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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reprod; in un seul clichA, 11 est filmA A partir da l'anby errata sd to int na pelure. If on A 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 Alter Ijoirii; cngi.ncd iii nctivo military iliity lor a period of nioru ihnn ciglitfcn yours, roiiHi;i'n ol winch were, iirr-vioiisly iiiid during tlic late W'lir, spent ii» llii? two (Jniiadas, 1 entered into the eivil lervico of l'|il>C" (Janiiilii III the year IHiti, boinfr ruiuustcd liy the Heail , •-•terliii^', per aiiniiiii. For many yeufH the remuneration I received t'roni ihe (^Dvenmient \vas inHullicivni !■> defray ilie exiK-Miscii of my family, even on the most limited seale of llie most rigid economy, lint in order lo retain the olUcc, and in the hope tliat (hlijtjcnce would ^'aui tor me inercaso of salary or pioinciiiou, I had r'.'c-oursf; to lii.irrowiii;.' (iirllier tmaiis ot siihsisleiice. and (.'oint,' otherwise iiUo dehl 'osii|)iiort mid educate a rapidly mi.Ten^ing family. Duruig those years, too, great injustie.c wa. done mc by the (loverninent, which eaii lie hIk'Wq liy orders m Coiiiieil and Ac.ts of Parliament, whereby f sustained losses whieli m my eml'ai- ra.sbed circumstauei » wore great to nu'. I mention this iniustiri; lierc, not by way of complaint .it tins lull,' fieriod, but to ii'.'e«>i.inl in p-irt (or liu: cmburru.ssments luio winch 1 have been brought, even by th'^sn who were especially bound in duty to do mo juotiee, md lo strengthen and eni;ouruge (ue m the public service. -My ollurts ii' aiiatc evil ami to do good in the Province I can truly .sav were unliriii'_'. wliicli. wiili biiii!/ Ion.' and gi iif.raliy known in it. led me nil" unavoidable e»)>cnse ; one cause ul vvliieh expens{' was the coni\spondcuce addressed to me by halt-piy (!)llicers, diselaigcil Soldiers, Olliiers and Men of the .Militia, nnd liy many of the ficople of the country not even belonging to those cLasscs The aniouni ot postage [laid by mc during el'-ven years on this ar-counl alone certainly exceeded £h">0, and probiddy exceeded £2(10. In it'.e midst of trials and eiiibarrassuients the iiiosi distn >siiig t.> me. I struggled onwaid.s unlil the brcaling out of the l\ei»elli.Jii in \H',i7, when tli" part which the Aliinglitv enabieil im- to lake led the .■\; svinbly of I'pper Canada iironiplly and spontanof.usly lo Address Her Mr.|i>sty !o n-waid me, and in till' Address the Legislative Council as promptly |oineil. Filled with gratitude to both Houses, and w,th iindoi'.bling ' onlideiice that I should now b.' relieved lioiii the pa.idiil |iressure whii.'h so loiiy barrassi/d my luind. I waited ih'' .uiswer to the .\ddicss. IJiit to my deep and uni^xpeclcil disapiH.inlmeiit ilic answer allbrded me no relief. The two Him.ses proceeded at'.'un in my beludt. and passed a Bill ilie follow ing Si .ssion to enabli' Hi i Majrsiy to gf.int mc the reward, wliicli upon !lk' .\ddies.> 'ould not lie gianteil. This Hill was (hsalloued ; and m the thud yi'ar a second Hill was p.asscd eontainint' liirlhci provisions to enable Her Al.ajesty to carr\ ' the innntions "■ th ■ twn Houses, but that also was di'.^- nllowed ; and no other sieps have, until now, been taken to carry out in my bi?lialf the iLi-ntions ot the I'rovmeial Leirislaturc. so earnestly and so iVeiptently expressed by llieiii. Alter suHering many years from nisullieicutly paid sci\ ii cs, and from acts ol posili\e injustiee, icy miiiii was liigbiy excited by the gratil'yiiig conduct of the two Hc.u.ses ui my beliall'. m Februaiy and .March, In;jn ; Put the succeed, iiy disappoiuimciU produced the most iiiiunous efiecis lipon mv mind. ,itnl the subsequently excited ho|H,'s, and •.xpeated disap|)oiiitments. Iia\c rcducr-.l it ion slate \^liicli I lind hiimilialini.' and most painriil even to alliidf to. After more than hve years ot' treatiiiciit which I will not venture to characterize, and having m that lime paid upwards of ono tlloll^alld poumls udcr'.st on mvdcbt'-', I hiid mystif biiiught lu the L'reafcst cxi .'inity, winch iiiipel.-, me to this extraortlinarv i tlliit -o obtain speedy n licl'. by making a direct apjieal lo every one ol the Lei;islal.>rs of both Houses of i|ie I'mfod I'rovince, lo whose decision my case is to be referred, but to many of whom the circumstances of il "'an. a^ vet. ne httlo known. Deeiijy also was I u'|iircd. and deeply ilid I sutler, by being, while in the midst of iTiy cmbarrassiocnts k( pi without one half ol my s.ihuy diirmg the interval between the closing of the last Session of' the Parlianient of I'piier Catiuda and the meeting uf the L'nited Les^'islatiire. (one half of it then depending, as It long bad dcpeiulcd. on an .innuid vote i<\ the Assembly,) .usil |i)i the payn'ent .if which I pressmt'ly ipplied to Lord Sydenham, but lot whieli His Lordship assured me he coulii not issu" a warrant, lint .d Ins earnest desif to do so I was entirely satiiilied ; .md I am sratelul to the present \ssen)blv foi having promptlv voted the siiiii due to me soon ifni- the comniencemeiit ol ilieir Inst Ses^^ion. I am not insensible to the charactei ol this kind ol complamini.' on uiy pan, .uni were I the only siillerer I niiylit. perhajis. be blanieable for not submitting in silence. Uiilwliea rchitive-' unl frieniN hiu' miuicil tlieinselves to relieve me, and when many of them are thus made >■/ '.iidiiie :..rict md ^onow [21 on my ncpount, I feel myself driven to have recourse to every means in my |>ower to iMnpioy to put oii end to so nnirli and sin-h long contini'cd sutlering. And I will trust to thi; considcrati-' <'nndor of each one thuH np; .'iilud lo. to make due allowance for any extraordinary act of mine, done under llu? pressure ol tlii.'se exliaordinary troubles wjiieli, lieiuif thus long eonlinued. so painfully weigh u,)on ui ' ; and whieh. if longer coutiiaicd, uuist defeat tlie intentions of the rp|)er Canada I,egislatnri'. and further aggravate mj- distresses lieyoiid the power of the Govenimont by any liiture measure, at any tune hereafter, adequately to remedy. These rei)eated proecedings of the two Houses, thus most benevolently intended for my benelit, have as yet only added to niy i inbanassnients ; for the importunities of my ereditors have ris(.'n to urgency in the same ]iroiportion as my hopes seem to have rearhfd the crisis of their realization. T«> obtain temporary relief I have sometimes been compelled to iiiloi)t CN|i<'dients whieh have subseiptenlly proved most injurious to me; but still 1 have continued to indulge with confidence in the cx|)ectntion that every new measure )>assed in my bi/hali must surely jiruduee the reliel' so n-peatcdly prayed for. Other evils 1 have also sutfereti, to me mesprcs?il)ly painful and hiiiuiliatini.' : some of the most grievous of which arc, my constantly increasing iiialiility to discharge, at my advanced age, the duties ot my otiice, under the many new and onerous circumslanccs growiiig out of the Legislative Union of the two I'lovinces ; and after foity-.'ive years of the most anxious and arduous pui)lic snvicc. an iricsistible and depressing sense of injury, arising b'oiii what I i-iiunot help rcgar.ting as injustice and ingratitude on the part of those who might, as I bcucvc. have devised the «a\s and means of .tlVording me. may years ago. the rrlief so oftui and so eariifsily pn.ved for by the Lcgislatiiro of I'piKr Canada, and which then uuuld have filled me with gratitude, and |irodiiced advantages and happiness to me aud to my familv which under anv circumstances hereafter it assurediv never i!an. In ri'rJMCcd t:-..MMH). I'rovun ' thousiimi / <-' (Coiiy.) F.Xt:riT(Vf; Cocvc ir. CiMMiuii. Kmi:.iion, Mondai/, '2Un\ Mill cfi, \A\\>. I'UrsKNT: llii liru llic |iiMiliiiii 111' Jdiiii.s FilxdililMjii, Ivi(|iiiri'. |iriiying lliai innnns nmy li; tiikiii to i;arrj out tlic iiitoniii'ii^ 111' till Ilniiscs (if ilic I'rov im ml I'.irliuinoiit ol' L'pjuT (';iHM(l;i in lii> fivoiii, cxjirfssoii h\ ,i juiiii Aildicxs i^t'tha l.cifislativu Cuimcil and llouso n('ui mii,' in the wislies ui i.lie Lei^'iMlativc (.'duiu'iI and Asseiiibly of l'|i)ii'i' ('aiiadu, as cxprcssud m ilie saiil Address and Bill, is di.siiiMis of takini; sneli means as will jiincnro |i.>i tliat nflieer the |H'ii)'i.)v'd ri'wmd, uilliolil again ineiirrini.' tile olin'ofions made liy Hri Majesi\'s (.ii)Virnmi to qnuds of wild Land tor sneli u juirjiose ; and is of oiiinion, ilia: a i is^iii^ to (Jolouel FitzCriiilKin of Land .Scri|), to (lie nmininl < the mosi tavoiirahle eonsideialion oi the Houses of (he I'lovineial Paiiiaiiieiil. lo the end that His Fxeellenc} may be legally nuthorisod to direi;! the issue lo (Hlonei FitzGibbon of Land ^i ii|' to tin; ainoiint of iwo thousnnd |ioiiniis, Pnni.ieiai Currency. ("ertilid (Signed) W'm. Li:i:. l'l«-in the Older in Council of the vliJid Manh. HI"..', I he^ have to make the I'ollowiiii: remarks : When the Address to the Queen passed both Hon.'^es, in January. ISaS, the upset |)nee of ihe Land was ton sliilliiifj;!" nn acre. The Order in Council, in tixiuL' the intended reiniineratioii at a siilwei|uent and reduced U|isel priee of eiL'hl shdlin;,'s an acre, reduces the value ot tin: grant from X'vNMlC to .t'JOOll. In irrantiii!.' Land Scrip instead of a Deheiitiire or .Money, the value of the i^'ranl will be further ledneed to £li>0(t, oi thereabouts; while iln,' I'rovinee, in grantin:; the .Scri|i, is eirectiially disburses t'^jdilti. IS if that sum were granted hy Dcben'.ae or in Cash. Thus it wmild ,ippe,ii i.. ilii> people of the I'riiviiiie th;it a grant of l^UdOO was. 'loua lide, made, to me, whereas the ;,'raii' would realize about one Ihousiind pounds oiilv. The snhstiliilion nf the piopo-'cd iniMSiire for the reward wliieli. u|)on three dillerent occasions, was pravi.'d for by ilie Leifislaiiire nt I'ppcr Canada, uill have Ihe elll'ci ot diminishing most materially the value of the contemphiied bo.iu. The diirerenee to nie t)etween the real and noniiiial value of Lanil •Scrip ha* been already advertid to. I du^ll■(^ in addition, |iennis8ioii to urge the injurious consequences ol the protracted delav upon iu\ circunistanees. Fixe vcars and nine months have n'>w clajiscd since. the actinii I'f the I'aiiiamciit nl I '|ipi r ( 'aiiad.i first iiieited m my miiid the Impe ol .ipeedy relief troiii my ai'cumulated ciidiarrassments. liy llii; exjic. tatioii then created I have conliuueil lo be sustained : and I still encourage die hope that the t,'riiiit which that [/Cgislaiuie made so iiiiuiN ilf irts lo confer will not, at all events, he (b'preeiated in amount, and thus cuil.uli d in usetiilnes?, hy the Parliament .i) the L'nitid ProviiM'c. 1 tn the contiars 1 ■aiiceii'lv cherish the ho|M: that the seven' hisses and irre|>:irahh injuries which thr prtiloMi.'! d aiixiels has occ asioned me. may be ralber viewed ;is ,in .■idditioiial motive for eon- leiriug till' rexvard in sueii form as that its value to me may remain unimpaired, vviiile the gouerous inlentions ol the leiginal donors iii;i\ likewise bo full) carried out. .**-fc'''- .l- t,t-cS- :«. >-■ •tlJ'^' 'c*^ /-^ '--. w, ,-> ►*- »T^v.