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Vf.— ^ Narrative hij Sir Francit Head, Bart. Seooiid Edition. 8v-o., Lnndun, 1839. 2. Rtporl on the Affairs of British JVorth Amerieaffrom the Karl of Durhum, Her Majealy^t High Commiasiomr, ^-c, jj-c ire , (Prenmled by Her Majeatif's Com mand,) Feb., 1839. Folio. 3. j1 Reply to the Report of the Earl of Durham, by a CoUmitt. 8vo. London, 1839. SiK Francis Head's Narrative is a very remarkable work : — not so much for its lite- rary merits — though it has ail the usual vi- vacity of his style — as from its being one of the most clear, unreserved and honest ac-| counts ever rendered by a public sprvant, of the acts, the principles, and the policy of an important administration. Few provincial governors could have had to relate soafduous and so successful a struggle ; but, beyond | all doubt, no n.ztropolitan government evsri exhibited such rashness, such cowardice,! such fraud, such folly ,such perverse imbecili-j ty — doing mischief even when it did no- thing— as this work chaiges, and we think,! Cfovet against the Colonial Department of! ord Melbourne's administration. | We admit that we form this strong opinion from what may be called an ixparte state- ment; but such a vast pro]inition of that statement — full nine parts out of ten — con- sists of the official documents, the original literte scfipta, that we cannot hesitate (ex- clusive of an}' personal coiisiderHtiens) to give Sir Francis Head's acroiyit oi the and all internal and colonial government, would be disturbed and deianged by such u practice. We have lately seen, for instance, our Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs encouriigiog a surrc))titious and disingenuous jiublication of State Papers— we have seen him promoting to high official functions the irregular* hand which had be en employed iu this publicatic lar employi qii!»rj^^iT'XHl:rtivnlV c^^riJa* and tinally wi^ papers are las the obscure \i for their att^ pitiful lecriml ners in mischil it was reserveu>|iJTSll>()sitiiiii or Htiiiifr liim fxnvnrd in a VP.ry unusual wny. >\ir)i\ irre^iiUir a|i))nintniriils, llinu)>ii i tjulm iti-cH. Tliere niii, however, he nn clonhl tli.«t i( c'^\ 1 1| itK imp''rti'iit<^ and woj^iic In ihfc inkiilioii, in the early miuiher". ot snnie vity ix- Iiaoiiliii;iiy iloi iitm-iil- » liich h>Hi>iLnJiic/iiii Iriim Ihc ItiDiMian l.inpt'ior'x imhives, and whirli inn»t havp been known to have b< « ii thus olifijned by the Noble ViKConnt, wh" fclill holds the ctiilirn of Fo- reign Secretary til Ibe Qiitfn of I''M((liind. )n thq fiuh8c<|ueiit Buml?iven by the Foreign Ollice in its patronage of the Pyrlfotio. But Sir Francis Head's itubltcation, if it be an exception to what out;lit to be ihc k*^- neral rule, is assuredly one nut merely jnsii- lied, but as we think necessitated by every consideration of private hononr and public duty. The ministry had made themsslves accessories to such libels on him and on the colony he had so brilliantly governed and so happily saved, that his explnnatlon had be- come indispensable both to himself and to the country. It has been neither siiont-tneous, por olticious, nor premature — It has been forced from him — he has been dragi^ed, as it were, from the modest and dutiful t-ilence In which he had determined to bur^ both pri- vate wrongs and public errors, by circumstan- ces wh'c)>, as it appi'ars, h« could neither control, evade, nor resist. Sir Francis Heail was superseded in tlie government of Upper Canada at the moment when he had, by a kind of moral tniitrir, evoked a spirit of loyalty which few but him- self suspected to exist, and extinguished a rebellion which most men considered as all but invincible. His ministt^iial thanks were official discountenance and parliamentary sneers. Lord Glenelj; could barely open his eyes to see bim, and Lord Melliournu in his place in parliament, criticised his style and depreciated his measures by a sneering; and contemptuous apology. The ciiticiiim on what Sir Francis pleasant- ly calls his ' gait of wriliugf' even if it were just, was unworthy the gravity of Lord Mellourne's station. So fastidious a critic should have recollected that Oionysiiis him- self did nut turn pedagogue till after he had given up public afl'airs. We admire as little as Lord Melbourne can do, what is railed Jlipintncif in either spenkhig or fvritin^ on stite atl'.iirs ; and wc must admit that Sir Francis Head's despatches do sometimes urge disagreeable truths with a force of illustration and a kind of dashing sincerity which were very likely to startle the slumbrous routine of Dowitin;? street ; hut these lively passages are neither indiscreet in substance nor dis- respectful inform, neither meant as epiijrams against the minist(;r, Hor claptraps for tiie people — they are the natiir.ii impulses of the writer's mind ; and moreover, as it turns out that the ministers selected Sir Francis for the government of Cai.jda chiefly, if not solely, on account of this very * gait of wiitiiig,' the sneers were somewhat ungenerous ,nnd very indiscreet. But the censure of Sir Francis's nMasuivs implied in Lonl Melbourne's speech of the 04 Feb., 18.38, was a more serious con- sideration ; and he natiir.iily addre^scul to his lordship a letter, in whicii after a loni^ and full vindication of his coiulnc*, h)- r('(|iiesled to be allowc(i to present the iletiiils of the case bi'fore a committee, either of the piivy council, or even of the ininisliy itself. This was refused — properly enou;^ii— (/"Lord Mel- bonrna had not made the insinualicnfi com- plained of. At an inter VH I of three months, Sir Francis again solicited permission to vindicate ami explain his administialion by publishing his I despatches to the Colonial Ottice. Thi» wjm again refused— Lord Melbourne assigning as a reason, that the publication would be ' verjf incoHVinieitt:' in this his lordship uhoweil more than his usual foresight. Sir Francis Head, on his second repulse,in- foimed Lord Melbourne that he bowed to his decision, and should not only refrain from publishing his desphtches, but if any meml)c-r of either House should move for them, he antb'^riscd the government unequivocally to declare that such a motion w;.8 not sanction- ed by him. Rut the publication of Lord Duiham's Kepoit totally changed Sir Francis Head's position. ' I fnund that, alihriup;li I hail thus obeyed tha de- cision of my lule ciiiployi ri ulrooit at the rxpeimn uf my chnracter — llcr MiiJcMy'n UnTcrninent, wilh- oiit civnKideralinn for my feeliiiKs, had reooniineiidei) Iht (^iiten to tranmuit to both Uoiiaci of Purliameiit, a R< port cohtaiuiiij( klUgatiniia againut lujr conduct and cnurHCter, of h nMtst iiiviilnius dencriiitinit; and, notwithntandiiiK Her MHJe«ty'M Govemiaent knrw perfa'RtJy well (hat, havioK bound me hanri and foot totittnce, I tmi deftnetlttu, thry HcluaMy accoiopa- nicd Lord Uitrhani'ii l{r|i»rt with MnV oion Tolnme, conlaininz KIO closely inintcd fnlin pagva, in which not a aingie line of even those ptiiUed docuncnii in iheir poa-ti'ssion, which ihry knew would viarficaln niy cliaractrr, wiia vdniilled ; and it fiirtller apprared finiD the n«w>|oper8, that when Lord Durbaia'M at- l«Kaliona H|;aiiiRt me were officially preamtcd, there waa nut ncnung Her Mujer aa likely to damage HfrKraucis Hcad'a cnar: (hey alan about (he aaine (inie vo'tiiilarily gave other rvry considerable por- tions of the ei>iTP«pciidence ; and a few nights a^o Mr. liaboitchrre ajjreed to qive — ajnincA throw tnr account of the work into a narra- tive form (much the greater portion of it be- ing copies of Detpatchet,) employing as often and as much as we can Sir Francis Head's owM expressions^ which— with all due de- ference to Lord Melbourne's criticism — we 8 the policy of Sir John's government, and ae- rinusly injurious to the interests of the Crown: and, K-st it should n»t l>e known in Canada by what influence this dispatch had been prompted, Mr. Macken;:ie published the fol- follovving memorandum : — < j)/rnior(indum.— On Wedneiday, Ibe 7lli of No- vember, 1832, 1 had the hi.r-nur ol ■ fcry Innn infer - vinw with (he Secretary nf Slate ; and nn the day fiillonring tliK dispatch wa« written, which ii an au- «wer, in|tart, \o my rrpreecntatinnt. VV. h. M4CKENZU:.'— p. 7. This was supererogation — for the dispatch itself told the satiie sluryeven more strongly, commencing — < Hir.—Dtiring many montki I hare been in ocea' tinnalcuiniBNnioalion with Mr. Lyoo Alackcnzi*.' and concluding — ' I have received theie dncomenti from Mr. Me- KenEic, not merely ai ex|ireisiii|;bi« own opinion, but afin ai explanatory of the view* of ihute who have ik'putefl him to repreient what they rail their Krievunci^ to hi* IViujVity. 7\> them tli* VTMOtT roSfllBLG liCRPKCT 11 'KIG, ' IItkvinj( written thia dispatch with a view to pub- licity, ynu hiive my HHlhority to make it public iu whatever manner yxu muy think most convenient.'— p. lU. ,. , , , .,, ,. When this stiange dispatch was communi- thiuk more clear, more for.JiWe,more grai)hic,L,ated by Str.Iolm Colbome (according to his than anything we or even he could wtpply. instructions) to th two branches of the Ca- Mr William Lyott Mackenzie, who has nadian Legisliitu' , ley replied to it by high become so notorious as the correspondent ofj spirited addressee iii which they complained Mr. Joseph Hume and the main instigator of of the 'calumnies' which it had adopted- Canadian disatTectiun, was originally, it i of the indignity done to the nrovfnee hy the Feeins, a pedlar-lad, who emigrated fiom Downing-strect recognition of Mr. M'Ken/.ie iScotland about eighteen years ago, and was las its* ogent — and of * the outrageous insult' fortunate enough to be engaged as a ^hop-boy I thus given to all the constituted authorities at Toron^OL. He Tose by degree.^ from his [in the colony, and even to the people at large, very humble station to the conduct of a Ca- by imputing to them sentiments by which iiadian newspaper ; in which, with almost * ouper-humnn exertions,' and, as it seems, considerable success he laboured to calumni- ate, in the minds of the lonely residents of the woods, every measure both of the metro- politan and colonial governments ; till at last lie was enabled to obtain, — 'by the most ^-ne they never had been, nor ever would be ac- tuated. But this was not all. His Majesty's At- torney and Solicitor-general for the province, had concurred, it seems, in a vole for expell- ing the soi-disant agent from the House of Assembly. Hereupon Mr. M'Kanzie's influ- faced and infamous deception of the ignorant jence in Downing-strect appears to havewro- inhabitants'— few of whom knew what they cured their dismisi>al ; a»il again Mr. M'Ken- were doing — a kind of mission, to convey to zje takes care to let the province knowtv/iose London the grievances of the province ! Hisi liand had struck so important a blow, against success in Downing street surpassed all calcu- the Law Officers of the Crown, by publishing lation, and he took care to convey it to hia Canadian public, by publishing amongst them even the most trilling notes which he hap jiened to receive from aecrelarirz and under- secretaries of stale — most trifling in fact, but hearing, to the ignoratit Canadians, strong marks of intimacy and influence. But he also gave them less equivocal proofs of his power in the Colonial Oltice. A .lispatch i ZZr^ZZu was written almost under, as it would seem, ,„, , . , , ^ . .. Mr. Mackenzie's dictation, to the then gov- When this system first began there was ••rnor,! the gallant and intelligent Sir John *"me excuse to be matle for the Secretary of Colbome, repeating Mr. Mackenzie's calum State-he knew nothing of Mr. M'Kenzie. nies, and eiilbodying his propositions-which, I IJ"! tl>a< '!« PfoJuced what lookedlike respect- he following note rnd memorandum : — ' Lord Hnwick preseiiln bii compliment* to Air. IM'Kcnzir, and will be hr;ipy to ice him. ir he will be rnoj enough to call un liim, Monday, ni twelv* o'clock < Colonial Offirt, 7th Man*, 1338. ' memorandum, — i'lii* note wa* addreued to ma nn the ncciisinn on which the Colonial office re*nlv- rd to clianite the attorney and aniicitor general* of Upper Canada, in ati*w«r to my repreientatiou* ae ^ W . L. M'KEwaiK.'-p. 15 as may be supposed, were directly hostile to t 'I'he atrict title in /.iViifcnant-Oovernor. «■ he is i'4 hiMOi? rAapccta uniler tlip niiler^ of the CiDvcriidr (•eneral ; but, to avuiii uinhipni y, we ahaH call bini the (•iivcmor— fur inch in litct he WAa— .oi Up- jM!r Canada. able credentials from a large body of colonial intTcsts ; and we have no doubt that Mr, M'Kenzie PX9ggPiated the mere olficial cour- tesy of Lord (Joderich and Lord Howick, into an imiiortmce which their Lordships ne- ver dreamed of; hut even this firs*, and a«it IPP M |)erhapi B|)peareil to lliem, tritlinK depnrtnrft iroin that |iiililic fuilh, or at least derornin, whicli shoiiid be maintoiiiiMt lie(wt>i>ii the Uo- lonial Uriice and the aiithoiitipi in our colo- nics, produced bittai fruits, and alTorded en iiuha|iiiy precedent for still more miacliievuus deviations. On Mr. M'Kenzies return fion England hcj was hailed by the republicuns. ur uuli-Hiiti.sh,: hh their ' con(|ueiiu); hero;' and, * sujipoi'l-] fd as he kiut hffii hi Duwititiix t|it some iiatioiml ilcDi>(nMiiiin mure cXHCt (liRD thin, 'i hry have rrally no mure ri)(ht to call thrniielve< 'the Ameiicnn* than we or the French have In the rxclnsivc title of Kunpeanit, Itut (here is at pri'Mt'iit no nthi r choice liiit tlie ya'.- |;ar and di8re>|iertl'iil phraic of the Yiiukem. § Ureal wilt jtira|>— ihm w^.s the exact iiiiml>er wliieh was prin'ed, under such slrnn!>e circuniatan- ceg of laord Durham's ^rte«ancr rtfiort. treated with indiflerenee or contempt, and by no one more to than by liis Excellency Sir John Colbornc, who ' forwarded the infamous volume to the Colonial Otfice, witi' a few short observations, pointing out the glaring falsehooiis it contained.' On the ariival in Downtng-slreet of this huge bmk of grievonces one would have thou'jht that the Colunial Office would have :eci)lleet('d — lir>t, the rebuke it hud lately rocived from both Houses of the LegislaturtJ for having, without Lonsuliiiig them, recom- mended legislntivB proceedings on Mr. M'Keny.ffi's aut'orily ; and— secondly, tho humiliating ni cessity to which it had been still more recently reduced, rf publicly rtt- toring to office the two Law-officers who [as M'Kenzie stated] were ilismissed in conse- quence of Am representation. But no ; though the Secretary of State and the polilicnl Under- sfcret.\ry had been changed, an invisible in- fluence remained — * the policy of the Ojfice was immovable — its course unalterable-— its malady inuurable ; and, though it was perfectly oware of the struggle that was tak- ini; place on the continent of America be- tween monarchy and democracy, it deliber- ately threw its immense influence into the wrong scale 1' Accordingly, that brave and able veteran < Sir John Colborne was offici- ally apprised that ho would immetliately be removed ; rcmedial'^as they were called, but, in fact, inflammatory — * concessions were framed — the loyal population were again disheartened — the republicans again boasted that the Home Government teat witk them ; — and thus cuds the first chapter of the political accidents ' which,' says Sir Francis, * it has become my melancholy fortune to re- late.' Sir Francis Head — at this period (Novem- ber, 18;}5) an Assistant Poor Law Commis- sioner in the Kentish district — was awaked one night in a little village Inn on the confines of Romiiey Marsh, by a king's messenger, with a dispatch to offer him the Government of Upper Caiiuda. Totally unconnected with every member of the Administration, and never having had the honor even of see- ing I.oid Glenelg in his life, he was altogether at a loss to conceive why this appointment should have been offered to him ;— and no wonder. Sir Francis Head was a half pay Major in the army, known to the public chiefly by two lively works — the or two, .Sir Francis should iously recalled :— ignoininiously, bnt the ig- :bave no such appendage ; and lastly, that as nominy was not hin. Nothing, it will hn admitted, conid equal the inconsistency and rnsliness of tho Colo- nial Ollice in making such an appoiutnit-nt, except the singiiUr and almost comic pun- ishment wliioli inimeiliatciv followed. 'J'lit- he was known not to be a lich man, and as even tile most modest outfit would cost him i:5 a-year, Sir Francis was to forfeit to the Ikitish Empire his half- jiay as major in the army ; moreover, thiit, or conduct — in short, like a republican gov- ernor.'t * fir Francii Head states that the notcrnmenl had. at'tprwurds, the unheard nl' generosity ol allnw- ini; him hi." aic)-de-«an>p, and of rr))ayin^ him th« cxpcnircs nf the journey— which is «l un other Impor- Inure ilian to muik Iha childish tiiconaiittency nl the OHiue. t \Ve h:ive been told that a person lately present- ing kimscir, on ur^'rnt httsineAii, was ushered at niidnii;lit into the presence of the (iovki.nijr of Texas [tl'« new repuhlic which mir readers cannot have foreollcn,] whom, it is said, tic lotiml fast 4S former Governors had always had the iutieep in bed withaliuge, b;ack-whitlc«rcdgc«4l«- mpwpiffwpiw k With Mr. M'KenzicN hook of • nrlcv- ance*,' whicli In- hail rlnsely htmlicil, riuI >vilh the Secretary of StHloN rfiiipdial ' In- Dtriictionii' in h'n> wriliiiix-caKt*, and cloarly D.itiRt1p(l that with thcsn unorrinp; k"'*'*'!' he rouhl not fail to rum tho tliticasc, Sir Kruncix Heat) entered Toionto with, as lie c-aiidid- iy nayo, an indeHcriliahle ' Hiniplicity ot niiiul, ill-naturedly railed igiwrmice,^ ulintit all ('anadian, and indi'i-d all iiolilical atliiirs— which ignorance, willi all his aciitrncsH, lie liad not yet discoveied to have hrrn liischi(<1 recommendation in Downing-Mtnu't— which >vantpd not a statesman, but a tool : — ' Ai I WM no mnr* ennnrelrd nrilh liuntin noli- tlei than llir ltnri«i llmt were dmwinK me— ai I liad •i«v«r jiiinrtl any pnlltirat (larty, liatncr;icy, and the church all ■Kainat them, and that ii in kound |iolicr in the Kadi- rata not to urge deinandi Irnm the Whifc* which aball. in any WHy, give f;rnuiid for the King to throw «ft' the ^Vhifta and to take the Tnriei t» powrr Every day the Wbift* rrmain in power, (he pntver of the people ia iiicrpaKinK, nnd the powvr of ilie To- rici and (he Church ia dccrraiiing. If the rrfor- ntcra, fmm the Ullra-Kadical to the milk 'and 'water Tory-Whift, had not acted nn thcHC principlea [of forbearance towardi the Whig chief*] in the laal ' «raainn, the Toririi would have reiDiiim d in power 1 «nd we would not have got Munlripul Keforni i and othi>r reform, an notv Koing; on. From all : (hia you will conclude that the Whi?a will rt-main, I nnd, aa Ihey eannol ttanil icif/iout tht KadieaU, ihr , Miniatcra niuat be doiii;; n llltle tn pIcaNr tlieni, and ; Ihua the ri^hla of the people will be ((radually ievu- • ted.-J. II.'— p. 41. The natural edict of nil this was, tliat the ; Loyalists had no favourable opinion of Sir Francis Head, while the Repiibiicang hailed l»is arrival. VVe must now allow him to de- scribe in exactly I'is own words, his dcbvl on this distracted stage : — * Espnied as I knew I roust be to the political atom). It waa to me a matter of ihr niont perfect in- ! iliRtTence Irom which qnarti-r of Ihp cxnipifn ii iirfieeeded " / havt tlie griMinnrca of I'auutla" i aaid to irynclf, " and I hurr Ihtir rnnedief;" and, i man, bin nid de-camp. Our di'itr old frlfnd iind edi- tor, Mr. (iiirord, RMiil lonj; Hgo ih»( ' Hrptiblirnnhm, like misery, •ci|uaiiite'i a luun with glrurigt bed ftl- loioi.' whether the Tnriea {whom ht had, U»*tm*, bttn led lo eotitidrr nian, who I was Ihr leader of the r<-pnliUcana, I expreaacd the i aama lanKUag* which I bad addre«aed lo the leadera of the oppn(>te pirty. I toid biro plainly that I waa an inexpurirnct'd man, but that I would deal hnnfal* ly towarila tho country; and, bcinc reaolulely dctrr- miiicd tu coirecl the Krievancea iTlhp prnvine*, I at once look up I he hoix which contained them, aod inrilcd Mr. itidwrll to cnnvcrae with roc freely on j the nubjeci. To my utter aiionmbmenl he told ro« I that there were gri vaneea not at all detailed in that I book, which " the people " had Iouk endured, and I were atill enduring with great patienre ; that there waa nn (leaire to rebel, but i hat « morbid reeling of |dia>aliifaction waa daily increuaiiiK— that inereaae it would, and that, in fact, if it bad uol hern diatiiictly •tatrd that I waa the bearer of new inairnctiona, (hone with whom he waa aiioelated b;id come to ilia ileterminalion never tomret in provincial iiarliamenl ajiain " IVhat, doyoumran. filir, " aaia ,t, "that lhi$ book of^ritvanm, wh'rit I kavt bitn tniteially tent lo run fft, dori not eonluin the tomplaMi of the prov'.ncef" .Mr. Uldwell repeated hia former anatver, and, from that day in lb* hour of hia leavinjc the e dry (irAicA he did in connequenre qf the re- hellion) iievrr could I ^et him to li.ok at the book of itriuvancei, but whenever I referred to it, he invaria- bly tried lo decoy me lo tome other willV-the-wiap ; complaint, which in like iDanner would have flown j iiWHV brfiire roe liiul I atlemptrd to approach it. I ' When Mr. Mackenzie, brioKiiiK with him a let- Iter of introduction fioin Mr. Hume, raited upon me, I llhought that of courae he would be ton happy to dia- I ruaa with nie the contenta of hia own book; but hia j mind aeeined louau«eale its auhiecta even more than I Mr. Hid'vell'a. Afraid to look me in the fact, he j 4Rt, with hia fori not reaching the ground, and I with hia countenance averted fnmi me at an an- < K'e of about teveiity drgreea ; while, wilh llie . ecrehtrcily, tho volubility, and indeed the appear- I ance of a madman, the tiny creaiure raved in all di* rectintii about grirvancM Acre and grlcvoiicra Mete, ' which the Coromiiler, be aaid, had not veniured tii jcnumeratc. " &'ir," 1 exclaimed, " /r( iw rurt I what wt have got herefiriV." pointing to (he iMiok be- ; fore me. Hut no, nolliing that I could aay would in' I dure thia pedlar lo face hia own rejmrt ; and 1 iram I fnunil that tite boiJc had the aaine etfeet upon all the ! reniililicnn niemhera, and that, like the repellent end : of a magnet, I had only to preaent it to the Kadieala to drive them from the very object which hie Maji-a- . I.v'x government expected would have poaacaaed dttraelton.— \>i>. 38-35. Altlioug-h S r Francis had arrived, as he ; candidly owns, in total dnrknrtt, the lig;ht of ! truth now bursting upon hi:: mind, he per- ;ceivod most clearly that the repiiblicani h .d I overreached theiiiselvcs by abandoning Mr. Hume's cautious, cunning, Lilby bit cowstf [of • reform' to which, in order to attain their treasonable objpct, the ie))ublicans ovf^ht to have adhered, instead of dangerously asking too much at a time,orof ever ra.shly commit- ting the sum total of their grievances to pa- per. These first events arc a tnhle the I'liil of liiit oarver iievvr niL'civfil oiif, 01 at tiioiit h ' uite, vvonl of up- (>rotralioii, cncotiiaKfineiu or Nup|mrt fium loirie. til thedo Sew word' .iti* i«iiirit of the wlmle stnry is already nvi'iiled— Sir Fraii- ci»'.i fati' is ncaled Scfore lie is a week in jiow- rr— and wp have now only to Hft- liow that spiiit guided events to accelerate that fate. Ill the orifriiial draft of the ln.striiction!< roininiiiiiunted to him, he had been directed til lay before Mh two Houses a ' cupy^ of those Instructions. When this drait was laid before Kin;; Wiliiain, the word ' «u6- BluHCti' was by the Kinx himself sut)stituted for * copy ;' I'o* His Majesty, fiincyiii;{ it hi/ra difrniiiiiiiit « ihat the Assembly of Upiier Canada should read that his rejiresentative Was onlertd to ^ive t!iem a copy of his in- struclions, thought It butter that the (|iiaiiliim nf the communication of his instnictions should at least appear to be left to the (jovur- nor's discretion But Lord (ilenelg— (who had become Se- cretary of State in 1835— a datu execrated in all our colonies) — took care to evplain ver- bally to Sir Francis that the word ' tuihutancH' was substituted for the word ' co;>y,' merelv because it had been considered less uiidiif^niJi- vd — His Lordship expressly addiii;;, '7iit<,re- me.inber the mure you j^ive lliein of it the bel- ter.* When, however, Sir Francis attempted to extract the tiihutaiice of his Instructions, he found it impos>iblc to undertake to translate them, with all their explanatory arguments, into other woids ; he IiiiiimI, also, that his pre- decessor had (no ilouht by order from home) announced to (he Houses that the determina- tion of the government shouhi be officially communicated to them ; and that if he at- tempted to alter or conceal any thing, he might be accused of f^arhlinfr the Kinj; s in- structions; and that, finally and in truth, such a manufacture wo'ild bolie the str light- forward policy which he had declured he would adopt, and at once involve him in an ignominious dispute — amounting, after all, to nothing better than a quibble, hfcaiise as he was actually ordered by Lord Glenelj^ to give thein the $ubgtauce of hii iiialrvclimig, Miey might fairly argue that the subntance and the reality were and ought to be identi- cal. He WHS not unaware, however— and ho stated his apprehensions to Lord Glenelg— that this proceeding might occasion sonic em- barrassment in Lower Canada to Lord Gos- ford, whose instructions, by a Downing-street blunder, or someth>!!ii worse, did not tally with those "^f J^ir Francis ; but that was niit his fault ; he did his own duty by himself and his employers ^ retnemhi-rinff^ Loid (Jlen- clg's last adinenition, ' that the more hv f^ove of the inatructiona thf better.' This proceeding, thus clearly prescribed by Lord Glenelg hini>elf, was vi.slted— either for the purpose of »ioothing poor Lord Gosl'ord,or of palliating their own rdiinde: — with the g«* Htruiin censuie of the Colonial OIlioFr Sir Francis on his arrival lonnd hiit Exrcir- tive Council (answering to our I'rivy Coun- cil) incomplete, and having but a bare quorum of three members He was advised to in- crease the number ; and he detemiiiicd to do so, by selecting three gentlemen, two of whom at least weie the leaders of the oppo- sition to Sir J. Colboriie, and who appeared to possess the confidence of the provincial par- liament. These gentlemen refused to tako ollice nnlei'S the three existing councillotit were dismissed. Sir Finncishad nopievious knowledge of tlie.^e old councillors, nor since bis arrival had much cordiality subsisted between him and them ; but with this de- mand he honoiiiubly refused to comply, on the grounds that lie had other interests besides thos ■ of the House of Assembly to consider ; that (he Cominons already possessed their own legitimate power ; that to impart tn them in addition an exclusive innuencu Ln his Coun- cil would be uncon!>titutioii8l and unjust ; be- sides which, it would at once connect witU parly feelings tl e representative o( his Maies- ty, who ought to stand unbiassed, and aloof from all such consideradons. — On this the «e- icotiation went otf; but the party, finding Sir Fiancis tirm, and remenibeiing no doubt Mr. Hume's bit by bit policy, thought better of it, and finally accepted , and Mr. K. Baldwin, Dr. Rolph, and Mr. Dunn,§ were sworn of the Council. From the moment that Dr. Rolph— whose persuasive infliKnco and treasonable princi- iles were well known — was named as a meni- apprehended that Sir Francis Head ua» tost. pies V ber f his Council, it was pretty generally Sir Francis had better hopes. Relying on hiii own upright intentions, he ' felt confident that if the Council should attempt to force upon him unconstitutional proposals, it would be out of their power to deprive him of that invincible moriil power which always rushra to the vindication oj a just cause. Those apprehensions, however, were not wholly groundless. Backed by a large majority in the House of Asseii bl} , Dr. Rolph soon per- suaded the iii/»o/«! Council to concur in a writ- ten requisition to the governor on the neces- sity of ' making the Executive, or Privy Ccuncil, nsponsible to the public.' And Sir Francis at once saw that this brought the question of constitutional monarchy to a crisis. Kviiy day since his arrival had convinced him, that lie should ultimately have to meet the democratic piiiiciple face to face: 'but by far the most I'itlicult pioblem he had to solve WRS, uhere he ought to make his stand. To involve himself in a struggle with the House of Assembly about any one trifling concession would, ho knew, have brought (he Home Governvimt down upon him with all its power ; the province might also with .-nme apparent leasoii have complained ; and § 'I hU iiunic is left blank in t^ir FranciN's pigck. W e cannot set; wliv— ms it is givt n in Itie parliameDl- aiy |iu|itri presenti'd litbt year,— Nr. 1)1, p. 12. m' ' ^■■i "'"'•■Pffi "SP 'I r (hn«f Ml hy >)!t, and ineh l)f inch, he mii^hl to havi* h«>#ii penned, and nil tlieii* meMitre* lir I'riveii (o ubandon canHtilutidnitl k">*""'« t" ^"vu been proiniilud liy iMr. Uptakcr which, oiici* IokI, ciMild never hi« reclaiini'il.'l /i/c/ice//, tliw KciitlcriiHn who, hh wu havn It WM lucky, thrrefitie, that the coiituMt lie- Ni>en, hud ht>eii hu magiieticully HfTcctod hy tfhn with an attnnipl xo clearly nncoiiatitii- the (iriiVtinct Uuok. TliiH iiunie of HidwtU tional, jjir Krancin )lc»d at oner rrjccted tlin ! wh be)( our rcuder* to note, whrnover it propoMal, — and informed the parties that thcv loccuis — c'rsl It mot tie Pmigm; muit abandun either that rei|uiiiltioi) or Ihrirj Snch proceeding!) did not shake therenolu- places in his council. They penii»ted. Sir|tionnf Sir Kranciit — though he itnod alone. Francia followed up hiK advantage, and »c-l' 1 wbh perfectly tensilile that I wai friend- erfltd the resignation »i — ur, in plain tcrmN, ! lexs ; for the lepulilican parly had proved dUiniiscd— the tvhole Council — including llu! tliciniiirlveii to be implacable, and the conitti- old, heretofore unpopular, councillorH, vvholiiticmal party I hail refubod to join,' On had been cajoled or intimidated into iiig;ninK|the AHMcmbly'H ittoppinK the supplies he with- this requisition. Four of the «ix coiincillurslheld hi.s assent from all their money bills, and Koon showed a disposition to recant; but iSirleven from their own contioKencies ; fur Francis insisting that the ie<|uisition should though tliey would vote notliiiiK for the pub- be cancelled bv all the same lunds that had lie services, iliey were leady enou^ii to tako •ixned it — their dismissal was complete. care of theirown,^— and fuially, on (hc'iUth .April, IHJtj, he prorogued his Parliament. We wisli our space |)eriijitted us to give the whole of the spiiiled letter by which Sir Francis poured these cventi into the dull ear III Lord (ilenelg ; wc must •lakc room for one or two passages. After describing the yttjiu- lar enthus^iasin in his favour, which nccom- panii^d uud lollowed his )irorogatinn of the refraclory Assembly, he pioceeds — ' I am pi-rff ctly cnnfldent that Itie whnia eouiitry i» diipoai'd In riaa uji (ii tuppnrt inr.anil I can aaaiiro your L"rdatii|> ilial I fnrvHea iin di(Rcul(y whatever HI oruthiaK the republionn pari y, ami in cislablialiing liiyalt]r,c.xcept a general fenr wbicli |>ri>Tnilii lbriiiii(h- (lut III*- cimiilry Ihiit the linmt (ioerrnment will be ufriiid lo $u}>port mt. — 1 tell yuur Liiidiihi|) tbe irulb ; fur it ii proper you nhniild kniiw tliat Ibo rterption which wat nivtn in Kngland to Mr. Mac htnzit liai hail IhefifrGloroiiwinir the lnyaliiti and III givinjt a laUe oiiuraKe to the repuhhrani. One word (if firninvii from the liiiiiith (iovi'iniuiDt will now settle the qiicalion lor ever ; but if ynu hi'tilata to aupporl me ; if, in your l.urdtliip'i reply In ihia dirpalch, yon encourage liya *in|{le word ike He* publiCHn^, they will iualanily be rraniiuhttd, and will ajiniii niter their old cry agiirtat the " WCAK AND THK-MBLIva OUVCHNMKNT OF GmEAT IIri- TAIN." That they have luialukcn liritiah Ki'iKroaily for feitr, no oiii' ia more perKUiidrd lliun iiiyaeir, hut I eariically cnlreal yunr Lordaliip la put confideuce in lue, lor 1 pledge my chitiaLler to the rraull : 1 aclemiily declare lo your Lordahip that I have no dillinultiea In contend with Ari'r that I have not al- ready overcnme '. the f>aine la won; the bailie U Kaliii'd a.i lur hi> relatea to (bii coiiiilry, and I cannot i;i\e your Lordahip a more practical proof of it than iiy anyiiiK I want no aa^ialance I'xci'pliUK the ncKa- live uilvantaj^t of not hein); uudcruiiDed at home. — pp ill), ill. He knew Lord (jlenel);too well lo ask for active siippo t— he oiily implored hisemploy- r-i's iioulrality, ami was ready tu laki: nil icspoii.siliililips on himself. ' 1 fully expect that belnic a month baa elapaeil the CMuiitry will petition njc lu ilJAholve the prcMiit IIoiifli.hu!l iioi hIhmkI toil: I would Ihitrrfiiri! re. ijl>liip to Kend me no ordvra nu the ■nhp-el, hut to hlloiv oil.' to |<-| the liiiiii; work by ilai ir ; lor it now r. ipiir<>-i no aiiiuiueiil, ai the slop- py;;!' of the aupplita. ol the roHil tiiooi'y, and ull mhrr inoiii'V billij, will si>o!i hpiak l>'r thcinnHlvea in a liioviiirial ilialrvt which every body will undur- alaiul.'— pp. (14. m. It is impossible not to udmire the spirit- ay, and the wisdom— of this bold measure. It bore its good fruits in good season. It electrirted all parties— it heated the friends and cooled the enemies of the i 'itish con- nection—it brought to light the vast numbers of the former, and the insignificance of the latter — and spread through the colony that loyal contidence in the King's tjovernineiit, which had been so long dejiressed tli.it its very existence was denied. The dcmocialic principle in Upper Canada received a fatal wound in spite of many elt'orts made, both there and at home, to prolong its existence. And why f Credu Uyrun ! — ' Anil why 1 Uecauie a little— odd— O/d Man. (Stripped to hia ahirt. bail ouuie lu lead the van!' The House of Assembly, though only by a dinall majority, 'i7 to 'it, espoused the cnusc uf the dismissed councillors — public meetings were called, — * firebrand' petitions wer^; cir- culated—and every other means taken to ex- cite and inflame the public mind. All failed — the Uadicals were beaten at the public meet- ings, and the excitement oi the public mind took the decided direction of loyalty. ' I* ia out of my power' [writes Sir Kraaeia to J..oril GlenelK, after euunieraiinx all the ereuls] ' to deaoriba lo your Lordahip, without the appearance uf esageeralinn, the joy uiid gtailoeaa cxprei>«ed lo loe by all partie* at the couatilutioual reaialiince I have made ; but 1 will not eoncual frnni your Lord- ahip that tbcra ia one quealion in alnii»t eveiyhoily'a mouth, nameir, " W'«" "•' I.iettlendnt (Jovrivor he tupported by the Humt Uovtniment 1" " lit: 7ir.vi':K WILL !" aay the Kadicals , " We fear ht ntill not !" aay the Conatilutinnaliata.— Your l.,(irJaliip haa lo settle tbia quealion, and in my humble opinion upon your daciaion reati our poaaeaaiou ol the Cdnada.4.' — pp. 79, 80. In one point only of this remarkable pas- sage Sir Francis was fortunately iriistaken — the/tile of Canada did not rest on Lord Gten- elff'B dtcinion. It stood on much more si'ciin' ground— the decision of Sir Fraiici'i lleml and the awakened good sense, loyalty, and courage of the Canadian poojile ! The disaffi'cteil House of Assembly mean- while was not idle — it atopprd the sui>iilii-s, and drew up addresses to the Fii);r|isli lioii.<y iiivi(iii|C hiiii (o do Httking. and t^i> ^uod Ht'ime aitil plvanuiitry ol'ltir ntiil at the ufTont in the country uf itic »(o|ipai(R of the Nap|s. Th<* iiubiic feeling wa.s xoon quite ripe for m d>«foiulion. Addrenvei of loynlty Hnii con- lideiioe poured in on the y above 08,000 peraunii — a Kri'at niinibcr in that tiiiiily-popiilated (hBdict — anii on the UHth May the provincial parliiinK'nt ws8 (lis- Nolved. And iuiii brought tlic atute ol puilies 4o an unerrinf^ tent. Juitt before the prorofi;nlinn, Mr. Sjxuiker Bulwfli had presieiitud to tlie House ut As- •embly a aeditious letter from Mr. Spenktr Pupineau, of Lower Canada. On tliis letter Sir Francis Head had aniiiiadvorted in one of hill answers to tiiose numerous ad(lrl;ssus : — ' null! Mr. Hpfiker I'lipineau h>i lltouRht proper ill pruiniilKala iit Ihn pruvinoe, " lliil tbit peii|'iu uf the CkuwIim, lultiiariNif under iccuioulatin;; wrong'), will Miiiit Mt a mnn. I rnel it ncreniury piihlivly to rrpudiute that aiavrtinn, by ttcclitriiiK wkiit the •late «l ii|iiniiHi ill Upper C'aiiaila really la. — 'I'hu (laiiple •if tipper Canada defeat ili'iuiiuruey ; Iht-y ruvurt* tlieir ciinHtilutiiinal charter, uiid aru coiiaiqiieiitly '•taiiiieli in alleKiiiiice to tht'ir Kin^ — They are per' feclly aware thul there exiala in lh« Luwei t'ruviiice nueortwa iniUviduala who iuoukatu Ibo idea ibat Ihic province jk atHiut lu bediaturhi'd by intexrerenee iifruuciUNKKa, whoau power uiid wiioax niiinher* will prove invincibm:.— l-i the n.io.e ut every rcRl' nent nf militia iu Upper (^aiiitda. I imnlicly proaiul' gale, Id thai it sIkmiUI have drawn down a rcpri- tiiand from a Hritii>h Secretary of State ; but it did so. 'i he ekcUouB now took place, and with the tnest actoiMaliiui; result. The roy.ilists ob- tained a complete victory ! Mr. iSyxoi/re/* Hidwrtlf the frie<|id and coriespondctit of Mr. Speaker Papinratt; Mr. Perry, the most •fiowerfal speaker of the rp|)ubiii'iins, iinil «hair^fl« of the rommittce who bad censured liir Francis; and the great (j'riiVitnce-mongei; Mr. M'Kenzie himself,— were all defeated ; and Ufiper Canada was restored, by the intlu- «iice of one single and unsupported, nuy, re- primanded man, to regular and constitmionul government. This revoliilion in public sentiment — or, we should rather say, this rrveluUoii. of a iiublic sentiment, long compressed and stifled by the mismanagement of Downin-j-street— is one of Iha most extraordinary triumphs of good sense and firmness that we have ever read of, and entities Sir Francis Head to the gralitutle of his country. From the Colonial OiKee it seems to hnve procured him nothing but increased annoyance— and, more recent- ly, in Lord Unrham's lieport, misrepresenta- tiMn and obloquy. — Htit it saved Cnnudii. In the midst of this triiiiii|ih, Sir Francis received from Lord Gosford'a Commission a I copy of their Rejiort, ai)d li« had vetbai en- iplanations of it Iruiii one of the Conimission- I era. This Heport Sir Francis considered to have been lounded and fiamcd on thoao soi- ditani liberal, hut really republican principles I with which Diiwniiig-s'jtreel and its rniasiune- I ries choBe — on the evidence of Metsra. liid- '' tvell and Pupiin-au--tn beiuve that both the Canudas weie impregnated. The very point on whieh Sir Francis hud made his successful ri'sistHiici- wasiibaii(lijni.'d by the Commission- eis. In reference to the y loas of of- lice, i* accountitbility to puui.ic urinion.' — p. lUS. < To tills doctrine,' replies Sir Francis, ' I have never been (tbio lo subscribe ; on the iiiHii in bifice should tiiake {niblic opinion fol- "V-,^^>c low him, and never attempt to follow i<.' \ ~^ w After some other manly remarks on the demo- / cratic tendency of this Report, he proceeds:-^ ) ' 1 do not ill tho xli;;litiMt degree pceauine to ot- liir tlii'^ri oliiti-rv.itioii* aa eompliiinta a((uinat tbu ('oinintaiiioniirii, or tivrii a* aujrgi'stiuna wurtliy )uiir loi'iixhip'ri conniiliM-ution ; hut merely aau cuiit'eaaiuii tliiit my priiir.i|ile* and opinioiia iliH'or coniplelnly from tlioiiii of Koiillemun under wlium I bflieoe I rilioiilil art, Hiul with whom, I am Hiiid, It ia highly ttilvj.iilili! i hIioiiIJ t'onuur. A* long aa I coulil rontinuo netitntl, iiiy opiiiinna were concealed iu my own lireuat, — but every hour diivra mo tu tliu necuiialiy of taking dueiiuvn measures; and as the Commia^iunera and 1 are now acting in upptiaitu direetiuiK, I fuel iiuite coiitidunt tbut aouner or Inter the prineipU'!! wlilvli govein ui muat bo auapectt>d lo liu ilill'ereiit, and thai the tiioinent the truth ia ' rlic'iteci, einbnrraaanienla of a ^ery lerioua nuturu miinr. onaiie. The Dritish popuiatiun of Ixith the Cnnitdiis ia now Icanini; with its wbolu weight upon 7nr, iiiatead, as it onglit to do, upon the Cum- iiiisaloiiers ; I tlieiefuro fuel I uni doing his Majea- ly'ii ^(ovrrniiiniit iiiiirt) Imrm thiin good — tliHt, being llio Iciiin- power, I iviilly oujjlit to retire — and [ liiivo no heiiitiitlon in reconinmnding to your lord- ship lliiit I should do BO.' — pp. 105, IilG. How this candid proffer of resignation was dealt with we are not told ; but we lind that — about this time— His Majesty directed his tipproh'jUon of Sir Francis's conduct to be conveyed to hiiii, ' afroniiiig hun the first hap- py moment he had enjoyed since his arrival in the Province.' Tb it this approbation issu- ed from the individual goodness and justice of the King himself, (who took a great personal inteiest in tlie ad'aiis of Canada, having visit- ed it in his youth) seems jirobable, from the fact that this gratifying announcement had been preceded, and was accompanied, and fol- lowed, by the most moitifying communica- tions from the Minister himself. Up to the date of that letter ' the treatment he hud re- ceived from His Majesty's Government had ijivon hint more pain than it would be possi- ble to describe.' On the arrival of every mail he was asked what notice this or that measni^ • had fc^eeived ? — what answer had been intui*! to thii! or that address ?— the mortifying reply he had to give was ' .None' — over and over ^m^mmtrnf nmp 10 I i " again — * Nonk ! ' The letter, however, con- veying the King's approbation, announced also that it was intended to confer a baronetcy en him ; but this hononr wasi, it seems, to be de'ayed iriitil he should have replied to a sig- nificant inquiry as to his jmlilirai prindplif*, and an equally significant notice, that * a zealous and cnrdinl co-operation in profeculing the policy offi -0 fiovfrnmenl was the condilioii on which the administrdtion of the (Joveiii- ment could be continued in his hands.' To this broad hint Sir Francis simply replies. that he adheres to his repeatedly o.\pTess"d opinions: he protests, amongst other things, most strongly against the proposed surrender of the Territorial Revenues of the Crown ; and, expressing great confidence in his own views, he says : — ' A> the pilot in rhar/fe of your vessel, I irnru your Lordship of the danger, uiid if it Ihj neco»- ■ury that I ahoulii abandon iiiy npiiiinn nr the reward whieh ■• intended fur lue, I have no heNitutinn in at once renxiincing the latter, lor eTery hour of reflec- tion mattes me elinK firmer and firmer to the former. I have now, a« regards my inntructionii, opened my mind to your Lnrdihip, ivithout concealm>'nt or re- serve; and it only remains for me to be equally expli- eit, as regards my own private policy, nr, in other words, the manner in wnich 1 shall continue to ear' ry my inslraclions into effect. In this I have no klteratinn to proposnt In a moral contest it never cDters into ray bead to count the iiuinher of my ene- mies« All that guides me is a determination to do what is rifiht. I will never shrink from responsibil- ity ,aad will endeavour ntvtr to conciliate nor offend. The more I am Iriulvd /lie more cautions I skull be — the heavier I nm laden, the steadier I shall tail: but I respectfully claim the military privilcK« offightini; my own bjttles in my own way, and of re- tiring from your lordship's service wbeocver 1 find it adrisahle to do so,' p. 145. Sir Francis concludes by saying that he has been the more explicit on this occasion, in order to remove any possible misunder- standing on the subject before the baronetcy should be "ranted. If the offer was meant as a bribe, it failed : but Lord Glenelg's cou- rage was not yet screwed tu the sticking- place of breaking with the high-minded Gov- nor, and the boronetcy was conferred in the spring of 1837. But this consolatory gleam was darkened by accompanying mortification ; the Secreta- ry of State sent to him for his explaiiKtion a r^ries of complaints against him from Me.<>srs. Bidwtll, Holph. Morrison and Duncotnbe.' We need not enter into the details of thcsu complaints : it will ho enough to state that they were disproved and overthrown, and the motives for which they were made * Dunenrobe's complaint of undue influence at the elections was brought forward at the time by iVIr. Hunt in the Houne of Coramonii, and wax ut< terly disproved. Mr Hume on the 6tli iMarch, 18'id, revived his calumny, but w»s answered hy fiir. Charles Puller, Chief Secretary to l>ord Our- baia's misxion, who, Mhough having,' a!4 In- iniii, ' no great leuiptation to defend Sir Fi-anciii lleHil.' generously and completely exrulpuled him. This does credit to Mr. Kulirr, who, lhouj>h he professes, we believe, to he a radical, is a man of irMnkHekn. ability, and honour. We suspect, and shall lie |>lud if our suspicion he confinued, that in Lord Dur- ham's execrable Report Mr.Butler liwU as little baud •1 liord Parbaw biniself . will be sufiioiently explained by the present position of these four persons : ' Bidwfll after the rebellion, vnlunlsrily trans- ported liimself, un er an engagement never *o return to Upper Canada. * y{o/p/i,abicouded, and is now an outlawed trai- tor. ' Morrison, since tried for treason, haa left the province. ' Duncombe, since a traitor in arms, absconded, ai'd a reward of i;50n i» now olfered for bis appre> henxion.'-pp. 114. 14S, 140. Though it is rather anticipating the order of time, we may conclude this head by stat- ing that Sir Francis's answers to those gen- tlemen's allegations and his objection against their ])olttical principles, though irresistible at the moment, were soon forgotten in Down- ing street ; and by and by. Lord Glonelg is- sued his positive mandate to Sir Francis Head !o elevate Mr. Bidweli to the judicial hench^ just a.s he had previously directed him to re- place Dr. Ralph in the Eitcutive Council. Sir Francis distinctly refused to disgrace his administration by such promotions ; — and be- fore he could be recalled for this disobedience, the rebellion broke out — the flag of the rebel furca that attacked Toronto bore as its motto BlDWKLL, AND THE GLORIOUS MINORITT ! Lord Glenelg, would be now, we presume, too happy if his anxious and pertinacious or- ders for the promotion to the bench of the i7- luatrious Bidweli. could be forgotten. We pass over here for want of room, many propositions and o])inioDs, delivered by Sir Francis Head, to the Secretary of State, on the various points of the internal improve- ment of the political system and administra- tion of the Canadas : they are curious and important, and to one of theni we shall by and by recur — but our present business is with facts, not opinions. All was now quiet and prosperous in Cana- da — tlie constitutionalists had been victorious — the Governor's calumniators had been put to .shame — and the Councils and Legislature wer& doing their respective duties in a cor- dial4^us[iiessJili£_gMfi.— when a new plogue — hafclicd, like alltneothers, in that officimi \ venenis,i Downing street — burst from an uu- 1 expected quarter. j Something like the .same factious spiiit wliich distracted the Candidas had also, as was inevitable from the encouragement giv- en bv the Government at home, grown up in the Province of New Brunswick, where the same questions, as to the abandonment of the territorial revenue and the responsibility of the Privy Council to the people, weie also brought into discussion. In dealing with the ca.se of New Brunswick, the Colonial Olfice discovered a favourable opportunity of stiikinir a blow (hat should be felt throughout all the neisthbourina; jirovincrs. What shall we think of a deci.-iion made for one province in such a way as to inv(dve— ay, carefully and premediialely to involve- -the fate of 1 Horace spplies the term fo the workshop of C'anidiun, uiid we lo that ui Canadian iNiisun. UL.^4^* \flA4*-\^ ^« K^i- «1 ■'mm 11 several others, and to legislate for them all, I pair of 'delegates,' from a •m/^/e branch of r the present inlarilT tnnf DCTcr *o retnrti oullawed tni- I, h*» left the II, abiennded, 1 lor bin appre- ng the order head by stat- to those gen> ction against h irresistible ten in Down- d Glonelg is- Francis Head udiciat benchy :eA him to re- the Council. ) disgrace his ms ; — and be- disobedience, g of the rebel e as its motto ORITT we presume, irtinacious or- nch of the t7- rgotten. >f room, many vered by Sir of State, on nal improve- administra- curious and we shall by t business is ~k-ous in Cana- fen victorious kad been put Legislature lies in a cor- new pjtigue that officina from an uu- ctious spirit also, as foment giv- ^lovvn up in where the n^nt of the ^spoiisibility pople, weie eating with lie Colonial liortunity of 1 throughout Whai shall ]ie province carefully lliu fate of in the most important points, by a subterfuge and a juggle? It was killing four or Jive birds with one stone — a mode of getting through business which suited Lord Glenelg's taste ad- mirably ,and reminds us of the convenient pro- cess of the workhouse doctor, who alternate the legislature of a stngle province — feeling how completely his authority was superseded — how hopeless it was for him to attempt to maintain monarchical institutions, while the Colonial Office openly legislated on the democratic principle of < delegates ' — (the iy and indiscriminately bled all the patients very name was most offensive to the royal- one day and physicked tliem another. A lists) — and open'y disapproving, on constltu- dispatch from tne Colonial Olflcc, of the QOth I tional grounds, of the mode in which the of September, 1836, to Sir Francis Head, af-| King's casual and territorial revenues were tei asserting the melancholy axiom — namely,' proposed to he surrendered — ' expressed him- thnt ' it u in vain to nippoae that any conces ' seU io his Majesty's Government in terms aioncan be made to the (ieneral Jlssemhly o/"; which will, probably, ere long come to light.' any one of the JVorth Jlmerican P»'ouincf»,i But on Sir Archibald's hesitating to surrender and withheld from the rest' — enclosed to him i the revenues of the Crown — even until he co])ie8 of a dispHlch and instructions to Lieu- ; could receive an answer from the Colonial tenant General Sir Archibald Campbell, Lieu- ! Office to the objections which, without loss of tenant Governor of New Brunswick ; to which time, he had submitted to it - the New Bruns* he (Sir Archibald) was ordered to i^ive a ge- ■ wick House of Assombly. made impatient by neral publicity, and which Sir Francis Head I thfir successes, immediately petitioned the was desired to consider, as far as they could be applied to Upper Canada, ' as addressed to himself ' The dispatch contained not only King against thfir Lieutenant Governor. To tliK Committee who waited upon his Excellency with this insulting information. directions for the surrender of the casual and :he made the following reply — a reply worthy territorial rf venues — against which SirFran-'of the man and his services to his King and cis had so strongly remonstrated in the case o(\ country : Upner Canada— but the abandonment of the . G.Miilcm.-n— The conscientious rectitude of my authority of th'i Crown in the ^recntire own conduct renaoM the (.ul.ject of this address to Couticill. And lest the ominous axiom be- 1 mo a mattfr of the most perfoct indifl'erenco. 1 fore mentioned should not have sufficiently ! Imvo hnd the honour of serving His Majesty for included the Canadas in his New Brunswick '"p*"')' half a century, in ulmont evoiy quarter uf prescription, the Secretary of State positively ! '^e filobo ; and I trust those w^rvices have been directed that ti:e session of the parliament of Upper Canada should he postponed to some ! weeks after that of New Brunswick, and that j of Lower Canada to an equal period after that sucli us to sutfia' no diminution in the estimation of my Sovurui^'^n, from any reprusentution that may l>e made by thn House of Assombly of New Bruns- wick.' ' I need hardly say,' adds Sir Francis, ' that no la had gained over the demands 1 «'"<■"'>■ i""" ^ ''"i. '"'" '" *"» '"to 1 cie )Iicans *as not only proved to I '!;!''"T;', [" myseli the words "A ry^l^t^^co,npletUyannvlMM^^^ "-' "«- ps, after all, the most surpiising| ver, had not again. By this extrurdinary arrangement, jono in our British Noith AmoricanCoIonics feltthe the triumph which the loyal inhabitants of 'shock of Sir Archibald CumplwU's retirement more Upper Canada had gained over the demands 1 '<''<-''ly i^un 1 did, lor in bis fate I clearly read, a» of the republicans *as not onlv nroved tol"''''"'''^"!'. "' mysoll, the words " Mcm, Mene. be • teinporar; But perhap-, , , „, fact in the whole of this proceeding is, that' About this time another remarkable storm these concessions, and various others, which a»'osH, and one, for a wonder, not brewed in were to be promulgated by Sir Aichibahl Downing street— a crisis of public credit- Campbell throughout tlie whole of our North iwhiih might have siiipwrecked the most ex- American colonies appear to have been ar ip^^'t financier; but Sir Francis Head, who rangedintheColonialOfficeby Messrs. Crane [was no financier at all, hut only an honest and Wilmot, two deU(;ates from the House of, •"»", of plain good sense, weathered the gale. Assembly of JVfM) BrwiwipJcA; .' j and brotii^ht his ship triumphantly into har- •Wirhout meanini; [say* Sir Francis] in any de- ^""'•- The narrative 18 valuable in many (tree to cuiDparc llieae tun most ruspcctuble g;cntlii' ' respects : . . , Ilea with Mr IVIackenzie. still one would h»vo i , ,,., ., . . i . l r thoaght that ttie experience which the Colonial cn' ' '« ""V'] improwmcnts whtch for s«me year» fice had so dearly purchased by listeniiis to the Intltr bav.- bt<^n inking' placn m the Umted htates have indiridual wonid have proved the imiiMpriely of the been a mystory « liidi low people have been able to principle f)f jrnislalinK on rx purle. i,\u\Kmt^nts, pro- conipivbcud. Kvi'iy utidcrlnking hwl apparently ceediog cither from the people, or frum the deic^Rtes been crotvni'J \ illi success ; every man's specula- «f the people. without referring to tlic Lieutenant Go- ii„ri hml seemed to answer; the price of labour, vernor, Kxecutive Council, ai'd LeKislutive Council allhoiiRli exorbitant, bad everywhere been cheerful- 01 lue colony. ^ ^ ly paid, uiid oiniiey biid appeared in such plenty, The moitiflCiition which this course of poli- tluit it had profusely been given in barter for al- cy produced in Upper Canada is indescribable, most evi^ry cononodity that came to market. In The Loyalists were again tiisheartened ; and "hurt, the country was triumphantly declared to be the RepnblicaHs again exnltinglv boasted ",«'<"«,i.' .»-*."»'«;" and, as the young province of that the Home Government was with them. •l''".'' S'""'"''' ^'"' "'j*''"'''' '» bo unable to keep o- t i.\ ^J r> u II • au a- » up, t lie ditieronce in Its progress was contemptuoua- Sir Archibald Campbell, seeing the effec ,^ „,,.,.,,^.j ,^ ,,,„ i^(f,,l^J^ ;„ j,, j„,^ „( ^„,„„. produced, not only in New Brunswick, but ,„p,„. tkroughout all the British North American I • .\ionairhirn4 instituti.ms were therefore ridicu- •uloiiiei, by the representation of a. fiitgle led, n. publican principles were self-praised, and orkihnp of I |Njison. mmmmmm i 12 f1 rfomocrutio o|>inii>ns wore not only digsinninntcd ovor thii c(intiiH>iit, but, oros^iii); tlio Atlantic, they inaile their npptiM-ance in our own linppy country, where it has lAtcly been docmod by ninny people tino und fa^hinnttble to point to the United Stntoj of America a» n proof tlitrt riveting relii;ion to the Stale, and that noliility of n>Hid, are tw cummcrce, what friolion is iti merhimics. * In the midst o4' all this theory tho whole com- mercial system of tho United Slates suddenly was observed to tumble to pieces, its boiisCod prosperity being converted inti> a state of disorder nltogether new in the moral history of (he world, fi>r the re- public declared itself to be bankrupt, without even pretending to ho insoTvcnt : in short, its bu-nlis simul- taneously diihoiiiinree for hi» recall than his refusalf to proinote truitorg to the Judicial bench. At this time, \m own province being quiet, prosperous and loyal, Sir Francis's attention^ was directed, itot only by his own good sense^ hut by the requisitions of Downing-Street,, to the State of Lower Canada, which seemed de.stined to infect, corrupt and ruin the healthy province to which it was the object of the Home (Jovernment, by a tyranny like that oC Me/entius, to attach its tat!'. And now it was that Sir Francis pronulgatcd his great paradox: one wl'-ch has been the cause oS much ridicuij ai.d more obloqoy, and from which we ourselves venture to dissent — but! to dissent with the respect due to a man who- has reduced to the sober certainty of success- many other designs and opinions equally par- adnvical. His success by mere mora/ means in Upper new proved to have been proiliiced by an inipriidentj Canada emboldened him to suggest a similaK and reckless syeicm of dii.couniing which hud sup- c(,„„£ ^f proceeding in Lower Canada. He plied the country with more money than it was possible for it to repay." — pp. 17!), lUl. Sir Francis Head had no mind tn assemble his Pailiainent m thi.<* crisis ■, hut on a balance of the difficulties, he decided reluctantly to do so. The Canadian banks had ))rudently contracted their accnmmodatiun. This gave dissatisfaction •, and the comraeiv-^ial vvoiid thought that if these banks, after the example of the United States, had been allowed to suspend cash payments, they mi^hthave con- tinued the rotten system of accommodalitm. There was, therefore, a strong paity in the, . Canadian Parliament for the suspension of; adopted and supported at home, his expert.- cash payments. It was easy and popular,; ment in the Upper ProvMice would lead us by and not merely supported, but, as it seemcil. "tiict induction to say— he might have suc- eommanded, bv the An1eiica:i example; and! ceeded. But he certainly appears to have Sir Francis m'ight have insured quiet and mf'st tinaccounlably overlooked oae main popularity by ac(iitiescing rn an acknowledg-, ingredient in the case— the Heighborhood ot accordingly proposed to the Government not only tn send out no fresh forces, but to with' draw all that weri not necessary for ganisoiv- inglhe two fortresses of Montreal and Quebec. Mr. Papireau's traitoroii" menaces he despi- sed — bis foiGfl he estimated contemptuously and, «s it Ii.vi turned nut, justly ; and he offered himself (for, as he gallantly said, he would not propose anything that he was noti ready to undertake personally) to convertand quiet Lower Canada, as he had done Upper Canada by a merely moral power, and without a single bayonet ; and had his views beet* ed necessity. Hut he was no such '•in!::-- server — he could not conceive why banks with their cellars full of specie should forfeit their engagements. With equal boldness in his resolve, and dexterity in his manaj^jpinf nt, he pen uaded his Parliament, after a difficult conflict, to confide the question to the discre- tion lif the Government, pro re tintu. The Canadian banks did not suspend their pay- ments — th« people caiicht, as they always do, the infectious confidence of their Govern- the United States. This he candidly con- fesses : ' The foresroin? opinions (which by he» Majesty *« government .vere nut tieenied worthy to be incbiilei4 ainoiii! those .mibniilii-d to the Imperial Parliament) i elenrlv riiiow tluit I had totally failed to foresee the I invasion of our eiilimies by our American allies, t I own, however (and the confession shonld thnme fhcm,) tbnr it never entereil into my heart fur n moment to ron<'rive tbnt, wbili; A'neinena frienil- !;bi|) was stnndinir smiling at liur side, its hand wa^ only wailing until we faced our ditbeulties to»lHb\is ment, and public credit was saved from the '" 'he back; " Kxperienre," lltey say. "ninkei disgrace of a public bankruptcy. The details ""Ct, wise," but where in the page of the history of of this alFair «re cnrious- the result a most ■"■v-b^ed nn.t,onsw-ns v^ieh expenencetobelenrred ? ,.■■.,« ,, It ,s r'Torded (or the tirct lime : and I nnmblv sub- remarkable lunmph of common sense .nnd ho- ,„i, ,h,„ [ „,„ ^„,,, ,,.,, ,,,.,^,,i„„ „( f,|„^„ f„,^„, nesty, whtch, acting with an utter .iisregard having muicipated this nitack than is the British of monetary popularity, kept public faith iit nation, who, Bltbougb the event b»s aciunllg hnp- Canada; while the rival and ncighbonring pened, can scarcely even now, by otgument or facts, states were by a contrary system, involved in be per^^nudeil to believe what the conduct of the continued distre.ss, This'little episode, which American muboiities has been. we think a v?ry remarkable instance of tirm- 1 , .' "'"" "'J'*"' tins unpiecede»»ed afin.k of faithless t,es« in resisting, of address in quieting, and /;""";V "^'r "^"'" """'V r "'",'''""" '••'"I''"" f . "' ,. ,'..'"' slioiilil. if necesiinrv, be directed, lust ns thev of success in converting popular opinion, was ,,,oMld be dbve,..d. io rep..| an invasion of our CO-- never, as lar as ..ppears, even acknowledged ionic* by the power ef Fntnce or ttus»it> bun }ea^ tion onr tllH adh dix met ricn ing Go ■tai pin pii die Id ; Strept, whw [overnor to his- at hifi tHiliire >rubably aiibril laii his rel'usat cial bench, f l>eingqiiiet, cis's attention n §;ood sense^ wniiig-StreKt, which seemed in the healthj object of the ly like that oi And now it ted hi» great the cause of oy, and from dissent— but to a man who- ty of success- s equally par- eans in Upper gest a similar Canada. He vernment nob , but to with- y for gariisoiv- 1 and Quebec, ces he despi- ntemptuously stly; and he intly said, he it he was noti convert ami d done Upper -, and without s views beerk !, his exper»- uld lead us by (ht have sue- pears to bare d one main iithborhnod of andidiy cori- y hrr Mfljpgtv'i 1 to be inolii""<=«'"»'"' ♦"»' the Governor had of nientH of tliB Briiinh popiiUiion of onr North Amp-l'""' Rf^'s breach of official discipline and ricHn roioninf, when I nny timt if, irirttead of Aund- 1 P*>l)lic faith to a public servant Was, thtf iiig oiii «evn-nnd-t\vent}-rcgiment», hrr Mnjesty'ii | publication of a pamphlet in Canada, couch- GoverntniMit woiild only send out omi innn, wlio,|ed in intemperate and nncalled-for language^ •landing alone ainorig tbein, would proiniietbcpeo- froir, which inUr alia, it appeared that Ml. potlmt, wh,lel^,l,ved. H ""'-titutuMM of onr en:- 1 ft^^rris had been allowed iti Downing street piro should nf»cr //.! cA^Hif'"/. a univrrsnl Untisli 1.1 . r..ii ^ j t: ";u •■. j^^uwi ■■•5 .. i^ idipor would reBoaml tKrriughoiit oar colmiipH, iind, " Reports" of nllpged grieranren wonld be hoHi'd of nil more. \Vli<'ii llin pcoplo of Upper Cnnndn were appealed to, diil they not strictly fulfil the pro- phecy by responding to the coll ? And is it not an bimoriciil fnct, thnt the brave inhiiliititnts of New Itnnigwick, with their Lientemint-OovcTnin-ut their the fvll and entire ■pertual of a dispatcb, which had been sent to the Governor with a referencH to his judgment whether the whofe or a part only should be pnblished in Canada: — The Secretary of Stale left the publication to the dfscretion of the Governor — but the: (Office seems to have annulled that condition head, stood not only rc.a.ly, Imt '"rneBtly tr/.AJnjr j^„j .j^f^gt^j 4,,^ Jelusive discretion, by glV- to be called 7 (Trievnnres! heiinrHtion from the • .. ,. ,. ....... j ■'r'iu- mother ronntrv ! Hntred to Uri.i.b Inslitntio,,,. !- ! '"? ***/ «" V"" '''''Va'ch ill O the hands of this Afn<«rr/;nltaclimentto deniocnicy! Commissions P"Yate deleg^lte !' Well may Sir FrancW- of Inpiiry, one ufter nnother, may in our colonieH I ""'ignantly ask, no diinht collect compluints in dntoil, jnsl ns they 1 ' Is there onoclier pnblic olTicein the rtato— in tho wouli'. be collecieil from every regiment and every I world — which would permit its conditional or di»- line-nf-biittle aliip in our service were we tii pay [leo- 1 creiional orders to its contidcntial servants to bo pie for searching for them; but, let the enemy ap- thus perused, whiie the matters were still pending, penr, let the Hritisli colours be hauled up, and let our poopli! but see the foe whounjuslifiably advances til deprive them of their liberties, and in one mo- mentnll complaints are forgotten.' — p. 213' by inieresled or hostile individuals, whose kiiowit purpose was to thwart them ?'— p. 217. This is really if the fact be exactly tofit — for it is Fo monEtrous thnt we almost hesi* tHte to believe it — one of the most extraordi- nary inslnnct's of f fficial duplicity and folly lliHt wo ever read of Of itself it would be a. Our readers will recollect all the criticism Iha' was subsequently directed ap;atnst Sir Ft. jis Head's conduct in sending the troops from the Upper Province to help in quellini' «. ■ ^ 1 . ■ . .-.i , • .l the rebellion in the Lower, and the fact that s'-fficmt proof hat l^rd Wenelg isthe poor-, he was surprised by an insurrection near his : '"''/'"'■'♦'"« \*'»' *'''"«"'«"?•'?«•? '" "«>'<="'« own capital: but the fate of that insurrection I""*" ''7'''"^« '^ « gang of blundermg or m.. -the ease -th uhich it was put down by i ''S','«"l ''''''''"''"«';•;• Jhisc.rcurnstance, frr- the Canadian, themselvfs-the loyalty and!*!" *" ""y 1" '^^^'f^" but niomentous m pnn- zeal wilh which the local militia rushed to '^'1''*"' r"'''. ^"<^?« '«•• ^^^V'ochmentoi any the (iefence of the government — do certainly jnstify Sir Francis's theory. At all events, it is now evident that he was aclinjx on a long formed and consistent opinion, and thni.gh we ourselves, for once, concur with Lord Mel- tnan deserving the name of minister; but Lord Glenelg was at bei-t but a reed blowik about by every wmd,and is now a brokmotier nnd nobnd)', we sttppose, will think it witrttk while to disturb his retirement, His own ae> bourne that he appeared over-chival.ous,:^!'^'^'/!"'''^* .^ '''' ''"'"'r''^' ''T.^"'"*w it must he conceded that h. w^s not actuated 1 '^':!'' " P"^'.'?. J"«"«=« "P"" ^'•" ' t" 1*'"* 'fi by a mere impulse of thoughtless chivalry,:"'*^'"'''';^ *'" ^^^PP"'^' find shelter under but a deeply-reasoned moral principle, which, r"*' *'"'''*'" ''"''*• if he had had the execntion of it, might have{ ' E' »"l'erimposita celalur arindine damnum '/ been as successful in Lower Canada as it hadi ^Ve are forced to pacs over many other in- been in Upper Canada. One thing, however, stances of the system of discouragement anti seems to us to be now certain, that in addition '"^erraption which every packet imported to Quebec and Montreal there should be foith- ''fom Downing-stree?, to arrive at the incident with erected one or two foitresses in the "'^I'cb was at last the cause, oral least t ht; Upper province to awe sudden invasion, and :excii=e, of Sir Francis Head's recall. The to aHord the loyal inhabitants at least tempo- «a'"'-—whic1i, from its serious consequences, rary rcfnge and protection. To the garrisons Sir Francis has thought necessary to exhibit of one or two such points, we are inclined to;'" all its details— we must conipresB iuio a think with Sir Francis Head, that— whene-f "binary. ver and if ever the f-jctitious sympathy of the I Mr. George Ridont, a lawyer, district United States shall have subsided— our trans- j'int in his conduct, and of ciox/our and Irulli in hit statements.' These insolent expressions wero also einhodird in on Ad- drees — which waa read to the Governor by j'«f r, Ridout, at the head of a deputation from the public meeting at which it had been pnased. Soon after this, Mr. Ridout made a decla- ration which became the subject of general converaation, that, in the event of his beino; dismissed by the Governor from office • Sir Francis would deserve tu be tarred andfeath- €r«i)ervsdly acknowledge that t)ie principle uf eHcctivo reapnnsibility should porvadn every department of your gDveiiimuiii, and for thi« remon, if I'm' no otlu-r, I Hlioiitd liold tluil cvtiji public urticpr should dt.'i>cnd on his MajcKty's plua- siire for the teniiro of lii« oHioe. f f iho hend o(a7iy dcpartino'ir. should place himself in decided o-iposi- lion to your policy, wlietlior that opp'isirou be avnwMl nr latent, it will be his duty to resign hiii office into your hiinds. (Jnle^iK thin course bi: pur- sued, it would Ik) inipoBxiblo to rescue tlie heuj of tlie gov'rninent from the imputation of insincerity, or to conduct the administratiim of public nfftiirs with tho necessary tirnuioss and decision.' — pp. 243, 244. Sir Francia Head, anxious not to impair the triumph of his appeal to the peopli> by •ny circumstance that conid luok like either influence or intimidation, bore Mr. Ridout 's and eondiwted its share nf the Ananingcarre»> pnndrnco in a spirit that would do honor to FuriKval's inn. It adopted us 'conclusive* Mr. Ridout 's denial of having been a mein- her of the seditious society. Sir Francia had never said he was — but tind very cautiooaly stated that he ' was a frequent attendant aa well as speaker at the society' which had published th>it insulting address — which Mr. llidniit had been si'lecicd to read to the out- riiijed governor ! The governor had desired the Aitoriiey-gonerni tu inquire into tho fact iif Mr. Ilidiuit's participHtion in this society; mid tliH Aiiorney-gcneral reported tliat Mr. Hiduut 'appeared lo be an active member of that association.' Mr. Ridout, was a lawyer, ond, it seems, a shrewd one ; and though ho made bo prominent an appearence at those meetings, hsd, it seems, tiiken the precniitioii not to enrol his name ; and the congeniai spirit of Downng-street, in all the »ubso- qiieiit discussion, carefully omits the worda actuslly used by Sir Francis — (• wea a fre- quent attendant and ipeakcr') — and by the Attorney-general — (' appeared to be an ac- tive inemiier')— and resia the whole case oa the naked fact, that he was not actually en- rolled ; — as if that ' quibble' could have real- ly improved Mr. Ridaui's cai^e. A man might have innocently entered into a society which had deviated into proceedings which he did not approve; but when a man not ac- tually belonging to a socety, is voluntarily a " frequent attendant and speaker,' he proves that nothing hut his strong adherence to the g^'noral principles of the society can bring him there, and he is therefore more individu. ally rospoIl^'ible than many an enrolled mem- ber might happen to be. But in this case there could be no • mistake !' The Q/pc« tiikes no noiice of Mr. Riduut's having been tile Society's spokesman of insult to Sir Fran- cis head. Nor does the Office condescend to notice the ominous and since accompliehed ducliiration of 'war to the knilc.'nor the perso- nal nienace of 'tnrring and feaihoiing' the King's representative, towards vvh ch Mr. Ridout — ow of the King's Mugistratea and Oflicers — offered not merely the original idea, but a helping hand. And here camos an incident that would bo amucin;} if it were not dingusling. Tlie be- menaces in ailence, while the elections were I '"'I^-'''^';' '';'"',** paragraph of tlio Secretary pending; but when they were over, he loM | "f ^"'•' " ''«*''-«cOo«« was written when Sir DO time in obeying the • sinrtne Secretary of I •* ''""='» w*- «u|'P"^td to be State's unqualified Instructions, and exhibit. ing * the necei^sary firmness and decision,' by diamisning Mr, Ridout from all his offices. — Mr. Ridout did not venture to attempt a lite- ral execution of his menace, to tar andjea- thtr the King's representative — twenty thou- sand gallant loyalists would have been ready a RadicaLW and was clearly meant to enable him tu gi t lid of ' every iiiiiii in every department' who should exhibit ■ any nppusilion, avowed o/* latent' to his ;M)/icy ;' thai is, as we read it, any of tiie liritislt, party : but when it waa loinid that this instruction hud a double edge, and that Sir Fruncis had applied it lo one of to tar and feather any assailant of their 1^'"'^"*''"'"'»: what torturing of wor.ls. what "^ . > .. . * . . I runt tiiiilu t\w nrkiiat ■■■lot ii\ii kif'ka fltAva n/\f ain_ V. governor ; but Mr. Ilidoiit, more prudently, though qi'ite as unmercifully, handed hini over — an 'anunal bipes imphime'—lo be tarred u.djeather coiiniry , , I many ol luv Irioxlx fiincird 1 wKn a Raillcitl, and in* ing.6»rect ai once look Mr, Rtdout'a part, . deed 1 almunt fancied 1 was one mysell,' «ic. p1 Cllf henninmjrcorre*. '•'"Id do honor lo '." as 'concluNive' 'iiR been a mem- Sir PranciB had very cRuctooaly cnt attendant u ■oty' which had OSS—which Mr, ' road to the out- "■nor had dusired 'lire into tho fact in this Mouieiy ; uporttd that ftfr' ftive member of ut, wasa lawyer, ; and thoiijTh ha (irence at th«se < tlio |»recniitioii I 'be congenJHl "ll the tubjto. in its tho words — (' we« a fre- )— and by the «o be an ac- whole case on [>t actnaliy en. uld have re&U "^e, A man I into a society edings which a man not ac- voluntarily a !or,' he proves berence to the >ly can bring ■ore individu. nrolled metn- ■I) this case I'he Office having been to Sir Fran- >nde6cend to compliehrd 3T tliu|)er8o-< hoiing' the wbcli Mr. 81 rates and ■ginal idea, It would bo The be- Secretary when Sir Jiadical.\\ >iiu tu gn lent' who Vifwed uf ►e read it, n it was hie edge, to unuof 's, what not em> Sir Fran- 111 June, I coiinfrjr li and jn* c. 15 ployed to escape from tlic iinexpect(>d diffi- culty ! • Every vuin in every department' — said iny Lord (jleneJg in his next dispnteh, — did not mean ' every man in every dt-part Vhent,' but * only iIkml' hii^h and confulential qfficert with whom you [the Kovernor] arc habitually brought into confidential inter- course.' So thai. Sir FrnnRis must Imvccuh- mitted to be tarred and feathered by tlic Coloni>l-Jud^>>, because lie liuppuiud not in be in habitual iiilercnurse wiih hmi. And yet we really think that this perversion ot the obvious meaning; of the words was sincere on the part of the OJJine, and that the real tnten tion had been to insii^itte tlie supposed Kiidi- cal Governor to gut rid of * ii:e high confidcn • tial officers of the government,' all friends of the British connection : lint the OJice had never dreamed that the Instruction could be- come applit'uble to any nf the opposite party : and Lord Glenela:, to prevent any Euch unto- ward accidents /or the future, now informed the Governor that henoelbrth lie *in9 so to un- derstand his Instructions — namely, that he might dismifs the hiirheHt officer in the state for even 'a 2a(«nt oppusit'on,' but not a clerk or door-keeper for tiie most flagrant insolence and sedition. We beg our renders to obsaerve under wliat flimsy disguir^es and contemptible casuistry the Colonial Office still worked to- wards its predetermined purpose. In fine, after a long, ridiculuufl, and dis- gusting spries of pettifogging qnibliles on tlie part of the O^ce— which Sir Francis in each successive answer, brurihed awny like cobwebs — the Gover'vr was peromptorily or- dered tn replace the Tar and Feather Jvdge on the bench, and fVar to the knife Colonel in his regiment. The Governor as perempto- rily ri fused to obey, and again, for the third time, tendered Ins resignation. Lord Glen- elg. with that spe::ies of bastard cour>ige which belongs to weak minds and is usually called nbslinacy, persisted in his ordoru for Mr. llidoiit's re-appointmnnt — Sir Frniicis H^ad persisted in Ins refusal — and was re- called. He had eqnnlly rpfiised to replace fto/u/t — . i. .. o i . »i : to promote V/ar«_to cOMCiir in vanons i ""^^'•'^t "* Mr. R.dout. there is a passage, on analog""* Pomis with Lord Glenolg'. p,Uicy.>^"'^' '^^''l' ^"/"f "T "" ."T= ""'I'' The J disobediences the OJJiceM imtv^ntufe "'«"L"y- . Lord Glenelg was mtde to say lu to punish ; but fancying, with the short- siffhl- o\rtt&aciB llcaa— ^^ ed ingenuity of casU'Stt--, that Mr. Itidout'aj ' You have, in your dispatch of the 9ih F^'braary, not having been an actually enrolled nieinher I observed that, in no department ot" the Stnte, not of the seditious SOcietv gave 'tliein a verbal, i^ven in my own ortice, bus it ever been .leemod ne- advantage (which it did noi) over Sir Francis, ' <-^;'^-^^y< '"-.ov';". advisable, th.it every reason for and at atl events, d.-spainng of finding a bet- «^"'''; "" '"'''vulual is to be rohcved from office • 1. It • il r .1 .1.° . : iniHt lio simod to him ; thttt It miw be necessary to ter, they determined to make tins the invot, ^,.„,„^.^ ^ . ,i^ „„i^„,. f„, „,„„^ ,p„,„„,^ ^^j/,, -^ bad as it was, for lurning hlni out. ; ^ny not be cle«irnbio to explain to him. Strange ea all the?o circumstances must i 'You must permit m'^ to smt.i imrenervedly, that appear, we find in Sir Francis Mend's second this answer appears to riio inadeciuale ; first, I am to office : — Sir Francis Head atates that he understands that Mr. Kidoiit totally failed, and ihnt Sir George Arthur lias most dl capitulation, an established Church in Lower Canada — but in neither of those provinces, nor anywhere else that we know of out of Scotland, can the Church of Scotland be what is technically called an es- tablished Clkurch. Mr. Hagcrman, however, denied that he had, even in the heat of de- bate, used the obnoxious phrase — it was pro- ved that ho hnd even spoken and voted for putting th" Church of Scotland on the same footing with the other two Churches—hut the explanation was fruitless ; Lord Glenelg-— who so inexorably shut his ears to the unpri- vileged and vulgar insult of Mr. Ridnut to the king's representative— was so sensitive to Mr. Hagerman's alleged expre->8ion as to the Church of Scotland, that, in spite of the high pcrsnnal character of that gentletnan, his ap* proved loyalty, his officiol claims, and the re< commendation of the Governor, Lord Gen- chj; refused to Mr. Hagerinan the confirmation of his professional promotion. Was there •eversucii suicidal inconsistency? In one of Lord Glenelg's letters on the edition a still stranger confirniatinn of nil his views on this particular case After he had returned from thn Government of Uppef Ca- nada, Sir George Arthur, who succeeded totally iffiioriint of the existence, either in tliis office or any other dei>aitineiit of the Slate, of any such pniclice us that to which you refer,' — pp. 2C0, 2(il. Wc apprehend that poor Lord Glenelg is ).im, iuvestigated Mr. llidoiit's case, by order I noi» no longer 'so totally ignorant of the of the Colonial O.Vice ; every chance was ' pnictico, even in the Colonial Office, of re- given to Mr. Ridoni, in Sir Francis Hcad'a iiiovmir a public officer without giving him a abseucc, of sliowiii^' cause (or bia reetoralioii previouB cxplttonliou of all thy reueons ut s^^sss;. ■■'iMfei., 11 I ,' I i f 16 I •neh « prooeeding.' Wo arc oiiriou<) to know I with wbtl i'oeliiigs (liH Kroiit Somnambulist,\ who WKllied HO unconociuuAly out ot Duwiiin^- 1 -', Slnat into Ueorj^e-feitreot, niiiHt luivo readi thiB pMugA. wliicli li« |i(!rh«p8 did, iur tliol irtt luiit), in Sir Frauuia Utad'n printed .: |l«ffM. But whilo the directions for tiie pniinolioii ' of Bidteell, a,M(i the itlill nuire impuriuiu iiiun-i 4laie for llie rttatoratioii uf Riduut vvi'iti uii ; (lieir way--the inijurr«oliuii broke out, and | the rebola attacked Toromo wiiii tiie imiou of BlOWGLL M conspicuously prominent on tlieir traitor- AU8 fluj; as it had prcviouisly beeu in tliu re- coiniiieudatory dispaicliuri of the GoloiiiaT Office. Sir Francis' policy wa« duw tu bej brought to another great and awl'ul irial. Ii ^ad beeu viutoriou* in the severe test of ilioj freneral election, it wii^ now to pait* ihroutjh j the appalling urdeal of fire mid blood ! and | it was again iriuinphaiii. iSuch things lo^e ! iiiiuch of their welLuieriti'd fume by bciu^ per- 1 i'ormed on a distant and narrow Hlage ; but is I there lu be l-uine men lu tea gave up Caiiadii AS lost, or only to be preserved by a lun^ and 1 Jiloody struggle. How unexpected tlie result' —tlfflavit Jjeud, el d'usaipautur I The provi- ' 4leiilial policy whic 1 liad brought the Ciina- ! dtait people to a true sentiment of iheirsooia',! 1 Aheir moral, and their sacred duties bore its| I Jiappy fruits — and ofier a short ihoui,'h sharp I I >Conte8t, the Cauadas have been, in spile of' I njl the luismaangemeut of Downini;-str(ict, | /Molted to tlte inothur country in tits inorej / ^r«ng, uore affectionate, and more lusting — / }f Lord Durh;;ui'd lui^siou iias nut unpaired / jthcni — than ever. i We wish we had room ibr a republication { lof the dispatches (with lliu impurtunt passngos ' ^suppressed by liie (Joverniu 'iit ui U)iii>') jti, ivhich Hit Franciii announced this inurul tri>' (imph — moral we (.all it, fur arms had le»s to «lo with this Victory tdan any that evr was' won — ill which he does suco gratufol ho-' nour to 'the noble |)rovinco,' m he justly' icalis it, and in wliich vill be iuux] the best defence of what we tvill call — m detiaiice of powning-Str^-'ei-— the noble policy by wh oh jie had prepared this result. Una letter, how.- ever, describing the capture of the American pirate Caroline, is too r«iuiirkab|e — both for ihe eveulfl it tells, and iheMtylo of narrative — to be wholly o-nit't'd. Oir extract will bf* ot 1 isonsiderable length, but no reader will wish : that we had curtailed a word. • A^Duon m I fuiiiid llmt tins ixiitinn ofthci flri-' tUh Hiiipire Will) peilidioiuly iiiliicUi'd iiiitt jmv.hIimI ' by AiiuTii'iui cili/.uns, umlcc AnioriiMii Icmb-iii 1 tunnitil "(ioiiiMals" — tliiit mtillory niul int)»l(1 a (hnrt way ttboM the gruut i'ulU it( Niut;uru] ' biiluiiging lu Hur Mi^emy, wait iictuidly itui/.(Hl by American* — that buttoriuH wuro riii'ined thnrt', IVuin wiiiidi uhut wpi°c fiiiMi for niuny duya upon tlio inolfiMiiui9 IVoni the Amuriciin xhuiv, with pro- visionH and rnnnitiiinii nl' wur, I appruvtid of iho roconiniini(lul'nin uf Culunel M'Nub, ooinmandini; un thu Nia(;iini i'ontici', lliiit u riaMtl (on:o ur llu- lillti, unii>T nfliciM'd ofuxporiniu't*, nhould be cunitti- iiituil ; uiiil, n^i'liuj; that it wniiid bii unjngl, that, in till! niiint! of her MajcHty, I idiould ruquiro naval olFiccrii to Inavit iliu back woikU, into which tliuy iiail I'ctirod, witlnnit n'CA>e,i)\/Mig tlit-m in the pro- fcseiioiial iM|ia<-ily in whinb J had »>npcrinlly called tliimi into Huliun, 1 dirocleJ my niilitui'y Sucrutary, Colonel Structinn, to furwui-d to C'uluiud M'Nab u wiitlfii rumnniinciitiun, dirooting him to call upuii suuli naval oilicur^ in tliu province as lici might doeni proper to nrluct. to atVord mo thuir services, on the iuidiM?4tan(lini;; that lh<>y would ruceivo their full jmy dnrinj; tlio period thi-y wtnv thus publicly em- ployed by mo on her Mujosly's servico. In cun- Hiupionce of the abiivo cumniunica'iun (which I at ouce think it li^bl to acknowledge contains no au- thiM'iiy beyond wliat the Lords uf the Admiralty may, I'nun thu enieri^enry ol'tlie case, deem propel to coiilirm to it) Colonel M'Niib culled upon Cun- tMiii Drew, K. N., to eollertand commund a Itotilla ^ift^un-boiitH ninl oiliei cral'l, to be immediately fit^ led out for the purpose of attacking Navy Island. U'liile the g-un-boats were being pi-epured, tllu Anierii-an force, under llio American commander slyliiig hiinsclf (tenerul Van Kensseloei, continuuil, day after day, to tire from Navy Island upun thu iinoll'er.dinif inlmbiliinlH of the Niagara frontier, nllhoiiijb not a yun had been fired on the part of the Uritish, ulthungb the American forces on uur island were daily increa^iing, ,ind allhuu<;h a stcam-bnm, cbarlored by these pirates, was uotually employed in trunsportin;; to the island munitions o( wur fur the purpose of u^gnivating thu insult which, in u nionieiii of profound peace, hail purlidiously been luuJi! by Aniericun cilizeiis upon ber JBiUoiii; Ma- Jesly's (loniiiiiuus. Under ibcso ciicumstuncps, Cu- lonel M'Nab determined, as an act of self-defence, tu call upon Cuplnin Drew to cupture, burn, or destroy this steam-boat. Arcordintf ly about eleven o'clo. k the same iiiiiilit, Captain Drew, with tivu boats, euiilaining ninu men each, pushed utl' front the liiilisb shore. Tin' bunts were coininanded by Cipliiiii Drew, |{. N., LieuU'iiniif .M'Coiniuck, It. N., Liuut.'naiil .loin: Klnisley, It. N., Lieutenant ChristopbiT Heer, R. N., and — " ' Gordon, i» commander of a strtuin-boat. ' As son n as they wore clear from the shore, Gap- lain Dirw ordeivd his followers to rest for a few moments on their oars, und. wliili; the current was hurrying ibrin towards the Kulls of Niaguru, whieh were iiniiiediately below ih'Mii, he briolly explained to till* ci'i'w the duty lu^ reiptirrid them lu perlorni and tliu post respectively to bu ussi^'iied to uuiJi. tSilenco'wus then preserved until CupUiii Drew's lio'it came witliin Id'teen yards uf the Hteann.T, (wliieli was oliscuiely seen moored to tlm Ameri- can wliiirf at Kce-t Schlosscr,) when the sentiiinl on buuril in a hurried miinner culled hIioiv, with pro- fli Nub, ooiiimamlinir I u iiiiMtl fon;a u, (1^ nee, hIiouIU bo cointj. iilJ 1.11 iiiijiisi, that, ii) hImiuU rutjuiru naviil '"!<, into \vllii;h lliuy "g eli.'iii ill the pro. hiid tNporially called ly iiiiliimy Secretary •" Co|o„„J M'is'nb ^ intf biiii to call u|ioii oe us ho might Uoeiii thoir »prvice«, on tho »i lueeivo thnir full [■'■ Ihuin publicly em- » iiervico. In con- !"ic-n-,ioii (which I at •'ge cuntaiiiH no au- " of tho Admiralty ' cmc, deoiii propeV l> culled upon Cup- i uoinniunH u (lotilU be iniMicdiutely ft* '•king Nnvy |»hiiirf. i"g pivpar.-d, thu friruii cominaiiilei' imeiuei, continuuil, y Island upon tho Niugnra frontier, ' on the part of th.. Ji'cos on our ijthuid 'Sh n stoam-bonr, iielually «inploy«d 'litions of war fur iisult which, in u JJerlidiuusly boon tier JBituiiji; Ma- rcuiiistuneeK, Co- •I of aelf-ilefciu:,., "Ptiiiv, burn, or itf ly about eleven ■>rew, with fivo 'uslied oH' from >|oinnmndeil by ^I'Coiniuck, {{. ■V-, IJiMiteiiant ■ tiordoii, a tbe ihorc. Cup. rest for a fo\y *» oiirrunt ««h ^iiiffura, whieli •ielly explained em to iierforiii •fe'ni'il t,i uar;li. "I't^in Dri'w'.s 'he sleiinier, • tliH Auiori- he iienliiinj on " Uout alloy ! '^ man in ih,. Kijond !" on cisiffii. "I'll 'nl," replik-d S elose to Out iiiiifwny, aH.I "How him, it '"Ue, hi! wn< ^- Cuptnin •«-' of iviiyijj firod hit muitkot cloae ro hit face, but ndi'inj;, he i f Captnin Drew] iniiiiediatfly cut liiin ibnvn. Cap- ! tain iJrew then disublid uimlher of the pirnles ; i and, with the Jlal of hi* sword, drivtii(( lliu niber I three before birn, occaitioiuilly huateiiiiiir tlieiii with ' the point, Im niiule ibi'ni step fiiiiii the Vfstid to I the wharf. Hy this time LiiMiteniint MH-'oriimck | had boarded on the slaiboiiiil bow, and, it beiii;^ ho I dnrU tlint be ciiiild lint i-pco^ni/.e the men be loiiiid | liieie, ho a:*Ue'l lliein "if lliey Were fiionils iH'ene-j miis /" One nf ibetn replieil " An oiicniy I" mid, immedi*tely firing, hIioI him t'iron;;h llm lel't mm I T.ieuteiiant M'C'ormai'k iiislantly rut tlii-i iimffl down; neveral of the piraten then fai'd upon Lii ii-; tenant M'Corniiirk,aiiil vMiiiiidi'd liiiii in live plicen ; yet, in spile of ibiii, lie clfertimlly di«;ililed niiolber of them, uiid theji sinkiiit; frmii lii.4!i of Itlnud, the vesnol wn8 carrieil ; when C'liplHin [)iew iminodi- utoly ordered a party of bi^ men to ciii her olf Ii was, however, found that she wiu moored lo ihi- whurf liy ehuina from tiie bow mid (|uiirtcr, which •it required nearly lifteeii iniiiiitc9 to iiidoose. iJu- rin;; thii) delay ihe Americiin <;ii;ird stalioii»d at tho inn above Fort Si^lilo^.^er turned out, and com- meiicod firiiig upon t)ie nuiuiliiiilii ; in eoni>ei|Ueiiue of thii), Lieutenant l-jlmnley, U. N., lu'.idiii,5 u vol- unteer parly of :.ikteeii nKii, nrnioil with iio'liint; ■but their cullut^iieM, udvuiieed u')>ut thirty yuidj row iird'f them, mid fiPirnin^ a line, lliey .i;nlliiiillv ' «tuod there to |>roieot the ve«ael iit'nin.Hi the Anieii-, •can ritlemen, until the chaincubkii were eiini nif. , U'ho I'rews, now returning lo ilii ir respective lionts,' towed the vessel from the wimif; Imt tli ■ rnrifin ■irrevociibli) Jrifling her tiiimrds thf FiitU nf Si \ ■ofliirti, Cii(iluiii Drew assisted by one niaii, sfi hei ; on tire; and, a-i noun a.i !«lie was fiirlv Inwid iiitij| the stream, the assniiuntA, finding that t>lie wa>| more thr.n they could hoM, lei her go; nnd, ^iv-l ing her three British clieerH, they rapidly pulird : away for their ovin shore, while tho piruie Hloiimer j ■lowly gliditd towards her doom ! A aniiill li^iii | glowing witliiii her suddenly burst from hi'r hold,! and ill u few mirmles llie yiii'ly ve^^ii, ciivi'lii|Feil i in Humes, was seen liiuryiiig towmds the riiplds. | down which she hnstily deiceiidcd, iiiilil — leiirliinp j the crest of the (inMt Uorse-slioo t';ill — iirfrsht' went. ! Your Lordship will iiiia;;iMe, belter tiiai ' it is possible to describe, the si>leiiiii iimt;iiitiiH'iici i / of this spectacle; yet it does not e\cei'd i!ie ituirui ! picture r-xbibited at the capture of the vessel. I 'The Justness of tho cause;, the noble project oi the attack, tho eoolueds wiiii which it w:)s ejiecu- ted, anil, lastly, the mercy that was shown by our tiruve fellows the moment tho vessel was their own, are naval ihuraclerislics wliicli leilecl honor on the British eiiipiro in general, uud on tliis noble pro- i \inr,e in piiliciilar. I therefore feel it my duly lo ; request yuor Lordship lo l;iy my humble lesliiuony ; ■of tho merits of Ca|tiiiii Oit^w ( whusc iiitcipidiiy ; ■and generosity are beyond nil priiise) befme the . Lords Commissioners of the Ailiuirully, touho^e Jibuial coKsideiHlion I beg leave most earnesily, I bMtTespoj:tfully to r<.)Comnieiid hini. j iilso feel it jny duty to bring befoiu llieir Lorilsliips' espi'.'ial \ consideration ihe case of Lieiitenaat M'C^oiunu k, | who is still lying on bis bnck complrlely disalilid ; ' aiiil I much fear thai one of his f ve wounds will re- i t|uiie the amiiutalion of his lei, ai iii.'' 7'liis loss,, ■to a backwouds-maii, ur.jn wlio-i'; manual Uibor his ; family is ilependeni for support, is irieptiiablo ; nnd ! 1 feel conlident ihal her Majesi}'* (jovermneni, * ' I visited this oHicer shortly after ho wat= j iirought on shoif, witli live giin-jhol wiiiiiiils///)o»','A ! •Kim. He w;is of course in ii high 'evi'i ; but t\enj in that "tale, he expn-ssed the s;ili>rariion befell; At having liad an Apporluniiy of seiviiig bin coun- ' *ry.' will consider that, at it it highly advantiigeotit HtM tho Queen should be enabled to call upon tli« retij'- eil nuvril iillUvrs in this provirnie whenever their prolessionul tiiTvices on the lakes niuy tuddciily bu reipiired, so it is not only just, but politic, that, if ilisidiird, iliey shou'd not be allowed to suflisr fruia privations which niii;ht lend lo detiT others from following their noble and patriutij ?xuiuido.'— i'p. 37r-:i8:|. VVhat mind, l!i;it h«8 been rxcited by this pant ramie nnd beart-t^iirrin;; narrni.ve, wiH hciir withiitit ii reviilscOii ofd Kgust and sham* that Captii n Dri w nniJ Lieuteiidnt M'Cor- ni;ick reinaiii, M far ad we cm liiscover, nn- rewntdod, iindisiingni-'iieil.nnnofitjod ! Thii may be nn ant to coufliiulttUt} AinericanB — ft mifcriih'tf poiiev, wnich will fail in that ob- j -ct, but may not, alax ! fail in uUenaling the Camidiuiii'. On Kir I'Vaticis Henil'n return, his vrryfirM iirjrency — lur bel'ori! ;iiiy personal — even be- I'lire any trciier.ii objects — waa to r'|Jcat—^tij press on tlio Coldiiinl Spcntary, the ein.ma u|)on II r ;M;ijes y s (;3 .vc riimei.t of Colonnl Fii/.(re.v, wiio liai] eoniinaiuied the uueuessi'ul :iMafk of Ihn (^'urcdine ;— of Licutenniii Mo- Corrriaelc, wlio lind bren there wounded and dipiihled ;— and nf ihn widow of Uoh nel Mooilie, who hud been cmelly murdered a;* he wnH gallitnily brinijing iiilelhgenco of iha a|iproaeli of t!ii> rehela. Wo beiiovo Unit Lord Glonclg hasrvapora- tfd front Dowiri'jj sUeet without hnving «r- coinpliohed any o.ie of ' theie duties' (us Sir Francis ju^tly ci'lla Item) * t.f public gioli> tndo for pnbl c seivues ;' but not, we htar— • for tlierp are poioia on which even a Som- iiamhulist is awaLc — without taking €aro I© obtain hig own rtliring pension. Th'.s seeina no inored.i.le— rO impossible— •hat we cculd not persuade ourselves that these debts if public i^ralilude d d realljr re- It ant unpaid — though Sir F. Head might have been ihsct nrtcously kept in ionc'rance of the t-nocesd of iiis recoininendaiions ; but we have exnniii'ed the olfical lijis, and we can- tint find that Colcn'! Fitz.Gibbon baa receiv- ed any iidvanoi m- nt. (Commander Drew la still Coiiitri»n( ( r Dnvv, but not, in othtr res- pi ctH, rtH hippy A^. be was before these events; for ho is a murkecl man — we are informed iliat twelve rnffiaiKs lately aUempted to ai<>, aid aa it bocius lo M4 IS f 111 i 11. ty pntU'iitlv to xuliiiiil to tiii rcinurks; but. whtn it i* nonsiiforeil tliut I'lirlmmont muy \m iidvi««ii l>y ht>r Mnienty'H (iuvornrnnnt tu IcgitlcU* upon thU nioKt ininrliiKvoHii Hoi'.iiiiiiwit, I It'el it my citity to jiiiii wild ilic lost id'tlio ctiminiiuity in gravaly con« unaniwerable Ivttcr, (already alludnd tn,) ad- 1 liki" him ImtUcil ii|miii TritMli North Am*ri*ia In deeMed, on ilie IStli Hupirmber, ItiiH to her •f""'''""!. "•"• "P"" ' t'l"" tmioUa in imriiciil»r, llaJMiy'a First Minister, with an urjrent re- i»"""R'< • kI'""* •''" ki-Mo.l. que«l that his l^-rdship would allow the Writer ' . ' ^ ", I'-.-l'''' i'"*' '''• f"?'' "J/;:'*!""^?..:.^"? ■u opportiiMity o\ tstahlishiuir the truth and ,,,^ d„em.H it i.i..p«r •» i-ov'il., will fe-l it tbelrdu jusiicu of his represniilaiiuiis. In r«|)iy to ' - tliis coiiimiiiiicaiiiiii, Lord Molhuumo, in a nute inarlieu ' |)rivui«>,' declined to acccdo to his ri'qiir'st. Hir Frnncis bowud duiilully. tboiuf'i reluctHtitly, to ih 9 ilocisioii ; and tin,, . - . . Whi.lo of lli.s..- m.irvuUoiih iirof.'LMlii.gJ would ^"l-ri..^ «h:ii opimnumiy Lord Ua.hi.mhM h»d have rentHined b.ir,t'd •.. ti.e d.rcnet d.iet "f : ";;;;,;;;;,;;";^, '.l"" "'""-'""S "P""""" '^'"«»' •"» P'"- Downi.,tf StroHt, but for tho forruimto appear- j f"'!'.".');,-,"'„V<" [a r.ivorito phrasH of this aeeurate ancoof LurJ UurliBiii'a Vdliiiniiioim and (ani ,{,.|,„r,] ^\^^^ |„« Lo.il.hip cnm« up the St. Law- Sir Franoii courteous. y admits) • Ulliothu- ; ,.,,1,^,, j,, a m. un-lM.iit exclusively appropriated tu tionally' calllinnioiis ij>'^ur^ ! hiinnflfiind hix stiim; — thut on urriviiigf at Kings- Having already toiiuht'd on nosrly nil llie l ton tm kindcd tu rori-ive on »ddre»«, and thon pro- queatioiiod points of Sir Francis Head's po- ' <-HCilml by wimr to Ningma, whor« he pasted tha licy, it were neodluss, even if W) had room. '-^""'"v town wiilmut receiving the a.ldr«8 that was JO r-consider them with reference to y^<^r,\\^''T'^^T^'\'"yTT"l^^^ n . , , ., , ' 1 — iliiit Ht the riills hi* l^ordiihip remained about purliain .. several HSscrtjorifi ; I lose who wish , r„„^,, ^ „f ^.hicb time ho wa* unwell, part for a nearer view of Iheum qusl coiilPit nmat' „, ,|nv,.ted to miliuiy review, and the greater •ead Sir Frauc s's Volunin, and by few who ,,„ri in reviving Ainorii-«iii» and others wlio attend- call iheiiiselves r 'iidura will it bo unread. — i i-d hi* Lordship's lovi^es, balls, and dinners; — that Uut we cannot oinil the iMdi;;n,iiii, yet nniilB- ! thus iiitnuly occnpind, he ha.\ not time «o visit tha io^, picture which Si ~" tile unjust und doginaii liain'H liepurl, compart le iiidi;;n,iiii, yet nniHH- . thus uitniily occnpind, he tioil not time to visit IIm r Fraticia Head givea ol ' 'n.Ht iiit«rt'»tiiig pwit of liio Wollund Canal, which :ical spirit of Lord Dur- «»" «."'"" «'« ""'"' a|i'»«»>Kh '''% V,'l',''nn f r''"'' vd i.iih iKo iinl.lp I .irdV ofterod to prootiro a jnitii-s for nttaiuing oven mie jot of iiitoroiation on the th.ii'sand and one •ubjects of which he eo dictatorially treats. ' Although bnt little versed in hisuiry, I firmly htdiBVK it nuwhvre contains u mure aflecting picture than has beeu exhibited to ihc civili/cd world lor with a»iu:i': 11 -.i.u tbiil I.M'd Uuiliain, uith thi glaring eviJcii' i' K'Tire bun, ii'uiil clcliLieriiii'ly He- «lare lo on. yo.iOifi. (J'l.'ci tlmi Ums poi:pji :■!' Up- per Canarlri ur.' ili.-'siirir>iii*il vmiU ihi-ir inHiiiuilors — that he .•ouM p.j-..«ilily fiiul n his i. uit lo slIivjIi n rij.f'rt lo tier .Vi<|fsly w'liiuul n sii]i;li; woiil of com- nilsenttiiiii nl'lli..' uii.'x.iiiipled siiUmngs a liich hud atllicted — wiiiiout 11 siiij^li' wui'' ol approba. 'on for the gallaalry uud tid^'lity wl. . a hud distingiiinlii'd her .Maio! ue tlut Lord l>ui- hot •! i.Kwhirh had be"n previously cJt^ansed of eve- ry v.-ii, r, ill.. iijicl..liip'i, lUireer rcti.'iiibled tlien.tursa lof K h. avei.iy Mieli'or; biit udiiiliing all this, ad- initiiiii; ilie wei.^lit .md roM^idenition it very pro- perly i.l.tuii.i'd lor iii-' !'>rdsliip, yet ns not i'nly the weltii.' ;ii(i [lie very exii-lenee oi' our North Ameri- cuii <' 'i.riiips, but ot ourint«rest« tit home, huiii;up> on I lie .rr'portance ilue to Lord Durham's Report, I beg lvr»; lo bay. 'hut, in my bimilile opinimi, under «'Hn ciicumslrtneos, bi^' IhkIsIhi) had not as much nifuiu i-f writing the history of the AmorirSn and Canadiiin territories l»etween whioli ho saUed, •• poor, i/ttd Lieuttmaiit lialmaH, Jt. M., would ml nil ajesty's IJovernment ;— that in crossmg Toronto' ho touched at ihe termination of the Ca. nsil in Lake Dntario wilhout insjiecting the work ; — thut at the seat of government at Toronto he spent twcKty-l'oiir hours, principally occupied witli n l.'veo, receiving uddrossis, and with a state din- _ ^. ner; — that his L.)rd8hip then made the best of his the last two years, by the biavo resislnnce which | way hark to Montieul; and lh« in such exclusive a small British population Las been making against dignity did he navel, he woulil not allow even tha thu unprincipled ottacks by which the Americans I public mnil to he taken on board at Cornwoll, by have endeavored to force upon them repuMicun in- j which it wus delayed u diiy. _ i stitutions. Tlie instances of individiiiil courii|;e ' If the above reports Iw correct, it would appear . J that could be delailetl uro iniiumeruble; while, on | that his lordship left Lower Cnniidii only lor tun ; tlie other hand, ide conduct ol' ide u^suilunts | d»ys, ihirinji ^vhich lime he had to travel by water j* has been stamped by cr.ielly and cowardice. I j uboiJtJOj)Ji_miles. /// / roust own, tlint wtieii ! d.iily ibink of tho number! ' Atlboiigh tlie preredmg fiovprnors and Lieu- of our soliliir^ who have liutini. Iv fHllen — of the ! tcriunt-tiovernurs of iboCiinadus have formed their snanner in which Colonel Moudie, Li Mil. Weir, ei«(ininle of tho country und iohahitants by person- Lieut, .Tidinsoii, Stiifl-s.irgcon Iliimc, i uve been i Hlly visiting them un ensy terms; although even his butt-hered asd mutilated — of tho privii i'Mis and | Grace the Duke of Rii hniond (whoso noble memo* losses the r>eoplo of Upper Canada luivo natieutly ' ly in the Canadas is deeply respected) rode post •ndurnil ; un.l 'vhou, on the other listid, I reflect ilirough tho province iust. as our country gentlemen that, on liie last inviisiun ut S.iudwich, u body of i tji'ty yeiirs njio used tu rido through Lngland ; yet I Amei'icao sympailiisers, escaping into our woods, | rHnniit luit admit that the halo of glory which eve- remained tlieie starving from hiui;;:er und cold — | ry wliero accompanied his lordship, tiie "champ de not daring' anywherutu ask even shelter, of (li«s deling through the province until, worn out by the I vvard appearance, and 1 therefore will not deny piMiishniRiit of their guilt, they perished in the ibr- 1 that ns my Lord Diirliani, surrounded by a brilliant •St in such numbers, tb..t ninrtecio corpses were in ' staff, and nnprcjudife I bji the converialion of a 0DS spot found frozen to death round the while L{n<,-Ve6''('i(i'^i. ascended the grenl St, Lawrence, cmliers of a fire: — I own that when these two pic- [end iruvfrsiinr the nobie Lake Ontario, which is tures co'ne lu^.^tli- : •.'■I'liro niy mind, it is filled : forty miles broad, proceeded to Niagara, the tine ml h\ hi ci h< th ti «1( la C •n , ,0 V ^ As '«li North AiMfirira U i-Niioda in {lariioular, ^Mlc anihoritle* whom • "i«hComnii»»ioii«r. k will ftwl in heir tJu^ » romurUij bin. when '■nt muy Im «dvii«d by •" legitlait upon thia - I Itel It my duty to n'luity in gravely coo- ".rH L»u.hftm hni had "iiioD, wjiich are pro- firiiMiiofihii„,.e^^a<, nnif) upihoSt. Law- 'ivcly appiopriatea tu '" "fiviiig at KitiM. Idresii, and tlion pro- whcrii he paiied the •no D.IJreM that waa «"thii.inl«bitante; n"|> remained about lie wax unwell, pan 'w, and the greater I others who attend- uiid dinn«r« ; — that "»l lime to vi^it the pllund CannI, which Ins Lnrdnhip had "f £150,000 flora nut in cniiiMiiig to "nation of the Ca- Meeting th« work ; e»t at Toronto ho ally occupied witii i wilhn atate din- nde the best of bit in such exclusive "ot allow even the d at Cornwall, by t. it would appear iii'Irt only for ton to travel by water / Tnors and Lieu- hftve formed their itanu by perton- although even hi« i"»o uoble memo- acted) rode poM >untry gi'ntlomen I I'.nglan.l ; yet I glory which ove- liie "ehamp de landed tie wet •indas a very fv nyo led by ouu > will not deny p*-*^ ^*'/. ^si *^^ ^'-/ ^<'^^v*'^ iU y «'. ,i,-v-»- /) — r yU- havii f«wc««oJ, had be iocifllly trnvellud llio laine! Sir rpregrino Mailluiid, who, m L{aa(unant-(7o di*taiK'« by public convoyaiico*.' — pp. 470-476 And tliRii iSir Fmncis v>'ry modvHtly and ■enaihly qiioitionR wliotlier — ' Hi* lorduhip, in fivo iloyii' nailing tlu'oiigh Up- per Caiiadii, hi\» Uucomi' liiell(thH lute LiHoloniint-Uoveitiur of Now l^'unAwick,) to bo of thnf opinion — Hud, inomover, that flio if Liciitcuiant-CioM'niiirs of utl rim Piltlnh f.^olonirn wrni lo l)«> oxiimined bj your Lordihip, tlicir tiiHtiiiiony vii.uM, fi'Moiully uppaltinif, tub Hluntiiiti' rnllirr thnn deny v.lint 1 Imvi' -"iirud. ' Y ;iir lordithlfi muit, ofcour^i-, Im> nv>.in , that N momirchy niitv hr mochiuiuiilly lou. r, .| mio u ro- pulilic by mcuiiH ni' nn iiicliiicd pliin.-. ili'- itngio of which nmy be ho acuie, ihiit lliu hioI u « Id ;i com- iiioji observer appears to !.o level. — Ad iliul llii» may be luoclicHlly etIVcicd by ii sprnt inllv.enie, which it nuiy be niinn.*! itnpossible to detevi. ' For iiiHtiinci>. ilun! nmy bo appointed to tbn pivernnirnt of her MajemyV rolouies a seriei of niilitHi-y men, each igiiorant of iho priiici))! ;« of civil government, us well us unucqiininted wi'.h tho various clasxes of Rocii'ly ol' which it \> con pimed. moral and Stric. religious principles of gentle | The llpulenant-govrrnors. ohservmg that they are manners, of a lettered inind, antl so essir'sil- np|ilauded whoncvcr they concede any thing to tho ly arittocratic in his piusonal feelings, sa, to H.)U; d" what all tL u III I I c J I iniMtiti'V men ni'u iintorally uisposed to do, namely, he House Lords, and assumed a teuda. recKle-sly to carry into effect L .;«V,7 of their in! title to which be luu, we believe, the slen- gtructlon's. • So long OS they do thin, they may peacefully en- joy their stutions ; but when experience in their new derest of ciniiii.i ; bow such a man, in Eng- land, should he a favourer of ■lemocracy in Canada? The answer is, that his lordshij) professions opens their eyes — when rcHection slag- wa« no intentioniil favourer of dfiuocracy, sers tboii Jud7nient,--wlien beginning to porceive hut that the love uf (luiet and the |ove of ^*;",V.'"'""'''*'"""I" "l"" '" '""'"•''r""'"' " "^'' P'=°' place, operating on no very ma.sculine under- I^'" ";";•"»-; rather than sat.aie tho «ppeti.e,-they '^. .. • II- u . • 1 1 L 1 lappeal to llie i.eloiiial-vJincc, ana, in Inneuaeo Standing, made hlin what is Vulg:r.ly hut ex- l^Vlitary ratlu-r timn d,|.tomat.c, bid them "L preSSIVely called the cafe pow of soma stlOll-|//,.,„." ,hen, and from that moment, they may ini- ger, or at least shrewder intellect, vvhxil ui- ''mediately fmd themselves iinaccomilnUly Rlllirted rected to its own aims his lordsllip's lie' with » swentiup xichieas, which i* » ^um precur- quently unconscious nr'OVements. jsor of their removal. The language of praise " -. — .... . I . , .L jjipy ^^y receive slight re- d to the appoint- gentleman wliom we nave „ -. ,; f •' ^ •,•"■"■• Pr"P'«.«;!"' ;'.PP'"'« 1 I . II "^ , t.. I tlieiniMtlie colony mav bo raised to distinction.— glanced at as .Mr. Overs, crttary Stephen. ,.,„y ^^.^.^^ dispute* in'which ihey mav bo involved He first opens his geneial proposition,— mny invariably be decided agmnsl them,— their 'The loyal Uritish population of tho Canadfis | tiny uulhonty in lire colony may contiiinally bo «ha- Iniidly complain that lln-re exists hi tho ro/owtc// j ken. until, by a repeiiiion of jietty circumstances, department an invi»iblc ori'rni/in/f influrncc, which inortil'y rather than otl'end, they may l>ecome iwhich cither favors the inlrodnclion of republican ! 'lisin'sted with their duty, they niny iiitempernlely principbs as productive, in tlu'oiy, "of the great- 1 pu'lier their resignation, a now man may be ap- lest happiness to the greatest number," or, acting I pointed, and the sumo process may be renewed. onder the mistaken persuasion that democnicy I ' Th" whole of these eircHmstance.* may occur, must ineviiablj prevail over thiA rotitiicnt, deems ihe democr:itic jiowev may L'rndiinlly bo increased, it politic to clear tho way for its imioiluction, ra- 1 the inlluence of tbe executivo may gradually be di- ther ihan attempt to oppose ii« progress, in slimt.i niiiiished, the whole loyal po|iululion may become it has for many years been generally belitjved tlni, ■ indignant at observing their iiipvitabic declination This theory Sir Francis Head adopts, and teases to ciu or them,— they may charges, directly and by name, this baneful ^'"'^"''-''.''■r'""" "'"v ^, ■""'•"•' influence on the Kentleman whom we have '''""'V'^^'^'VJry ■"">' '"«•*'' -I" however loyal muy be the head of the colonial di jiartmant, its heart is in favor, not only of repuh lican institulions, but of the expediency of assist ing rather than of retarding ibe launching oin North American Colonies into that vast ocean oi democracy . 'If a statement of the above opinions were to reach your lordsliip anonymously, oi bearing the signature of a few individuals, or even of a larjre body of individuals, it would, of course, be test aside as contemptible; but your Lordship, whose attachment to the British Constitulio'i is well tuw'uicls democracy, and yet thoie may be no parti- iii.nr moment, or no one particular circumstance ^ ilhcieiitly itrong to arouse the colonial minister to .1 l-iil ih)* i|.iit>sli»ii w Ii4'ilii r li m tltim^ lliiil m I »'iiiiiiN n i'Imii',(i' •liiiiilil 111' i:iiii\i'vi'(l in rticli ii luriii { an.< nut m lie ilii- ; »cr» by poinpoiis pLruSoj tium wiiut lu- bflicv- «d to lie thi' truth. The rfl'cllinri broke oul, iiml in the s;imr ^!i|idtcli that Hnnoiiiircd its sii|ijirts>i>rili>lii|i'> f uUrr-tftretiiri/, tlu> iiutlior of ony nth'iiiiii ili't- fxii'cheih a tH\i\^ ri'imlili';'!' liif «riiiiiiiihM, liu tiDiiiliiel, Riid liiii |)<'nticul elxriiRicr. arr. Iim- iiliki , d'leilel, mid I nicloie t" y 'Uf'i'rit'liili Mr. M'Km- X v'a Uit ntiwii|ia|>er, n'liicit, truili>riiiii Hi il ia, cmi. tmiit niHliiUK inure eoiiduriv* In irrnimi llniii |lic «XiracU wliii'li »• il« li'Ki, it txiilliiigly i|.ii>ir> fnim ilie iinblinlicd i>|ii >iiiii>i nl lli-r .Al.ijcily'a Undir'Kcmlitry uT iStale i>| ihr ('oloniHn I ' Tlien* •riitlni.'iitf hive Hire ndy been vt ly cl'ur- ly i>X|irr«ti>d by dim tn ynr l<>ri-i, l!*f^ . iiid I uui rifcelly coiitultMit ilmt llic iriiiiii|ili which (hiaim lie iirovmve liaa K"'"*'' ^>ll in-V'-r h c'iiii|>!('l<* iiilii the (imiTnnit'iil sbull ri'm'trf from o'Jii-e n nnti mko, by 'lifi-rjuriij;iit!! Ilie titiirt iind twi'mni^his .'"' !iiiinf<'rl''i1, kttf lit hut iuecfe.le I in involriiiff the C.i,ii>.l,\i r,( riri/ irrir.' — pp. li'.'ti.iVJ*. We Hie iiiit much surprised that, on thi- rlose r{ siich a conflict, Sir V. Head, like llotsjnir, - ' nil umiirtiii; with hi" vroirnd», Out iif bi« )>riri aiul hit iinpniiciici .' , at (he fatal use which Mr. M'Ken/ie had made of Mr. Stephen's cvidfncr, should have; •xpre.iised hiinsi'lf sonipwhat warmly on such a subject; but there is one point--aiid but «n«, as far as we know — in which he lilames Mr. Stephen for wh;it wa^, we think, the fault of others. Mr. Stephen's rr/i/j-Ktv before a Cn'mnit- tee of the House of ('(imniiins in 18'2K was/ as quoted i^ .Ur, .VAt/iii>, as follows ; — ; '' It 19 iiBpnurihle, toys Mr. Slephenf, In nup- po«c the ('inHdia'is ilri'ud yiiir pnuiT ; it H ti'X cany to believHihsit the abstr.ici iliiiy nl li>y.>liy, aa Ji>- (11)1(11 thcd rrdin (he liouliiiiciit of loyally, ran he v»ry flrnnisly kll . The nulit I'f ri ji-cIhib; ICiiin' praii dniuiiiinn has breil no ntleii a»»ei'lcd in Nnrlh and Snuih America, that icvnlt i-aii xcarrt-ly In- es* IfeincH in lhi>»c t'liiitini'iita U4 crinimul or din^i';iCe' ful. Neitlipr (lo«ii It lifein in in* t'lut n st'im*- oi' im- tiniml priiif. ov importance i< in yniii- (avin-. It cm lint be rpfrurdt'd un an iiiviahlr
  • .|iD('li'>ii tn n iiiitin tkt only depeudt-nt pnrlinii <>l Ihv iNuw Wnrld." These are unfortunate, and as we tliwik, qtiile unfounded opinions ; but ii8 Afr. Stn- jihen happens to entertain them we do not see how lie, irv particular, can be blamed for having; stated them. The systnm of invitirijr |iragmatical ecoiion ists to paiade ni"re tlim- lies and opinions botore Patliam'-nt ;iy ('oni- mittee*, under the name and preten.'e of jriv- iTie fvidmieff is one of our recent and most offensive ab'ulpabilily, tv;is in the iMiiiislfis, who, alter the ]iublictitii " rank n-pulilicaii," and my "ifn' litii'iilh" arc cliariel«ridciicc ;>ivi n by nic, in the year lH:i8, belnre » ccimmitti'i* nl' the llnii«e nf I'ntii- niniii, sniDi' pakka;;ei which A« hn» ilttathtd from till} riinlf.ll. Vnu « ill imiili oMif;e iiic it ynii will republiih in your jnurnal ihe follnwin(;esiracl from niy evidenci'.in which I liavciiintinKUi'hed by averted rnrniiirtH llin words iiii.i'lfj I, if l^ir f'liii-fi t Henil." ' III page 27 nf lh( saoie hnnk, Kir Kiancin Head attiiliiiici In till- the no of certain txprctninna re** peclinic hi-i clficial •'\|ieii!ii'H and his claim to a narnnctey I'lmo thckr Kutijecln I nin under the pain' till neceiitily nf nppnsin); my annrlinn lo that of Sir Friinri* Head. I did not n«e the lan((n 'p"- which lie liHn atirihiiled In me, nnr any other wnrda of the . vv.i» in the I'libliciiiioii of that «-■'' Hie K'-iitleinan ^tiir.il line of life "i iiiOiiPiKiHl otlire % ni)(f rnnroovf r to »iiiil— thoprciiliar •'It MouMhe too Ml .Stf|ih«iifl tliHt pnrtiriK >■ "hirh hi.i no "nscifiilinuN, (Jie reii.lercl hiin a I'lfseiit RJuii.s. •I'""' ill accoin- s— Sir Francis || Ihf direct and ''aiMdimi reheU "to piovp that Inp pro\in„|p ^nsildf anlhoM mister? whoso so perverspjj >ngruuus posi- "•« of the case vvhal personal. The day Hfter « vvoik, the •lie ni'wspa- ' < nnoirici.B. IVain-is Hca^l I «|. mij ife*. Ilu- Mullior, "«"i', im!. i|iiii- • '" "'0 >fiir "M.e ..f j',„B- piiti- in lo that „f ''K'l'fr" which Words of the he, Sir, your 'I commas,' mf ♦ oinit- pallrativtt etiircRxionK, wlii
  • ;n lli«> accuincy of Sir Francis Head, who has literally i^iveii the tlociiment as he found it. On tin- second point — * the painful necessity' nnder which Mr. Stephen felt hii.self ' of opposing his ■ssertion to that of Sir Francis Head (on the wilijectof his oHicinl expenses and a baronet- cy,) for that ho did not iisie the lan^tnage at* tributcd to him, or any other words uf the same meaning'— we liain from the newspa- pers that Sir Francis sent a friend (Colonel Wells) lo Mr. Stephen, who expliini'd that he did not mean toattiibnte futsehood to Sir Francis Head's statement. We confess we do not uiiderstand what Mr. Stephen can mean. It is a rule of logic and common ■ense, that of two contradictory assertions one must be false. Mr. Stephen does not attri* bnto falseiiood to Sir Francis ; ergo — we leave Mr. Sli phen, who seems to be a great logician, to diaw tiie conclusion. But, su)i' posing, as we willingly do, both gentleincn to be buna fuie, and to ditl'er only fr,)m the defect of memory in one, the facts must turn the balattcc in Sir Francis's lavonr ; for the expensi'S WERE paid and, the baronetcy was granted, just rs Sir Francis iiiidcr.>tood Mr. Stephen to promise ; and we do not quite understand why Mr. Stephen should feel so much annoyed at the ini]mtatii)n ot iiaving for once held out to a loyal and distinguished public olficer hopes of just consideration which were realised by the event. If Sir Francis Head's surmise Im? jiTst, — and wc, from the internal evidence, are in- clined to believe it — that the (les])atches xigned by Lord (Jlenclg were written by Mr. Stephen — ' the voice of .Tacobbiit the hand of Esau' — we agree with Sir Francis that Mr. Stephen is an expert spacial jiieader — but the gallant Canadian peojile joined issue \Vith the teamed gentleman, and there has been a glorious verdict against him. It would not be worth while to afHliate — jf we had the means of doing so — these des* patches upon the Lord or the pleader : as specimens of casuistry they might have some backhanded merit ; as the despatches of a Minister they are below contempt. As kl* tcrs of business they are about the cluniMied and most coiituseii we ever read--mere word* catchii.g, wiih hei,-> and there a stil*ed truism which ini)^lit have been interpolated by the vpibos^e secretary himself in some waking nidincnt lo elevate the laborious liair* splittiii,; iif the chief manufacturer. In all tnt!» we have spcii of them there is icarcely a word — much W'ss an idea — that has any rcfi-rence lo the special physiognoiiiv or coir dltiou of Canada, or any individual relation to its peculiar habits or localities, its statisti' cal or commercial interests : they seem to tri'at the whole system of colonial government as » parly S(|uabble, a question of preference between this man or tliat — the favourite of the Coloniil Ollice--or the friend of the Riilish connection — in which the latter is al* ways maltreated. They might just as well — mvhilU nominihxis — have Been addressed to Tiinidiid, or the ('njie of (Jood Hope, or Australia— had there been any wish to kerp theSH ]ilacesin what is called ^o( water; they are the jirofuse palaver of a dialeciitian or conlrnversialist (batiiiir the absence of logic and the ignorance of facts,) end are no more the letters of a statesman entrusted with the practical atl'airs of a great country, than Mr. Walter Jiandot's ' Imaginary Conversations * are the • llisl,.ry of Fngland.' But Sir Francis Head does not stand alonie in this bold denunciation of the baneful in* flnence and olPicial disability of Mr. Stophen.- He adds — ' ft In iincptfiBry In my own ilffcnce, t ulionld now Inform tlio roniliT lluit iiutuiilv did injr (ircdi'tPator, Air Juliii (Ml- Ijiiriif, dimiiiiMly alliulu lo till! acrrol iir<>>non>ibria lately nddicriod to- luT Mnjenty hjr tho Li gislatlve *'o lyicil nnd Hihiho of At- HiMiililt of I'ppiT ('ntiHda, rcft'etioiiN nre driiclly mad* HKuiiiiit Mr Hl<>|)lioii'ii liilluonru hikI prinripli'i ; lliii l.cgifi- Ititivf * 'oMiicil (l(38criliing liiiu uh '* n f;iiHin« ! ' Hi'h'cIkh iliis, in tho iRidinp »riielo of IliB Mriilrsal Oa- /otto (one nf tliH Mio-^t rcupHrttihiy cnndortpd piijiera in* l.tiwt^r <.'U(mil tiy one nllii'iul win,, tniniiini'd inid uiififl(»n, lia» llii) priirlic'iil r-dMirol nf llici Cuinniul Otiice, iind \t never im iirir wiiv riHi'rrpd lo nt Imihio. It ia tim^ that lliia HyKtem' kiioiild tip nholikhfU — 11 la liniotluit the lintiiinl domitiutiotv of Mr. Citdur t^t'crelttry Slt'phcn fthonld Ifo vot rid nf nndi thai nil entirely new HVHtem of tiling:' ithrinid he adoj ted. '^ ll ii* well known that Mr. Storlion liait fur niunv year* post lieen ilie eontidontiel udviHer nnd director of the Colo- nial (h'p.iitii'iMil; nur enn it he dunbtcd that to hia evil in- 1 flnenee ntnst lie UHeiiiied all Ihc iniii^iovernmunt whidk tlu-Ha province" hn^ e Mitfer'^r for so long a period, jndend,. Bince iIkiI ;:» i.llfiiinn litis nitidn hiinaelf ao nflleinlly necPB- aary, lie Iuir ^r ij idieetl eoliiniiil inlere»tii more than he rsoi, ' hy tiny men i. , ), ipe to repair, and has eiit as en incubuf>,iiot ' only on Loid (; ' iielg'n lireH«t, Hiid Blitled hia meaaurea, hilt lina I'ipiully atitli'il Die good iiiteniiona n.s wall »» tha I firtive tibility ol'liiri liirdfliin'a predeeeaaors The lloi ae or I Aaaembly of I'ppir CiuinnH, at it« luiit seaainn, pointedly 1 noticed the intliienre of the peraoit i entioned ubora, atiii I ne triiKl thnt it will be followed up by the It gialalurva of I the other eiilmi ea : their internal pence, their advanca in prosperity, mill llieir coetinued connection wi'h (ha pa- rent eoiintry, lundly ciiU for tho exprcaaion of opinion upon: I a matter of ao niiieh imi'ortHiice to their beat iiiteteata, aud we trust that it will be openly nnd boldly avowed."' ' To thia opinion,' ndda Sir Franeia. ' which ia infinitely mnrotibly etpreataes to whom I tofer : Sir Feregn"* * He li«T« «)Ltra9llinll- MioOnwii OlRi'ira iil' ll|i|>i-i < uniiil*- I'lm IJuhIHu IImIiiii ton— thg l»'liiiui« ni out Nurlh '. iiuriuuii lulonidi — \h* Bitlmh Miirrlmiila III P.iijiliiiil ' mihii'.'I^iI wilhi'iir Nunli Ainfrlean prnvlui'oi ihn W>>t liilm nnil mljor inorrlitiil* •MilMiclml Willi iiur culuiiip>.'--|i|i. U73— Till. | Such i« thin exiraordiniiry sfory. Wf know not whxt f-lTi-ct it imty luoiliim iiii DuwniDR Hir«iiiiiKilili< nrid in<>li>-wiiikiii^ urliiii'r III' nil privMii* iiml |iiili- lic inlrrfDia, niiil In idhIi^ iinil iiiiiimKr itiiv- eriHirt Bi h more (hiin ruyril will iniil plea- 1 •lire ; oi whi'lhor— im we iiri* imlrirril in hope from Noiiiit rfcrnt ilfi'tiiriitiuiifi iS l.oiil Norirmnby in ilin IIoi'do of Ijunln — ii new ridI mure vigoroiia iiilellci;! rniiy viiidiraie iU own (liilieB and ill) own rcH|iiiiiNiliili'y — Lord (j|t!ni'l|( liim, liiippily (or ilte rnliiiiii'ii « incH|>''ir:iiy tnd notorioiiD nub^ierviency to iioderlini;-'. — Aa to his Mopliifetopliileii, Mr. Stephen, we trust that he mny be goon reinuved to Monii' ■ituniion for which he may he better (he cannot be worae) fitird ; and that tlie pub- lic opinion in Kiifiland, ait well as the first, and moat anxious wish of our whole i:e for such mighty inieresis— !nay be proniiinted by the removal of the ' inctibus' whii.li hua so loii>.r oppressed and agiiated them. I^t it not be ilioUKf t that thene are mere personal reOeclions. We speiiK not of pi-r- •ons.but of the personifiration I'fa piiii('i|ili<, which every line of Sir Francis Me.itl'.i hoolv proves to have guided the dink and at leii(;tli fatal policy of the Colonial Otfice. We doubt whether his exposure of this banclul system will not liavu heci — ne^t to Ins vin- dication of the Caiiadutii |<('0|)le — tlio most immediate practical merit of his work. But wh.it is to be the future destiny of thsse colonies I This Canadian (]ii»siion i!),as we once before slated, oun uf vast reauli both into lime and space ; for nur present management of those ^reat colonies niusi determine wheiherthey are to form, in fu- ture and not distant days, the suboidinatr ; tributary— or a powerful counterpoise and rival — to the United States. Kven while we ire writing, we learn that the ministers are preparing, or have prepared, their scheme — W« neither have the wish nur the means of anticifiating what it may be ; as linle can we venture to lereaae what additional diilicul- tirs the rerrni collision bfllween Now llruns- wiuk and the Hlaie of IMiiion iiiay produce, We «v|l| only ihiil wiih 'he mailer aa it at this monieni jir'nenls itself to ds ; ami we are inclined, fium ilm hesi coiisiilcra ion ihtil wc can give th>'Muljecl, as will im Irom iho hi'si local ofiiolona, to think thai llie plan |iro|d in ■'^ir rrancis lie >,l's dispatch ol ijie *.28ili ol O lubei, |H:;«i, wiiiild he upon llie whole tliii safest and most satisfadory ;— ■ •I bill ihK Act givinR ii;i iliK mveiiiMiil Ihfl llth Uoo t« III Im^ r>>)>*'iilril ' 'i AiHit'i ''itpi^ln N'^'v llniniiwlrfc. '3. Ammi"i Monlii'n! in I'i'Ih t I'liMiidn. • 4. Miiki'iiii' Nnrlh liiiiik iiHIm. iiiiiiwil. Ihi'bniindarriw l.nm-r t'liiiiiiln, kiviiik Ilm «lllir« nl llw rlM'r, mill llli' o«- |i>'ii4i'< III' milking ihi'iii MiiviKiihlii i>i I'|i|ii'i I'uiinilii, Liiw* ir riiiiiiiln liiivii.tf rnr riiflit tn ii>u llimii \>f |iiiyin| III* »iillM' liiilt tin IliK t'|mi>r f*riiV'lirv«. I'nimr C'uiiiiilii, hIihIi, wiittiiin miv mropllnn, fonUIn* llii I nKi'iil ri'ifi n of hliiik ru'ii I'urlli I liiivn hut wlliit'i'J, tviiiilil ilii'ii I'liiiiii.i'lii'tiil Hlniii>l uli lliiil i> llrilikhlii lh« ra- il iii, iiiiil It vMiiilil liiiri' ii> liHiiHii purl "f limy Moii- iri'iil. till' wi-iillli unit iiiipiirlniirii III U'Iih'Ij uiiiiII iUkiv >h* ixpnrin iia Ki'll iiM iinpiirti. rl' tin' rniiniiy li> Ilm Hi, Ln>»- i<'iii-i' : M iMir.'ii.', riiiitiiiliii to ili-iiv l'p|ii*r l.'lilinilii llml purl. aiiil inrry prt'itiii iirqtiniiil' il wi li Ilm riMiiitry roroMiti «. snfl lull liiiiu '1 11. ll'iil 111 I'riiiiiirp, /i>»r »/> Nni/ir AiyA fnf.t^tiif. tim.it /ij ojffnj tiiil, »r iHhtt mrririii, iiWii IA< I'mtiil Vf/i/> •. ' ' ' \» lull); ii« t ppiT Cunnilii rniiiniiiinl pnnr, mill omipiiHt III prliy pul.iinil iliMMiMhiiiin, llii- Wrtiil ol'ii Irii" purl ol' i*i*- In \\\i'n iiii'ii-li a Niiliji-ri nl i-iiiu'ii>.t rniiiplmiil ; but whim- I'vrr II •linll IiM'iiiii*' itii-i:!"!! Willi wi-nllh, iiiil't*^ I'liw cirru- lii'inii b'' ;:iw>n III iIh cniniiiiiri'ii I liuvi] ii i lifiilHiioii lu •avinu I IikIii tn ilir piiipli' wiiiilit rrvnit rrniii miy gnvnrn- iiii Minn 1 iii'ili iliiit «lii>uiil tli'iiy iliuiii (Aw natural rtffi- rittiim.' — p. I. II. Nu fiiiiilainentnl cliai^ro in tht; political ooii-t tiitions of any of tliu provinces ui>e«l, at luant fur llip priHfiit be |iiopi>s»'d : — but Low- er ('unnda, that h's voiiiiiiarily forfeited its rrpyesenldtivi consliiiition — for wliich wo really ilou 1 wliotler thu French CiinadianM are yet n|ii' — .ilionid he jroveriii'd by the Qitfen in (.'oi/wci/— that iw.as it formerly vmi>, and IIH a'l our other coloiiie.s are ^nviTned Winch have re|)resentiitiv"! Agsemblirs. In procpsN, and wo cotifuli'iitly hope no long iiroci'Ss, of tinip. Lower Cnii'uln, would bo l)io(i!.'ht haclt to Its ti'iuiral loyally and (toot hniiii'iir, mill pmcarid lor iIih n-storatiou of th repres' ii'aiive sysieiii ; vvlnlo Upper Ca- iiadii wmild be nl liil liberty to piisli the lo.n^ ami v'tjoroiis at maoiVowimfrce m the AUnntic, iiml <•{' coloiilzalioii inioilie botmiHcxs Woht. Tiiero Iti one leiilitiir point in this ;(r«'ttl question winch we trust wo may coiisidor a» alri'ady d' ciihtl. I/iul Durham's Rfjh/rt, and th«| • voliiiif.* um bulky un itirll', or a* m HititiJeni'i Mmi'ifif, wliicli i'\v'vA Cy'iiMailas— tliHh III afirictly aiinlnifuui uhmh— a I.iiril lli^k Slrwant, iTfalcd Tor iha (nil ot ■ \>>"^r, wiiiil'l liuvt' lu ^iiiii Up the cvi* (l*!iu:<>, Bill pnn* Ki-titcnct! tin itie purioii tritiil b'liii'* Ciiiiiiirillu liiv)' k' |)t licl'iirn tiiciii dh tlirr<() iihmiUim iil'icr lio IihiI tirukcn hia wand llm Ituo model of ilii^mly, wi ilnm. Iinnily, ami il »hoIvci| IiIm ('umniiiniou. anil nlr-jjaiKM!. It woiilil li;ivtt lii.'iii «'it-y I'.ir u-i /'lIloU^ll no' |>rrl|il|iH Viry ;illiilHili;f li> our ri-Bil«i») '<• ori 1— no Minli iIiihk— ' lo inquire iiiitli.'i lul-o p'rol.'iKM'n, |,orit i into imd, HHllir (IS limy l»" iiiHHible, ndjunt til dcpi'iiilms;, in llu) f;iiil p iniiuna, but Dorlittin liiid no iiiiin- ri^lii m r iiuilioiiiy l<> inHkolhia ' Ufport in tlm Qukkn' tliiiii mii> otliur individunl ; imt it v.uh tliuutioiiii dcpi'iiilins;, in llin t>;iiil provmceni rpNpi'ciiii;; till* Ixriii iiiid iiilniiiiJBiration of 'liiir (.nil j{f'V''''i"'' ' >' ""'' ' with a view • o tliii ni'J'jbdiiioit or Hiich qiioBtiona, Joha (ii'urt.'t> I'jiirl iifnurliuin \» Hppointi'd C]ovor< aelfuh, inii-ctimvouH, uiid irifntiliir dmrucn'i . i"'r-<'''"«'«l«*' »'• H'U «»"> provincfg.' The under a fr»uduloiit— «« it buimiim to um— colour , cioiniiiwiuon, llirrelorc. was ricnr y a power ol royal <»Bncliou. Hi.t Miij niy'i, niinintiii. •?•*«"' l"'''«<^J"Veriior-(;i.'in.'rBl,actm(f a« Buch ought not to hovo recclvca uliy report from ii:Williin liinjuii-diction, of HiljuBiiiig nil auch peraon who had, in d.liaoco of Ibe Que.n'- i qnn«Moiib— siiIjJhci, liowtviir, to the addilinnal amiiority imd tlmir own, voluniarily coat off' ''''"'f'ctiim of oi,cdiunco lo tho initriKtimahe hidodkml clmraclor, and Diinullud wimtover '"'x''' ricoivo from the Weoreiiiry of Slate.— •utiiority ill) Imd po^90(.al d— who, di'eeninjj '•'''<'''«' i»">"t l.cru tli« ni'islit-Rl authority lor hiacoiirtdfd duiic*. piibliHl.ediiiilio«;iinemo. •">a' ivil jyovornmont of tlio mud province.'— hiil, empire HI lnr«e— who ;w«Mifi.ir huvin)? d.n.- df omiii BC,bili—nn(\, slill more Jurgely, rf« all thi! m schief !« coul-l iolho provinces !""•"' ;""'"■»»* »^"'«"— « Keport, m rbort. proinnlffulftH here whnl lie cilia a Reimrt, bu', wlncli.l.ko volniiiary uflidavils of .lideasfa and jn fact a fiirraijo of fulHO Hii.l.niL'nlH anil fiil.Mi! I ••'"••'''". ('•'■>li*-h(>d by oihur quack doctora in» principliH.lhe poisoned elmliortlio tlymK Par- 1 J.''''^^" "" '' «"' "'T ml re*ponBibilitji Ibian— which, ifiia l-viiy does not ri'iidrr its i '"'■„"'* '^f'"'' ^ •"'''•'hood, vonom inn>.ouo(w,will b,-romi(l,weeo/(/i(/!'M//i/; ""'• ''" •»">' ^"»'»^ C""''' ^^'^^ "PO" ""• prrdict llio miml filial (<'^"eif (hat coiilii have been bcquoutlied lo our American colonics. — We cctlaiiily have no viry fxulted opinion of liio lioi'fHiy, and d'lll Iihh of iIia firinne»«, of our iiiinidturH, but wi! do iioi liilii'vu thai Ul«y Wi4iii| iiaVO accepted, much ledH pro- Cunnilu, nml I'ur nguluiiiiv lihi 'a iiiiualicinii In uiiicVih* point, we have otiicr docnmcnts which aottle tlie qucNiion. The ori^initl act creating Lord Durliuin's autliurity had tliia proviso : In n ili-r to tlm |iri'|iiiratiun of lucli moaiurnt ai it int]t bii ilovjr.ililu lu |irii|ii>iiii t» I'lirlhiiiiunt I'lir iiii|i><'VinK tha itiliitMiii iii'Uii' irriiviiircii III' l.owur Cuiiiitlu mid 1jp|>«t inulaated, thia lieatllent pioduction, if '.hey •"'•l l'7Vii,r..nroj,.inUy liil««»iud,lier W.je.lv l,«ih beo. T iT • ■ " I r - • .T pli-utHil lo DiilliiiriiiH llio (iiivornur Wenoral of liur MaieilT ■ had had an option ; and the WllOlu course ol umvumn in ^mtb Amaticn to kumuioh a meni»g< «>><• thia exlruorninarv afloir iuslllii;s, we fliillk, a li"M>'n wnliin nim uf th« »aid iirnvmemi, coniHiing orth« . .1 . .1 . I ,. mill (liivoriiorJJciii'ral mill ut riTliiin norionn lolicuv iim •trong suspicion Ibal itio myslenous mode ol ■ .M„j,„t»ori.iibprMiijB»iv'8 i.,-iiuirfor iimt piiriiom' oiipoim- fivinv it to tliO world — before tiie ininiaters I'llninl iili"><^<>iii>i"i'if<>l'<:"°(i)i'na(Ai!r;)cr,«uniirf7;r«««>i>in^ could liave considered it-wne to enmre it» [,!;;:;::;;;;Lf:-.r"'""'"' ''°'*''^"'^'"*"''J^^^ publicatim, oven in do.p.tt, of them. i ^lus power cf assembling a Co«t»«.//on of But It IS not the mod of public.t.on olonr : „^^ „v„ I'rovinces was siib^eqiienUy omitted ■" — "lo- I be lio if 111) .let >"'■' „,|,.« ^.^in.ctu.og ID Lord Durham : Htgh Cuiuminsiomr : biuI tlo'ii coiiioa iliei Kcp.irt, as if il wi're llin na urul produce of' ' In uidi'r to lay the pruund i'm- tli« permanent wt- the said Hiirli CoinmiH.iioii. This, wo shall i«'''"»«"t "'" ''"^ qtiosiiona wiiioh ngiiato Lower Can- •how to be a complete mi«representolion, "''"• »",'' "''" "', '''"'" ^^''l'^'' 'j™'"^ division, be- ,, . , in, 11 „ J . I 1 twei'ii I po'T nnit Jiowor C annda, it will probablv l-irst^ Lord Durham had c?«Bed In be : ,,^, ,„„,J ,,.,;e.«ary to resort to «on.e Irgislativa High Coinmicsionof. lie had by "'8 own ; „,^,„3,„.^,, „f ^ ^.„n,p„.l,pn,i^.e „.,mre. But before nbriipt and most indecorous abdication «l i siirlimeamut's ran be fnunfi J and submitted to Par- ilia ilutioa, anatJIcd his public ch .ractcr; and ' Uament, it would be higlily dcsirabli- tu aipoi>le ot' both pio- <»jnci'* regiiiiliiig tln'iii. ' TW« olijfct could bust be ntliiincMl l)y ii porsoiinl eoimnunicatiim on yiiu part wiili null piM^oim lie- li'ctfd t! oiii each piDviiici' in iii;iy ho prf.^niui'il.l'iDin theii'sti n I'lvncjii the l'e(ili,i(;ti of lli«iv fcIlow-i-Diiiilryiiii'ii in ^cni'ial. It seein» ndvi-mbli', th' n'fmc, to iimlmiiso your Lorddhip, if )•■'■'• z'.,im\ii su tliiuU III, In ciitl uroiiiul you 11 ci>i'l;iiii uiiinbi'i' of siirli persons, wilh wlniin yi)u niiglit tiiUe coiiiisrl on tliu must iiiiporluiu iilliii:-.'- ■of tho two pii)vitico,«.' Frntn nil this ii is char, 1'. That iiu lower w.iH given (ii'if inii'-<>(l 4;ould bv given) to Lord Diirhtiii bi-ymiJ hit> actual toiuiro uf office ; 2*'. That the pow rs give» wore to the Governor GencrHJ ntid Ili;,'li CoiniiiiSfi.'iier 10 adjust on the spot wiiuicvor could bo so jtdjiisled ; and, 3®. That for ilioffl largrr objects wliich ho could ootadjuno'i ll'U Bpot.hesluiuld liavi fluinnioneJ h toiivenlon to iiiquirt-, disciws, and report to tliSf^ovi riiin<"nt at iii)iii<\ No eiicli coiiVfiitidii ever was nsseinbled, and thert'fiire nii siioli lloport (^oiild be made ; and tiiertforc the prcHciit psf udo-lt-'pori is, m form, substance, uiid sprit, wholly iniiutlions- cd by — nay, in dircit contraviwirn if — not only the (Joinni.ssioii, whicli i? givn aa .is foiindaiion, but of the pUm uilriit luul nieiin- iiiu of nil h 8 iiistrucliiinrfaiid p.ivvers, (^nuil ^rat (A nubifj Jcinuiiiitrundum. Wo have dsvolt on tliid pnlimiftary poinf, JjecaupB, unfioriant as we cousid-r il iol>'' — decisive, indeed, of the fraudulent character of the Report — we have notgreii that ii has itcen noticod in I'ltlur llous'; of I'arliaineiif. Jiudttccsfurtunajuvat \ tf.o bulduesH cf the ntti nipt of givnijf mii ujjidat aulhuriti/ to this ffotliy farrago of individual ignorant o and 4)ri juJico Bve:na to have prod uced the desied effect cf leading uway Iho public ni nd from tUe considerniioiis ot tbo^c qucriiions ct Lor. I Durhani's udiniiiiiilrulio:), for wlncli he was legally and r<«l'y, officrilly and person'-llyl tc^yoiittMc- ' (^iiad cr.tt (ab illh) ficitintumA We I itvo tliuf, we think, sirip|-ed tins lie- 1 (tort of ltd H8rniiit:d ch.irucier, ai.d (xlii!nii:di Iho re.'l object and desiirn of iig authors — ' ritatn>'ly, in : ho lirdt place, to isdue, under «oniu colour of roynl anthoiiiy, tho most de- juocraiic and miarcliieal pruciples ; ai.d, se- condly, lo iinitaio that iiiuftiuunH ariiiiiHl, the «nlile fwb which when haul pressed, niuddRV tlie water, Htid makes its perbUiml escape by a protiiee sbcddiiig of its inky xt ere ion. Such beng, as we couscientioUdly believe, the gttieral de8in;n ami cliarncLer ot the Uc- port, w>j nuiHl now siiov; bow it iJ-occedi \.\>\ do Its woik. I It bri^ihs by laying down a fuiu)ainei>tal | Ijriiiciphi:— The re vl 6iru^i»le in C^iiiada it, i «ne not if pnuoiple, but ot' racii — the hostiii; I ^livisions of French t.i)d Fnii;! bIi !' | Now, that liie nii!>inanu}>cineiit of tho Colo- 1 nial OlWce, and pirhaps bOine echo of liie | July Revohilloe, and ibe bin i esi-fnl cxaiii,!e ' y l!i',( Kiigli«!i, im.Tiirii'ri:ib!iierated Hie iiaf.r.il aniipathiis i-f all the rest of ,:iun- l.iiiil. Hut may not too pei'bo 111 deporiiiien', ol'tiie ' lii.-rs A'lrlis,' th ir cliaraeteri^t •; ar- 10,'ance, and • ino exclUi-ive tXv..ourilJ»ni.'— ,..11. 25 So tliflt, accorJing to this argumnntatiou, jMn that the Report of t!ie Queen's Higli i h)ii!< us the Caiirtdiiins were ftisulli'd (i|ij)r(;ssed, they were contented ami h)}al~ | Viil'cinal antlioiily- I'd and ! Commissioner siiould thus contiihnte its -to tho OlinKJSStU) lilt V « L 1 1: I'lrillt^llllJll uiiu iLrjdi tdv.i.iiiui tmniwi*ij — ' iii kiiu they intermarried wilh the sons and diiui!;li-; i)er|iolinition of inlcmal animosities, Ihe Ke- ttMs of Kngiand — tiiey fougiit with c(|ual j port siqi;r.ni.:ils a i>roidii'ry of still oiore for- zeal and s'icccss the hatlies of En^ijland : j niidaMt: calamifii-s liuin abroad. Tliu Frciitli but, witliiii H few years, the social insult; (Canadians, siiys the i^J«;r< — and the national oppresswn have ceased; andL ,^,, ,,,,,i,,^,, „, ronarqurnco.,, prnvid.,! tliry rnn within the very same few years, the social 1 „,,..,]; ii,,.,, vtt them come if they dare.' realily ? _ ^ | Let Sir John Colborne be sure of support But tlie Report, not satist'ed with ])resent iind countenance a\ home — let liiin have to : ../:.,., 1 .. •....l.I.f „ ,... „1.„,.. 1 ' 1'. -t.i .,_ ; i,..i .1 .i,-. . '.i i i_ flight no enemies hut these that either bank of the St. Lawrence may sujijily — ;ind let them come if thvy dare — even, if iiistead of ' RiDWELL AND TlIK GLORIOUS MINORITY,' they should bear ou their banners the mora ominous words of Durham ^nd his oi.orious Report. But, even while we write, the new« of the invasion of New Bruiisuiek gives a more awful im].ortance to tliese passages. It is impossible that the Report could havt — ,.-_„.„ , . reaclnnl America in time to hoVe had any Very well— suppose this true— of course ^ influence in producing? the first proeecdingg the Queen's Hif,'h Commissioner, Mediator,! i'l Maine*— but som^jtlung of its drift may and Pacificator will give somclenitive coun-.have traiispliyil— and at all events it is im- Sel towards settlini' it. pos!;iblp that in the cnnise of the discussion 'I do not exaijirerate the iMPvitabla ronMnnrv "^ conillct it .should not give encourae;ement anymore than iliL-inton-fitv of ibiHaMi.i.i.sltv: Mnvorito the pntensions ot the American invaders. BKaiii will tho proaiMit e.Mieinlion oll'iendi Ciiim-) It is really .surpiising to u.s— low as w« misiepresentation and mischief, seems almo to wish that its prophecies shiuild accomplish themselves. If there did really exist a na- tional antipathy, should it have been pro- claimed — inflamed — perpetuated ? Is a doc- tor to tell a nervous patient that he mi/s;pnt insurre'-tion — the continu>'d pro- ' ' vocation to disallecion which is \\,.ekly "''"'•'"">■' "7 ''• V If L'u _ .1 rlti'>^> transmitted from Kn.iZilaiid- this almost lotril abpciirp, of pcrfon.il ham cannot be ga-^^.d-we aie s, limbed tnat ,; ^^^j^,^. ^^,^, ^j,,,^ ^^j ,^j ,,,g,, ., „„^\,,^„ „h a brave, honei^t and fearles.s p>.licy will ? ,./^.^,^ ^^ ^j^,,,,, „,i^,,t],..r (|,p antipathy rrall' restore, and wouM reMoP', ev,-u if the ant-l^.^-^^,,^, ,,,^j the lepoM gets rid of the dilfi" mnsity were deeper than w: believe it to bi-, / ' ^ " mutual confidence between the hii;li-mindc(l L « j^.^ ,ol;iri.l.'n,-r linue^vr, !•. 5.0 r.inoiiN. that it and tolerant English and the kind-hearted /j^ ^vonh wliili< tdstme tlitntl'n /c't/.riii ;li?t nppcai-- ond amiable Canadians. |cil in iI;l' ■ Tiim./ ot" ilip r.ih Icbrnrny, aiul the But, a if it ware not suiTiciently lanienta- tvoubks i.n Mafne timl: place th:-pi* wotUs emiiir. ^^^<.^iJ(d(k:i.^L'l'l -s=aK 26 >i ciiltjr by attribrting to roinarkahlu a fact toi tlie 'personal /ears of tliu loirir orders;'' and what inaiiiicr of personal fe;r. ?--of bc-i iiig thrashed \>y their ailvtrsaiirs, or stnt to ganl l>y the iiKlico ? Oh, no !— this piu-j dent and thoughll'ul clasn of society ficts on aj iTierely^ordl consideration — a 2;fnerons and | srlf-deiiyinj; principle — wliii'h il'ii'S inlinitcl honour to tile /((/cc/- o/'i/i r.; in Ciinada. Thi' I French ilo not heat the Kni^lish in i'ik^ cciinlry,; where the French are strongest, for I'l'nr tliej Knglish shonld h-.at the French niimrities iol the town ; ani! the Engli.'~h popul.ire of the' city will not touch tlie hair of a French head, lest they should draw dovTn the i^f«- grance of the French peasantry on certain isolated English settlers, in a distant district,] about whose existence the said populace j know and care just as much as Ihey do of the | squabble between the Hong merchants and' the Hoo 1)00 at Canton. But, as if the absur- dity if such a theory were not enni'gh, the Report, in the adjoining pi'.ges, when it hap | penedtosuit some other tIpw of the ca.se,j overturns its own facts, and admits — j 'the nnimosity which exists lielwcen the working aInsMS uf iho t\ro originals.' — p. 15. And n;ain, j ' Natioiml prejudiro!! natmnlly pxcrrise xhf prcnr- j est influcnco over the mo^t uiniluditcd. 'I he vnrk- iufmtn naturally rniiCfV, llinnsolvr* on the siilo i tif the wealthy and rdmntpd i>f fht-ir niuntrjinrn. WliHii once eiigngrd in xbe fonfUct, t!)i'ir linssions I wrro the lfi»« ri'stmincd liy odiicntion tuid [nndi'iiri', ' and tho national hostility now rafies incif(l, an «lective monarchy, and that, censf qiicnlly, the I'anadian cido- nxe^ had nn voict; in the choice of either the king or even the iniiiisters of France — hard- ly, we think, diBCrvcs printing at the public (xpeneo in the year 183'J. But our erudiic Report goes on to Inniei.t that ihe introduc- tion of the F.nf^iish system of representative assernhiieB d,d not cure this original sin — wo may well call it or ginal sin, for we believe 'tis as old as Adam — for, even in tho interior mnnagenicut of Ihe province, ' instead of legislating in the amf.hican epirif,' they fol- Uwed ' the ppirit of h gielat.on which pre- vails in the otn woni.n:' — (p. 10) that is, tin; Colony imitated the mvthtr Monarchy instead of the nc/^/i^;c(uri;ig' Ri public. And again — ' Tlio nmlivfx ni'd nrtiml piirjiosrs of tlirir rulers 'vr-ro hid I'n.m tlie Coloni.iln tlicinsrhes. The most iiniiortanl biisiiipss of govcrnmi'nt was rarriej •■ — ncii in (ii>eu Hisrn.'sicms or piiMie ert5 — l)ut in • snrret rijire^p^inclt nn- lirtween tliw Go»ernor»nd tho Societmy of Stale.' — p. lO. .■\nd n"iiii ; — ' In nil liie f'oliiniri iJip ndtnirii^trntion is hnliilii- iiily confidrcl to thoso w)io (in not C'i-()|ii'riil(' hnr- ir.iiiiiiiinly witli the popular brnnrh of tlit: legislu- tiirt-:' that in, thn Governors are chosen Ijy tho (Jrown of F.ngland, and not by tho People of the I'rovincifl, — • an I it wiiiild seem as if tlit olijrct of those who fiaiiK'd ihc I ol(itii;d (Jnnstitntinii hud lirrn tho ccmihinin;: niipurenilv pciiiiilar in^li^nli(llI^ with n» litter nbfriicp of all ertieient Ci.ntnd of tLe fKoi'i.is OTKR llieir RII.EU'.' oil Sliiiki^pcarc !— Rhnkspcare! by what cp'rit of pouiical prophecy didat thou iiiiatrc ilitt typo of vulg.ir (leninerncy that would Huliiii't to a King only on coiidiiioii of being viceroy over Iniii ! Follinviog o'.it this principle, Iho Report jiroci-'cd- lo "late a .' 'ojiir i,i,-\i-,\ pdwir it sainc hlv ni'^iii y, unll ' *^**"'* " fonnecliun . .to our undfliatanding, Eo ilitt AetiuiiibLc's piuc. il t,j wuili out ilu it is nl)-*u!i t-) soparation.* proposition. yii".li being the diseugo, wo admit that 'A sub-itiituiii C-IH18C; of contr^it ypt rnnniiinil : tliu llcpiTl in consistent in proposing ita tho Asscmlily, ,irt,.r iti,u.l.,i>i(unc.i .niiie oontidli roniedy. Lord Durham, it seems, lone over the fiiiljlic ruviMiiuM, (itill loiiiiil iijclf (111, liv.il u •. . i i . i^ j i it • r.u . of all voire in tii„ ,i,.,i . ' . • ,' "^''^iia''' J helwccn H I' odtT&l Union of the ■ ui iiii\ou(.> in till) ciuuci'. iiv (;v(ni dv i"Mrilii)ii, dI , . i • i I Uin imisoiis in nli,is,.. Hamihiilialini uf ulUiiis iij'«''Veiai [ifOVmces — IIkU IS, the COn^tltU- could ff.'l coiifuleiii-o— tlif iidriiirii;!lrMlivo |in«iuol'; tiotl of tl;0 Uniti d S\atCS — Or Q Legislft— Gum-nm-Mit rfin;.ineJ liv,. from iis i„i!u.n.:o.' ! (jvo Union, wilh one solo and sovereign In other woi-iJs, C^inaaa NY:ifi:( Colony, and; CongiGss lor the whole; but he finally S^n »'!!'.''!'nl^''''"'' T r''r'''' '7 "'"''"^•'''•-i decides for the latter. This would, at 3.^^^i^^^"^^s'^'T'l?"■'■'''""'T=;«^ surprise the reader of the Re- anu iiK^n luo Jtrport ailds — ' 1 lie iiowera for' "^ i "^ •,. i . i • i wliici. the Af6o.iil,lycontc!Hl,d,Mp|)eur ill both 'i"""'' ""^''' llic manifold hints everywhere insiancoa to bo siu.ii »a it was piTfoiily juj. [ ibrown out,of llie .-iuperiorily of the Ameri- TiFiKD in demaiHlinsj;— and thiy just, ficiit;oM 't^nri system, and particularly its singular is rested on rcfiruiice lo tlio consiitiitioiul | iippropnulone^s to Canada: but it does practice of Englmid— qinto firgciLing lb it ' not surprise us — for the LpFiwlitivo Union Lngland is nut h nolony, but tbe mother and j js but a shorter cut to a Canadian Re- m.stress.4 coloia.-.s. !,.uin.ic ;— nnd so we think our readers 'Since tl.o ivvolniion of KWS, ,V nnl.ility of the : ^.-jn go^^^ {jg gjUisflL'd, whcH they COme tO JJntisli Conslitiiinin lins I'l'i'n Bci-nnd I'V tlint wnn . , . • i .• piindploof o,ir Ciov.rnio.ni v.),i,l, vosu.dili.. ,ii- i ^'"""""^ *''® viirious Considerations on roction of iiiuion»l policy nntl ilit^ di-iribmioii ofiwliich, if WE Wished to establish a Cana- piitmiin-o in iiiu kiuk-r* of iliu l'ailmiiii;ntaiy nm-:dian Republic, WO rli-^uld roconifncnd this- "'"'"? T'' ivory sch'.'irie in preft^ronce to all others. And then the Roport proceeds, at grea! i isf. The nuked adoption in limine of length, to maintain that the appliruion of (ho American form might startle men both any narrower prnuijilo to C.inad.A is a at home and abroad: it would be impru- preposterous anomaly. Now, a rop.c- j,,ni ,e Lc^in wilh showing our whole sentative monarchy may bo, for aught wo know, a prepooterous anomaly — a colony, with a popular representutiou, a ttill more preposterous anomaly — but neither ^anie. 2ii. Nor would it bo HO certain to nc- coinpiish the desired result, in a federa- tion of states, though meeting in one can bo so preposterous an anomaly as Congress, tlicio might bo a rivalry of iho mvosfing what is called a colony with iVdings and interests: Lower Cnnndii every lorm and power of the most r4b3o-,„j.,|,t laKo ono view, Upper Canada lute and entire sovereignty— in short, to .jn,„|,er; New llrunswick might tend lo- use Lord Purbam's own illustration— of v^.,,,,,ji,^ or possibly "gainst, iis neighbors giving to the colonial assemblies the om-l^f Majna ; Nova' .Scotia and iho Islands mpotence ol the Ilouso ol Commons of |„,ig|ni„, iuHueuc, d by the maritime pow- Kngland. er of tho metropolis. Tiio divided opi- liiis IS the simplr- k"y which opons all ;„|o„a of the local legislatures would bo the grievances and all the remedies of thy Istrongly felt in the circumscribed and re- Report— tho Ilouso of Assembly are to be i^-pon^ji^ic Congress : and the process of in the provinces what tho liousn of Com- brioi;in2 them all to concur i^i throwing otF mons IS 111 England ! But, then, wo a^k. , ,1,0 iJnii.-h nvuiarchy might be diilicult, or what power over tlio Colonics woul.i rfc-j,.tbpst tedious. Uut, uma'gamate them main, even to the House of Ctjmmjns nfj Kngland? We will not entan.;Io tlio dis- cussion with such small minors as tho Queen and the Lords — but supp^sii <.:, us ; in l()5l>, Engl tnd a Commonwealth, and the Ilouso ol Commons the solo gov^'rn- i ment, what would remain to it of metro- " I'lii'i-c is ni'othrr innonsistpnry in tlio Report «liirli ilotLM'vrri Hpoi'iiil noiicp. All tlio soveicipn rii;liH ili-i; lo lio tniii.-,l'iiiTd lo tlic looiil le^i-;lutnrcs, jc\'-"pi oNii, tin! one willi wliii-h, pel Imps, tlii-y conid liest ho inlrnslc.l, linini'ly, tho iiianii^'oiiicnt of u:i;illoltcd liind< — ihnt nloiKi is lo lie reserved for it ho linm ■ government. W hy ? — to eri'iite ii IJoar.l ,. •!• 1 . • 1 of Cnimdinii Lund Coinmi-^^ioneis in l.omhin, nt politan power, li each ol its colonics were ■ ^^iij^i, ^„„,^ „y„ „, ,i,r,,o of tho autlio-* ef ihu Hu- go verned by an equally indcpendciit House j'ort wnjd not b«dVLr*Q io»itl MP"" US nil — create ono siriRlo, iinfctlerpd, nnd.Iputed hostilities such undue importune© in according to the hyiJOlhesis of the Report, |liie sciilo as to make it the txcuBe of our omnipotent and llouse-of-Commonft-iikt! ulterior proceedings, we should, when ussrnibly — unchecked by lucai inllueiices, jtliaf purpose hud been sitvc d, turn lound uncontrolled by local It gislaturos — iiivfSl-Un liieni and propose plans foriheir utter ed with the absolute power of ilic i)Ut^uJtxtfrniini.lion. VVo should write a series — with the making and un-makini,' of ' it-* ol clmplers under such signiiicant heading own rulers' — the sole ai biter of its own us the iDllowing : — government — and add to all tliese, the [ < i.owcr Cuimila shuuld lio mnde Enoluh.' — KspiuT DE coRi's, the viiniiN, the pridi;, p. inn. theambition, tliat are ineviinbly gcncral-| ed in such an assembly ; an' tin ., — onoi I^Dluiiiin of llio French in on Anglo-Saxon oil.l.'— p. lOK •l!iipil('s< iiil'oiiiuity of the Fionch Cunmliiin passionate debate, o:jo excited hour — cnel ,„rc.'— p. 10') hasty, one enthusiastic, one intimidated vote — and the business is done! — done periiaps by a majority of one. 3d. Towards such a design, if we en- tertained it, we should have proceeded just as the Report does. The Ficnch Canadians profess and possess an es- tablished religion that, — except when perverted by extraneous circumstances, as in Ireland, is essentially favorable to a monarciiy : they are attached, also, to a kind of feudal system and a code of ancient law, which they venerate; they l^coiioniicnl obslnclos to perpetuation of their imtiiiiiiiiiiy.' — ill. ' iJLn !• ii>M<'li nntioniility is dosliuilo of invigurn- tliip [.nun- rcjuiMiciin] /° "'^'""^ and so f-]-d> ,we rl./,;;X «;^'' «-ne of ^,,4° ^--abinet? VV'h,, rr he was in >i ^' J'-'-h 7\ut w?vs' Ti ^'^ i^ordship "^'•dnot i.ave Vent r r."" «^'-"«. we ^'^if-"Vb:;n':^;^-!;;';'«uhi,.etof,,, ^country i„ wi^cb d /e"?' '"^''^-^'''^h "re ie^rnljsed, th„ „'"'-rent persuasions ;.'d '" Dr. Swift's 'St. V" '^'-' ^l""'- ^^"^•"'"esofthelW^'^i' E^.'^^yonthe •...urrire: ■^''' -''l^iont conLw '''""^ '" lO *<:'V; nti.l . 'J"'H^ did,.,; 1/,,. . """(', s/j; '^-'^-'^-:^:;^.S^;:: ' n I- ■ "I'luan ivj nrl' „ •■""y tJiou'du- ff, 7'r'"'«sbepn /rp,l ^viibin tilt i-AST •^KW YEA "•■"i'e, and ^■S;':fS;aj^'v-'*'Sr;i^i only a'oo dues not teud to !5»W 90 union, things of ihw 8ort nm, on the ; boon A?foL0-.i,». S.Ti,iiiiiii iiiiul.n.i.i-c i-. n.it "I'l'ly ; vcnijo in uiioilior iicniisiiliuru ! iii>t nviiwfd, li'il It Imidl) soi'iiis to iiiiluriii'o iiirii'> V < i t i r-^ i j I'colincs.' I Now, ihut :< what Ijord Diirhnm and U'.. fin not see how the result could hc.':^-^'- ""ly nil! piiimsdi-hy — a CDcnpnlion- inuch boiler, cv<;n if rival roIigifMi lind>ivo vicsv (if the ..ri-;lM u( nalionnl pteju- bef-n a bond n\ intor.-oii .... iuid union, dices! IC ili-^ iMMigranls had been En- Tut the Ri'pnrt dars not I'-nvr uo lon^r in I^'UmIi, or Itiuli, or ticoicii, there miglit be the happy stnto of mind wlneli tiiis amia-: !"•""» diinfjcr, periiap.'.— which would bh3 picture ofgoneral tolerance creates,— i have Kimilcd half the Ut-porl— uf their < Tor thongl. Ilia pnul.-nc.. niui liiM-raliiy .,f i,.,tli ; n"'a'K'";nuing with ilio French— but the pnrlifs lia« juvvfiiliil tljis riuiilul rtmiitu ol'uuiiMU- ! Allglo-SaXDIlM f — NuVOf ! «ily fromeuil.itt.ri.iij lluir ^nnir. !.— ,|-,^j^ ^n,^,|j .^^^j lj|u,nlf,ring podantrV— not, we Bhould have thought, a vi.ry fruit- ,,urlicul.irlv stupid, as the majority of'lho ful source, since it produces wo animosity, r;i,niidtaii "im. mi;,' runts arH subsequently yet — Isi.itt^d to bo the aforesaid Scotch and ' tlie (lifTi'iciice of irligi.ju h»^, ia fa.!t, tunjpj to I,ish, whii have not a dr«v|) of Angio-SttX- koop tlK-tn asun.UT.' I on blood in llicir veins--thi9 stupid ped- Wb might have been at a loss to guo8a|^„„.y ^^.^ j.i,p,,„se mav be borrowed Irom how a mutter that • hardly seems to in- : jj„ United Slates' i.tRclation (which wo fluence men's feelings' could, on tte; c^^^piiy „„,|,.^j| ;„ ^r (;|,rj„„,„jj') oP,lis, contrary, keep them a>liierwisc have been tempted to nniice — back to tell! i h ivo bi en exposed in ii clever series of IJut Lord Durham has made a still more! h'tters, published at lirst in the * Times,' curious discovery. Who do you think | and since reprinted in a scfiarate pamph- are the ' rival race' that divide Canada! let, by 'A Colonist,' who knows, if it be not with the French ? Tho l:nglish you will ^ too much to say — almost as much about say, or the Scotch, or tliu In-h. No|l5rilis-h Americans Lord Durham — does such thing. Oh! wa see — his h;rdship ' not. Tho Colonist is understood to be always endeavours to speak wiih proci-j.Mr. Juslico Daliburion of Nova Scotia, sion, even on tho most trin.ng point — he,! tho author of that lively work * The Say- Iheifcfore, calls them by one generic' mg>i and Doings of Samuel Slick, Clock- name, the Mrilibh— Not abitol' it ! 'J'he maker,' which so many people have read Camdas were colonised first by the ah a very amusing novel, but which is in French, as we all know, and latterly, ^ truth a practical and patriotic view of tho which nobody but Lord Durham knows, ; real stale, the actual wants and wishes, by the Anglo-Saxons ! Yes, by St. Dun-; and lln' future capaliililies of our North Stan, and all the suiiitsof the IJeplarehy ! American cnpire. Mr. Iliilihurton's re- all the EMioRANTs or niMii^RA.Nrs* liuve nutrks on the spirit betr.ived in the lie- i port ol stern lu.sliliiy to the Church of MIULo,•d.i,ip«itl.^,i.,^Wa,MMu^,^yfmlnont-|j^„ lanj and indeed all Urilish instiiu. \\ fniiloiiiK/n t\\i- wiiiiM, 111' tliiH ii'daiilii ally ((ii- 1 . " . . , , ,, ii„irni.ln disable UH from vindicating that authority from the reiterated insults uf her mutinous repre- sentntiveg I We venture to proclaim wi»h a conli- doncc — not our own merely, but prompt- ■i)d by ihc opinion of the best and gravest iwlonial authorities — that the time is arri- ved in wliich active resistance to these itcciirnulated and accumulating evils is become an inevitable duty. This * trihn- pery Report' — oa with regard to intrinsic value it is justly called — will become a text book of disaffection in the distant re- cesses of our American provinces. With what does any incendiary set about kind- ling his fire but the lightest and most worthless trash? If the obscure and ouiTKB evidence of such a person as Mr. Pleader Stephen was ostentatiously ar- rayed in the front of Mr. Pedlar Macken- zie's rebellion, only because he held a subordinate place in Downing street, what will bo the effect of the Report of his Excellency John George Earl of Dur« hnm, G. C. B., her Majesty's High Com- missioner — printed and presented to par- liament — so RUNS, or rather, so liks the lillo-pnge, — by ' hee Majesty's com- AfAKD '{' We can venture to answer- that every uncontradicted assertion of that volume will be made the excuse of future rebellions — every unquestioned principle wilt be hereafter perverted into a gospel of treason ; and that, if that laiik and infectious Report does not re- ceive the high, marked, and energetic discountenance and indigtiation of the Imperial Crown and Parliament, Butish America is LOiiT. ■'i'.'. V ■'<< sf??f ,^- J I X 1. # ;-1.v...\;