. . ^ ■■■ WINDSOR ROAD. ,^^1 . Thomas Goff ,,- l^;-; I n Arthur McQuade I - Nicholas Holland -i .V Joseph Gibson *■ H John Grennan :^^^ ^ John Scully vm'^.A Leonard Hill *^ \ Alexander Anderson Henry McEnnery ^ " Michael Kersey Brien Smith V/ Thomas Power . : ^ Edward Curry Christopher Henshaw John Butler Philip Goff Patrick Hickey Christopher Haverstock James Haverstock John Haverstock Thomas Johnston, Senr. James Johnston John Johnston John Thomas Peter Page ^-'^ "^^ David L. Worrall Robert Thomason William Smith Amos Melvin James Bezanson John Melvin Thomas Brennan Nathaniel Melvin - James English John English Hugh Frizell . John Thomson William Frizell George Smith James Manders Ebenezer Smith, Senr. Thomas Pace William Meehan - ^';V ,'£ ■'VVt' ( Ji *• .«. :T^ ^tB •OF*? fifl John Bryan Michael Shanahahan Wesley Hays James A. Hays ' v Gasper Bezanson ' Jacob Hay -■' ' Peter Bezanson ;' - ' ^^^ Henry Baley ■ John Harris ^ ' f Andrew Smith William Smith '- ■ "^ Michael Burns ^ Lashier Melvin Jacob Haverstock Robert Conroy John Frizell Thomas Pence Ebenezer Smith, Jr. i George Worrall Thomas Oakes ; John Richey William Tavlor James Boyes Hammond's plains — colored settlement. William Days Abraham Smith Hector Johnston John Tieson George Gingham William Marsman Sampson Brown Robert Brown William Brown . Emery Brown ; Julius Cooper James Gofican Isaac Grant, Senr. Isaac Grant, Jr. Charles Gizzey Henry Piles TiVtm^fT^^^l^e: >*?-,rJ .^.•iiMiia /■ l» Cato Manigo m5^?i^^ -■ Gabriel Manigo ,^^^ Dale Wiley \'^i\ki v ^^ i Lewis Stubin >'^;;I( j - ;.; Andrew Smith it James Allison > *^ Charles Jackson u ^ ■ Israel Read . i - William Jackson John Butler Francis Brown Alexander Emerson John Jackson Nathan Jackson ft -in Lawrence Hamilton Gabriel Hamilton Reuben Hamilton ^^^■' William Marsman, Jr. Thomas Anderson i ^'' >^ ' Robert Stephens ^i- Uiijxot^ Peter Jenkins v-kymAj.. Newman Brackenbur^ •'•niifM Thomas Jones nmM Joseph Holmes ' - - '^v^ Godfrey Davis. • ' * n ri ; Signed by order on behalf of the above Subscribers, JAMES BOYES. His Excellency was pleased to deliver the following Speecfj, in answer to the Address : Gentlemen, It is most gratifying to me, to find that my conduct in the Administration of this Government has obtained for me the approbation, respect, and confidence of so numerous a body of the Capital of this Province. I have not language to thank you for the honour you have done me, and for the kind terms in which you have been pleased to express yourselves towards me. It has been my most anxious desire to promote the welfare of the people of Nova Scotia ; and to concede to them every just and liberal mesure that would promote that end, has been the anxious object of my solicitude and duty ; but at the same time firmly to support the honor and dignity of the Crown and to resist any attempt to encroach upon its Prerogative is a pa-.; ramount duty I owe to my Sovereign, and in which it is most gratifying that you coincide. I again repeat my warmest and best acknowledgments for the flattering testimony of your approbation as conveyed in your Address. ^..^, , . ,«t 4 The meeting having left Government House, and formed in (24- • " ■,'•;:'■■/■. *> ■ a circle in front of it, gave three hearty cheers for Sir Colin '- Campbell, and then dispersed. . j . S. W. DEBLOIS, Chairman,!!^ A. KEITH, Vice Chairman^ S. L. SHANNON, Secretary iV.U bU»». /; ':_ ir! *. ■ Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia and its Depen- dencies, &c. &c. &c. May it please your Excellency , rt:3 We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the County of Cumber- land, beg to approach your Excellency with the expression of our sincere attachment to the paternal Government and to the Constitution under which we live. ^.We have learned with deep regret that a majority of the Representatives of this Province have passed an Address to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, censuring your Ex- cellency for alleged misconduct in administering the Govern- ment of this Colony, and praying Her Majesty to remove your Excellency from the high office you now hold. |?|( Whilst we strongly disapprove of these violent and uncalled for proceedings of the Assembly, and the totally unmerited censure cast upon your Excellency, we beg respectfully to assure your Excellency of our conviction that, in con- , ducting the Administration of the Government of this Pro- 29 vince, your Excellencj has ever been influenced by an anxi- ous desire to sustain the honor of the Crown, and to advance the true interest of Her Majesty's Subjects in this Province, and that your Excellency's firmness in declining to accede to an extensive change in the Constitution of the Province, upon the Address of the House of Assembly, without receiving Her Majesty's commands on the subject, is deserving of the warm- est expression of our thanks. In conclusion, we trust that your Excellency's conduct in the administration of the Government of this Colony will con- tinue to receive, as we believe it merits, the approbation of our Most Gracious Sovereign. ' "' (205 Signatures.) V . ;i I I ,t..' '.f. 1-.5- /r -^T ADDRESS FROM PUGWASH AND GULF SHORE. TO HIS EXCELLENCY LlEUTENANT-fSENER At. , SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of tlie Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in ^ Chief in and over the Province of Nova-Scotia, &c. &c. &c. May it please your Excellency, We, the undersigned Freeholders and Inhabitants of the District of Pugwash and Gulf Shore, in Wallace, in the County of Cumberland, beg leave to approach your Ex- cellency, as well with assurances of our unalterable attach- ment to the Person and Government of our gracious Queen and Her Representative, as of our fidelity to the principles of the glorious Constitution under which it is our happiness to live. Deprecating, as we do, all extreme measures, the proceed- ings of a majority of our Representatives, in addressing Her Majesty, praying for your removal, have filled us with the most unfeigned regret. While our Country has been progres- sively advancing in a state of Commercial and Agricultural prosperity, unexampled hitherto in its annals ; and while the example of sedition, exhibited in some of our Sister Provin- ces, has only served to display, in a clearer light, the devotion and loyalty of Nova-Scotia; and while the unanimous vote of our Assembly, which placed at the sole disposal of your Ex- cellency the means voted for our defence in case of aggres- sion, sufficiently show the opinion really entertained of your Excellency's conduct and Government : the rash and ill advis- ■;f 80 N ed step of such an Address has only had the effect upon us of exciting still warmer feelings of admiration and approval towards the gallant soldier, who, after serving his Crown and Country faithfully in every clime, has been attempted to be shorn of bis well earned honors by a proceeding incompatible with either consistency or justice. We cannot find in any of the Despatches of the Colonial Secretary a recognition of the principles of Responsible Go- vernment, as they are attempted to be introduced by a majo- rity of our House of Assembly ; and we view such principles, if carried out according to their views, as subversive of that Constitutional dependence upon Our Paient Country, which, as Colonists, we deem it both our duty and our privilege to preserve : nor can we find in the appointments made by your Excellency, under circumstances of peculiar difficulty in your choice of advisers, any partiality to, or influence exercised by, the imaginary Family Compact, of whose existence the Coun- try can only be aware by hearing of it in the Speeches and Addresses of the leader^ of a party, who, whatever may be "their motives, have only sitcceeded in embarrassing the pro- gress of sound Legislation, and by diverting the public mind from objects of genuine utility, have obstructed the otherwise rapid career of advancement which our Country would exhi- bit if relieved from such unnecessary agitation. We trust that this humble testimonial of our approval of your Excellency's conduct and Administration will be received by your Excellency as the sincere expressions of our feelings, and that you will receive from cur Royal Mistress the continu- ation of that approval which your entire career has so amply shown that you deserve. (105 Signatures.) <$,<>. ^ ADDRESS FROM TIVER PHILIP AND ADJACENT SETTLEMENTS. -5!' TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Sm COLIN CAMPBELL, . , Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of lliG ■ '•' ■' ' Mij . Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in ■i'i.-i- I- ■■'('■■:) and over Ilcr Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, audits .. ,^ J Dependencies, &c. &c. &c. v May it please your Excellency, '3a/.'3 f V We, the undersigned Inhabitants of River Philip, and adjacent Settlements, of the County of Cumberland, beg to ap- iiir.7 $1 proach Your Excellency with the expression of our sincere attachment to the Paternal Government and to the Constitu- tion under which we live. We have learned with deep ' Tet that a majority of the Iflepresentatives of this Province *iave passed an Address to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, censuring Your Ex- cellency for alleged misconduct in administering the Govern- ment of this Colony, and praying Her Majesty to remove Your Excellency from the high office you now hold. Whilst we strongly disapprove of these uncalled for pro- ceedings of the Assembly, and the totally unmerited censure cast upon Your Excellency, we beg respectfully to assure Your Excellency of our conviction that, in conducting the Ad- ministration of the Government of this Province, Yonr Excel- lency has ever been influenced by an anxious desire to sus- tain the honor of the Crown and to advance the true interests of Her Majesty's subjects in this Province, and that Your Ex- cellency's firmness in declining to accede to an extensive change in the Constitution of the Province, upon the Address of the House of Assembly, without receiving Her Majesty's commands upon the subject, is deserving of the warmest ex- pression of our thanks. " ' >^^ In conclusion, we trust that your Excellency's conduct in the Administration of the Government of this Province, will continue to receive, as we believe it merits, the approbation, of our most gracious Sovereign. April, 1840. ^ -'['i (95 Signatures.) ^^ ADDRESS FROM LUNENBURG. TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTEN ANT-GENERAt. SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, . Knight Commander of the most Honorable Military Order of the ' I5ath, Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander m Chief in and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, and its De- pendencies, &c. &c. &c. May it please Yon:- Excellency^ We, the undersigned Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town and County of Lunenburg, beg leave lo assure your Excellency of our sincere attachment to Her Majesty's Royal Person and Government, and our sincere respect for Your Excellency, and the great satisfaction we have always expe- 1 i ii 10 ' ■ '*' Henced from the upright and impartial manner in which you have hitherto conducted the (government of this Colony. We deeply regret that a majority of the Representatives of the People should have thought proper, upon a recent occa- sion, to adopt an Address censuring your Excellency's Ad- ministration, and praying our most gracious Sovereign to re- move you from this Government. We avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity of expressing our decided and unqualified disapprobation of this extraordi- nary proceeding, which we consider wholly undeserved, and unwarrantable, and not in accordance with the opinions of the intelligent and influential Inhabitants of this county. We are very sensible of the difficulties and embarrassments your Excellency must have experienced in making the recent appointments to the Legislative and Executive Councils ; but we are fully convinced that in making those selections your Excellency has been actuated by a sincere desire to carry out the commands of your Sovereign, and to give satisfaction to all classes of Her Majesty's Subjects in this Province ; and we are firmly convinced that the majority of the Assembly, who have" thought proper to call in question your Excellency's mo- tives on the subject, would not have made a selection more acceptable to the intelligent people of this Province. We beg leave to express to your Excellency our admiration of your conduct, in resisting the recent attempt of a majority of the House of Assembly to introduce innovation into the Government of this Colony, which, if carried into effect would we are convinced, produce anarchy and confusion in every part of this hitherto happy Province, and be the means of plac- ing the Government thereof in the hands of a few restless and discontented individuals, who are desirous of advancing their own interests at the expence of the Country. In conclusion, we beg leave again to express our decided appiobalion of your Excellency's conduct throughout the whole course of your administration ; and feel perfectly as- sured that it will meet the entire approbation of our most gra- cious Sovereign. (1,121 Signatures.) m f ADDBESS fROft. CREST^ A. ti^ t TO HI! EXCCLLBNCV LIKUTENa i umVC**!^ SIR COLIN CAMPBKL£, Knight Cofn'mander of the Most Hononrable Miliut OtAf, of iht Bath, Lieutonant-Governor and Commander iii Chief, in tod over H or Majesty'! Province of Nova-Scotia, tic &c. &c. Ji' May it please your Excellency, We, the undersigned Inhabitants of Chester, having been made acquainted, through the medium of the public prints, with an Address from the House of Assembly to Her Majesty, wherein is contained a strong censure on the Admini* stration of your Excellency, and a requisition for your removal from this Government, because your Excellency did not think lit to discharge from your Councils, at their request, men whose services appear to have your approbation, until you should receive the commands of your Sovereign thereon, beg leave to state to your Excellency our unfeigned sorrow that the House of Assembly should have adopted so extreme a measure, for which there appears to us no cause, and to as- sure your Excellency that it is our firm conviction that the good of the Province has ever been the main aim of your ad- ministration. Under a strong sense of the injustice of the measures pur- sued by the House against your Excellency, we cannot refrain from coming forward at this crisis, unparalleled in the history of this Province, in uniting our feeble voices to those which we feel convinced will resound from one end of th( Province to the other, in reprobation of those measures. ■• • * - We are firmly convinced our gracious Sovereign has ntf vVish to withhold from us any of the blessings of the British Constitution, consistent with our position as Colonists, and we cannot for a moment doubt that had the House waited un- til your Excellency could receive instructions more explicit from the Home Government, as all unprejudiced persons must feel would have been the most dignified course, no man in the Assembly, whose views were not criminal, would have found cause Ho advocate a measure, intended no doubt by cer- tain of them to lower your Excellency in the opinion of the Inhabitants of this once happy Province ; but which they will find are not quite prepared to follow them implicitly to any 34 i i extreme they may think proper to lead the way. If we have not learned a lesson from the Canadns our senses must be obtuse indeed. That there may exist some causes of complaint in our Go- vernment we do not pretend to deny, what Government ever was, or ever will be without? But we confidently trust that when such are brought properly within the cognizance of our beloved Sovereign, their removal will follow as a matter of course, if it be practicable. r; . ^,f,; ■ ami yv i-:i■■>■; Xlil TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, Knight Commander or the Most Honorable Military Order or the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief, in and , over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, &c. &c. &c. ^ ^' May it please Your Excellency, > We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the Township of Ar- gyle, County of Yarmouth, beg leave to assure Your Excel- lency of our devoted attachment to Her Majesty, and will be ever ready, to the utmost of our ability, to defend her Crown and dignity. , - \ We observe, with deep and unfeigned sorrow, that a majo- rity of the Representatives of the People of Nova-Scotia have passed an Address to our Sovereign, implying misgovernment on your part, and, as we understand their Address, disrespect- ful to Her Majesty. We feel assured that every well disposed and loyal subject within the Province regrets that the Legislature should have "V-y^^fd^XJSTiiS^Vt-, ; ""H taken the altogether uncalled for and extraordinary steps they have. As the Laws at present exist, we are happy, prosperous, and contented ; but what Mr. Howe and his majority wish to ' establish we utterly reject, further than Her Majesty's Go- ■ vernment have ali^eady acceded to. ^'^^ i (418 Signatures.) u^' ^ ^^' ^ - ^^ '•! gai ADDRESS FROM YARMOUTH. ' ' ^^ '■ 't"i']liw TO MIS' BXOLLKNCY I.IKUTBirAMT-6KKBRAI< ' '"-^X SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, , i.^ Knight Cotnmancler of the Most Honorable Military Order of the^ji Bdth, Lieutenant-Governor and Crmmander in Chief in and^ over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, &c. &c. &c. '' • ( T [ 1 .- u-n May il please your Excellency i :-< We, the Subscribers, Freeholders and Inhabitants of I the County of Yarmouth, feel, it our duly as loyal subjects and - friends to the glorious Constitution of our Country, to express to your Excellency our deep regret at the attempts made and still making by a small majority of our Provincial Assembly to spread dissatisfaction in the minds of Her Majesty's faithful subjects, by unmerited censure of your Excellency's Admini- stration and of Her Mnjesty's Executive Council. While we deplore these circumstances, we are happy to know that a great portion of Nova-Scotians of the first res- pectability, wealth and intelligence, join with us in approving the firm, upright and beneficial manner in which you have ad- ministered this Government, at the same time allow us to ex- press to your Excellency our full and entire confidence in. the sound judgment, ability, and loyalty of Her Majesty's Execu-^* tive Council, than whom no equal number of the Inhabitants ' can be more deeply interested in the welfare and prosperity ^ of this Province. ^^ That your Excellency may retain the confidence of our most Gracious Queen, whose instructions you have endeavoured faithfully to obey, and that you may long continue the Repre- ^ sentative of Her Majesty in this Province, is our most sincere wish. . . . .,, 20th April, 1840. " . (7a Signatures.) -■ ■ ^^^"^ 38 '^M i-i ADDRESS FROM WEYMOUTH. < i^ ^ TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GEHTERAL ~ SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Frovinee of Nova-Scotia, and ' : . I its Dependencies, &c. &c. &c. May it please Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Inhabitants of Weymouth, beg leave to assure Your Excellency of our unchanged and unchangea- ble attachment to Her Majesty's Royal Person and Govern- ment, and to the established principles of the British Consti- tution. ^ The Address to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, which the Representatives of the People of this once quiet and perfectly contented Province, in their wisdom, during the last Session of the Legislature, thought proper to pass, censuring Your Excellency's administration of the Government of this Co- lony, and praying for Your immediate removal, while it fills our breasts with sorrow and regret, at the same time inspires us with a hope that it will be the means of opening the eyes of the People of the Province at large, to see the ultimate aim and object of those whose principles seem to have a tendency to subvert and destroy the Established Government, and lime hallowed institutions of the Country, and erect Republicanism and Democracy upon their ruins. > . In Your Excellency's administration of the Government of this Province, especially that part of it so severely and so un- justly censured by the House of Assembly, we are confident that you have been and are influenced by the purest and most disinterested motives, having an eye solely to the best and surest means " of promoting the welfare of the People of No- " va Scotia, but at the same time of supporting the honour " and dignity of the Crown," and therefore, as in duty bound, we can by no means give our sanction to the Address of the People's Representatives. r,^ ; n - i v ;.. J J, Your firmness and consistency likewise in refusing at once, merely upon the Address of the House of Assembly, to make important, and as they appear to us, needless changes in the Constitution of the Province, as they entitle you to the warm- 8© est expr ^ssions of our gratitiuJe, so do we confidently believe that they will be admired and approved of by the Province at large, the People of Great Britain, and by their and our beloved Queen and Sovereign. (48 Signatures.) ADDRESS FROM DIOBY AND HILLSBOROUGH. TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT'GKMBRAL SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, Knight Commander of the Moat Honourable IVIilitary Order of the Bath, Lieutenani-Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Province of If ova Scotia, ^c, tjfc, ffc. May it please your Excellency ^ • a-.n: ^ We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the Townships of Digby and Hillsborough, beg leave most respectfully to assure your Excellency of our firm attachment to Her Majesty's Royal Person and to the|BWtish Constitution. . ' ^ • In addressing your Excellency on the present occasion, we feel deep sorrow and regret that the Represntatives of the People of this Province have passed an Address to Her Ma- jesty, unjustly censuring your Excellency's Administration of the Government of this Province, and prating your Excellen- cy's removal therefrom. • We respectfully beg to assure your Excellency of our en- tire approbation of your Excellency's Administration of the Government committed to your Excellency's charge, and of our conviction that your Excellency has been wholly influenc- ed by a sincere desire to sustain the honor of the Crown and promote the true interests of Her Majesty's subjects in this Province, and that your Excellency's firmness in refusing to make an important change in the Constitution of the Colony, upon the Address of the House of Assembly, without first sub- mitting the same to Her Majesty's Government, entitle your Excellency to our warmest thanks, and we humbly 'trust that your Excellency's conduct in the discharge of your high du-^^ ties as the head of the Government of this Province, m^y con- tinue to merit, as we think it justly deserves, the approbation of our most Gracious Queen. i .a-..,..,, l';.; ;,r.; (338 Signatures.) . . • J- i^: .>..';ji:n.c:uoD ■'Jij %. iti>i'^ 7£' ADDRESS FROM ANNAPOLIS. - ' :v' ■ i':-'!?:);i. TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIErTENANT-OENBRAL ^ f/^.vH/,< SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, i>^ ^ Knight Commander of the most Hononrable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Cheir in and over Her Majeaty'a Province of Nova Scotia, &c. &c. &c. -^^May it please your Excellency, We, the undersigned Freeholders and other Inhabi- tants of the County of Annapolis, beg leave respectfully to approach your Excellency with the assurance of our loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen, and of our firm attachment to the Biitish Constitution. ^ :i>j^ti '^mii^--'^^i-'<- ■ '\ < .. -^>n^j ' -^a Vi It is with feelings of unfeigned regret we have learned that the Representatives of the People of this Province have pas- sed an Address to Her Majesty, unjustly censuring your Ex- cellency's Administration of the Government of the Province, and soliciting the removal of your Excellency from the import- ant situation you now fill. Disapproving, as we do, of therj(|^rcise of the dangerous pov/er recently assumed by the Hohse of Assembly to alter the established Constitution of the Colony, without an op- portunity being first afforded to their Constituents of expres- sing their sentiments, we cannot but view with feelings of high respect the firmness and decision with which your Excellen- cy has met (until Her IVIajesty's pleasure should be known) the recent attempt to effect an important change in the Pro- vincial Government, and, in thus wisely delaying to accede to its wishes, your Excellency has best supported the dignity of the Crown, and consulted the true interests of Her Majesty's Subjects in this Province. >i - We are well aware of the difficulties which have arisen, and which your Excellency has had to overcome, in forming the Legislative and Executive Councils of this Province ; and we have great satisfaction in assuring your Excellency of our entire confidence in the Gentlemen who at present compose them. It is true that the House of Assembly have thought proper to express a different opinion, but, in doing so, we are well convinced that it has not represented the general senti- ments of its Constituents, nor of the Public at large ; and it is to be lamented, that while it has been ever ready to complain of the selections which your Excellency has been pleased to make, it has not, (as far as we are aware,) evinced a disposi- I "12§^?S." ^Sl^^'^s. R^^T.^V^t; ' S?^i'^"^"-.Ti5! / 41 lion to a&sist yoUf Eiceellency in carrying out the spirit of the Instructions contained in the Despatches which have been traftsmittefd to your Excellency by Her Majesty's Government. We beg leave respectfully to assure your Excellency that we are deeply sensible of the advantages we enjoy under yoiir firm and impartial administration of the affairs of this Province — its increasing prosperity bears ample testimony cf yont Exteliency's desire to promote its best interests. In Gd^cluslon, we humbly beg leave to convey to your Ex- €Ml6ncy the expression of our warmest thanks for delaying to give effect to the recent Resolutions of the House of Assem- bly, soliciting the dissolution of the Executive Council, until Her Majesty's pleasure should be known ; and we earnestly trust that the unquestionable purity of your Excellency's motives ifi pursuing that judicious and Constitutional course may be re- warded by the unqualified approbation of our most gracious Sovereign, and that you may continue to discharge the high duties 01 the Administration of the Government of this Pro- y'lttce, until a more important station may be assigned you, as a julst reward of the eminent Military and Civil services of your Excellency. (780 Signatures.) ADl>RESS FROM UPPER GRANVILLE. TO HIS EXCELLGNClr LIEUTENANT GEVERAL SIR eOLIN CAMPBELL, Kni^ Cotnmand^ of the Moat Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-GoTernor and Commander in Chief, in and over Her Majesty's Province of Ndva-Scbtia, &c. &c. &^c. M(ty it pte&iS^ your Excellency, We,f ther undersigned Inhabitants of Upper Gi'anville and parts adjacent^: beg leave to assure your Excellency of our sin- cere attachment to Her Majesty's Person, and to this princi- ples of the British Constitution. Ris' a' matter of deep regret to us to perceive the state of a^tation into which the Province is forced at the present mo- ment ; and we are fully convinced that the Majority of the" House of Assembly have adopted an improper and uncalled ■jf*?^» p '>- — 42 for course of procedure, in attempting to censure your Excel- lency's Administration, in their Address to the Queen. In times of much difficulty, and of public changes and in- novation, unparalleled in the history of the North American Colonies, the duties which fell to your Excellency's share were of no ordinary character ; and we have seen much rea- son, both in your general line of policy, and in your treatment of particular measures, to be convinced of your sincere wish- es and intentions, to promote, by every means in your power, the interest of the Province at large. The interpretation put upon Lord John Russell's Despatch, by the majority of the House of Assembly, we believe to be altogether foreign to the intentions or designs of the noble Secretary for the Colonies ; and with these views we beg your Excellency to be assured of our high approbation of the firm stand which you have tak- en in opposition to those who are given to change. It cannot be concealed from any one, who takes an interest in the proceedings of our Provincial Legislature, that the ma- jority of the House of Assembly assume to themselves, as a matter of right, a controlling power over the actions and mea- sures of the two other branches; — a power, which, if recog- nized by the British Government, would quickly absorb the whole political influence within the Province. The conced- mg of such influence to them, we conceive, to be tantamount to a separation of the Colony from the Mother Country : and in resisting that concession, we believe your Excejlency to have entitled yourself, and administration, to the gratitude of every enlightened and intelligent man in the Province. At the same time that feelings inimical to your Excellency's Administration have been industriously circulated; — feelings which are calculated to produce wrong impressions of our glo- rious Constitution, and the many blessings we enjoy under it ; we cannot yet ascertain that one fact has been brought forward to prove a dereliction of duty in any Member of your Excel- lency's Executive Council. And we think it highly indeco- rous and improper to charge individuals with motives which are confessedly opposed to the interest of the public ; — indi- viduals who, from their station and property, have naturally the most obvious reasons to see the Province prosperous and hap- py. lOi biui/iv Y'; ;,v ' (80 Signatures.) 43 ':>■'-■ ADDRESS FROM KINGS COUNTY. TO HIS EXCELLENCY MEVTCN A NT-OKN ER At. SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in . .^ ; ._. . , , . andover Her Majeaty '8 Province of Novtt-Scolia, rnd i»a ' ' " ■• • Dependencies, &c. &c. &c. May it please your Excellency f We, the undersigned Inhabitants of King's County, beg leave to express to your Excellency our warm and de- voted attachment to the Person of Her Majesty, and .to the principles of that Government over which she is placed. r i We have perceived with deep regret that the Representa- tives of the People in their reeent Address to the Crown have thought proper to atiix a censure upon your Excellency's con- duct in the Government of this Province, and have prayed Her Majesty to order your Excellency's recall ; and although we are willing to believe that the House of Assembly was actu- ated by no improper motives, but by what they considered their duty at the time, we feel we would be doing injustice to your Excellency's character and public conduct, were we to allow that Address to reach the Foot of the Throne with- out expressing our decided disapprobation of that part of it which refers to your Excellency's Administration. The changes which have taken place in the Government of all Her Majesty's North American Colonies, since your Ex- cellency's appointment to the high situation you now fill, and the frequent and urgent demands made by the people for the enlargement and extension of popular rights, have placed your Excellency, as the Representative of the Crown, at times in a situation of difficulty and embarrassment ; and we consider that your Excellency would not have discharged your duly to your Sovereign or upheld the honor of the Crown, by acced- ing to the views and wishes of the popular body on all occa- sions without the certain and positive commands of Her Ma- jesty on the subject. Whilst we are disposed to support the House of Assembly in all laudable endeavours to remove abuses which impercep- tibly grow up under the most perfect Government, and are desirous that all Constitutional means should be used to ren- der the Institutions of the Province, in principle and practical working, similar to those of our Parent State, and would not 44 hesitate to go every length with them in endeavours necessary to obtain the same, we dp not feel justified in imputing to Your Excellency any intention to violate the Instructions re- ceived by you respecting appointments to office, but feel as- sured that Your Excellency has alone been actuated by a sincere regard for the interests of tl^e people whom you have been called upon to govern. In conclusion, we beg leave to state, that we altogether ab- solve your Excellency from any desire to thwart and oppose the wishes and feelings of the House of Assembly, and that Your Excellency's conduct during the past Session, in refusing to make those important changes required by the Representa- tives of the People, upon Despatches, to say the least, doubt- ful, and ambiguous in their nature and meaning, was that pru- dent and proper course which, as the Representative of Her Majesty, Your Excellency was in duty bound to pur- sue, which was also best calculated to support the dig- nity and prerogative of the Crown, and in the end en- sure peace, tranquillity, and happiness to all classes of Her Majesty's subjects in this Province. (431 Signatures.) ADDRESS FROM WINDSOR. TO HIS EXCGLLBNCV I.IBUTENANT-OENEKAI, SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the ath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia, &c. &c. &c. Mmj it please. Your Excellency ^ We, the^undersigned inhabitants of the Township of Wind- sor, beg leave to assure Your Excellency of our firm attach- ment to Her Majesty's Government, and the known principles of the British (.Constitution. We have always considered it a mark of our Sovereign's regard for this happy Colony that those persons who have been selected to administer the Go- vernment amongst us were highly distinguished for their mili- tary talent, and Your Excellency's reputation, acquired in the field, had prepared us to regard with the most favourable sen^ timents your appointment to the Government of Nova Scotia. The important changes which have taken place in our Poli- tical Institutions during Your Excellency's Administration, and the duties devolving on you consequent thereupon, must have *■ ' '-^'^mmm^im.msm^w^^'^' / ' 45 given Your Excellency much cause for anxiety, and we have every reason to believe that, in the discharge of these duties. Your Excellency disinterestedly executed the trust reposed in you to the best of your judgment and ability. .•: nl h'tnfv* The recent Address of the House of Assembly to our Most Gracious Sovereign, praying for the removal of Your Excel- lency, and complaining of Your Excellency's misgovernment of this Colony, meets with our decided disapprobation, as it not only unjustly reflects on your Excellency's administration, and is couched in language unfit to be laid at the foot of the Throne, but is also calculated to mislead Her Majesty's Go- vernment as to the real feelings and opinions of the majority of the Inhabitants of the loyal Province of Nova Scotia. 6th April, 1840. ^ ,\ (84 Signatures.) t/»j . J. ADDRESS FROM SYDNEY. TO HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, ;;y, SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, :f Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor arid Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, and its Dependencies, &c. &c. &c. May it please your Excellency ^ We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the Township of Syd- ney, in the County of Cape-Breton, viewing with deep con- cern the late extraordinary proceedings of the House of As- sembly of this Province, in first urging your Excellency to dismiss certain Members of the Council, ancl afterwards in passing an Address to Her Majesty, praying for the removal of your Excellency from the Government of this Province, beg leave most respectfully to express our firm conviction that by such conduct the House has stepped beyond its just and con- stitutional place, in thus arrogating to itself powers even su- perior to the other branches of the Government, which con- duct, in our belief, cannot be otherwise than dangerous to the tranquillity of this hitherto peaceful and loyal Province ; and we have great satisfaction in acknowledging the prudence and firmness manifested by your Excellency, in withstanding those attempts at dangerous innovation, and referring the demands of the House for the determination of Her Majesty, ^r^?^}.?, 3 f^ r"r^ ♦ 46 We sincerely trust that your Excellency's Administration ivill obtain the approbation of our most gracious Sovereign, and that the Country may thus be preserved from the misfor- tunes and miseries e5[perienced by some of the neighboring Provinces. (484 Signatures.) QC]r To all the foregoing Addresses suitable answers were returned by His Excellency. ■•;•■,- 1^'': ^,>> <^ . ;■) "■.i'.''';-i'"'j ' '' ' ' 1